Archive for February 25th, 2008
Now here’s a handset that defies convention - the Toaster Phone. Designed by Renata Quintela of Brazil, this concept allows the phone to be charged each time it is popped into the toaster unit, only to jump out from its comfortable confines whenever there is an incoming call. In addition to all the necessary buttons for one to make a phone call, the Toaster Phone also features an earpiece and microphone for you to carry out conversations while being ridiculed by your colleagues. Anyone willing to pick up the Toaster Phone should it ever roll off production lines?
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February 25th, 2008
Absolut Quartet is a play on the famous vodka brand, where it features a large scale of differently filled wineglasses in order to provide an exact musical scale. In addition to making fine tunes in your drunken revelry, this neat set up is capable of hurling projectiles as well - presumably fun when you’re drunk. It is known as the “Ballistic ping pong marimba”, and will definitely sit down well with the little juvenile in all of us.
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February 25th, 2008
The Memory Foam MP3 Blackout Shades not only helps keep your eyes shielded from whatever bright light in the area, it also allows you to chill out to your favorite beach tunes via its integrated speakers by hooking up an MP3 player to it. Of course, many would argue that dropping $25 on this would be rather silly since the same experience can be had without forking out a single penny - all you need to do is blindfold yourself while decked out under the sun and listen to your iPod via its own headphones. Well, I guess you pay for the novelty involved here as well as the memory foam that molds around your face’s contours.
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February 25th, 2008
The Bluetrek BIZZ Bluetooth headset has just been launched in the UK, and it takes pride in itself for being the first headset in the world that offers storage in addition to hands-free functionality. This means you can carry out a conversation over it while transforming it into a flash memory device in an instant. Battery life currently stands at 6 hours of talk time and 10 days on standby, although in practise those figures never really tally. You probably won’t experience a low battery warning too often though, considering the frequency of plugging it into a USB 2.0 slot when transferring data, charging its battery at the same time. The Bluetrek BIZZ tips the scales at 10 grams and stores data on a microSD memory card slot. It will retail for less than $80.
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February 25th, 2008
This is one of the tiniest ECGs I’ve ever laid my eyes on, as it consists of an extremely tiny LCD display, a pair of electrodes and an ARM training unit. It is powered by an STM32 Primer chip, where pressing both your thumbs on the two electrodes will begin the ECG trace. Once your pulse is detected, it will beep while showing off the heart rate in a decimal format in the top left hand corner. Hopefully the accuracy of such a simple DIY project can be improved, allowing field personnel to carry a compact and lightweight ECG - that remains but a pipe dream at the moment, so this DIY ECG is relegated to the “fun” category in the meantime.
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February 25th, 2008
Looks like the latest version of Botanicalls is able to communicate with Twitter, thanks to an Arduino electronics board which is hooked up to a notebook. Several soil moisture probes created from galvanised nails allow the plant to “communicate” with you by sending a relevant signal which will then appear on the screen, letting you know whether you’ve been giving them too much water or worse - none at all. Now if only scientists can find out whether plants talk to each other or not…
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February 25th, 2008
How do you rate a laugh - by its length, pitch, loudness, or a combination of all three? Well, researchers at Kansai University have successfully developed a device that can measure the quantity of a human’s laughter while filtering through real and fake laughter. Currently, laughter quantity is known as “aH”, where a single second of explosive laughter results in 5 aH. This system is smart enough to tell between fake and real laughter by monitoring the diaphgram’s movement. Should a person fake his’her laughter, this machine is able to detect that the diaphgram did not vibrate, in stark contrast to what a real laughter can muster. The researchers are currently working on a portable version that can be used in health and entertainment devices. Guess live sitcom recordings will never be the same again with this device.
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February 25th, 2008
Looks like the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive is experiencing a firesale that we predicted yesterday - Retailers like Best Buy are currently carrying it for just $49.99 - is that price low enough for curious onlookers to pick it up? After all, think of it as a DVD player that features HD DVD playback. Own a piece of (discontinued) history today. I wonder how folks who paid $199 for it feel now.
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February 25th, 2008
No idea if LEGO’s legal eagles have caught whiff of this range of MP3 players, but they sure as heck resemble the familiar Danish building block game. All the controls can be accessed from the raised dots located on each block’s surface. Since the LEGO MP3 players are available in different primary colors, you can always choose to connect one to the other for a marriage between form and function. Each of these MP3 players include an integrated Li-ion battery that offers up to half a dozen hours of play time, so it is advisable for you to tote around a 2GB microSD memory card since there is a lack of internal memory. The LEGO MP3 players retail for $46 each.
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February 25th, 2008
I don’t know whether kids these days love to look for buried treasure in their own backyard with a metal detector, but I surely had a field day back in my early years. Here’s a way to make your very own metal detector for the more prudent dads who are reading this. All you need is an AM radio, some tape, and a calculator in order to produce a radio frequency signal which can bounce off metal, allowing the radio to produce a rather grating tone. Now if only I can dig out an AM radio with everything gone digital…
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February 25th, 2008
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