Verizon Wireless and LG have teamed up to bring the LG Dare to the masses - at least those who are currently subscribing to Verizon Wireless’ mobile service. This summer looks set to be a hot one not only in terms of temperature (no thanks to global warming), but in the world of cell phones as well. While we all know that the 3G iphone is set to take the whole world by storm, this doesn’t mean we ought to overlook other handsets. The LG Dare features a roomy 3″ touch screen display complete with handwriting recognition, along with a host of other features found in high end handsets. It will hit Verizon Wireless Communications Stores from July 3rd onwards. (Read the full post about ‘Verizon Wireless debuts LG Dare’…)
Shoppers who head towards the Georgia Wal-Mart will be pleased to know that there is the EyeSite kiosk available, making it a snap for folks to get their eyes checked while they’re busy shopping for their weekly groceries or simply taking a stroll through. The EyeSite kiosk is the brainchild of Atlanta entrepreneur Bart Foster, and his start-up company, SoloHealth, is currently working hard at testing the self-service vision screening device in several markets. Foster hopes to raise the awareness among people concerning the importance of visiting their eye care professionals for regular eye exams. (Read the full post about ‘EyeSite Kiosk debuts at Georgia Wal-Mart’…)
by Nilay Patel, posted Jun 28th 2008 at 8:35AM Progressive insurance has been testing out the MyRate driving monitoring system for a few years now (it used to be called TripSense), but it’s finally taking the system national, bringing pay-as-you-drive insurance into the mainstream. The little blue box plugs into your car’s ODB II diagnostic port (all cars made after 1996 have one), and studiously records your driving habits, wirelessly sending the data back to Progressive HQ (it’s not clear exactly how). Every six months, Progressive will crunch the numbers and issue a new rate for you based on how you drive — savings of up to 40 percent are possible. (Read the full post about ‘Progressive MyRate drive-monitoring device goes national’…)
Ever tried to open your own frozen ice treats back when you were a kid? Those were some tough times, eh? Well, with the Freeze ‘n Snip, all of that can change since it offers a safe method to open ice treats. Handy especially with summer just around the corner. Freeze ‘n Snip was developed so children (ages 5 and up) can open frozen ice treats safely and easily by themselves. We’ve spent countless hours perfecting the functionality so that kids won’t need to rely on adults when it’s time to cool off with a frozen treat. No teeth, no scissors, and definitely no knives ought to keep parents’ minds at ease as their kids indulge in ice treats. (Read the full post about ‘Freeze ‘n Snip’…)
Filed in archive Announcement by jim on June 28, 2008 Here's a concept I just discovered and it really appeals to me. The organization, "World Wide Moment", has a goal of attaining peace on Earth, for at least one moment, on August 08, 2008, or, 08-08-08@08:08+08GMT. The idea is that if everyone stops at that particular time and snaps a photo the world will have been at peace for that moment. By doing so the photos will forever preserve what the world was like in various places for that moment. World Wide Moment intends to store and display the photos both in galleries and online for all to see. I think this is a cool idea and I intend to participate and I hope you will too. Source:www.worldw (Read the full post about ‘Let’s Take A Digital Photo At The Same Time’…)
Lego is no stranger to the world of video gaming. They have formed their own niche in the gaming market with their Star Wars and Indiana Jones titles. And while the look of Lego still remains intact in their games, we’ve never seen something quite like this. A clever Flickr user by the name of skinny coder has put together a collection of video game screen renditions using nothing but Lego bricks and his imagination. His Lego creations include Duck Hunt (NES, pictured), Contra (NES), Castlevania (NES), Shadow of the Colossus (PS2), Mortal Kombat (Arcade), Excitebike (NES), Bionic Commando (NES), and Metal Gear (NES). There’s something intriguing about mixing two forms of geek media. (Read the full post about ‘Video Game Screens Made From Lego Bricks’…)
You have to be pretty festive, pretty nerdy, pretty girly, or all of the above to want to add stary USB lights to the design of your office space. Luckily for you festively girly fabulous nerd readers, we have just the ticket with these USB Fairy Lights, which add a touch of Christmas light ascetic to your boring old notebook. If there was ever a word which isn’t associated with brute manliness, it’s got to be the word fairy. Forget it’s mildly homoerotic overtones. The word itself just sounds, well, girly. For the sake of argument, let’s just say this gadget is a little confused about it’s title. The USB Fairy Lights are not so much fairies, as they are cute little illuminated stars. (Read the full post about ‘USB Fairy Lights Add A Touch Of Twilight’…)
I can’t help but feel the iPod Gramophone is somewhat akin to the PhonoFone II which we covered earlier this month. Handcrafted entirely of slip-cast ceramic to replicate the curvature and passive amplification of a French horn, this is the iPod gramophone that augments sound from an iPod without requiring auxiliary power or speaker components. The gramophone projects music using authentic horn acoustics; simply place Apple earbuds on the gramophones integrated cradles and music channels through the coiled tube and resonates out of the flared bell, resulting in warm, amplified sound up to 55 decibels (near the sound level of laptop computer speakers). (Read the full post about ‘iPod Gramophone’…)
by Nilay Patel, posted Jun 28th 2008 at 1:18AMAmazon’s Kindle ebook reader has been doing pretty well as a consumer device, but we’ve always thought it had amazing potential as a textbook reader — especially coupled iTunes-style with Amazon’s online distribution system. Apparently Princeton University (Jeff Bezos’s alma mater) agrees with us, because it’s just announced plans to publish Kindle version of its textbooks this fall, joining Yale, Oxford, and Berkeley in supporting the device. It’s not clear how many books are due to be published on the device or how content like photographs and full-color diagrams will be handled (what’s a bio book without red mitochondria? (Read the full post about ‘Princeton to start publishing Kindle-edition textbooks’…)
Earlier this month, Pandigital, maker of digital photo frames, released its multi-functional Kitchen HDTV/Digital Cookbook/Digital Photo Frame. From the most used room in your home, you can watch TV, view photos, and call up recipes on the 15″ LCD screen. The device comes with preloaded recipes, and additional recipes can be loaded into the TV’s internal memory. Photos can be loaded via the memory card reader or by connecting to Picasa, Google’s popular photo sharing site. The 512MB of memory stores 3,200 pages of recipes or photos. It supports a variety of media cards, and a wide range of audio, video, and image formats. The exterior of the device was designed with the messy kitchen environment in mind. (Read the full post about ‘Pandigital combines kitchen TV, digital cookbook, and digital photo frame’…)
