Canon shrinks portable printer
Canon is a household name when it comes to printers, and their latest offering, the Selphy CP740 photo printer is apparently tiny enough to fit into your hand. That’s pretty darn small even for the largest pair of hands in the world if you ask me. Granted, it won’t be able to print huge A4 sized photos, but at least it churns out 4″ x 6″ memories in under a minute (58 seconds to be exact). It even comes with a variety of memory card slots for instant printing, but unfortunately Bluetooth connectivity is not supported for easy setup with cellphones. The Canon Selphy CP740 comes with a 2″ color display and will be released this Fall at the recommended retail price of $100.
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Krups has just unveiled its new 2-slice toaster that comes with a twist - it contains an LCD display that lets you know just when your toast will be ready, down to the very last second. No longer do you have to wait for the whir of the timer that culminates in a “Ding!” with the Krups Metal Toaster. A brushed stainless steel housing keeps is looking fine and dandy, and will probably be one of the most advanced looking appliances in the average dining room. Features include 8 toasting settings, a mid-cycle cancel function, cool touch side walls to prevent accidental burns, and a high lift toasting level. The Krups Metal Toaster costs $60 but it is currently out of stock.
Memup isn’t exactly a household name when it comes to portable media players (PMP), but that isn’t stopping them from entering the highly competitive PMP market with its Orizon. It comes with an impressive 4.3″ screen that displays up to 16 million colors in 480 x 272 pixels resolution, while the 30GB hard drive can be further expanded via an SD/MMC memory card slot. Supported formats include DivX, XviD, WMV, and MJPEG for video, MP3 and WMA for audio, and JPEG, GIF, and BMP for images. Additional features consist of an FM radio, a micropohone, and inputs/outputs for audio and video. Too bad the battery can’t take too much strain, being fully drained with just 4 hours of video playback. The Memup Orizon will retail for $378 a pop.
Newer Technology has just unveiled the miniStack V3 portable storage device that holds up to 1TB of data - that’s more than enough to house approximately 350,000 MP3 tunes. Hooking up to the miniStack V3 is a no brainer - you can choose from eSATA, a couple of FireWire 800 ports, one FireWire 400 port, and a trio of USB 2.0 ports for simultaneous connection. There will be seven different capacities available, with 1TB as the top-of-the-line model. Prices range from $169.99 onwards up to $549.99 for the 160GB and 1TB models respectively. For those who have been whining about the lack of storage space, you can’t really go wrong with the miniStack V3.
TakaraTomy of Japan is well known for its line of interesting gadgets and toys, and the Fuwarito lamp is no different. Shaped after members of our solar system, you get lamps that look just like the earth and moon to give your room that surreal look. Made from helium-filled mylar balloons with an LED built right inside and a weighted base to prevent it from floating about your home. It would be interesting to see a Death Star addition in order to tickle the imagination of Star Wars fans. The Fuwarito lamp retails for approximately $27 a pop.
An MIT professor who lost his legs to frostbite is currently working on a new generation of lower body exoskeletons that make short work of our analog limbs when compared side-by-side. It isn’t ready for commercial release yet though, since the main problem with robotic exoskeletons are its weight that could injure the wearer and passers-by seriously should they ever fail. The said professor, Hugh Herr, aims to get about this problem by building an exoskeleton that mimics human movement while acting in parallel to it. Will we see some sort of hybrid Olympics in the future? After all, we have the ultimate man-machine team up in Formula 1, so why not a sprint competition that involves humans in exoskeletons?
