Lee's Journal

Smart Plate - Your Weight Watcher

lina — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:07:42 +0000

Dr. Hryhory Chausovsky, an Ukrainian scientist, has invented a 15-cm plate that is weight sensitive. If you overload the plate with food, a palm sized computer attached to the plate is activated and audio alerts are triggered. As your personal weight-watcher, it will say things like, "Stop right there! And what about excess weight?" and "Where's your willpower?" So, better follow the rules if you don't wanna embarrass yourself in front of the public.

Hug Shirt - Send Hugs via Distance

lina — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:33:16 +0000

The Hug Shirt is designed to make you feel loved even when your loved ones are miles away from you. Bluetooth-enabled pads of some sort are embedded in the fabric of the shirt, and can receive signals from your mobile phone. One person wearing a Hug Shirt gives themselves a hug, which is picked up by their mobile phone and transmitted to their friend. The friend, also wearing a Hug Shirt, then feels the squeeze, with the same pressure applied. The designers promise that the Hug Shirt can be washed, and are soft and comfortable to wear. You can move the pads from Hug Shirt to Hug Shirt, so that you can wear different colours and styles. [...]

Hello Kitty DC571 Digital Camera

lina — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:52:02 +0000

KFE Japan Co., a leading Japanese manufacturer has introduced the new Hello Kitty digital camera. Named as Tink Pink X Hello Kitty DC571, it sports a 2.4-inch LCD display, 32MB of built-in memory, an SD card slot and USB 2.0 connectivity, video recording and gaming. [...]

Pylones Mini Portable Fridges

lina — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:21:04 +0000

Pylones portable fridges can keep your food and beverages cold - or hot! These small fridges are great fot the office, dorm room or car. Designed by Créa Créa from France, they come with fold-in closure handle at the top for easy carrying and measures 26 x 19 x 25.50 cm. $130 at Pylones USA.

Christmas-Themed USB Key

lina — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:43:11 +0000

A-DATA's PD3-X'mas USB key is a limited edition product, designed specially for Christmas. The Christmas Disk has five interchangeable and colorful patterns - Santa, a sleigh and reindeer, beautifully decorated Christmas tree and a snowman. [...]

Dual LCD Mobile Phone

lina — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:15:10 +0000

Seok Hong Jeong, a Korean inventor revealed a cellphone with dual LCD displays at Seoul International Invention Fair 2006. The dual LCD mobile phone is specifically designed to optimize mobile internet sevices for a wide-ranging variety of multimedia contents. This unique cellphone claims to offer an enhanced Web browsing experience as today's cellphone displays are still too small for proper use. In addition, wider screens mean better support for multimedia-intensive webpages. Once you're done surfing the Net, you can easily fold back the displays into a compact candybar format. [...]

Sony Ericsson Z310

lina — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:53:30 +0000

Sony Ericsson introduces the new Z310 mirror-finish clamshell phone. As an eye catcher the Z310 features light effects that serve to both personalizing the phone and allow you to color code your contacts. Other features include 128x160px STN screen with 64k colors, 96x64px external screen, VGA camera, Bluetooth, speakerphone and mp3 ringtones. The Sony Ericsson Z310 is a Triple band/EDGE/GPRS 900/1800/1900 handset and will be available in selected markets from Q1 2007 in et Set Black, Blush Bronze or Lush Pink colors. [...]

Unazukin Doll - Your Decision Maker

lina — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:04:15 +0000

Unazukin is a cute little collectible doll that helps you make decisions by responding to your questions with a nod (yes) or shake of head (no). If you're wondering whether Unazukins are going to be the next big thing, the answer is an emphatic yes. These grinning yes/no dolls are already huge in trendsetting Japan. And because Unazukins are randomly packed you never know which one you're going to get, so collecting them is half the fun.

Condom Wedding Dress

lina — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:43:27 +0000

Hmm.. would you like to wear wedding gown made of condoms? The wedding dress on the right side of this picture is made of 12,500 individually colored and stitched-together condoms. It was specially made to commemorate the 19th World AIDS day on Dec 1st, 2006 and displayed in New York.

Nokia 8800 Lamborghini Limited Edition

lina — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:00:39 +0000

Nokia and Lamborghini have teamed up to create a limited edition Nokia 8800 Sirocco phone. The fabulous phone features special Lamborghini themes, ring tones and video documentary. It features the prestigious Lamborghini logo, scratch-resistant sapphire coated glass to protect its display screen, special Lamborghini-made ball bearings in the slider, Bluetooh, video, internet and a 2-megapixel camera. Since it's a Limited Edition product, only 500 units of the Nokia 8800 Lamborghini will be available from Lamborghini dealerships.