All the stories tagged with: Gadgets
Parrot Photo Viewer
03/18/2006, Not by any means the first digital photo frame, but it has a nice feature which allows you to receive, store and display photos from your phone or PC from a Bluetooth connection. It has a 3.5-inch LCD TFT screen [...]
Adesso CyberPad offers best of both worlds
03/17/2006, The Adesso CyberPad offers the best of both worlds – you get the benefits of paper and digital storage simultaneously. Place an A4 paper on the pad and doodle away with a special digital ink pen that works like any [...]
Verbatim Store ´n´ Go HD drives announced
03/17/2006, Verbatim’s Store ‘n’ Go USB 2.0 drives comes with a 1” HDD within. At 2” tall and 2 ounces light, you can’t get any more portable that this. Verbatim has thoughtfully included the Mobile Launch Pad that enables you to [...]
Sirius S50 satellite radio receiver
03/17/2006, The MP3/WMA compatible Sirius S50 satellite radio receiver might look good at the first glance, but digging below its glossy black surface and you will find some major grouses. You can only listen to it when it is attached to [...]
Watch TV in your glasses
03/17/2006, For those of you who cannot get enough TV in their visual diet, you should be pleased to know that MicroEmissive Displays are currently shipping eyescreen technology that comes with a built-in display that’s less than ¼ of a square [...]
AlphaGrip Mouse-Keyboard
03/16/2006, Talk about getting a handful. The AlphaGrip AG-5 keyboard and mouse rolled in one uses a trackball for cursor movement and a whole plethora of little keys and rocker buttons strategically placed about work as alphabet and function keys. It [...]
Robotic Hand For the Elderly
03/16/2006, Japanese research team Riken have developed a humanoid robot named the RI-MAN to take care of the elderly. Standing 5-feet tall, the RI-MAN can see, hear, smell and carry human beings. With Japanese life expectancy increasing, so does the need [...]
Nanotech to Restore Vision After Trauma
03/16/2006, A first for scientists, using nanotechnology to restore damaged vision. MIT investigators working on a rodent test subject used a self-assembling material made of protein fragments or peptides (the body’s building blocks) to repair brain damage. Shuguang Zhang, one of [...]
Laser Scissors
03/16/2006, Just to burst your bubble now, it’s a laser-guided pair of scissors, rather than a pair which shoots out tiny beams of concentrated killing power designed to cut through all materials. With a laser attached onto it, the scissors are supposed [...]
Wrist Worn PC
03/16/2006, Like something out of a Sci-Fi movie, forget high-tech wristwatches, here’s the wrist PC. The Wrist Worn PC (WWPC) is a concept under development by Eurotech. Offering GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth for all your connectivity needs, it is navigational via a [...]
USB Adaptor For Skype on Normal Phone
03/16/2006, Thanks to the USRobotics USB adapter, any standard telephone can be used with Skype. The USR809620 adapter mutlitasks by keeping your phone connected to the standard landline at the same time. Echo cancellation and advanced signal processing gives clear call [...]
Tiny WiFi Module
03/16/2006, While it’s not for sale per se, Sharp’s DC2J1DZ115 a tiny WiFi module might still make itself useful. The 10 x 10 x 1.6mm module will be fitted into portable devices such as mobile phones, cameras and PDAs. The full [...]
ModooFree BT promotes safe driving
03/15/2006, Taking phone calls while driving has always been a thorny issue when it comes to safety. The ModooFree BT is a handsfree Bluetooth car kit that displays and announces your incoming calls via your rearview mirror – a much safer [...]