If Only I Had It

I have no patience at all for playing around with Rubix cube as I’ve always been busy. But in fact it really takes time for me to solve this kind of cubic puzzle. Perhaps, I’ll need at least 30 minutes or more for a properly scrambled cube. Anyway, the Japanese has developed a new kind of robot, called Cube Kun, which its sole purpose is for solving Rubix cube. And this Cube Kun robot can solve Rubix cubes within seconds.

The Cubbe-Kun robot has a big flat face. While a cube is presented to him, he will quickly register what the six sides of the cube look like. And then displays it on its screen to continue figuring out a solution in about one second and the next few seconds his hands will start moving to solve the cube! Impressive? Of course, I wanna protest here. Our brains are not solely designed for solving Rubix cubes. We have very sophisticated brain that can solve tons of problems in life. Furthermore, we might be lacking of focus while solving those cubic puzzles as we have worries, distractions and lots of other excuses too.

Are you an eco friendly person who loves to grow some herbs at home? If you are one this must be interesting for you. How about a Gardening gadget that can save your saplings by supplying optimum amount of water and light?

Well, Aero Garden is such a gadget that takes care of your little saplings more than a perfect gardener. This gardener gadget will tell you the amount of water you need to supply and at what times. Hence you can always see your little friends as fresh as it could be.

The required nutrients are supplied along with the package and you need to supply it as and when the system shows. Taking care of your herbs is pretty simple with this amazing kitchen gardener. This most advanced indoor herb and plant grower in the market is based on Aeroponics (no soil required).

Also the gadget is programmed to adjust the light automatically, providing sufficient to multiply the growth of the herbs. The manufacturers (as based on experiments) claims that the herbs grown in Aero Garden will grow 3 times faster than in a traditional earthen pot.

The package come with seven pot herb kit that includes Cilantro, Chives, Italian Basil, Purple Basil, Dill, Mint, and Parsley. Pop the growing pods in to the machine and switch it on. Your kitchen garden is set. Now you will have a fresh herbs garden right in your kitchen that is very simple and easy to maintain.

If you want to set up a fresh vegetable garden in your kitchen you may try out Chillies and Baby Tomato seeds at an added cost. A black Aero Garden machine with Herb seeds will cost you nothing more than $150. To suit your kitchen cabinet colours, AeroGarden comes in Black White ans silver shades. An additional vegetable seed kit comes for another $18.99. Surely this is a clever replacement to your fortune grabber bunch of herbs bought from the store nearby.

This is the first early prototype of Google Android spotted, which looks like carrying an HTC form factor. The guy who found this Google phone, has some pretty positive comments for it. After using for a day, he found the phone is generally light and fast, even though this gadget is still in its early prototype. And it’s deemed much faster than the desktop emulator at times.

According to the guy, who is a long-time programmer, the OS that this gadget runs is much better than Windows Mobile 5. Things can change right? Something in its early prototype could be disabled with certain functionalities. Once everything is put together would be a different a story!

What are these Light Fingers for? Putting it on simply makes you look stupid? Perhaps you could make use of it to deceive any of your significant others that you possess some kind of supernatural power or you’d be the most outstanding one while hanging out at any parties.

As what the product page says:

A hypnotic light show at your fingertips; put on your favorite music, turn down the lights, and dazzle yourself with beams of pure color. You control more than 20 different pre-programmed light show patterns, plus a black light and strobe light add mind-blowing effects. It’s made of plastic and need 3 AAA batteries to keep your fingers illuminated.

No this is not about a Chritmas Tree Marathon :-D.

The folks at Akihabara has set up a huge Christmas tree made of processors including Intel Core 2 Duo.  Standing out 5.2 meter tall, the giant Christmas tree is decorated with thousand of computer processors. So surely this must be the fastest Christmas Tree in the whole world!

You can drop in at TX Akihabara Station to see the hanging processors on this huge multi-processor Christmas Tree before December 25th.

(Fortune Magazine) — We’ll say this for the U.S. economy: It can take a punch.

Consider the blows it has absorbed just this year. The worst real estate crash since the Great   Depression. Pow! Oil prices up from $50 to $90 a barrel since last January. Bam! A   subprime mortgage mess metastaElectronic Artssizing into a full-blown credit crisis, with   banks swallowing billions in losses and cutting back on loans. Baff!

Yet through all the punishment, the economy has barely flinched. “I’m floored by how resilient it has been,”Annaly Capital Management says veteran stock strategist Ed Yardeni of Oak Associates. “Had you told me at the beginning of the year this was going to happen, I doubt I would have been very optimistic.”

That’s why forecasting 2008 is so difficult. History tells us that oil shocks, real estate crashes, and banking crises are harbingers of downturns. Confidence has already plunged as consumers have been pinched by rising energy prices and falling home values.

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We will always need a better gadget for detecting WiFi networks. If you’re kind of shy to wear the WiFi t-shirt, which you might deem it makes you look stupid, then you could try wearing a less noticeable piece, such as a wristwatch to help you detect WiFi signals.

ThinkGeek has got a WiFi detecting wristwatch, which has a prominently marked WiFi button on it. Just a press of this button, it will tell you the signal strength on a scale of 0 to 8 (Why 8 instead of 10?). Of course, besides detecting WiFi signal, it doesn’t forget its main function, which is telling you the time and also the date. So the watch also includes functionalities such as world time clock, alarm and calendar functionality, and a bright EL backlight. It’s quite a handy gadget for you to shift around from coffee shop to the other, if you aren’t satisfied with the WiFi signal.

There are some things in this world that I think every human being would find useful. This illuminated shower head is one of them. It can tell you how hot or cold your shower water is.

The illuminated shower head has a temperature sensor that changes its illumination colour according to shower water temperature. It shows white color if the temperature is below 32 degrees. It shows blue illumination if the temperature is around 33-41 degree Celsius. Similarly it illuminates in pink and red for higher temperatures.

Here are the details of this innovative shower:

• Powered by running water. No battery required.
• Uses Multi-color LED lights for illumination
• Temperature sensor based on Celcius scale.
• Chrome coated shower head for better finish.
• Plug & Play - just replace this one instead of your original.
• Customized versions available on request

To provide physical safety for your data, we will get them burned on CDs or DVDs and then store them in a safe. And the safe for storing these precious data must be able to stand the test of any disaster caused by water or fire. The SentrySafe USB Fire-Safe is one great safe box that ensures everything stored in it is fire and water proof. The safe can protect up to 120 CDs and DVDs for two hours in intense heat (up to 1850 degrees) and eight inches of water for 24 hours.

Besides, this safe comes with a USB connector. You’d be wondering what the USB connector is for? It’s for you to hook up to your computer’s USB port for transferring data onto a 2.5? hard drive that sits in the safe. Smart! While you have no time to burn your data onto CDs or DVDs, you can hook this safe to your computer for a quick transfer of data onto its hard drive. So, you’ll have a copy of your data in the safe which is water and fire-proof.

Features:

* LCD electronic lock with programmable pin access and tubular key lock

* External USB 2.0 bus powered port (Y-cable included)

* Convenient door pocket stores 2.5 hard drive which connects to the internal USB port (cable included)

* CD/DVD organizer tray (stores up to 72 CD/DVD’s in jewel cases)

* Holds A-4 size papers, folders and box files laid flat

* Key rack and compartment for small items

* File rack

Real passionate chess players would always love to play chess on their hard wood board unlike the software display. At the same time things get easier if you have an automatic tracker that can even give you next move tips. This USB Chess game does both.

This USB Chess game comes with an interactive USB chess board that can track your movements. This helps you to have a virtual view of your chess board on the monitor at any time of the game.

Moreover this advanced USB Chess board will allow you to record your moves so far. This allows you to resume the packed game at some other place. The physical pieces in your game board are tracked on the pc.

The software running can even warn of any illegal moves. Also you can get tips on your next move. Apart from these, the interactive USB Chess game features the following also

• Hint buttons for helpful tips.
• Save button to pause your game so you can resume later.
• Three levels of game play.
• Play against the computer or a friend.
• Records highest score.
• Timer to record game play.
• Option to email your friends the jpg of the game.

This USB chess board is made of flexi plastic and can be rolled up and hence is very handy. The dimension comes around 29 x 26 x 1cm making it as big as a standard chess board. The package includes the interactive chess board, chess pieces and CD software.