Ambient Flurry Weather Station & Clock
If your looking for a little more from your bedside clock than just the time then this Ambient Flurry Weather Station & Clock might help provide that vital information you’ve been missing in the morning.
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Barnes and Noble Nook Gets Official
Well its here the Barnes and Noble Nook is now available to pre-order for $259.
The nook has a 6-inch E Ink Vizplex E Ink display up top and a 3.5-inch color touchscreen underneath. This dual screen e-reader comes with AT&T 3G wireless Wifi and has a report battery life of 10 days from a 3.5 hour charge .. not bad at all.
New Apple Remote Control
As part of their hardware update and overhaul in preparation for the launch of Windows 7 Apple have updated their remote control.
It now comes with three buttons and then combined with an IR-enabled Universal Dock, can control your iPhone or iPod and iTunes on your iMac or Apple TV, all encased in a sleek aluminium case.
Cheetah Inspired Robot
Professor Sangbae Kim designer of the Stickybot and a Robotic designer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Is trying to understand how he can replicate natural animal mechanisms by creating a robot inspired by the cheetah.
The idea is to build a prototype robot from a construction of lightweight carbon-fiber-foam that will then be able to match the cheetah’s speed of 70 miles per hour.
Portable Electrolux Fireplace Concept
This very funky portable Electrolux Fireplace concept starts off as a opaque ceramic and gradually turns translucent as it fire burns and heats the surface.
With a cool looking design this portable Electrolux Fireplace Concept is definitely one I would like to see go into production and beats anything currently on the market. Check out the video after the jump.
Yike Bike Modern Farthing Bicycle
Posted 20 Oct. 2009 in Gadgets by Julian Horsey
The Yike Bike is a modern take on that old classic the Mini Farthing bicycle. Powered by an electric motor the 21 pound Yike Bike zips around using a training wheel at the back. Check out the video after the jump.
inPulse Watch To Be Used with BlackBerry Smartphones
According to CrackBerry the inPulse watch, which is not being made for Blackberry as some sites are suggesting, the inPulse has been designed as an accessory for BlackBerry Smartphones.
It is designed to provide information when your BlackBerry is tucked away or while you are driving you will be able to read and view messages as they come in directly on your watch. The images below are just renderings and are not official.
New ATi Radeon HD 5770 & 5750 Graphics Cards
AMD has officially released its new line of graphics cards the ATi Radeon HD 5770 & 5750 which will be available shortly to purchase.
The HD 5770 is equipped with with GDDR5 RAM, 1.04 billion 40nm transistors, 800 stream processors, 40 texture units, 64 Z/Stencil POP units and 16 color POP units and will offer you a core clock of 850MHz and a memory clock of 1.2GHz.
Shenzen Witstech A81 MID
Shenzen the Chinese manufacturer has just launched a new MID called the Witstech A81 MID which is powered by a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU and will run Windows CE 6.0 operation system.
It also has a 7-inch WVGA touchscreen display with a 800 x 480 resolution and comes equipped with 2GB of internal memory.
Windows Blue Screen of Death Belt
No fashionable geek should be without this accessory, the Windows Blue Screen of Death Belt. Printed with a glossy finish on the chrome buckle of this belt is the screen that everyone loves to hate, the old Windows blue screen of death.
Hopefully with the release of Windows 7 this week this screen should be assigned to the history books. But you never know a different and more wacky window of death may already be waiting for us in this new release.
Telekinetic Obstacle Course
If you fancy checking how strong the force flows thorough you, then this Telekinetic Obstacle Course will help you enhance your Jedi skills. Use your mind to focus your brain waves and maneuver the ball through and around the obstacle course.
Hack: PS/2 Keyboard Connection to iPhone
Bewared this is not a straight forward and a pretty involved method of connection and requires a few uber hacking skills to complete from the look of it. But if you fancy giving it a go, a guy at AwghBlog demonstrates how this PS/2 keyboard to an iPhone connection works and how to set it up in detail with step by step instructions.
