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Virtual Mirror – Try Clothes with out Changing

March 21, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Virtual Mirror
The LCD TV market is getting huge now due to prices always dropping. This has allowed various technologies to be worked with such as virtual mirrors. These tend to be mirrors that hang on your wall, and also have a screen built in. When the screen it switched on the surface is no longer reflecting an image of you, but is showing a video.

Using this idea, a store in New York decided that clothes can be tried on by facing a mirror and displaying the clothes on screen. Where the clothes are not, you can see your reflection as though you are wearing the clothes. To add to this, a picture is then taken, emailed to friends and family and an opinion can be gained as to weather you buy the item of clothing or not.

Seems like an interesting idea and might help speed up things for those who get bored waiting for their wives to try on everything in a store.

Via: NewLaunches

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, Displays

Imation Flash Wristbands

March 20, 2007 by Leave a Comment

imation_flash_wristband
The Imation Flash Wristband is a flash device which you can wear on your wrist. It stores information on it just like any other USB flash drive would, but is just bendy instead of being a rigid block of plastic. The idea of this device is that you can wear your storage rather then have it hanging on a keychain or loosely in your pocket. The flash wristband is made out of rubber which protects the flash drive from knocks etc… The memory capacity of the device currently goes up to 256Mb and colours available are black and blue.

Using the device is as simple as any USB flash drive. You just plug it in to your XP, ME or 2000 based PC and away it goes. It is compatible with older OS versions like Windows 98, but a driver needs to be installed to get it working. Compatibility with Mac is also available.

Via: Imation

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

Bluetooth Pillow Phone

March 19, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Bluetooth Pillow Phone
I would never have thought up a device like this. The Bluetooth Pillow Phone is a 66cm long pillow with a built in microphone, loudspeaker, lithium ionic battery and LEDs to show the status of the pillow. It is made of Cotton Velvet with a foam inner core.

It’s crazy if you ask me, but I guess perfect for those who first fall in love and spend hours on the phone at night while they fall asleep. It’s too bad that it’s just concept though 🙂

Via: Coolest-Gadgets

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Concept Gadgets, Cool Gadgets

Optimus 103 Keyboard is here – Almost

March 15, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Optimus 103
The Optimus 103, now named the Optimus Maximus was supposidly going to be unveiled at Cebit but unfortunatly it did not arrive. Instead people were presented with pictures like the one above. As well as receiving another name the price also increased to around 800 pounds. You might wonder what you actually get for 800 pounds… Well, each key is not just an average plastic key, it is a polished key with a built in OLED display which means you can edit each key to display what you like on it. Should you want a new language keyboard then just upload it and the keys all change. It sounds posh but I am not sure I could spend 800 quid on a fancy keyboard. What about you guys?

More Pictures Via: Gizmodo

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

GooPs – Track yourself on Google Earth

March 14, 2007 by 1 Comment

Google GPS
Since the launch of Google Earth, we have been able to see satellite images of the earth, quite often in high detail and zoom in and out of a 3D environment. A few years back this would have cost a lot of money to have access to something like this. Mixing Google Earth with a GPS receiver, laptop and some free software you can get a very powerful in car/portable mapping system in seriously cool detail. The software you can use is called GooPs which allows you to interface the GPS device with Google Earth. Once connected and paired via Bluetooth you can fire up Google Earth and track where you visit. Another excellent feature is the caching feature of Google Earth which allows you to put it up to 2Gb. You can then zoom in to the city or place you want to visit and then use the cache to have access to the software while on the road.

The tracking software can be colour coded to show speed increases and other things. Overall it’s a very nice and very affordable solution.

Via: KK

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, Laptops

Mobile NoteTaker – The Digital Pen

March 2, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Mobile_NoteTaker
Yesterday I had to have a quick medical check for insurance purposes. I noticed the nurse was writing as normal but kept tapping on a piece of plastic from time to time on her clipboard. When I asked what this was for she said that the pen was recording all writing, transmitting it to a device in her bag which automatically sent it to the company she represented so that they could immediately process my insurance application. A few seconds later a message was delivered to her blackberry saying that all was good. Of course I had to look in to this as I thought it was amazing that all her text and my signature was now somewhere else in the country (or world even) and yet she was still sitting in the same room as me and I had barely given her the pen back just 30 seconds before.

Having a quick search around I noticed a few different pens one of which is from a site called PegaTech. The Mobile NoteTaker is one example of a digital pen which can capture what you write on an actual sheet of paper. We all have to admit that writing is often easier then trying to get your pocket PC’s transcriber understand your text. The NoteTaker is a portable device which captures your handwriting. The process is very simple and does not require special paper. Just get the pen and write on to what ever and have it recorded on to a device that is small enough to easily fit in a bag or pocket. Once back in the office you can transfer the text to your PC to organise and share with others. The device has the ability to store 50 pages of text and confirmation of what you have is displayed on an LCD screen on the device.

This is an excellent device for someone who wants a digital copy of what they write, but still wants to write on regular paper. Of course the business user can also benefit from this device as I mentioned above.

The pen is available from PegaTech and costs $189 for the mobile version of this device.

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets, Displays, Office Gadgets

How to Tackle Spam – The MailFoundry Way

March 1, 2007 by Leave a Comment

MailFoundry
If you are a regular user of email then you are more then likely aware of the problem that spam brings. A loss of productivity, risk of virus attacks, risk of getting your bank details stolen and it doesn’t stop there. Spam can take up 80% or more of your mail box each day and the time needed to sift through this can be both frustrating and time consuming. For a business, the delivery of email is critical and being plagued with spam causes issues. The business owner is left with a choice. Either you let all email through, or you use a spam filter. Unfortunately it isn’t as easy as that though because both methods bring their problems. If you filter email then you need to be sure you filter the bad only, and if you receive all the email then you need to make sure you do not get trigger happy on that delete key and accidentally delete a good email. It’s really a no win situation. Other options such as a challenge response is an option, but really these are not too effective. For example you buy a book from a website and it sends a confirmation email. The sellers checkout will not respond to that challenge response and you might not get that email either. Luckily there is an option out there for business which can help productivity increase and the spam go down.
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Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, Tech News

N-Series YouTube

February 12, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Nokia N93i
Today at 3GSM, it was reveiled that YouTube will be available for Nokia’s N Series of phones such as the N95 and N93i. As well as being able to stream YouTube videos the software will also allow you to subscribe to RSS feeds and keep everything all in the same place. The video format is AVC and apparantly is available now through your mobile browser.
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Filed Under: Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets, Tech News

Haicom HI-505SD Bluetooth GPS SDIO receiver

February 6, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Haicom HI-505SD Bluetooth GPS SDIO receiver
Haicom have introduced the HI-505SB bluetooth receiver. The device plugs direct in to your SD slot on your portable device such as a Pocket PC. The device has no batteries and it uses the battery of your Pocket PC to keep it going. If you are worried then you will have lost an SD slot then no need for that… you just plug in the SD memory card in to the receiver and you still have access to all your files/maps and what you need. The GPS receiver is a SiRF Star III GPS device and this also crams in a bluetooth antenna in there too.

No prices are available yet but we expect them to be announced shortly.

Via: Engadget

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

Etri 270Mbps Wireless Router

February 2, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Etri 270Mbps Wireless Router
A Korean based company named Etri are pushing the boundaries by creating a 270Mbps wireless access point. As well as boasting rediculous high speeds over wifi, the wireless access point also is capable of a 1km range which again, is truly amazing. This technology will be ideal for large offices, hotels and could even be rolled out to provide blanket access across cities around the world.
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Kensington Vo200 IP Phone

February 1, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Kensington Vo200 IP Phone
Technology has revolutionised in many areas. VoIP phones have become more and more in demand as wireless technology has spread and become more accessible. A question asked by many is how VoIP can help those on the move while we have mobile phones that in essence do the same job. VoIP offers consumers what they are demanding from mobile phone networks, and that is cheap calls to and from anywhere across the globe and reliable networks. Although VoIP is not as fully accessible as a mobile network, this gap is quite quickly closing as more and more wireless hotspots appear. So in principle, the structure is already there and will soon provide complete coverage around the globe.
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Filed Under: Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets, Laptops, Tech News

iPhone – 1985 Style

January 27, 2007 by Leave a Comment

iPhone 1985
If Apple would have launched their Apple Mobile Phone back in 1985 when they originally filed a patent then it would have looked like the phone above. I bet it would havo sold well but would not be laughed at 🙂

Via: TechEBlog

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets