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USB negative scanner relives 35mm film memories (horrors!)
Damian Koh | Oct 17, 2008
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Freehands--gloves that love your handsets
John Chan | Oct 15, 2008
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Cold weather is not something most of us in Asia Pacific have to contend with. But for the business traveler who has to travel to the northern hemisphere near the end of the year, the Freehands gloves could be the ticket to keeping hands warm while still allowing you to use your tech gadgets.
Created by the founder of design/technology blog CoolHunting, Josh Rubin, these gloves let you operate your iPhone or BlackBerry without you having to remove them. The parts of the gloves covering the index fingers and thumbs can be folded back so your flesh can make contact with a touchscreen or buttons. The really clever thing is that they are held down by magnets, so nothing flaps around while you are typing a message or dialing a number.
The Freehands come in leather, spandex and fleece costing US$40, US$30 and US$20, respectively. There are five sizes ranging from extra small to extra large and you can have one in any color--as long as it is black. Visit the official site if you want to pre-order one.
Via CoolHunting
Bandai unleashes a robot watchdog
Juniper Foo | Oct 15, 2008
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Since Sony's Aibo cyberdog is history, this Wall-E-like robotic watchdog may have just enough kawaii to inherit the AI crown. Bandai's NetTansorWeb is designed to patrol your premises for intruders, with built-in surveillance cameras and sensors to do the job. You can even remotely monitor your home through its "eyes" and get it to blog. Though why you'd need a security robot to blog still stumps us. Hopefully, when this launches in Japan come December (for US$500), Bandai would have christened its robo watchdog with a more user-friendly name than NetTransorWeb. Meanwhile, it'll be interesting to see how the NetTransorWeb and iRobot get along when they meet face-to-face while on autopilot duty.
Via GearLog
Get closer to 11 with Stage Kit for "'Rock Band 2"
Eric Franklin | Oct 15, 2008
(Credit: PDP)
Now, you could go out and learn how to play a real musical instrument and start your own band. However, it would probably fail to gather any of that widespread popularity you're yearning for, eventually leading to your untimely, but not surprising drug-induced death. Fret not, though, because there is an alternative.
Stage Kit from Performance Designed Products (PDP), attempts to enhance the immersion of Rock Band and Rock Band 2 for the Xbox 360 by creating a light and smoke effect that is supposedly synchronized to the music.
Stage Kit will be available this month for US$99. Watch the video below to see it in action. Please excuse the wince-inducing lameness of the video, though. My guess is that the groupies are not included.
While a smoke and light machine is cool, I think I'd prefer a peripheral that allowed for a mini foam Stonehenge to be lowered from my ceiling, but that's just me, I guess.
Via CNET Crave
"Intelligent Heat" knows your hands better than you do
Eric Franklin | Oct 14, 2008
If you're reading this while rubbing your hands together and blowing hot breath into them (remember, the wider your mouth when you blow, the warmer the heat), well you should probably turn on the radiator or put on some gloves. If you already have gloves on and are still rubbing your hands together, keep reading.
Aevex announced recently that its Intelligent Heat technology can now be found in winter gloves from Mountain Hardwear and Outdoor Research. Not to be confused with the Cooling Glove (not sure why you would be, but we just wanted to get that link in there), both the PrimoVolta (US$259) and the Red Savina (US$300) gloves are available in US stores this week.
The way it works: Without forcing you to carry around a battery pack, heating functions have been integrated into a single panel that is sewn into the apparel like an extra layer of fabric.
According to Aevex, these panels are light, ultrathin, and flexible, so supposedly they virtually disappear inside the gloves. The technology works with your body to automatically adjust to its needs, delivering more heat to your cold parts and less to your warm parts.
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