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Caption Contest: A heaping helping of wearable music

Posted by on Thursday, 14 July, 2011
Is this the new musical Power Glove? Imogen Heap thinks so. The Grammy winner rocked the stylish hand warmers at a TEDGlobal 2011 event in Edinburgh, Scotland, creating gesture-based music during a four-minute demonstration, with the gloves wirelessly connected to a nearby laptop. Could this be the death of the theremin as we know it, or just another good excuse to do a caption contest?

Brian: “Imogen there’s no heaven.”
Terrence: “Ms. Heap hard at work on a sequel to the NES “classic” Bad Street Brawler, tentatively titled Street Corner Complainer.”
Darren: “Seriously? Wires?”
Brad: “Now if only I could find some oven mitts that would magically bake cookies for me, I’d be set!”
Jon: “Force enhancing gloves allow Imogen to one up Luke, raise X-Wing.”
Tim: “Do I look intense enough now? Too pensive? What if I tilt my head up a bit further?”
Amar: “And then they handed me the Grammy and I grabbed it like this and then — oh, have I already told you this story?”
Dante: “What do you mean they aren’t cashmere?!?!”
Joseph: “So I was holding Bjork’s leg up like this, but she still couldn’t get over Madonna’s gate.”
Sean: “To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub…”
Christopher: “Please sir, I beg you — don’t take my Flowbee away.”
Richard Lai: “Ceiling cat, come to momma.”

[Image credit: University of the West of England]

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5 New Gadgets To Have Fun With

Posted by on Saturday, 15 May, 2010

New gadgets are invading the market place every day. The newest gadgets that will be release soon and promises to be interesting are: girl tech password puppies, star wars cockpit original arcade machine, transparent toaster, Wi Fi umbrella and Kiara plasma TV fireplace.


1. Girl Tech Password Puppies

Train and look after your puppy with your voice! The first virtual pet girls can raise, train and love with their voice! Her adopted puppy only responds to the sound of her voice. Name the puppy using voice and then call his name to make him appear.


Teach puppies tricks like sit, rollover and dance and maze games help to challenge and train the puppy all by voice . The older he gets, the more girls can interact.


2. Star Wars Cockpit Original Arcade Machine

Pilot the X-Wing Fighter in the classic color vector arcade game! Blast away TIE Fighters, zoom across the surface of the Death Star, and roar down the trench with sampled voices and effects from the movie!

Before the action starts, the player is allowed to choose which level of difficulty to begin at, with compensating bonus scores for each higher level of play. Once the preliminaries are finished with, the battle begins, and the incredibly smooth first person perspective and 3-D effects take over.


3. Transparent Toaster

This transparent toaster allows you to see the bread while it is toasting so you are never surprised by toast that comes out too dark. This idea is based on a transparent heating glass technology.


4. Wi Fi Umbrella

The high-tech brolly allows you to take pictures with a built-in camera. These can be uploaded to Flickr via a wireless internet connection and within two minutes you can watch downloaded photo-streams on your umbrella screen with a simple wrist-snapping movement.


Invented in Tokyo the Pileus umbrella also has GPS and a digital compass, which uses Google Earth to help you navigate yourself around the world. They are working on incorparating a video camera as well.


5. Kiara Plasma TV Fireplace

The Kiara has a magnificent mixture of hand carved rough and smooth marble. The combination of the two different finishes creates a sense of an unfinished masterpiece combining the natural raw beauty of the rough stone with the understated elegance of highly polished stone.


The Kiara is a one of a kind signature piece with a hand chiseled finish that will give your home a focal point that you will enjoy for many years to come.

The Kiara can be transformed into an entertainment centre by the addition of two equipment cabinets finished in the same style.


The cabinets can be positioned beside the fireplace to create an ensemble, or placed elsewhere in the room. Cables that run from the equipment cabinets to the fireplace can be easily concealed from view.

See the newest hi tech gadgets updated every day and get the best present ideas for Christmas.


Kinekt gear ring. It spins!

Posted by on Monday, 1 February, 2010

Quite possibly the coolest ring we’ve seen in a long time. Maybe ever. It might not be as functional as my bottle opener ring, but this gear ring from Kinekt Design will certainly be more entertaining.

Made completely out of stainless steel, there are six internal gears than spin with the two outer ones. It’s simple, elegant, and totally awesome. You can pretend that you’re Vors Voorhorian, the genius engineer behind the Incom X-Wing starfighter. At least until you get a hair caught in it.

It’s currently available in US sizes 9 through 12 for $165.



The RCX4 Star Stryker

Posted by on Friday, 8 January, 2010

DigitTronics showed us their ultra fun RCX4 Star Stryker, a flying, hovering X-Wing fighter-clone that costs $399. It lasts about ten minutes on one charge. Anyone want one? They’re $100 off at the show.

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CES: RC X-Wing takes flight, terrifies womp rats

Posted by on Thursday, 7 January, 2010

The RCX4 Star Stryker is a Star Wars X-Wing Fighter-inspired radio-controlled helicopter found at CES 2010.

Originally posted at 2010 CES


Star Wars Trench Run for iPhone: The Force is strong with this one

Posted by on Friday, 20 November, 2009

Nothing fancy here, just you, your X-Wing, and good old arcade action. Dogfight with TIE Fighters, then drop a little present into the Death Star’s exhaust port.

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas