Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009
If you feel like stepping out from the crowd, using some electronic eccentric devices will take you there. These gadgets are not only different but also very useful- all you need is the courage to try them.  Sadly, not many of these devices are available on the market and maybe some of them will never be available. However they will make you curious about them as they are the product of ingenuity. Even if you are not an electronic gadget passionate, you will be attracted by their design and their functions. You may not find them useful now but at some time in the future maybe you will find their utility.
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In 2008 it was realized a ranking of the most unusual gadgets- there were 8 such gadgets that won the contest. Â The first gadget was the B-membrane Laptop/Desktop Hybrid which is a mother ship-like laptop/desktop hybrid. B-membrane is different because it doesn’t have a monitor but rather a cone-shaped design that sits on top of a circular disk, which makes the computer look like a mother ship. The cone part works just a like a projector- it beams your images onto the surfaces it is pointed to. When you want to see the images on the surface, you just bend the cone part, which then becomes a projector. The choice of the surface is yours you just have to point the projector towards the area you want to view the images.
The B-membrane also includes an optical drive and keyboard which will appear only when you need to use them. The keyboard is placed on the disk, blended in with it, round, and works just like a touch pad- all you need is to touch the disk and the keyboard will appear. The B-membrane has another function besides being a computer, it can be used as an ambient light. This gadget is still in design mode and it will probably take some time until it will be released on the market.
The syringe USB Drive is another unique gadget as it weighs a pint, 72×25x18mm, and like a syringe, it has a transparent shell. It uses a 2.0 technology and the information storage ranges from 128MB to 1GB memory.
Unlike the B-membrane, the syringe USB Drive can be purchased online.
When you need more USB ports, the next unusual gadget can be very useful although it is a little bit scary-the USB Hub Monster. The monster has flexible arms so you can connect more USB devices without using cables and cords. The monster can be created by everyone who wants as its inventor- Ed Lewis shows it step by step on the Instructables web site. For this, you will need: a 7 port D-link hub, seven one-foot USB extension cables, a 10 foot roll of armature wire, and black material to wrap up the monster.
If you are bored of the classic mp3 player, then the Rubik Cube MP3 player can bring some originality in your life. Besides being an MP3 player, it will also put your brain to work as you have to solve the cube in order to start listening to your favorite music. The cube was designed so that for each layer you solve, you will be allowed to perform a function such as pause, back, forward, volume. When you want to shut down the mp3 player you have one little problem- you must solve the puzzle.
When you want to listen to music with your friends, the creator of the Cube has taken care of it- you have 3 jacks available for 3 pairs of headphones. The Cube mp3 is also equipped with speakers- all you need is to use the switch at the top. You can also renew your music by using the USB port that pops up ready to be connected to your computer. This mp3 player can be very stressful if you don’t like Rubik Cube-like games- it will take you a lot of time to use its main function. Although it is has an innovative concept, the MP3 player is not available yet.
If you are really passionate about music, then you will surely love the TuneStudio. It will turn your iPod into a portable recording studio.TuneStudio has a four-channel audio mixer and also a recorder from Apple’s fifth generation iPod. You can record your music directly to the iPod at CD- level 16-bit quantization as well as at 44KHz sampling rate. TuneStudio can keep recording levels within iPod’s sound spectrum by processing the stereo signal. Each of these four channels can be set up to use a three-band equalizer, as well as level and pan controls. TuneStudio works also on Windows and has an USB port to connect it to your system.
There are a lot of Star Wars fans all around the world and they will surely love the new computer equipment inspired by the movie- the Star Wars USB Hubs. The hubs come in the form of the movie’s most famous characters Darth Vader and R2-D2. Both characters have four frontal full speed USB ports. Besides that, there are sound effects coming from the characters and R2-D2 moves his head and lights up every three minutes. The products are available only in Japan.
The Mousecaster is not only a mouse but also it allows you to listen to your favorite radio on your computer. All you have to do is connect it to your computer as it has a built in FM radio and the cord behaves like an antenna. You can listen now to your favorite radio station without internet access. This device is available in the United States.
If you have a desktop computer and you want to type in the dark it can be very difficult. That’s why someone thought of you and invented the illuminated keyboard- Eluminix. Eluminix gets its power from the computer and uses electro-luminescence technology. This product is available for purchasing.
All these unusual gadgets can help making our lives more easy, pleasant and more fun. Although not all of the devices have an utility now, they are progresses of the technology and will lead the way in discovering more and more ways to easy our existence.
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
A new gadget trend is around in town, and it hit the geek circuit pretty well. Thinkgeek has released its hip and shoulder holsters, and these products seem to combine James Bond’s needs with Han solo’s and Dwight Schrute’s needs also in these geeky cases. Carrying all the necessary stuff in your pockets can weigh the jacket down and it can actually put a lot of stress on your suspenders. The perfect product for solving these issues is the Gadget Shoulder Holster, which offers you the possibility to store all the stuff you usually carried in your pockets. Moreover it represents very good your geeky personality part, and it gives you a James Bond look.
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The shoulder holder can keep all your gadget devices, like the MP3 player, the cellphone, your keys and the memory stick in a safe place and out of sight. It is very comfortable to have all the gear at hand, where you can easily access it, and ready to take out when you need it.
If you would like to have a hip holster and not a shoulder one, the product is available on the market too, and it comes with a good price tag: $60. The Hip and the Shoulder Holsters are pretty good storage solutions for your gadgets, and they make you feel like a secret agent. You can carry now all your portable electronic devices, without anyone to think of what you have in your pockets on anywhere else. These products are made of a stretchy material, which fits well on your shoulder or on your hip, they don’t harm your skin and actually they are very safe carriers for all the things you want to take with you. There are different sizes for both products, and you can find holsters up to a 44 size chest.
There has been created a new innovative type of shoulder
holster, which offers a special pocket for your iPhone. The original shoulder holster has been redesigned and adapted for the new gadgets appearing on the market one would like to own. This new iPhone holster has a traditional pocket for your wallet and a lot of ergonomically organized pockets for all the things you would like to carry, but the most important one is the iPhone pocket, which comes on the market as a great iPhone accessory.
These
holsters represent an important step in iPhone’s accessories market evolution, and they fit a lot of people’s prefferences because they offer a lot of storage space, but not only space, comfort too and style.
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
Every child dreams about the cool job he will have when he will grow up. Many of us dream about becoming a spy. Why are spies so cool? Maybe because they use a lot of cool gadgets and equipments to accomplish their different missions. A spy job is a very funny and very exciting. But no spy is cool without his gadgets.
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At first, spy gadgets were secret tools, when they initially appeared. But nowadays it is not so hard to get cool spy gadgets. They can be found all over the Internet and come in different shapes and sizes. You can find cool spy gadgets, from video surveillance, audio surveillance, phone equipment, computer surveillance, counter-surveillance, personal equipment and communication to tracking systems to location security and chemical aids.
All of these gadgets are very cool but you have to use them properly in different situations.
From the category of video surveillance you can find a lot of cool stuff like hidden cameras or wireless cameras.
You can get a hidden surveillance camera which is a fully functioning wall clock with a micro-sized video surveillance camera concealed behind the face of a boom box. You just have to aim the boom box towards the direction you wish to monitor, attach the included receiver to your VCR or TV and you’ve got a spy camera that never blinks. Range is about 700ft line of sight.
If this is not good enough you can buy a hidden screw camera that is a wireless video camera hidden in a screw. A surveillance camera like this could be hidden in dozens of places, in almost any location, and if well placed, no one would ever suspect anything.
The specifications for this are: Resolution: 330 Lines Resolution, Lens: 3.6/2.9mm Pinhole, Pixels: 270,000.
If these are not good enough you can get a flexible cable camera. Flexible cable cameras are designed to provide tactical teams means to covertly monitor a crime scene. The small video camera can be inserted under most doors or through a small opening in a wall. The camera can easily be attached to a pole to give tactical teams a view of a room from a safe distance prior to entry. Slide it under doors, slide it into cracks, or holes and see a clear image inside other rooms.
Cool Spy gadgets include self worn cameras. You can get a baseball cap camera or sunglasses camera. This class of hidden cameras can be worn on your body while you’re conducting surveillance and your target won’t know they’re being watched. They use wireless signals to transmit live video up to 700 feet.
If those won’t do you can get  video cameras are more of the type that James Bond might use for covert surveillance, like a pack of cigarettes or a hand watch-shaped camera. Because of arm motion, the watch might be more useful to be left sitting on a shelf or desk, while the cigarette camera would look natural sitting in front of you on a table at an outdoor cafe.
Other cool spy gadgets are meant for counter surveillance. The bug detector functions as a bug/phone tap, wired and wireless hidden camera detector. This counter-measure device can locate transmitters or bugging devices in a room or automobile. It excels at tracing RF signals for RF security and counter-surveillance applications.
The phone trap detector is a counter-measure device which checks your phone line for on-premises series and parallel bugs and wiretaps. It can also check the telephone for most common types of hook switch bypasses, which effectively turn the telephone into a room monitor.
Video camera detector will not only detect the presence of a video camera, it will also intercept a wireless camera transmission, showing on your screen exactly what the camera sees.
If you are afraid of being listened you can get a white noise generator. This white noise generator defeats listening devices as hidden microphones buried in a wall, transmitters located in AC outlets and laser/microwave reflection from windows. This is accomplished by producing a security blanket of generated noise completely covering your private conversations with unfiltered sound, thus ensuring a private conversation. The masking system injects noise into the environment perimeter and not directly into the environment. This approach allows normal conversation while defeating eavesdropping devices that rely on acoustic leakage.
Cool Spy gadgets are the coolest products you can find on the market nowadays.
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Originally started as a cartoon, Inspector Gadget became a very popular cartoon among kids and not only. Inspector gadget is a pretty silly police inspector very naive but trusty police detective. Â He remarks himself by self-helping him with different gadget that he uses to elucidate police cases.
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Started as an animated television series, Inspector gadget, in 1986, there have been many spin-offs based on the show. The list of animated movies with the inspector is long starting with Inspector gadget saves Christmas. Doctor Claw, Inspector’s gadget main enemy, has locked up Santa Claus at the North Pole and hypnotized his elves. Christmas will be finished unless Dr. Claw is stopped. Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain travel to the North Pole in an attempt to stop Dr. Claw and save Christmas. This special edition was nominated for an Emmy.
The series that followed were very diverse, posing inspector gadget as a child, gadget boy. The series debuted in 1995 and only a single season was produced, besides the historical spinoff, Gadget Boy’s Adventures in History, which aired on The History Channel. The main title song was written and performed by Mike Piccirillo. The musical underscore composers were Mike Piccirillo and Jean-Michel Guirao.
The list is very long and ends with 2 movies:
Inspector Gadget is a 1999 live-action film based on the popular animated cartoon series of the same name. It starred Matthew Broderick as the title character, along with Rupert Everett as Dr. Claw, and Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny. Two new characters were introduced, Brenda Bradford (played by Joely Fisher) and the Gadgetmobile (voiced by D.L. Hughley).
The latest of all is
Inspector Gadget 2 (also known as
IG2) is a Walt Disney Pictures film released in March 2003. It was based upon the cartoon series created by DiC Entertainment and is a direct-to-video sequel to the 1999 Disney film
Inspector Gadgt. However, the two films have a tenuous link at best since the canon of the first film was poorly referenced (Inspector Gadget and Dr. Claw are never referenced as John Brown and Sanford Scolex – their respective civilian names from the first movie – and Claw’s former status as a wealthy man is only mentioned when one of his henchmen, wondering why are they hiding in an abandoned bowling alley, asks what happened to Claw’s money and Claw explains that his accounts are blocked) and none of the 1999 film’s actors return to reprise their roles, with the exception of D. L. Hughley, who voices the Gadgetmobile. The
Inspector Gadget 2 is one of the best movies of the year 2003 and have set huge sells.
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
With the invention of Magneatâ„¢, the problems concerning headphone wire management are history! This circular button-like clip is pretty easy to use, and it solves a stringent problem. You can clip it on your clothes, and it is great especially for joggers and cyclists!
This gadget is the size of a half-dollar coin and it is a functional and fashionable accessory. This is the ultimate headphone wire manager for iPods and MP3 players and for mobile phones (it is cool for smartphones too). Magneat has a simple two part design, and it consists of a circular wraparound headphone wire piece and a powerful magnetic clip piece which can be combined and attached to any type of clothing. Together, they keep the wires close to your body and they reduce the risk of unwillingly hooking them or pulling your headphones out of the ears, or our of the device. Magneat sends in the past problems like hanging wires, tangled wires and it solves the problems related to wire storage when they are not in use.
This product is new to the US market, and it also can be found in retail outlets in Europe and Asia, and the most important place where you can find it is
www.magneat.com . This small gadget is available in a variety of solid colors, which can fit most of your outfits, and the design is continuously improved. It costs $14.99 in a solid color ( blue, red, yellow, black etc.) and for $19.99 you can purchase it in a special design edition ( alien, bunny, skull, monkey etc). Here are some examples of portable media players, which
Magneat is compatible with: iPod Classic, Zune,
iPod Nano, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch, iPod Shuffle, Sony PSP and a lot of mobile phones models.
You can find more information about this
gadget on the website mentioned in the previous paragraph, and that is the place where you can purchase it too. I find it very useful because it helps you a lot with the wire management when you are jogging, cycling, working at the gym and it much many other situations where the risk of loosing your headphones is higher. This is a great gift and personally I would like to try one, and see if it works good with my mobile phone, because I always listen to music from my mobile phone while I am going to work by bike
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