MSI solar powered “MP3 Mega Player 540″ The player has a solar panel on the back to recharge its lithium-ion battery. The question here is whether that small solar panel will catch enough rays to do any serious charging. The player also sports a 4GB storage capacity, an FM radio and a photo browser.
Helio’s two models, “Hero” and “Kickflip,” will cost $275 and $250, respectively. The phones, based on Korean designs and made by Asian manufacturers, have large color screens, removable memory and cameras with flashes.
Helio Inc. is a joint venture of Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. and Korea’s SK Telecom. It will start selling two phones Tuesday that it’s positioning primarily as blogging tools for a mobile generation and only secondarily as phones.
Via: MSNBC
The operator has created a page for the new product with the description of it.O2 Xda IQ is a smartphone with the digital keyboard, powered by Windows Mobile 5.0. It supports quad-band GSM, GPRS and EDGE and also Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless networks.
Besides the smartphone has a 1.3-megapixel camera, a 2.2” TFT QVGA (240×320 pixels) LCD, a miniSD slot, IrDA, Bluetooth 1.2 and USB interfaces. It works on Texas Instruments OMAP850 200 MHz processor, 64 MB RAM and 64 MB ROM. Dimensions are 109×46.5×18.5 mm and weight 110 g.
Via: Mobile Review
When I saw this helmet for the fist time I was thinking if this was Gadget or a shindogo, an still thinking on it but since some persons are buying it I will consider it a gadget.
With cooling abilities thanks to its miniature fan, keep temperature comfortably cool while walking on the beach, gardening or any other outdoor activity. The motor used by the fan is powered by solar panels on the top on the helmet or also switched to a couple AA batteries.Hammacher Schlemmer & Company sells this helmet at $49.95 available for Immediate Shipment.
I recommend this helmet plus a Sun-Blocking Beach Pullover to everybody… just in case… you’ll never know!
For those guys addicted to motorcycles choppercomputers.com had released this amazing computer made from a Motorcycle frame.
It has some advanced features such a water cooling system that supplies de-ionised water from the gas tank, an ASUS K8N-ALI Motherboard, a Dual Core AMD Athlon X2 4800+ Processor and 2GB of RAM memory. Plus a real motorcycle seat !
You can choose the color, graphics, seat, gas tank, water tubing, computer components… nearly everything
Can you imagine yourself riding your PC wile playing some motor games? Will you pay $ 2900 for it ?
Read more about this computer gadget. And its complete specs
Today the South Korean company LG Electronics has officially announced the start of sales of its new mobile phone SD910, which stands out for its double slider design, i.e. the parts of the phone slide in two directions. “Duo slide” design of the new phone was created by the other South Korean company – SK Telecom..
I’d mark text-to-speech function in addition to landscape sliding 2” LCD. By sliding the LCD the user can access the buttons to control a built-in audio player. Like any modern handset the SD910 is equipped with a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture opportunity.
In its press release LG Electronics noted that LG SD910 mobile phone would be supplied with BMW 3, 5, 6 and 7 series cars sold in the South Korea.
Via: Mobile Review
For all of you soccer fans waiting for the Word Cup we show you the new soccer ball cooler it’s AC-powered but also comes bundled with a cigar lighter adapter for easy cooling on the go. Pricing and availability have not yet been announced.
Alpine released a new portable navigation device this month, the Blackbird , that plays MP3, WMA, and WAV , it also has an FM tuner, along with routing functions. Running on Windows CE, with a 3.6-inch, 16.7 million color touchscreen LCD, built in US map coverage, and an integrated traffic receiver. You can bulk up the internal maps through the SD slot or by direct connection to a PC via USB 2.0, and get your remote control-on with the optional, um, remote control.
You’ll never guess what a model, a sled-dog driver and Veterinarians have in common yes Duct Tape. With the help of historians, engineers and scientists forbes.com compiled a list of the 20 tools that have most impact human civilization one of them was Duct Tape; other tools highlighted on the final list have been around for ages: the knife, the abacus, the compass.
Duct Tape was invented in the early 1940s by scientists at Permacell, a division of the Johnson & Johnson Co., duct tape was built to fill the need for a strong, flexible, durable tape that could help the war effort, according to Avon, Ohio-based Henkel Consumer Adhesives, one of the world’s largest makers of the stuff. Early versions consisted of medical tape laminated to a cloth backing, covered with polycoat adhesives and a polyethylene coating. It was colored Army green and nicknamed “duck tape” because it repelled water.
Source: Wired
Check out some of the amazing uses for Duct Tape
Last Sunday the South Korean company KTF Technologies announced the release of its new phone KV-K100, which is claimed to be currently the slimmest handset, just 7.9 mm thick.
The sales of the KV-K100 (the code name “No. 7”) designed for KTF networks, should start this week at some $412. Small dimensions and weight (60 g) haven’t affected the functionality of the model: a 1-megapixel camera, an MP3-player, 165 MB of internal memory. Unfortunately the phone supports only CDMA networks, however the company said to prepare a similar model for GSM networks.
Via: Mobile Review
For Royal College of Art design students Chris Glaister, Afshin Mehin and Tomas Rosen, the problem with concrete is once you put it down you can’t change it, and people have to just get used to it. So they decided to make concrete that changes color and came up with Chronos Chromos Concrete, a system that uses heat conduction to enable the display of patterns in the concrete. Suitable for outdoor and indoor applications, it takes about five seconds to make a color change. They made a short video demonstrating a change, watch it to get a better idea of how the technology works.
Via Gizmodo
