Lytro has up for preorder their Light Field Camera. “Unlike a conventional camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro camera captures the entire light field, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space. Since you’ll capture the color, intensity, and direction of all the light, you […]
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Sick of smartphone stands that are made for a specific phone only (like only an iPhone 🙂 ) ? Sick of smartphone stands that don’t work once you put a cover or a case on to protect your baby? The Oona is a collaboration by 3 guys out of the Bay Area that consists of a
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FLEx Lighting has created an illuminated optical film that may eliminate the need for reading lights with e-ink readers (amongst other applications). The 50 micron film is flexible, edgeless, and invisible when turned off and produces a soft, low uniform light when on using a single low power consuming LED . It can be implemented either
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Having literally just finishing the latest Skulduggery Pleasant novel, these spooky speakers caught my eye immediately. The Minuskull speaker system is the work of French designers Kuntzel+Deygas. Available in walnut or black and white piano lacquer, these measure in at 9.25″ x 10.64″ x 5.91″. “We expect from a loud-speaker something more than just a beautiful
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Are you a retro computer geek (with big wrists)? Perhaps the Click Keypad Watch available from Watchismo is for you. Based on a numeric keypad, blinking lights on the number keys are capable of indicating both the time and date. It’s 40mm x 46mm x 10.5mm (1.6′ x 1.8″ x .4″) so not the
Photojojo stretches the capability of your camera phone with the Macro Cell Lens Band . The simple sturdy band with built-in macro lens works with any mobile phone. When not in use it can be worn around the wrist for instant access. Maybe they’ll release a tele- and wide-angle as well? It’s currently out of stock, but it sells for $15.00
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Sick of having to carry multiple “standard” USB cables to charge and sync your devices? Innergie has you covered with their Magic Cable Trio . A single cable gives you access to Mini USB, Micro USB and Apple 40 pin. Each connector uses a hinge mechanism so you won’t lose the connectors that you’re not using. Just the
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The Android Market Place sure is growing and it has just reached it’s 10 billionth download. To celebrate, for the next 10 days the little green ‘Droid will have 10 Premium apps available for 10 cents each ( see a pattern here ? 🙂 ). Day 1 Apps: Fruit Ninja BB – Bedtime Battle AirSync
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Looking for that perfect case for your new Thinkpad Lenovo Tablet? It’s not easy. As a new and “business grade” product, the amount of cases in production out there are very far and few between. Searches in local shops and online lead me to so many cases that were either too big, or too small;
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Hokay, let’s be honest here. I’m going to mention something and I want you to close your eyes and picture the first thing that comes into your head. Ready….. Lap Tray, Stable Table If you’re like me the first thing you see in your mind is either an elderly person sitting on a floral couch
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The Twine is created by Supermechanical , a pair of graduates from MIT Media Lab, and is currently seeking ( well, they’ve actually already exceeded ) funding on Kickstarter. The Twine is a durable 2.5″ square that provides in-built wifi connectivity, internal on-board temperature and accelerometer, as well as an external expansion jack for other sensors (
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I’m sure there’s more e-doodlers out there than me , and Artist Hardware’s Sensu Artist Brush looks pretty cool for doodling and painting on the go on your capacitive screen device. Now fully funded on Kickstarter ( funding requested $7,500, funding recieved $68,823 !!! 🙂 ) , the Sensu is a capacitive brush device that
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Kyobo Book Centre, Korea’s largest seller of books, has announced the retail availability of the world’s first e-reader to include mirasol® display technology. The touch enabled Kyobo e-Reader features a 5.7″ XGA format (1024 x 768 pixels) mirasol display (screen resolution of 223 ppi) and Qualcomm’s 1.0 GHz Snapdragon™ S2 class processor and runs a custom
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Mimo Monitors has just announced their Magic Touch 10.1″ Capacitive Touchscreen. While a touch screen is nothing new and neither is video via USB connection, the Magic Touch manages to combine both and can be connected using a single USB 2.0 cable. Running a resolution of 1024X600 it’s only fully touch compatible with Windows 7 and
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Why carry around that big screen notebook or tablet or on the other hand have to put up with a small smartphone-sized screen when you can run Android on almost any device with a USB or HDMI port and a screen? The Cotton Candy from FXI Tech is a prototype USB-sized stick that allows
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Finding it hard to get your old film negatives processed these days ? Process and print them yourself…..on your clothing. Lumi’s Inkodye Photo Fabric Dye Kit uses a dye that develops photos on materials like fabric or wood when exposed to sunlight. You can use negatives or even small objects to create images out of silhouettes.
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“The pen is mightier than the finger” -Ian 2011 (Apologies to Edward Bulwer-Lytton) Let me start this article by saying that if you’re looking for a technical review of the new Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet then this is not the article for you. There’s quite a few speed and feed reviews out there, but what I want to
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Hammacher Schlemmer has released the Bionic Bopper. The Bopper allows each driver to battle it out to deliver the round winning, chin-lifting uppercut. The driver sits inside the Bopper’s protective steel cage cockpit and use two independent joysticks to maneuver while the thumb triggers activate two pneumatic powered , tire-treaded-fisted arms. Powered by a Honda gas
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Zero Motorcycles out of California has just released its 2012 lineup of electric motorcycles which include new power trains, models capable of exceeding 100 miles range, a new powerpack designed to last the life of the bike, and top speeds of up to 88mph. This will be the first time that a mass produced electric motorcycle
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Have one of those rooms that just doesn’t get enough natural sunlight ? Have a room where there’s no windows ? Got a case of the Winter blues ? Made of electroluminescent ( EL ) sheets, Makoto Hirahara’s Bright Blind simulates a window where none exists. Turn the stick and control the brightness. Measuring in
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