sunglasses are really stop bullets?
November 17th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
These are Japan Self-Defense Force Sunglasses, and apparently they’re officially endorsed by Japan’s military. Maybe it’s because the JSDF just likes the way they look, or perhaps it’s the strong lenses. Each one is boasts the ability to withstand an impact from an object 0.3 inches (or 6.55mm) traveling at 106 miles per hour. Those specs probably won’t mean much against...Science-fiction inspired illumination from Robolamps
November 17th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
Croatian designer Robert Matysiak has come up with a unique take on the robot-aesthetic with his new series of Robolamps. The somewhat unwieldy lamps aren’t necessarily the most practical household items, but for robot enthusiasts it doesn’t get any better than illumination that doubles as robo-totem.
With otherworldly names for his Robolamp creations such as “Okona,” “Saga”...Digital clock with all features with more accuracy
November 16th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
The SecureShot clock looks like an ordinary cordless desk clock, but it hides two secrets. First, it uses the atomic clock to remain accurate at all times. If you let the batteries drain, it’ll be accurate once you replace them.
The best part is the hidden thermal motion-activated spy cam — sort of a nanny cam. The camera senses body heat from up to 30 feet away, and claims there’s...Video Cellphones with new type
November 16th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
Why do companies continue to try and hawk video phones? I’m not talking about phones that play video, but a phone that transmits both your voice and your face during a call. For 50 years, futurists have envisioned them and every attempt has been met by yawns if not outright contempt, largely because two people had to have the same equipment (which is why webcam video chatting has been widely...Toshiba LCD HDTV sends an armchair 98,268 feet up in stunning ad
November 16th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
In order to advertise its Regza SV LCD HDTV, Toshiba headed out to the Black Rock Desert. There, company reps hooked an armchair up to a huge helium balloon with some cameras attached. The resulting footage of the chair traveling up to the edge of space is absolutely amazing. Enough to make me want to buy one of their TVs? Not quite, but my God, what a great ad.
Toshiba, via Gizmodo
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November 16th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
Smart plugs of all kinds are all the rage these days, but the Powerzoa wraps up everything you need in a smart plug in one small, discreet cube.
Looking like a cross between one of those old-school travel adaptors you took on your first trip to Europe and the pieces from a ’70s board game, Powerzoa gets between the wall outlet and your gadget’s plug. But unlike some smart plugs that show...Electronic Scalp Massager which straight out to 22nd-century beauty parlor
November 16th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
Put this bulbous contraption on your head and you’ll suddenly have a total of 63 doodads manipulating your scalp. Bet you didn’t know you needed the Headtime Scalp Massager by Kinatech, packed with 29 silicone head scratchers and 34 ceramic thingamajigs to make sure your head is promptly put in the right place.
Could that plethora of moving parts makes too much noise? Perhaps its manufacturer...Mobile phones Signal Booster from 5BARz cell signal booster
November 15th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
You’ll encounter weak cell signals or no bars (especially if you’re an iPhone user in midtown Manhattan) everywhere you go, which is where this CellLynx 5BARz booster ($300) comes in. About the size of a paperback book, you just plug the box into an AC outlet or cigarette lighter and it somehow corrals and amplifies weak signals to create drop-free conversations and speedy Web surfing where...watch phones from Gauntlet bravely pretends watchphones are relevant
November 15th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
Watchphones don’t make much sense, do they? Why wear your phone on your wrist, where its bulk will be extremely annoying, when you can keep a more fully-functional pacecode in your pocket? But hey, don’t tell that to the makers of the Gauntlet watchphone!
The phone, which connects to a Bluetooth headset for calls, has a touchscreen face for interacting with features such as a music player...Simple Hard drives from Hitachi redesigned to 2TB
November 15th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
Hitachi leverages its groundbreaking 7200RPM 2TB internal drives with this spiffy enclosure, blasting out its 2TB family of SimpleDrive external hard disks. Drop $250 on this USB 2.0 drive, and you have yourself enough room for 500,000 MP3s.
Not only can you store a boatload of data on these babies, they don’t look half bad, either. We can’t help but dig that bluesy glow coming from the...
the electric car with climate control system
November 10th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
Renault sure does come up with some out-there concepts. Remember the Twizy Z.E.? It had hexagonal wheels. Now Renault is showing off the Zoe Z.E., which has an interior that mirrors a “spa-like experience.”
The engineering focus is on the car’s climate control system, which has an electric diffuser built right in, capable of spreading specialty oils around the cabin. If you’re...
Waterproof phone from Fujitsu F-01B and has a 12 Megapixel camera
November 10th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
Japanese telecom major NTTDoCoMo has expanded its line of offerings and one of the many additions is the Fujitsu F-10B. Like majority of Japanese phones it is a clamshell but with a difference, this one packs in a 3.4 inch VGA res touchscreen which works in line with the onboard handwriting recognition engine allowing you to write on photographs and send text messages faster.
This one packs in a 12...
12.2 Mp and fastest loading camera phone from the East – NEC N-02B
November 10th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
Like the Fujitsu F-01B even the NEC N-02B is a clamshell and packs in 12 Megapixel camera. But unlike other multi megapixel camera phones which take a few seconds to initialize and start this one gets the job going in just 0.8 seconds. It recognizes the photography scene automatically and then adjusts the brightness, sensitivity and picture quality accordingly.
The phone has a 3.2 inch touchscreen...
5730 XpressMusic smartphone – a simple review
November 9th, 2009 by Dennis Hager
What do you expect from a music phone? With its 5730 XpressMusic, the latest addition to Nokia’s music-centric portfolio, a slide out QWERTY keyboard is slipped into the mix, as Nokia makes a play for the music fan who wants some heavyweight messaging muscle to go with top-of-the-bill tune-playing.
While some of Nokia’s earlier XpressMusic models were trim with a few music controls but...Blog Toplist
