From the monthly archives:
Stress is fairly common around the work place with all the tight deadlines and what not. Hours of peoples lives are also spent in front of a computer working away and keeping in touch with the world. To fix this problem of stress a stress reducing mouse has been created which tracks your stress. It does this through a sensor where your thumb rests and when it notices your stress levels rise it will send remedies on how to get rid of the stress and control it before it becomes a problem. Information sent to you is about exercising and how to work best to reduce the levels.
Product Page Via: Techchee
The Fuel Cell X7 is a car which comes in kit form ready for you to build it. The car is powered by hydrogen and makes a great science project. The fuel cell is the cool part which is capable of changing water in to Hydrogen which in turn powers the little car. It is available for $74.99 and ready for you to build out of the box.
Via: LikeCool
The Motorcycle Air Bag will save your life in the way to the office and the Phantom mouse will save your job. If you are browsing the internet from your work PC and it’s against company policy you will find that if caught you might be out of a job. The Phantom mouse takes 1 step in a direction which might prevent that by introducing a small red button just below the scroll wheel. If your boss decides to walk your way you just hit the panic button and all the windows automatically hide.
If you have a fear of crashing on your motor bike then this air bag jacket could fix that fear. It is called Hit Air jacket and attaches to your motorbike with a tether. If you happen to fly off your bike the jacket will inflate to protect your neck, chest, back, ribs and hips from getting any serious injury. It costs $410 and is available from a company named Hit-Air.
The iPod has become extremely popular since it’s launch and a number of accessories and other 3rd party things are made for it. The latest is the VCommunicator which is a very useful translation device which has an intuitive menu system which you can scroll through to translate various phrases in to another language. Connect it up to a loud speaker and entertain crowds of people also. Currently it is used by the army and assists them in communicating with foreign speakers they come across.
Is the MacBook Air too expensive for you? If so then why not print yourself one of these “free” versions. It is named the MacBook Paper or really it could be a MacBook Notepad if you really wanted. I doubt you will get much thinner then this for the next few years!
The print out is available over at APCommunity and even allows you to print the sleeve out too if desired.
Found at: GearDiary
This wheel features electronic sensors which are embedded in to the tire. Information is collected from the sensors and fed back to a vehicle information system. That data is processed and the “tweel ribs” flex through wireless technology to cause the pressure to stay level across the tire. The idea is just in concept at the moment from the guys over at Yanko. If this technology was to be made it would have a number of uses such as longer wear on the tire and even the possibility to not have to rotate the wheels like we currently do now.
Skyfire is a mobile browser which promises to bring a better browsing experience to your mobile phone. Right now it is in private beta mode and unfortunately it is just available for those with a US phone number. As soon as it opens up to the UK I will be testing this one out. The browser says it can go anywhere and get anything which if true, would be a great step up in mobile browsing. Check out a demo of Skyfire after the jump.
Currently the good people over at XDA developers are offering $5199.51 to anyone who can create some drivers to fix a problem with the HTC TYTN II (Or Tilt, Vario etc..). The reason they are offering this amount is due to HTC confirming they will not be fixing the slow speeds on the Tytn II.
Our Kaisers currently lack drivers for hardware accelerated display functionality. A full set of these drivers would significantly speed up ALL drawing operations, including the user interfaces of normal applications, video playback, games and 3D rendering.
There are different parts to these drivers, namely for 2D (user interfaces, video, images) and 3D graphics (games). It is not yet sure even IF these drivers will be available soon, and if they are, which parts will be accelerated.
The plan, of course, is to provide a full set. Though this will most likely not include a speed up for the camera.
If you are an owner of a HTC Tytn II then go take a read of what’s happening over at XDA Developers.
Sound and Vision magazine have run a nice comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of OLED, LCD and Plasma screens. With all 3 types of screen being an option it does make you wonder which you want to purchase with your hard earned cash. CES which has just passed a few weeks ago had a lot of TV’s on display which tends to make the choice even more overwhelming.
OLED (organic light emitting diode) is fairly new to the TV scene. The most noticeable feature with OLED’s is the contrast. This is due to OLED being a self-emitting display technology which requires no back light. Each OLED pixel can be switched on as needed because the tiny cells respond instantly. Also OLED screens happen to be wafer thin too which is an added bonus as well as having a wide viewing angle like the plasma screens. Mix this with HDTV resolutions and the large screen and you are on to a winner. On the downside, screens are not that big yet and the prices are quite high. But with the screens only really appearing over the last year there is no doubt that prices will go down while screen sizes increase.
This chair costs €15K and puts it’s self in control of where you are sitting. It is a robotic walking chair which is built of steel tubes, plastic and is chrome plated. Built by designers Karl Emilio Pircher and Fidel Peugeot it makes for a crazy type of chair for your dining room table. Imagine having dinner with someone annoying and also having the ability to just push a button and have the chair take them away. Cool!
Via: SlipperyBrick
This SIM card according to Brando, can unlock an iPhone with a firmware no greater then 1.1.2. I am not sure if I believe it like a number of others, but I guess it could be possible. Anyone with a 1.1.2 or less firmware want to fork out $30 and test it?
Via: Slashgear
A Patent for Apple was filed August last year and approved yesterday. The patent is for an Illuminated Touch Pad which appears that the light panel will be capable of emitting light in localized areas of the input surface. What this means is basically visual feed back which when you touch the scroll wheel on an iPod, the touch wheel will light up under your finger to visually show what just happened with the light actually following your finger around the dial. As well as the touch wheel being illuminated, the button in the middle will also light up too to show the actions on what it is doing.
Via: Patent Applications
The Stylophone was commonly seen with Rolph Harris back in the days when he was on TV more. It’s a bizarre instrument which acts as an electric organ in your pocket. In the 70’s about 3 million of these little organs were sold. The Stylophone is battery operated and packed full of circuitry from transistors, resistors, diodes and other stuff. When you press the stylus against a metal key it makes a unique noise.
The new version now has a volume control which is good to hear. Also, you can hook it up to your MP3 player and play along to your music tracks.
The Stylophone costs £14.95 from Firebox.
