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This is the Life Wall by Panasonic. An extremely thin 150″ TV that does amazing things. It has face recognition so that it recognizes the face(s) that watch it and adjusts the display or program to that person’s preferences automatically.
How about having a TV that will move with you as you walk around the living room to keep the display right in front of you? The display would be large or small depending on how far away from the screen you were. It could display a screen saver instead of a 
black screen when turned off.
Powerful life-size images could dance with you, and videophone linkups would look like the caller was in the same room.
Video games would take on a whole new dimension with endless possibilities. School could be at home while the teacher could be at school. More…
I know for a lot of things, bigger may be better. But when it comes to many gadgets, companies are always trying to make them smaller and smaller. With the development of new technologies, we now have the ability to make some of the smallest gadgets ever.
Take the iPod Shuffle for instance. The Shuffle was a big deal due to it’s compact size and light weight, but don’t think it is the smallest mp3 player. In this post, we take a closer look at some of the world’s smallest gadgets.
- The World’s Smallest Solar Powered Vehicle
This is the world’s smallest solar powered car. The tiny solar panel powers and electric motor which turns the wheels. It measures a mere 3.3cm x 2.2cm x 1.4cm.
- One of The Worlds Smallest MP3 Players
This MP3 player is so small that people might think you are crazy when they see you jamming to headphones that don’t appear to be plugged into anything.
- The Worlds Smallest Color TV Screen
Usually a TV screen this small is not a good thing, but this TV screen from was developed to be used in a pair of TV glasses. The screen is about half the size of a postage stamp, and it is good for upclose viewing inside a pair of glasses.
- The Xun Chi 138, The World’s Smallest Camera Phone
This is the world’s smallest cell phone. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera, a touch screen with hand writing recognition, an mp3 player and GPRS capabilities. It weighs just 55grams and measures 2.64 inches in length.
- The Space Cube is The World’s Smallest Computer
This tiny computer by Shimafuji has a 300Mhz processor, a 1GB CompactFlash card for storage and 64Mb of DDR SDRAM. It also has a USB port, an Ethernet port, VGA output and jacks for headphones or speakers.
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To catch the mini notebook wave, Fujitsu Siemens finally unveiled the new AMILO Mini Ui 3520. This small notebook will compete head-to-head with netbooks from other vendors.
The specifications are pretty similar. It uses Intel’s Atom N270 processor. It has an 8.9-inch display, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, a built in microphone with a low-fat weight of 1kg. One thing that stands out from the competition is the removable clip-on covers, available in five different colors. The Mini comes with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and ditches the SSD in favor of the hard drive. The connectivity is pretty impressive, since you can add 3G and Bluetooth through the existing Express card slot, in addition to the integrated WLAN. More…
If excessive is your motto, you’re gonna love this article. Opting to choose the path of interesting and innovative, we left out be-jewelled phones and diamond encrusted appliances to give you 17 truly expensive and truly unique devices that will surely make your neighbors and other rich cronies drool!
- Triton 1000 Luxury Submersible - $1,690,000
The Triton 1000 is U.S. Submarines’ latest light weight, minimum volume 2-person configuration engineered specifically for deployment from megayachts. With an overall height of 1.8 meters and an overall length of only 3.0 meters the Triton will fit on many mid-level boat decks, and at 3.3 tons it can often be launched with existing davit systems.
In addition to its megayacht-friendly features, the Triton design provides for excellent visibility and high levels of comfort with luxury leather seating and full air conditioning for your rich and cultured tastes.
Although the Triton has been designed to be easy to pilot, with intuitive joystick controls and a computer based monitoring system, U.S. Submarine still provides piloting and maintenance training at no additional cost making this multi-million dollar purchase truly worth-it!
- The Flying 19XRW Hoverwing Hovercraft - $5,200
Bored of living the high-life? Then take your cronies along for the ride in this truly unique machine. The UH-19XRW Hoverwing from Universal Hovercraft is a unique hovercraft with wings that allow it to fly up to an altitude of six feet above the earth’s surface. This “ground-effect” enables you to clear obstacles and fly over rough water for a smooth and enjoyable ride. Operating in ground-effect does not require a pilot’s license, and the craft is normally registered as a boat in most areas.
With it’s wings removed, the Hoverwing is a sleek, high performance hovercraft, able to carry 4 to 6 passengers into brand new areas that can’t be reached with any other vehicle. The Hoverwing can be configured in many different ways to accommodate passengers or equipment needs.
- Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana’s Rocket-Belts - $250,000
These real-life working Rocket Belts are from Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana. And with some impressive moolah, you could be soaring the skies in your very own, custom built Rocket Belt at more than 10 miles an hour. These James Bond looking devices aren’t new, they’re an old idea from the 1960s during which the US Military was looking for ways in which a man or woman could safely cross rivers and ravines quickly.
Once you’ve plonked down $250,000 for one of these “kerjiggers”, the company will provide you with a fully-tested, custom-made flying rocket belt, a special machine to make our own unlimited supply of rocket fuel, hands-on training in the process and the equipment, flight training of 10 flights in your own rocket belt, maintenance and setup training, and 24/7 expert support. Sounds like a good deal for the adventurous millionaire, and a sure fire way to make even more money by running your own Rocket Man shows!
- The Hovering “Lounger” Lounge Chair by HoverIT - $13,366
This hovering wonder looks like it came straight off a scene of Star Trek but is instead part of HoverIT’s latest range of levitating furniture. This lounge chair uses four extremely powerful permanent magnets to levitate itself above the ground. As you can see, it is made of toughened acrylic that you can place cushions and other niceties to make your lounging experience even more comfortable. HoverIT also claims that the magnetic fields produced by this levitating lounge chair can also soothe headaches and ease muscle and joint pain. Caster wheels are built into the unit to allow you to move it to any desired location.
- Luvaglio’s First Luxury Notebook - $1,000,000
UK-based bespoke luxury goods Game-Guide-Polo creator Luvaglio has created the first million dollar laptop. It incorporates a 17″ widescreen LED backlit screen, 128GB SSD and a slot loading Blue-Ray drive. A very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification.
Luvaglio’s initial clients will be chosen for selection as they have already established trust with them. Clients will be able to design their own laptop by visiting Luvaglio’s showrooms at two or three well known upmarket stores, whereby their selection of materials, finishes and accessories will be available to view and a choice selected.
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Philips launched its Essence TV At IFA 2008, a stylish 38mm deep LCD television designed to hang flush on your wall and look very pretty while doing so.
However, Essence is just the tip of the iceberg and Philips was on hand to demonstrate a super-skinny 8mm prototype TV also.
At the rear of it is a very thin guide plate which is illuminated from the top and bottom by high-power, energy-efficient LEDs. More…
Ah, yes, Chinavasion–maker of all that is weird and wonderful. They’ve outdone themselves this time. Their new Tri-Band GSM/GPRS touchscreen cell phone has something every gadgeteer dreams of: a built in projector!
The tri-band means it can be used with more providers than most phones. It can accept three different bandwidths: 900MHz, 1800MHz, 1900MHz. Those three are used by over 100 countries world wide. It has a touchscreen, WAP, bluetooth and a battery that gives you extra long talk time between charges. It even has an open SIM card slot.
The cell phone has a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, image view, a video recorder and a rich media environment messaging system. The internal 1GB micro SD card gives you plenty of room to listen to music, take pictures and make movies. More…
This bulletproof bed is said to provide the ultimate in protection, communication and entertainment. It is called the Quantum Sleeper. This is similar to a safe-room except it is a bed so you don’t have to get out of bed and hope to make it to bed in case of an emergency.
The bed can protect from bio-chemical attacks, kidnapping and natural disasters (such as tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes and floods).
You can have it made with your choice of CD players, DVD players, a PC, a microwave and a refrigerator. For communication you can choose from cell phones, a CB radio or short-wave radios. More…
Sure, go ahead and tell ‘em it’s a point and shoot camera. No lie there. Sony’s Cybershot DSC-T500 is a 10.1 Megapixel point-and-shoot camera, it just records hi-def movies too. In fact, it records MPEG4 AVC/H.264 movies and it is capable of capturing them at 30 frames/second. Now that’s a hidden camera! While the video camera is shooting 720p HD video, you can get still photos of the scene without a single interruption.
The HDMI files turn out small and crystal clear. The resolution is three times higher than that of regular movies. The camera can automatically identify a smile and show it to you so that you can get that great shot. More…
It looks like it is about as thick as four credit cards stacked one on top of the other, but what it is in reality is the first 120GB 1.8″ USB hard drive. It is known as the SpinPoint N2 from Samsung. It’s other stats are impressive also. At 1.4W and only 300mA it still can spin at an impressive 4200-rpm. That puts its power consumption at just a quarter of the power consumption of a 2.5″ drive.
It performs like a high end drive with it’s fast read and write speeds of 27MB/s and 23MB/s. More…
Microsoft is set to announce a brand new technology for the mouse. The Hardware Unit from Microsoft will unveil some new products on September 9, and they’ve been teasing us with posters like the one shown above.
Apparently the new technology they’re introducing is called “Blue Track” and is “based on a blue LED combined with a wide-angle lens that’s supposed to work on more surfaces than laser and optical.” More…
black screen when turned off.
