MSI has been teasing us with its Atom-based laptops and desktops for some time now, so it’s only right that they finally give it up and let some journalist rip open a Wind for some straight-up circuit porn. Confirmed on the board are the aforementioned Atom 230 processor, 1GB DDR2-533 RAM, a 160GB SATA drive, [...]

While Nintendo has yet to confirm its upcoming trio of new DS Lite colors for Europe (and hopefully the rest of us soon after), the much-leaked units have already been spotted in the wild and unboxed for your viewing pleasure. In addition to its regular warnings about getting outside and not hitting people in the [...]

The Avcen Jetpod T-100 is a proposed flying taxi, a VQSTOL (Very Quiet Short Take-Off and Landing) vehicle that, if you believe the company that wants to produce it, could be airborne by 2010. It would be used as a transporter for groups of people between city centers and outlying areas such as airports rather [...]

The Smartchair Biofeedback Computer Chair looks like an ejection seat, but this ergonomic design concept keeps track of your muscle tension and adjusts itself for maximum comfort. It has dozens of embedded sensors, raising and lowering springs built into the seating pad, backpad and headrest whenever it thinks you’re getting cramped. When it’s not sensing [...]

Good news for fans of eyesores and obnoxious advertisements: the world’s biggest LED billboard is currently being constructed in Times Square in New York, and it’s going to sell you stuff or punch you in the face with lights trying. The gigantic sign stands a whopping 212 feet high, weights 250,000 pounds, and has 12 [...]

In a somewhat surprising move, Apple has patented a new device-coating solar film that could be used as an alternate method for charging gadgets such as iPhones and iPods. If implemented, it could allow one to lay their phone out in the sun for an hour to get it charged back up. That’s all well [...]

There’s nothing worse than watching TV when suddenly a really bad show or infomercial comes on and the remote is nowhere to be found. It is at this point you begin to ponder whether or not your couch can actually eat objects. The problem is that remotes are rather small, and can easily be misplaced [...]

Earlier in the year, well-known electronics manufacturer Asus actually split into three separate divisions. One of those divisions (now known as Pegatron) has a dedicated design department called PEGA who recently created 8 different interactive concept products under the theme of ‘Between On&Off’. One of those concepts was this Look@Me keyboard for instant messaging which [...]

Well this one doesn’t need much explaining, it’s a simple paper notepad designed to look like a notepad icon. Perfect for those 5 or 6 item to-do lists. It was designed by Atypyk Paris and is available from the Design Museum Shop for about $10.

If you have already gone ahead and purchased the rose microphone and the daisy flower baby monitor, then there’s a good chance that this product will be of interest to you as well.

Digital Camera 101: As manufacturers continue pushing the Megapixel Myth by stuffing more and more pixels onto rapidly shrinking sensors, the outcome is poor performance on top of poorly lit images of increasingly low quality. Now OmniVision, the largest CMOS image sensor manufacturer today, says they’ve solved the pixel size problem though backside illumination (BSI) [...]

Dont true geek girls go wireless?

It looks like those wanting something a bit more capable but just as brightly-colored as Willcom’s most recent candybar phones could soon be getting their fix, as the company has just announced its new Willcom 03 smartphone, which packs a bundle of features into an eye-catching package. Up front and center on this one is [...]

By Evan Ackerman
Generally, I’m not much for baths. They take a while to get ready, it gets boring to just lie there, the water inevitably cools off, and when I get out I don’t feel especially clean. If I had a Red Diamond Bathtub, though, all of my problems would be solved and showers would [...]

For those of you who live in houses with restricted gardens where space saving furniture is paramount the Rox bench could be the solution for you. In the winter the unit collapses down into a storage unit where you can keep garden tools, children’s toys, etc. In the summer it opens out into a 3 [...]

REMY could be Linus’ wet dream. It’s a biometric blanket that tracks your sleep patterns. While sleeping a distant camera records body movements and when the appropriate time arrives, renders light patterns within the blanket simulating dawn. Never mind that the camera looks like a mini-boogie man in the dark.
Designer: Dasha Anokhina

Even when electrical appliances are “turned off” they’re actually still drawing small amounts of energy. You’d be amazed how much energy is wasted in this low power state. JustDrawIt is sort of a home timer for anything that can be totally powered down without affecting functionality. Lamps, microwaves, toasters are some of the most common [...]

While it likely won’t hold onto the (slightly dubious) title for long at the rate mini-projectors are cropping up these days, Hong Kong-based Earth Trek has nonetheless gone out and proclaimed its new 90-805R projector to be the “world’s smallest” and, indeed, it is small. Measuring about 4 by 2 inches, the projector can apparently [...]

The Japanese believe that LED lighting will bring healing or soothing effect, which releases all the stress from your body. It’d be a plus, when LED soothing is applied together with some aroma, especially when you’re bathing.

Green House GH-MUSG-W is an optical wired mouse in the shape of a golf ball. The mouse comes with a matching mouse pad in the shape of a golf field. The optical mouse lights up whenever the left or right buttons are clicked. The mouse pad in the shape of a golf field comes [...]