Consumer Electronics News

Apple’s Logo Makes You Creative

yuri — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:50:11 +0000

What do you feel when you see the famed half-eaten Apple logo? Do you find yourself painting? Composing poetry? Starting a rock band? No? Well, according to a study in next month’s Journal of Consumer Research, you should.

Why? Because apparently, the Apple logo — even subliminally — makes people more creative. Which is why we spent three hours staring blankly at an Apple ad before writing this blog and now, well, we can all agree that this is the War and Peace of bloggery.

Acer Aspire Gemstone Blue Notebook Blues You Away

yuri — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:09:51 +0000

Acer announced their sexy new laptop called the Aspire Gemstone Blue and yes, it blue us away. Oh, puns, how we love thee!

The beautiful blue notebook is equipped with everything from a Blu-ray drive to a true high-definition screen to an airplane engine that can fly you and your friends anywhere your imagination wants to go,and while that last part isn’t true, we’ll still settle for the Blu-ray drive and the HD screen.

ThruVision’s T5000 X-Ray Camera Sees Objects, Not Bodies

yuri — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:19:48 +0000

Have you ever dreamed of having an x-ray camera that, instead of revealing the beautiful nakedness of the person you target, reveals if they’re packing a glock? No? Well, the British company ThruVision made it anyway.

The camera is called the T5000 (yes, it also doubles as an upgraded version of the killer robot sent from the future to kill John Connor) and can detect weapons, drugs and explosives hidden under people’s clothes from as far as 25 meters away. The chief problem? Well, it doesn’t reveal the beautiful nakedness of the person you target.

iPhone Allows 3rd-Party Apps, Kind Of

yuri — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:58:54 +0000

There have been complaints by many in the business sector about the iPhone being all flash and no use — well, Apple wants to change that. The company announced today that it’s aiming for the iPhone to become a corporate email gadget and a portable video game machine for the busy and bored businessman.

The company has even teamed up with a venture capital firm to offer $100 million for developers who can come up with some nifty iPhone applications. The strategy is also known as, "do our work for us" — a common trend in companies who have realized that paying the general public less money to do their job is much easier than actually doing their job.

OSP Robot Cleans Oil Spills

yuri — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:36:28 +0000

The bad thing about technology is when some of it breaks, it breaks in a big way. Having huge oil tankers sink in oceans, for example, is never a good way to co-exist with nature. The good thing about technology is that it’s developing so fast that when a problem is discovered, there are thirty different futuristic solutions for it.

Which is where the OSP comes in. What is the OSP? The OSP is a robot that cleans up oil spills. It’s like a Roomba that eats black gold.

Cyber Goggles Record Life, Find Keys

yuri — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:41:04 +0000

Have you ever forgotten where you left your glasses and then realized how hard it was to find your glasses without being able to see? And then you end up spending half your day searching in every nook and cranny, even ones that don’t make any sense (maybe they’re under this plate!) until you give in, buy a new pair, and find the old pair shortly after?

Well, kiss those days goodbye with the University of Tokyo’s newest invention — the "cyber goggles."

Green Cell Battery Could Charge All Phones

yuri — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:39:08 +0000

As our world slowly fills up with undestructable cell phone batteries, designers Theo Richardson, Charles Brill and Alex Williams of RBW have a simple but brilliant idea to clean up at least some of the pollution that’s turning our planet into a waste heap for the future.

What’s the idea? A safe, ecofriendly cell phone battery and charger that can be used for all models, across all companies.

How, you wonder, has no one thought of it? Probably because we hate nature.

Smart Target’s Kiddo Kidkeeper Keeps Kids On Leash

yuri — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:30:48 +0000

Ever dream of keeping your kid on a virtual leash? Well, dream no more. Smart Target’s Kiddo Kidkeeper Proximity alarm ensures that not only will your child never ever have the sweet taste of freedom, but that, if they will, you will be immediately alerted so you can bring them back into their cell. Where, undoubtedly, they belong.

Also, for a limited time only, the Kidkeeper Proximity will also shock your child into submission if he leaves the "protected" zone that you have made for them. Are you sold yet?

DORmino Powers Mouse Without Batteries

yuri — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:18:48 +0000

We’re big fans of eco-friendly, we love the way technology is shaping itself around the environment and, in the long-run, we think that it won’t only be helpful to our future populations but also, we just think that most eco-friendly gadgets are damn cool.

Which is why we love the DORmino concept — which makes it so you can use your wireless mouse without recharging it, using batteries or killing the environment. Interest appropriately piqued?

LG’s KF750 Touchscreen Phone Slides and Looks Sexy

yuri — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:26:01 +0000

It’s not news that LG is releasing a new line of sexy cell phones (yes, they’re all going to try to be ’iPhone killers’ — and no, probably none of them will succeed) called the KF line. While we’ll have to wait for next week’s CeBIT show to really get all the details, we have wrangled some for the KF750 — codenamed, "Libra."

This is a good first step — as we fully support and celebrate Libras.