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The Neonode 2 is born
 Swedish company Neonode has started this online market campaign for their highly anticipated tiny smartphone a while ago, and just a few hours before 3GSM opens, they finally showed us a real picture. All we know from the official details is that the Neonode2 is 70g and 77mm tall; but rumors are floating around that the device will be 14mm thick support Quadband GSM and Bluetooth, there should be a SD card slot, camera and USB port, Neonode fans... Continue reading
Chimney in your room keeps your face aglow
We can never understand the obsession of humidifiers, when a lot of places need dehumidifiers otherwise the books are going to get mouldy and nasty. Isn’t dry weather great, or do you need to humidify your room in case the bushes get on fire? Perhaps the ladies can tell us more, because this is the market that this indoor water Chimney targets. Not only does this chimney gives out water vapor, you can also add your favorite fragrance such as... Continue reading
Jig Browser plus dual internal screen cellphone- the best internet experience?
If you keep track of Gearfuse, you would have an impression of the Mitsubishi D800iDS double internal screen phone we premiered the spypic and reported. One of the benefits of having 2 screens is actually for browsing webpages. The D800iDS, just like most other 3G phones from NTT DoCoMo, can install this JAVA full HTML Jig browser, and it works exceptionally well. First, you would have a map of the whole webpage on the upper screen, showing you where you... Continue reading
Reviving antique cellphones with camera, touchscreen and bluetooth
There are collectors that specialize in antique cellphones, those that are the ugliest and heaviest. Recently mainland Chinese companies have been targeting this crowd and bringing back phones with 1980′s designs. They’re huge, but today the technology has allowed them to add on touchscreens, camera, memory card slot, MP3 MP4 player and Bluetooth. The extra large antenna should help with the reception, they claimed. The extra space inside is also taken up by those super huge batteries that can give... Continue reading
Electronic pipe-wrench: one size fits all
Not all of us are DIY kind of people, but some are. When there’s a pipe problem we either have to handle it ourselves, or we’ll have to call a plumber. It can sometimes be annoying when we (and the plumber you paid to hire) don’t have the right size of pipe-wrench. Black & Decker has developed this 17USD electronic pipe-wrench that adjusts the size of its tip to fit all kinds of knobs, and you only need to know... Continue reading
Chat with your friends on GPS
We’ve probably all seen movies where special agents locate eachother on a GPS map and chat. We can actually do that in real life now, if you live in Japan and happen to use NTT DoCoMo’s newer FOMA phones (903i series or beyond). All you have to do is to have the iMapFan JAVA application running at the background, when a friend locates you, a message will be sent to notify you to switch back to the chat screen. The service... Continue reading
SD to mini-SD adapter, not the other way round
SD to mini-SD, you heard that right and this is no boo. Diatec Japan will start selling this converter that with a line hanging out of any gadget’s mini-SD slot with a cradle at the end for you to shove in the large SD cards. This is really useful when you try to migrate data between your phones, PDAs and serious digital cameras. Conversely, you can get the more common mini-SD to SD adapter, of course. The adapter will be... Continue reading
Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD2 takes 7MP pictures in the middle of HD recording
 You know there are always moments that you want to capture with good-enough digital photo, especially in the middle of movie recording? And those screenshots off the moving pictures are never good enough, even when we have HD recording nowadays. Well, Sanyo’s Xacti line of pocketable digital camcorders might just come into the right place, because these camcorders can take great digital prints in the middle of movie recording. The company has updated their flagship model this morning with a CCD of... Continue reading
20 bucks for a Teriyaki machine at home
 Japanese company Mitsutani is selling this Teriyaki “re-heating” machine at home for those who are obssessed with a minature, authentic, super-cute teriyaki experience. So you would still need to buy take-away, or you still need to make it yourself, cook it elsewhere before loading onto this cutesy. Nonetheless, online user reviews showed the machine outperforming itself, that it was able to drive out oil from those rolls. The teriyaki machine is only selling 20 bucks in Japan, this is great for impressing your... Continue reading
Can this be Nokia’s next swivel music world-UMTS phone for 3GSM?
With 3GSM coming up all major phone manufacturers have great products under their sleeves, earlier we wrote about Samsung’s super thin phones, now we have Nokia’s next swivel-music phone. Supposedly this phone will be on the 5000 series, some claimed that it’s going to be a combination of 5500 and 3250, with a swivel design. It is also rumored that this phone might support UMTS in Europe as well as the US (so something like triband GSM plus triband UMTS).... Continue reading
