Archive for September, 2010

Incase has recently collaborated with renowned photographer Ari Marcopoulos to create a stylish DSLR camera bag according to every photographer’s needs. This canvas bag comes in gray and its coating is water-repellent, protecting its contents. It’s perfect for those who travel a lot, as it’s weather-resistant, comfortable, protective and functional. More »


As if Smart vehicles were not small enough, here comes a new concept from Daimler: the Escooter, an electric scooter. Take away two wheels and voila, there you have a Smart scooter! More »


One little robot is going to take on a big challenge of a 300 mile walk from Tokyo to Kyoto. The tour is actually part of a publicity tour for Panasonic’s Evolta batteries. This little robot is 7 inches tall, and carries a two-wheeled cart behind him. He originally came from the Japanese company Robo Garage and is made from lightweight plastic, carbon fibre and titanium this little robot only weighs around 2.2 Ibs and is powered by 12 AA bateries. It has a wheel around it so he can travel over uneven surfaces easily. More »


The University of Singapore has just developed something really interesting that is kind of creepy at the same time (depending on how you see it) - the Kiss ME project allows you to send a real-time tele-kiss to someone that will be delivered over connected mobile devices. But it doesn’t stop there, because the Kiss ME team is already working on a receiver that will be able to deliver the kiss…so it feels like a real kiss. More »


For all those of you people who have trouble cleaning your windows. It might be because you are to lazy or because in some homes cleaning windows can be kinda dangerous. Well, this new robot/gadget could be a possibility for you. More »


We have seen a lot of iPad Dock’s here on ZiggyTek and so far this next one could be the most luxurious of them all. Lets meet the iCon Bed iPad Dock dubbed as the worlds first bed designed to work with the iPad. The name says it all, it’s basically an iPod Dock integrated into a bed along with a sound system with 4 speakers and a 250 watt amplifier. The word luxurious came out because of its jaw dropping price of $20,000 … how many iPads could that buy? More »


Entourage have confirmed the release of their new E-reader to be available towards the end of October, after the device was leaked by California Governor arnold Schwarzenegger. This new Pocket Edge E-reader is smaller than the old generation E-reader and is double screened, but one screen is actually the older generation E Ink touch display. The other touch screen is a 7-inch LCD screen. The layout has also had a redesign, apart from being smaller in size the camera is now above the E Ink screen. This little E-reader only weighs 1Ib compared to the older generation E-reader which weighed 3 lbs. More »


Even though Microsoft beats other brands when it comes to applications for school, they really didn’t have any luck in the phone market. And recently, Microsoft attempted to break into the mobile market with a cellphone under the name ‘Kin.’ The sales were terrible considering the value that was spent to design such gadget. Therefore, Microsoft pulled the plug. More »


After first popping up in San Francisco not too long ago, Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMAX service is now almost ready to take New York City by storm. More »


It’s been a while since we’ve heard news of HP’s lawsuit against Oracle, but it looks like issues have closed and everybody’s holding hands and happy for now. If we remember, HP was afraid their ex-CEO Mark Hurd would reveal some insider HP trade secrets to Oracle, thus the lawsuit. Well it looks like Hurd can still stay as an Oracle employee, given that he give up a certain share of HP stock. More »


It’s one thing for a friend’s email to get hacked. It’s another for a big website like Twitter to get infected. Yesterday morning, thousands of Twitter users were sent links to porn sites, oh my dear. Read more for the full info. More »


Apparently people still use Internet Explorer. Personally, I think IE can’t even compare with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, but hey to each his own. Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 9 Beta, which already reached two million downloads in 48 hours – a huge contrast to Internet Explorer 8 Beta, which had 1.3 million downloads in five days. More »


From Finalfantasy14players: On this day, Final Fantasy 14 opens its doors to the world. Not coincidentally, we’ve opened up a new site: FinalFantasy14Players.com - a community dedicated to all things Final Fantasy 14. We’re going to be delivering a lot of news, a lot of updates, and a lot of screenshots. Oh and expect a ton of giveaways in the coming weeks. If you’re planning to play this game, you need to follow this new site. While you’re at it, why don’t you let us know your in-game name and come play with us! More »


Fans of Star Trek will love this new pizza cutter. It’s in the design of the Starship Enterprise and unlike any other pizza cutter I have seen. It is a officially licensed Star Trek Collectable and exclusively designed and manufactured by ThinkGeek. Its even got the NCC-1701 writing on the blade. This pizza cutter costs $24.99. More »


Who said life had to have meaning? Pictured above is an Etch-A-Sketch case for the iPad that in no way etches or sketches. As a case, its primary function is to protect your iPad from nicks and scratches. Its secondary function is to rob you of $39. More »


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