Everything relating to technology usually focuses on how small they can make an item. When the new iPod Nanos came out, after having a 2nd gen Nano, I never thought they could make anything smaller, lightweight, with more storage and with a bigger screen - but they had. The iPod Shuffle is super-tiny and I thought, there’s no way a functional MP3 player can be made smaller than this! Even the Ultimate Smallest MP3 player has a screen and it is roughly the size of a postage stamp. How can anything be made smaller than any of these things and still play my music?

Designer Tae-wan Kim has proven me wrong. The Tok Tak MP3 player is the smallest player I’ve ever seen. The entire device looks like a standard audio jack connected to a pair of earphones. No clip, no nothing, it just dangles off the headphones. Read the rest of this entry »

Dry erase boards work much better than the standard blackboard since you don’t need to get your hand all chalked up whenever you erase whatever’s written on it - not to mention the ugly and unergonomic design the blackboard eraser has, and this is where the Ultraser comes in. It is actually a plastic disc with a really large handle for easy erasing with a dry eraser underneath doing all the work. Sure looks like it has a bigger footprint to get rid of all the written “data” much faster though. Not to mention it makes a pretty good anti-talkative student projectile while you’re in class.

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AMD will be referring to graphic chip technology in its latest efforts to boost the power of its most advanced high-end processor, also known as the FireStream 9170 Stream Processor. This hybrid chip will utilize the same theory behind graphics processing units, tapping into “massive parallel processing power” and leveraging it in order to cater to the demanding high-performance computing (HPC) market. While regular home users won’t be missing anything should they forgo this monster of a processor in their home computers, companies that regularly perform complex computations (i.e. scientific and oil and gas industries) will definitely find the FireStream 9170 processor to be a boon.

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I’m something of a bookworm. While I don’t read nearly as much as I did when I was a child, I still won’t go to bed without reading at least a couple of chapters. One of the things I hate about reading in bed is that I can never find the perfect light that’s bright enough to let me read, yet dim enough that it lets me really relax. I’ve tried the little LED ones that clip on the book, but they’re still really bright and go through batteries like nothing else. However, one look at the MARK bookmark tells me that I’ve found exactly what I’m looking for.

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Coats are essential clothing to have in every wardrobe, and in older times they were used to protect the wearer against hostile enemies who would love nothing better than slitting your throat open with their swords. These days, coats do not protect you from wayward bullets of a drive-by shooting but they sure do a darn good job when it comes to keeping you warm right smack in the middle of winter. An Australian organization known as CSIRO has developed a new power jacket that not only offers protection, but boasts the capability of juicing up your array of portable electronics simultaneously.

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Sony has recently wrote and read data on a medium which is the equivalent to a 7-layer disc, courtesy of its “Micro-Reflector method” - a multilayer recording technology using holographic recording. Sony took the opportunity to blow its trumpet at the recently concluded ISOM ‘07 in Singapore, making a speech concerning the speeding up of data transmission speeds, improvement in memory density per layer as well as increasing the number of recording layers even more so that an absurd amount of data can be stored on a single disc (and to think they already have trouble filling up a Blu-ray disc at this point in time…)

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I thankfully never took up smoking, as I’m perfectly content sticking to my addiction to the caffeinated beverages. However, the countless smokers out there will no doubt agree that it’s a pain to always keep a lighter on hand. Some get small ones that they can fit in their cigarette pack, while many just keep one in their pocket. Unfortunately for those geeky smokers out there, that usually means having a lighter and a flash drive floating around in your pocket all day. Why not get something that combines the two? Read the rest of this entry »

I suppose the title needs a little explanation. I mean, what is a Ping Pong Door? Is it a door that plays ping pong? That would be odd, but I suppose if that a door opened at the right time could hit return a serve.

Perhaps a better term for it would be Ping Pong Table Door, because that is essentially what it is, a door that can transform into a ping pong table. Okay, maybe transform isn’t the word, especially after that really cool Transformers movie. All the Ping Pong table do is fold down, but this simple thing is enough to make it very cool.
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