With the amount of data we download and go through each day, it is no wonder that we run out of bytes faster than we get hungry. There is virtually a never ending list of torrents that we want on our hard drives along with song after song, that even a 320GB hard drive fills up pretty fast before we realize it. What is the home user to do other than purchase one portable hard drive after another while building up a collection of DVDs? There is a solution from Hammer Storage that offers a brief moment of respite - the myshare external hard drive.

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Many of us have amassed for ourselves a pretty respectable amount of optical discs over the years, and unless our living rooms and homes have expanded along with our collection, we would start to feel claustrophobic being surrounded by all these shiny, round, things. Of course, this situation is not helped by the fact that along the way we also picked up tons of other CDs and DVDs that cater for our software and gaming sessions, leaving a veritable mess to manage. Fear not - the BlueDot Divita BDM-100S is here to save the day.

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For those of us gadgetheads who have long lived in peaceful co-existence with our Internet connections, we have sometimes become so attached to it that we tend to check our e-mail every 5 minutes only to find nothing but spam on physical enlargement programs and financial schemes. This is possible if you have an EV-DO connection, but the poorer folk who cannot afford the exorbitant monthly fee, they will just have to settle for free WiFi that is generously provided by Starbucks and other commercial establishments. If you ever need to find that crucial WiFi hotspot, there is no better device to do so than the Linksys Wireless-G USB Network Adapter with Wi-Fi Finder.

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You would think that after the exploding laptop batteries fiasco that stoked the fires of customers’ anger (excuse the pun) worldwide last year, we wouldn’t be seeing any more battery recalls anytime soon as everyone would have sat up and taken the necessary steps to prevent such a situation from repeating itself. Unfortunately, Casio has fallen into the same predicament albeit at a much smaller scale, issuing a battery recall for approximately 12,000 of its Electronic Musical Keyboard Model CTK-710 due to the potential of bursting in a ball of flames and bringing everybody around it down in a fiery death. We jest - so far there has been five cases of overheating recorded, where a couple of those resulted in fires.

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Il Village from Italy is currently working on a GPS satellite system that will offer a greater degree of mobility and independence to the blind and visually impaired, and this system will be known as the Easy Walk service. The brainchild of Il Village’s technology officer, Andrea de Paoli, the Easy Walk system comprises of a Symbian-based cellphone, a Bluetooth GPS receiver, text-to-speech software called Talks, and a call center that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There will be a couple of dedicated keys on the handset, where one of them will let the user know of their exact location when pressed (down to the house or building number) while the other alerts the call center in the event where the user requires assistance with navigation.

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Come on, admit it. Yes, you. You’re the person who keeps every one of their passwords, from their Yahoo! account to their bank info, on a Post-It note stuck to the monitor. Then there’s those of use who are a bit more secure than keeping every password on a Post-It. Instead, we use 1 password for everything. This password isn’t some md5 hash of a random string of data though, it’s literally password, or some other easily guessable word. I’ll skip the middle group (different passwords, mostly secure, boring, etc.) and go on to the super secure. These are the people that would invest in the Army approved and tested Mandylion Password Manager. This definitely isn’t a gadget for Grandma.
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Sure, you’ve seen heart rate monitors, thermometers, and the like. Heck, you may have used the ridiculous Garmin 305 that measures a ton all at once! (do go check it out).

The team of Kiwis over at Zephyr takes it a few steps farther than ever for civilians and the military alike.

Using their processing algorithms (think cool math that takes the data from their sensors and let’s you know what’s happening, shut it rerun.) Along with the basis of the technology, their smart materials that sense things like temperature, pressure, and loss of continuity (breakage).

They have four main products, the BioHarness, Impact SF, ShoePod, and ShoePod Diabetic. It’s really worth a trip to their site to see what they’re up to, or just read on for more goodness. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a useful little gadget, an email printer that works without a PC, the HP Printing Mailbox. Read the rest of this entry »