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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This really should be a USB gadget (it’s not), the magic light pup, a color morphing light up dog.

To switch the pup on you just give him a pat on the head and when it’s time to procrastinate you can bend his ears and use his special ability magnetic limbs to hold your paper clips, very useful!

The magic pup light is available from Latest Buy for $39.95.

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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There’s not a lot of point in cleaning your teeth with a dirty tooth brush, wipe old germs off , wipe new germs on! Which is where the VioClean helps, it’s a brush cleaner for your tooth cleaner.

The VioClean uses special UV light to kill 99.9% off al bacteria dead (I guess the remaining 0.1% hides and just plays dead). The case is also portable so is ideal for those grimy hotel rooms us cheap skates stay in.

More medical facts and availability over at VioClean.

It’s been a funny old time, I’ve turned down two interesting offers for Coolest Gadgets in the space of a week, I won’t say I’ll never sell but it’s worth a lot more to me than was on the table.

Much more importantly (for me anyway) I’ve just launched another site, Self Made Minds which is all about making money on the Net (my second favourite past time after gadgets) and will include a full history of how CG became what it is in the past 18 months (traffic, revenue, mistakes, warts and all).

Sorry for making this a bit of a “me” post but I’ve also just been interviewed about CG by my good mate Dan over at Daily Blog Tips, it’s in part of his interesting blogger face off series and I was up against another mate Vic, the master behind Uber Review, as it’s a face off competition I need votes so please check it out

So if you want to make (more) money on the Net check out Self Made Minds, read the quick fire interview go here or read more about cool gadgets scroll down.

Thanks for reading this somewhat self promotional post.

I got an email from Apple this morning at 4 A.M.. Guess my Apple TV is on its way. And it looks like they gave me a discount. I only got charged $281. It’s listed for $299 on Apple.com. I pre-ordered my Apple TV the day it was announced. Maybe I got the discount because it got delayed a month?

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If you hate being stuck in traffic jams, don’t worry, because the new flying car PAL-V is on it way. This Dutch project is a hybrid 3-wheel vehicle that can fly as a gyrocopter and also be driven as a regular car, or to be more precise, like a motorcycle.

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Following an accident time is of the essence and, in the adrenalin fuelled aftermath of such incidents the emergency services invariably have to work frantically amidst the chaotic throng of police, fire crews and over inquisitive onlookers in order to assess the status of the injured who may be drifting sporadically in and out of consciousness.

A wealth of information has to be amassed concerning blood groups, known drug allergies and the extent of the injuries sustained in as quickly as possible so as to enable correct prioritisation of care and, in the heat of the action, even the slightest mistake occasioned by something not being documented or communicated correctly can cost lives.

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