“Look, honey! There’s a cyborg up on the telephone pole outside. Should we invite it in for some motor oil and finger sandwiches or do you think it’d try to kill us? Whup. Wait. It’s a repair man. Cyborgs don’t have butt cracks. That’s how you can tell. False alarm. Should we invite him in for some coffee and finger sandwiches or do you think he’d try to kill us?”

Designed with the mobile field worker of the future in mind, Motorola’s second-generation Kopin Golden-i wearable computer concept features a head mounted display with an 800×600 resolution that’s meant to replicate a 15-inch screen.

The customized Windows CE interface is controlled using a combination of speech recognition and motion sensing, and it’s all powered by a 600MHz Texas Instruments CPU and an eight-hour battery. You use voice controls to launch programs and then can pan your head around to navigate maps or schematic drawings, for instance.

It’s still a concept at this point but, as the above video shows, seems to work fairly well.

[Pirillo’s YouTube/ARMdevices.net]

By Gaurav Kheterpal

The Live Checking Card represent a very interesting concept – it displays the accumulated spending amount on your card after every purchase. Clearly, the concept itself is nothing short of a nightmare for wives and girlfriends as it displays real time information of their shopping adventures. The underlying technology behind Live Checking Cards is e-ink, which checks your purchase history and matches them up with the bank account transactions using RFID. Pretty neat, I’d say.

While it’s a blessing in disguise for most husbands and boyfriends, the Live Checking Card could have fairly serious implications on your love life, if not used carefully. On the other hand, it’s a handy way to keeping your expenses in check and ensuring that you are not heading for a credit disaster.

I’m pretty sure that there would be no shortage of husbands and boyfriends lining up to buy these cards once and if the concept is implemented.

[ Yanko Design ] VIA [ Gizmodiva ]

Are you ready to watch Bill Ruppert’s honey drip? Don’t answer that. Bill recreated the sound of a Fender Rhodes electric piano with a guitar and some EHX pedals.

The piano is famous for adding a bit of class to jazz in the 1970s and 1980s and is instantly recognizable if you’ve listened to much of anything from that era. The fascinating thing is that it’s analog all the way down to the Doppler producing rotating speaker.

EXT. Sunset Beach. Mother and Daughter walking.

Daughter: Mom, did you ever have that not so fresh feeling? Down there?
Mom: Sure, honey. We all do.
Daughter: What do you do about it?
Mom: Well, I keep a Pre handy.
Daughter: A Pre?
Mom: It’s the latest feminine hygiene product from Palm. It fits where other phones won’t.

Daughter: Douglas called.
Mom: He did?
Daughter: He asked me out.
Mom: I knew he would.
Voiceover: The Palm Pre. It fits where other phones won’t.

via Giz

Yeah, don’t look at me this way! This is my question: what in earth is wrong with my car, as it gets lost almost each and every time it has the chance? And no, it’s not my fault, if you are rushing into conclusions that have nothing to do with the reality. It’s not my fault I can’t find it when I come back to the parking lot and realize I don’t have a clue about the place I left it. So, yeah, my question is justified, because it’s not my fault, so it has to be its fault, right?

Anyway, if you also have the tendency to forget where your car is, you should know that bright people have thought of a solution: the Travel Honey GPS Location Finder, which is being offered by Chinavision. It was especially designed to help you never lose your car again and to let you know there’s nothing wrong with it.

< -300x250 Medium Rectangle - center->

The only thing you should do in order to get your car back is to let yourself guided by the red LED. In the moment you reach a distance of no more than 50 meters from the saved location, you’ll see a flashing arrow that will turn blue when you’ll be within 15 meters. In addition, the gadget comes with another interesting feature: it is able to convert your computer into a genuine GPS system, by just connecting it to the USB port of your computer.

The data logger function of this device can be used when you want to record the GPS information during a trip, such as position, speed and altitude, which you’ll be able to see on Google Maps or Google Earth as soon as you establish the connection between the dongle and your computer and the you make use of the software package included, called iTravel Data Logger.

So, you’ll have a four-in-one functionality that is, in fact, a mixture between: GPS receiver, Location Finder, Data Logger and Photo Tagger. The last one allows you to share the pictures that are immediately geo-tagged with your loved ones, on Flickr.

The Travel Honey is available at Chinavision for $54.

(Source: Coolest-Gadgets)

The following is a short play describing Kerchoonz’s K-Box. It’s a device that turns any surface into a speaker.

Setting: The present. A newlywed couple’s dining room. They’re enjoying tea and light snacks. They’re largely happy.

Jennifer: Honey, did you buy those speakers you said you’d buy for the housewarming party? I reminded you last week but I don’t see any new speakers in the house.

Brad: No, Jen, I did not order the speakers. Too expensive for a one-shot deal.

Jennifer: You know I don’t like being called “Jen.” So what, are we not gonna have music at this party? How exactly is that helpful, Brad?

Brad: Whoa, slow down, tiger. I said I didn’t buy speakers, but I never said there wouldn’t be music. I want you to lift your cup.

Jennifer: What?

Brad: Are you hard of hearing now? I said lift your cup.

**Jennifer lifts her cup**

Brad: There’s your speaker.

Jennifer: What, where?

Brad: Right there.

**Brad confidently knocks on the table, like a man who knows he’s about the prove a point**

Brad: You see, Jen, instead of buying piece-of-junk speakers from the Speaker Shack I bought this instead. It’s the K-Box, made by some company called Kerchoonz.

Jennifer: I said I don’t like being called “Jen.” Anyway, I don’t get it.

Brad: Of course you don’t! You see, dear, all you do is plug this device into your iPod then put it on top of the table. That’s it. Then music starts to play “out” of the table, like it’s a speaker.

Jennifer: So the table becomes a speaker?

Brad: That’s right, Jen. I’ll be damned if I can explain how it works beyond that. I’m not a scientist.

Jennifer: You certainly aren’t.

Brad: Listen, do you want to have this party or not? I’ll happily spend my Saturday playing Street Fighter all day, I don’t care. What do I need to talk to the Robertsons and Freedmans all day for?

Jennifer: “All day” he says! We’re just trying to be neighborly is all.

Brad: Here’s my idea of being neighborly: they stay on their side of the fence, and I’ll stay on mine.

Jennifer: Fine fine, be grumpy all the time then. Anyway, will this speaker-thing sound any good?

Brad: Well, the Web site described it as having “high quality audio,” which seems okay to me. And it also says it has bass response of 40-20 Khz—I guess that’s good?

Jennifer: You bought it, not me.

Brad: Yeah, well. It only cost about $60, so it’s not like I broke the bank or anything. (Under his breath: It’s not like I bought another pair of shoes, especially when the only place we go to is either the mall or your sister’s house.)

Jennifer: What was that?

Brad: I said I wonder what’s going on at your sister’s house. Like, will they be able to make it to the party, or are they busy?

Jennifer: Oh, that’s right! I have to remind her to bring that bottle of wine we saw that day.

Brad: Terrific. Just terrific.

Fin.