Remember the clapper? You could turn a light on and off in your house just by clapping? Well, it’s back, but this time it’s for your alarm clock. It’s pretty cool, the alarm clock “sleeps” on your nightstand or wherever you put it until you clap to turn on the LED time display. So, clap-on.
The Clap-On Cube Alarm Clock is available through Wrapables.
iPad’s are cool, but they’re not always the most practical. So, for those who want the iPad feel around them without actually buying one, YankoDesign brings us the latest in iPad-inspired products, the iMousePad.
Think your iPad is cool? Check out these awesome gadgets that were the envy of all geeks more than 40 years ago.
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This new device, dubbed the Cerevo Cam Live!, just might be the first digital camera capable of streaming live video to Ustream without the need for additional hardware. In addition to live streaming video, the camera can capture video and images that can be uploaded to your favorite social networking site like Facebook, etc.
The camera is available from Japan Trend Shop and is equipped with a lithium ion battery capable of streaming video for up to two full hours and can upload video to YouTube automagically.
Recently, I decided to watch a few episodes of The Jetsons with the intention of picking out futuristic technologies that exist today, roughly 50 years later. All of the episodes I watched aired in the first season, between 1962 and 1963. These episodes ran on re-run steadily until the 1980′s, when ongoing popular demand led to production of new episodes.
The “TeleViewer”
The TeleViewer is a screen with the sole purpose of delivering news headlines in a similar format to newsprint. It has moving images (read: embedded media) and provides the reader with a more interactive and multi-dimensional experience. In essence, the TeleViewer predicts online news and the shift from print to digital. This shift has never been more clear than it is now with the iPad.
Continue reading 6 Current Technologies The Jetsons Predicted
We like buying things that solve more than one problem for us, like the iPhone, which is a phone, mp3 player, gaming console, and much more. Until now, cufflinks have just been cufflinks, but these Ravi Ratan cufflinks just changed the game by hiding a stylish 2GB USB drive in each one. So now, you can be stylish and smart, by carrying all your important files with you.
Clean, simple, does its job. Not bad. The Sputnik Watch by Kibardindesign is futuristic looking and simple at the same time, and while it looks like just a concept piece, it’s not, well, it was, but now they’re making them and you can pick one up on pre-order, at least that’s what their website says.
Not only is Devon Works new watch, the Tread 1, possibly the one of most expensive at $15,000, I think it just might be the coolest. This is certainly a watch that Q would mock-up. The wristwatch uses four 2-micron thin belts each operated by an individual microstep electric motor to display the time (see the video below).
The list of features are beyond impressive. It’s bulletproof for starters, just in case you know, you were being shot at. The internal rechargeable battery lasts for 2 weeks and can be recharged wirelessly. The internal crystal is temperature-compensating and even transmits data to an aerospace-designed microprocessor. Also an optical recognition system tracks the the status of each belt at all times to ensure extreme precision.
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