Shiny Shiny: Hang on a minute, this looks strangely familiar. Remember those Mymo mobiles that were withdrawn from the market after everyone suspected that phones turn children’s brains to frappuccino? Well, mTrack’s i-Kids phone certainly bears a resemblance. Obviously now everyone’s forgotten that nasty business about kiddie brain pulping, it’s time to try again with the children’s phones. This one […]

Shiny Shiny: Not the first, and we’re sure it won’t be the last, but this Textronics NuMetrex sports bra has a built-in heart rate monitoring system for keen running types. The sensors pick up your heartbeat and sends the info to the WearLink transmitter, which forwards it on to the heart rate monitor watch. Then all you need to do […]

Shiny Shiny: Here’s some Hello Kitty irony for you: she has no mouth – but two of the newest additions to her ever-growing gadget kingdom have features for those of us doomed to open ours from time to time. First is SBODM International Industrial Co. Ltd’s Hello Kitty-shaped flash MP3/WMA player, which offers synchronous lyrics display so you can sing […]

Shiny Shiny: What is it with the proliferation of evil alarm clocks these days? First there was the you’ve – got – to – find – me – to – turn – me – off Clocky, and now there’s the truly insidious Sonic Alarm. If you want to rouse a reluctant sleeper, you pull the pin, lob the alarm into […]

Popgadget: Shodensya, a Japanese provider of energy-saving services to corporate clients, will launch in November devices that reduce energy consumption in the home. Power Monitor can instantly measure the power consumption and voltage used by household appliances. The gauge itself does not have an energy-saving function, but it is helpful in making people more aware of the need to switch […]

we make money not art: The prototype consists of three parts: the shoes with a series of sensors and mechanics, an interface and a computer running a software to analyse the data from the sensors. The Interface provides the communication between the shoes and the Mac. In the future both the interface and the computer could be embedded in the […]

Tech Digest: For many of us, realising man’s dream of flight extends only as far as miniature bags of peanuts and complementary booze, but at lest there are a wide variety of gadgets that will bring the joy of soaring the heavens safely to the living room. We have already seen the outlandish X-UFO and now, for the more traditional […]

TrendCentral: This fancy pen does way more than just write. Packed with a tiny computer, camera, speaker and ink cartridge, the FLY allows users to do math, make music, play games, and schedule activities. When the user writes on special FLY paper, the pen’s computer recognizes what is written and performs the corresponding functions. The technology allows what is written […]

Popgadget: Snap, by Design Continuum, is a wrist-worn MP3 player controlled by simple hand gestures and audio feedback. By monitoring the movement of tendons in your wrist, the device “reads” the hand gestures that control its playback, and reports status through wireless earbuds. The player and earbuds communicate using your skin as a transmission medium, with no wires required, and […]

Gizmag: The Tulip E-Go Diamond notebook is inlaid with solid palladium white gold plates in which thousands (80 carats) of top-quality, brilliant cut diamonds have been pave set with surgical precision. The magnificent end result also incorporates a unique square cut ruby set in both Tulip logos and costs 283,000 Euros (US$355,000). Without the bling, the E-Go (short for easy […]