Category: Gadgets
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Has Palm done it?
The new Palm Pre looks very awesome: smaller than an iphone, slideable keyboard (I love that keyboard, it’s very very good) and an OS which seems slicker than Apple’s. Other than that it seems to have all the prerequisite bits and bobs, such as wifi, gprs, reasonabley poor camera, gps, bluetooth, 480×320 display. Contact management…
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Datto’s Box 2 Box
This drive uses P2P technology to back up your drives synchronysly anywhere on the planet. Sounds good, but you do need to have 2 of these drives. They’re made to sync to each other. It won’t plug in to your existing NAS automagically. Your source drive would need some way of identifying and sending the…
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White Balance Lens Cap
This allows you to set your white balance before uncapping your lens.
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How to upgrade your camera setup on the cheap
This links to a whole range of impressive cheapskate (but effective!) ways of upgrading your camera setup, such as how to make cheap flash diffusers, your own camera bag, flash deflection umbrella’s, tripods, ringlighting rigs, etc.
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GSM Watch Phones
It’s GSM Watch phone week! The first is the Phenom Watch Phone which features a 1.3″ touchscreen you can operate with a stylus and has a seperate keypad. It’s feature packed and also has an MP3 & MP4, built in microphone and speakers, digital and video camera, Micro SD slot and built in Bluetooth. They…
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DIY adjustable glasses
Some clever chappie (professor Silver) has designed a lens for your glasses that you can change the strength of the focal distance yourself – ie. no more optician! He does this by filling a membrane with water. Using in syringe with a dial you can put in more or take out some fluid, customising it…
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How To Calibrate Your New HDTV
This is a good guide how to do it easily and reap the benifits of proper colour. All you need is a THX certified DVD and a pair of $4,- goofy glasses.
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Wireless USB kit
It’s an easy system: you plug one end into your PC and you plug the other end (which can be bought seperately) into your USB thing, making it a wireless device. Prices seem reasonable.
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USB Microscope
With 200x magninfication and 1600 x 1200 resolution this is quite something for only GBP 50
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BSODomizer
BSODomizer is a small, battery-powered, mischievous electronic gadget that interfaces between a laptop or desktop and VGA monitor and flashes images onto the monitor at random time intervals or when triggered by an infrared remote control Childish and random? Hell yeah! Cool as fuck and I want one!
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Headphonies
These external speakers will only run at 100 – 500 pieces and will be on sale from November.
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USB Floppy Drive
This HP USB key doubles as a floppy disk emulator, meaning you can easily boot up from it on all kinds of PCs.
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Nike Hindsight Glasses
The lenses on these glasses are cut so that the view to the sides of the wearers head is sent to your peripheral vision, where you’re not so good at looking at detail, but good at detecting movement. This should improve safetly substantially whilst doing just about anything!
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Oops – Apple rips off again!
After having ripped off a poor English inventor to create the ipod, now they’ve ripped off Cupertino who designed the next generation of ipods a year ago! Keepin’ it real fake, CXL: Cottage MP3 player apes iPod nano 4G a year in advance – Engadget
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Origami-optics lenses
These lenses boost focal length, which means that the huge lenses you need to follow something from far away on a camera can be made a whole lot smaller.
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Invisible feelings
Using ultrasound, the University of Tokyo has found a way to exert highly localised pressure in a single direction, allowing you to feel invisible objects in the air.
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Vivien Muller design: PhotonSynthese
This tree is unfortunately a design concept, but I want it: charge your gadgets with solar power…
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Draganflyer X6 – UAV Helicopter Aerial Video Platform
This thing flies your camera wherever you want it – fast! Very cool videos
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IOGEAR’s Wireless USB to VGA kit
Certified by the USB-IF, this unit enables any machine with a spare USB port to stream video to a TV or projector with resolutions as high as 720p. So long as your USB dongle is plugged into your machine and the VGA adapter is connected to a display, you’ll be good to go within a…
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Dedicated gaming table crowns you King of the geeks
Are you the type of gamer who needs to get every latest input device and display for your killer rig? If gaming peripherals are just piling up on the floor of your bachelor pad, perhaps this gaming table from Digital Edge can get things under control. I just wouldn’t put it anywhere a potential girlfriend…
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