Touting it as the World’s Fastest and Largest Capacity 2.5-inch, MLC-based (256GB) SSD with SATA II Interface, Samsung has a pretty neat solid-state drive in its hands. With sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write speed of 160MB/s, the SSD is about 2.4 times faster than a typical HDD. [...]

K-Touch - the mobile maker from China, which has put a lot of emphasis on the cameras for its cellphones, now has rolled out another new model - the K-Touch C280.

Remember the Fingerprint USB Flash Drive we wrote about earlier this year? Apacer has now doubled the storage space, giving you 8GB instead of 4.

Truth be told, we still can’t believe this is the first commercially available glow in the dark Xbox 360 chassis, but then again, glow in the dark hasn’t been remotely fashionable since Bill Clinton left office. Still, if history is beginning to repeat itself, you know you want to be first on the bandwagon, and [...]

You never really know what all will emerge from a simple interview, and thanks to a recent sit-down with Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth, we now know that a build of Ubuntu tailored for ultraportables (or subnotes, as it were) is just around the bend. According to Mr. Shuttleworth, the aforesaid software will be announced [...]

Any one who has ever used a laptop the way its name suggests, knows that these things get pretty hot after a while, so having some kind of support that keeps the computer and your body separated and cool is a good idea. While there are plenty of so called cooling pads on the market, [...]

For the frequent travelers, the weather will always affect your traveling schedule. It’s always a need to learn the weather of a few days ahead. While keeping yourself tuned to some public weather broadcast channels isn’t that convenient, then it’ll be much better to have your own weather station, such as one that can be [...]

We’ve seen CF-SATA converters before, but what if you were to create a SATA shaped, sized, and interfaced enclosure and allow users to throw Compact Flash cards in there to make their own SSDs for more standard installs? Sans Digital’s CS1T is a single-card Compact Flash CF to 2.5″ SATA enclosure and the CR2T is [...]

There are all sorts of creative uses for GPS, but here’s a fellow who says he sent a self-designed GPS “device” in a briefcase to DHL with express travel instructions. He plotted the shipment’s movement and ended up with the drawing you see above. We’re a bit confused. First, he says he developed a GPS [...]

I like designs that are so simple and clever, that they make you slap your head in one of those V-8 moments. This sofa design from South Africa’s XYZ Design is a perfect example. By simply rotating the center cushion, you can quickly convert it from a three seat sofa into a comfy looking chaise [...]

McDonald’s in Japan will introduce a downloadable coupon for Sony Felica-enabled phones in its Japanese restaurants. The new payment application, called the Kasazu coupon, is downloaded onto a consumer’s phone at the point-of-sale. The consumer then places their phone on a reader to make the payment or use the coupon. McDonald’s will initially test the [...]

We’re no strangers to out-there bathroom fixtures, but the $47,000 Red Diamond bathtub from Water Games Technologies is probably a new low high in powder room decadence. The screaming-red tub features multicolor lighting, a computer-controlled heating system that maintains your desired water temperature, an automatic disinfection system and built-in massager. Of course, that’s what any [...]

We’ll go ahead and get this out of the way: the fantastic product you’re about to hear more on has “no plans” to go commercial. Now that we’ve thoroughly killed your buzz, let us introduce to you the LaserTouch. Said device is a prototype that recently emerged from Microsoft Research’s labs, which essentially allows people [...]

This drool-worthy creation is the work of a Russian modder and unfortunately is not something that can be bought; at least not yet anyway. It was built from brass and copper and then polished. I am not quite sure if this fits the strict definition of Steampunk but it is close enough for me.

The Steampunk [...]

It is not too often that we associate solar-powered with anything fast and or furious, but perhaps it is time that we start. The Czeers MK1 is a 10-meter vessel covered in photovoltaic cells that is capable of hitting speeds of up to 30 knots (55.5 km/ph to you non-nautical folks out there). While there [...]

The Mytunes MP3 Amp is a cute little powered speaker for your MP3 player of choice. The output is a meager 5W, so it is hardly going to be upsetting the neighbors and it has working treble and bass knobs. I have to say that despite not being much of guitar enthusiast, I really like [...]

We liked these light orbs, but have less positive feelings towards the conceptually-similar outdoor lamps above— instead of being ethereal and round, they’re shaped like the sort of tree that sometimes lines paths or a road. The lamp’s name is Kanpazar. It comes in 31 and 58-inch heights and is imported from Spain. If you [...]

You don’t want your lamps to look like everyone else’s, do you? That’s why you might feel like folding your own with this Fold Your Lamp design concept by Thomas Hick. It’s made of a thin sheet of stainless steel with scored segments, ready for your nearly effortless customization.

Plenty of designers have attempted to fuse fashion with gadgets. Most have been unsuccessful with often designs that were either complicated, cumbersome or just plain ugly. Here is an item that is simplicity at its best. The “Wire Button” by Jaehyung Hong untangles your headphone cables for your listening pleasure and looks subtle enough to [...]

With the tech blogs getting all hot and bothered over Art Lebedev’s Optimus Maximus keyboard and it’s customizable OLED keys, we thought we would show off a slightly more analog version of the same concept. At no where near the Optimus Maximus price of nearly $2,000 USDs, this $30 version called “Keyboard Shortcut Skins” by [...]