Monday, March 10, 2008
Gadgets
Home Care Camera Lets You Peer into Your Own Cavities
11:58PM Gizmodo US Edition | Clearly designed to make the most of the hypochondriac and Curious George in each of us, the Miharu Home Care “intraoral camera” lets you peer at your gums and cavities in gorgeous close-up detail. The battery-powered device even has an LED light so you can see better and plugs into a standard analogue video socket so the whole family can watch on TV. More »
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Inflatable Rescue Sled Concept Converts into Backpack
11:54PM Addy Dugdale | If only Janine Zust’s inflatable rescue sled was the real deal, and not a concept. Right now, I would be sending it to Blam, who had an incident on the slopes of Tahoe yesterday. Called the Firun, it is small enough to fit into a backpack when deflated. See it packed up below. More »
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Bedup Saves Space by Storing Your Bed in the Ceiling
11:14PM Gizmodo US Edition | Useful for Austin Powers wannabes living in tiny apartments is the BedUp: a bed that retracts into the ceiling. Saving you up to 30 square feet, the bed slides up when you’re not using it and can even have lighting integrated into its underside— so much more 21st Century than the flip-up closet Murphy beds. galleryPost('bedup', 3,''); More »
Entertainment
Lip-Shaped Speakers from Brando are Fantastic, Plastic
11:13PM Addy Dugdale | Brando has dipped into the barrel marked “plastic kitsch” and come out with a set of speakers that you can either sling round your neck and look like a Care In The Community case, or connect up to your PC or MP3 player via USB or audio jack. Such class will only cost you US$14. [Brando] galleryPost('brandolips', 3, 'brando lips speakers'); More »
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LTK-2000 Therapy Station Tries to Soothe Your Senses All At Once
10:01PM Gizmodo US Edition | Sure, there’re plenty of gadgets to soothe your troubled soul with smells, lights and sounds— but why buy a bunch of these, when the LTK2000 does it all in one? Once the Therapy Station has calmed your ears with 24 relaxing sound options, a pop-up ring of bright LEDs tries to banish those SAD blues. Aromatherapy scents will waft around you from its built-in heater, while an anion generator cleans up the air. Strangely its designers missed tackling all five senses by omitting a massager and chocolate dispenser, but hey ho. Available for around US$395 in Korea at first, we guess it’ll be over here soon enough. [Technabob] More »
Gadgets
From Flashlight to Flash Fight with the FMG-9 Concept from Magpul
9:58PM Addy Dugdale | “Gits Nasty? Git down to business,” beams the SHOT Show booth boy after showing off the FMG-9, a concept weapon that can switch from a simple flashlight to a Glock-style submachine gun in one easy flick of the wrist. Designed by Magpul, the FMG-9 is currently in prototype phase, and there’s no guarantee whether it will be released or not, but I guess it’s one for the personal protection peeps. And nervous dog-walkers. And (in Australia) people registered to own firearms, which is pretty much none of us.[Defense Tech] More »
Design
Pagani Carbon-Fiber Hi-Fi Is Order-Only, Uh-Oh, Expensive
9:12PM Addy Dugdale | Italian supercar manufacturer Pagani has gone into the luxury audio market and produced a carbon fiber-and-brushed aluminum stereo system whose bass speakers looks are reminiscent of the fat exhausts found on its Zonda supercar—at least, that’s what the 350-watt speakers look like. Find out what else the Pagani sound system has got under the bonnet after the jump.
Gadgets
Rotating Speakers from Greenhouse Give Your iPod Ears
8:31PM Addy Dugdale | Charge up Greenhouse’s rotating speakers via USB and they give you eight hours’ of sounds when you clip them on to your fifth-gen iPod. With an output of 770mW x 2, the GH-SPA214CC costs US$44 and will be out in Japan at the end of the month. They’re a pretty neat way to bug people on public transport. [Impress] More »
Computers
MSI Wind Laptop to Make Eee PC Cry, “Eeek!”
4:50PM Haroon Malik | Check out the latest entrant in the UMPC race, the MSI Wind, which we missed at CeBIT earlier last week. Toting a 10-inch display, Intel Shelton’08 platform, with variable processor speeds from 1.0GHz – 1.6GHz; 2.5-inch HDD or SSD, 1GB RAM, a reported 7-hour battery life and running either Linux or Windows operating systems, it seems MSI’s offering holds a lot of promise. More »
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