Archive: April 2008

DIY Phone Assembly

The entire shell is made of tiles - tiles you can customize and slide around for a one of a kind look. Replace and update them as often as you like.

 

Designer: Tzu-Fu Wang

 

further detail on Yanko Design

 

 

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The Internet lets us do all manner of things: send emails, write blogs and of course, run manufacturing businesses in conjunction with companies halfway across the world.

 

Wait, what was that last one again?

 

Wired reports that a growing number of entrepreneurs (who they cutely call “instapreneurs”) are using sites like Zazzle, which will make your design into a t-shirt for general retail, Blurb, which will knock you up a book and Ponoko, which will make up anything from a pair of earrings like the ones pictured above, to a large-scale item of furniture. And they will make as many or as few as you like.

 

Just upload your blueprint to the site, and Ponoko’s laser cutters will get to work making a chair, table, jigsaw, lamp, piece of jewellery or any other design to your exact specifications. Using this system, anyone willing to offset the cost of manufacturing and shipping (Ponoko is based in New Zealand) has the potential to make a mint. The potential for small businesses - who now don’t have to stump up for manufacturing and storage - is huge, although the implications for the manufacturing industry could be a little less rosy.

source: popgadget

 

I had a change to meet Dave @ Techcrunch40 last year.

 

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This keyboard almost scares me a little, I mean its certainly intimidating to look at. It has too much lighting, I mean there are all the lights and such on the bezel above the keys, and then there are 3 different colors of backlights that can be adjusted in brightness or even mixed in an color combination with the other two colors and then common gaming keys have their own special lighting as well as metal key caps.

This keyboard is plain crazy. Then there are tons of customizable keys, including the 6 tab looking things along each side. Furthermore, any key customizations you make are saved through your reboot even.

Like I said, this keyboard is crazy, and is definitely meant for hardcore gamers or hardcore lifehackers who will likely program the programmable keys to do something, I don’t know, useful. If you want one its available for pre-order on Amazon for $80 right now.

source: slashgear

 

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4-Port USB Car Charger

So you’re on a long road trip and have actually run out of juice for most of your gadgets. Should they actually be able to be charged from USB, thank the heavens for the 4-Port USB Car Charger. This device is pretty self-explanatory, allowing you to charge up to a quartet of devices - nifty when you’re lugging around essential items like a cell phone and a Nintendo DS Lite (yes, yes, I’m a fanboy). Features include :

* Input voltage: 12V to 24V DC
* Output voltage: 6V DC
* Over loading protection
* Short circuit protection
* High temperature protection

The 4-Port USB Car Charger retails for $12 a pop.

source: ubergizmo

 

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Geek chic: The keyboard bag

Now I like my keyboard as much as the next person (probably more considering it’s cool and wireless), but once it has worn out its lifespan it ends up chucked, however exciting it may be. Well this geeky bag proves that life doesn’t have to end when the keystrokes die, with a design that incorporates keys all over it. I like how the
designer Joao Sabino has taken an everyday item and turned it into a wearable piece of art too.

Like that? See here for more covers and bags.

source: shinyshiny

 

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The IKEA Subway

I really like IKEA stuff even though the quality of the products are questionable with respect to time. But this IKEA Subway in Kobe is just divine.

additionnal pictures on Japanese Gadget

 

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IKEA is at it again with a new piece of furniture that’s great for space starved people. The PS is a slim, wall hugging laptop work station and charging dock for all your electronic gadgets. It’s cheap, looks good and it’s functional. It’s also a copy. Notcot reminds us that the design was lifted from a more expensive work station called the eNook. The original is priced at a whopping $399.00 while the PS is only $39.00.

source: psfk

 

 

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ccording to an MTV source, Microsoft is not only considering a Wii-remote like accessory for the Xbox 360, it’s getting ready to launch it by the end of this year.

 

The project has reportedly been in planning since last summer, and legendary developer Rare has been given the responsibility of creating a unified interface and design of the controller.

 

Rare you may remember for famously abandoning the good ship Ninty so it could sit on its arse for a few years doing nothing while Microsoft wondered what to do with it. It came out of hiding to underwhelm us with Perfect Dark Zero and then launch the far more impressive Viva Pinata, which no one seemed to be interested in. Along with designing and building an Xboxaxis or whatever it is supposed to be called, it is officially at work on Banjo Kazooie 3 right now.

source : techdigest

 

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What would you do if you had to copy a couple of hundred megs of data to 20 USB drives in under 5 minutes? That’s easy, right? But look at the constraint – you have only one PC. Now, that’s a toughie.

 

The Nexcopy USB duplicator allows you to copy as much as 250MB of data to 20 USB drives in one shot. In under 4 minutes. Now, who can beat that? For companies, this device can save much time and effort, for example, when duplicating official data on USB drives for distribution among employees. Or for a company marketing a new product during a promotional campaign.

 

This giant USB duplicator with equally giant possibilities sells at a pricey $1299.

 

source: popgadget

 

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3D baby, that’s what we’ve wanted from home television for 50 years. Now it’s yours… if you live in Japan anyway. Introducing the world’s first 46-inch 3D stereoscopic television (which is essentially a fancy name for a 3D television that requires glasses to view properly). Many companies are working on TVs capable of displaying 3D — ideal for video games for example — but it looks like this one is the first one that’s actually for sale.

 

Built by Hyundai, the 1,920 x 1,080 set is capable of grabbing BS11 3D broadcasts pumped by Nippon BS in Japan for the last few months. The ¥498,000 (about $4,857) LCD brings 2x HDMI and 3x composite inputs (to name a few) and apparently works fine for traditional 2D broadcasts.

 

Unfortunately, you’ll have to wear what appear to be 3-foot wide, 3D glasses judging by the image provided above. Perhaps they’re meant as a radiation shield since the set is also the world’s first TV with built-in “nuclear reactor” according to the machine translated text. Be careful out there kids, it’s just television.

source: switched

 

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