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The new Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth Headset not only looks like the sexiest headset ever made, it also uses a military-grade noise-canceling system to deliver crystal-clear audio quality. The technology used by Jawbone is called Noise Shield, which is developed for DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). It picks up your voice and not surrounding sounds [...]
Continue reading...22. December 2006
Love ultraslim phones? Love taking photos with your phone? You’ll love Samsung, as they have announced their new 3-megapixel CMOS sensor that is smaller than current technology. It allows the camera module’s size to be reduced by as much as 30 percent. According to Samsung, it is achieved by using 1.75um pixel (instead of 2.25um pixel) [...]
Continue reading...22. December 2006
Weird gadget of the day! The Breath Capture is a pendant that allows you to keep your lover’s (or your dog’s) breath in it, letting you sniff at it at a later time. “Air in the form of human breath is no longer simply air. Breath is present when we laugh and cry, whisper and shout, [...]
Continue reading...21. December 2006
Remember the hide-and-seek clock that was mentioned in our Top 10 Coolest Alarm Clocks post? It was designed by a student, and now it is finally available for sale. For those unfamiliar, Clocky is a clock with two wheels that sets off running randomly whenever its alarm sounds. Hence, to silence it you have to climb [...]
Continue reading...21. December 2006
If for some reason you always wanted to break your contract with Cingular, now’s your chance to do so without paying a termination fee. Effective from Jan 21, 2007, Cingular’s text message rates will go up from $0.10 to $0.15. Here’s the good stuff, from Cingular’s Terms of Service: “IF WE INCREASE THE PRICE OF ANY OF THE [...]
Continue reading...20. December 2006
Matsushita unveils that it is ready to mass-produce a new kind of lithium-ion battery that does not generate excessive heat even if it short circuits (the main culprit of exploding laptops). The battery uses a nickel-oxide anode instead of a conventional cobalt or nickel-manganese anode to generate more power. It achieves a capacity of 2.9 ampere-hours [...]
Continue reading...20. December 2006
If you like your monitor black lacquered with a piano’ish finish, the new Samsung CX206BW (20-inch) and CX226BW (22-inch) LCD monitors are perfect for you. They sport a 3000:1 contrast ratio, a deliciously fast 2ms response time, and at least one HDCP-enabled DVI input for being Windows Vista Premium certified. Other details such as resolution are [...]
Continue reading...19. December 2006
The next time a technician visits your house, make sure he knows his cable ABC. A mistake as simple as plugging a power line into the wrong port of a signal amplifier could cause your gadgets and stuffs to go BOOM. That’s exactly what happened to a Comcast customer. Everything on the desk was blackened with [...]
Continue reading...19. December 2006
Here’s one for the sick minded readers who find perverted joy in watching a plastic dog humping their laptop. Digital World Tokyo is selling them at $20 each (White Dog, Brown Dog, Chocolate Dog), or $55 for the full set of three. Here’s a video of it in action (check out that mosaic). It hurts my [...]
Continue reading...17. December 2006
Wouldn’t it be great if the unfortunates who lost their sight could read regularly printed text as well? Enter the Blind Reader. It scans printed text like a regular handheld scanner and translates it to Braille on its special screen for the blind to touch. It is still in the stage of concept design, by a [...]
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23. December 2006
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