Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories | 
Here comes the Bury Technologies’ CV 9040 handsfree, which is attachable to your car, such as next to the rear view mirror. The CV 9040 handsfree ensures you to talk freely while you’re driving.
As it’s equipped with the DialogPlus voice control that makes most of its functionalities voice-operable. The manufacturer claims that the device can respond up to 95% in accuracy to voice instruction. But you still get the option of operating it with your fingers on its highly-sensitive touchscreen interface when it fails to recognize your voice.
The device is also capable of text-to-speech function that will read out every SMS received on your mobile phone, in a clear and understandable way. Which allows you, the driver, to always have your hands on the steering of your car. For incoming calls, the caller ID will be stated and displayed on the screen and you can choose to accept or decline the call by using your voice.
The device also allows other features such as call transfers and connecting up to seven participants in a conference calling. The display will also adjust itself according to the light conditions inside your car and it’ll switch itself over day to night mode automatically. Before I forget, the CV 9040 car kit handsfree is similar to other handsfree, which communicates with your mobile phone wirelessly via Bluetooth. It’ll carry a price tag of £139.99.
Update: The gadget will be available from early June 2008 in Vodafone stores, authorised Bury retailers and Chameleon Codewing on 01206 500872.
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Posted by hina on under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
Although WiFi is pretty common these days, but some paranoids are still kind of reluctant to setup WiFi, especially in their homes. Those paranoids are worried that the wireless signal will bring negative impact to health, so they would still prefer to fall back using wired solution.
Wired solution will always leave you with some internal wiring messiness. But now there is a pretty neat solution, by using powerline networking, which makes use of the electrical wiring in your home to serve as quasi-networking cable for transmitting network signals from one room to another room.
Belkin has just rolled out a new product in the powerline networking category.The Belkin Powerline AV+ starter kit, consists of a three-port adapter that lets you hook up to multiple devices including your computer, A/V equipment and gaming console etc. And a one-port adapter that lets you hook up to an Internet router. And both these two adapters are plugged into any available wall power outlets. Voila, the devices that are hooked up to the three-port adapter can now share the Internet connection via the router that is hooked up to the one-port adapter.
The data transfer rate over the powerline using the Belkin kit is said to to be upwards of 200/Mbps. And it provides 128-bit AES link encryption with key management that keeps data well protected from hackers that could be eavesdropping over the electrical wires. The Belkin’s powerline kit is available in October and carries a price tag of $180.
Posted by hina on November 9, 2009 under Accessories |
We’ve seen couple of the funny T-shirts before, from WiFi detector, to sound-activated, to personal soundtrack etc. And the latest we wanna show you here is the Drum Kit T-shirt.
The Electronic Drum kit T-shirt lets you play drum on your chest, just tap your chest with your fingers, you can then create various drum noises. You don’t need a pair of drum sticks to play the drum on your chest. Whenever you’ve heard some music beat near by, you can drum yourself up to play along with the beats.
It’s got a “drum set” sewn on the front of the T-shirt, which can play seven different drum sounds when you hit them with your fingers. There is also a built-in speaker with adjustable volume control that amplifies the sound. I believe this speaker is affixed in a hidden pocket that wouldn’t give too much trouble to the wearer. The T-shirt needs four AAA batteries for its power, which sounds little little too much to me.
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Posted by friend on November 7, 2009 under Accessories |
How you wish that you could be the prince of your dreamed girl. But if you remain as a frog in her heart, it will be too hard to get yourself transformed from a frog to a prince and win her heart.
Here comes the Frog to Prince Transformation Kit, a fun gadget to have, which at least lets you gratify yourself – if you can’t transform in reality, you may make a wish and watch how the frog in the container transform itself into a prince. Or one day you wish would come true.
This fun gadget needs you to add some water, and keep your eyes on it, the frog will then morph into a semi-handsome prince. It seems to take too long, about 72 hours, to transform into a complete prince that is 4-inch tall. Unfortunately, there is no word whether you can reverse the process, which is what you need when you’ve got bored with the prince.
Posted by friend on under Accessories |
Having a robotic arm on your work desk shall be useful for helping you to tidy up those heavy tools and gadgets scattered around. And occasionally, while having a break, you could then get it to stack some Lego bricks for you.
An industrial robotic arm shall be pretty expensive to own. A miniature version – the Edge Robotic Arm Kit will be what you can rely on for carrying out some of the mentioned tasks. This miniature robotic arm comes in the form of a kit which you need to assemble it before getting it to start working for you. It’s equipped with 5 individual motors and capable of 5 axes of movement.
Unfortunately, this Edge Robotic Am Kit doesn’t come with a wireless remote. Instead, it’s got a wired remote for the control, that shall restrict you to control it from afar. The edge robotic arm features a wrist motion of 120 degrees and an elbow range of 300 degrees with a base rotation of 270 degrees, which sound as more or less as flexible as a human arm. Take a look at the video of the Edge robotic arm in action below.
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