Archive for the 'Gadgets' Category
Segway adds a social element to its gliders
Companies around the world – in an effort to create communities of users around their products – are picking up social networking approaches at a fast pace.
Earlier this month Segway has started to create a network and communications around their self-balancing scooters, allowing users to communicate, create groups, find like minded people around the world or just in their local area, discuss the latest news and share their experiences.
Like Nike and other consumer good companies, Segway with its “Segway Social” network is hoping to attract future buyers by providing them…
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Alien Abduction Lamp moves from concept to prototype
The “Alien Abduction lamp” which we all enjoyed early 2007 looks like moving forward from concept to production. Designer Lasse Klein put “an update” on his web site.
Tell us when the production starts – we want one.
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Mobile Phones: Putting the numbers to scale
Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, provided some insides at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California this Monday. Comparing the volume of Apple’s iPhone shipped to Nokia’s shipments of phones he said:
“…Since the launch of iPhone in June, Apple has shipped 5 million to 6 million of the devices, paling in comparison to Nokia’s device shipments…We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday…”
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Gadgets: The RC Rubber Duck
From our completely useless but great department: Here comes the remote controlled Bath Duck…
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Games / Multi-touch screens: The Fentix Cube
We came across the name Andrew Fentem a few times when we did research on multi-touch screens the last years. The Fentix Cube one of his most recent work is the first cubic multi-touchscreen games platform. In the video clip below the Fentix Cube has been programmed to emulate a Rubik’s cube puzzle…
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Humor: Button Paradox
The text on the buttons reads:
Red button: The blue button is true
Blue button: The red button is false
Nice idea…sorry already sold out last night
via “Etsy”.
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