The latest in our long list of weird watch designs is the Aurora Watch concept by designer Jihun Yeom. The watch features a faceless design that indicates the time using lasers. A red laser specifies the minutes, while a blue beam indicates the hour. With the wearer’s hairy arm visible through the watch it means that it’s always a freckle past a hair until the bevel edge around the watch ring is tapped to activate the lasers. ..
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Can’t afford a big screen TV or projector but still want to experience that cinema feeling when watching a movie? The Vuzix Wrap 920 video eyewear is a sunglass-style display that delivers a virtual 67-inch screen as seen from 10ft away, displays 2D and 3D video and is claimed to be the most advanced wearable display available…
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Eyewear,
Virtual Reality,
Vuzix
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February 26th, 2010
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The days of the silence being broken during a live theater performance by some ridiculous ringtone buried inside an inaccessible handbag or jacket pocket may be as long-gone as the “brick phone” thanks to this smart-shirt for theater ushers. Designed by Richard Etter, the special shirt called AwareFashion detects mobile communications devices in its vicinity that haven’t been switched off…
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Detects,
Mobile Phone,
Sensor,
Shirt
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February 22nd, 2010
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For powder hounds looking for a convenient way to keep track of the best runs down the mountain winter sports accessories manufacturer Zanier has announced the X-Plore.XGX – the first glove with full GPS functionality. Aside from making sure skiers won’t lose that gnarly stash of powder or get lost, the GPS enabled gloves also record altitude, speed, distance, duration and other route data for upload to the web once back at the ski lodge. ..
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GPS,
Snow,
USB,
Winter
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February 18th, 2010
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If engineers at the University of California have their way, “Power Dressing” could be back in vogue. However, instead of 80’s-style shoulder pads the engineers have been creating energy-scavenging nanofibers. These nano-sized generators could one day be woven into clothing and textiles to harness the energy created through normal body movements to power mobile electronic devices…
Tags: Electricity,
Energy,
Generator,
Nanometers,
Piezoelectric,
Wearable
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When it comes to timepieces I’m firmly in the camp that thinks the digital watch is the pinnacle of time telling technology. It imparts its information at a glance with no need to waste time adding or subtracting minutes in multiples of five, or estimating if the big hand is two or three minutes between markers – if there are markers at all. I will concede, however, that for many people watches are as much a fashion statement as a means to tell time and as such designers are always looking to redefine the humble watch in different and interesting ways. The latest eye-catching timepiece to catch our eye is the Geocentric concept watch that uses a motion similar to planets rotating around a sun to tell time…
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Mechanical,
Time,
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Okay, I have to admit that I am only slightly behind reporting this news, but needless to say, Wacom has recently updated two of their products, and I was surprised that we didn’t cover one of their updates already.
The most recent update is the Intuos4, which we have covered previously. It has recently received an update: wireless capability. It uses Bluetooth to do this, and the lithium ion battery can be charged via USB.
We’ve also covered the Wacom Bamboo Tablet, and these have received an update for multi-touch capacity a few months ago. So not only can you draw on this trackpad, but your finger can do some multi-touch interfacing on it as well.
In fact, using the Wacom Pen and Touch, which I had the chance to try out, was a lot like using an iPhone’s touchscreen. Now I know what it is like to use an iPad with a blank screen.
Seriously, the Pen and Touch uses the finger spread and pinch to enlarge and shrink images. You can also use two fingers to do a rotation, and single touch comes in handy for scrolling.
The wireless Bluetooth Intuos 4 is available in medium size only for about $400, which is $50 more than its wired version. As for the Bamboo Pen and Touch, it is about $99.
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When it comes to Bluetooth headsets, you will find that there is a gulf in class between all the players, and Aliph is one of them right at the very top. After all, who are we to argue with the folks behind the Jawbone Bluetooth headset as well as being the brains of NoiseAssassin, the world’s first and only military-grade noise-eliminating technology? Fast forward to today and Aliph is well and alive, unveiling their latest and most sophisticated device to date known as the Jawbone ICON. The Jawbone ICON supposedly offers unprecedented ease of use and audio quality with a balance of an industry-first software platform known as MyTALK, where it enables users to personalize and update their Jawbones through the Internet. Now that’s definitely something new, as previous Bluetooth headsets from everyone else was basically a device that could not be upgraded software-wise.
Thanks to the all-new MyTALK platform, the Jawbone ICON is able to boast built-in intelligence as well as the ability to personalize with the click of a mouse. Currently in a private beta mode, you can be sure that your Jawbone ICON will offer a richer in-ear experience, pointing to a future where people are able to breathe new life into their Jawbones over a period of time, hence extending the durability and usage of a device which might go some way in helping reduce the amount of gadgets heading to our landfills each year, which can be a pain to dispose of.
Features of the Jawbone ICON include NoiseAssassin 2.5 with wind reduction, an innovative speaker design and signal processing, set-it-and-forget-it audio which eliminates the need to adjust volume from one caller to the next, a talk time of up to 4.5 hours depending on the handset it is paired to, a 10 meter range at the minimum, and the ability to charge up to 80% in just 35 minutes. Each $99.99 purchase comes with 7 earbud sizes as well as one premium adjustable ear loop to get you started right out of the box.
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It’s a big world out there and for many different people in society that means a big risk of getting lost. Following the release of its nu.m8 GPS location device for children, Lok8u has announced its adult counterpart, the multi.m8. The device, worn as a wristwatch, aims to make a range of people from lone workers to the elderly easily locatable through the combined use of GPS and cellular identification technology. ..
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lok8u,
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Specifications:
- Complies with: IEEE802.11g, IEEE802.11b standards
- Frequency Band: 2.4GHz ~ 2.483GHz
- Operating Range: Up to 100M
- Emmission Type:
- IEEE 802.11b : DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum)
- IEEE 802.11g : OFDM ( Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)
- Modulation Method:
- IEEE 802.11b : DBPSK / DQPSK / CCK
- IEEE 802.11g : BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM
- Data Rate:
- IEEE 802.11b : 1, 2, 5.5, 11Mbps
- IEEE 802.11g : 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54Mbps
- Operation Mode:
- Ad hoc
- Infrastructure (Access Points is needed)
- Antenna: High Gain (5 dBi) SMA Antenna
- Security:
- 64-bit or 128-bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) /WPA
- TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)
- Management: Windows-based Utility
- Interface: USB2.0 (1.1 Compliant)
- System: Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/XPx64/Vista, MAC, Linux
- Dimensions: 112×12x28mm (dongle with antenna attached at right angle)
- Approved: CE / FCC
- After sales service: 1 year warranty
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- CD included with separate drivers and manual for each operating system
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