Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Monday, October 29th, 2007
One of the amazing conceptual designs we spoke highly of in the past is actually becoming a reality. The Keyport key thing-a-ma-jigger is going into production!
As a quick refresher — the Keyport is the "world's first universal keyfob." The device comes with six key "blanks" that can be carved to ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Hitachi's no stranger to GPS-laden cellphones, and it now looks to be upping the ante even further, with it recenlty introducing a new phone that seemingly aims to replace your car's GPS entirely. As with its previous W51H model, the new W54H phone (also called the "Wooo") sports a reasonably-sized ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Some scientists claim that they have invented a tool that will correct the strange behavior or nano-wires, effectively allowing the creation of "supercomputers the size of a matchbox." Previously this was not possible because, according to University of Edinburgh's school of engineering and electronics Dr Michael Zaiser, as they reduced ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Yamaha's new portable conference system uses a 12-microphone array to capture sound. Eight of these microphones are located in movable arms which could open to better fit the position of the people around a table. The 9 x 6 x 1.33-inch, echo-cancelling Yamaha PJP-25UR also has two built-in speakers for ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
The list of cornball USB gadgets has become embarrassingly long lately, thus some basic handy ideas have fallen by the wayside. Making up for all the goofy gadgets is the SpyDisk Pen, a decidedly James Bond-esque piece of equipment.
By day the SpyDisk is a fully functional ballpoint pen, but in ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Sure, you've played "keep it up" with big rubber ball or half-helium balloon at a rave or concert before, but you've probably never had the pleasure of smacking around a one-and-a-half-meter sphere that responds to your whacks with multi-colored blinks. Enter the Zygote: the "interactive" party ball. Yes, now you ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
It's been a hot minute since a flatbed scanner was able to impress, but Epson's USB 2.0 Perfection V500 manages to do exactly that. Sporting a 6400dpi optical resolution and 48-bit color depth, the V500 steps it way up by also throwing in the firm's ReadyScan LED technology, "which delivers ...
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