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Want a wrist watch that makes great conversation starter? Try the Showa Retro Heisi Pop Analog Watch. No, you do not read the time off the rotary dial. Instead, you dial “117″ on it and a robotic female voice tells the time that goes like this, “The time is now 8:34 and 15 seconds…peep peep [...]
Continue reading...25. December 2006
This stainless steel pen is not your average pen. It is an inkless pen that will probably never stop writing in your lifetime. The metal ‘nib’ is made of a metal alloy that leaves a mark on most types of paper. If written on the typical papers used in printers and copiers, the mark it leaves [...]
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...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...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 [...]
Continue reading...13. December 2006
What do you think about new memories that are 500 to 1,000 times faster than our current flash memories? Wicked eh? And how about using only half the power? The researchers from IBM, Macronix, and Qimonda who created it are calling it the “phase-change” memory. Imagine the possibilities if it ever comes true. Instant-on computers, unlimited [...]
Continue reading...11. December 2006
Both Sony and SanDisk have announced the new Memory Stick PRO-HG format. Hurray for all PSP gamers and Sony Alpha DSLR shutterbugs, as it provides three times faster writing speed (60MB/sec) and a max capacity of 32GB. Unlike SDHC memory cards, the Memory Stick PRO-HG is backward-compatible with PRO-only devices, although it will no longer run [...]
Continue reading...9. December 2006
Integrating GPS with gaming, how cool! Just launched this week, the GPS Receiver for Sony PSP is supposedly only available in Japan. But Play-Asia.com has it for sale now, although I do not know if it will work with the PSPs in other parts of the world. The GPS receiver currently works with the following titles: [...]
Continue reading...6. December 2006
Ten years. US$40 million. The result is Air Force’s new Active Denial System (ADS). A weapon that is non-lethal, supposedly carries no side-effects, and lets your victims feel as though they’ve been dipped in molten lava. ADS is a state-of-the-art weapon that shoots a beam of millimeters waves. These waves are longer in wavelength than x-rays [...]
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30. December 2006
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