Digital frames have been around for a while now, but the Kodak PULSE offers a new twist. The PULSE allows you to easily receive and display photos from friends and family. The PULSE is email enabled, eliminating the need to transfer photos from computer to frame. Imagine how exciting it will be to come home and find out your PULSE has mail!
Photos can be sent from any computer or mobile phone. Travelers can send pictures while on the go and you can also link to photo albums on Facebook and Kodak Gallery sites.
The PULSE requires no software installation and includes a built-in WiFi. You can also insert a memory card or USB and view saved pictures. Read more about the PULSE on the Kodak website.
For adventurers who try to maintain a green lifecycle, Casio has introduced a new digital watch in its Pathfinder collection. The PAG110C-3 is water resistant to 600 feet and features a digital compass, thermometer, altimeter and barometer. It has a stopwatch, five daily alarms and can display the time in 30 different worldwide cities. There’s also a moon phase calendar and tide graph. Best of all, this watch is solar powered.
The Casio Eco-Friendly Pathfinder Watch retails i.e. on Amazon for around $200. Find out more on the Casio Pathfinder website.
Think Geek is selling what would have to be the ultimate green charging station. The Grassy Lawn Charging Station contains a nice crop of artificial turf that cushions all your gadgets while they’re charging. The charging station can handle iPods, MP3 players, smartphones, cameras – any gadget that needs a charge.
The cables are in a compartment under the grass. Just plug it in and you’re ready to go. The Grassy Law Charging Station is available for $25 at Think Geek.
At the recent CeBIT exhibit in Hanover, Germany, the Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI) group demonstrated the results of their research into brain control. The demonstration involved a user wearing an EEG that measured brainwaves. A computer interpreted signals from the brain in realtime used the signals to operate the pinball machine’s paddles. Find out more that the BBCI at their website.
This unique bronze lamp from Studio Job is styled after a crane and wrecking ball. Illumination comes from a handling light bulb as well as from small lights within the cab’s interior. This lamps and some other similar designs were commissioned by the Carpenter Workshop Gallery (CWG) in London, where they will be on display until May 20.
The CWG is a design-art gallery located in an old carpenter’s workshop. It showcases cutting edge contemporary design. Read more about on the CWG website.
The Rovio WiFi Roaming Robot is a robotic webcam that will stream video and audio to any web-enabled browser in the world. This little robot’s camera, microphone and 2-way audio can be controlled from a distance, allowing you to control the Rovio’s movement and take pictures from thousands of miles away. You can even tell Rovio to return to its docking station for a charge – with a single click!
Rovio’s head mounted camera allows you to see where it’s going, and thanks for a built-in LED highlight you can even guide it in the dark. See a demo of Rovio in action in this YouTube video. The Rovio is available for $180 at Think Geek.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research have taken touchscreens to the next level. They’ve developed the prototype for a revolutionary new tecchnology that allows users to turn their hands and arms into touchscreens. The Skinput system uses a tiny projector in an armband to display interactive images on the user’s skin. The armband also houses sensors that detect taps on the skin. See the system in action in this YouTube video and read more about it on ZDNet.
Popular Science magazine just made its 137-year archive available online, with no charge for browsing. PopSci.com, the official website for Popular Science, has partnered with Google to provide the full contents of each issue, including the original advertisements. The archive is a mind-blowing resource, showing how people in the past thought about the future. It’s fascinating to see which scientific predictions came true and which remained just dreams.
The Google interface to the archive includes a search box to let you search by topic. You can also see a hyperlinked Table of Contents for each issue and jump to articles that way. The archive can be accessed via an iPhone. Prepare to lose yourself for several hours browsing through the interesting articles and stunning retro illustrations.
If you’d like to do your part to help the environment, consider investing in one of these eco-friendly Wikkerink Wallets. These unique wallets are made from recycled bicycle inner tubes combined with felt and fabric. The inner tubes are washed and treated until they’re as soft as velvet before being made into wallets. At $32, this wallet is a steal – especially since its durability will make it useful for a long, long time. Find out more at the Wikkerink Wallets website.
Feel like you’re going nowhere on the same old treadmill? The NordicTrack x7i Interactive Incline Trainer lets you take your workout all over the world. The x7i has the capability to download maps over Wi-Fi. Once you’ve downloaded a map and chosen a trial, the trainer shows the map on a small screen and the treadmill track raises and lowers to simulate the topography. Picture yourself running along San Francisco’s Golden Gate Trail, or maybe you’d like to design your own workout my specifying a route on Google Maps.
When you’ve finished your run, the x7i uploads your stats to the iFit website, where you can analyze your data and plan your next workout. The NordicTrack x7i Interactive Incline Trainer is on sale for $1999 at NordicTrack.com.
