Plastic Logic has unveil their first e-newspaper. The name is undecided yet. The lightweight device with 8.5 x 11-inch with a wireless connection to the internet will download and store hundreds of pages of newspapers, books, and documents. The user will be able to read the content in MS Office formats as well as PDF. Plastic Logic’s e-Newspaper is expected to go on sale in 2009.
133 days, 10 hours and 47 minutes till George W. Bush steps down and a new president takes his place. Bookshop Santa Cruz have designed a clock that counts down George Bush’s time in office. They have also called the clock “National Nightmare.”
The clock is $9.95 with free shipping in the United States.
Touch Sight is a revolutionary digital camera that was designed Chueh Lee, Liqing Zou, Ning Xu, Saiyou Ma, Dan Hu, Fengshun Jiang and Zhenhui Sun for blind people to take photos. Yes, I know how it sounds but the idea is very interesting. The camera records 3 seconds of sound before the picture was taken and displays it on a lightweight, flexible braille. The image is embossed on the surface of the braille so the user can touch it. The sound is can be used as reference when viewing or reviewing the photo.
During the research it was discovered that the best place for a blind person to stabilize the camera is the forehead.
This is a brilliant concept I just hope it goes into production and it won’t be very expensive.
We’ve all seen the new (not anymore) type of alarm clocks which you have to chase or put together a puzzle to turn it off. This, however, is a different type of alarm clock. The Silence alarm clock, designed by Johan Brengesjo, does not make any noise to wake you, instead you put on a rubber band when you go to sleep and it starts to vibrate at the set time. To snooze the band you’ll need to shake your hand. But the band will begin vibrating again and you’ll have to shake your hand harder this time to snooze it. This will wake you up more effectively than an ordinary and sometimes very annoying alarm.
I’ve seen quite a few of moddings some of them were kitchen appliances but the toaster modding is a first for me. Jonathan Kimak made this toaster into a fully functional computer with a 3.6 GHz processor, DVD-rom and even a router. Too bad it doesn’t make toasts anymore
What is your choice meat or fruit? Barbecued chicken winds or watermelon? These 4G, USB flash will satisfy your every taste but because they look so tasty and yummy please keep them away from children. Each piece costs $28.00
Flee is a tossable digital camera that allows you to take pictures from the air. The flee is linked with your cell phone via bluetooth. When thrown the camera starts taking pictures with the set interval and these photos are sent to you cell phone using the bluetooth signal. I’m not sure how many tosses would this flee survive but , however I find this idea very interesting. With the flee you can take very cool, unusual pictures.
At first the creator of the Flapper thought to make it able to swim underwater, however later on he realized that waterproofing the robot fish would be a nightmare so the fish remained on land.
The Flapper moves with transmitter sticks and there’s no programming involved. As you can see in the video the fish moved quite well it even does back flips.
This is a very useful gadget. This laser is capable of illuminating the room with beautiful green and red patterns. The size of the laser projector is 8.0 x 7.0 x 3.0 cm so it is easy to transport and find space for it in the room. What makes this laser projector even better is the price, only $65.00 The link where you can buy it is below.
If there are giant joysticks then why not a giant keyboard? That is exactly what Maurin Donneaud did. To type the next in you need to walk on the rug you can use your arms of course but that would be much harder. This giant keyboard is perfect for games that develop your typing skills.