Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The portable basketball kit was designed to attach to the back of your car and allow you to play Basketball where ever you are. Details are a tad scarce though such as how high the hoop can be put before tipping your car over. Unfortunately it seems like this didn’t really take off as the product page is now dead.
Via: DailyGadgets
Old technology often gets thrown away and forgotten about. There must be tons of printed circuit boards (PCB’s) that are just wasted. A company has decided to do their bit and create the PCB coaster which can be used to stand your drinks on. Each PCB coaster measures 9cm x 9cm and is carved out of old wasted circuit boards. They certainly will add a touch of geeky greenness in to any home.
Single units cost £2.75 each while a pack of 4 will cost you £10.99 at Revolve-UK.
The ASUS Eee PC is a small computer which comes with either Linux or Windows XP installed. Many have commented that Vista will not fit on it. Paul over at MoDaCo managed to squeeze vista on there and has provided instructions on how to do it. He used an Eee PC (unmodified) with 4GB of storage and 512MB RAM. An SD card was needed as well as a Vista DVD and a 1GB USB stick. For full instructions on how to get Vista on your Eee PC check out the full instructions over at MoDaCo.
Back in the early 80’s GPS satellites were around, but they did not become open to public use till 1994. Honda created this navigation system which did not use GPS and instead, used gas gyroscopes to track where you were driving to. All you had to do was slide in a transparent map of where you were and mark on the screen where your current location is and then drive around. The gyroscopes updated your position on screen so you would “never?” get lost.
Costing a hefty $2-$3k when it was launched in 1981 it was probably out of reach for most car owners.
Via: GPSMagazine
For those of you who remember the classic 80’s films named Back to the Future, you will already know that 88MPH was required to make the DeLorean travel through time. Once the car hit 88MPH you saw the flux capacitor light up and a number of sparks around the car formed which then whisked it in to another period of time.
You can get your own 88MPH speedometer which costs $150 as well as another number of replica 1:1 scale parts to build your own time machine looking DeLorean. Check out bttfdelorean for more details.
The Ana-Digi watch is excellent as it sports an E-Ink display behind the regular analogue hands. This allows you to make changes to the style of watch face at the push of a button. With the display being E-Ink, it is very low powered allowing the watch to carry on functioning with out any major battery issues. I have to admit that it is a great looking watch and with the option of changing style from black to white, and adding numbers makes the watch more attractive. Prices are $250 for either of the 2 versions which feature a leather band or Polyurethane band.
Product Page Via: FreshPilot
The Hydrodynamic Building Set contains 300 pieces and just enough instructions to tell you how to start building. The idea with this kit is that you put all the 300 pieces together and then hope that you get it right and keep the water flowing around the system and not all over yourself. It builds up from the bottom which is the actual case that double up as a water reserve.
The DSC-H3 is Sony’s latest Cybershot camera to be made available. The camera has an ample 8.1 mega pixel CCD and a Carl Zeiss lens. What makes the lens interest me is that it is a 10x optical zoom lens. Having that much optical zoom is far better then digital zoom that is quite common in cameras.
Nokia have come up with some interesting concept ideas over the last few years. With “green” being the subject being discussed by many, a number of electronics creators are pushing this theme in to their creations. The Nokia Eco Sensor Phone is one such phone which Nokia want to have that green theme. The concept is that the phone comes with a separate wearable sensor unit which monitors the environment, your health and reports the weather. These features are optional and you can use the ones which suit you.
This is the question I was asking at first. With this phone having environmental sensors built in to the wrist strap it can transmit information back to the phone via NFC (near field communication) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). Information about the environment is displayed on the screen which makes you more aware of the pollution around you. If you constantly see high levels of carbon monoxide, ozone problems and such, then you are more likely to take action to reduce these outputs in your own life. This part of the Eco friendly phone seems more psychological. Luckily the green theme doesn’t stop there. This phone will be built on what is called the three Rs. That means reduce, reuse and recycle.
The Talking Tire Gauge is a device which allows you to check the proper inflation level of your car or bike tires. It can instantly measure pressures up to 99.5 psi. Readouts are given by voice and on a digital display. It’s not a bad idea at all as reading gauges in low light can be a bit of a pain.
It costs $19.98 over at TaylorGifts.
Covered in sleek black vinyl with printed old school green code is the computer code briefcase. Apparently the code can be translated in to “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” although how that is done, I have no idea. Around the case there is silver trim to make it in to a sturdy briefcase to carry all your top secret documents around. The computer code briefcase costs $29.99 and is available below.
Product Page Via: 7Gadgets
This universal TV remote control is small enough to carry around on your keychain. It has just 7 functions but amongst those are the most used on any TV. You will find volume up/down as well as up and down channel changing buttons. You also have the ability to switch the TV on and off. It is powered by 1 CR2032 battery which comes included in the package. An amazing thing about this mini TV remote control is that it only costs $2.59 from DealExtreme.
