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Watch Ring

dd — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:39:37 +0000

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

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

dd — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:32:12 +0000

E-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

dd — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:58:24 +0000

If 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.

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 of the future

and you can even watch videos on it.

Hi security fingerprint mouse for the very paranoid geek

dd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:46:14 +0000

For those of you that are very, very….. very paranoid about someone maybe using your mouse we have this Hi tech security mouse… and yes, straight from those, maybe a bit too paranoid, but extremely hi tech minds of China.

This is the fingerprint security mouse. Protecting your computer from unwanted mouse intrusions… well… until, someone plugs in a different mouse.

This is one crazy gadget here that I never, ever thought I would ever see, nor ever even thought of.

So for the US CIA, buy em all, while they are still available because I have a funny feeling these things may be out of production fairly quick.

Now, I would give you the specs on this super duper secret mouse, but, they are classified … sorry. However, a short internet search may uncover the secrets.

Super Duper Handy Dandy Audio/Video/Computer Cool Wrist Watch

dd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:30:15 +0000

Straight from the crazy tech Gizmo minds of Mainland China we Have the “Super Cool Mobile Phone Wrist Watch” (their product name BTW)

For any watch collector this may just be the ultimate, don’t take my word on this techy watch, just read the specs below.

What could be better than calling friends with your new super cool mobile phone wristwatch? With any GSM SIM card inserted this unsuspecting watch becomes a fully featured power house of a cellphone, with bluetooth, MP3, camera and personal organiser. Easy charging is achieved via USB, as is data transfer. The watch itself features a durable rubber blend strap, gun metal gloss surround and chrome detailing. The kit comes with two batteries, 512 MB micro SD card, stand alone charger and a bluetooth headset, so you’ll be ready to go straight out of the box. You can easily make calls with the supplied bluetooth headset, or by using the watches built in microphone and speakers. With all of the features of a modern mobile phone slapped on your wrist you’ll never have to worry about losing your phone and you’ll lighten the load.

NOTE: This product is compatible with GSM at 900MHz, 1800MHz, 1900MHz only, please check with your local provider if you are unsure.

Yep, this be the powerhouse of all wrist watches, yes, its a cell phone / computer / audio / video contraction all slapped in a neat package to your wrist with accessories attached, go figure… ahhh, WOW, is about all I can say.

If in the market for this little number, it won’t cost you your first born, only a bit less then 200 Us from the crazy tech gizmo minds in ChinaVision.

Hey, its a I GOTTA HAVE gadget 4 sure.

Crazy Gizmo – video / audio Linux watch for hard core techies

dd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:52:59 +0000

Here is a Made in China gadget tha no Hi tech geek should be without, this is the Video / MP3 audio gizmo watch, yep, watch. If you want your media on the go and atttched to your wrist, check this puppy out. It has 1 gig of memory, a 1.8 inch LCD display, takes multiple video and audio formats and has an equalizer. at a video rate of 28 frames with a resolution of 160 x 128 it may not have that HD quality we are used to, but for a wrist watch, its not bad.

Windows compatible with an earphone jack for privacy… it sells for a very reasonable 55 bucks.

For hard core techies… it does work with Linux as well.

China Manufacturer Specification

Memory: 1GB

Display: 1.8 Inch TFT LCD 56L Color
Video Format: NX-AVI

Conversion formats: MP4, WMV
Video Resolution: 160×128
FPS (Frames per Second): 25fps
Music Format: MP3, WMA, WAV
Bit rate: 32-192Kbps

Earphone Jack: 2.5mm
SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio): >88dB
Output of earphones: 2 x 40mW (16Ohm)
Output of Speaker: 40mW (16Ohm)

USB: 2.0 (full speed)
System: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Mac OS9.2.2 or up Linux 2.4. and Up
Power Source: Rechargeable Li-ion Battery