Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 |
There is a category of technological gadgets that will pull out a large smile on our faces whenever we will see them. This, also called and fun gadgets, are available in the stores all over the world and can be acquired to a sufficient moderate price.
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Some of this type of gadgets were presented at the American International Toy Affair this year in February at New York, the largest toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere. This is the place where Lego or Nintendo started and from the collection of this year we extracted the funniest next 3 toys.
The Twilight Turtle it is not only a beautiful and fun plush toy but it also have and a story to tell to the kids before the bed time. Drew close to a creek, on a small lake, the turtle was born in a huge family. The little turtle started to love the stars and the sun and when she got lost she found the way back home because she had a very good knowledge of places. Despite the cute story, the fun and technological part at this plush toy it is that it can project a totally starry night sky to the walls of a room, thanks to the LEDs implemented in its shell, creating an relaxing, magical and restful environment for every kid, but even for an adult.
You can add a plus of romantics to your nights and you can teach your kids eight major constellations that can be seen on the real sky. The kids can also find and recognize by themselves the galaxies and the stars, using the illustrated Star Guide that comes in the toy’s box.
Another cool thing for those who collect art pieces is that this turtle it is individually hand painted. Also it includes 3 AAA batteries, a  saving time out feature and any user, including the kids until 8 years old can choose from the 3 colors available, blue, amber and green, very easy. Its shell it is made from plastic ad the body made from plush. It can cover and project full nights on all the room’s walls and even on the cell. It will auto shut off after 45 minutes. Also it have small dimensions, like 14 inch long and 5 inches tallness. It can be founded at a reasonable price of only 34 dollars.
Respecting the start idea form this article, we will present you now the Odyssey Light Up ultimate Disc, made by Black Jax Sports.
Also known as the Night Ultimate or the Glow Ultimate, this toy can be a fun for kids and for mature people. Initial made as a glowing night disc golf, to help the sleepless people to play some Frisbee in dark places and moments, it evolved and been upgraded in time becoming a real line collection.
First model have the same LEDs as the newest models, but also a bigger battery pack and a toggle switch. As included features we can say that it had an extreme durability, it was water resistant and very over stable.
The second model released was available in 4 colors: light red, green, blue and a chameleon in a combination of 7 colors.
The latest product it is named Pin Dragon and it is a light up disc golf putter. This, unlike the other released products it is very stable and costs only $16,99.
Another fun and cool gadget greedy all our attention and it is personified in a ventriloquist pencil with a Kermit head, made by Club Earth. Available in 3 shapes and colors, the red one with a little T-Rex on its bottom, the blue one with a dolphin, or the already known to you, the purple with Kermit the frog, these animals will move their lips and head in a perfect unison with the sound of your voice. It have also a similar brother model that can record your voice ,letting you to playback it, while the animal’s mouth will perfectly synchronize with it. Instead of the dolphin, the blue model have a parrot on its bottom. With a simple and invisible move you can activate or deactivate the microphone feature and record up to 6 seconds of talking.
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
We hear this word everywhere, either if it’s about programs or some other kind of technology. The truth is many people don’t know the meaning of the word gadget, also known as gizmo.
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To be as precise as possible, a gadget is a small technological object. It can be either a device or an application thought to be more ingenious and unusually designed than other.
Although, it started as a small range of gadgets, today we can classify existent gadgets in various categories, such as:
- Mechanical gadgets, which include clocks, thermometers, and bicycles, that comes in a very large number.
- Programmable gadgets include almost any modern device.
- Application gadgets are small computer programs, such as the ones that Google Desktop implements.
- Eco-friendly gadgets are ones that are solar powered and can be used from lighting your garden to charging batteries or phones.
- Electronic gadgets is a category that has a few other subcategories:
- USB gadgets has a lot of benefits and that’s why they are very numerous and diverse. The simplest gadget known and owned by most people is the USB Flash Card. Other examples are the USB Heating Gloves or the USB Cup Heater. As long as you have a computer around, they are very easy to use. All you need is an USB port, at least 1.1. They are small so easy to carry around and require low power.
- iPod gadgets are the one that can be attached to the iPod or the ones the iPod can be attached to. For instance, mini or big audio systems, handbags, and even anti-pick-pocket locks with password coding.
- Spy gadgets are the most sophisticated ones. They can be spy cameras or night vision binoculars, listening devices, and even lie detectors.
- Watch gadgets come very in handy when in need of a calculator or calendars. Some of them can store music and pictures files and have playing features. In addition, others have built-in flash drives or walkie-talkies.
- Health gadgets is the one category that actually serves a good purpose. These gadgets can check for your blood pressure, temperature or sugar level and others can normalize them.
- Cell phone gadgets are most modern cell phones and their accessories.
- Other type of gadgets is all of those gadgets meant to entertain us and to make our lives much easier.
Like I said before, there are all kinds of gadgets meant to improve our lives and make it easier. Every one of them is useful in one way or another. Some are addressed to certain ages, while others are for all ages. Big companies rely on the fact that as the technological world goes only forward, they will always come up with something new and original to develop and sell. Maybe some of them will remain without any actual purpose, just to be left lying around, but maybe many others will have a good purpose. Personally, I think that the eco-friendly gadgets and the health gadgets will make always a good investment and we should focus on them because we will always be dependent of phones and other pieces of technology with lesser importance.
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Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
Bucky Balls are magnetic spheres which make you spend quite a lot of time playing with them, without noticing that you haven’t eaten or drank anything in the last few hours, or worse, that you haven’t worked anything for that report the boss is waiting for.
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Bucky Balls are small metallic spheres with magnetic properties, which can be used to create various shapes, depending on your creativity and your skill. Each set contains 216 BuckyBalls and they can be used to make jewelry, puzzles, funny shapes or anything else you have in your mind.
They can be classified as gadgets, because they represent a funny way to spend time, but in the same time they can help you to develop your creativity and your spatial geometric skills.
Bucky Balls are better than hours killing games, because they at least make you use actively your hands when playing with them, and your brain has useful activity.
These funny toys can be ordered online, and you can even purchase more sets, to have more resources for your creativity!
Few important characteristics!
- Ages: Not for kids or adults under 12 years of age.
- Magnet Grade: N35
- Dimensions: each Buckyball is 5mm in diameter.
Thanks to Tracy Egans, our reader, who suggested us this gadget!
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009 |
Many people believe that there is no step further in displays for either TV or computers. However, this is nobody’s fault that some people literally have no clue about technology, the current direction and the future trend. Few people have access or desire to prospect the current science projects which will determine the future television for instance.
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This example is, however, too commercial, since the implications of new technology (even for something apparently small as displays) could represent a milestone is our further technological evolution. I understand that nowadays people are more interested in simple daily objectives, like waking up in the morning, having breakfast, go to work, work out or shop for relaxations, do house work and so many other logical and everyday elements included in everyone’s daily routine. However, we must be open-minded when it comes to the future.
We just can’t overlook what is going on in the world and not just for political and economical world but also science and medical world. This process of acknowledging only takes 10 minutes a day. For instance how many of you know the latest
Sony first OLED TV product, how it works, what it is, and why is so important. My guess is that only fans or pros know all the answers. This
Sony TV sports not only the title of
OLED TV but also the name. Unusual at least, but then again we are talking about Sony.
Therefore, strange names and excellent designs are a common feature. The key features for this TV are the outstanding contrast (with an unreal and unseen by now contrast ratio of 1.000.000 to 1, making the movies scenes extremely real with the black and white contrast), the color reproduction (tanks to the latest Sony technology, Super Top Emissions), high brightness (never seen before within the OLED technology), extremely fast response time, unusual yet excellent resolution, eco friendly (by boasting an energy efficiency program), organic material, and the tilt feature (allowing you to tilt the screen 55 degrees backward or 15 degrees forward).
The
Sony OLED TV boasts an excellent form factor and beautiful stylish design, the OLED panel being suspended by a slim stainless steel pedestal (flexible to allow tilt of the screen). The actual screen is a work of art not only when used but also when closed with an incredible depth value of 3 mm. The base of the OLED TV sports several nice features. In terms of design it is well built with excellent materials completing the design.
Sony offers an impressive design package not to mention the hardware specification. In case you were wondering, OLED is also known as
Organic Light Emitting Diode. There are two types of OLED technology by this day, the polymer OLED and the small molecule OLED. The OLED TV sports the second type of technology mainly because this means a better screen life. The future holds a merger between the OLED technology and the TFT technology, called Organic TFT.
This technology will allow the creation of flexible plastic displays, which will significantly improve all the devices on the market not only in form factor but also in tech improvement. The Sony OLED TV includes within its base unit several connections, improving the normal connection department. Therefore, you get not one but two HDMI ports (supports 1080p/60, CEC capable), a DMe Service, the DC in jack, the analog and digital audio out, the VHF, UHF cable, and a memory card slot compatible with Memory Stick PRO memory cards.
In the video department the
Sony OLED TV includes beside the over 1.000.000 to 1 contrast ratio, a native resolution of 960 x 540 pixels. For a better picture adjustment Sony included several settings, in terms of mode, picture, color, temperature, noise reduction, sharpness, brightness, and other settings, more advanced such as clear white, live color, black corrector, gamma, and color space. In the audio department you get other interesting features such as the audio and video synch, the excellent Dolby Digital audio, stereo decoder, surround sound system, three different sound modes dynamic, custom, and standard, and the steady sound volume control feature.
The actual screen sports a diagonal of only 11 inches with an aspect ratio of 16 to 9. Most of the features from the video department are shared with the ones from the audio department. The audio power output is only of 2 Watts. So, are you impressed? You should be impressed, this technology is the future. Unfortunately is still too early to say if the
Sony OLED TV is a solid investment, with only one year of warranty. In general the first revolutionary devices are the ones who break the easiest and are the hardest to repair. If you are in general a lucky person, then you shouldn’t have any problems with this TV since it is made by Sony.
The retail box of this product includes beside the actual
OLED TV, the remote control, battery, AC power cord, AC power adapter, cleaning cloth, operating instructions, the 75 ohm coaxial cable, and the warranty card. As you can see this means a full retail package. By the way, the remote control is truly a piece of art, probably one of the best looking and well build remote controls ever made by Sony. Beside the fact that this product is still experimental, yet in a couple of years it will be considered a milestone, there is still another factor to take into consideration, the price.
As you might already thought the
OLED TV doesn’t come cheap, at all. Actually as an objective remark, there are few devices created by Sony with small price tags. In the last years Sony decided to improve its devices by bringing excellent performances and stylish, solid build, designs. Even so, the production costs were so high (since all this evolution process happened overnight) that the final price tags off all the new products, especially the ones which include new technology, were substantially raised, making Sony an expensive product manufacturer.
These can easily be implied only by revealing the Sony’s OLED TV price tag, $2.499.99, which in these economic crisis means poor sales, and probably discontinuing this line for a few years until the technology will become more affordable. Whatever the future might hold up, Sony’s OLED TV is truly an important device in the display direction and future technologic evolution.
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009 |
No matter if you are a gadget hunter, or you just want a special present for your friend’s birthday, I think that UsefulThings can help you. This website offers a range of gadgets, which can be purchased for personal use, but very good offered as gifts too.
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UsefulThings, as the name suggests also, is an online shop where you can find a lot of useful items, for house, office, travel, kitchen. The special thing is that all of these objects have something different from the common version of the same object. Even if the difference is about the color, the shape or it has an improvement, I think that these items are special in their own way. You can find objects which make the place you live in more friendly, or they add a crazy note to your office. You can also find funny useful kitchen gadgets too. These items are great gifts for gadget fans, who want to have strange and useful (not all the time useful) things.
The best thing about these items you can buy on
UsefulThings is that they can be offered to a wide range of people, beginning with your friends and family, and in last instance, you can find a cosy and elegant present even for your boss.
Personally, I would like to have in my house or in my office a Conceal Bookshelf, because it is such an elegant solution for storing books. I think you can place there all types of books, but if you have that shelf next to the sofa or the place where you spend some relaxation time, you can place there your favorite books, or those you are currently reading.
Another interesting item is the Glass Measuring Cup, which on one hand shows the quantities and their values, and on the other hand brings some interesting facts in front of our chef eyes. If have ever wondered how much 5,000 drops of water is, you can easily find out with this measuring cup. It’s cool and geeky!
Check out their products, and let us know which one you liked most!
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