Entries by Rue Liu
Tis the season to head to the wintery slopes and attempt to kill oneself. As if regular skiis and snowboards weren’t enough a danger to mankind, new weapons of self-destruction during the winter months are popping up all over the place. I just detected two such relatively new contraptions, the Railz Snowskate (pictured below) for [...]
Could this be the real iPhone? Most likely not. It’s probably just some phone from Asia copying the Nano, but hey anything resembling an iPod that’s a phone is bait enough for speculation. And this time, its not some photoshopped vapor gizmo–at least we hope not—it’s the real deal. A physical phone on auction at [...]
The latest phone from LG is the Cyon LG-SB190. It’s styled along the same lines as the popular LG Chocolate phone, but with more tactile buttons. The SB190 is sleek and white with a cool stainless-steel-looking navigation circle, some clear bubble buttons, and a slide-out keypad. The phone offers DMB, GPS, an MP3 player, and [...]
If your lazy ways are leading you down a path of frozen entrees and delivered pizzas, you and your pudgy midsection can look forward to the HotPod concept by designer, Christian Jung. This futuristic-looking crockpot delivers healthy food in single portions and will probably match well with your existing iPod speaker dock.
Just seal raw ingredients [...]
So you’ve got your army of RoboSapiens and RoboRaptors to terrorize your home or office with their little dance routines, but don’t you wish you could control them to really wreak some havoc? A new piece of software called Go-Robo will let you write your own programs to control any WowWee robot, including Robopets and [...]
According to Japanese site Tech-On, Hitachi has recently started mass producing what it claims to be the industry’s first 800 x 480 2.9-inch LCD mobile phone display panel. This is worth celebrating for folks who do a lot of mobile web browsing, as the new display is designed to eliminate the need for side scrolling.
The [...]
Toyota has released several renderings of a stunning RWD hybrid concept car that will be unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2007. Dubbed the FT-HS Hybrid Sports Concept, this futuristic vehicle will have a 400-horsepower hybrid powertrain with a 3.5-liter V6 engine and a target performance of 0-60 in 4 seconds.
This “Prius on [...]
The latest on the roster of hot fembots from Asia is the EveR-2 Muse, designed by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITEC). First introduced last October, she has since ranked fourth for her chart-topping pop song and is hailed as the world’s first entertainer-robot.
The EveR-2 Muse has 60 joints in the face, neck, and [...]
One of the latest gadgets to take a look at for the outdoorsy-but-direction-challenged is the Transystem i-Blue 757 solar-powered Bluetooth 16-channel Nemerix GPS receiver. The device features a unique clamshell design with the lower portion housing the solar cell, the battery, and the circuitry, while the upper portion houses the GPS antenna.
The embedded rechargeable 1000mAh [...]
If you couldn’t quite afford that vintage Leica nor its digital M8 version that you were groveling for, you might consider getting a mini replica of it from a Japanese company by the name of Komamura. They have been offering mini replicas of vintage cameras for some time now, but have just recently added the [...]
