Posted by hina on July 31, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware, Offbeat | 
Calvin Klein has introduced their USB sunglasses. Besides protecting your eyes from the harmful UV rays of sunlight, they also carry your data around. The USB sunglasses has a USB flash drive hidden in the arm that offers 4GB storage capacity.
Take a closer look in the picture, you’ll notice that the right arm of the sunglasses can be detached to work as a USB flash drive which you can then plug into a computer for copying some data. Sunglasses that work as USB flash drive also ensure you will never leave your USB drive behind in those sunny days. But what if it’s a rainy day?
The USB sunglasses will go for sale in October and is priced at $200. What a surprise that they did not try to make it earlier, ready for the summer?
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Cell Phone |
Weather forecast information can be obtained almost everywhere. Just turn on your TV, radio, or get on a website or feed, then you can get a handful of them. There should be no strong reason why you wanna invest in a dedicated weather station.
But if you’d like to have a stylish piece of wood to sit on your work desk, offering little interactiveness, as well as telling you whether it’s good or bad to proceed with the planned outdoors; then the Woodstation is just the right piece of wood for doing all the mentioned.
The Woodstation is made of a stylish piece of maple or walnut. It simply looks like a small chuck of wood sitting on your work desk. Waving your hand over its motion sensor will “turn it on”, and then start presenting you with some glowing icons that tell you the current weather, humidity levels, temperature and also date and time.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Cell Phone |
Again on Uxsight.com, a silicone case for the iPod Nano 5G was spotted. This silicone case is claimed based on a mock-up design of the upcoming iPod Nano 5th generation with a 1.5:1 screen and a camera.
The silicone case h
as an elliptical hole in the back, which should be for the camera of the iPod Nano 5G. But there is no guarantee that the final design of the iPod Nano 5G launched by Apple later would follow this design exactly. Anyway, the price of this case is only $1.20, which shouldn’t be much of a risk.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Cell Phone, Computer Hardware |
trueCall is a little device to be attached to your telephone to screen out those unwanted calls, such as those annoying ones from sales reps, insurance salesmen or any telemarketers etc.
If you’ve been targeted by quite a number of telemarketers in a day or week, the trueCall should come in handy to help screen out those unwanted calls and even faxes; returns you with peace of mind to focus on your work.
The little device interrogates every incoming calls, and checks each against its white list and only routes good calls to your ears. Basically, trueCall checks the caller’s number if it’s on your Star list, trueCall doesn’t intercept the call – it allows your phone to ring as normal, and neither you or your caller will be aware that trueCall is there.
Telemarketing companies are the source of many silent calls. trueCall’s Whisper feature will stop these getting through as it rejects callers who remain silent when they are asked for their name – your phone doesn’t ring.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Computer Hardware, Digital Camera |
Sony PlayStation Eye camera is a new accessory for gamers for the Sony PlayStation. The Eye webcam will come with four microphones, two zoom levels, and capture as high as 120fps. This webcam is meant to enhance gameplay on the Sony PlayStation game console. And Sony has plan to add new facial recognition capabilities to its Sony PlayStation Eye webcam. Sony said that their new PlayStation Eye webcam for their console, will be able to detect gender and even tell the age of the face.
The webcam will also be able to differentiate special facial features, such as nose, eyes and ears and is even smart enough to know if you’re smiling or not. With this webcam to work with the Sony PlayStation game console, the gamers should be able to use their facial expressions or let different faces control gaming etc.
Some more, the PS Eye webcam will also work with the Sony Motion Controller, with the Eye camera tracking the X, Y and Z motion by using the glowing sphere. However the motion controller is also equipped with accelerometer which is able to track motions as well while the gamer is outside of the Eye camera.
In order for games to tap on the Eye camera capabilities, developers must add this new functionality in their future game titles. Developer libraries will be available for game development studios to ease their development to include support for the Eye cam in their titles. Note: The PS Eye webcam will hit the stores, bundled with Hasrbo’s RPG / card game The Eye of Judgment on October 23rd, for a low price of $69.99 only.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
Bose has launched their new Soundlink wireless USB speaker system which allows you to stream music from your computer to the speaker system wirelessly.
The Bose Soundlink needs you to hook up the included SoundLink USB key to the computer, and you can then select music from any sources such as iTunes, Pandora etc to be wirelessly streamed over from the computer to the speaker system.
There isn’t a need to install any software or to have WiFi connection between the Soundlink speakers and the computer. Furthermore, the audio signal can penetrate through walls, it travels via a long-range wireless link which gives no problem even the speakers and the computer are separated by floors or walls. The speaker comes with a Li-ion battery, which allows it to playback at full volume for a minimum of three hours.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Computer Hardware, Offbeat |
A big bug has arrived and offers connections for up to four USB gadgets that you have. It won’t turn into a butterfly before it’s managed to fulfill its duty.
A Caterpillar-shaped USB hub is certainly a unique one to have on your work desk. It’s kinda cute, neither ugly nor scary with spikes. The two eyes should be the LEDs that will blink when USB signals flow through it. For only $10, you can get it from USBFever.
