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17
Jun
2010
Sony PS3-Themed Sound Bar
Sony unveiled a new soundbar at this year’s E3 that’s got a special gaming distinction. The CECH-ZVS1 is aimed at PS3 owners, though it’s compatible with any HDTV set. It features a built-in subwoofer, one optical and one analog input, “S-Force PRO Front Surround Sound” Dolby Digital and DTS decoding. It’s finish fits nicely with the slim PS3, to boot.
The CECH-ZVS1 is available this fall for $200.
17
Jun
2010
Apple’s Unibody Mac Mini
Apple this week unveiled a completely redesigned Mac® mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminum enclosure. Mac mini is the world’s most energy efficient desktop and starting at $699, is the most affordable way to enjoy Mac OS® X, iLife® or Mac OS X Snow Leopard® Server.
15
Jun
2010
PhoneBook
If you have kids, then you’ve probably already discovered how much you can keep young children entertained with your phone. Those of you with an iPhone or an iPod Touch can keep them entranced for even longer. Well one company in Japan is taking that fascination one step further by creating a PhoneBook that works with your iPhone or iPod Touch to make your child’s book experience a little more thrilling.
15
Jun
2010
Teknines Nine Millimeter Earphones
Gun and/or suicide fanatics can now have the perfect set of earphones. These earphones are made to look like a pair of 9MM bullets. Now having a fake bullet jammed in your ear my be perceived as somewhat disturbing, but at least they’re not working bullets. Besides, they have a pretty shiny gold exterior to give them a much more classy look.
14
Jun
2010
Orange Power Wellies
How do you like charging your mobile phone using energy that you yourself have generated? If you’re attending the Glastonbury Festival this year, you’ll have the chance to experience just that with the Orange Power Wellies.
What are these new green innovations? Well, these are simply pairs of boots that you wear as you go about with your activities during the festival. While you do so, the soles of the boots collect heat that you can use to charge your mobile phone later on. The Power Wellies are products of the collaboration between Orange and GotWind.
11
Jun
2010
Unofficial Lego MP3 Player
The “Homade LEGO MP3 player” is neither home-made nor officially a LEGO product, but its clever design—each nub is a button—is almost enough to convince me to make a purchase, despite a price of $46 with no built-in memory (it takes microSD) and a size considerably larger than a real LEGO element. (I can’t quite figure out exactly how large the player might be, although I doubt it’s 24 centimeters long as is stated on the product page. It uses a single AA battery for power, though, so that should give some rough idea.)
8
Jun
2010
iPhone 4
Sure, you’ve seen it before, but that doesn’t make it any less amazing. (This official announcement does, however, make it a little less illegal.) Taking a huge leap from the past three iterations, iPhone 4 ($200-$300) makes up for the past six months of killer Android releases with features like an Apple A4 processor, app multitasking, 7 hours of talk time, a backlit 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash and 720p video recording (and iMovie), a front-facing camera for FaceTime video calls, an eye-popping 960 x 640 Retina display, an all glass and stainless steel body, and a profile that’s skinnier than the latest winner of America’s Next Top Model.
8
Jun
2010
Sony Vaio J Series
Sony has added a new all in one PC to its range with the launch of the Sony J Series. The Sony J Series all in one PC features a 21.5 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, which means it can display full HD video in 1080p. Processing comes in the form of a 2.66GHz Intel Core i7-620M processor, there is up to 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA discrete graphics, and a 500GB hard drive.
8
Jun
2010
Sputnik Watch
The Sputnik watch designed as a concept by Vadim Kibardin has now become a production reality and preorders are now being taken. The Sputnik watch has an inverted LCD screen which displays the time and date, together with a stopwatch and alarm functions and back light.
7
Jun
2010
Pinhole Spy Toothbrush Hidden Camera
Chinese manufacturers keep working hard to push the world forward into a hole of crappy amateur porn, one spy pinhole camera at a time. But when they add one to an Oral-B electric toothbrush, you know things won’t end well. The $243 Pinhole Spy Toothbrush Hidden Camera records 640×480 video in AVI format, using its internal 8GB flash memory. According to their product site, it looks exactly like a real electric toothbrush.
7
Jun
2010
Toilet MP3 Player
Toto Japan has launched the Apricot series Toilet seats. With the usual included gizmos like Seat heater, Automatic washer, Electronic controlled seat etc, Toto has now included a full fledged MP3 player with a SD card slot. The control panel with the MP3 player can be attached on the wall. 16 classic tunes are included with the SD card. The MP3 player can Random playback, One Tune playback and so on. It conserves power by studying the time patterns of usage and thus not heating the seat when the toilet is least used. The fully loaded N5A seat costs 180,600 Yen ($ 1750)
4
Jun
2010
LG Flutter Concept Phone
Concept phones always look interesting, though very often the design isn’t practical for day-to-day use if it were made into a real product. The Flutter was an entrant for LG’s recently concluded Design the Future contest that encouraged users to come up with concept designs. This design didn’t win the competition, though it did manage to grab the Prop Master’s Choice Award. When closed, the Flutter looks quite sleek with only its numeric keypad showing, though we’re not too sure how the user is expected to see what’s going on. The phone can be split open to reveal a display that fans out, sporting a user interface that looks like an exact clone of Apple’s iPhone. Don’t expect to see this phone appearing in shops anytime soon.
3
Jun
2010
Rubik’s Cube MP3 Player
The idea is from Rubik`s cube puzzle. The only way to activate the mp3 player on is similar to playing with the Rubik`s cube puzzle, by solving each layer has a specific function such as play, pause, forward or back. And of course the only way to turn it off is by completing it. Users can now listen to the music while having fun.
2
Jun
2010
Tron-Themed NES
Once fully charged with black light, Thretris‘ modded NES really comes to life, glowing with a brightness that could only be bested if it were electroluminescent. For added effect, Thretris added some cool blue LEDs behind the power switches. The mod also has a pair of 1/4″ audio jacks so you can hook the console up to a stereo system (even though the sound is still mono).
2
Jun
2010
MP3 Sneakers
These sneakers give the term “kicks” a whole new meaning, eh? Dada is set to launch a set of running shoes with built-in MP3 players in them, called “Code M”. Of course, it wouldn’t be practical to have an extra long headphone cord running from your feet up to your head, so they have decided to integrate a wireless music system in these shoes, so that you can receive the tunes on your wireless headset.
