Leyio have taken the wraps off of their eponymous “personal sharing device“, a compact portable file-sharing gadget that allows you to exchange business cards, profile addresses such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and digital media including audio and video files. It uses an ultra-wideband transmitter and receiver, offering high-speed transfers of up to 10Mbps that can swap a 3MB photo in 0.3s, a short movie in around 20s, or simple images, text and links almost instantaneously.
Twitter’s rampant popularity looks set to increase even further, as your household appliances begin to tweet for attention. MAKE maestro Phil Torrone put together the Tweet-a-watt, a hacked Kill-a-watt energy monitor with the ability to wirelessly transmit energy stats and have those posted to a preset Twitter account.
Look out, software CDs! Dell seems to think we don’t need you anymore. The Dell Download Store is now open for business and seems to be the equivalent of the iTunes Music Store or Amazon, except for software downloads.
Throughout history, there have been inventions that have changed our lives for the better. We look back at these innovations, these great accomplishments as examples of man’s ingenuity. The latest breakthrough serves the human race by answering one very simple question – where can I find a McRib?
The Pogoplug by Could Engines provides users remote access anywhere in the world to their external hard drive through the Internet. This small plug also allows you to access your external drive even from your home computer as a local drive.
At a press conference at CES 2009 today, Samsung announced the latest generation of their Interactive TV Experience, with HDTVs integrating DLNA media streaming, online video from sites such as YouTube, streaming movies from Netflix and similar providers, connected Yahoo! Widgets, and media such as photos, video, music and stocks. Yahoo! are calling this Cinematic Internet, bringing user choice, openness, community and customization to the television screen, controlled solely by a remote control.
Lately we are hearing rumors of the new Sony Walkman NWZ-X1000, which reportedly features an OLED touchscreen display. The more we read about it the more we pictured images of an existing device, Apple’s iPod Touch. More details after the jump.
If you’re the forgetful type, it’s likely you’ve forgotten your clothes in the washer at least a few times. Ryan Rose decided to solve that problem using an interesting tool – Twitter. You can watch a video about Ryan’s tweeting washing machine after the jump.
Yes, the company is VTech and, no, this product is not a landline telephone. VTech has decided to surprise us with the IS9181, a Wi-Fi internet radio receiver that can stream music from over 11,000 internet radio stations.
Wikipedia has managed to bring in enough donations to operate for another year. This comes from a huge surge in donations from various users. The very useful and popular encyclopedia requires $6 million in funding to pay its 23 staff members and keep the site online.
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