by Darren Murph, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 7:43AM Go on, admit it — your day in the early 90s was never complete without reaching down in public and giving those Pumps a solid squeeze. In all honesty, we can’t say that Ki-Seung Lee’s Airboard is quite on that level, but it’s certainly got the potential to be. This laptop stand was designed to reside in your lap or on your hotel room table and give each individual user the ability to elevate it as he / she sees fit. (Read the full post about ‘Airboard laptop stand puts your Reebok Pumps to shame’…)

For most, Alienware’s AlienNetwork debut was somewhat of a letdown. Nevertheless, at least one good thing did come out of the whole event, and that’s the availability of the m17x gaming monster. This 17-inch beast of a laptop finally has its own dedicated page, and yes, you can get your order in starting today. Packed within, you’ll find your choice of Intel Core 2 Duo processor, twin GPUs for that sweet SLI action, a WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) display, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, oodles of hard drive space, a dual-layer DVD writer (or optional Blu-ray burner), enough ports for you and your cousin and a 12-cell battery that’ll likely last an hour on a good day. (Read the full post about ‘Alienware’s Area-51 m17x gaming laptop now on sale’…)

by Nilay Patel, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 1:46AM
Sending electrical shocks into the brain via a “brain pacemaker” has already led to dramatic breakthroughs like the revival of a man trapped in a vegetative state for six years, but new research may mean that the technique is soon a common treatment for disorders like depression and OCD. (Read the full post about ‘“Brain pacemaker” could treat depression, OCD’…)

Diamond Keyring You can have this for ?7.99 Tags: mobile devices, camera, video game, lcd (Read the full post about ‘Diamond Keyring’…)

Think about how much time we spend in the kitchen. While eating three meals a day at home nowadays is definitely not the norm, a tremendous amount of time is still spent in your homes eatery. It could even be called the heart of the home (and you can imagine which organ the bathroom is.) But despite so much time spent in one area, there have been relatively few technological changes made to the kitchen in the last 50 years or so. The Izona kitchen line from Fisher & Paykel plan on revolutionizing the kitchen with their new VentSurface, CookSurface, and CoolDrawer products. The VentSurface system acts as an automated steam sensor. (Read the full post about ‘Izona Automates Your Kitchen For The Future’…)

Last week LG announced the latest phone in their Black Label range, the LG Secret. I was fortunate to be invited to the bloggers press event to hear about the phone and get my hands on one to take home. There were 2 features of the Secret that really stood out to me, it’s hard, it’s incorporates carbon fiber and tempered glass to protect it from the elements. You can actually smack the screen with your keys without it breaking or even scratching. Like the Apple iphone it has a built-in motion detector so the screen automatically rotates depending on orientation and it has a fun element by being used in some of the supplied games. (Read the full post about ‘LG Secret, a mobile with Wii like control’…)

Force Dynamics has tweaked their 301 Driving Simulator to cater for Super Mario Kart, allowing the chair to let the driver experience what it feels like when making one’s way through the wacky and imaginative world of all the courses in the SNES hit. Heck, even when your character makes a jump, the 301 chair itself will even leap up accordingly, so make sure you do not take anything heavy before having a go at this.

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by Paul Miller, posted Apr 28th 2008 at 9:40AM The last thing you want to do in a combat situation is bust out a keyboard and mouse and start clicking away just to send some simple commands via your embedded computer. Now RallyPoint, a Cambridge, MA-based startup, is building a new computer interface glove so that soldiers can operate their computers in the field without taking their hands off their gun. The Handwear Computer Input Device (HCID) has a whole mess of sensors built-in, including push-button sensors in the pinky, fourth finger and index, finger, a mouse-like sensor in the index finger and a trio of accelerometers on the back of the hand. (Read the full post about ‘RallyPoint Handwear Computer Input Device gives soldiers a hand’…)

There is a very good reason why clocks and watches tell time in the simplest manner possible - through the use of hands or numbers. After all, trying to decipher a long sentence might even have you end up making a mistake, which is why the Singaporean-designed Idea of a Clock II isn’t such a good idea. Sure, it is thought provocating, but does it really deliver in terms of practicality? Take, for example, the time of 12:29 - it will show up on its green LED bulletin board, “This is the idea of a clock that tells you the time using words at exactly twenty-nine minutes past twelve”. What a mouthful! I think I’ll pass, but if you’re adamant on picking up this limited edition timepiece, do send the artist a holler. (Read the full post about ‘Idea of a Clock II’…)

by Thomas Ricker, posted Apr 28th 2008 at 3:01AMHere it is copyright bandits, the single biggest reason (besides silicone) to make a Hollywood studio notice you: the MZK-NAS02SG1T network attached storage device from Planex. The main selling point behind the ¥54,799 (about $524) 1TB Gigabit Ethernet block is the claim to “universal access” for all your devices. That little trick comes courtesy of its DigiJuke browser for searching and tagging the BitTorrent and YouTube content you want downloaded in the appropriate PSP and ipod (MPEG-4), Wii (FLV), or TV (MPEG-2) format for in-home or on-the-go viewing. The NAS also streams audio and video to your iTunes laptops or desktops, DLNA TV, Xbox 360, or other compliant device in the home. (Read the full post about ‘Planex DigiJuke NAS snags YouTube and BitTorrent video — jams it down the Wii, Xbox 360, iPod… and throat of MPAA’…)