New Pyramat Gaming Chairs

Pyramat was releasing a cool series of gaming chairs a couple of years ago, establishing itself as the premiere gaming chair manufacturer. The thing is we haven’t seen anything new in this sector ever since, and that is because Pyramat seems to be the only company producing such chairs. Just recently, Pyramat teamed up with Prezzybox in order to diversify the array of gaming chairs.

The collaboration brings three new models. The first one, S1500W Deluxe, isn’t really new. According to Coolest-Gadgets, it’s an improved version of the first gaming chair, and integrates a 4″ Powersub Subwoofer and twin directional, full range speakers. The vibrations combined with the surround sound will sure put you right in the midst of things when playing intense games. The updated version is wireless and has a range of about 15 feet. this rocker is wireless, so no trailing and dangerous cables.

Pyramat Game Bag 2.1 is the cheapest chair yet, bringing sound and vibration technology into a bean bag. You can place this one practically anywhere in the house and you can even connect with your friends’ chairs for some multiplayer mayhem.

All Pyramat chairs are compact and fit in with most rooms. However, if you your room is smaller, Pyramat has a third new model, the PM4200W, which can fold in half for easier storage. All the other features are present with this one as well.

Want to buy one of these Head on to the Prezzybox site.

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Nike FeelFree Headset

Ever heard of binaural beats? I remember some Asian company released a pair of headphones that entrained brainwaves, producing relaxation and health benefits, but no one else felt that this technology could evolve. Up until now, that is, because Nike came has come up with the FeelFree headset.

Well, we aren’t going to get our hands on it just yet, since it’s still in concept stage. Anyway, the FeelFree headset is supposed to use bone conduction to play the binaural beats to you without affecting your hearing apparatus. Techdigest explains that wave frequencies have different effects on our brain. Thus, waves above 40Hz will help us solve problems and increase perception, waves between 13 and 40Hz help us concentrate or become aroused, waves between 7 and 13Hz will help us relax or become drowsy, while waves from 4-7Hz are associated with dreams and REM sleep and waves below 4Hz are linked to deep, dreamless sleep.

In this respect, the headset also includes scanners that measure the frequency of your brainwaves. Based on the above wave frequency description, the FeelFree headset includes 4 modes: meditation, focus, learn and sleep. So when you listen to your favorite music, play games or watch movies, you can tune the headset to your brainwaves and get the desired effect.

Nike is currently trying to fit the technology to a design that is similar to present day headphones.

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Philips Brings 2,000,000:1 Contrast Ratios

IFA ’08 is swarming with new HDTV display, each bringing new features and improvements over the last generation. Sony presented a 9.9 mm thick display and a series of new LED displays that are capable of 1,000,000:1 contrast ratios and stirred things quite a bit, but Philips immediately stroke back witht a 8 mm thick display and a new LED display capable of 2,000,000:1 contrast ratios.

The new technology responsible for thise impressive contrast ratios is called LED LUX and can be inside the new 42PFL9803 HDTV. According to Crunchgear, LED LUX relies on LED backlighting to produce more natural dark colors. The impressive contrast ratio of 2 million to 1 is possible through 128 areas that can be individually dimmed. The dimming areas should not produce the artifacts seen with Sony’s first LED-backlit displays.

In this respect, the press release mentions that “the LED LUX system comprises 128 segments of LED’s (1,152 LED’s in total) in 8 rows containing 16 segments. Nine LED’s are assigned to each individual segment and these LED’s can be individually dimmed to precisely control the output of each pixel. So, even if a segment contains both bright and dark portions, the pixel values of the dark portions can be dimmed to deliver optimum contrast performance.”

The improved black color provided by the LED LUX technology is also augmented by Philip’s Ambilight Spectra 2 system, which produces ambient lighting along the right and left side of the display based on the colors in the adjacent sections of the image on the screen.

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Fastest Helicopter to Date

The army always gets to test all sorts of advanced equipment. They might have gotten hold of some UFO tech as well, no one knows for sure. Anyway, they do posses some of the speediest vehicles out there: undetectable planes, choppers, battle ships and all that stuff. Choppers, I said? Well, it looks like the military choppers are not really the fastest. At least the Sikorsky X2 isn’t developed for the army at this moment, but could be transformed into an efficient weapon as soon as it passes the preliminary tests.

According to DVice, Sikorsky X2 completed its first test flight yesterday. The tests proved that this new generation has come a long way and can now be considered as reliable as a commercial airliner. The press release informs that ”when it’s done with testing, this dual-propped fly-by-wire speedster will blast through the air at 288mph, making it the fastest helicopter in the world.”

This first test consisted of a 30-minute flight that was meant to familiarize pilots with the control. The helicopter won’t be reaching the top speed before its forth flight, and if all goes according to plan, the X2’s makers could decide to launch a whole family of dual-propelled vehicles by 2010.

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Space Cube PC

We know PCs come in varius sizes and shapes these days. Just how small can a PC be? Some may argue that the smallest smartphones and PDAs can be considered PCs since they basically have a similar intern structure with a desktop PC. Well, those are not the subject of this article. What about a cube that would fit in your palm, is that small enough for you? The Space Cube PC comes from Japan (I should’ve guessed) and measures 2 square inches on each side of the cube. It was designed by Shimafuji Corporation and up until now it’s been a Japan-only product. The guys over at PC Pro have managed to get their hands on one of these and they were quite impressed.

OK, it’s small, we got that, but what exactly is inside this cube? PC Pro reveals that the Space Cube has a processor clocked at 300 megahertz, and 16MB of on-board flash memory and 64 MB DDR of RAM. It boasts enough computational power to run a Red Hat Linux operating system, aided nonetheless by a 1GB CompactFlash card that provides storage space. That actually sends us back in time, when the Pentium II CPU reigned supreme 12 years ago.

If this doesn’t seem impressive to you, then maybe the Space Wire port would be more appealing. The Space Cube includes this special socket that acts as an interface used by NASA, ESA, and JAXA, the space agencies of the U.S., Europe, and Japan, respectively to link up proprietary systems each agency uses.

So if you ever manage to get aboard the International Space Station with the cube in your pocket the special socket will connect sensors and processing units, and perform other computing tasks as it automatically detects other compatible devices.

Wondrous thing indeed, but that’s nothing compared to its price: $2,750!

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