Archive for August, 2008
OpenFrame Platform to give iPhone like make over to the home phone!
By Cheryl | August 21, 2008
Enough of cell phones, lets talk land lines now. Yes, it definitely sounds berserk to mention land lines, when most of us are chucking them out for sleek cell phones and chucking the old sleek cell phones for the latest iPhone!
What if you cross breed your boring land line with the all new jazzy iPhone. If not world class but quite a manageable iPhone look alike breed will definitely result out for sure. I’m not talking crap, but people at OpenPeak who designed the OpenFrame platform are once again ready to become the pioneers to give an iphone-y makeover to your home phone.
Open Peak is all set to manufacture a traditional home phone consisting of ‘OpenFrame’ (the small tablet that looks like a digital picture frame. The final outcome will be soon ready with telecoms to be supplied to consumers at a price about $200 to $300.
And if you are already worrying about the applications, let me tell you that just like with iPhone, the company will also encourage developers to create third-party programs complementing the OpenFrame including the calendar, local weather & news and even internet radio. Hmmm…seems happy days are here again for the home phone!
Via: Coolest Gadgets
The real Music Box: Transforming concept phone from KDDI AU
By Cheryl | August 21, 2008
Do you love your music phone? Check out the latest concept of musical phone on the block from Japan’s KDDI AU Design Project and you’ll end up wanting to put your hands on it!
This device on display in Tokyo is the most intriguing cell phone of all called the ‘Box to Play. The secret behind such a name lies in the fact that the other wise sleek cell phone packed with the usual cool features, when is put on the music mode it transforms into a box with a graphic equalizer on it’s walls. If that didn’t make you drool, hear this – the Box to Play phone also homes a tiny embedded turntable allowing you to scratch the music playing on the phone. Sounds really interesting….must say – it’s indeed talking future or a bright future!
Via: Gizmodo
Luxury Gadget of the day: Knalihs Athem’s Diamond Studded iPhone 3G
By Cheryl | August 21, 2008
If the opulence of the world’s most expensive iPhone from the house of Amosu Ultimo or the glory of diamond bathed Olympic iPhone failed to commemorate the ultimate iPhone mania, then here is yet another glittering gadget that’s sure to encompass the grandeur of the iPhone phenomenon – the iPhone 3G by Swiss luxury designer and jeweler Knalihs Athem.
Taking luxury to the newer dimensions come the Apple iPhone 3G encrusted with no les than 475 finest quality brilliant cut diamonds weighing 3.75 carats. Want to be the proud owner of one? Hurry up as only 50 of these limited edition pieces will be designed world over.
Every piece comes with individual and official diamond grading details from a gemological lab as a stamp pf purity and credibility of your bling wonder while the hand-polised surface shouts luxury at its best.
With features and looks to make the owner proud of the possession, you can’t expect the price anyway less grand and the tag very much in sync with the glory of the 3G iPhone reads $10,000. Grab it now, or you might end up paying more as the count goes low.
Via: EliteChoice
iBasket, futuristic washing machine: Doesn’t need a human touch
By Cheryl | August 20, 2008
Failing to manage laundry and piles of dirty clothes is one of the many daily chores that are left unattended by so many busy people, whose jobs doesn’t leave them with time to take care of them. So with a view to offer a little help to such souls Guopeng Liang brings iBasket – an automated washing machine.
By making it to the top nine Electrolux Design Lab ’08 finalists, iBasket is sure to catch some fancy with the laundry maniacs.
With a transparent cylindrical body made of acrylic glass, engineered plastic and recycled aluminum, the washing machine is pre-programmed to start off the washing spree only after collecting a specific weight of clothes. Once done. It washes the dirty lot for a selected duration, while the built-in air refresh system gets of the smelly odors. And once the washing is over, the LEDs fixed at the bottom flashes out to give you the signal. Not just this, it will also give you a ‘work done’ message on your cell phone and computer via a wireless so that the busy bee that you are, don’t forget that your cleaning business is done! We hope the concept gets real too soon!
Via: Alienhome
Not so great Kayak speakers
By Cheryl | August 20, 2008
As far as I understand a ‘Kayak’ is a small boat but the ‘Kayak Speakers’ as they call them don’t resemble a boat at all still christened like that…any answers?
Any way as they say, what’s in a name? Let’s get ahead with other specs of the speakers from the house of Sonance. With quite a unique design they can be a sure shot attention grabber in a living room. They are designed by the minds at NACSound and boast to offer stereophonic sound from a single speaker with the help of an acoustic reflector suspended in the center. (What’s new?) The speakers churn out 60W of sound with a sensitivity of about 86dB. Talk about placing them and you get the liberty of installing them horizontally or vertically as per your requirements.
Not very great features and a little cool looks seem to les to pay a whopping amount of $2900 for the Kayak features…what do you say?
Via: Gizmodo
Design attack: Boynq Swing USB Hub
By Cheryl | August 20, 2008
USB hub is the need of the hour when so many attachments and applications are supposed to be worked in a single PC. But I just don’t like those too technical USB hubs. But the all new Boynq Swing USB Hub ended my search of a good looking yet functional USB hub. This one in all black is not only sleek but spacious too. Boynq can suspend as many as four USB drives under its graceful arch.
If that was all about looks, the features are no less competitive including DC power for multiple high-powered USB devices and offers protection at the same time.
A cool combo of a beautiful design and technological functionality makes Boynq Swing USB Hub a welcome break on any desk. The Newton’s cradle like USB hub can be yours for somewhere around $25.
Via: RedFerret
Translations at your fingertips with Linguo
By manoj | August 19, 2008
Linguo is a produced by Edovia Inc.. For iPhone and iPod touch that, given a text input will carry out the translation into another language. If it were necessary to translate a phrase in particular, after having written Linguo will connect to the Internet and will provide you with the exact translation.
To tell the truth for the moment the application is a little ’slow in translating phrases written by the user. In addition, the bond of Internet connection sometimes makes it unusable. Excluding these small flaws, this is the best available today on App Store, dedicated to translations.
Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte
By manoj | August 19, 2008
I choose to introduce myself as a Sony Ericsson’s fan than Nokia. Weird but true! Not that Nokia models doesn’t attract me but the musical models from Ericsson entice me more. The mention of Nokia 8800 is around for a while but its entry in new avatar is all set to break few heads. The 3G limited edition Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte is designed using carbon fibre, titanium and stainless steel. The model features 4GB of internal memory, an OLED display and a protective shield that leaves no gaps for fingerprints. The luxurious appeal of the 3.2 megapixel camera phone says a lot about the personality of the phone.
Tiny Miny USB cell phone charger
By Cheryl | August 19, 2008
I had all the reasons to write about this gadget! It’s small, it’s portable and above all it’s highly functional. We are talking about this tiny and lightweight USB cell phone charger. It’s not a cell phone charger exactly but a battery charger to be more precise. Quite easy to cally than those bulky chargers this one is highly compact.
All you need to do with this charger is that just take the battery out of your cell phone and fix it into the slot available in this charger and let it infuse life in your cell phone. This one is good enough to adopt high capability switch power supply with efficient transforming and also extends the stand time and longevity of your battery. And the best part about this USB charger is that it can charge almost all models of cell phones unlike the other chargers that are good enough for only one kind of phone.
The only practical drawback that I could find in the USB cell phone charger was that the cell phone will remain switched off all the while it is on charging mode rest seems cool!
Price: US$12.00
Via: mobilabrando
Are ahead with the launch of PS3 disc 80GB?
By manoj | August 19, 2008
As we marked our calendars on Wednesday, 27 as the D-Day, the day of the launch of the PlayStation 3 with 80GB hard drive, but impatient with what they were put in EE. may be brought forward in Europe a few days. Game stores, Amazon (UK), Gamestation and Play.com are listing this new version of PS3 for this Friday, 22, even though Play is not even listed.
Sea on Friday or on Wednesday, this version will replace the 40GB version with the same price.