I’m sure we have all been in this situation at some point or another. Your mobile device is dead, or close to dying, and you have no electricity to juice it up. Maybe your power is out at your home due to a bad storm, or you are out on a trail biking or camping and you need to charge your battery. Your savior will be your own human power and a cool gadget.
The ever popular photo sharing app Instagram is awesome, but only being able to view it on your mobile device can at times seem monotonous. I’ve talked about different ways to view Instagram photos outside of your mobile device in the past, and even Instagram has hinted at bringing photos and profiles to the web. But a Kickstarter project called Instacube is a new fun way to view Instagram outside of your mobile devices.
Back in the day I would have my boombox sitting in my bathroom where I would put in a CD, or listen to the radio while taking a shower. Times have changed, and so has our technology. No longer do people use boomboxes, they use their mobile devices to stream music. Getting good music in the shower with you with good sound, without damaging your device is a risk at best. So why risk it when you can use a waterproof music player right in the shower with you.
Creating digital artwork is no easy task without the right tools. Many still compose art in a non-digital world, then use Photoshop or similar image manipulation tools to digitize their work. What if you could use a touchscreen device which encompassed all your artist design needs to create videos, art and animation, all in one beautiful user interface?
Wait, fried gadgets? Yes, that’s right. Henry Hargreaves is an art and fashion photographer who likes to create new mediums for his photography. One of which was to fry up some gadgets like iPhones, iPads and laptops to see how they fair and post the results on his Tumblr blog. The results, well you can see for yourself. The gadgets look so good I think Colonel Sanders would even be proud!
Virtual image pinboard Pinterest is all the rage these days. It’s taken off like wildfire to much praise. I myself have doubted it success, however, it seems that Pinterest seems to be going strong. One thing though that has come up over and over again about Pinterest is that it’s used mostly by the female demographic, with women’s fashion, food recipes and the like dominating the space.
High school graduation is a milestone in each of our lives. As young adults prepare for the next phase of their lives, family and friends often want to give useful graduation gifts that add to the college experience while preserving the memories of the past.
Those that were expecting a miracle from the new iPad (iPad third gen) may be a little disappointed, but not too badly. The new iPad event just ended a short time ago, with announcements of some nice new features for iPad lovers.
After seeing video of the Samsung Smart Window at CES, my mind is a bit blown. This is innovative times ten. This is so cool and it doesn’t look believable but it is, it’s very real. It’s called a “window” because it’s a fully transparent screen so you can see through to the other side. It’s also a fully functioning operating system that can run apps; basically a big iPad.
Yeah I know, awesomest is not a real word. But this watch is just that cool, where no real word can describe it. It’s the HYT Hydro Mechanical Horologists watch and it makes James Bond watches look like child’s play. The HYT watch tells time in no way ever done before. For the first time, liquid is incorporated into time telling.
This is just too good to not blog about. The Verge’s Joanna Stern is at CES and got some great footage of Justin Bieber who was helping unveil the TOSY mRobo, a new portable music player that dances to music as it plays. The video and pictures that came out of it are priceless. I don’t know which is better now, this video or the one below.
The television was one of the greatest inventions of our time which became commercially available back in the 1920’s. It wasn’t until thirty years later in the 1950’s when the first commercial use of the TV remote control started being sold. Since then, you can’t imagine a television without a remote.
Outside of dropping my iPhone 4S and cracking the screen, getting it wet is my number one fear of damaging it and having to pay full price for a replacement. Sure you can buy an extended warranty, but who wants to pay an extra $15 a month for insurance for something that may never happen. It’s like car insurance, although that is a different story for two reasons 1) it’s required by law to have and 2) you don’t want to ever be stuck without car insurance when you get into a car accident, trust me.
LuminAID is solar-rechargeable, inflatable light that packs flat and inflates to create a lightweight, waterproof lantern. It’s portable and can be used anywhere in the world in areas such as disaster zones that has no working or available electricity. It’s about the size of and weight of an iPhone and it’s inexpensive solution to a big problem in areas that need light.
The Magic Cube by Celluon is a mobile device that can project lasers on any opaque surface to create a virtual keyboard. It also doubles as a mouse. The keyboard looks really cool and futuristic, something out of Star Trek however, I have my doubts. I don’t doubt that it works, I doubt it’s usability.
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