A laptop isn’t exactly the most ergonomic device to use while seated on a bed, which is where the Airboard Pump concept comes in. This laptop surface, designed by Ki-Seung Lee will adjust its own height to best fit whatever activity you are currently engaged in, be it reading, writing/drawing or surfing the web. It can be raised thanks to an integrated pump, or lowered by deflating it. I say work and rest shouldn’t mix, so it would be best to have a dedicated work area while reserving the bed as a place of relaxation and sleep. Tags: cellphone, cable, DVD, design (Read the full post about ‘Airboard Pump Concept’…)

Having heart problems is no laughing matter, and most people will have to take plenty of medication, keep up a good exercise regime and watch their diet. They too, will need a heart rate monitor of some sort in order to make sure nothing untoward happens during the course of the day. These devices tend to be bulky, and they’re awkward to carry around. Enter the Vital Jacket heart rate monitor courtesy of BioDevices, which is actually an ordinary t-shirt that continuously monitors heart rate and ECG waves, making it one of the most ideal solution for elderly patients with plenty of potential for fitness applications too. The Vital Jacket is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. (Read the full post about ‘VitalJacket heart monitoring shirt’…)

Almost everyone has a cell phone these days. Be you 8 or 80, it seems like you need to carry a phone about as much as you need to breathe. With that many phones around, there are plenty of gadgets meant to help manage and take care of the data stored on them. This little device seems rather useful because it has a couple of much-needed functions that almost anyone can use. When you change phones, the first thing you do (with most carriers) is pop out the SIM card and put it into your new device. Unfortunately sometimes your data doesn’t always want to show up properly in your new phone. This little gadget plugs into a USB port on your computer and will allow you to insert your SIM card and backup all of your data. (Read the full post about ‘SIM Recovery Pro - Very useful, for a price’…)

While the image could be completely faked, it would lead us to believe that Steve Ballmer is using a MacBook to run his presentations. What’s your call? The MacBook could have simply been Photoshopped in or possibly the MacBook is just running Windows, or maybe Ballmer has finally gone crazy and jumped ship. Image [Flickr] Via [Gizmodo] Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → Tags: game, M4A, sat-nav, robots (Read the full post about ‘Interesting laptop being used by Steve Ballmer?’…)

Plectrums By Wallet Essentials We think these are simply the perfect gift for the perfectly gifted musician. And who’s to argue with that. So when Mark Knopfler pops round for a quick jam session with Sting, you just need to get on down and reach for your wallet. See price Tags: hdtv, consumer technology, dap, gadgetry (Read the full post about ‘Plectrums By Wallet Essentials’…)

InPhase Technologies has announced its Tapestry hologram storage product which will roll out this may, consisting of 120mm (5.25″) diameter clear plastic disks in a cartridge case. A blue laser will be used to store holographic images in the depth of the recording medium on the disk’s surface. Initial disks have a life span of 50 years, featuring read and write speeds of up to 20MB/s. Unfortunately, these won’t be cheap since as each Tapestry drive will cost up to $18,000 and individual disks cost $180 each, storing a total of 300GB. Maybe the seventh-generation Xbox or playstation will see this medium being used, and hopefully we won’t have another format war coming up. (Read the full post about ‘InPhase announces Tapestry Hologram Storage’…)

Two weeks ago Sega announced that it’s Racing Studio based in Birmingham, England was being closed down. The studio had released the well-received Sega Rally and was working on unannounced projects when the decision was made.

Now there is some good news for the staff who worked at the studio. Codemasters, another UK development house with a pedigree for racing games, has bought the studio.

Rod Cousens, chief executive of Codemasters commented:

In seizing this opportunity, we have created additional resources to escalate our plans in the racing segment … We hope to welcome more than 40 people to the company and we have enjoyed the full co-operation of our friends at Sega in making this happen.

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A laser pointer is a small (often battery-operated) laser device designed for pointing at objects by illuminating them with a collimated visible laser beam. The typical use of a hand-held laser pointer is to point at some screen or chart during a presentation. The output power of a laser pointer is measured in milliwatts (mW). The laser pointer is generated by combining three different beams in three orthogonal transverse modes, two of them in a squeezed-vacuum state and one in an intense coherent field. A basic low power office type laser pointer is still clearly visible in a brightly lit room at distances over 100 feet. (Read the full post about ‘Cool gadgets the laser pointers’…)

by Ryan Block, posted Apr 27th 2008 at 7:26PM Ben (aka Benjamin Linus), leader of the Others and all around creepy manipulator, doesn’t just shoot guns all the time — as we find out in a flashforward to 2005, he also apparently shoots Nikon as well. (Read the full post about ‘Screen Grabs: Lost’s Ben shoots Nikon’…)

Filed in archive Competition by jim on April 26, 2008 If you love outdoor photography, and you've never visited any of the USA's National Parks, then there's a treasure trove of photo opportunities waiting for you. I took the one above in Zion National Park during early November, 2006. I haven't been to many National Parks because I caught on to them too late in life; but the ones I've visited have provided me with all the "photo ops" I could have hoped for. Because of various medical problems, I haven't been able to get to the better parts of many parks so I know there's even more to be explored, a lot more. (Read the full post about ‘Canon’s National Parks Digital Photo Contest’…)