Archive for January 25th, 2008

Phone used as a 3D Mouse

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | Cell-phones with No Comments »

By using Bluetooth, a mobile phone and it’s built in camera, developers have created a cool 3D mouse type application. It works kind of like a Wii remote control, although it uses no accelerometers which means it needs to use the video from the camera to work out what needs to be done. To interact with the computer you move the phone around or rotate it in front of the screen. You can interact with objects by clicking a button on the phone when the camera is pointing at it.

Tests indicate that it does work ok, although I think I would prefer to stick to my mouse right now unless they can convince me otherwise. It just seems a bit too fidgety trying to set it all up and hold your phone in the air.

Popularity: 12%

500XL iPod Speakers are Massive

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | Mp3player with No Comments »

The small white iPod earphones can be seen all over the place. If you find them a little too small then you could go for these new versions which are 500 times the size of the original and can be used as speakers for your desktop PC or as speakers for your MP3 player if you so wish. The 500XL speakers include a built in amp and have the ability to be powered by batteries, USB or DC.

Popularity: 14%

Solar Powered Nintendo Emulator

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | Other with No Comments »

This Solar Powered device is an MP4 player, but it also has the ability to play NES, Famicom (Super Nintendo), Game Boy and Game Boy Colour games. The SD slot can take up to 2GB of memory which you can store data on for audio or video in MP3, MP4 and other common formats. The solar panel can be used to charge other devices such as a mobile phone with it’s USB out connection. 4.5V - 9V devices can be connected up. The screen is 3.5 inch colour TFT which is a fairly decent size that can display 1.6 million colours.

Popularity: 10%

iRing for those committed iFans

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | Apple with No Comments »

I shudder to use the words fanboy/fangirl, I really do but something about the iRing just screams the words. It’s only a concept at the moment but that wont last long I’m sure.

Popularity: 16%

Smallest Bluetooth Adapter yet

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | USB-Devices with No Comments »

Brando has a new product that is two great things in one: it’s small and it’s a Bluetooth adapter. Actually, it’s the world’s smallest Bluetooth adapter so far, barely bigger than a penny.

Popularity: 10%

Eazzzy USB Digital Camera

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | Cameras with No Comments »

I like to think that the idea behind the Eazzzy digital camera concept came about somewhere along the intersection of Make-it-Small and Make-it-USB. It claims itself to be the simplest digital camera around.Eazzzy USB Digital Camera

Popularity: 11%

USB Drive Coats hide your plain USB drives

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | USB-Devices with No Comments »

For those that are tired of their plain usb drives, instead of just replacing your old one you might consider snagging a coat to cover them up. Most of us have at least one or two lying about, so it’s silly to waste money and buy a whole new usb drive.

Popularity: 10%

The Bird-Electron EZ17-B iPod Recycling Speaker

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | Apple, Mp3player with No Comments »

If you find it a bit ridiculous to be constantly wasting the packaging that electronics often come in, this attachment might be right up your alley. It is made to fit the plastic packaging the iPod Nano (1st and 2nd Gen) or iPod Shuffle (2nd ad 3rd Gen) comes in when originally purchased.

Popularity: 19%

Synaptics Boomerang universal remote concept with Multitouch capacitive touchscreen

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | Other with No Comments »

Synaptics are no strangers to the pages of SlashGear, and we’ve been lucky enough to have hands-on experience in the past with their clever touchscreen concept cellphone.

Back in those pre-iPhone days the idea of an intuitive multitouch UI on a mobile device was pretty far-fetched, with Windows Mobile offering little in the way of finger-friendliness. Now Synaptics are back with their latest reference design; called ‘Boomerang’, it’s a multi-device remote control that uses the company’s capacitive touch-sensitive panels.

Popularity: 9%

TokyoFlash Tibida not for the faint of heart, but for those 10 types of people

Friday, January 25th, 2008 | Watches with No Comments »

Please excuse my cheesy little binary joke, but this watch will work with both types of people, those that can read binary and those that can’t as the 42-LED array is arranged in such a way that you can choose to tell time in binary or other methods. Those other methods include hour centric or minute centric, basically the watch will print out the number of the minute or the hour kind of like your old high school’s score board.

Popularity: 18%

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