muzikwear has a smart T-shirt (alike ScoteVest) that boasts wire management system for some personal music player. The T-shirt has three component integrated: a Grip, a Slack Pocket, and the Digital player pocket acomodating a player like the iPod nano, iPod shuffle, or the Sony NW-E-500 series. The shirt will be available in black, navy, and white (Sizes: S-XXL) available next week for US$29.99
[muzikwear smart T-shirt]
WCM-6LNV is equipped with 6 infrared LED's, built-in mic, and 350K video quality at 640 x 480 encased in a metal body. Works perfectly even in low light environment. Software included. US$
[Nightmode webcam]
A site for crafters to buy and sell handmade items, from clothes to furniture to computer cases, to anything your whim produces out of your hand.
[Etsy]
xtrememac sells a variety of cases, chargers, and cables for all your iPod models. Some exclusives for iPod nano, none for iPod (video) yet. I've bought the TuffWrap ones. For under US$30 prices are reasonable on cases.
[xtrememac]
I've been really putting this RSS feed reader through its paces for last month. Despite my extensive attempts to scrutinize this, I have not found a single gripe about it. Yes, Google is out with their RSS reader, but this one, is clean, quick load, user friendly UI, highly customizable and actually a logical way of reading all your RSS feed. Even allows integration to your gmail and webnotes. You can access your own page, if you sign up for a free account. In the last month I have not gotten a single spam from them. I love it. Don't take my word, just try it out yourself. Costs you $0.00, nothing beats that.
[Netvibes]
During this Halloween season use GooGhoul to locate spooktacular and freakish activities by your zip code. Oh come all ye haunters!
[GooGhoul]
Brightfeet are some serious range (approx. 25 feet illuminating range) headlight slippers. They are pressure and light sensitive. Yes, they maybe good way to find your way to the mid-night snack or to the can, but are you thinking what I'm thinking with Halloween around the corner? Set you back US$40.
[Brightfeet LED slippers]
iWay is a neat FREE website that lets you put directions ( map & directions ) on your iPod. Sorry iPod Shuffle owners, you need a screen. iWay takes in your from and to directions, and gives back a .zip of sequential images of map and step-by-step directions. If you carry your iPod like your PDA, then this is for you. For me I stick with Avantgo on my pda.
[iWay]
DNA11 takes a sample of your DNA ( vial of your saliva, open and say aaaa ), runs it through ther labs to create an electronic snapshot of your DNA, prints it on a canvas - an artwork of uniquely you, the very basic you. Yes an abstract portrait of geometric composition of what makes you, well you. You can even custom order your portrait from a choice of different sizes and color schemes. I wonder how can you truly know they didn't goof it all up? Hit up your next door genetic researcher to validate for you? Will set you back US$390 - $790.
[DNA11]
Our creative friends at 43 Folders have composed an excellent article on some productive usage (unlike Paris Hilton's sidekick, well she is a different story) of your mobile phone camera. Most all suggestions in the article are very practical. Now why didn't I think of this?
[How do you get creative with your phonecam?]
Vis-age N. the face or appearance of a person. Turn Your Head will take a snapshot of your facial profile and fill the space between two opposing profiles by spinning that space into a three-d visage. What the heck is this? Basically a wooden sculputure who's curves & bends match the profile of your face. For $100 a pop, you could surround yourself with Piroletted faces of yourself.
[TurnYourHead]
Want to fly over Africa taking in the awesome scenes just like a National Geographic journalist, then you can get just that, with Google Earth's National Geographic layer. Get Google Earth, enable the National Geographic layer, and endulge your senses.
[Google Earth-The illuminated continent]
iPod nano is definitely worth the bucks. If you can wait for the craze to settle and pick it up a few bucks cheaper do so, but pick one up for sure. I couldn't wait, I just couldn't. SpeckProducts already has 9 NEW case models for your iPod nano, SkinTight, TougSkin, iGuy, ArmBand, FunSkins, Connect & Protect, and See-Thru with price range $19.95 - $34.95. One more for my ever-growing collection of iPod accessories. Maybe a garage sale is in order.
[SpeckProducts iPod nano cases]
Just if you weren't sick of the tube appearing everywhere, Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS ‘TV Stick’ is a USB 2.0 dongle that brings analogue and digital television to your laptop / pc. It can also be used as a digital video recorder with full MPEG2 support. Don't know how good the quality would be, but for quick tube fill, try it out. Comes complete with antenna and remote control. They even claim DVD authoring. Priced at
[Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS ‘TV Stick’]
Google rocks! Google has googlified your favorite blog. Google has introduced its Google Blog Search that allows one to sarch any / all blogs for any phrase. To my loyal readers, note the Google search icon on this blog that lets you search my blog through Google. Better yet, just drag the Google Blog Search icon to your toolbar and you are all set permanently.
[Google Blog Search]
Built upon the notetaking concept of 5R's ( Record, Reduce, Recite, Reflect, and Review ) accomplished by the use of a "cue column" and not to mention the "summaries" space. Putting aside the Cornell brainpower hoo-ha, the more interesting is Ryan Stewart's little application that generates personalized stationary based on this concept. Allows you to print your name, lines, hole punches, etc. Try it out you just might strike your next best hipster note-PDA.
[Ryan Stewart's Notetaking application]
[Cornell Notetaking Method]
If you dug a hole in your yard, and kept digging, somehow survived going through the magma in the core of the earth, where would you end up? If you answer, Oz, you are out of this earth! In theory, since you can't escape reality, you'd end up on the exact opposite end of the planet, why? well, isn't this planet round like a ball? Luis Felipe of Brazil has a google map hack that will tell you where your hole ends. Check out his site, while I'm off to digging.
[Where does your hole end?]
You have a fridge full of stuff, you open, you stare, and got nothing your brain, what to do with all that stuff. This is where FoodieView comes in the picture ( more like on your browser window ). Type in items you have in your fridge in the Search box and out comes recepies that use the stuff (i.e. chicken breasts potato cilantro frog-legs). What comes your way?
[FoodieView]
Intuit Quickbase has a database of shortcuts for calling the toll free number of many corporations and going staright to that mysterious and sometimes vague live operator. If you've been frustrated pressing '0's on the keypad, check this one out.
[Find-A-Human]
e-How has a an excellent article detailing tools and steps required to backup ( urhm rip ) your DVD's onto your PC and goes as far as detailing how to then burn that backup onto a regular DVD disk. You won't want to miss this one. Cost of software? FREE as far as I can tell. Note the legal warning for doing this for the wrong reasons.
[e-How: backup your DVDs]
I've never laughed at telemarketers ( no offense to my readers who earn a living in this industry ) as hard before I checked out this little flash animated recording of a real conversation between a telemarketing agent ( poor lady ) and the Telecrapper 2000 system, a system that is programmed to ensnare the caller in a software driven conversation and drive them nuts. :-)
[Telecrapper 2000 demo]
Yes you read me right, these bowls, cups, plates and full picnic sets fold flat only to spring up ( through your unfolding skills of course ) when neede say at a picnic, or camping or backpacking trip. Brainchild of adventurer Jay Cousin, who boasts these can withstand the elements of Mount Everest and North and South poles. I ask can they withstand my skills or lack thereof, of folding and unfolding? If you're interested check em out. The picnic set sells for about US$23.95.
[Orikaso]
The second installation of make your own paper based organizer ( only 8 pages mind you) comes PocketMod. Lets you create an 8 pages long pocket size disposable personalized organizer from just one printed sheet of paper. You read me right, magic you say? No quite, a bit of clever folding this way, that way, a tad snipping here and there and you got your own flavor. They have quite a few pre-built templates including daily, weekly, and monthly calendars, to-do and shopping lists, lined or grids. How much? $0.00. My wallet loves that number.
[PocketMod]
Harvard instructor Simson Garfinkel has a cgi script running on a web server which creates custom lined notepaper PDF documents for your downloading pleasure. I'm not much of a notebook keeper, but this surely makes me wish I was one. The PDF includes your name and an “if lost please return to” note, a place to record page number, a small monthly calendar, and an optional notes summary box. You get to pick the font, whether or not the paper should have punch holes. It doesn't let you pick a specific month ( it picks the current month by dafault ), however, you can get the source cgi code. I definitely see some much needed tweaks / mods.
[Notepaper Generator]
OK well maybe not throw your tripod in the trash ( if you are like me you've spent way too much $ on tripods and monopods and still not satisfied ), but you can indeed now leave home without your tripod. bogen introduces the revolutionary The pod. A palm sized camera platform with universal locking mechanism for your camera or camcorder, durable, portable, can be setup on "any surface". Shaped as a hockey puck, THE pod contains plastic beans and is Velcro-sealed. On the outside you will find water-resistant, industrial-grade nylon stitching and non-marking / non-slip base. The maker claims this base can withstand the weight of an average man ( or a woman ). In addition, THE pod comes in three flavors ( differentiated by color - red, blue, and yellow), each flavor customised for where your camera has its tripod mounts. Ok, so how much $ you ask? A mere US$ 21.00. Don't know about you, but I'm off to shopping.
[THE pod]
Vavoom! I can't decide if this is too geeky or dang HOT! like Aeon Flux. Tsaya is touted as uber-geek or matrix-hot phone / card holder for those women with gorgeous ladies ( you know who you are ). No way these could look remotely appealing on a man. Exclusively available on Tsaya's web site for US$79.00.
[Tsaya]
My never ending search to find the minimalist yet practical wallet has recently led me to the Jimi. Sometimes even called the Anti-Wallet, touted to be a true 'pocket-wallet'. Comes in several colors, splashproof, contains a money clip and card holder. Translucent, Shockproof, Splashproof and even has a lanyard clip. Costs US$14.95 from Jimi on-line store. I'm getting one for sure. Check out the demo if you'd like.
Customisable, do-it-yourself signage system created by "blacking out" elements of a 14-segment display font on the tape, all you need is a black permanent pen to create your own temporary signs, labels and installations. Can be your's.
[ rAndom Instant Labeling Tape ]
Forget the strings and toothpicks to hold your food together, jump onto the thefoodloop bandwagon. Heat resistant to 675F, FDA compliant, can be used in any pan on stovetop, in the oven, or mircowave, is non-stick and won't scratch pans, flexible siliconelike material, in pink (couldn't they over some more varieties in color?). I'll buy some of course, then again that will mean cooking a lot of roll-up, stuffed food. The site also hints at world domination with fusionbrands products in our lives.
[ http://www.thefoodloop.com ]
So if you can't stand a box of Arm and Hammer in your cold storage, then spring for battery driven gizmo (who knows if it works) that's supposed to remove smell, keep food fresh, sterilizes, and breaks down pesticides. Hey, why do we need the fridge for then? Anyways, any brave soul wanting to spend $50.00 try this out. Oh by the way, leave me a comment on how it does for you, would ya?
[Oreck Refrigerator Air Purifier]
Call it Friday funk or something. Ran into the UK magazine T3 site. Other than the eye-candy (see for yourself) the magazine does actually have some great reviews and tech news. Don't blame me if you have to resort to saying "Hey I read it for the articles". I on the other hand read it for the plethora of gorgeous models touting some delisch.
T3
Ultimate Ears produces a line of 'super-fi' in-ear headphones to really boom your mind with rocking music. May it be rock or jazz or the new age stuff, their acclaim is to make you (at least your sound processing centers) soar with how sound was supposed to be heard. They have wallet friendly models too. Randing in MSRP $249.00, $199.99 and now a $99.99 version.
[Ultimate Ears - Super.fi]
Not for the faint of hearts and certainly not for the addicts of instant gratification (like your's truly), Yamaha give you free color & b&w pdf downloads of model vehicles, rare animals, and even seasonal eye-candy all assembled from paper. Yep, you heard me right, paper! Neat idea if you love origamy and are ready for the next level. Good luck and happy cutting, glueing and folding.
[Yamaha Papercraft]
Holly chumba wamba! These Furgles remind me of a character from that hit animation Monsters Inc. My my, cute furry stuff holding all 24 cd/dvds in its belly. And far more weird, Home Depot is selling them. I kid you not. Click the link below.
[Furgles invade Home Depot]
Canned flowers how cute! A great idea to bring some 'I'm environment friendly come talk to me' or even 'I'm cool cuz I have an actual live flower on my desk and you don't' feeling buy 1 or 2 of these. Yes you can thank me later. Neat innovation and marketing though.
[Flowers in a Can]
So when I pay $49.95 for this puppy, pop in an egg, english muffin, and a slice of ham, within minutes I get an English Egg-muffin-Ham sandwich. Gosh, can't beat the convenience of kitchen gadgets. It will be a great buy only until I get sick of Egg-Muffin sandwiches for breakfast or when I get conscious of my calories. I'd buy it if it comes with ideas of making other breakfast items. Check it out.
[EggAndMuffinToaster]
Spring cleaning for your PC hardware time! Thanks to PC World here is an extensive tips and techniques article on how to clean that dirty keyboard, monitor, CPU. Have at it and get cleaning folks!
Clean Your PC [PC World]
If you were looking for that space age or out of this world form factor on you next rugged (water proof to 15' of water), glow in the dark find-me inner coat of paint, then this Lumaray FL6 is your best bet. You might as well have a conversation starter on your next kick alien butt (um camping trip) adventure.
Lumaray FL6
An outdoor patio/deck umbrella outfitted with 48 bright, LED lights, solar powered costing about US$300.00. The solar panel is discreetly mounted on top of the canopy, removing the need for extra wiring.
Solar Lighted Umbrella
An LED device that displays a custom message of your choosing. Its a Motion Responsive Display (MRD) changing the LED patterns and display based upon the proportional differences in body motion. It functions as a watch, stopwatch, timer, pattern maker, counter, messages and all around communicator. All this for only US$25.00 a pop. i4U has an excellent review.
XenoFreaks PIX Sports LED Gadget Review [i4u]
Product Page
No more Pooh, Pink, Sparkly baby bandoliers. Forget that bulky diaper bag. Just zip everything into baby bandolier and strap it on! Easily holds all the essentials you need.
Accross-the-shoulder style looks great on mom or dad.
Hands free for active life while baby goes along. I can see other potential uses of this.
baby bandolier [duds4dads.com]
Its a web service that enables a group of people to contribute to a financial goal, like a fundraiser on an item. Set up an amont and a deadline. If the goal isn't reached by the deadline each contributer gets the money refunded back to them. Interesting way to pool resources with a money-back guarantee.
Fundable
If you are expecting parents, or just are interested in finding out what the probabilities you'll have a blue eyed child, check out this calculator. Make sure you know your parents', siblings', your partner's parents and their siblings' eye color.
Eye Color Calculator
I'm not a big cupcake fan, nothing against you cupcake eathers. I just don't prefer it, that's all. So to all you out there, check out CUP-A-Cake. Designed to hold a frosted cupcake in place by firmly gripping it at the base. It encases the cupcake, and the internal grip keeps it from moving.
Cup-A-Cake
Created by Grant Robinson, this nifty project uses Google's image search to generate grid montage of images based on a search keyword(s).
Montage-a-google
I'm in LOVE. IN love with Newsmap. It is an application that reflects the constatnly changing world of Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
Newsmap
Plastic packaging has revolutionized the retail industry. These packages are everywhere. Now a revolutionary tool design is helping consumers catch up! The Amazing OpenX® makes opening those plastic packages safe and easy. But, we've found that it works great at opening a variety of other items! Now why didn't I think of this before! A heaven sent. For a mere $4.95 S/H FRee, I'm getting at least 2. Their site even has a commercial clip.
Amazing OpenX
Scan a message of 4x7 inch, 4 of them maximum, wave this LighTalk saber and it displays the LED Text message in thin air. Its the whole persistence of vision concept. A mere $39.99 at ThinkGeek . Check it out. Could be the best geek toy at the next concert - Yo Bo! You Rock!
LighTalk LED Text Message Saber [i4u.com]
The first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and D.I.Y. inspiration. I've become an avid reader of this magaznie, published by O'REILLY. To all DIYers out there, make this your new hang-out.
Make
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. This software has an extensive feature set and plugins. Does not allow you to use any DRM'd , WMA or AAC files. Check out its features.
Audacity
