From the monthly archives:
Recently I have been seeing more and more USB devices such as Christmas trees, fans and now there is the USB Roll Up Piano. Who knows if this is new or not? It’s new to me, so I will report it still. The older roll up piano has been out a year or so now. The newer version is a smaller USB version which connects direct in to your PC.
The piano can be found on the Argos website and sells for £24.99.
Via: Argos
Engadget got their hands on some live shots of the Black Diamond smartphone. Currently the phone is a prototype. It has become well known around the internet because of it’s huge price tag of $300k. 5 of these phones are going to be made and will each feature a 400Mhz cpu, Wifi, and quadband GSM. Check out the pictures below.
I have never heard of Helium Digital, but they have made a nice headset featuring an LCD display on the side. The number just displays simple information such as the number of the person calling and also gives the connection status which is useful in it’s self with connections occasionally dropping.
The headset will cost $80 and goes on sale next month.
Via: Gizmodo and CrunchGear
Digisniper.com have written a nice article on how to spot fake memory cards. To be honest, I never thought that this would be something that would happen, but was amazed at the details this article gives about detecting fake cards.
Full pictures of the real and fakes are given so you can quickly spot if yours is a fake.
Via: Digisniper
The iBreath is a device which connects to your iPod. The device has a tube sticking out of the side so you can blow down it to measure your alchohol content level. This is accurate to 0.01 BAC. To add a twist to this, the device doubles up as an FM transmitter. It makes you wonder if the device will not work when your level is too high 
The iBreath costs $50 although I think 1 drink is too many to drive! So be careful out there.
This device is good for 1 thing. Switching of pretty much any TV that you point it at. I am not sure if that’s a good thing although it would be entertaining shutting down all the TV’s in a highstreet retail store.
Via: Engadget
It seems that LG are introducing a new “chocolate phone” to the market although details are scarce. It features a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, microSD, as well as Vcast. The last chocolate phone was the LG VX8500 which has a round navigation button as opposed to the square one found on the new VX8600. If the VX8600 is as good as the VX8500 then this will be a good phone.
Via: nsmses
No announcement has been made, but it seems that Motorola are working on a RAZR type touch screen PDA phone which features linux.
The phone features a QVGA 262K TFT touch screen, 2Mp digital camera and flash. It can also play various music formats and has stereo speakers built in. It has WAP, and full browsing also as well as many other standard features such as Bluetooth.
Via: CrunchGear
For about 2 years I have been visiting BenHeck.com because of his custom made portable gaming system’s he makes. He has custom made many from an Atari 2600 to now an XBox 360. Check out the new laptop below
The laptop xbox 360 packs a number of things inside it’s relativly small casing such as a HD LCD screen, water cooled custom built radiator. The water cooled radiator allows a smaller form as the heat sinks in the xbox 360 are HUGE.
He has added a built in keyboard, wifi and it has a USB connector with 3 ports. The case is made of aluminium. It also has various connectors on the back to connect a variety of other screens if the inbuilt HD wide screen is not big enough for you.
As always, there are a full set of step by step instructions included in the article.. click here… Enjoy!
I am not sure if this is cool, not cool or just cool for a few months and then you might regret having it in the future Ah well, you can decide.
The LED wallpaper is another idea which makes use of LED’s which seem to becoming more and more popular in the home (such as the LED faucet) and other home made gadgets such as the LED Time Fountain.
This cool wallpaper was featured at Spazio Krizia in 2006 earlier this month. Another cool innovative lighting idea was the laser lamp shade which is computer controlled. Excellent idea for Christmas which is just around the corner.
Via: igizmodo and newlaunches
ThinkGeek have a power converter on their site which works in more then 150 countries. It has various pin layouts for the various types of sockets you find in different countries. A cool feature of the power adapter is the USB connector which allows you to charge a number of small devices such as a mobile phone, PDA and other 5V devices.
It sells for $24.99 and comes very useful for the frequent traveller.
Via: ThinkGeek
The new Cybershot DSC-T50 is touch screen. This allows for an already good camera to be even better. The touch screen adds extra functionality allows photo editing and also to write/paint on photographs.
As well as the 3″ touch screen, the T50 has a 7.2 Megapixel CCD, ISO1000 and 56Mb internal memory. The camera also sports image stabalization.
The T50 will be released in Japan on October 13th in black, silver and red. No official announcement has been made about a US or European launch but we do not expect it to be too far behind.
Via: I4U News
Things that levitate are cool The levitating clock is no exception to this. It floats with the help of a magnetic field and tells the time also. With the help of a rotating mechanism it will also slowly rotate in the magnetic field also which provides even more entertainment.
To get it working you plug it in, hold the clock in the “sweet spot” and let go. If you get it right it will stay there and float around.
For just $24.99 you could wake up to the old 80’s style Mario game tunes with this Super Mario alarm clock. It is shaped in the form of an old NES 8-bit controller and even features a bonus game on the small LCD clock front.
Trolltech, who brought us Qtopia which is a linux-based mobile application platform have now announced the Greenphone which is a fully reprogrammable linux phone. The phone is created for developers but still is a very usable phone for others and can be used as an every day phone. In general, companies want to protech their software. With the release of the Greenphone this will allow developers to experiment and innovate which will surely bring some nice apps to phones and break down some barriers.
Via: News.com
