tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174852672011-04-21T23:13:42.405+02:00A look at all the cool gadgets out there - from the tiny obscure ones to the well known ones... if I like it, then I gotta have one!izahannoreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17485267.post-1131886853550684152006-04-30T13:09:00.000+02:002006-04-30T11:39:19.490+02:00

Next in line from the Japanese-Swedish alliance. The popular P series gets an upgrade and a nice makeover. This tri-band phone operates with GSM 900, GSM 1800 andGSM 1900. The P990i runs on Symbian 9.1 OS and UIQ 3 platform. This makes it Wi-Fi capable (802.11b with flight mode). It is also has push email including for Blackberry, infrared, 3G, USB, remote sync via SyncML, Opera 8 web browser, a

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An interesting invention of Robert Krupa's. His added twist to the good ol' spark plugs seems to have pushed the device into another dimension. If you didn't know, the spark plug is needed to provide combustion in an internal combustion engine - if you have to fill your car up with gasoline, then you own an internal combustion engine. Same goes for a gas-powered engine. Only a diesel engines

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Do I look fat...? You know that you can never really give a straight answer to that question. Now you can have a way to bury that question once and for all. Well, hopefully... Hold on to this device with both hands and get your measurements done. By passing micro electrical current (that means a really really small dose of electricity - 500 micro amperes at 50kHz if you must know), the

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A 9x9 grid sectioned into 9 3x3 grid. All you have to do is fill each 3x3 grid with the numbers 1 to 9 - making sure that every row and column of the 9x9 grid is filled with the numbers 1 to 9 only once. Unless I wrote this upside down, the concept is really quite simple. So, where is the challenge? Well, first off, you get a 9x9 grid that has already been filled with some numbers. The

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Until Logitech comes up with a better mouse, this could well be the best mouse out in the market. The star of the show has to be the G7's 2000dpi (that dots-per-inch) laser engine that gives you a very refined control of the mouse - excellent for games. The G7 is wireless (of course) and runs at 2.4GHz radio frequency. If you have ever owned a wireless mouse (or keyboard), then you would know

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Charge it for 3 minutes, listen to music for 3 hours! Now that is convenient - especially for people like me who always forget to charge things like this the night before and then needing to use it on the go and only have like 5 minutes to recharge. On the other hand, maybe I will not have this problem too often since a full charge will last for 50 hours! Sony made the power consumption a bit

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Time to tell time differently. The usual big hand, small hand, seconds hand clock or the LCD something-or-other display clocks are getting a bit dull at look at. They are still effective at telling time but I want something different. Then I found this: the powers of 2 BCD clock. When I was in school, BCD meant binary coded decimal. I think this is how this clock tells the time. There are

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Coffee? Tea? Espresso? Hot Chocolate? A variety of hot drinks, just one machine. Now this I gotta see... It's called the Tassimo. Looks like one of those newer modern coffee machine. The Tassimo boasts the ability to make a hot drink of your choice. Choose from coffee, decaf, capuccino, espresso, cafe creme, tea or hot chocolate. The machine uses little T-Discs to brew hot drinks. The

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What do you do when you have a pair of oblong-ish cylinderical-ish super magnets? Pretty much anything I would say - just don't park it next to your hard drive... I have read that these magnets will still attract each other through a 1-inch thick wooden barrier! People say that you can feel the magnetic attraction when you seperate the magnets in your hand. If you hover one above the other,

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Okay, so this is not really a gadget but it is a cool toy. This thing is about 7cm long and takes to the water like a duck... err... more like a seal actually. There is a neat 'turbo dive' button sitting on top of the remote controller. Pressing this button sends the sub under really quickly. There is also a front headlight for those deep exploration missions - in a murky swimming pool or

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Now this I could do with. You see, my son has this habit of undoing his laces and then running around with loose shoes. Problem is, he eventually trips all over the place because of the loose laces (and shoes). I would tie them back up but he would undo them again. With this little device, it will take him a while to figre out how to undo them... hopefully it will give me a few years off lace

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Who wouldn't want free energy? With the amount of electrical gizmos I have running at my home, I could do with my own supply of electricity that is not connected to a money meter. There are a lot of free energy stuff running about on the internet and this just one of many interesting ones that I stumbled across. It's called the Wimhurst Electrostatic Machine. It's based on a concept similar to

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I have too many remote controls. And then I have kids. Not a very good combination. One remote usually ends up in weird places and the other is lunch. What I need is one universal remote control to operate all my AV stuff. At least managing one remote control is easier - at least I hope it is. The Harmony 880 is gorgeous. The curvy shape makes it comfortable to hold and the color LCD screen is

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Now this is a handy little thing to have. Just stick it into a USB port and you are ready to go. Get those spaces between the keys on the keyboard and whatever little crevice that you fancy vacuuming. Fits in your pocket or a little spot in your laptop bag. No batteries. No power point hunting. Just USB. Plug and suck. It's no Miele vacuum cleaner but I gotta have one!

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A public-private partnership project that aims to build an extremely large telescope based on more than 700 hexagonal-shaped mirror segments with a diameter of 30 meters. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be built on earth. To overcome the natural distortion of incoming light, it will use adaptive optics systems. The TMT will be capable of gathering light

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This is one thing that would make my life easier - a trashcan that opens it's lid when I want to throw something in it! No more bending over to open the lid. No more stepping on a little foot pedal either. Not that the old ways don't work anymore but this touchless way is just way cooler. Using harmless infrared technology, the trashcan is able to detect your hand when it is within 6 inches of

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Different rooms, different music, one source, one remote to control it all. Even better when the source is your PC - which stores tons of your music selection. And it's all wireless. My scrounging around the internet lead me to the Sonos Digital Music System. A wireless music system that feeds of your digital music collection: MP3, WMA, AAC(MPEG-4), Ogg Vorbis, Flac, WAV and AIFF formats are all

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I have always wanted to own a vacuum cleaner that does the cleaning by itself. I shopped around for one a while back but did not find one that I liked. I bumped into this new offering from Electrolux on the 'net just now and it caught my eye. Let's see what it is all about, shall we? Electrolux says that it released the first Trilobite back in 2001. Apparently it created quite a sensation. Me, I

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Now you can setup your own little CSI lab at home. Okay, so maybe just a tiny corner of a CSI lab but a CSI lab nonetheless. On to the microscope... Plug and play makes it simple to setup. The microscope magnifies up to 200x at 3 intervals - 10x, 60x & 200x. It also allows you to take still shots, time lapse movies and video via your PC. Video playback is at 15fps (640 x 480 resolution). The

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Powered by Citizen's Eco-Drive technology, this watch never needs a battery replacement - well, not unless you leave it in the dark for 5 years or so... The Eco-Drive system powers the watch's special power cell via a solar charger built under the watch fatce. The special thing about this solar charger is that it can power-up the power cell via any light source - sun or otherwise. The watch

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Weighing in at a mere 9 grams, the Discovery 640 will allow you to stay connected like never before. How you say? Well, for one thing, it has this nifty little pocket charger (powered by a single AAA battery) that allows you talk time of up to 15 hours! If you get a call while the headset is in your pocket, it will flash and vibrate to alert you of the incoming call.I gotta have one.

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This offering from Canon is jam-packed with some good features: 5.0 megapixel with 3x optical zoom lens with macro capabilities. 9-point auto focus. built-in flash with auto and redeye reduction modes. continuous shooting at 2.1fps. record high quality VGA (640 x 480) videos (with sound) at 30fps, limited only by memory size. fast frame rate movie recording: 320 x 240 at 60fps.

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Bose's most advanced 3.2.1 DVD system. It can store up to 200 CDs and then learns your music taste so that it plays your favourite music without having to make a playlist. The intelligent music selection system is called uMusic. It keeps an eye on which tracks you like to play to learn your listening preference. Then the uMusic intelligent playback system will figure out which tracks you like

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Wouldn't it be nice to have an astromech droid around the house? Of course, the standard would have to be R2-D2, nothing less. Then you would have a useful gadget on wheels. Let's see what we would get if we had an astromech droid: Mobile Beverage Machine - no more getting up from watching your favourite TV show. Just give a holler and the ol' astromech will be at your service. Personal Smoky

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If you have ever wanted to jump into your monitor (or TV), then you have to have one of these. The VisionStation offers a fully immersive display of 160°. Just imagine having a go at your favourite console game (Gran Turismo 4 comes to mind) on the VisionStation! Not to mention giving yourself a good fright watching movies like Jurassic Park! On the other hand, the space battles in Star Wars

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It seems that there is a class action lawsuit being filed against Apple with regards to the iPod nano. A Jason Tomczak is filing it claiming that had he known about the defects in the iPod nano, he would not have bought one. The nano's screen is said to easily scratch and crack rendering it unreadable. Mr. Tomczak claims that while Steve Jobs is seen in the advertisement carrying the nano in his

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Lovely little device. It massages your foot, ankle and calves all at the same time. Put your feet into the well-shaped and comfortable foot rests and select from several massage options. The greatest feeling for me is when the foot rests inflates and squeezes your foot, ankle & calves all at once. That really brings about great relief to your entire body. Then there is the kneading actions and

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Latest offering from Panasonic - a massive 65" plasma TV! TV Features: 65" 7th generation plasma panel HDTV Compatible (480p/1080i; 720p via PC input only) 1366 x 768 native resolution 3000:1 contrast ratio Progressive scan SD card slot, PCMCIA slot CableCARD ready HDMI-HDCP interface Inputs: Composite Video x3, S-Video x3, Audio x3, PC Input, Component Video x2. Outputs:

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The size of a credit card. Okay, maybe it's a wee bit bigger - but not that much bigger. Resolution is at 5 megapixels which is impressive for such a tiny thing. The lens is capable of 3x optical zoom and 2x digital zoom. Couple that with Sony's auto-focus & auto exposure magic and you can be sure of high quality pictures. There is a huge 2.5" Hybrid LCD Monitor on the back of the camera. The

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Got sun? Got power. No more worrying about the mobile phone running out of juice. Or other small appliances for that matter. You can lie on the beach all day listening to your favourite MP3s with the sun as your servant - tanning and charging your little gadget. Go for a long trek in the countryside and rest assured that your GPS will always be fully charged and ready for action. Snap your

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Blu-Ray is a new up an coming disc format that looks set to blow away current DVD capacity. Blu-Ray is developed by the Blu-Ray Disc Association along with a host of manufacturers - Samsung, Dell, Panasonic, Sony, Apple, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Pioneer, Thomson, Sharp, Phillips & TDK. How will the format blow away the current DVD capacity? Well, a single Blu-Ray disc can hold 25GB of

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Imagine having a video recorder, video player, music player & photo album all rolled into one. Well, that is what this is... The Archos is a DVR - that's a Digital Video Recorder. It means that not only does it play back recorded shows, it actually records them as well. The AV 700 can record direct from your TV, DVD player, VCR, cable or sastellite box. With 100GB of storage, you can store up to

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That's right, it's a pen. This has to be one of the more successful gadgets ever invented. It is so common that we hardly notice it anymore. Let's have a look and see what the pen is all about, shall we? Anytime, Anywhere As in availability. Imagine getting a great idea while having breakfast at your favourite coffee shop. Get out your handy little pen, and scribble it down on a piece of paper.

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I love PDAs. They are always handy to have around. You have so much in the palm of your hands - contacts, grocery list, music, calculator, notepad and whatever cool stuff you can find. There is a huge option of PDAs available but I think this is one of the better ones. The E2 from palmOne features an excellent 320 x 320 hi-res colour display. Whether indoors or outdoors, the brilliant display

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You plan this excellent family roadtrip to somewhere nice. You are excited, your spouse is excited and your kids are really excited. You get in the car and the journey begins. 30 minutes later... "Are we there yet?" Been there, hated it. Then I came across this little thingy here. Might be just the thing to keep the kids occupied. The widescreen 10.2 inch LCD monitor allows you to enjoy

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You have probably seen it more than once in a shop window. Your friend probably has one. You probably wished that you had one. The first thing that you will notice about this offering from Motorola is that it is not plastic. The casing is made of anodized aluminium - even the keypad is made of metal! And it's thin - really thin. With these dimensions (H 3.86, W 2.08, D 0.54 inches), it is no

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Now this has potential for some serious fun... The Tag Team Ops Deluxe Set comes with two TAGGER units (that's the blaster), and a pair of really cool HUDs (heads up display - the goggles). The HUDs has an LCD display control panel that provides live action video readouts of game stats. The TAGGER unit is quite robust and configurable. You can adjust the amount of hits you can take, shields and

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Imagine MacGyver (anybody remember MacGyver?) on a mission to recover some enemy documents. On his first baddie encounter, he had to use his supply of micro floppies to fix-up a trap so that it wouldn't blow his foot off. Then, he had to use his box of blank DVD-RWs to cleverly redirect laser beams, thus disarming another diabolical trap. Next up, the few tape drives he had were used to tie-up

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Not many people are aware of this but tires are VERY important. The four round black things are the things that guide your car on the road. You can have the best engine, the best brakes, the best suspensions or the best electronics monitoring your car - but if your tires don't work, you don't get to go where you want to. That's why choosing a good set of tires is critical. When you do have a

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There is nothing like some good ol' ice cream to cool off a warm day... Okay, so it's nearly winter up here in the northern hemisphere but hey, this is the internet, you could be reading this from down under! To make ice cream, we gotta freeze some ingredients together. Guess what? You don't have to plug this thing in - anywhere! There is a little metal ball inside where you mix in your

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This nifty little DVD palyer from Harman Kardon plays DVD, DVD-Audio, MP3, Windows Media and JPEG discs. Picutre quality will be at it's best due to the pixel-by-pixel progressive scan video processing. The DVD-Audio includes controls for bass management, delay settings and output-level trim. Not only does it look nice, the performance is good too. I gotta have one. You gotta have one too?

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Check out this little baby from Apple. The iPod nano has to be the coolest MP3 palyer around. It comes in two versions: one with 2GB memory and the other with 4GB. That totals up to about 500 songs for the former version and 1,000 songs for the latter! The number of songs is calculated based on 4 minute songs recorded at 128kbps. Colour choice is either iPod in white or iPod in black. The

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Now this is a handy little thingy that caught my eye. No more twisting and turning for pepper. No more fiddling with that little knob at the top to get just the right grain size. Pepper? Click... whizz... voila! And then there is that nifty light. Now I can actually see how much pepper I have on my steak! Fabulous! Okay, so it runs on 4 AA batteries but then it's supposed to last you a year.

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Now that looks cool. Looks like it is comfortable to hold too. The pointer has two functions: one that keeps the laser on while you push the button and the other keeps the laser on until you switch it off. The unit runs on one 3V type 123A lithium battery which will give you about 6 - 9 hours of power. The continuous wave laser has a wavelength of 532nm and a range of about 20 miles (which

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This latest offering from Sony is a 5.1 megapixel digital camera. It carries a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 3x optical zoom. The lens is a 35mm equivalent range of 38-114mm with a maximum aperture of f/3.5 at its widest down to f/4.4 at telephoto range. The M2 is capable of shooting up 50 minutes of video in MPEG-4 format with 640 x 480 resolution at 30 frames per second. Sound is captured via

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