Locate your Wallet, keys with Nokia Locator

Nokia is showing of its Nokia Locate Sensor ,a prototype, a little gadget that keep track of you wallet, car keys and gadgets within a range of 100m by using a special application installed on your mobile phone. You will need to attach the Locate Sensor to the items

and start the app on your phone. The application on the phone will automatically notify you and guided you to the lost object if it is within 100 m. The Nokia Locate Sensor was shown in the CES 2009, it is still under prototype at the moment.

Source: gsmarena

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RC Helicopter - Voice Controlled

I love new things when it comes to RC Stuff. But this time i really found this RC toy outstanding from other. WHY? Because unlike other RC stuff this RC helicopter operates under voice commands. Check out the video of this great stuff.
The learning curve for flying R/C helicopters can be pretty steep, even for some of the simpler 3 and 4 channel models. Taiyo is trying to make it a little bit easier with this voice controlled heli, which responds to 5 commands: “start engine,” “up,” “hold,” “down” and “stop.” It really should respond to things like “come back” but with a range of only 30 feet you may not have too much to worry about. The 7 inch long helicopter also comes with a remote control, and will retail for $60 sometime later this year.


Source: Engadget

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No Road ahead for the PSP Phone

The consumer electronics giant has allegedly put the kibosh on plans by its cellphone subsidiary Sony Ericsson to use the PlayStation brand to create a new handset, says Mobile magazine.

Sony Ericsson reportedly made a pitch for licensing that brand last year. The idea was to have a PSP phone that would appeal to video game loyalists of the brand and be an extension much like the Cyber-shot and Walkman handsets. Sony Ericsson representatives have not yet responded to a request for comment.

Sony is reported to have said that it will consider using the PlayStation brand for the phone only if the company can make the handsets itself, rather than license it to the Sony, Ericsson joint venture.

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Explore the sky a little closer with this

Meade are a well known name in consumer telescopes, recognised for using computer technology to make telescopes easier to use.

That technology reaches a peak in the new ETX-LS, which combines GPS and optical sensing technology to optimally align itself in 3 minutes, anywhere on the planet.

Once you’re looking at an object in the sky the telescope will work out what you’re looking at and if it knows about it, give you information through the built in speaker. It will even present related video on a connected TV.

For the uninitiated, here’s why auto alignment is cool: we are sitting on a ball of rock moving through space and spinning at 1000MPH. If you try to use a telescope to look at the sky you’ll find that it very quickly moves (remember we’re spinning) and you have to readjust the telescope to keep the sky still.

Motorised telescopes can do this adjustment automatically but they need to be told where they are on the earth so that they can work out which direction to move in.

So the ETX-LS can work out where it is automatically using GPS, fine tune itself by recognising the sky, find anything you want to look at automatically, keep track of it for as long as it’s over the horizon and also (if it’s a well known object) tell you something about it. Pretty neat!

Source: Meade

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Wen Xide the Snake Eater - Weird Appetite

I have seen many people eating beetles and bugs as appetisers but even they eat them after cooking or roasting it but one man in china eats snakes which are alive.

The man is Wen Xide Age 41 of Wangzhuang village, Zhumadian, china eats live snakes.
He said he has been eating snakes like this for the past ten years and it all started as a bet for a cigarette packet between friends. And after that it has just become a appetiser.

Wang Tianming, a doctor specializing in digestion at a local hospital, said Wen could suffer nerve problems and risked infection from the parasites eaten by the snakes.

But Wen told the press:

“From that first time, I became addicted to eating live snakes. It’s a bit smelly, but they’re very delicious.”

Some passersby have trouble watching Wen eat live snakes and a few have even vomited from the sight.

Wen says his son is now following his lead and has eaten eight live snakes this year.

Source : Orange

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World's Smallest Bluetooth Dongle

At US$14.99 this is the worlds smallest USB Bluetooth Dongle and if this is not the world smallest USB Bluetooth Dongle, it should at least should be the second one! It is just a tip of a 50-cent Euro.

Features:
- Super Tiny and slim
- Bluetooth 2.0 compliant
- USB 2.0 compliant
- PLAY-N-PLAY, NO NEED TO INSTALL DRIVER!
- Driverless (*for Windows XP and Vista only)
- LED Indicator when Plugged
- Supports Bluetooth voice (A2DP) / data
- Enables wireless Personal Area Network (PAN)
- Connecting to your Cell phone, PDAs or PC for data transfer, networking or even dial up, fax...

Source : USBfever

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Avoid those arm strains caused by a mouse

If your boss is too cheap to buy you a comfortable working chair that has arm rests, letting you sit on a plastic stool all day long, perhaps it is time you considered investing $19.99 in the Arm-Rest Table Pad. The name of the device is pretty much self-explanatory - it was specially designed to attach to most work tables, with the aim to reduce arm fatigue, prevent injuries and save money on medical bills in the long run. Constructed from sturdy metal,



you won’t need a single tool to assemble this and comes in handy at both home and the office. Just make sure the table is no thicker than 5cm and you’re good to go. If you need to get this for the office, we doubt that you can claim the $19.99 from the Claims Department either. Find a new employer already!

Source: usbfever

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Teach your kids how to recycle with this

The inestimable Bill Nye the Science Guy snuck into stores this holiday season to brand this Paper Recycling Factory... you know, for kids. It accomplishes in colorfull plastic what you can do in a bucket in your garage: mash up, dye and hydrate old newspaper into paste, then squidge it into molds to make holiday cards and notebooks and the like. For $29.95, this seems like a good introduction to the principals of paper recycling for the young'uns: nothing teaches a kid about science better than the capacity to make a huge, stinking, goopy mess to their parent's chagrin.

Source: discoverthis

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Virtual Reality Glass - VUZIX

The biggest feature of the new Vuzix virtual reality glasses has nothing to do with a new technology.

Mostly, it comes from the fact that the company finally hired a designer aware of current aesthetic tastes. The older models of the VR system looked like props straight from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and they exposed the poor saps brave enough to try them in public far too easily.

The new design is interesting enough that any cool-kid Bono wannabe could reach for them, while keeping it fairly basic.

The Wrap 920AV will have some pretty good tech inside as well. It will have an improved variation of virtual reality combined with augmented reality, whereby an object or video feed will appear in space. Basically, it opens up certain video away from a block panel display into one that will give the appearance of interactivity.

While it sounds a bit confusing, Vuzix promises the optics are much improved and that you will actually feel like you're watching a real screen. Previous versions suffered from a narrow frame, resulting in a POV that didn't live up to its goal of immersive-style entertainment.

According to a Vuzix rep, the glasses will be able to connect to any type of portable media player and will be unveiled for the first time during next week's CES 2009.

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