Once upon a time there was such a thing as a tea-break. And in that tea-break you might have had a cool idea. What did you do? No smartphones handy to quickly jot off an update to your blog, so you used a notepad and pen. Return to those days with the Poem Cup and Saucer – a groovy looking teacup and saucer with built-in pen holder. Maybe if you had a teacup like this your boss would reinstate the…
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There’s a lot of technology in that headline and I think I’ve figured it out. The Wireless Car Bluetooth FM Transmitter connects to your car stereo via FM transmission. The nifty bit is the range of inputs it can accept. First it’ll connect to your bluetooth enabled phone for use as a handsfree, presumably there’s a microphone somewhere. It will also accept the A2DP Bluetooth profile so you can stream stereo from your phone to the car stereo. Next, it…
Read MoreAnyone who’s ever worked out in a gym knows the elliptical machine. It works your muscles til you beg for mercy. Well Precor have devised the EFX Range of commercial elliptical machines and made them self-powered. You’re the one to make it work. It stores the power you generate as you huff your way through your workout. Your burned calories drive its electronic display while it measures your heart rate, keeps your time and calculates your distance. A great idea…
Read MoreThe WikiReader is a $99.00 handheld device which holds 3 million Wikipedia articles available via a simple 3 button interface and a greyscale touchscreen. It apparently works for 12 months on two AAA batteries and doesn’t need any Internet access. Instead the company will offer free updates via their website, or you can take out a yearly subscription for microSD card updates for $29.00 pa. It’s clearly aimed at the youth and education market, and with the use of a…
Read MoreThis has got to be The Most Useful Periodic Table Ever. Not just a boring list of elements and stuff, but also includes things that actually use these basic building blocks of our universe. It’s a joint effort between the University of York in the UK and some other bods, and it’s sitting on a staging server at oil giant BP.com, so this link might not survive long. Definitely worth downloading if only to learn that Hafnium 72 is used…
Read MoreNow this makes sense. One of the main selling points of e-ink powered e-book readers is that you can read them in full sunlight, as opposed to traditional LCD displays which are often hard to read outside. LG have taken that idea and applied the next logical step, and stuck a solar cell on it creating a Solar Cell eBook Reader. A 4-5 hour snooze in the sun would extend the reader’s battery by a day. It’s a thin-film solar…
Read MoreThe free PhotoFilmStrip program lets you create movies out of your still photographs. It comes with a useful set of options, including omni-directional motion on each image, subtitles, background music and full HD output (including DVD friendly MPEG4). All in all it’s pretty cool, and it works on Windows and Linux. PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures in just 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video. There are several output possibilities…
Read More(photo) Martin Sauter’s recent post on the upgrade of the HSDPA spec (3G + to you and me) made me stop and blink. So mobile phones are now on their way to achieving data download speeds of up to 84 Mbit/s with existing hardware? Really? In fact, a quick trawl of the Wikipedia site reveals that there are now 250 HSDPA networks in 109 countries, with a few supporting speeds of up to 21 Mbit/s and 28 Mbit/s peak data…
Read MoreThe Dewpointe DH9 is a water generator that draws humidity from the air, condenses it and purifies it for drinking. The makers claim it can make drinking water for US$0.60 per gallon. When it’s used in a temperature range of 15�C to 40�C and 60% humidity the DH9 can make around 22 litres of 99.99% pure water every 24 hours. If that’s not enough you can also plug in an existing water supply and have it filtered to top up…
Read MoreAs the next level of recycling, this one’s pretty cool. The OrigAudio Fold N’ Play Recycled Speakers, by OrigAudio (the self-styled origami of audio), is a set of two 1-watt speakers made of recycled materials like recycled craft paper, old newspapers, phone books, and pizza boxes! These self-powered speakers fold up for easy storage or travel, and need no batteries. Just plug them into your favorite cell phone, laptop, MP3 player, anything with a headphone jack, Choose from 6 unique…
Read MoreThe Alpine iXA-W407 is an in-car entertainment system with a 7″ touchscreen, double DIN audio head unit with AM/FM radio and a four channel 50W max amplifier. It’s designed to communicate with iPods so it will read the track information, album art etc as well as letting you drive the iPod while it’s tucked safely away. There’s a built-in Parrot Bluetooth module which allows you to access your address book, make and receive calls, caller ID etc and it can…
Read MoreThe Smart Alarm Clock tells you all sorts of things you need to know. The time, when to get up, the date, the temperature and the scrolling message you programmed into it last night. With all that information at your fingertips you’re sure to make the right decision on whether or not to get out of bed. Needs 2 AAA batteries and comes in Smart Dog or Cat versions. �14.99 This LCD Smart Alarm Clock features a calendar, count down…
Read MoreAviary is racking up quite a collection of birds in it’s online freeware stable. The latest noisy edition is Myna an online audio editor, and it looks fantastic. Basically it’s a multi-track audio editor but for an online application it’s remarkably agile. There’s drag and drop clip placement, snap to tempo and extremely simple fading and panning all done using the mouse. As well as offering the editor, Aviary have also partnered with APM Music to offer a huge library…
Read MoreI admit, I got done on April Fool’s Day this year with ThinkGeek’s Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, it looked so darn real. They might have done the joke a little too well however as they quickly announced that it may yet be manufactured. Now, 6 months later, behold the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag. It’s not available yet but they’re arriving in November. Add your name and form an orderly queue behind your 10 year old and no pushing please. [Via Gizmodo] ATTN…
Read MoreThe Myine IRA Wifi Internet Radio Adapter looks like the simplest way to stream internet radio stations to your music system without a PC. It gives you access to the tens of thousands of internet radio stations worldwide with filters for genre or location. You can store up to 40 of your favourite stations. It reads b/g Wifi with WEP, WPA and WPA2 encryption and connects to your music system via stereo RCA leads. It comes with a remote control…
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