Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous Gadgets’ Category
Carrying your USB flash drive around can be quite the hassle especially if you don’t want to clutter your pocket with too many things. Enter the Capsule USB Key.
This two-inch long thumbdrive is encased in brushed aluminum with an attached chain and hook. Keep it on your keychain, hang it around your neck, or dangle it from your nose, if that’s your thing. By the way, if you do hang it from a body part, make sure you email us a picture!
Coar -$27.99
With this boredom while on the move is out of question! Get that game going with game pad! This is something that certainly worth the price ($33)
Finally, there are some companies that provide us with cell phones with the features that we actually need.
Modu from Israel, who rolled out a GSM handset that will be released this October, coming in the form of a tiny phone which can slide into special jackets that are actually phone exteriors with extra functionality. You also get software which instructs the phone about different color schemes. The company is also working on other jackets that aren’t phone-based including GPS devices. But don’t you think carrying around the jackets that you need are troublesome?
A basic model costs about $149. ( you can get upto a 7mp camera). You can get one by placing an order on the website
Microsoft has officially announced that they’ve slashed the price of their HD DVD player add-on for the Xbox 360 by $50. This is a method to improve the sales unless DS and Wii destroy it
One thing to consider is that at $129, it will at least make a good upscaling DVD player. Don’t forget that you still get 5 free HD DVDs whenever you purchase select players (which includes this one).
Rear View Mirror Car Camera Recorder Pro will attach to any rear view mirror easily. There is, however an annoying cord ( charging is done with your car’s AC adapter)
The device only runs when your car is on, so you won’t waste storage space recording the goings-on in the parking garage. All of the video is stored on an included 1GB SD card. (try the new 32GB one from Scan Disk)
Cost - $449.95
The director of marketing for Everex says that the next rendition of the Everex will add solid state HDs, larger touchscreens, and girlie coulors to the mix. The CloudBooks have the Eee PC’s market as a goal
Intempo has just released its BTA-01 Bluetooth adapter that actually converts any iPod speaker dock with a dock connector into impromptu speakers for Bluetoooth-capable music phones. This device fills up a very select niche of folks who rely on their phone as the primary music device instead of the white colored model from Cupertino.
Cost - $80
This kit is the absolute thing that you’ll need to pull off the phone call pranks or unless you like to change your music. You only get the small board shown, but it offers speaker output with 1.5W at 4 ohms. You also get a line out that will make it easy to hook up to your phone or music equipment.
A 9V battery is all you need to power this handy voice-altering device, which makes it extremely portable.
Cost - $19.95
According to the recent patent application implanting a micro-camera directly into the eyeball may be a future solution for restoring sight to blind or people with damaged vision. Actually, technology to restore sight to the blind by using electronic retinas was developed some time ago, but the link between the retina and external cameras was involving wires, which is a significant disadvantage. But this new methord lets the camera could be charged through wireless and communicate directly with a chip implanted at the back of the eye.
UCLA Optical engineer ,Michelle Hauer ,thinks that technology may have advanced enough to insert a tiny camera inside the lens of the eye, capable of adapting for corneal optical effects and perhaps using haptics to stabilize its position. The camera would transmit images to a nerve-stimulating chip at the back of the eye, resulting in a complete electronic vision system.
Seitz company created a 160-megapixel 6 x 17 inch camera that is considered to have the highest resolution among all the digital cameras. In addition to the fact that this gadget looks huge it is probably heavy to carry and shoot with. Apparently one full resolution image taken with this Seitz camera will take up approximately 900MB. So a simple memory card won’t be enough for you to make even a few photos.
The Seitz D3 Digital Camera impresses not only with its sizes (6 x 17, 4.5 lb), but also with its features. This gadget takes pictures with resolution of 7,500 x 21,250 pixels, that is to say 160 MP. The Seitz D3 Digital Camera is combined with a tablet PC, which works with it, making the whole process easier and more reliable in service. But in case you really like extremely high resolution image be ready to buy a portable hard drive for this purpose. Nevertheless, that’s not the half of it. Such a high-end gadget costs about $ 45,000.
