Cowon has recently released the L2 device that marries all three functions of a personal GPS navigation system, a DMB-capable device, and the trappings of a portable media player. Measuring a compact 191mm x 120mm x 26mm and weighing just 512 grams, the Cowon L2 comes in a sleek looking silver-colored package. What you can expect from the L2 would be its 7″ widescreen display, GPS navigation, DMB compatibility, support for a wide variety of audio, video, and picture formats (AVI, MPEG 4, MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, BMP, JPG, and PNG), a built-in FM radio, and even Picture-in-Picture functionality. In addition, you also get 2GB of integrated memory as well as an SD memory card slot for expansion purposes.

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The Spanish company Blusens presents another PMP, the Blusens P27. The P27 has a 2.4-inch screen and can play video files in AVI and MPEG formats, audio files in MP3 and WMA, and also show JPG pictures. The P27 has a FM tuner, and it’s really small, measuring 2.56 x 1,97 x 0,39 inches, and weighting only 51 grams.
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For whatever reason, you didn’t like Coleman’s Headrest Powerworks. Let’s just say that’s the one quality that perfectly describes you. Maybe you thought it was too expensive, ugly or you didn’t have a cigarette outlet to give up. Well, the uniquely named Multi-Port Power Inverter should solve all of your problems. It’s cheaper, has a few more features, and won’t require you to give up your precious cigarette outlet.
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Now there must be many people out there thinking “Are right that’s a piece of Lego” well in fact its not, this brick shaped USB flash drive is just looking like a piece of Lego and in actual fact has no connection to the toy company at all, maybe there will be problems down the line for these guys, but hey its only a flash drive.

The Australian company behind these bricks has named them “Zip Zip” they are a standard 1GB across the board, and come in blue, yellow, green, red, white and black, just like the real Lego!
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Nokia have announced two new handsets, based on their proven s40v3 software: the 6500 Classic and its fancier brother, the Slide.

There’s been a Nokia 6500 before, but they seem to have run out of numbers and are re-using them for new models (usually with the ‘Classic’ suffix added).

One of them is a slim (9,5mm) but feature-packed device, while the other is a slider, a bit thicker, but with even more goodies. They both sport a sleek and stylish metal finish, that just shouts ‘Business!’.

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There’s a scene in Star Wars Clone Wars where a clone trooper tosses up a floating remote camera and uses it to survey the entire city from the safety of building’s rubble. The camera has multiple lenses to provide complete 360 degree coverage of the entire area. In real life, this was largely the kind of idea used by the Walt Disney company for many of their 360 degree movies they showed at Disneyland and Epcot – only they used multiple cameras, not one camera with multiple lenses.

Now Google is using life to imitate art with their latest “street view” features of Google maps. Immersive Media is the company which uses a drive by technique, and a multi-lensed camera – called the Dodeca Telemmersion® System.

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I dreamed of inventing something like this but never actually followed through with it, so I was delighted to see that somebody else also had the idea and actually did something about it. CueSight a laser aiming site for you billiard cue (or pool cue to us UK lot).

The CueSight serves two main purposes, the first is it will help you perfect your stroke:

Any dip or twist will be revealed by the crosshairs. With a perfect stroke, the crosshairs will remain fixed in the “strike spot”, narrowing in on that point as the cue approaches the cue ball. Obviously, the idea is to keep the crosshairs motionless throughout your stroke to eliminate the possibility of mis-cueing or striking at an unplanned angle.

Once you’ve perfected your cueing action you can use the CueSight to line up your shot:

The CueSight cue can help tremendously when it comes to lining up your shot. Simply use the laser to draw a line fronm the center of the cue ball to the point where the center of the cue ball will be when it impacts the object ball.

By lowering the butt of the cue from your normal shooting position, and perhaps raising the shaft slightly, depending on your technique, the vertical line of the crosshairs will illuminate not only the cue ball, but positions “down table” as well. For a straight-in shot, you want to have the top portion of the vertical line illuminate a position in the center, left-to-right, of the object ball…

I’d love to give one of these a try to see how my cueing action changes as the evening progress down the local pub, I find my optimum playing ability coincides with pint three and it’s all down hill after that.

Further info and availability over at CueSight, found via our gadget forums, thanks.

It looks like Google’s 2006 acquisition of Neven Vision, a company specializing in facial recognition software, is finally starting to pay off. Google Blogoscoped, a blog dedicated to everything related to Google, got a tip from a Google engineer that Google had secretly added some facial recognition abilities to its image search this week.

The feature remains unofficial and unannounced, but you can add a small query string to the end of your Google Image search URL to see the facial recognition software in action.

For example, do a normal Google image search for “Starbuck Battlestar” and your image results should produce images from the American SciFi TV show Battlestar Galactica. Then try adding “&imgtype=face” to the end of the URL. Your new search results will only contain photos of people and tight shots of their faces. Cool right?

Last August, Google Picasa product manager Adrian Graham had this to say about Google’s acquisition of Neven Vision in the official Google blog:

“Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects.”

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