Gadgets are more unusual and more clever than normal technological objects and that makes them gain popularity. These wonderful gizmos ease our daily routine and keep us in contact with the innovative movement, making sure we don’t get stuck in the past. But of course, in the world of gadgets there are also some devices that take it a little bit far, making us gaze at them with hope that we will get our hands on them sooner.
Window phone concept
Is it a window, is it a phone? No. Actually, it’s Window phone and this is the part where you are saying “Whaaat? What are you talking about?”. The phone is actually a concept with extraordinary features. Surely if this could be actually put into production, it would set a new standard for the term “cool”.
AFGT Gaming Device
This gadget seems to be the holy grail of the gaming world. Its interesting feature is the tactile feedback that is used to enhance the gaming experience. This very interesting gadget is made out of touch sensitive silicon, to be more specific, silicon air pockets, each with a pressure generator.
Sound Mug Speaker
This particular device could look a little bit strange at a first impression but actually it’s a damn cool thing. The crazy looking speaker can fit in your car’s cupholder and don’t worry about batteries, the gadget is powered by car’s accessory socket.
Vestalife BumbleBee Earbuds
If you’re a guy, it’s unlikely that you will be interested in these little pink earbuds but as a girl, you’ll find them pretty glamy.
Babelfisk
In case you’re getting lazy in classes these wonderful glasses will give you some help. They have two microphones that can be directed to where someone is speaking and you have text and audio recorded into a flash drive.
QWERTY Keyboard For iPhone
Surely, this sounds like a dream come true. The Iphone is everywhere and probably a lot of you have it encountered the typing problem. With this tiny little qwerty keyboard you can type fast and accurately.
Sliding Pooltable
Bio Robot Refrigerator
The Bio Robot fridge cools biopolymer gel through luminescence. It might look stinky and sticky but it’s actually an odorless gel that envelopes the food.
eRoll
eRoll could be the future of e-reading, along with iPad and another gadget that will be presented in this article. If you don’t want it to read ebooks on it, you can use it as a self defense weapon.
Folding-out Laptop
The Transformers wallpaper on this laptop says it all. This laptop transforms into a mega-laptop as soon as you unfold its keyboard.
MU SPACE
Listening music in bed with your headbuds in your ears can be really annoying and it appears that Yuan-Hao Hsu and Lin Tzu Hsuan have figured that one out. The result consists in a mp3 player pillow that will help you relax when taking your nap.
Wind circle
This will surely start a lot of discussions with your house guests but besides that it will also cool the air in the room. Yeah, it does that too…
Bracelet phone
Concept phones are becoming very popular these days. The stranger their shape is, the more popular they get. Probably that’s why this bracelet phone got so many fans or because it has a round dialer on it, like in old land phones.
Mint Sputnik projector
Portable Interactive Display
This device should be interesting especially for architects or industrial designers because of its interesting features. Its software can take CAD drawings and display them on the surface where they can be manipulated easily.
Newspaper of the future
Nowadays people try to find alternatives to using paper and they come up with interesting solutions. We already saw the eRoll in this article and tablets like iPad are made in a lot of variations today but Seon-Keun Park and Byung-Min Woo came with a different idea.
Air Clean Balls
Enough with the serious talking, let’s talk about balls (…?!). They have a funny name but an interesting feature, they can clean the air in the room by using a form of ionization with a photocatalyst complex sterilizing. It is interesting that it doesn’t freshen the air as you would probably think, but it actually cleans it, removing bacterias and viruses too, besides strange odors.
Geist Projector
We’ll keep on going with the balls issue but this time it’s about a projector. The mobility of the projected image is given by the levitating ball that sustains itself in the air with the help of electromagnetism.
Help Readers device
This device converts text to audio, helping you in case you have eye problems or because you’re infected with the laziness virus. in
HP LIM Glass computer
The HP LiM (Less is More) concept is set to feature a 19″ transparent touch OLED screen along with a wireless keyboard. The touch screen slides down to create a more ergonomic touch experience and easy navigation.
Korean designers Yonggu Do, Jun-se Kim and Eun-ha Seo have found a more conventional use piezoelectricity, in the form of powering our very own tablets and smartphones. Statistically on an average, users press their touch screens over 10,000 times a day. Ingenious system dubbed simply as the Ecopad, where the tablet or any similar device can utilize the piezoelectricity generated by that ‘tapping’ of touch screens. This in effect forgoes the need for those cumbersome adapters (and anypower source for that matter), while the device can literally be self powered throughout a period of days. For those who are not acquainted with piezoelectricity – it is the charge which accumulates in certain solid materials (notably crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA and various proteins) in response to applied mechanical strain.
Electricity is made automatically simply by using your ‘ecopad’. currently commercialized tablet PCs and smart phones have a very limited battery life – often not more than a day before having to be recharged. on average, people press their touch screens over 10,000 times a day. the ‘ecopad’ does not require special charging from an adaptor. instead, it generates electricity when a user presses the touch screen due to the nano piezoelectricity film that is located below the display.
Like most high-end Nokia phones, the Lumia 808 uses Carl Ziess optics and a new pixel oversampling technology. You don’t necessarily need to use all 41 pixels in your photos; you can switch between standard resolutions like 2/3, 5, and 8-megapixels. The heavy weight sensor will allow the smartphone to shoot high-detail images at standard 5 and 8 megapixel resolutions while still providing the super clarity of large 38 megapixel images that users can crop down as needed. The high-resolution sensor also means that the phone can record 1080p HD video with 4x digital zoom with no loss of detail.
True that clicking an image with a 38MP camera which actually is your phone is nothing short of amazing but the fact that uploading the images over a 3G or a 2G network, anywhere will take nothing short of an eternity.
Coming to the other worth noting specifications of the device, The 808 PureView also has Dolby Digital Plus, so you can watch movies in surround sound.It would run a 1.3 GHz single-core processor along with 512 MB of RAM. The 808 PureView will also sport 16GB of on-board memory that is expandable using a microSD card.
The only downside to the device or rather the BIGGEST downside to the device is that it runs on Symbian rather than Windows Phone 7, the OS Nokia’s Lumia products are running on and the reason that users are getting attracted towards Nokia yet again. But given that it runs a Symbian OS, it gets a straight ‘no go’ tag from me.
The device is to be launched in May 2012 as per Nokia. If you are someone who wants to buy a camera which has the capability of a phone, you can go for this one but if you are looking for a good smartphone device, well, we all know how ‘smart’ Symbian OS is. So if you are searching for a good smartphone we will recommend you to look at the amazing products launched by HTC especially HTC One series. We will be covering them soon. Keep a check on this space for the same.
Who says the competition on mobile OS is slack? Well, this is not applicable with Android and Apple users. Last year was a breakthrough for Google’s mobile OS. Android has become one of the favorites and sought-after smartphone platform despite the plagued lawsuits. It didn’t only become popular, but the market boomed having 400,000 app downloads for its users. With Google partnering with mobile manufacturers, expect greater things this year on its system as there will be more available applications right there on your fingertips. Below, we have compiled the Top 5 Android Apps for 2012 that we would like to get on our hands. Take a look at the newest apps on Android.
Ninja Dash
Ninja Dash is an addictive game that any android user should download. The Ninja apprentices become the Ninja heroes! If you’re into speed and accuracy, Ninja Dash is the best fast paced running game. Well, it actually involves levels from easy, hard, to crazy and set it according to your preferences. In this ninja adventure, you’ll jump and slide, and as you get along the way. Avoid the traps and cliffs and these takes a maze of booby traps in order for you to survive. Ninja Dash is available for download at the Android Market. It is compatible with devices running Android 2.0 and higher.
Zombie Dash
Bring back the child in you as you play this cool arcade game called Zombie Dash. The game is pretty simple with stunning graphics. Basically, the game is more of hitting the zombies and running over them by jumping and shooting them. The game starts in the Zombie City. See your town with dead men walking. Of course, there’s only one thing to do in this kind of situation, you cut down the wave of zombies in this unlimited shooting adventure. The controls are visible, so you can jump and shoot them. Kill the zombies by using submachine gun and special weapons. So what’s the secret in this game? You just have to run and run as far as you can and enjoy four different adventure worlds on your smartphone. It’s fun and addictive. Zombie Dash is available for download on mobile devices running Android 2.0 and higher.
Tiki Kart 3D
Enjoy a full pack 3D kart racing on your Android devices with Tiki Kart 3D. Take control over the vehicle and drive with exceptional graphics, speed and crashes with Tiki Bobby. Now get your wheels on a giant piece of fruit and enjoy the ride. If you think, this will be a traditional race track; you might want to think again. Go further along the road as you get your fruit tropical drink, and if you want to get it more serious there’s a big heavy log or volcano lump of rock you can ride and be the big bully down the road. You will experience death defying jumps, speed through boost pads, spiral corkscrew turns and down the race of fun-filled 15 tracks. What’s different in this kart racing is that you can fire up your missile to plow your way through the competition. This is an awesome game you shouldn’t miss. Tiki Kart 3D is available fordownload on mobile devices running Android 1.6 and higher.
Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots
The popular game in Apple Store is now available on the Android Market. Enjoy a fruity and juicy game this year on your smartphone devices with the dashing swashbuckler Puss in Boots. Prepare your fingers as you get familiar with fruit slicing action with exciting challenges as you go further. Each level will thrust you into a fruit slicing fiasco like never before. Enjoy a massive fruit from the Giant’s castle, timing and precision challenges and fruity onslaughts as new obstacles arise. Now there’s a catch, you get to throw down the most-requested addition in Fruit Ninja – the tomato. So get ready with your blades and slice efficiently with Ninja’s reflexes to get high scores. Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots is available for download on mobile devices running Android 2.1 and higher.
Mega Mall Story
Mega Mall Story is finally available on Android market. Enjoy this management simulation game as you design your own mega mall tower with mega proportions to attract more customers. Be on top as you go further to get the 5-star status in this mall-management simulation game. You can also add your own fast-food joints such as restaurants, elevators, stairs and even a heliport. You can all do these things at the touch of the finger. Just like any simulation game, you can attract more customers by investing on your surrounding area by building your affluence. So get ready and build your own mega mall as neatly as you can. Mega Mall Story is available for download on mobile devices running Android 1.6 and higher.
heHP Folio 13is an ultrabook in description and it is tagged as one of Microsoft’s new technological advancements. Some advantages of this gadget include a very long battery life, comfortable and stylish keyboard, compatibility with other devices, as well as a competitive market price. However, there are also some minor disadvantages like a heavier feel to it and a somewhat poor image when compared to other ultrabooks available.
These might just be minor discrepancies to other but every one of us has our own opinions. Overall, the HP Folio 13 is a reliable gadget to have and a great addition to how people can go through their daily activities easier and hassle free. This gadget also is a great multitasking tool in which we can work and even play with. The target customers of this gadget are the business type people as well as those who work at home. This will definitely be a great purchase for the New Year.