Archives for March 2006
Mus2
Juniper Foo | Mar 14, 2006
Remember our friendly looking, cursor-shaped Mus mouse? This family of rodents just got larger with the addition of Mus2, in both black and white versions. As promised by Russian design house Art Lebedev, its latest offering now caters to the Windows crowd with two buttons instead of the one for Apple users. They've also gone optical and wireless, with a power indicator in the mouse handle that lights up when the rechargeable battery starts running low. Mus2 claims not to cause any discomfort in hand. Though if you have to point-and-click 10 hours straight at work, you might just end up throttling this mouse, sexy or not.
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Price: US$40
Availability: At Art Lebedev Studio
Device: Optical wireless mouse
Basic specs: Compatible with Windows and Mac OS X, USB connection, operating range of 2m, 2,300fps, 800 dpi, two AAA rechargeable or non-rechargeable batteries, switches to power saving mode if not moved
Self-heating clothes
Juniper Foo | Mar 13, 2006
We bet even the Eskimos will make a beeline for this. Brit vendor Maplin Electonics literally gives new meaning to the term "hot pants", rolling out what could be a first for the UK industry--self-heating clothes. These battery-operated garments made from new fabric technology will keep the fashionably challenged looking, erm, cool even in the midst of a blizzard. Heating wire woven seamlessly into the bodywarmer and gloves fire up to a toasty 40 degrees Celcius within 5 minutes. While the makers have thrown in a zipper that doubles as a compass, let's hope version two sees something more practical like a temperature control knob and legwarmers as well.
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Via Gizmag
Price: Bodywarmer, about £40 (US$69.75); gloves, about £20 (US$34.90)
Availability: The UK, Maplin Electronics stores
Device: Clothing
Basic specs: Water-resistant gloves, 6 AA batteries required, in yellow or black
Origami handheld devices at CeBIT
Darius Chang | Mar 11, 2006
New category of mobile devices feature lightweight, carry-everywhere hardware designs coupled with the functionality of a Windows PC.
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled details for ultramobile personal computers (UMPCs), a new category of mobile computing devices that features small, lightweight, carry-everywhere hardware designs coupled with the full functionality of a Windows PC and a choice of input options, including enhanced touch-screen capabilities.
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CeBIT 2006: Cars, curves and Cup fever
Darius Chang | Mar 11, 2006
As always, Hannover-based tech expo CeBIT is a showcase of the bold and the beautiful. And it isn't just the hardware models we're talking about here.
Read moreIntel showcases future tech at IDF
Darius Chang | Mar 11, 2006
The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) has traditionally been a platform for chipmaker to share some of its tech initiatives with journalists and analysts from all over the world. This year's Spring event in San Francisco was no different. The chipmaker touched on several key topics including its Tera-Scale Computing Research Program, mobile and desktop platform strategies as well as new standards such as wireless USB and Unified Display Interface (UDI).
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