I guess just having their own digital camera isn’t enough to thrill kids these days, so Digital Blue’s U-Turn camera comes with a ‘morph’ feature that will distort the images with one of 12 preset effects including swirls and the technological breakthrough known as the stretchy head. (I heard Canon’s still struggling with that one.) The U-Turn’s also got a twisting lens allowing kids to snap self shots with the the 2.4-inch LCD display, and enough built-in memory to store a whopping 80 photos. Expect it to hit store shelves sometime this Spring for a mere $49.99.
Let me start off by saying that I in no way advocate the use of a key logging device, unless you’re looking to get revenge on someone, trying to dig up some blackmail material, or are just plain curious what your co-workers might be up to. So if you fall into any of those categories, the Ultimate Key Logger appears to be the perfect tool for the job.
It looks like your basic USB flash drive, but when attached to the target computer it will install an invisible piece of software that will log all keystrokes, remember all websites visited and even take screenshots at timed intervals or when specified words or phrases have been typed. And what apparently makes this key logger the ‘Ultimate’ one is the that the USB drive doesn’t need to be attached to the computer for it to work, reducing suspicions that something fishy might be going on.
You can pick one up from Spycatcher, but you better intend to use it for personal gain in order to offset the $280 price tag.
I think “whoa!” is the only response you can really have when you first see this amazing dodecahedral puzzle created by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge.com. While the original design was created by Andrew Cormier, the completed Petaminx puzzle you see above was cast and hand-assembled by Jason, who clearly has the patience of a saint. So what goes into a masterpiece like this? All-in-all there are 975 individual parts not including the 1,212 stickers that each had to be placed by hand, one at a time. Overall the Petaminx took about 75 hours to complete including the molding process, cleaning the parts, assembly and finish, but as you can see in the video below, it only takes about a minute to royally screw the thing up.
Even though it may not be a good thing, the megapixel arms race isn’t going to end anytime soon. So thankfully companies like Pretec have us covered when it comes to transferring and storing those massive RAW files in our cameras. Today the company unveiled their new 32GB SDXC memory cards, as well as a 666X version of their 100GB compact flash cards which can reach speeds of up to 100MB/s. Now unfortunately the new SDXC cards aren’t compatible with SDHC, since they use the exFAT file system instead of FAT32. So the cards simply won’t work in your digital camera at the moment. But with future SDXC capacities expected to eventually reach 2TB, there’s no question the new format will become the standard in prosumer digital cameras.
And not surprisingly, there’s currently no pricing info available for either card.
Thirsty? Now you can get as much pure water as you can drink, siphoned magically out of thin air by the RainCloud water generator. Basically just a fancy dehumidifier, the RainCloud condenses ambient water vapor into liquid water and then runs it through a bunch of filters to make it safe and drinkable.
I’m not entirely sure how well the RainCloud will work in, say, Nevada, or whether it’ll flood your entire house in a matter of seconds if you turn it on in Oregon. Either way, the asking price of a bit over $1000 makes it of questionable practicality unless you live on a boat or something. Supposedly, RainCloud becomes cost effective over bottled water after 20 months, but that doesn’t even include the $170 replacement filter cost.
From the Brando’s ‘obviously great idea’ department (which they seem to be paying attention to more and more lately) comes this brilliant (albeit slightly flowery) USB cable with an integrated SD/SDHC card reader. It works just like a normal USB cable, except that plugging an SD card into the slot will terminate the USB connection and your computer will start reading the SD card. Whatever you have plugged into the cable will continue charging, though.
At the moment, the SD reader only only works one way on the cable, but it would be pretty neat if you somehow had the option to read the card from the device you had plugged in, or vice versa. Even so, it’s a steal at $12, considering you could easily pay that much for a USB cable or a card reader.
I’ve been needing to get a new pizza cutter for a while now. I’m not sure what happened to the last one, but I’ve been using a large butcher knife to slice up my pies. As crazy as it sounds, it really does a great job, which is why I haven’t bothered replacing it. Perhaps this new Pizza Boss 3000 is exactly what I’ve been needing.
This spiffy pizza cutter has been ingeniously crafted to look just like a small circular saw. I suppose this has been done to make you feel more manly whilst cutting your pizza. For $15 it’s kinda cool, but would be so much better if the blade actually had some power going to it.
I’ve always been a big fan of Asus products. I’ve only built a few computers of my own that didn’t use a board made by them. They gained even more of my respect when they released the Eee PC and took the market by storm. Of course they’ve released several updates to the line and are now working on the Eee Keyboard. As you can imagine, it’s a computer built entirely into a keyboard. We saw it briefly at CES, but now we’ve got some specs to chew on.
This isn’t the first computer to be crammed inside of a keyboard, however, it’s most certainly the best-looking one I’ve seen. Packing a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM and either a 16GB or 32GB SSD drive, this will be comparable to some of the other Eee line. Other awesome features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, Wireless HDMI and a 5-inch touchscreen. It also has a regular HDMI port, VGA, 3 USB ports and audio in/out jacks. We’re still not sure what the price tag is going to be, but if they can keep the pricing close to what we’ve seen in some of the other Eee products, this could be very promising.
You know, I’ve never given it much thought before, but I’ve just realized that the castors included with all of my rolling furniture are boring. They’re all black, round, and just plain uninspired. But thankfully designer Emmanuel Dietrich has done something about it. His line of Smiles:-) Wheels includes replacement castors in the shape of cows, bears, mice and even airplanes. They’re designed to attach to a standard metal post which makes using them on existing furniture an easy upgrade, and they come in two versions. With brakes for about $11 each, or without brakes for about $8.50 each.
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