Gadgets

Scientists at Purdue University have created a portable power generator. Trash is its main source of fuel. Many of you might remember that the flux capacitor on the De Lorean in Back to The Future II was also powered by trash after being pimped up in the future. We might be approaching the time of this being reality. Without the ...

Hong Kong based iDo launched its new line of P890 smartphones which run the Windows Mobile 5.0 PPC Phone Edition OS with Push Mail. It might look kind of clunky, but it’s one of those phones that packs in enough meat to make it worth it. With a Freescale iMX21 350 MHz processor doing the powering deed along with a ...

The days of Minority Report-like technology seem closer and closer everyday. With the popularity increasing on touch screens and touch based interfaces, the Ukraine made 3D Touchpad is a step ahead of the crowd. It’s not even really a touchpad at all technically. You don’t have to touch the thing to make it work. The touchpad can sense movements above ...

This week’s Retro Rewind delves into the original poor-mans virtual reality, the ViewMaster. The good old days of paper reels and plastic mechanical eyeware might be behind us, but we shall never forget the ViewMaster. I remember quite vividly. The joy of looking through the different reels at my local Kmart. Filled with the anticipation that only a child can ...

Plasma TVs can really be a distraction when, ahem, other bedroom activities are going on. How can anyone concentrate fully when theirs a hockey game on in plasma quality? We know we couldn’t! It’s time you pimped out your baby making room and get yourself this distraction eliminator. The MK1 Studio Underbed Lift, conveniently lowers your plasma snuggly under your ...

Japanese company Frepar has announced the commercialization of their almost-teleporting communicate-Pod. What this thing does is that it allows the real-time teleporting of full 3D image of objects between both parties, so essentially it “looks” like teleporting. When you want to show your friend your new hamster, simply place it on the Sci-fi looking device, let it walk around in ...

Having a Rolling Stone on your team of developers is a sure sign to success right? Not necessarily in the iPod accessory market. Chestnut Hill Sound’s new George joins the slew of iPod dock/speakers with one feature that will blow you away. It’s way to interface with your iPod is a simple display with buttons…that detaches from the unit! Check ...

What da heck right? Yeah, what da heck, but that’s what fujitsu did at the press conference this morning, having the F703i phone ringing in the tub with a model, just to let the world know how important and beautiful it is to have a waterproof phone. “Moshi moshi!” We feel sorry for her- hopefully she’s paid well. Oh yeah, ...

Are you completely sick and tired of hearing about the constant battle between what companies are supporting Blu-ray or HD-DVD? Well, even though toshiba is decidedly HD-DVD, they have just released two DVD or HDD players. In interesting part (and a disadvantage to some) is that they have no support for either Blu-ray or HD-DVD. The two models are named ...

The folks at Sanyo are Snoopy fanboys, they’re no shy about combining the name of their rechargeable battery Eneloop with that. So we have the Eneloopy today, a dog that takes the Eneloop battery in its tummy, the nose will light up when there’s juice in there. Then you can roughly guess how much is left from the brightness. As ...