Samsung’s follow-up to its D880, the D780, launched today. Available in Russia from next month, followed by SE Asia, Europe and the Middle East, the candy-bar mobile has Dual Standby, meaning you can receive calls to your second number even while taking a call on your first. Full specs and a pic of its two-in-a-bed innards, below.
DRE, the Louisville medical tech company, has just unleashed the world’s smallest ECG system. The compact device consists of the obligatory 12 leads and a small attachment that carries the necessary software for ECG interpretation. The Universal ECG hooks directly up to desktop PCs, laptops or Pocket PCs running Windows XP or 2000.
Those of you into teeny-tiny gadgets might like Panasonic’s latest SD camcorder aimed at the Japanese market. The SDR-S7 weighs in at just 160 grams and shoots MPEG-2 format in 640 x 480 resolution, storing on either SD or SDHC cards. More specs below.
These traditional Japanese-style keyboards are a class apart from the grey or white boringness of the average keyboard. As well as looking different, and neat these devices are even handmade for that extra “creative” touch. The gold one’s damn attractive and would look cool on many a desk: but not the green “kara kusa” one… that just looks like a typing nightmare. That attractiveness costs, mind you, as they’re available for US$154.90. Except the gold “Zip-Ang” one, which is a whopping US$214.21. [Akihabaranews
Reviews are pouring in of the HP 2133 sub-notebook (now dubbed the Mini-Note) which is now up on Amazon. It costs more than the Eee PC or Cloudbook, but you can actually configure all the specs yourself, and the aluminium chassis tells people you spent more on your ultraportable. It’s a bit bulkier and heavier, but the screen’s higher (1280×768) res means less strained peepers, and its full keyboard is way less crampy than the competition.
We pretty much flipped over the Casio EXIFILM PRO EX-F1′s insane rapid fire mode when we get our hands on it: 60fps still shooting, and up to a retardiculous 1200fps video for super slo-mo. David Pogue gives the full review, and spends a page lauding how freakin’ fast this camera is. Besides loving the sheer rate of fire, he really digs the pre-record mode, which constantly shoots while you’re just halfway pressing the shutter, so even if you’re too slow to hit just the right moment, the camera’s already got it. But! “Unfortunately, this highly unusual, almost experimental piece of equipment includes nearly as many downsides as breakthroughs.”
Video game consoles may have changed since the heady days of the late 1980s; games may have become graphically superior in every way, with engaging storylines and environments designed to recreate an alternate universe where many actions just don’t have consequences. But one thing has stayed constant – wood looks good.
That’s probably why I have an irresponsible feeling of lust towards this portable modded NES system from Parker Dillman. Despite the massive NES cartridge sticking out the top, the small screen and the retro gaming action, the fact that the case is made out of wood just tickles the part of my brain that says, “buy it”. You know, the part of my brain that always gets me into trouble with the missus.
Click the link to check out the entire worklog from concept to completion – it’s awesome.
Looking like a gigantic hamster wheel, The TurnOn Multi-function Spinning Wall, makes you walk like a rodent to rotate it into a different room of your house. For example, you can cook yourself a nice meal, then run like a hamster to change the TurnOn to a dining table. And once you’ve eaten, you can run off the fat by rotating it to your loungeroom.
Of course, anything not bolted down will probably end up broken on the (real) floor, so this isn’t really a practical option. There’s also a Wet Cell option, that houses the toilet, shower and bathroom sink – I don’t want to know what function you’d be using when the toilet is on the ceiling… no matter what it is it isn’t going to be pretty.
There’s no word of availability and pricing, so we can only hope that this is just a concept at this stage.
[STLLoftStyle via BornRich]
It’s a mini tabletop vacuum that’s shaped like a toilet. Yep, that’s pretty much it. Except! There is a large piece of shit floating in it when you lift the lid. And that’s what makes it worth posting, really. It’s $14 priceless for the next time your mum drops by your disgusting living space. [Smutty Gifts (Probably NSFW) via Nerd Approved]
Officially, the iPhone and iPod touch support 640 by 480-pixel video running at up to 30 frames per second. But Ars Technica is reporting that it’ll actually take 720×576-resy video churning at 25fps, which is the same resolution and frame rate that PAL (mostly Euro) DVDs run at. Obviously not all that useful if you’re just catching flicks on your iPhone, but if you watch them on your computer too (like a rental), the higher res means less squinting on your big boy monitor. [Ars Technica]
