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Real-Life Instagram Camera on the way?

2013-04-11T04:43:00.004-07:00

It was a concept last year, but this time it doesn’t look like a conceptual design but a real-life Instagram camera – to be called Socialmatic. Socialmatic and Polaroid is planning on releasing this device next year – a camera where you capture, choose filters and posted them up to your social media or print it out directly.

Technical specifications include: an Instagram icon-shaped body, lens, touchscreen and printer. According to Antonio De Rosa, CEO of Socialmatic: “We are so proud to work together with C & A and Polaroid, giants of digital photography. It’s been a long and difficult negotiation but we were strongly motivated to reach an agreement to create a small revolution in digital photography. This mix of Hardware and Software, together with our brand new photo social network will fill the gap between virtuality and reality.”

[via Techeblog]

Spyker B6 Venator Concept

2013-04-11T04:42:00.003-07:00

Spyker B6 Venator Concept, a two-door mid-engine that powered by 350hp V6 with 6 speed automatic and running on a 19-inch rear wheels. It comes with aluminum frame and carbon fiber making it lighter and also features a oversized radiator grille, the 1903-era logo, a turned aluminium fascia on the dashboard, and red cover on the ignition switch recall Spyker’s automotive and aeronautical past. Unlike other concepts, the Spyker B6 Venator is going into production, expected to be out on Autumn 2014 at $150,000. At first glance, I really thought it was a Maserati.

[via Uncrate]

Lamborghini Veneno

2013-04-11T04:41:00.000-07:00

I can’t wait to see a race between Lamborghini Veneno and the Ferrari Laferrari. Lamborghini Veneno is built to commemorate supercar maker’s 50th anniversary. It is reportedly based on the Aventador platform, powered by a 740 horsepower 6.5 liter V12 with seven speed transmission. The Veneno hits the top speed of 220mph and achieved 0-62 in 3 second. It has a total new design with a lot of fins, flaps and wings like a transformers robot or jet fighter. You can owned this at $4.6 million.

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[via Uncrate]

Dewalt iPhone 5 Case with Measuring Tape

2013-04-11T04:39:00.000-07:00

For those who are doing events, design, carpentry or advertising, this might be handy for you. It is the Dewalt iPhone 5 case that comes with a measuring tape. It is still under concept, and its done by Psychic Factory (looks like a Korean design company). To all designers out there, please get yourself a measuring tape, borrow one from people around you is a disgrace More pictures after the break.

[via YD]

GDC Hook Knife

2013-04-11T04:37:00.000-07:00

The GDC Hook Knife is designed to lives on a keychain and can be used to quickly cut yourself out of a piece of clothing, seatbelt or other safety strap, should you ever get stuck in a tight spot.

Seat belt is not 100% safe, in some accidents, victim just got stuck on seat belt – so at that critical moment, you just need something to cut the belt off and you know that seatbelt is pretty tough (some mechanic even use to pull up an engine). So if the unlucky who got stuck, this GDC Hook Knife will be handy. But if you were to compare, of course it is safer to use a seat belt than not to use.

$11 each and backed with Gerber’s Lifetime Warranty.

Rumors: Apple iOS 7

2013-04-11T04:33:00.002-07:00

So here’s the latest news about the Apple iOS 7, it says that Apple is going to launch there completely redesigned iOS 7 with the upcoming iPhone 5S. It will hit the store on the late Q2 or early Q3. They might feature all-new Mission Control, Social Hub, Notification Center, and more.

“With the Worldwide Developer Conference looming just months away, all eyes are on iOS 7, and according to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, the push to meet its development targets is requiring the company to repurpose resources from the OS X team. Ive is reportedly pushing a more modern, “flat” design for the next installment of Apple’s mobile OS.”

[via Techeblog]

Facebook Home

2013-04-11T04:32:00.000-07:00

Facebook has unveiled their Home today – a home screen replacement for Android phones. Tablet version will be out some time this year. Instead of seeing apps on your lock screen, you will see Cover Feed and prioritizes updates from people. It features the pop up reply, so you can reply text messages with exiting the app you are running on. (Chat Heads appear as round icons on the right hand side and you can drag them anywhere you like.) When you hit the home buttons it will bring you to the social updates and you can swipe left for messenger, swipe up for apps and swipe right to open up your latest app. Unfortunately, the Facebook Home will only available in good android phones they are the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III, Note II, and the new HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, and HTC First. It will be available on those phones starting April 12th in the US, followed by other countries.

[via Engadget]

[via Techeblog]

BikeSpike

2013-04-11T04:30:00.001-07:00

Just to give your bike an extra protection than just bike locks, you can attached the BikeSpike onto your bike. It is a small device that attaches to your bike via a custom water bottle holder. It features a GPS chipset, cellular antenna, and accelerometer – which lets you monitor your bike’s location using a phone or computer, digitally “lock” your bike and get a push notification if it’s moved/tampered with, automatically alert contacts in the event of a collision, and it also monitor stats such as distance, speed, and favorite courses. Price at $150+

[via Uncrate]

Minuum: Type Anywhere, Even Your Arm

2013-04-11T04:29:00.000-07:00

As most on-screen is taking up a large space of the screen, the Minuum keyboard was introduced to eliminates the visual clutter of archaic mobile keyboards by adapting the keyboard to a single dimension. According to the inventor, “The Minuum layout is simply a continuum of letters, laid out in a row. We call it ‘one-dimensional’ because it’s based on one row of keys. This frees up the keyboard to be anywhere you like on the screen, or even to curve for a more ergonomic keyboard shape.”

[via Tevheblog]

Lumoback lets you sit or stand straight

2013-04-11T04:26:00.000-07:00

Lumoback is the first posture sensor and mobile application to support healthy backs. Strapping it around your waist, its posture sensor will gently vibrates when you slouch from your lower back, reminding you to sit or stand straight. It is compatible to your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad via Bluetooth – download the app and connect it and it will track your movements wirelessly and gives you feedback. Priced at $149.

LUMOback is highly sensitive at measuring lower back spinal posture. In most cases, poor lower back posture such as slouching, leads to poor neck and upper back posture. By correcting lower back posture, LUMOback will help correct many cases of poor neck and upper back posture. However, there are cases in which poor neck and upper back posture occur in isolation without abnormal lower back posture. Future products from LUMO BodyTech will address these less common cases. With a single sensor solution, the lower back location addresses the majority but not all cases of poor spinal posture.

DIY Sawyer Lowrider Bicycle Kit

2013-04-11T04:22:00.002-07:00

Dutch designer, Jurgen Kuipers, has come out the fully functional DIY Sawyer Lowrider Bicycle Kit called Sawyer. It is a 1:1 scale model kit completed with all the required parts to built a bike – similar to those Tamiya model cars where we need to cut the parts out one by one and assemble it. More pictures after the break.

[via Techeblog]

Froc Adjustable Chair for Children

2013-04-11T04:21:00.002-07:00

Froc is chair where you can adjust for kids of all ages. The feet rest can be adjusted to the height of the kid and there’s a removable guard too. Suitable for children from 6 months to 10 years of age. Price at €240. More pictures after the break.

[via LikeCool]

Stack of Cash

2013-04-11T04:19:00.002-07:00

Everyone is dreaming to have huge stack of cash in front of that. Even if you are rich, you don’t do so cause we have online transfer and checks. So here one huge Stack of Cash that you can actually buy them at a hundred bucks. It is actually a resin seat or ottoman that resembles three million dollars in strapped $100 bills stacked neatly. Yes, $3,000,000.00 if it were real. Each Stack of Cash measures nearly 15-inches tall and almost a foot square. The creator actually contacted the U.S. Secret Service before producing these to make sure they don’t get in trouble for counterfeiting. More pictures after the break.

World’s Largest Cooler

2013-04-11T04:18:00.000-07:00

The Works Sydney has created the world’s largest cooler measuring 36-by-15-metre stocked with giant Jim Beam “cans” at the Bondi Icebergs pool. The cooler was filled with about 2 million litres of water and 500 big “ice cubes” and 33 Jim Beam cans. The Jim Beams cans measure 1.9 meters in diameter and 3.9 meters tall. The setup is made to film a TV commercial that will be out this month.

[via Lostateminor]

70s Hairy Chest Sweater

2013-04-11T04:17:00.000-07:00

The 70s Hair Chest Sweater is a 100% polyester sweater that is almost guaranteed to increase your masculinity, virility and ability to chop wood. Stay warm during the winter with this and make sure you hold a can of beer. £39.99.

[via LikeCool]

GIGS.2.GO Disposable USB Flashdrive

2013-04-11T04:15:00.002-07:00

As USB drives these days are really cheap so I think that is why Kurt Rampton and BOLTgroup have come to the idea of making this GIGS.2.GO, a credit card sized pack of 4 USB drives. Just tear a gig if you need and its recycled paper body makes easy for labelling. More pictures after the break.

[via gessato]

Rainbow Fan

2013-04-11T04:14:00.000-07:00

Just paint the fan blades with these three primary colors and you will see rainbow when you hit the on button.

Samsung to pay Microsoft for every Android device sold

2011-09-30T17:01:00.000-07:00

Google’s strategy of making Android available to developers for free has paid off extremely well. The operating system quickly mounted serious competition for Mac OS and Windows and emerged as the world’s best-selling smartphone platform by the end of 2010. Naturally, that made Microsoft, still reeling from the end of Windows Mobile, and Apple, unhappy with anything less than Blofeld style world domination, feel somewhat uneasy. Both companies have long claimed that Android ‘incorporates’ significant aspects from their operating systems and have demanded that Google either pay them or change Android to remove the contested elements. The legality of those claims is still undecided and so far no litigation has resulted, but in a move that the Wall Street Journal notes may move that kind of activity forward, Samsung and Microsoft have reached a huge patent sharing deal.

Samsung will now pay royalties to Microsoft on its Android-based smartphones and tablets, and the two global supercompanies will collaborate to develop new phones and tablets based on Windows rather than Android. Window’s stake in the deal is obvious, as it gives them official acknowledgment from the world’s second largest smartphone maker that their claim against Android may have merit. It also provides leverage to pressure other cellphone makers to cut similar deals. But Samsung’s reasons for pursuing the deal may have to do with more than simply protecting themselves from Microsoft’s lawyers. The South Korean company is in the midst of a very bitter worldwide legal battle with Apple involving charges of patent and trademark infringement. Partnering with Apple’s chief rival may provide them with an easy out, should they lose that battle and find their current slate of tabs and phones kiboshed.

As of this writing, Google has not made any official comment, but one imagines there are some very loud swear words being exchanged at the top of the company. In a month that has seen them taken to task for alleged anti-trust violations, this is one more headache they don’t need.

Droid 4 in the works, codenamed Maserati

2011-09-30T17:00:00.000-07:00

Sounds like the upcoming fourth-generation DROID smartphone will be super-fast like the Maserati GranTurismo sports cars. It should come as no surprise that the next Motorola Droid is already in the works. While the company hasn’t announced anything official, rumors indicate that the company has codenamed the device “Maserati” which is supposedly derived from the name of the famous Italian sports car brand Maserati GranTurismo. That said, the Droid 4 sounds extremely “fast.”

So what are the specs? Again, there’s nothing official, but rumors point to the typical DROID slide-out QWERTY keyboard (but sans the D-pad again), a screen somewhere around 4 to 4.3-inches, a removable battery and possible 4G LTE support. As with the previous three DROID models, this fourth-generation instalment will reside on Verizon Wireless.

Unfortunately, that’s it in regards to new information. The current Droid 3 smartphone sports a dual-core SoC clocked at 1 GHz, a 4-inch qHD (540 x 960) TFT display, 512 MB of internal memory, 16 GB of on-board storage, a microSD card providing 32 GB of even more storage, an 8MP camera, Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” and more. That said, consumers will see superior specs in the Droid 4, possibly even Nvidia’s Tegra 3 “Kal-El” SoC (that’s just a guess) and Google’s Android “Ice Cream Sandwich” OS.

With the holiday season just around the corner, it wouldn’t be surprising to see this phone rear its head before the end of the year. If not, perhaps during the Mobile World Congress 2012 event in February.

SOURCE via Device Mag

Report: “Better” Amazon Tablet coming in January

2011-09-30T16:58:00.001-07:00

Amazon today announced three new Kindles and a new Kindle Tablet, dubbed the Kindle Fire. However, previous Amazon tablet rumors suggested that there were not one but two Amazon tablets: The 7-inch Fire that we’ve come to known, and a larger 10-inch model that is supposedly set to launch in the first quarter of 2012. The story went that Amazon planned to launch the 7-inch model in time for the holidays and then, if it was successful, launch the big one next year.

Jeff Bezos didn’t say anything about a second Fire during this morning’s press conference. That said, word on the street still says the 10-inch model is coming, and soon. Ryan Block over at GDGT says that today’s Kindle Fire is nothing more than a stopgap and that a “second, better version” is coming in about three months’ time.

“My sources tell me the second-gen Kindle tablet (or Kindle Fire, as it’s now been dubbed) will be out in Q1 of 2012 — yes, that soon. That was always the plan, but the delays of the v1 product have messed up Amazon’s release cycle,” he said, adding that the worst part of it all is that the second device seems to be the one that Amazon truly believes in.

We all know that the current pace of the mobile industry means that there’s always another version coming. However, if Block is right and Amazon is releasing a superior version so soon after the first Kindle Fire goes on sale (it hits shelves November 15), we can see early adopters being very peeved. While there’s definitely a market for 7-inch tablets, the Kindle Fire is supposed to be a media device, and we can’t help but feel that though people may be drawn in by the appeal of this current Kindle Fire, they might realize it’s a little bit dinky to be watching telly on when the 10-inch model arrives.

Amazon has not commented on rumors of a second, larger Kindle Fire, nor has it denied reports that a 10-inch model is coming in the new year.

SOURCE via gdgt

A push-start button that can tell if you’re drunk?

2011-09-30T16:57:00.001-07:00

The Detroit Free Press is reporting that two companies have joined forces to create a push-to-start button that can automatically sense the driver’s blood-alcohol level. Takata, an Auburn Hills-based parts supplier and TruTouch, an Albuquerque-based firm, have received a $2.25 million grant from the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety to help make the creation commercially viable.

Currently, the device is about the size of a bread box and uses an infrared sensor to determine the amount of alcohol in a person’s system. In addition, the invention currently takes several seconds to function and only works accurately at room temperature.

The ACTS grant should help both Takata and TruTouch work through those issues to create a version of the technology that could conceivably fit behind a vehicle’s start button, take just a few milliseconds to determine someone’s BAC and be able to accurately do so in temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero. There’s also the equally challenging feat of getting the device’s total cost down to around $200 per unit. The idea is to take the invasiveness of a Breathalyzer out of the equation while still preventing impaired drivers from taking to the road.

SOURCE via Freep

Google to build a trio of data centers in Asia, earmarks $200 million for expansion

2011-09-30T16:55:00.001-07:00

IT specialists in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong better start polishing their resumes, because Google is rolling into town. Yesterday, Big G announced plans to build a brand new data center in each of the three Asian locales, as part of an expansion slated to cost at least $200 million.

When completed, these complexes will represent the company’s first fully owned and operated data centers in the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region — where, according to Asia policy communications manager Taj Meadows, Google is “seeing large numbers of new users coming online every day”. The facilities in Hong Kong and Taiwan are expected to cost around $100 million each, though the price tag for the Singapore branch remains a mystery.

Google hopes to finish construction in one to two years, though it didn’t say when it would begin — nor, for that matter, whether seawater tunnels would be involved.

SOURCE via Wall Street Journal

Next generation iPhone comes with HSPA+, no LTE after all?

2011-09-30T16:54:00.001-07:00

We know that Apple won’t be unveiling its next superphone for a few more days, but we may have a tasty tidbit about the iPhone 5 ahead of schedule. So the story goes, China Unicom’s Deputy Director Huang Wenlian was making a presentation at Macworld Asia, and stated that the new iPhone would utilize the company’s HSPA+ 21Mbps network. Now, we aren’t saying it’s a sure thing, but it appears that Tim Cook could deliver a handset with thrice the data speeds of its predecessor next week. Then again, remember that AT&T was fitting an Apple Store with some LTE equipment? And yet there was a contradicting report way back earlier in the beginning of the year that Apple’s Tim Cook mentioned that Apple will not be looking into LTE as of yet. Anyway, all will be known this coming Tuesday.

SOURCE via Impress Japan

Ninja sockets

2011-09-30T16:53:00.001-07:00

HP revives from the dead, announce new gaming PC with a cool mutant name

2011-09-30T16:52:00.001-07:00

Few seconds ago they decided to close down their PC department, and after changing a new honcho overnight, they’re back again. Funny? Well, HP does whatever they like and they don’t give a fuck what you think, or so the new CEO doesn’t. Maybe she has a very dark sense of humour, or perhaps there are events that have conspired to produce one of the most serendipitous pieces of product name irony I can remember.

Barely three weeks after announcing to analysts that they were looking to either spin off its PC business as a separate company or sell it off altogether, HP have launched a brand new gaming PC. It’s called the Phoenix. Yes, Jean would be so proud of this new brand.

The HP Pavillion HPE Phoenix to be exact, but the question is whether or not this is a deliberate reference to the fact that HP were hauled over the coals after their statement about the Personal Systems Group (PSG)? It would be a less than subtle reflection of UK PSG MD* Paul Hunter’s defensive statement that “the team in the UK remains committed to creating and supporting great products and services.”

Look, see, you thought we were dead, but we rise again and all that. That’s zombiecalypse for you guys! I suspect, however, that given the length of time it takes to develop product marketing and the fact HP’s announcement was a surprise to almost everyone, this is just one of those instances of perfect timing. So what of the Phoenix itself? A long trained mutant by the CIA?

There’s not much in the way of specs available at the moment, beyond 16GB of RAM and a “250W graphics card” – which is co-incidentally the TDP of a very nice Radeon HD6970. But it looks acceptably garish and – if my GPU guess is right – has an even more attractive price tag of £949. Especially if the monitor and peripherals pictured are included.

It’ll go on sale next month, but there’s no mention of price, yet. Jean wasn’t available for comment at the moment regarding this new product.