The Hokkaido environmental summit proved to be a real eye opener as Sharp introduced an experimental 26 inch LCD TV which uses up around 30% less power than its mates. It has a contrast ratio of 10000:1 and the display panel is only 20mm thick. It seems they were aiming for the masses earning below $2/day to save on the electric bills.

If you hate waiting for the shower to heat up and checking on it every few seconds, you might like to get the LED Shower Light. It turns from blue to red when the shower water heats up.

Features

• Blue light means the water is cold and red light means the water has reached a temperature of 89° F (32° C).
• No batteries needed. It’s powered by an internal turbine.
• It has a Flow Regulator that limits the maximum water flow to 2.5 gallons per minute at 80 psi
• Approximately 4″ in diameter

The MCE 6x Blu-ray burner is ready for both PowerMac and Mac Pro. It is mainly record-able with Mac OS X 10.5.2. This device can also be used to burn BD-R media up to 6x, DVD ± R media at around 16X, CD-R media at up to 40X, and does read HD DVD-ROM media as well. MCE 6x Blu-ray burner is for sale at $499, and with an external FireWire/USB 2.0 option, it will cost you $750.

Night time reading is a lot better thanks to the Twinbird LED Lamp. You can clamp it onto the bed post or something similar and you can rotate is 270 degrees and you can focus the light onto the book. This lamp is bright enough to provide light to both pages if you are not into folding the book completely. The Twinbird LED Lamp is sold only in Japan for about $84.

This amazing unit will take care of all of your entertainment requirements. With a built-in battery, this unit is completely mobile and will give you hours of fun on the roar or in the park. Charging can be achieved by car or mains power adapters so you’ll always be close to supplementary power sources. Keep everyone happy with a huge variety of inputs and media formats including VGA and NES emulation.

Costs $196.69

The design is cool and its one of the thinnest they’ve brought out. Due to the wedge shape and hinge mechanism, the screen appears lower than usual. It also uses a cool back-lit keyboard for night browsing. Now that looks good!

It has basic features -

• 15.4″ or 17″ Widescreen Display
• Fingerprint reader for the security conscious
• Optional Blu-ray drive
• HDMI output to connect to your large HD screen
• 5.1 Sound
• Optional built-in mobile broadband (this is going require an additional monthly charge)

You can buy this from Dell’s site for $750

8 years after the release of Diabolo 2, it’s finally out! The graphics are better but the interface is still the old slash and click

Hello Kitty decided to come back with a little LCD TV.    The 19” TV was brought out by the Japanese company Uniden and will be for sale late July.  The contrast ratio is  a cool 1,000:1 and a resolution of 1440 x 810.  The TV comes in white (shown above) and black. Price is $650

Above is the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, and covers over 2,100 square feet of wall space with four-millimeter LED lights. The image quality and resolution is about 5 times that of a HDTV. Comcast paid  Barco $22 million for the wall display and the automated control room, which handles about 27,000 gigabytes of information.

Tired of hiring a masseuse every weekend to ease that stress out of your bones?

Well, this chair comes with an in-built masseuse. The chair, from Bronze 69, has six different massage techniques for your feet.  The sweet chair comes with Kalfasun high pressure lamps that relax the muscles in your face and hands.  It includes a CD player and audio system to let you relax to the tunes that help you chill out.  It ain’t all that bad until you hear the price. A whooping $7,807.