Archive for March, 2008

March 26

Proposed building would hold one million Londoners

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Apparently, by 2015 London will need to provide housing for a million more people. That’s no easy task, but as we told you a few weeks ago, the UK company of Popularchitecture is proposing a completely insane 5,000-foot-high tower that’ll be able to house all million people in one go, and we recently snagged some [...]

March 25

Next Cheap Laptop: CTL 2go PC

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Some blurry shots of a rumored Intel budget laptop showed up around teh internets last week, but yesterday CTL Notebooks confirmed that they’ll be producing the 2go PC, a durable 9″ laptop target at the education market. Retailing for somewhere around $400, the 2go PC will have a 9″ 800×640 LED backlit display, a 1 [...]

March 25

LadyBag Helps Emotional, Forgetful Men Too

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Losing stuff sucks. And it really shouldn’t have to happen anymore, now that everything (including your dog) is capable of having an RFID tag embedded into it. The LadyBag, designed by six SFU students, contains an RFID reader and a little LED display that will blink at you if doesn’t detect your wallet, keys, or [...]

March 25

USB Ghost Mouse

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This Scream inspired ghost face mouse features an advanced 3-button optical scroll technology, said to provide you with high precision control.
Features:

Plug-and-Play convenience
Simply connect the mouse to your USB
800 dpi optical sensor, high resolution for powerful and smooth tracking performance
Optical sensor stays precise on the most surface without mouse pad
Compatible with Windows Vista/XP/2000/ME/98SE, Mac OS [...]

March 25

Pac-Man Cufflinks

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BeauJangles, the Dubai-based British silver jeweler behind the cool Space Invaders cufflinks, has now made a pair of awesome Pac-Man cufflinks.
These cufflinks are heavier than any other pair in my collection. They are 2.5 mm thick and measure 7mm wide by 19mm tall.
You can have two Ghosts or two Pac Man or one of [...]

March 25

Quicktionary 2: A Tricorder for language & your path to Otaku knowledge

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Imagine a Star Trek-like Tricorder for scary looking foreign languages (like Japanese, for example) and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what the Quicktionary 2 Kanji Reader brings to the table. The device allows the user to scan kanji characters in a book or magazine and receive a translation of the characters in a [...]

March 24

Diamond Cut Lighting

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Diamond cuts evoke a sense of stillness and luxury so why limit them to stones? The Diamond Lamps by Riccardo Giovanetti brings an air of refinement with wall and ceiling lights shaped like giant diamonds. The material is actually made of layered blown glass at varying levels of opaqueness for dazzling illumination. If it’s a [...]

March 24

Handheld USB scanner automatically translates the scanned text using Google

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Handheld scanners that let you scan newspaper or books and then convert the scanned images to text using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology is probably nothing new to you. But a handheld scanner that is intelligent enough to auto search Google or Wiki to translate the scanned text could be the first time [...]

March 24

Keyboard With Built-In PC

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The ZPC-GX31 saves you desktop space by putting an Intel Core Duo PC with a CDRW/DVD drive and a card reader inside a “normal size keyboard”.

March 24

16 of the Most Extreme & Modern Beds You’ll Ever See

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Ever wanted to have a super bedroom, to amaze your friends, or your girlfriends ? If you need a little inspirational help for this task here is a collection of 16 of the most extreme & modern beds you’ll ever see. Now let’s begin ..

March 24

Super-Slim USB Mouse

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If you, on the contrary to the 11-Button Multimedia USB Mouse user, feel that two buttons is already one too much, then here’s the mouse for you.
This black and half-transparent red USB mouse is equipped with a 800dpi optical sensor. It has one top button with a patented front/rear operation, and a scroll wheel at [...]

March 23

Happy Easter!

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March 23

Mickey Mouse Speaker

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Feel like hooking up the cool looking Mickey Mouse inspired iRiver Mplayer to a speaker? Here you have the perfect candidate for the job.
The silver-colored stereo speaker measures 6.3 x 3.46 x 4.96 in, weighs about 21 oz, and connects to any music player using a 3,5mm stereo audio jack.
The Mice Desktop Stereo Speaker is [...]

March 22

Trump building enormous Buck Rogers era rocketship in Dubai

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With the developers in Dubai constantly looking for new ways to spend their massive piles of petro dollars, it was only a matter of time before The Donald started poking his nose in. Looking like something from a 1950s science fiction movie, the Trump International Hotel and Tower might have seemed obscenely garish in his [...]

March 22

Teclast’s M26 PMP touts oodles of touchscreen

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Quite frankly, Teclast’s M25 was darn close to being solid, but it’s pretty safe to say the M26 trumped it tenfold by ditching the scroll wheel in exchange for a few more millimeters of precious touchscreen. This admittedly sexy PMP features a 2.6-inch 400 x 240 resolution capacitive touch panel, support for RMVB, RM, FLV [...]

March 22

Mobile Phone Watch with Camera and Bluetooth

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Yet another wristwatch with a built-in mobile phone and lots of other stuff.
Much like the cell phone watch we covered some week ago, but with a slightly larger screen, a couple of games, and some other bonus features.

March 22

Books on Earthquakes…

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If Barbie’s Dreamhouse had to suffer through an earthquake, what might her bookshelf end up looking like? That must have been on the minds of Swedish designers Smånsk. They showed a prototype of their Skew bookcase at the Greenhouse young designers showcase at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last month. Up until recently, an image of [...]

March 22

Eco Drop makes long showers uncomfortable

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Taking long, lazy showers might be a great way to relax, but it’s also a huge waste of water. Getting a friendly reminder that you’re being a water hog is what this conceptual Eco_Drop shower is all about.The idea behind the Eco_Drop is that if you take too long in the shower, concentric circles will [...]

March 21

Hands, Baseball Bats, Freezers, and Toilets On with Adesso’s AKB-230 Keyboard

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Telling us your gadget is “rugged” is just asking for trouble. Telling us you ran the thing over with a car? That’s gadget suicide. Granted, we live in New York City, so none of us actually has access to a car, but heck, we consider ourselves creative people, so we’re pretty good at coming up [...]

March 21

Hanging stairs pop out of thin air

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These awesome stairs are literally hanging from the ceiling, floating free from any walls around them and defining the room their in rather than being tucked away and just serving their utilitarian purpose. They leave plenty of open space around them, making them look completely unique. I love them. They were designed by Blencowe Levine [...]

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