Lifestyles
Finally: A USB Mouse That Doubles As A Digital Scale
Saturday, August 13th, 2011I’m not sure what’s going on with optical mice nowadays, but its strange. Not long after Canon announced its mouse-calculator hybrid, this USB-digital scale has also made its appearance. Capable of measuring weights from 0.1g to 500g, the scale’s range of use seem fairly limited – assuming, that is, you don’t work in the drug [...]
iCloud Gadget Looxcie 2: Wearable Headset Grabs Video
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011Within just hours of Steve Jobs’ announcement of iCloud at WWDC in San Francisco, a new “iCloud-ready” gadget debuted. The Looxcie 2, a wearable Bluetooth video headset, lets you share videos via iCloud, as well as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. You control it directly via a free Android or iOS app, which also allows a [...]
ZionEyez ‘spy glasses’
Saturday, June 11th, 2011OK, these are cool! Introducing the ZionEyez. Glasses with a built-in 720p HD video camera. It doesn’t end there. There’s also a microphone, Bluetooth and WiFi, and 8GB of built-in storage. Battery life is a pretty decent three hours. Price – $150! Bet you didn’t see that coming! See The Original Article Here>>
Sony Announces New Portable Device At E3 Conference
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011At the E3 conference in Los Angeles, Sony unveiled its next generation portable game device called PlayStation Vita. Vita features GPS location tracking, touch interface and motion sensing capabilities to enhance the gaming experience. Vita will be available in stores before the holiday buying season. Company executives are calling the device Sony’s biggest product launch [...]
Nintendo debuts Wii U
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011Nintendo, for the majority of this console generation, has been content to play its own game. Now it’s ready to take the fight to Microsoft and Sony. The company on Tuesday unveiled its next generation home video game machine — dubbed Wii U — that will be flush with the high-definition graphics gamers have come [...]
The World’s Most Useless Machine Version 2.0
Friday, May 20th, 2011The world’s most useless machine, which is essentially a small electronic box that turns itself off whenever you try to turn it on, first made waves on the Internet a couple of years ago. It became so popular that companies began selling kits so the average person could enjoy all of the heart-pounding excitement at [...]
‘Like’ Button Follows Web Users
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Internet users tap Facebook Inc.’s “Like” and Twitter Inc.’s “Tweet” buttons to share content with friends. But these tools also let their makers collect data about the websites people are visiting. These so-called social widgets, which appear atop stories on news sites or alongside products on retail sites, notify Facebook and Twitter that a person [...]
Tiny Robots Map Buildings — Without Help
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Tiny robots working by themselves and communicating only with each other can explore and map buildings, a team of U.S. researchers that built the machines says. The robots, with advanced autonomous capability, developed by a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania and the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory. [...]
Forget Bluetooth – This Wireless Mouse From HP Connects Via Wi-Fi
Friday, May 13th, 2011Wireless devices tend to have a pretty limited range of connection options, but a new mouse from HP adds a new one to the fray: Wi-Fi. Rather than operate via Bluetooth or a RF-equipped USB dongle, HP’s Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse uses the same receiver as a computer’s wireless connection. This not only frees up a [...]
Mystery Luna Robot Isn’t Made By Apple Or Google
Thursday, May 12th, 2011Per CNET: Rumor had it that Apple or Google was going to release this vaguely humanoid robot, and of course rumor was wrong. Turns out it’s a California telepresence company called RoboDynamics. The robot is named Luna and is intended to be a programmable, open-source household companion. SchultzeWorks, also in California, did the design.