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How to predict gadget success
Erica Ogg | Feb 11, 2009
Sometimes even a well-designed and innovative product can still be a total dud. See the Apple Newton.
Forrester's new research method says TiVo's superior design is trumped by cable DVRs' convenience. (Credit: TiVo)
In a new report released Friday, Forrester analyst James McQuivey zeroes in on what makes seemingly good products fall flat once they reach store shelves: lack of convenience. And he doesn't just mean "convenient" in that you can, for example, transfer a music device easily from your pocket to your car dashboard, but rather the entire experience using that music device--from buying the songs to putting them on that device, to having a battery that lasts long enough and can be easily recharged.
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Holographic Candlelit Dinner Kit for a geeky Valentine's
Juniper Foo | Feb 11, 2009
(Credit: ThinkGeek)
What we're not so sure about is whether the nausea and headache induced from staring into each other's diffracted bug eyes through 3D wraparounds would eventually lead to that desired romantic interlude at the end of dinner. The US$5.99 kit comes with a candle and two thin-film glasses etched with a pattern designed to diffuse the light from the candle into heart-shaped rainbows. Batteries, er, matches not included.
Via Coolest Gadgets
Ingenious eyeglasses for the poor
John Chan | Feb 10, 2009
(Credit: The Washington Post)
Pictured here is English physicist Joshua Silver who wishes to change the world with his self-adjusting glasses for the poor. Never mind the fact that they are incredibly dorky, the important thing is that his invention currently costs just US$19 a pair and will enable millions of children who can't afford spectacles to see properly.
These glasses have silicone oil-filled lenses that can be adjusted using syringes attached to the sides. The user is the one who determines the amount of liquid required to fix his short- or long-sightedness. Once the syringes are removed, the eye piece can be worn like any ordinary pair of glasses. Because you don't need them to be specially prescribed, high costs are done away with, making eyeglasses accessible to the poorest of people.
About 30,000 of these eyewear have been distributed in Africa and Eastern Europe. Silver hopes to make millions of them and eventually cut down the cost to just a few dollars per pair. We certainly hope he succeeds in that endeavor.
Via bookofjoe
Kindle rival Plastic Logic signs up content partners
Dong Ngo | Feb 10, 2009
(Credit: Plastic Logic)
It's a day for e-reader news. Along with Amazon.com's Kindle 2 announcement, competitor Plastic Logic revealed the first partners to distribute content on its eReader when the device becomes commercially available sometime in 2010.
The partners include Ingram Digital, LibreDigital, and Zinio, which has more than 1,000 digital magazine titles currently in its stable. USA Today and the Financial Times have also signed on.
The eReader--which is designed to store dozens or hundreds of business documents on a very thin digital reader--is about the size of an 8.5 x 11-inch pad of paper and weighs less than most print magazines, according to Plastic Logic.
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Lounge around in levitating Hoverit chair
Leslie Katz | Feb 09, 2009
Repelling magnets keep the Hoverit lounge chair levitating above its base. (Credit: Hoverit)
If you like to feel that you're above other people, the Hoverit lounge chair might just be for you.
Using repelling magnetic forces, the Lounger lifts you up as it levitates above the structure's base--just a few inches up, but up nonetheless.
The limited-edition handmade chair by British company Hoverit measures about 2 x 1 x 1m and comes in clear acrylic, though there are customization options. You can select different shapes of cutouts for the seat--circles, hearts, droplets, or slots--as well as mats to soften the acrylic blow. And the company said it will soon have a range of accessories, including cushions.
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