Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category
SeeLippers - Nightlights for your feet!
Sunday, December 9th, 2007This was a nice surprise from a comment on my lighted slippers post. Steven Dunlap has taken that idea one step further by inventing SeeLippers - Nightlights for your your feet!
SeeLippers comes in various cool designs such as Caterpillar, Tropical Fish, Zoom Zoom Car and Pumpkin. It comes built-in with a neat ‘intelligent’ [...]
One Step Closer to the Jetsons
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007Gress Aerospace has been developing a unique control technology for vertical take-off and landing system for a while now. The aim is to achieve a system that greatly simplifies flying and will take much less room than a helicopter. This will open up the door to aviation vehicles in the normal urban life - kinda [...]
Innespace Sea Breacher - Drive A Dolphin
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007Now this would be a cool thing to have. The Sea Breacher is a two-seater watercraft designed like a dolphin. It is not like the traditional submersible where you sink the craft to stay underwater. The Sea Breacher stays underwater by balancing out it’s buoyancy with its ‘downforce’ producing flippers. What [...]
Slip Into A Pair Of Lights
Friday, December 8th, 2006Waking up in the middle of the night is normal for some people - especially if they have problems with their bladder. When nature calls, you gotta get to the toilet real quick. Moving around in the dark is already tricky when you are at your own home. It gets even trickier [...]
Opel’s Built-In Bike Rack
Thursday, October 5th, 2006This will make life easier for the biking enthusiasts. Instead of having to buy seperate bike racks and having to mount your bikes on top of the car, Opel has come up with this idea of integrating the bike rack into its cars.
The Flex-Fix feature is fitted into the European models of Opel’s Antara [...]
Ever Wish You Could Carry Tons of Books Around…?
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006Well now you can!
Not literally though. I’m talking about ebooks, of course. And the device to carry it all is called the Sony Reader.
Sony intends for this device to supplement the traditional books and not to replace them. Personally, I think the old paper-bound books will be around forever - there is [...]
Wireless RF Remote Extender
Monday, September 25th, 2006Remote controls must be one of the inventions of the century. You can still remain seated in your favourite seat and flip channels, change the volume and all that.
But then everything started to have a remote control, and functions started to be remote control exclusive. For that, one needs a universal remote to [...]
Cellphone Low on Power? Charge with Water!
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006I picked this neat gadget up off HipTech Blog.
Anyone who has ever owned a [tag]cellphone[/tag] has been in this situation more than once: you are waiting to receive (or make) some important calls but your state-of-the -art cellphone is really low on power. With no [tag]charger[/tag] in sight, you pray that your batteries hold up [...]
5 Patented Bizzare Ideas!
Monday, July 17th, 2006Since everybody else in the gadget blog corner is doing off-the-shelf kinda gadgets, I thought I’d explore a different route just to add color to the gadget blog world.
Today, I’m gonna present 5 [tag]bizzare[/tag] [tag]patented[/tag] gadgets. This will be fun!
1. AUTOMATIC HAIR WASHING MACHINE
US patent no. : D489481
inventor : Nobuyuki Minami - Osaka, Japan
Sit [...]
World’s Smallest Camera & Giant Pushpins?!?
Sunday, June 25th, 2006OmniVision has introduced the world’s [tag]smallest camera [/tag] aimed at the medical industry. Measuring at 2.1mm by 2.3mm, this tiny little thingy is designed to comsume a meagre 3.3 volts. So I guess the obtrusive kind of medical tools can be made a little less obtrusive… if there is such a thing. [...]
