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Sometimes when I have an idea I dismiss it thinking no one will ever buy the product. But then comes along a device called Internet Traffic Cop and makes me think my idea isn’t that bad after all. I mean if someone will buy a device which basically disconnects your computer from the Internet by pushing a button for $50, then I can sell pretty much anything.
(via Gizmodo)
In Berlin some artists did something cool using a suitcase with a Mac Mini and a projector inside. They installed it on the side of the subway train, and… well, just see this Quicktime movie for yourselves.
The useless gadgets fairy visits us again, bringing us this new 70s Sci-Fi watch, whatever that is. As watch usage drops in favor of time-telling cellphones, it’s amazing someone even comes up with new watch designs like these.
Anyway, if you can figure out how to use this watch to tell time, let me know. On second thought, keep it to yourself. I haven’t been wearing a watch for years.
(via Gizmodo)
Straight from the useless gadgets department comes Where’s The Remote. Unlike what you may think, this device will not actually help you find the remote. However, it will constantly nag you about returning the remote to a base station, which is the Where’s The Remote device.
Kind of like being married. (Just kidding)
(via Engadget)
I am not making this up. Someone at BT laboratories thinks this is a good idea – implanting an MP3 player inside a woman’s breast. Here’s the story by The Register.
So you’re sitting in the living room dying for a coffee cup, but you just don’t feel like getting up right now. That’s why they created the SMS Kettle (via Gizmodo). You send a text message to the kettle, and it starts boiling the water.
This reminds me of the world’s most useless remote control button: the eject button (in modern CD/DVD players – open/close button). You still need to get up and put the DVD in its box. This is very much like it. I mean – can you be sure that the kettle has water in it when you send the SMS, or will you just have to get up and check?
If you have trouble waking up in the mornings, this post is for you. Every now and then a new alarm clock is introduced to the world to help people wake up on time. Here’s a collection I’ve gathered:
And these are my personal favorites:
These are all cool and funny, but the real “alarm clock” I would like to own is actually a watch named SLEEPTRACKER, which sets off the alarm when it senses the best time for you to wake up, in the sense that you will be “the most awake” when it sounds the alarm. I love the idea of this product, and most reviews say it really works (when it comes to sleep, of course this kind of thing won’t work for everybody). Basically, I’m just waiting for a version 2.0, as I usually do with gadgets.
It’s the end of an era. One of the most successful smartphones ever, the Palm Treo, will switch, on its next version, to the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system instead of the Palm OS.
I really like Palm. I used to own a Palm Pilot III and today I own a Palm Tungsten T. It is well known that the Palm company has gone through a lot of changes and restructuring over the past few years and made quite a lot of mistakes along the way. But this is a real shame. Palm OS is a good, solid, user-friendly, oriented towards simplicity while saving battery life operating system.
Microsoft is, of course, celebrating the event. On Microsoft’s homepage you can see this image. All that they have left to do is a victory dance, then buy Palm and fire all of the employees.
I wonder what the Treo with Windows Mobile will have to offer that other Windows-based smartphones don’t already have. It better be good.
