Gadgets posts

ModiFace Inc. announced today that the company will be releasing picMD, the world’s first In-Phone Virtual Makeover feature that will be available for web, the iPad and iPhones. The innovative product allows users to makeover photos with only the touch of a few buttons. Need to make a decision about make-up colors or wondering what your hair would look like if you dyed it a different color? With picMD you can make yourself over anywhere, anytime. This product would be good for someone like me, who changes their mind a lot about what to wear, how to do my hair and which makeup to use with which outfit….

Kitchen and bathroom accessories have become increasingly futuristic and ..just plain awesome, over the last few years. There are bathroom dryers out almost everywhere now that dry hands in 7-10 seconds. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am! Take a look at some new contemporary designs – maybe you’ll find one that will complement your style or decor perfectly. Ripple Faucet This sink and faucet are just plain cool and sort of has a Star Trek feeling to it. The red lighting and sleek circle design turn a regular sink into a modern and desirable version. The Ripple Faucet was created by Smith Newnam and Touch…

The Accessories MP3 Player by designer Lee Won-jun is future girl geek tech goodness. This fashionable device is sleek and discreet, which you may not be able to claim about other audio accessories. The Accessories MP3 Player is designed with women in mind and resembles a small piece of jewelry that fits snugly into your ear. It’s more than just functional because it’s cute, too! The other end of the device is plugged into a USB port and is attached to a gold, earring-shaped hoop. Your lady friend might appreciate getting one of these unique accessories of her very own! Right now it is just a concept…

Just in time for those frigid, icy summer days, designer Allan George has come up with a simply brilliant way to fend off August frostbite: the Alveo Heating Stone. In the interest of keeping you warm during that ghastly cold beach trip this August, the Alveo’s design uses friction of real stones to create and slowly dissipate heat. Could an idea like this have been touched upon sooner? Y’know, rubbing two rocks together to create warmth? Yeah, probably, but that’s the brilliant thing about good industrial design – the greatest, simplest ideas sometimes (read: almost always) get overlooked….

Anyone here familiar with chindōgu? Translated as ‘unusual tool’, chindōgu is the Japanese art of inventing devices which, while technically solving everyday problems, are so ridiculous and awkward, they really have no reason to exist. Seriously, I’m not making this up. Anyway, check this action out. The Potechi Chip Gripper is half-robotic arm, half-dining etiquette taken too far, and all-Japan. Designed to replace the obviously barbaric task of eating potato chips with one’s hand, the Chip Gripper acts as a middleman between you and that ocean of grease that typically pervades your…

From the “really cool but maybe pointless” file comes this Sony mobile speaker that is shaped like a travel coffee cup. The speaker aims to provide ’360 degree sound’ while sitting in your cupholder. Providing 16 watts of power with a 56-mm woofer and 20-mm tweeter, it also charges any Sony MP3 player attached to it by a cable. A remote control is included so that, while driving, you can avoid fiddling with the controls on top of the coffee-cup shaped device. Of course, sometimes we like things just because they seem like a cool idea, even when they aren’t very practical. For instance, why might you…

This futuristic-looking device is the Brailect. It is designed to be worn on the hand/arm and fits almost like a glove. It allows users to translate any text into Braille and the device even has a feature to turn text into audio. This concept is a great idea because even though books are now made in Braille, the number of publications available are limited. After doing some research, the difference between regular books and versions in Braille is significantly different. Regular text books are available absolutely everywhere but Braille versions are a lot harder to find. Most are sold through…

Looking for a cool way to spend your life’s savings? For around $100,000 you can do just that by purchasing Hitachi’s encephalometer, a device that enables the user to monitor their own brain activity (making sense of the data, however, might be a bit more challenging). The scanner works by shining red light at your brain, and it is then reflected back towards the sensors (something about pointing lasers at your brain doesn’t sound right), and it then measures hemoglobin activity. That’s all medical jargon for simply seeing what goes on inside that big head of yours. We will all have an opportunity…

If there is one thing that is clear, it is that the iPad has the hype. But it is also clear that it is not as great as we all imagined, and, even then, some think it isn’t particularly great at all. I have my reservations about the iPad too. However, instead of just listing reasons why we like or dislike the iPad, I wanted to offer people a look at some amazing devices that will make the iPad irrelevant — sure, the iPad will always be relevant because it is an Apple product (and Apple has devout fans). But the following gadgets will blow the iPad away in more ways than one. They are remarkable….

Many of us toss and turn in the middle of the night, but how often do we do that? No idea here. However, a cool gadget coming out of Japan might be able to help: they call it the Sleep Scan. It is probably the next best thing apart from going to an expensive sleep clinic, and it won’t hurt the wallet too badly either. The Sleep Scan (SL-501) will be priced at ¥36,750 (that is approximately $391 in U.S. currency), and it works by having its user place it under themselves while they are sleeping. Simple right? While you are sleeping, the Sleep Scan measures specific data like your pulse, your respiration rate,…