I am a firm believer in the less is more theory, but I probably dont mean it like you think. I believe that the less I HAVE to do the MORE time I have to do all the other stuff I want… I really enjoy gadgets that do things for me. I am waiting in breathless anticipation for the washing machine that will iron my clothes and a self cleaning refrigerator. Yup, my favorite gadgets are those that help me do less, and now that Tobii Technology has teamed up with Lenovo and come up with a laptop that doesnt require you to use a mouse – or a keyboard, well, lets just say the future looks bright.

To use the Lenovo laptop you just need your eyes. The process seems relatively user friendly, you simply sit in front of it and after a thirty second calibration test that consists primarily of following several dots around with your eyes you’re done, and the laptop will go through the paces that your peepers suggest, look at an icon,voila! information about that icon. If you are reading, the text scrolls as needed. It’s an unencumbered way to interact with your laptop, and one that could be ready for consumer applications in as little as 2 or 3 years.

Tobii’s new method of input and its accompanying software can be used in any number of ways, from taking over cursor control from the mouse, letting you move the cursor with your eyes to tracking gaze points, where gazing at an image for a few seconds brings it to the forefront and in a slideshow format, you can pan through images by looking from right to left. How very Mission Impossible!

While it might be a while before we can actually get our hands on technology like this, it sure sounds like fun, how practical will it be? That remains to be seen… I do see some amazing gaming possibilites and some strong usefullness to differently abled folks who might not otherwise be able to use a keyboard. I dont know why I’m so impressed, I can get my 8 year old to do almost anything just by the way I look at her…

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KickStarter continues to gain momentum as more and more pledges get fledgling products launched. One of the latest hits takes a creative and modern approach to telling time. The Manifold Clock is on the verge of production. Its unique design is not only artistic, but accurate. It will start a conversation or keep you on time for work.

The Manifold Clock was created by industrial designers wanting to express “that time is both linear and cyclical.” As the minutes and hours tick away you are mesmorized by the flexible and colorful surfaces attached to the hands.

Invest just $45 via KickStarter and, assuming pledge goal is met, you secure a limited edition design.

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Most of us already own a digital camera, have a smartphone, a tablet, and a notebook – what happens when you need to travel? Packing for all of that gear alone does take up a fair bit of space and luggage weight quota, so Prashant Chandra decided to get creative and envision a future that merges all of these into a single package, using all the shared computing power simultaneously to boot.

While the concept itself is future forward, it is rather disappointing to see that the name of this concept is rather ordinary, being dubbed the “Fujitsu Lifebook 2013″. Perhaps all the creativity went into conjuring up the device’s nuances, that the name is but an afterthought. Designer Prashant Chandra’s contest submission to a competition held by Fujitsu features a laptop that has all the relevant slots for different devices, where attaching said gadget to the Lifebook would bring all it’s functions to the computer, using its own processor to get the job on the laptop done.

For instance, if you fit the digital camera to the front, images can be downloaded to the computer or other devices. Want some instant tunes playback on your computer without transferring data? Easy, just slide in the smartphone/MP3 player into the corresponding slot and you are good to go. Considering how the Lifebook 2013 concept fails to include a keyboard of its own, you can always slide in a tablet, and the tablet’s surface would end up as a keyboard, while doubling up as a secondary display in the same vein as that of the Nintendo DS. Do you think something like this will ever make it to the future, or would it be too much of a hassle?

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For starters, Razer has collaborated closely Intel to harness the power of its third generation Intel Core i7 processor, making it more like a fully functioning PC, despite being wilfully “trapped” in a tablet form factor that is now familiar to most folks. To make sure that developers need not do any extra work, the Project Fiona was designed in such a way where games on the PC can run natively on it as well, so there is no need to port, optimize, or start development from scratch. Forget about playing casual games with Project Fiona – it was not cut out by Razer (I see what you did there) to do so, as something more serious is in store. It would be a waste to see such a beauty run Angry Birds, don’t you think so?

Razer’s multi-award winning user interface and ergonomics team have come up with an all-new hybrid user interface scheme for Project Fiona, ditching the mouse and keyboard combination that most of us have come to know and love. And you know what? It does seem as though Razer might just be able to pull it off, integrating a couple of game controllers with ultra-precise analog sticks, letting gamepad-enabled PC games run right out of the box. The use of ultra-precise accelerometers and a highly sensitive multi-touch screen adds to the Project Fiona’s playability value. While the Project Fiona is not due to be released until the end of the year, we do know that current-generation PC games are already able to run on the tablet concept.

I guess you can more or less claim that Project Fiona is the first and only tablet that was designed to run PC-quality games, and it has an estimated price point of less than $1,000, making me wonder whether getting an Ultrabook might be a better idea. What do you think?

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It certainly looks real, and if you wanted to create a hovering vehicle, then the liquid nitrogen tanks that you see inserted in these miniature racers would be the way to go. Liquid nitrogen is both superconductive and magnetically repellant, so it can make objects float if you manipulate it right. The problem is that there is way too much evidence supporting that the video is a fake.

The first being that there is no “Japan Institute of Science and Technology”. Now if they had said “Japan Advanced Instituted of Science and Technology”, that would be a real organization. Also, the copyright is from Sony Entertainment and SCE Studio Liverpool, and in the center of the track is a logo for WipeOut.

So what this looks like is an elaborate viral video campaign for WipeOut, a video game. It certainly makes me interested in the game, and makes me wonder how difficult it would be to make a hovering car track like this.

Does anyone think it is odd that videos like this circulate online, promising some sort of cool technology when it is all a special-effects trick? I don’t mind as long as it says “Simulation” on it, but when it isn’t made obvious, this could be a problem.

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Sure, Jobs gave us the iPhone, but this Apple prototype dates a quarter-century before its unveiling. In 1983, a designer named Hartmut Esslinger created this landline phone with a touchscreen.

Esslinger’s creation was never put into production, but he did design several other products that were a hit for Apple. After the jump, I am going to describe an alternate history where the landline iPhone became the ultimate gadget.

Yes, in this 1984, Apple went against big brother by empowering their users to write checks online, like you see in this image. As a result, the Silicon Bank founded all electronic banking, and Apple became even more rich.

In 1985, Apple creates “apps”. As a result, users have touchscreen phone access to the King’s Quest series and other popular games like The Oregon Trail. Nintendo never gets the NES off the ground as users play interactive multiplayer games on their landline iPhones.

I would imagine that texting would have become huge before 1990, and ringtones would have been on landline phones before they ever hit the mobile market. Now I wonder when the mobile phone revolution would have hit in this Fringe-like alternate universe.

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