Iogear's Mobile Digital Scribe

Many note takers today face a choice of either lugging a laptop everywhere or writing everything down by hand and then manually entering their notes into a computer. Meanwhile, if you're a compulsive doodler or graphic artist, many of your best works may be buried somewhere in the margins of an old notebook.

Iogear's Mobile Digital Scribe ($130) represents an innovative alternative for note takers and sketchers alike: an ink pen with a digital component. The Digital Scribe comes with a receiver, and it saves everything you write to plain paper as a digital file. When you plug the receiver into a Windows PC, the device lets you upload your handwritten notes and convert them into text documents via the bundled My Script Notes 2.1 Lite optical character recognition (OCR) software.

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Solar Power Cordless Fan: Cooling From The Sun

This solar powered cordless fan will keep you cool when the temperature gets hotter for your comfort. It draws power from the sun rays to protect you from the heat of the sun. This makes it the more interesting.

A full charge will keep you going for 8 hours. You also have the option to plug in into electricity in case you run out of the solar power. So, save yourself some bills on electricity and get cooled from the sun.

Not only does it feature a fan, it also boasts an alarm clock and doubles up as a cell phone/MP3 charger (though not compatible with all models). Perfect for traveling and camping, it also comes with a rechargeable lantern that has an LED light bulb. It costs about $60.

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Get a Meteo Watch: Get a Weather Forecaster

Now you don't have to tune in to your TV or radio station just because you want to read the time. Why? This is because you can read the weather right on your wrist, if you are wearing the Meteo - Weather Forecast Watch from Oregon Scientific. Gone are the days when watches are meant just for time-telling only.

This stylish and fashionable digital watch tracks the weather by measuring barometric pressure trends. Perfect for those who want a sleek, low-profile watch that features a reverse LCD display and stopwatch function. Four easy-to-read icons (sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy, and rainy) display the upcoming weather conditions in the next 12 to 24 hours.

The Meteo - Weather Forecast Watch cost £40 and also functions as a digital clock, calendar and alarm.

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Transmit Data Through Your Skin Using NTT's Firmo

This is not science fiction, but a technology that is readily available to you by NTT. With this device, you can even open your door or locker just by touching it. It's definitely faster than a swipe card.

The new product, called Firmo, consists of a card-sized transmitter carried in the user’s pocket. The card converts stored data into a weak AC electric field that extends across the body, and when the user touches a device or object embedded with a compatible receiver, the electric field is converted back into a data signal that can be read by the device.

For now, a set of 5 card transmitters and 1 receiver goes for $8,000, but NTT expects the price to come down when mass production begins.

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Kiss Me: Halitosis Level Indicator

Halitosis can be embarrassing. A person with bad breath is always avoided, either when speaking one-to-one or in groups. The bad thing is that nobody will tell you that your mouth smells. It is as bad as that. Though some people maintain the proper oral hygiene, they are still plagued by halitosis. It is embarrassing seeing people turn their heads away when you open your mouth to speak. It shouldn't be so.

This is where The Kiss Me Personal Bad Breath Detector comes to the rescue. Though Kiss Me doesn't remove the bad breath, but it can let you know how bad your mouth smells. Kiss Me is simple to operate, just breath on it, and LEDs will light up to indicate just what rank your breath is. Then you will either brush if you are indoors or take some mints if you are out.

This is good news for those that eat garlic a lot. You can check your breath with Kiss Me before stepping out. Kiss Me costs just $19.

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blueLounge Sanctuary: All-round Charging Tray

This innovative charging tray is being designed with the typical gadget geek in mind. It is a special charging tray that supports more than 1,500 products. So whatever your gadget, be it cell phones or portable media players of whatever brand, you will find a compatible charging plug in the blueLounge Sanctuary.

12 built-in connectors can charge more than 50 brands, including electronics from these companies:

- Nokia
- Samsung
- Audiovox
- Kyocera
- Palm
- LG
- Sony Ericsson
- Apple
- Mini-USB
- USB

The blueLounge Sanctuary costs E65 and you can order for it here.
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SensorPlug: Turn It On Without Touching It

This is no magic, I assured you. You can actually turn on your lights or plugged in appliances without touching the switch. You simply walk past. Amazing!

SensorPlug is like having an extra pair of hands when you need them! The SensorPlug Motion-Sensing Outlet is a passive infrared motion sensor that's triggered when you walk past, instantly turning on a light or even an appliance, such as a fan or a radio. Since the SensorPlug inserts right into a wall outlet, you don't need to wire it in!

SensorPlug costs only $20 and it provides Safety, Security and convenience at an affordable price. Product details here.

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Wear Your Keyboard on Your Pants

This is not a designer's pants, but a designer's keyboard. Yeah, a fully functioning keyboard sewn into the fabric of the Jeans. This is a product of designer Erik De Nijs.

This keyboard pants also includes speakers built into the knees, a pocket for mouse storage in the back, and a joy stick controller behind the zipper. This is geek's madness carried a little bit far.

Give a little time, we will soon be wearing our monitors as spectacles.

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Digital Photo Watch

This wrist watch, apart from telling you the time, also acts as a digital photo album. You can either view the photos in slideshow or one by one.

It has the capacity to hold 60 pictures. It has a USB connection for charging the watch and for transferring photos. This is great if you want to keep those special photos always with you. Don't tell me that your camera phone can perform better. Yeah, I know it.

If you are interested in this Digital Photo Watch, you can place your order here It costs just about $100.

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Spoon Scales: The Intelligent Spoon

We've finally reached the age. This is the age when you don't have to guess what measure you have in your spoon. Let the spoon tell you itself. I mean, read it straight from the LCD of the spoon, be it grains, powder or liquid.

This Spoon Scale is simple and precise as it exactly weigh even the tiniest amounts down to the last 1⁄10 gram.

The LCD display (36 x 15mm/11⁄2" x 2⁄3") is easy to read, shows the exact weight down to 0.1g (0.005oz) and can be switched from grams to ounces. With option to weigh added ingredients. After use, hang your space-saving Spoon Scales on your utensil rail or place them within reach in a drawer.

Spoon made of black ABS plastic, handle in 18/10 stainless steel. Measures 23 x 5 x 2.5cm (9" x 2" x 1") (L x W x H). Weight approx. 90g (3oz) including batteries.

This spoon is affordable at a price of £18.50. To order, click here.

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Tissot T-Touch Watch: The Omni-Function Wrist Watch

Finally, my type of watch has finally arrived. This is because I don't wear watch now, as my cell phone is already combining the function. Well, the Tissot T-Touch Expert watch is enough to stimulate the pleasure center of the gadget geek’s brain. Packed into a dual analog/digital face, this wristwatch is literally a flotilla of functions.

As I used to tell my friends, unless the wrist watch can perform a multiple functions of a wrist watch, a thermometer, stethoscope, wind vane, trek-o-meter, etc, (something like a James Bond’s type of wrist watch), then count me out.

This Tissot T-Touch Watch got all. It is fully loaded. Full options. Among it's arsenals are:
- Dual time zones
- Two alarms
- Countdown chronographs
- Barometer
- Thermometer
- Perpetual calendar
- Compass
- Altimeter and
- Azimuth (sort of a GPS system on your wrist)

The face of these technological wonder is touch screen. By tapping on seven different points on the analog face the digital portion displays the results instantly.

The Tissot T-Touch Wrist Watch comes at a price of $1095. It is not too expensive if you consider the number of technological masterpiece crammed into this device.

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Smart Gym Gear: Cooling Shoe, Ear Sensor and Smart Bra

For those of us who are gym rats, we need to give claps to technology for these. New tools under development will soon make sure there's no missed step, poor form, or lagging pace you don't know about in real time.

Ear Sensor
The e-AR from Sensixa is a cufflink-sized device that tucks behind a runner's ear like a Bluetooth headset to measure shockwaves through the skeleton. It calculates stats like step frequency, acceleration, and stride.

Smart Bra

Even small breasts can bounce up to 3 inches during exercise, causing significant discomfort. Researchers in Australia are using motion capture to design a bra that dynamically adjusts cup and strap stiffness as a woman moves around.

Cooling Shoe
Avacore is developing a cooling shoe based on the company's CoreControl glove currently used on NFL sidelines. Why? Rapidly cooling hands and feet is a safer and more efficient way to prevent overheating than water buckets or mist fans.

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Fagor TP-2006 X Flat Toaster: Make a Toast, Get a Burn

The Fagor TP-2006 X Flat Toaster comes with a cool design. It doesn't look ordinary. Besides, you can toast larger items on it. But then, you better be careful with it, for you may be asking for more than toasted bread if you fail to concentrate while using it.

Why now?
- The surface is lined with extremely hot wires that are very well exposed. There is no way to cover it except with the toast.
- You have to manually flip over your toast, as both sides cannot be heated at once.

This is definitely no toaster to be used by children or somnambulist adults.
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Volkswagen Cars That Can Park Themselves Remotely

The VW Park Assist Vision (PAV) will asset driver to remotely park their Volkswagen cars. The driver does not even need to be in the car. Apart from this, the Volkswagen PAV can park the car perpendicularly like in parking spots or in parallel as in along the street.

This means, if you can park in the tightest of spots, without worrying about how you are going to open your door to get out, because you won't be in the car while doing the parking. This sounds exciting. This is the sort of things James Bond movies are made up.

The hardware involved includes ultrasonic sensors, electro-mechanical steering gear, and a 2GHz computer. Once the car is nice and ensconced in its spot, the engine shuts off and the doors are locked. All these will be done via remote control.

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Asus Plans to Build Laptop Casings with Bamboo

This is a sharp departure from the conventional practice of using plastic or metal for the outer shell of laptop, although some aluminum frames will be used to offer the laptops some form of rigidity. Otherwise the bamboo will be a little flexible.

This is worth picking up as the design is beautiful. You might have to wait till June though. There will be both 11-inch and 12-inch variants of the bamboo notebooks, with pricing starting around $1650.

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Stack Up Your Data with Lacie 500GB Rugged Hard-Drive

The new Lacie 500GB portable hard drive comes in 2 models which only differ in connectivity options. There is a version that only features the USB 2.0 interface, and a better one that includes FireWire 400/800 on top of the USB.

The Lacie Rugged 500GB portable hard drive is both shock and scratch resistant in order to protect your data. The USB 2.0 model sells from £190 while the Firewire version sells from £230.

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Acer To Launch First Smartphone

Acer will likely launch its first smartphone near the end of this year or early next year and it will be a Microsoft-based device, the president of the company said Wednesday.

Smartphones will represent as much as 10 percent of Acer's revenue in the next few years, said Gianfranco Lanci, president of Acer, at the company's first quarter investors' conference in Taipei.

People on the lookout for such a device should remember Acer, the world's third-largest PC vendor, owns several brands now, including Gateway of the U.S. and Packard Bell in Europe. Lanci said any smartphone launched by the company could enter the market under any of the brands it owns.

Acer's quick entry into the smartphone market comes largely due to its NT$9 billion (US$297.3 million) agreement last month to purchase handheld device maker E-Ten Information Systems of Taiwan.

E-Ten has developed and sold several smartphone models over the past several years, including its Windows Mobile 6.0-based Glofish smartphone with GPS (Global Positioning System), in addition to other handheld electronic devices such as GPS devices and pocket PCs.

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Scan to eBook With Plustek OpticBook 4600 Book Scanner

ant to photocopy that book? We have a better idea. Scan it with the newly introduced Plustek OpticBook 4600 Book Scanner. You might want to ask me why you should scan it rather than photocopy it. The reasons are plain simple:

- No paper required - as users can save the scanned file onto the hard drive or any portable storage media.
- Scan and save – besides printing out hard copy, users can choose to scan and save the file to any digital format.

This scanner has a resolution of 1200 dpi (interpolated to 24000) dpi and has a Scanning speed as stunning as 3.2 second per page. Besides, Plustek OpticBook 4600 comes with an optional stand. This thoughtful design elevates the scanner by 122mm with an 18.8 degree angle thereby generating the best scan result even when you are scanning a book with hard and bulky cover.

Create an eBook from a book instead of generating bulky papers. This is a great idea for libraries, as scanning a book is more convenient for both the students and the library than photocopying in this highly digitalised world.


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SOLo Lounge Table: A Fully Connected Table

Tables are traditionally meant to be tables, and nothing else. As long as a table can stand and maintain its ground, it’s all well and done.

Well, the SOLo Lounge Table has carried the table concept a little far. Apart from being a table, it comes with some useful connectivity options, which are:

- Solar panels placed on the tables to gather energy to recharge your personal gadgets

- A USB port

- Bluetooth transmitter

- Charge controller and

- A LCD monitor to view it all.

This is in addition to blue LEDs that add cool lighting effects when dark.

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Scatter Those Rodents with Mega-Sonic Scatter-Cat Repeller

Ok, let’s face it. You don't like to kill rats or any other rodents for that matter. But that does not mean you like them hanging around your yard. So how do you chase the cats, rats and other rodents out of your premises? You chase them away of course. How do you chase them away? Typically, by yelling at them.

Well, if you are tired of yelling at those nocturnal creatures in your premises, then let Mega-Sonic Scatter-Cat Repeller do the yelling for you. This is a device that looks like a megaphone, but it is not designed to amplify your voice. Instead, it sends out an ultrasonic signal that human hears cannot hear, but will hit an animal's ear like a high-pitched scream.

You also have the option to switch it to a loud sonic signal that can be heard by both humans and animals. This will come handy when you need to scare someone away. The Cat Repeller also comes with a laser sight, which you can focus on the rodents if need be.


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Thirst Aid - Instant Clean Water Anytime Everywhere

This new product will enable you to drink safe water anywhere and at anytime. It does not matter whether the water is murky or muddy. All you need is to pass it through the Thirst Aid water purifier and your water will be instantly free of odour, bacteria or sediments.

This is especially good if you found yourself lost in one jungle somewhere. This reminds me of Sir H. Rider Haggard's novel titled Allan Quatermain. "Water, water everywhere, but there is not enough to drink", was an expression from a chapter of the old novel. This is because all the water are poisonous. Take Thirst Aid along if you find yourself going for such an expedition mentioned in the novel.

"The Thirst Aid Pouch is a revolutionary new product which can be shipped easily and cost effectively anywhere in the world. Our advanced water filtration technology enables the user to get water from just about any source, from drainage ditch and muddy puddle to a standpipe, and be confident that the Thirst Aid pouch will remove it's contaminants. In an uncertain world, anyone can ensure a safe, clean water supply".

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Airport Scanners That See Through Clothes

Millimeter wave scanners that will allow Transport Security Administration (TSA) personnel to see concealed weapons and other items that may be hidden beneath clothes may soon be installed on Los Angeles International Airport and John F. Kennedy Airport. This is an additional effort to boost security at the airports.

This idea will make uncomfortable some people who view this development as a further violation of their privacy. What happened to the data being gathered by the scanner? Will you really feel comfortable if you are fat and not fit, knowing that airport personnel are seeing right thrugh your clothes? One might as well walk naked. Well, this is the price one has to pay for security with the growing menace of terrorists who are equally going more sophisticated in their operations.

The agency said that security officers viewing the scans would do so remotely, where they will not be able to recognize passengers but will be able to trigger an alarm if needed. The agency also said that a blurring algorithm is applied to passengers' faces in scanned images as an additional privacy protection.

However, the authority stated that an alternative screening option would be available for those reluctant to submit to a body scan. At JFK, millimeter wave scans will be a secondary screening option.

Source: Informationweek

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Turn Your Speech Into Text With Jott

Whenever you are busy, and you don't have the time or hand to write a brief memo, you can just say it and convert your speech to text with Jott. This is extremely useful for busy executives. Great also if you are driving a car.

How does it work?

Dial a number or Speed-Dial button to call Jott.
Respond to the voice prompt and say your memo. Messages can be up to 30 seconds. When you are finished, stop talking.
Within a few minutes, your message will be sent to you via email or text message.

Apart from memo, Jott can also be used to create a reminder, post to your blog, create a Google Calendar item or send email/text messages to your contacts.
Note that you need to register Jott and give your details before you can use the service.

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Tap to Connect With New Nokia 6212 Classic

Nokia today introduced the Nokia 6212 classic featuring integrated Near Field Communication (NFC). The 3G handset allows consumers to conveniently share content, access services and information as well as conduct payments and ticketing with one tap of the device. The Nokia 6212 classic is expected to start shipping in the third quarter of 2008 in select markets in Europe and Asia with an estimated retail price of EUR 200 before taxes and subsidies.

Near Field Communication is designed for intuitive, simple and safe interaction between electronic devices. By tapping an NFC-enabled tag, consumers can receive new content such as weblinks, audio files or contact data directly to their phone. They can activate a profile in their handset or open applications such as FM radio or web browser. Photos and videos can be easily shared by tapping another NFC-capable phone and pairing with a Bluetooth NFC-enabled device, like the new NFC variant of the Nokia BH-210 headset, happens with just one touch. The lightweight Nokia BH-210 with NFC headset allows users to access all functions easily with a single multifunction key. The widely compatible headset can be used with a number of Nokia devices as well as other manufacturers' phones.

The Nokia 6212 classic can also be used as a travel ticket or for mobile payments. Travel tickets can be charged over the air, so there is no need to wait at the service counter. Users can store their credit card information on the device and access their account online directly from the handset. Using the Nokia 6212 classic for payment and ticketing purposes requires a service subscription and the installation of an appropriate secure application. Security for transactions is assured as the handset can be set to allow payment only when the user expressly authorizes the transaction via an additional passcode.

The Nokia 6212 classic allows consumers to personalize and edit their own NFC tags, be it for writing calendar entries or setting the alarm clock. The sales pack of the Nokia 6212 classic comes with three sticker tags, one of which opens the NFC introduction in the phone.

The slimline Nokia 6212 classic comes with an extensive set of features such as a 2 megapixel camera, bright 2-inch QVGA display, stereo FM radio and music player supporting multiple formats. An optional microSD memory card of up to 4GB provides ample space for personal content such as images and songs.

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