Posted by hina on November 12, 2009 under Accessories, Tips & Info | 
RFiDJ is the new control system for home theater PC built by Roteno Labs. The system allows the users to use picture frame coasters to control the home theater system. The system has a set of picture frame coasters which each mounted with a descriptive picture and a special RFID tag.
The user will only need to place a coaster in the sensor area, the HTPC will then start streaming that specific selection which includes local news, This week in tech podcast and other specific albums. The system also has shuffle function which it includes a “shuffle” tag that is useful to play content randomly when the users have lost their way of making selection. Video is included below to show it works.
Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
First of all, you’ll need to know what Lucid dreaming is all about before getting to know what this special device, the Lucid Dream Machine is meant for. Lucid Dreaming sounds little abstract for most of us and kind of hard to figure out.
Lucid dreaming is when you’re sleeping, but you’re aware that you’re asleep and dreaming, but you don’t wake up. But this mysterious state will give you full control of your dream. Lets say you can control what you want in your dream, who shall appear and who shall not or you can create whatever you want in your dream, be like a God.
Here comes the Lucid Dream Machine, which is a pair of glasses that you wear while you’re sleeping. After about 4 hours that you’re into your sleep, the device will then pulse the LEDs, which will shine through your eye lids. From that one, the flashing lights will get you partially awake or semi-conscious of what you’re dreaming and sleeping, so you will most likely be able to take control of your dream. Such as altering the ending, getting the villain killed, creating as many happy endings as you can.
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Posted by hina on November 9, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
iPhone is no doubt the gadget that has the most software applications. From very complex applications to just a very simple game which is more than sufficient for you to kill some times – play with fire on your iPhone.
The Sonic Lighter is an application that is specially designed for iPhone, which allows you to play with a flame that is burning “hot” on the iPhone’s touchscreen. The Sonic Lighter works only on iPhone but not iPod Touch, as it makes use of the accelerometer and sound to let you control the flame shown on the iPhone display.
Simply flick the flints to light the flame. Turn the iPhone from side to side, the flame will react to your actions. The burning flame shows some cute reactions such as turning the iPhone too far will make it to “digitally” burn the side of the screen. You can also run your finger through the flame and it’ll react accordingly. When you’re fed up with it, just blow in to the microphone of your iPhone, and the flame will be put out.
The most amazing part is Sonic Lighter even makes the iPhone capable of igniting other iPhones that have the Sonic Lighter installed. The flame gives off a faint crackling sound through the iPhone’s speaker, when it’s put next to another iPhone with the Sonic Lighter app installed, it will light up the flame in the other iPhone. It does it through the receiving (or non-flaming) iPhone’s mic , which picks up the crackling noise to detect proximity of the flaming iPhone.
And another interesting feature is it shows you a world map of everyone who has lit up the flame in their iPhone. The Sonic Lighter was developed by Smule and can now be purchased from Apple App Store
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Posted by hina on under Accessories, Watch |
Sony Ericsson and Fossil have teamed up and developed the MBW-200 watch that lets you control your cellphone quietly. This watch will be useful for the forgetful geeks, lets say, while you’re in a meeting or class room which you’re required to have your phone silent but you forgot to do so, till many eyes are starring at you that you’ll have to search in your bag or pocket, hoping to turn the loud ringing phone as quickly as possible.
The Fossil watch is equipped with Bluetooth technology. As long as your cellphone is turned on with its Bluetooth and paired with the Fossil watch that is strapped on your wrist, you’ll be able to use the watch to control the phone. Such as rejecting, and answering calls and even muting the phone.
Some more the watch also works as a remote for shuffling the music list on your cellphone. On the watch’s OLED display, it also clearly shows you the incoming calls’ caller ID and buzzes you every time when there is an incoming call or text message.
The MBW-200 watch comes in three conservative designs which are themed as Sparkling Allure, Contemporary Elegance and Evening Classic. It’s scheduled to hit the market some time in Q4. The price of this watch still remains unknown currently. These watches seem to be intended for the ladies.
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Posted by friend on November 6, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone |
VMWare lets you run multiple operating systems on a single computer or server. And now VMWare has come to smart phones, allows smartphones to run multiple operating systems.
The VMWare on mobile phones is the same with other VMWare’s virtualization products, allows users to load multiple operating systems (Windows CE, Android etc) on a single mobile device. For now, the product is still at its pretty infancy stage, which allows to work on smartphones that are powered by processors of ARM Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9 designs only. Take a look at the video below that shows VMWare in action on a phone.
Posted by friend on under Accessories |
It’s another personal flying vehicle called AeroQuad, which sounds pretty promising that allows you to stay in the air for up to 5 hours. The AN-1 AeroQuad was built by Spain’s Aeris Naviter, it’s claimed to be an easy flying platform.
The AN-1 AeroQuad is able to reach a flying height of 20-30 feet with a maximum payload of 200kg and it’s also able to hover in the air for 5 hours. The AN-1 AeroQuad is claimed to be a user-friendly flying machine, that can be operated with minimum training. The AeroQuad also comes with the land and water-based configurations, making it a fun vehicle for the land, water and the air.
As shown in the picture, the user stands on its platform, holding onto the hand-bar controls. There is a pair of powered rotors below the user’s feet, which rotate in opposite directions. Since the two rotors rotate in opposite directions, this is able to cancel out the unbalanced effect usually seen in a single rotor lift. So, the AeroQuad should be a much more stable one than any other personal flying machines.
When you’re in the air, to control the AeroQuad to move into a direction you want, you just need to lean in that direction. You can also spin the AeroQuad around by using a controller on the hand control bar. The AeroQuad weighs less than 100kg, ultra-light and it can be folded up to be small enough to be carried off in a small two-wheel trailer. Unfortunately, AeroQuad is also like other flying vehicles, leaving their availability and price information to stay unknown for years.
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Posted by friend on under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
Those who wanna have overnight download of videos and large files, will need to leave their computers running overnight. Apparently, this will dissipate lots of energy and it contributes to your monthly bills. If you could keep your computer downloading files while it’s in sleep mode, you’ll be able to save energy and your monthly electricity bills.
Somniloquy is a USB dongle that plugs into your computer’s USB port, to keep the computer in sleep mode, while at the same time keeping the computer active on the network. It’s like getting the computer “sleep-talking”. When the computer is in sleep mode, it’s still able to download files or receive IM or VOIP messages. If an action that requires the computer’s full attention, Somniloquy will bring the computer back to the awaken state.
The Somniloquy USB dongle is actually a mini computer that consumes very low power, complete with OS and flash memory, and essentially takes over the actual computer’s presence on the network while it’s actually asleep. This USB dongle consumes somewhere between 11 and 24 times less power than a full computer, which definitely helps save lots of energy.
The Somniloquy USB dongle was developed by computer scientists at UC San Diego along with Microsoft Research. They hope this technology will be incorporated into future network cards, so computers will have tis functionality out of box.
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Posted by friend on October 30, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, Gaming, PDA Phone |
WiFiPad is an application for the iPhone or iPod Touch that turns the Apple Gadgets into a wireless game controller. With this WiFiPad installed on your iPhone, it will then become a wireless game controller for the games on your computer.
WiFiPad makes use of WiFi connection to communicate with the computer, allows you to wirelessly control the video games and use the keyboard of the computer. The application also allows you to customize your own controller on the iPhone, such as defining keys and the controller layout etc. Or you can build a remote keyboard on the iPhone for your computer.
Launch the WifiPad desktop server application on the computer (Mac and Windows versions), set your preferred key mappings for each game, you’ll then be able to control those games on the iPhone or iPod Touch touch screen. It’s kinda easy to setup.
Of course, it lacks of the tactile feedback of a real keyboard or game controller. But it’s fun to control the video games on the computer over WiFi. Some more it’s a free app, which can be downloaded from iTunes.