Do you happen to have a hearing impaired person in your home who finds it pretty hard to wake up by him/herself? After all, what happens when nobody else is at home and the batteries on the vibrating pillow died? Fret not - there is the Multimodal Portable Timer/Alarm Clock. Our Portable Timer/Alarm is great for the hearing-impaired — simply switch it to vibration and/or flashing light mode. Use the alarms in any combination or all three at once! You also get two timers in one. Set it as an hour/minute timer or minute/second timer at the flick of a switch. Time up to 20 hours and/or 100 minutes. Timer counts up and down, pauses, and restarts. Extra-large LCD screen makes it easy to read day or night. (Read the full post about ‘Multimodal Portable Timer/Alarm Clock’…)
We all know Valentine’s day is coming up. And men all over the world are scurrying around trying to find the right gift for their Valentine that won’t disappoint them. (We all know men have given up on trying to find the perfect gift, because that will never happen). It’s hard enough trying to find a gift for the average woman, but what do these poor guys do when faced with a woman who is a geek/nerd? Most guys fall back onto the default of chocolate and flowers, but this year, there’s a great alternative for your geeky Valentine. Think Geek is has come out with the Chocolate Molecule T-Shirt just in time for Valentine’s Day. (Read the full post about ‘Chocolate (Molecule) for your Valentine’…)
Posted Jan 31st 2008 7:42AM by Thomas RickerFiled under: Laptops That special Intel processor found in the MacBook Air could be getting a lot less special. PC Advisor, citing “a source familiar with Intel’s plans,” claims that a pair of PC makers will use the MBA processor. Not that this would be unexpected. The custom-built 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz Intel procs remember, are 60% smaller and consume less power than the typical Core 2 Duo while using the same 65-nm manufacturing processes. (Read the full post about ‘MacBook Air’s custom-built CPU going PC?’…)
Asus will be adding to the lineup of Eee products, no longer will it just be limited to the much talked about ultra-portable Eee PC laptop. Asus will begin offering LCD TV’s, a desktop PC and all-in-one style computer similar to the iMac and XPS One. The LCD TV line is going to enter the larger than 42-inch market and is expected to retail for no higher than $200 more than competing brands. They will “integrate the Linux-based PC functionality of other Eee PC products,” and are looking for a September launch. The desktop PC will be the E-DT and will initially feature an Intel Celeron processor with later models to use Intel’s Shelton’08 platform with Diamondville processors and the 945GC chipset. (Read the full post about ‘Asus announces E-TV, E-DT, E-Monitor’…)
Posted Jan 31st 2008 8:02AM by Nilay PatelFiled under: Gaming We’re pretty certain middle schoolers across the world have sketched this exact console 10,000 times, but that still doesn’t make it right.Tags: M4A, players, gadgetry, consumer technology (Read the full post about ‘Keepin’ it real fake, part CVIII: the PX-3600 gaming console’…)
Walking Hand It's daft, it's cheesy, it's… actually quite spooky. Looks just like the hand of a typical green scarred bloke, except it starts to walk if you make a loud noise… You can have this for ?14.99 Tags: home theater, digital, lcd, CD (Read the full post about ‘Walking Hand’…)
Posted Jan 31st 2008 2:10AM by Steven KimFiled under: Digital Cameras We got our hands on what’s probably one of the most anticipated cameras of the show, the Canon EOS Rebel XSi DSLR. The predecessor XTi model was crazy successful, so smart money says that the step up to a 3-inch live view LCD, 12.2-megapixel CMOS sensor, 9-point AF and Canon’s DIGIC III processing will help continue the trend. That’s a lot of features packed into this “starter” DSLR from Canon. (Read the full post about ‘Hands-on with the Canon EOS Rebel XSi DSLR’…)
Green seems to be the buzzword these days. And as all gadgets try to beat each other at getting sleeker and slicker, there’s no dearth of visionaries who are trying to give a natural twist to them simultaneously. Take Designer Seungchan Lee’s CulArt (Read Cool Art) concepts and you’ll instantly get the hang of what I’m saying. This design for a cell phone are all about retro look combined with all that’s modern in tech. The exterior of cell phone is wood-paneled but this façade hides all the typical smartphone features: touch-screen, MP camera, Bluetooth and so on. And to take the retro feeling just a bit ahead, the Bluetooth headset uses old-school knobs instead of the modern embedded buttons. (Read the full post about ‘Concepts by Seungchan Leebeg beg to differ!’…)
JVC today announced a pair of new high definition Everio hard disk camcorders, JVC GZ-HD6 and GZ-HD5 HD, which are 45 percent smaller than JVC’s previous top-end HD camcorder, the GZ-HD7, without any sacrifice in image quality. Both JVC GZ-HD6 and GZ-HD5 HD feature a FUJINON HD lens, a progressive scan 3CCD imaging system and JVC’s HD Gigabrid engine that delivers 1920 x 1080 Full HD recording. In addition, they offer 1080p 60 frame per second output via HDMI 1.3 with x.v.Color. Both camcorders offer a long recording time in 1920 x 1080 Full HD — 10 hours for the 120GB GZ-HD6 and five hours for the 60GB GZ-HD5. They record up to 24 (GZ-HD6) or 12 (GZ-HD5) hours in the 1440 LP mode. (Read the full post about ‘JVC GZ-HD6 and GZ-HD5 HD camcorders’…)
Posted Jan 31st 2008 1:47AM by Thomas RickerFiled under: Digital Cameras Why hello darlin.’ As we had hoped, Sigma’s DP1 just got a release date. Come Spring, we’ll finally see what that 14 megapixel FOVEON X3 sensor found in Sigma’s SD14 DSLR can do in a compact’s body. That’s about 7 to 12 times larger than the sensor found in ordinary compacts. The biggest compromise you’ll be making though, is with the lens. A fixed, 16.6-mm F4 lens designed exclusively for the DP1 illuminates each 7.8μm pixel on that 20.7 x 13.8-mm sensor. If you’re still game then rounding things out are Sigma’s new “TRUE” image processing engine, a 2.5-inch LCD, pop-up manual flash, hot shoe, manual or 9-point autofocus modes, and QVGA movie recording to SDHC cards. (Read the full post about ‘Sigma’s DP1 DSLR in a compact’s body (almost) shipping this Spring’…)
