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Remote House Door Locking

April 2, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Remote House Door Locking
Remote locking on cars has been around for years. However, I have not seen it before for a house. This device allows you to unlock your house just like you would your car, via remote control. It is fully programmable and allows up to 19 keys to be stored in its memory bank.

Priced at $300 it might be a little steep, but it does cut down a lot of space and allow you to lock your doors from a 50 meter range. All you now need to do is program the bedroom lights to blink 3 times and your burglar alarm to chirp every time you leave for the day.

Via: SlashGear

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

Concept MP3 Watch

March 30, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Concept MP3 Player
Nathan Davis has created the concept MP3 player watch which is a silicone band that you wear on your wrist. It features an OLED display under a layer polycarbonate. To listen to the music, you need no wires. This watch features bluetooth technology along with bluetooth headphones to send the audio wirelessly.

This is another cool watch design from Yanko Design that we would love to see hit the market. No doubt in the next year or few this type of watch will be readily available.

Via: Gizmodo

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Concept Gadgets, Cool Gadgets

Nokia 5700 XpressMusic

March 29, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Nokia 5700 XpressMusic
The Nokia 5700 XpressMusic phone was just announced. The 5700 is a 3G phone which has more style then your typical Nokia type phone. The keypad can be twisted to reveal dedicated music player keys. Sound is produced with a dedicated audio chip and played via built in stereo speakers and adjustable by a 5 band graphic equalizer.

The phone has a built in 2 mega pixel camera with 4x digital zoom. The screen is a 2.2 inch QVGA screen.

Features

– A built-in FM radio tuner featuring Visual Radio – find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information.
– Mpeg4 player and advanced editor – Edit your videos on the spot with the master set of different effects and options and create new views with your own video content.
– Email: IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, Support for IMAP IDLE, OMA e-mail notification, MIME. Support for attachments: (.jpg, .3gp, .mp3).
– Hot swappable slot for microSD memory card, with options to expand up to 2 GB with microSD card
– Bluetooth 2.0
– Push to talk over cellular network (PoC)

Via: Hotphonenews

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets

Sony High Capacity Storage Tape

March 27, 2007 by Leave a Comment

LTO
Sony is releasing a new high capacity backup storage tape. It is named the LTO Ultrium 4 and can store 800Gb to 1.6Tb compressed with transfer rates up to 240Mbps. For those who regularly use tape backup solutions, you may be familier with LTO Ultrium 3 and 2. The main difference is that the transfer on the V3 of these tapes was 160Mbps (compressed) which has now risen. Also storage used to be 800Gb compressed and is now 1.6Gb compressed. Thats a lot of data!

As well as being a backup solution, the tape also features hardware encryption capabilities for securing data when needed. Backwards compatibility does work on version 3 but it can only read on your LTO Ultrium 2 cartridges and not write.

Via: Sony

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

London – Free HTDV With Sony PS3

March 23, 2007 by Leave a Comment

PS3 Console
If you were one of the first to get your hands on a PS3 early hours of this morning then you might have wished you would have gone to the London Launch Event. If you purchased your PS3 at this event early this morning then you would have received a free 46 inch HDTV and a free taxi home to save you carting it home on the underground. Doing the maths there were over 250k UK pounds of tellys given away for free last night to over 100 more then happy gamers.

The launch actually went very smooth as well with no crime reported and no drivebys.

Via: Engadget

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

DarkLabel Retroxis Phone

March 23, 2007 by Leave a Comment

DarkLabel Retroxis Phone
Yanko Design have yet another cool concept phone for showing off today. This time it is the Darklabel Retroxis which aims at cutting the dimensions down along with weight, but increasing style. Looking at the images above you can certainly see that this concept device looks cool. It is covered in high polished polycarbonate which is lightweight and strong. The screen is OLED and when off, appears to not be there. If only this concept was made in to real life.

Check out more details and the Revol watch at the link below.

Via: YankoDesign

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Concept Gadgets, Cool Gadgets

Mario Kart Scalextric

March 22, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Mario Kart Scalextric
Mario Kart has decided to drop off the screen from the virtual world of polygons and in to a slot car racing set. The Mario Kart racing set has both Mario and Yoshi to battle it out with on the figure 8 track. Unfortunatly you cannot fire mushrooms at the other player though which does take some fun out of it, and also you cannot fold it up and put it in your pocket and play wirelessly with 7 other players… but if you can live without that then you have a nice little Mario Kart in the flesh (or plastic) which you can have a go with. I have to agree with Engadget though in that the novelty will soon wear off. However, if the price point is good then it should do well.

Via: Engadget

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

USB Grilling Device

March 20, 2007 by Leave a Comment

USB Grill
We continue to see some cool and some crazy USB devices. This one is king of crazy though… If you have a spare 30 USB ports laying around and need to grill something up then mix the 2 together and you get a fully working USB grill. The photo above of the system uses a motherboard with a 500W PSU, it uses 6 x 5 port USB cards which are USB 1.1. Only 1.1 was needed because although USB 2.0 is quicker, that doesnt mean your burgers will cook any quicker 😉

For a full look in to this crazy project, check out the translated page with instructions on how to make it. Videos are also included at the bottom of the linked page.

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, USB Gadgets

HTW S116 Solar Mobile Phone

March 20, 2007 by Leave a Comment

HTW S116 Solar Mobile Phone
The HTW S116 is a solar charged mobile phone. Having one of these around could get you out of trouble. All you need to do is sit it in daylight for 40 minutes and you are good for 20 – 25 minutes of talk time. According to one source, the phone can even get a small bit of power from regular lights if it is dark outside.

The main problem with solar energy is that the phone will not charge while in a pocket or bag and its a bit of a pain having to carry it around facing the light source. However, the idea kind of works. I still think a seperate solar charging unit is the better option although you could argue that you probably will not end up carring that around with you. It’s really up to personal choice in the end.

As well as having solar charging capabilities the phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, external memory card slot and a QVGA screen which measures at 320 x 240 pixels.

Via: Unwiredview

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets

FlyBook VM – V33i Video Preview

March 19, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Flybook VM
The video below shows a couple of laptops at CeBIT which caught my attention today. The Flybook VM is a laptop with an interesting screen attached. Instead of having just the regular hinge that allows you to flip it open, it has a second hinge which allows the screen to be taken away from the main hinge bringing it more to eye level and still allowing access to the keyboard below it This brings it more in to line with a regular flat panel in the office. The VM has built in Bluetooth 2.0, Wifi 802.11 a / b / g, an Intel Core Duo low voltage 1.66Ghz processor, 1Gb of DDR2 memory (upgradable to 2Gb), a 12.1 inch wideview LTPS TFT LCD which runs at 1280 x 768 and a 1.8 inch 30Gb drive which is upgradable to 60Gb and 80Gb. These are the basic features of the VM. It also supports fingerprint scanning, higher resolution output on an external monitor, DVD-CD-R, PCI Express and more. Full specs can be found at FlyBook.

The V33i is a table PC with the regular rotating type screen. It has impressive features and is small measuring at 235 x 155 x 31 (mm). Connectivity on this tablet is provided by EDGE / GPRS and GSM as well as Bluetooth 1.2 and Wifi. The processor is a 1.1Ghz Intel Pentium M. Memory is 512Mb DDR1 standard and can be upgraded up to 2Gb. This is DDR1 memory and not DDR2 like the flybook above. The screen is an 8.9 inch wide view LTPS TFT LCD which runs at a resolution of 1024 x 600 and it powered by an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M card with 64Mb memory.

Looking at the specs above and video below it appears that both devices show potential due to a very small form factor VS power.

Via: TechEBlog

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, Displays, Laptops

e-Ink – The way Forward

March 15, 2007 by Leave a Comment

eInk
As many of you are aware, it is more difficult to read off the screen then it is a book. Electronic Ink (e-ink) is designed to be easier on the eyes because it doesnt use a backlight to show up the pixels on the page. Electronic Paper is designed to reflect light similar to how paper would. This means that in the dark, you wont be able to see it. Electronic Paper also uses little power consumption. Once the pixels are in place they stay there using no power source.

This eBook from E Ink is a real book and not just concept like some others. It is just 5mm thin and has an 800×600 display. As well as display technology it has Bluetooth so that data can be sent from a mobile device, and it also has a built in SD card slot. With E Paper not being able to be used in the dark it has a built in light which can flip out. This book from E-Ink is a nice step forwards to bring paper in to the electronic world.

Via: OhGizmo

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Concept Gadgets, 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