Archive for August, 2010

How many people have ever tried exercising while holding onto their phone or putting it somewhere you thought was safe, like a pocket? Now how many times did it actually work? Usually when people tell me how they attempted doing this, they also tell me their phone ended up falling or even breaking . This becomes an even greater tragedy when the phone is expensive like the iPhone I’m guessing that this has also happened to many other people as well. Well luckily for all you people out there with this problem and a iPhone a solution has been found. More »


Do you remember building those cool LEGO animated contraptions when you were a kid? No, this isn’t that, but it reminds me so much of it. This little guy is called Phasma, it was built by Takram Design Engineering. I’m not quite sure what the purpose for it is, but I just find it so adorable. Is that odd? More »


Ever wondered what happens when you’re away from your desk? Well now you can find out with this desk calculator with a secret spy cam! Made by Casio, the calculator is fully functional but with a secret pin hole camera. This little camera films a VGA recording (640×480 resolution and 30 frames per second) and works as your very own little CCTV camera at work or home! More »


The iPhone has a pretty sweet camera, but did you know that if you pair it with a telescope it can take a shot that is out of this world? Take a look at this: More »


Facebook has done it again.

You know, I have a really, really good feeling about our future generations. Yeah, I’m seeing this bright, wonderful utopian world where the human population will have inevitably regressed back to pre-Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation days. What’s next? Why is the grass green and the sky blue? More »


Forrester’s survey has revealed that 14% (equivalent to 27 million people) of the American population plan to possess a tablet computer next year. However, a fair percentage of these 27 million people will not be looking to Apple’s iPad at their choice. More »


From Girlybubble: Japan citizens will soon be able to get their hands on an a pink iRiver S100 Panorama which will not be sold in the United States. This device is so new that it hasn’t even made its mark on the global website yet. Japan consumers can get the iRiver S100 for $199 and boast about the iRiver S100’s stunning features like the 2.83-inch TFT display, the 16GB of internal memory and a integrated FM tuner that allows you to listen to your favorite songs on another radio-enabled device, such as over your car’s audio system. More »


Apple will release a new high-tech application that enables the iPhone and iPad to ’sense’ the user by voice prints, face analysis, activity patterns and even heartbeats. That’s so crazy it’s awesome. If an unauthorized person is detected, many security measures will activate. More »


Following the “Hi-Phone” in China, the iPhone 4’s counterfeit twin brother, comes the counterfeit of Apple’s popular iPad. Running on Android, the tablets claim to give you a whopping 64GB of memory for the low price that they are selling at- $125-$200. However, you may not even be getting your small amount of money’s worth for this gadget, because they are said to be slow, unresponsive and have smaller screens than the real iPad. More »


There are just so many tablets coming out these days that it seems so hard to keep up on them, but if you are keeping score at home here is the latest news on HP’s webOS tablet. There has been talk about the “PalmPad” being released in the beginning of 2011, according to Todd Bradley the plan is still on. More »


According to a recent New York Times article, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not liking upcoming Hollywood movie, The Social Network. With a plot-line revolving around a superficial desire for popularity followed by a series of close betrayals, who would? For now, it appears the company will “largely ignore the movie and hope that audiences do the same.” Fat chance, I’ve already got tickets to see the show (not yet, but I will). More »


It’s no $35 tablet, but India’s own EC Media International is unveiling their own e-Reader: the Wink. Although definitely lacking when compared to the newest generations of Kindles and Nooks, the Wink has still managed to garner the support of several well-known publishing companies, including Penguin, Roli, Oxford University, Harper Collins and Permanent Black. As for specs, check them out after the jump. More »


Kia is working on their newest car, and to my knowledge, this would be their first car to go electric. No information has been released yet, except that they are temporally calling it the “Pop Concept.” So we can only imagine what the possibilities are for this car. More »


This Universal Translator may look like just a shiny bit of plastic, but it could be the key to surviving in a country where you have absolutely no knowledge of the language. It lets you speak into it and translates what you have just said, as well as reading it out. This is just one of the device’s uses, called Speech Mode. More »


North Korea has now jumped on Twitter bandwagon as a way to communicate with the world. North Korea also previously set up a Youtube account, which hosts video clips relating to the country, leader Kim Jong-Il, and ones directed at Seoul. More »


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