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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 |
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The first thing you want to know in the morning, when you wake up, is the time, right? Ok, maybe you know it’s always 7:30, because your alarm clock is set for years to open your eyes at this early hour. Or at least it should be, when accidents don’t happen! But, besides the time, another thing you want to know before leaving for work might be the weather, because this gives you a clue about how to dress for the day.
The Oregon Scientific Alarm Clock with Weather Forecaster gives you all the information you need in a form factor that looks like a swanky instrument panel on your nightstand. Therefore, the device gives you not only atomic-linked time with a few milliseconds, but also the weather forecast for the day, showing you the current inside temperature.
Oregon Scientific BA200A Atomic Clock with Weather Forecaster features a sleek tabletop design and an always-on backlight function that will allow you to view the clear LCD display during lowlight conditions. The time automatically synchronizes with the US Atomic Clock and displays in large digits along with the month, date and weekday. The alarm includes a 5 minute snooze function.
You can know the weather in the next 12 to 24 hours with 5 different animated icons: Sunny, Partially Cloudy, Cloudy, Rainy and Stormy. The barometric pressure reading offers a 12-hour historical bar chart display and pressure trend icons. As far as the indoor temperature, it can be displayed in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
The BA200A includes 3 AAA batteries and a 4.5 volt power adapter and is backed by a one year manufacturer warranty. If you’re interested in such a device, you can go to Oregon Scientific website and grab if for $69.95. Or, why not, if the design isn’t to your liking, wander around the website for a huge variety of weather devices and alarm clocks, many of them more elaborate than this one.
(Source: Dvice)
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Monday, November 10th, 2008 |
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When the founder and former CEO of Reigncom (iRiver’s parent company) decided to leave the company, walking away from his position to establish a brand new company, a core group of Reigncom and iRiver employees (and much of iRiver’s innovation) went with him. Together, they laid the foundation of Mintpass and announced several months ago that they were planning to release their first product, dubbed the Mintpad.
Because the announcement of this concept wasn’t completed with details of the Wi-Fi enabled device, many began to doubt its existence. However, it seems that not only the Mintpad is real, but we have pictures and information about it at our disposal.
I don’t know if you remember the last time you scribbled a note to a coworker instead of shooting an IM, but Mintpass believes that some folks want to do both at one with Mintpad, a wireless handheld. As you can see, the device allows users to draw on a digital pad with a stylus that is a lot bigger than most that we have ever seen for digital electronic pads. I’m not sure how in earth you can change colors on the pen, but you have to admit that the drawing of the shoe is more in color than living color.
If you wonder how the Mintpad is different from texting or IMs, then let me tell you that the Mintpad’s tablet lets you write directly on the screen with the stylus instead of using a keyboard. It doesn’t recognize handwriting, but it will send the original note, in full color and complete with bad penmanship, to your recipients via Wi-Fi. The only bad thing is that you can send these notes only to other Mintpad owners.
The Mintpad is a compact device powered by an ARM9 400MHz processor and 128MB RAM. On the other hand, it comes with 4GB of internal memory and supports SD and SDHC memory cards. The device supports Wi-Fi 802.11b/g connectivity and has a 2.86-inch display and an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera. Compatible with WinCE 5.0 Professional OS, this multimedia device supports playback of MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, APE, FLAC music, AVI, MPEG1/2/4, WMV7/8/9, MP4, as well as JPG, BMP and PNG image files.
The 3.2-ounce device measures approximately 3.08 x 2.51 x 0.60 inches and is packed with an impressive amount of features considering its supposed 198,000 KRW (~$157) retail price. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t expect the Mintpad to leave Korea, at least not anytime soon.
(Source: Dvice)
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 |
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You have always wanted to lose weight, but you have neither the time nor the energy for exercising when you come home. Your days are always exhausting and there are no resources left, so you’d rather enjoy a quiet evening in front of the TV, watching a romantic comedy and eating some ice-cream. It sounds great, I agree, but tomorrow you’ll be feeling sorry and you might even start to complain and cry your eyes out, because you want to have a perfect silhouette, and as soon as possible.
The Hobart I-Cool seat concept is undoubtedly one of the most amazing, innovative and stylish pieces of fitness equipment we have seen till date. And it can help you lose weight without giving up ice-cream and other culinary delights you love so much. The Hobart I-Cool seat has your best interests at heart and is designed to reduce body weight while sitting and doing nothing. Developed and created by Tel-Aviv-based Padwa Design, the I-Cool is the first ever Exercise-Free, Calorie Burning seat, designed to deliver significantly increased sedentary calorie burn rates.
The device is based on a proprietary system which includes accelerated calorie outtake via temperature regulation and creates a revolutionary personalized micro-environment, by allowing individual users to set their preferred temperature within the comfort of their personal space, regardless of the climate around them.
The Hobart I-Cool seat looks really inviting, there’s no doubt about it, but I wonder how exactly it functions. I mean, does the I-Cool make you shiver, sweat or both in order to increase sedentary calorie burning rates? Apparently, you sit in it and sweat. But, come on, how many of you would like the idea of sweating inside your office while sitting on this chair? However, you would probably love to see this going into production, for the stunning make and the innovative functionality.
(Source: Gizmodo)
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Friday, October 31st, 2008 |
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Digital photo frames are quite “young†in the market, but since there are already many such products on sale, manufacturers try their best in order to diversify their approach to this segment. Their goal is to make their offer more attractive and that’s also the case with Sanyo’s latest announcement, the HNV-M70 ALBO digital frame, whose design doesn’t resemble anything we’ve seen on the market lately.
You must agree that this seven-inch LCD frame has one of the most interesting designs, straight out of a science-fiction TV show, meant to predict what television would look like in the future. It makes sense, isn’t it, if you give this thing a chance and you analyze a bit its design? You’ll see that the new digital frame from Sanyo has a very peculiar design, being a mixture between retro and futuristic.
The main selling point of the Sanyo digital frame is represented by the display, which has a 7-inch diagonal and an 800 x 480 pixel resolution. Additionally, the LCD TFT screen has a 16:9 native ratio, plus 140 degrees and 120 degrees horizontal and vertical viewing angles, respectively. This device is primarily designed to display photos, but it also boasts the ability to display RSS feeds via WiFi and receive photos from your cell phone via infrared port.
Furthermore, the HNV-M70 also incorporates a few more “classic†interfaces, such as a memory card reader compatible with the SD/SDHC, miniSD, microSD, Memory Stick Pro Duo and Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo card formats, plus a USB port. The ALBO digital frame from Sanyo has 256 MB of internal memory, which can be increased by adding memory cards. It also sports 1-W stereo speakers, which explains why the device is compatible with a wide range of multimedia files, including MP3, WAV, WMA, as well as JPEG and BMP picture formats. As you can see from the photo, it is possible to turn the screen on a swivel for various formats, and you can use the slideshow mode with image display special effects.
The Sanyo ALBO is scheduled to come out in November 14, for a price of about $422, and it will probably be available only in Japan.
(Source: Dvice)
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008 |
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Though you might consider Parrot to be a rather casual when it comes to the various portable gadgets that they roll out, this time they’ve done it. They seem to have a clear cut winner on their hands. The Parrot Specchio was designed by Martin Szekely, and this stylish digital photo frame is not short on innovation and technology, featuring a whole bunch of ways to transfer and share pictures and albums.
If the name of the designer doesn’t ring a bell to you, let me remind you that he is a contemporary well-known French artist acknowledged worldwide as a “master of minimalismâ€, with pieces in the permanent collections of the world’s major museum, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Well, this guy co-created an artful digital photo frame that incorporates a timeless mirror in the overall design.
When lights, shadows and reflections play on its surface, the Parrot Specchio frame becomes a mirror when it is turned off. In the blink of an eye, the mirror becomes a screen which projects your memories. The designer explained: “If you look in the mirror, your left is on your left and your right is in your right. On the photo, your left is on your right and your right is on your left. So, this object is both a mirror and a photoâ€.
If you are opting for this modern-day Polaroid, moments are instantly brought to life and shared through a beautiful frame that offers multiple connections (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth(R), NFC – Near Field Communication, mini-USB port and SD card reader). This way, special moments are captured and framed immediately. Using the latest in wireless standards, sliding an NFC mobile phone against the back of the Parrot Specchio Wi-Fi digital picture frame will enable photographs to be right away transferred and displayed on the screen of the digital photo frame without the need of pairing the products.
Featuring Wi-Fi connection and email functionality, the Parrot Specchio frame by Martin Szekely brings the virtual picture sharing experience into every day home decor. Therefore, the frame can automatically receive and display pictures that are sent by an owner’s friends and family, as well as those that are uploaded onto community sites (such as Picasa, Flickr, Fotolog and so on). This way, the shared virtual images can be viewed from the comfort of any living room.
More than that, you can also use the frame to view articles scanned from newspapers or magazines, recipes for dishes, to-do lists for the weekend. In other words, it can be used to view practically any information or pictures that help make daily life easier for the user.
The Parrot Specchio Wi-Fi digital picture frame can store up to 1,500 photos and will be available starting November 2008 at a recommended retail price of $500.
(Source coolest-gadgets.com)
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