Since Autumn is here, you can be sure that if you have a tree in your courtyard, you will also need to be able to rake the leaves off the ground. This is where the Power Rake comes in. It has a conveyor belt system with a sack and teeth, which will take the leaves and store them. The power is provided by the movement of the front wheel.
This is a cool mod of a Dreamcast controller, turned into an iPhone dock. Jay Hauf used an old Sega Dreamcast controller and made it into an iPhone docking station. If you want to find out more about this little project of his or if you have a Dreamcast controller that you don’t use anymore, check out the story here.
This concept watch works by projecting the time of day on your wrist, with the help of a laser. Its designer is called Andy Kurovets and it works by projecting the time over your wrist’s flat part. Looks pretty cool.
If you took the chance offered by Microsoft, and you’re using Windows 7 beta as your main operating system, you probably noticed that you can’t mount ISO files using Daemon Tools for now. I Heart PC has an article about how to mount an ISO in Windows 7.
Trying Windows 7 beta right now and I like it so far.
Like all the phones they have until now weren’t enough, Nokia just threw left and right with details about the new N97. Under the hood it rolls with a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel touchscreen display with tactile feedback and QWERTY keyboard. But wait, there’s more. HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios, A-GPS, a 3.5-mm headjack, 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion (for up to 48GB total capacity), and a battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video are also on the list. And last but not least, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass and "DVD quality" video capture at 30fps, complete what we know about the N97 until now.
If this is worth paying €550 or $693, that is for you to decide when it will come out next year.
I am not a big fan of photography, but I can appreciate a good photo when I see one, or so I think. And Nikon, from what I heard from friends that are into photography, is one (if not The) best when it comes to digital cameras. So I said, why not do something about the new D3x? Well, here it goes.
When you think of this camera, you think of the FX-format, 24.5-megapixel (6048 x 4032) CMOS sensor that gives you extreme resolution, dynamic range, color depth, detail and sharpness, especially made for the most demanding eyes. You can up to five frames-per-second in 14-bit file format, which translates to approximately 138MB per image. Santa better bring you this X-mass a trunk-full of memory cards, because you will need them. But when you pay $7.999.95 for this camera, I think you can throw in a few other hundreds for memory cards.
Other features include the Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS) that offers photographers a mobile lighting solution and Nikon’s GP-1 GPS receiver to gather information such as latitude, longitude, altitude and date of shooting, which works for sorting photos. Hats off to anyone who will have enough dough to buy one of these babies or who will have the privilege to at least work or touch it.
Well now, what do we have here? It seems that advertising is going up a step at a time. The new thing for promoting your business seems to be business cards with video footage on them. rCard Multimedia has created a concept called EDG. Just a little bit thicker than an average business card, this baby comes with an LCD screen, a speaker and video playback controls.
This kind of promoting works well when words aren’t enough and you pull out the business card and show your client the product in action. Using a mini-USB the giver can upload videos on the card and the receiver can download additional PR content. For me, this concept does it. Like they say, images speak louder than words, and if this kind of business cards “sell” products, than we will see it everywhere.
From $17.50 to $29, you must be sure that your product is worth buying when giving away a card like this.
It seems that Alienware has a serious competitor when it comes to laptops made for graphic applications. The new kid in town is the AMILO Notebook Sa 3650 packed with the first ever external graphics solution that goes by the name of GraphicBooster that gives the laptop a 470% boost. This new contraption is the brain child of Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
The new AMILO is small but powerful, packing a 13.3 inch screen and weighting about 2.4 kg. The GraphicBooster is not 90/60/90, actually it’s 180 x 130 x 33.5 mm and 0.5Kg. Inside the device we have the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 graphics card with 512MB GDDR3 memory, with HD support.
To do anything with that cool graphics card, this AMILO has the AMD X2 dual-core mobile processor, the ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card with shared memory, 4GB memory, wireless N support, Bluetooth 2.1, eSATA port, a 15-in-1 card reader, and 4.5 hours of continuous operating time. Well now, I am a little impressed I must say, not because of the specs, but of how they manage to cram all that inside such a small thingy. But wait, that’s not all. It also includes the BrilliantView technology for the screen, a 7.1 high-definition audio via S/PDIF, 320 GB storage capacity, DVD burner, Logitech QuickCam web camera for online conferences, silent mode function, and spill-resistant keyboard. You will just have to wait a little more to get your hands on this baby as it will be available this month.
This thingy is for all of us that wanted to have superpowers like superman or just wanted to see beneath the clothes of girls. Oh no, wait! That was me. In case I am not alone in this, then you would definitely love this contraption.
In the David Steele catalog it appears that the secret of X-ray vision has been discovered. This X-ray Vision Camera Lens can be attached to almost any camcorder and works like and infrared filter. It is based on the fact that most clothing can allow light and infrared light to pass through the fabric, and this light is reflected back through the clothing. And what we see is the reflected normal light mixed with the infrared light, and the lens can filter the normal light out. This way the clothes will look transparent or semi-transparent.
I for one, would find this fun for about a day or two, then I would start to go out with girls and see how underneath the clothes feels like. And for a couple of days of fun, $199 is a bit too much for me. Over and out!
I know many of us have thought about the music we listen to as being cool, or heart-warming or whatever, but did you ever see music as running like tap water? If not, and I haven’t also, some crazier people did and they made it happen. The concept is named Music Flow, and it’s the brainchild of Yanko Design.
To play music you turn the faucet knob, and the music starts flowing into headphones that are connected to the spigot. Furthermore, if you pinch the headphone cable, the music stops. But wait, there’s more. The remote "looks like waves" and controls the player without the faucet knob and the faucet knob is actually also a disguised speaker. The spigot has a battery inside that you charge before you attach it to a wall or whatever.
It seems that each item will be sold separately. Me, I prefer a plain-old music player.
