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What a great way to hide your bike from being stolen, vandalised and protect it from the weather. A Swiss company has designed something new that protects your bike from all sorts of troubles. Bike Tree keeps bikes out free from trouble, by letting cyclists guard their bike with a password and a magnetic key. Plus these bike tress gives some shade to pedestrians as well. The city would consider buying some, by having some selling ad space on the canopies. Expect one closer to you soon.

Adidas has released its latest athletes suit in the Turin's Winter Games Olympics recently. The suit, named the Clima Techfit enchances the performance of the athlete by preventing athletes from lapsing into inefficient postures normally brought on by fatigue, therefore keeping oxygen intake high and performance higher. This would definately make you more competitive in the games compared to other athletes. Great way to improve yourself.

An exciting edition of a classic board game, this electronic version evokes the sounds and images of Star Wars™ in four different strategy games, including solo play and player-to-player challenge. The system guides players through the different games with digitized voice commands, while the distinctive sound of ion cannons, concussion missiles, and proton torpedoes signal salvo launches as players try to knock out their opponent’s Star Destroyers, X-Wing Fighters, Millenium Falcon, and other iconic ships from the movie series. Sells for $59.95 and available now.

Need something to freshen your surrounding? The new USB Air Purifier from Anion Technology would suit to make you feel like home. This nifty little gadget gets rid of all the bad air, including allergens, pollutants and odours. This air purifier runs on an USB plug. Simply plug it in and it starts freshening out. This is great for people who suffers allergies and definately its good for spring.

Needless to say drinking and driving is dangerous and we all are obviously aware of this. In spite of that when we drink we aren’t aware of anything and we often cross the limits and get totally sloshed. So, it’s advisable not to drink and drive, but for every plan you should always have a backup. This small pen ‘Breathe Testing Pen’ with a built-in mini breathalyzer can indicate if you have reached your limits. What you basically have to do is blow into a hole on top of the pen. The whole process takes just a few seconds. If you are out then the green LED turns red, indicating it’s a better idea to go back in a taxi. It’s very small and can be carried everywhere with convenience. The market price of this life saving instrument is $35. 

Toshiba has finalized April for the launch of its new HD Ready LCD TVs, in the WL66 series. Four models are introduced in WL66 series with 32, 37, 42, 47” inch screen size, featuring integrated digital TV receivers and a pair of HDMI ports. Dual SCART sockets and a headphone socket are also included with a competent video input. Last two big screens provides a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels with brightness of 550cdpm² and first two small TVs supports a resolution of 1366 x 768 and 500cdpm² brightness. Toshiba’s Active Vision LCD image processing technology is used in these models to enhance picture, color, contrast and movement. These LCD TVs provide PAL and NTSC playback, 20W RMS speakers (SRS WOW 3D audio enhancement) and a headphone socket. Price for all four models is yet to be decided by company.

This year, Orange is introducing a new technology named MegaSIM card. It’s a 512 MB SIM card, if seen in comparison with other SIM cards (64k) it will hold 8000 times more data. This new MegaSIM is the result of a joint venture between M-systems, Oberthur Card Systems, LG Electronics, and Orange. While other companies are introducing 64k SIM cards, Orange already has plans to blow everyone out of the water with the launch of its 512MB MegaSIM card.