Archive for June, 2008

June 19

iPhone Killer To Be Available for $129

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You know the Samsung Instinct? That new phone whose over-the-top ads screened before Iron Man and Indiana Jones, and are so obnoxious about their boasts of iPhone-killing that they’ve actually degraded the product in your mind before you’ve even tried it out?
Well, it looks like Sprint (its telcom provider), has figured out the simplest [...]

June 19

JBL Control Now Speakers: half Voltron, half donut

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JBL’s Control Now speakers work great alone or in a group of up to four units. Each speaker is a $250, 90° wedge that is bought one at a time, and you can sit them on your desk, install them up against the ceiling around your room and even replace your ceiling fan with [...]

June 19

Aztech’s WL850MS wireless HD media streamer gets detailed

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Believe it or not, Aztech’s WL850MS was actually first mentioned way back at CES 2008, but it’s just now finding the limelight at CommunicAsia. The well-spec’d unit supports 1080p media streaming over Ethernet or 802.11n WiFi, and you’ll likely be thrilled to know that it boasts MIMO antennas for extended coverage and 2.4GHz / 5GHz [...]

June 19

Iriver Domino - Stylish USB Flash Drive

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Domino is the name of this new beautiful flash drive from Iriver, featuring a sliding USB connector and available with 2 or 4 gigabytes of storage space.
You will be able to get the memory stick in black, white, silver, chocolate or pink. The price is set to $21 for the 2GB model and $34 for [...]

June 17

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Released - Download Now

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Download Day is here! Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web.
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do to help us set the record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours is get Firefox 3 now – it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a [...]

June 17

Illuminated LED Waterfall

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If you liked the Illuminated LED Fountain from last year, here is another one of those multicolor Zen style gadgets that might be right up your alley.
Features:

Soft Illuminated Color LED Waterfall Plates Fountain
Use in garden, home, office, bedside, etc
Minimum water level: over 60%
Height: 21 cm Width: 16 cm Depth: 11 cm
Use either AA battery x [...]

June 17

Essential beach party footwear: Reef Fanning bottle opener sandals

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Combining the two essential accessories of beach time — sandals and beer — these special flip-flops have a bottle opener built right into the sole. With the Reef Fanning sandal, you can be the champion of the beach party when forgetful Phil pulls out the cooler full of Sam Adams but forgot his opener.
The Fanning [...]

June 17

Astronomers find ‘Super-Earths’ orbiting another sun

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As NASA scientists search for water on Mars with the Phoenix Mars Lander, astronomers are finding Earth-like planets orbiting around other suns. Yesterday they found three planets they called “super-Earths” orbiting a star that’s 42 lights years away from us. They found the planets by using clever tech – they can’t see the planets themselves, [...]

June 17

GoldKey USB Security Token

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The GoldKey is a small token that protects your sensitive data using a 256-bit strong encryption. Simply insert the key into a USB port, enter a desired password, and you’re done. Now no one can access the data without your key and password.

June 17

USB Ladybug Mouse

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This lightweight and compact USB computer mouse comes with a playful ladybug inspired design and offers a 1000 dpi resolution.

June 17

4GB USB Flash Drive Lighter

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If the 512MB Memlite lighter isn’t enough for you, Chinavision now offers a refillable Zippo style metal lighter that comes with a 4BG USB flash memory.

June 17

Cylons Love This Chair

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SIX is an architecturally inspired side chair manufactured from specially produced honeycomb composite and 4mm steel wire. The design pays homage to the striking aesthetic born from the functional design of industrial structures (think Eiffel tower) and light and space. Shown here in chrome with clear panels, a wide variety of color options for the [...]

June 17

Lilypad floating metropolis isn’t the grim, mishmash future Waterworld promised

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Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut, the Lilypad’s creator, describes the city as a “floating ecopolis for climate refugees,” but it looks more like a resort than a shelter. Inspired by nature, it’s designed to house 50,000 people displaced from the effects of global warming and other ecological disasters, and be entirely self-sufficient so it doesn’t [...]

June 17

Halo Lamp throws a soft, diffuse glow; looks awesome

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This Halo Light, designed by Sander Mulder, is both classy and practical. First of all, it looks pretty awesome, with its ring of light supported by an arcing pole. But even better is that it doesn’t use a bulb, instead having the entire underside of the hood emitting light, presumably thanks to LEDs. This creates [...]

June 17

Make Sens Phone has curves even a blind person would love

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What kind of phone would a blind person use? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not an iPhone 3G. No, such a phone would have to eschew any fancy touchscreen for something more tactile, certainly — something like the Make Sens phone, a concept gadget designed by Takumi Yoshida. Eschewing Braille bumps for a surface [...]

June 15

USB Mini Mouse Speaker

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No, not a mouse as in pointing device for computers, this is a portable speaker designed to look like the small animal with the same name.

June 15

Super handy AA batteries that recharge via USB port

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Here comes some rechargeable AA batteries that can be charged via your computer’s USB port. This is especially handy for geeks, who have always got their laptop or UMPC around.

June 15

Portable UV monitor lets you know when to stay away from sunburn in this summer!

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For those who care about their skins so much and who’ve got very high chance exposed to the sun, then it’s better to get yourself equipped with a portable UV monitor, which you can bring along anywhere you go. UV ray in the sunlight can bring many harms to human skins, possible effects will be [...]

June 14

ChauhanStudio’s Jetsons-esque HAL LCD TV gets real

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Alright, so we’re not really any closer to determining whether or not ChauhanStudio’s HAL LCD TV is headed for commercial production, but we do know this: at least one of these bad boys are real. Yep, the mockup we saw a few months back has somehow made it into reality, though we can’t say for [...]

June 14

Fabric Stretch Over Frame

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Abraham is a rocking chair that delivers the ultimate in comfort. The idea was to create a piece of relaxing furniture that would look as good as it feels – a rocking chair with flowing lines and an inherent sense of harmony. To achieve this, designer Patrick Frey covered a contoured tubular steel frame with [...]

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