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Gadget Thumbnails for 04-Jun-2010
Gadget Thumbnails for 04-Jun-2010
Hands on with the Nyko Type Pad for the Wii
Day to Night Baby Log from Skip Hop
EQP2 Excursion is one light electric plane
Hypospray from Star Trek is real, but with lasers
Aerial Camera to mount on RC planes
iPad Waterproof Case
Sound Tiles absorb noise
Laptop Lilo keeps your family jewels cool
Golf Bag Alarm System
DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w with SPOT Satellite Communicator unveiled
Gadget Thumbnails for 03-Jun-2010
Sony aims to PIIQ your interest in new headphones
Nokia Bike Charger kit
Swimways Submergency adds more fun during summer frolic
Hitachi rocks the market with Z-Series Family hard drive
SanDisk ready to roll out new Solid State Drives
Car-shaped house is unusual, but quite energy-efficient
Robot Fish could help steer fish schools

Gadget Thumbnails for 04-Jun-2010

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 10:01 PM PDT

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Posted: 04 Jun 2010 10:01 PM PDT

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Hands on with the Nyko Type Pad for the Wii

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 08:59 PM PDT

The Nyko Type Pad for the Wii addresses a problem that you may or may not have. If you have ever used your Wii to surf the Net with the Opera browser or the Wii friend messenger, then you know how annoying it is to type text with just a Wiimote.

If you haven’t, this is what it is like: The keyboard appears on the screen, but you have to point at each individual letter, number, or symbol with the Wiimote. Yes, it is a mind-numbingly terrible toil.

This is why Nyko invented the Type Pad, a fully QWERTY keyboard for the Wii. It is worth having for all sorts of Wii apps. For example, I use YouTube on the Wii a lot, and it is far easier to type in my searches with this Type Pad.

As you can see from the picture, the Wiimote is designed to fit in the Type Pad and stays in by attaching with the port on the end. Unfortunately, having the Wiimote attached is not enough to get the Type Pad working. The user is required to attach a USB dongle to the Wii itself, and this is how it syncs with the console.

The best part is that no batteries are required. It costs about $29.99, can be purchased now on the Nyko site.

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Day to Night Baby Log from Skip Hop

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 04:24 PM PDT

For some parents, they just have to log all the things the baby does in a baby book. I think we did that for our firstborn, but after the second, it sort of gets forgotten about.

However, the Day to Night Baby Log is a baby book like no other. Not only is it set up for the parent to journal their baby’s activities, but it has a time capsule.

Unfortunately, it is not the time capsule that you are thinking of. If you want to put the baby’s hair or teeth stashed somewhere, you’ll need something else for that. This is a capsule that is housed in the spine of the book, and it has four LED lights for illuminating the pages.

I believe that the LED lights are for nights when you want to write without turning on the light and waking the baby. It also has an LCD clock and timer, so you will always know what time it was when the baby did…whatever.

The time capsule also has a timer. I’m not certain what you can do with this, except time certain activities that the baby does. Anyway, you should be able to get this Day to Night Baby Log with its spotted cover for $39.00 on the Skip Hop site.

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EQP2 Excursion is one light electric plane

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:54 PM PDT

Sometime, in the year 2013, when we have realized that that whole 2012 end-of-the-world thing was just another Y2K, we will (hopefully) see the EQP2 Excursion.

The Excursion is a Light Sport Aircraft (LST) that has enough space for two people and baggage. You may note that it has two propellers on its tail, but what you don’t know is that is completely electrical. Yeah, there is no expensive jet fuel in this thing.

The plane itself is less than 20 feet long, and can fly at speeds of 250 miles per hour for about 1,265 miles on a single charge.

It kind of reminds me of this plane that the Roger Moore James Bond flew in Octopussy. It was during the opening part of the film that pretty much has nothing to do with the rest of the film. As I recall, Bond’s joke before the sexy credits was pulling into a gas station with his mini-plane and saying “fill ‘er up”. I suppose he would probably say “charge it up” if he was flying the EQP2.

I suppose I will look forward to seeing this plane in the next three years, assuming the designers keep to their timetable. Of course, they don’t know exactly what will power this aircraft as yet.

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Hypospray from Star Trek is real, but with lasers

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:17 PM PDT

Nothing I like reporting more than reporting on tech from science-fiction that becomes science fact. Especially when it comes to Star Trek, the original series.

Sure the original series just looks bad if you watch it now, and we still haven’t got most of that technology. Sure, most of our cellular phones look like James T. Kirk’s communicator, but as far as hypodermics are concerned, there are still needles. Not like Dr. McCoy’s spray vaccinations that we would like to see being used today.

Until now, at least. In fact, this particular needle-less hypos use phasers! Actually, it doesn’t, but it it does use lasers. These lasers bore holes so tiny that you won’t even feel it go through the skin and cure your diseases.

This is the painless epidermal system, other wise abbreviated to PLEASE. Yes, it isn’t a perfect acronym, but hey, do we need one? After all, wouldn’t injections without needles please everyone?

After all, I remember taking my newborn daughter to a routine checkup, and it was like a stab-fest.

Best of all, there isn’t that weird spraying sound that comes from using those Star Trek hyposprays. Yep, apparently the use of lasers means that there is no noise.

I wonder if you can give the hypospray injections through uniforms. It never made sense how they could do that.

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Aerial Camera to mount on RC planes

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 11:48 AM PDT

Instead of purchasing an expensive toy plane or helicopter with a camera already built into it, you could buy a camera seperate. That way you could just pop it onto your favorite RC aircraft instead of having to replace it with something completely new. Also if you happen to crash the plane you’re more likely to have to replace either the plane or the camera rather than the whole thing.

The lightweight camera takes video at 640 by 480 pixels at 25 fps. While it’s taking that video the battery can keep it up and going for right around 1.5 hours. Now if you happen to be taking pictures instead, the resolution is at 1280 by 960, that’s quite a bit better than when it’s shooting video. You can manually move the lens itself to get the right angle you desire before the plane takes off. You can purchase the 2GB camera for $48 through Chinavasion.

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iPad Waterproof Case

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 11:00 AM PDT

The iPad being the newest obsession for many will need all of the random accessories that the rest of the Apple products have received. Those of you that like to be around a whole lot of water might want to consider picking up this case. It’ll make sure you have full use of your iPad, but it will also make sure that it stays completely dry.

The case even has an incredibly attractive strap that can be used to make the iPad hang from your neck. I’m sure you’ll pick up even potential partners if you hang this around your neck while you’re wearing a bathing suit at your local pool. Of course should you want to make that particular fashion statement, you might have a little bit of a hard time getting one of these since it comes from a Japanese site. If you’re feeling lucky though, it costs about $38.

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Sound Tiles absorb noise

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 10:15 AM PDT

These appear to be massive thumping speakers, when in reality they are much different. Instead of being the source of all of that noise, they’re actually what keeps it controlled. Everyone enjoys the occasional loud night, but if you live in an apartment or duplex you usually don’t get to have those nights. That is unless you want your neighbor pounding on your walls every two minutes and finally having the cops show up on your doorstep after you’ve refused to turn it down. If you want to avoid those sorts of troubles, I’d suggest picking these up.

You can purchase these in pieces and create your own pattern. That also means you can use as much or as little as you think you’ll require. If the walls are just a little thin and you like your TV just a little loud you won’t need near as many as someone who just prefers throwing keggers every single Friday. You can purchase one of the Typhonics SP Tiles for $54 a piece.

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Laptop Lilo keeps your family jewels cool

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 06:30 AM PDT

Don’t you just love product ames that roll off your tongue? Well, the Laptop Lilo is certainly one of them, where it lets you work with your laptop staying comfortably on your lap without raising the mercury to a level that is high enough to kill off any potential progeny which you might sire. After all, research has shown that laptops can reach up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit or 40 degrees Celsius when in use, which is why you might want to take extra steps to prevent your family jewels from being uncomfortably hot, and this is made possible with the Laptop Lilo. Made from a heat resistant material non-slip PVC which is capable of buffering temperatures up to 176 degrees Fahrenheit or 80 degrees Celsius, the Laptop Lilo holds laptops up to 17″ in size and can inflate fully within 2 minutes or so, providing you with an optimum 10 degree viewing angle to boot. Each $16.99 purchase comes with a travel pouch for added convenience.

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Golf Bag Alarm System

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Love the game of golf? Well, for folks who are aboslutely enamoured with this sport will definitely have a great love of their golf bag as well (or bags for the real fanatic). To make sure that nobody tampers with your golf bag whenever you are not around, how about investing $49.95 in the Golf Bag Alarm System? This unique device comprises of a motion sensing radio transmitter that doubles up as a golf ball, alongside a key fob radio receiver. The ball will naturally reside in your golf bag while you carry around the key fob. Should the ball detect substantial movement, it will emit a shrill alarm while sending a signal to the receiver which beeps and vibrates. Not only that, even if someone silently drags the bag away with minimal motion, should it be separated by more than 30 yards from the key fob, the alarm will also sound.

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DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w with SPOT Satellite Communicator unveiled

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 05:30 AM PDT

GPS navigation systems are nothing new in this day and age, but that doesn’t mean that the industry should just remain stagnant, right? DeLorme recently unveiled their Earthmate PN-60w with SPOT Satellite Communicator which is touted to be ready to hit the market sometime next month. Just what is the Earthmate PN-60w all about? Well, it is touted to be the first first handheld GPS in the world that enables Type & Send text messaging via satellite. Yup, that’s right – it relies on satellite technology to get your messages across, which means you are no longer subject to having to look out for a decent cellphone signal in rural areas. There will be a special interface on the PN-60w that helps it connect wirelessly with the SPOT Satellite Communicator, where the latter was designed exclusively for DeLorme. All messages are created using the PN-60w’s internal keyboard, which will then be relayed via satellite for delivery using established SPOT technology.

As mentioned earlier, since messages are conveyed via satellite, you are no longer subject to spotty cellular phone coverage, as the PN-60w with SPOT Satellite Communicator works great in keeping users reliably connected even if they are somewhere remote, regardless of country worldwide. Both devices were specially designed to be ruggedized and waterproof, making it more suitable than your regular cellphone when it comes to being subjected to the rigors of outdoor use.

With the DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w with SPOT Satellite Communicator, you are able to type and send text messages to individual email addresses, cellphones, buddy lists, and social networking sites including (but not limited to) Twitter, Facebook, Fire Eagle, SpotAdventures.com, or Geocaching.com. Just in case you get yourself in a tight spot, SOS messages can be sent with your GPS coordinates embedded so that help can arrive in the appropriate manner. Not only that, family and friends are able to track a user’s progress via Google’s free online maps. Each purchase of the Earthmate PN-60w will ship with DeLorme Topo North America GPS maps and desktop software, where you get to enjoy high-resolution aerial imagery, official USGS and Natural Resources Canada topo maps, and NOAA nautical charts.

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Gadget Thumbnails for 03-Jun-2010

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:01 PM PDT

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Sony aims to PIIQ your interest in new headphones

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 05:00 AM PDT

With the host of portable media players hitting the market these days, it makes perfect sense to have a good pair of headphones to go along with your device – after all, there is no point enjoying lossless compressed files if you have a pair of stock headphones to go along with your listening experience, eh? Sony’s latest PIIQ headphones might not be able to satisfy all of the audiophiles out there, but it ought to be able to do more than enough to rise out from the mediocre product range and offer something different, if not colorful. The PIIQ headphones will drawfrom the collective experience of artists, skaters, street culture and all-around limit-pushers when it came to the creation of such high-concept headphones, offering sound that is ready for the ride. To know more about all five distinctive styles as well as different design variations, why not check out the extended post where more information is available in greater detail?

Marqii – ($99.99) Build quality. Cush feel. Supreme sound. Slider stay-power—inspired by snowboard lock, fasten it tight to fit your crown. Flat detachable cord to prevent tangle and quick unplug.
Giiq – ($49.99) Hi-Fi without the heft. Flex motion cups and slick-skinned cord doesn't crimp your style. Neodymium, the strongest permanent magnet known to humankind, delivers a crystal clear, robust sound.
Triqii – ($29.99) Wears like a favorite deck or pair. Scar-resist skin stays neat through thick and thin. With big bass boost and super sound clarity.
Qlasp – ($24.99) Lobe linger is a good thing. Crystal clear, in-ear sound. Clips on and hangs tough through all your tricks, flips and whatever.
Exhale – ($14.99) Big beat bluster in a bud body with a secret, sound-boosting motif. Only the masq knows…

For those who are interested, the PIIQ can be purchased from this particular website, but it will also open up for sales at authorized retailers nationwide sometime down the road. For those who are rocking to an iPod or iPhone of sorts, then you can always check out a pair of these puppies to make sure that they go down well with your iPod case or jacket.

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Nokia Bike Charger kit

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 08:00 PM PDT

We’re not too sure whether having the Nokia Bike Charger kit is a good thing or not, especially if you are one who just cannot get enough of your phone even when going up and about on two wheels. The Nokia Bike Charger kit is pretty self explanatory – it will juice up your Nokia handset whenever you are cycling, and this won’t add to your monthly power bill since the charger will only get to work when you reach a speed of 6km/h. The kit is equipped with a Nokia Bicycle Charger DC-14, Nokia Phone Holder for Bicycle CR-124, and a Bottle Dynamo. No word on pricing, but at least it gives more incentive to get to work on two wheels instead of four. We’re waiting for an iPhone version to roll out…

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Swimways Submergency adds more fun during summer frolic

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 07:45 PM PDT

Hoping to get a water baby? Well, you will be pleased to note that the Swimways Submergency is a device which will encourage underwater play among kids (and adults who are adventurous enough, of course). Throw this into the pool and let the little ones attempt to dive and search for the Submergency underwater. Whoever finds it can deactivate it for added excitement in underwater play, and it works with adjustable depth technology as well, letting you choose to have the Submergency float, sink or even remain suspended somewhere in the middle if that is your wise. The LED timer can be adjusted to time out anywhere from 15 seconds to one and a half minutes, enough to pose a challenge for just about everybody. Fancy forking out $15.95 for this puppy?

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Hitachi rocks the market with Z-Series Family hard drive

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 07:23 PM PDT

Slim is in, regardless of the device type that you’re dealing with, and hard drives are certainly a whole lot more sexy these days compared to days of yore. Hitachi knows this and aims to usher in a brand new world with their latest Z-Series Family of hard drives, which boast the title of being the industry's highest capacity and fastest 7mm ultra thin and light hard drives. This is clearly the future of 2.5″ drives, which will comprise of the Z-series family of Travelstar and CinemaStar drives, offering the most cost effective, space efficient storage solutions for next generation portable devices.

The whole Hitachi Z-series family of drives will come in varying capacities, maxing out at 320GB, which in the process makes them the industry's highest capacity 7mm 2.5″ drive in a one-disk design. For the Travelstar Z7K320 drive, this is touted to be the first 7200 RPM, 7mm 2.5″ drive for high-performance compact systems and devices in the world. It has been specially optimized for audio/video (A/V) devices including personal video recorders (PVR) and set-top-boxes (STB). For those who have a penchant for security, there is also an optional self encrypting drive (SED) model that helps protect your precious data within, while an enhanced-availability (EA) model will target applications that require around-the-clock data access in lower-transaction environments.

When you think about it, the cost per gigabyte and gigabyte per cubic millimeter (GB/mm3) factor makes Hitachi’s 7mm drives the most cost-effective and space-efficient storage solutions when placed alongside solid state drives (SSD), 2.5″ 9.5 mm and 1.8″ hard drives, making them a suitable candidate that offers a compelling value proposition for OEMs and system integrators. You will be able to pick up the new Hitachi Z-series family in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB capacities with volume shipments ready to rock the market later this year. Guess we can look forward to newer devices, especially portable media players that are slimmer than ever, eh?

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SanDisk ready to roll out new Solid State Drives

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 07:15 PM PDT

SanDisk is a well known name when it comes to flash memory, and this time round the company decided to spice up the SSD market with a couple of new products – we’re talking about the P4 and G4 models. The former will succeed the widely used pSSD modular drive that enables designers to roll out ever slimmer netbooks as well as tablet devices, while the latter will function as a drop-in replacement for hard drives in notebooks. Expect both models to offer decent performance as well as all the benefits of a SSD compared to a hard drive without breaking the bank. More on both the P4 and G4 right in the extended post.

The new drives are touted to offer a unique balance of performance, high-capacity storage and long-term reliability. For the SanDisk SSD P4, it will max out at 128GB of storage space, while the SanDisk SSD G4 has a maximum capacity of double that amount – we’re talking about a cool 256GB here. Either way, the capacities stated are double those of the company's previous SSD offerings which goes to say how serious SanDisk is in rolling out the next generation of consumer level SSDs. These drives can ship in a variety of compact form factors, which SanDisk is able to customize according to manufacturers' specification, resulting in greater freedom and flexibility where OEMs are concerned when it comes to designing their products. These SSDs will use SanDisk's advanced 32-nanometer (nm) multi-level cell (MLC) process technology that offers cost-competitive high-capacity storage with a tiny footprint.

The SanDisk G4 will come in capacities from as small as 64GB all the way to the aforementioned 256GB, where it offers sequential read/write speeds of up to 220 and 160MB/sec, respectively. With those figures, you will be able to enjoy fast boot times, enhanced system responsiveness and space needed to easily handle storage-intensive data such as videos, photos, music and games. Not only that, the SanDisk SSD G4 offers Long-term Data Endurance (LDE) of 160 terabytes written (TBW) for a 256GB drive, which is suitable for over 10 years of PC usage (we’re talking about an average figure here), so make sure you migrate all of your data to a new platform before changing your computer just to be safe. Expect both drives to hit the consumer market in various devices sometime before the year is over.

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Car-shaped house is unusual, but quite energy-efficient

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:47 PM PDT

Okay, just picture having this house in your neighborhood. Chances are, the guy living in it would probably be someone that most would avoid, because he is, after all, living out of his car.

That’s only because must suburbanites are too judgmental. If they really got to know this house, then they would see that it uses a “a ‘3 liter’ energy-efficient heating and insulation technique that optimizes all current building technologies, drastically reducing energy consumption.”‘

In other words, this is one car that is actually good for the environment. I’m not certain if it is as good as those houses that Ed Begley Junior builds, but if you don’t need that much space for living, then you might as well live in a giant, energy-conscious Volkswagen Beetle.

This house is designed by a German architect named Markus Voglreiter, and this looks more like a mock-up than the actual thing. I wonder if he is going to live in it, or is he designing it for a famous German environmentalist or something.

By the way, the wheels are just for show. This is one car that will always be parked somewhere, but it looks like it would be difficult to show snow off of its fenders.

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Robot Fish could help steer fish schools

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:34 PM PDT

The other day, I was watching the news about the oil spill in the Gulf, and I had heard that a pelican had been saved. Apparently, the Pelican went in the spill to catch a fish, but a team managed to clean him off.

My first reaction was: “Man, why did that pelican go into the oil-infested waters for that fish?” Yes, there are more fish in the sea, but then again, it isn’t the pelican’s fault that we polluted his normal fishing waters.

Hopefully, we will make certain that there will be less polluted waters, but right now, research is underway to steer fish away from those infected areas. Professor Maurizio Porfiri of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University is working on that robotic fish that could be able to lead a whole school of fish away from polluted, infected, or otherwise dangerous waters.

Right now, this fish can only do a straight line, but if it is eventually capable of leading a bunch of fish, then it could be applied to a robotic bird. Then we can lead birds away from polluted areas.

Perhaps this professor should check out the Mecha Fish that we reported on about a week ago. It almost looks like the robo-fish is a complete success!

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