Archive for April, 2008
Join LG Secret, a mobile with Wii like control
Last week LG announced the latest phone in their Black Label range, the LG Secret. I was fortunate to be invited to the bloggers press event to hear about the phone and get my hands on one to take home.
There were 2 features of the Secret that really stood out to me, it’s hard, it’s incorporates carbon fiber and tempered glass to protect it from the elements. You can actually smack the screen with your keys without it breaking or even scratching.
Like the Apple iPhone it has a built-in motion detector so the screen automatically rotates depending on orientation and it has a fun element by being used in some of the supplied games. The phone acts a bit like a Wii controller, where you have to flick it to smack a baseball or tilt to navigate a maze. The games are very simple (both graphically and playability wise) but it’s hopefully a sign of exciting things to come.
Check out our review of the LG Secret on our sister site Coolest Reviews.
Izona Automates Your Kitchen For The Future
Think about how much time we spend in the kitchen. While eating three meals a day at home nowadays is definitely not the norm, a tremendous amount of time is still spent in your homes eatery. It could even be called the heart of the home (and you can imagine which organ the bathroom is.)
But despite so much time spent in one area, there have been relatively few technological changes made to the kitchen in the last 50 years or so. The Izona kitchen line from Fisher & Paykel plan on revolutionizing the kitchen with their new VentSurface, CookSurface, and CoolDrawer products.
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Solar Powered Cordless Fan uses the sun to keep you cool
Until this past weekend came, the area where I live was experiencing near summer-like temperatures outside. I was even forced for a couple of days to kick on the old A/C for a little bit. Most of the time I made do with just some fans around the house, which got me thinking about how much power I must be using running those fans all the time. If I had one of these Solar Powered Cordless Fans, I wouldn’t need to wonder.
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Cool Shirt is a liquid cooling system for your body
If you’ve ever owned a car that doesn’t have air conditioning, you know that wonderful feeling of sitting in the middle of traffic sweating through your clothes. Without that wonderful component of your car, there’s really no good way to keep cool when stuck in traffic. That is unless you had one of these shirts.
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Turn your phone into a Bluetooth-based kiosk
Zurado Systems has released software which turns Bluetooth-enabled Windows Mobile phones or PDAs to send or receive proximity-based information. What’s the big deal about this, you ask? For starters, retail, exhibitions, and store displays will be able to push out marketing information (some people prefer to refer to it as spam) to folks who walk by, but only if they keep their Bluetooth connection on all the time (I don’t as I prefer to prolong my handset’s battery life instead). This software can also be used for personal use, where Please Explain That (PXT) sends text, images, and audio over a range of approximately 30 feet.
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Traveler-ER USB flash drive
Traveler-ER, Inc. has rolled out an easy-to-use, progressive solution where storing your personal, medical and emergency contact information is made easy, thanks to the Traveler-ER USB flash drive. It isn’t meant for casual users though, designed with input from emergency medical and travel professionals in order to come up with an easy method to store and ferry vital records with you just about everywhere you go. All the personal information within is stored only on the password protected USB drive and not on any central database, which means you can be sure Traveler-ER Inc. won’t have any sensitive information on you.
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Vacuum Cleaner Computer Mouse
A number of computer desks get covered in dirt, dust and various bits of junk like small staples. If you do not think so then lift up your keyboard and look underneath. Then flip your keyboard over to see the dirt fall out 
. Most of the time there isn’t a rag handy to clean it up and it just gets forgotten about. If you have a Vacuum Cleaner Computer mouse then a nice clean desk it just a push button away.
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