Watch Ring

Crazy Watches, Portable gizmo, Techie, Trendy June 29th, 2009

Another crazy watch… O.K., this is actually a pretty cool toy. I gotta admit, I want one.

watch-ring

The watch ring is made by Charles Windlin. The watch ring works for a man or a woman and has an lcd screen embedded into a silver band that is edged in gold.

The only problem I see with this concept is durability since we all know that lcd screens are easily damaged and rings, no matter how carefull you are, always end up scratched and banged around.

Anyway, a stylish and sleek way to tell time.

E-tee

For Play, Techie, Trendy, silly gadgets May 7th, 2009

crazy electric t shirtE-T as in electronic T-shirt. Another addition to my useless gadgets list is the maybe.. cool, e T-shirt. This black cotton T comes with its own battery pack and a neon light display for your chest. The led display t-shirt comes from a Chinese manufacturer and is called the TQ Raver.The Raver is supposed to “enhance” your clubbing experience by making you the envy of every club-goer in town by having your own graphic equalizer display right across your body.

The TQ Raver is now improved with streamlined design and advanced technology to enhance your clubbing experience even further. The technology has been visibly refined with an even lighter thinner display, brighter colours and more responsive graphic equaliser. 



The TQ Raver literally turns you into a human graphic equaliser, as its wide spectrum controller processes the music around you. Each musical frequency detected activates a different coloured equaliser bar, just like the equalisers on home stereos and the latest digital recording equipment. The built-in controller can be intuitively adjusted to respond to chilled out low level sound or the heaviest loudest metal and house that you can stand. 


Yes, your clothing can also move with the music on the dance floor. The downside may be having to dance with a battery pack strapped to your chest, but hey, I hear it unplugs for easy washing.

The t-shirt is hand wash only 
100% cottonThe battery pack can be unplugged for easy washing. 
Requires 4 regular AAA Batteries.  Sold and made by Zhenteng Toys Gifts Co

Expensive Keyboards… REALLY Expensive, but Way Cool

Expensive toys, Sick Toys, Techie April 7th, 2009

hi tech keyboardIf you spend most of your time at the computer and you have around $1500 burning a hole through your pocket, you may want to take a look at the future of keyboard… Step up to the Optimus line.

The  Art Lebedev company presents a new generation of keyboards.  This is not a keyboard, this is a high tech work of art that may be framed in the homes of true computer nerds.

Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it.Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian,Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc.—as well as of any other character set: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity.

Each key on this ultra cool, and did I mention ultra expensive, keyboard is a screen display. The keyboard keys are not really keys, but individual modules consisting of a moving cap, a microchip and a display, yep, each key has a chip and display in it.

optimus keyboard

The Optimus Keyboard also has room for many plugs, even a card reader.

If The Optimus is not fancy enough a gadget for your hi tech taste? Check out the companies next generation of keyboards. This other Optimus line is so advanced, it doesn’t even have keys.

The entire keyboard is a video display that can be custom programmed in many configurations, no price tag on this one yet.

keyless keyboard

Keyless Keyboard of the future

keyless keyboard

and you can even watch videos on it.

video keyboard