If Only I Had It

Hi there readers ;

It has been a while now since If Only I Had It came into existence. It is exactly one year old now.  This gadgets blog has attracted techies from all around the world. More and more people each day are adding up to the amount daily readers.

I would like to thank all my readers from all over the world for helping me make this blog a success. We have more than 1000 readers a day on this blog right now. But there is a slight problem. We only have very few commentors.

To make things more challenging and to bring this blog to a new height, I am now giving away USD 50 a month to the top commentor and USD 25 to the runner up. They are allowed to use this money for whatever reasons they want as the money will be transferred using PayPal.

The comments does not require any certain lenghts of words but will require that the comments be genuine. Any comments that are repeated or copied from another commentor will not be calculated. This small monthly giveaway will commence immediately and the giveaway will be done every 30 th of the month. This competition is for one entire year ending December 1st 2009.

Happy Commenting ;

Aaron George Abraham ( Chief Editor )

Baby Opus

The designer Sakura Koshimizu is specialized in using lasers to cut out the shape of the waveform of sounds. He uses a sound editing software, records some human sound such as yawn, atchoum, giggle, wow, and the sound of church bell etc. The software will then be able to plot out the sound waves on the screen, which can then be fed into a laser cutter to cut out the shape of the waveform on a ring. Just say the word “Yes I Do” and make a special wedding ring for your wedding ceremony. Or say anything you want such as a secret code that can only be encrypted once the soundwave is read.

An interesting idea that should play in the minds of the readers for quite a while. I think this is surely an invention that will do well with the tech industry.

Weird but practical ? This is the type of gadget that I would love to have in my home. A wifi that doubles up as a vase. A good looking home ornament that does not stand out or make you look like a geek.

In fact it is a brilliant idea. A wireless router lets your family members surf the Internet through it. But when you leave it at one corner in your living room, it takes up a little space too. If it is just a squarish or awkward-looking box, it may make some eyes unpleasant.

Saudi Arabia based STC has turned their fully functioning wireless router into a vase for your flowers. And of course, to keep your flowers fresh, you have to fill up the “router vase” with water. Some might feel little uncomfortable with feeling up an electronic device with water. But it shall be made water-proof which spilling of water all over it is not an issue here.

 

“Ding- Dong” there goes the boring sound of the doorbell again. Might just be the neighbours kids playing a prank again. Well cant the doorbell be at least more interesting.

Here comes the bird shaped doorbell which serves as a good replacement for your existing door bell. If you have this installed on your door, you’ll hear the bird call chime. It’s in a shape of a bird, a sparrow, best recommended for the bird lovers, making it cute to greet someone at your door.

The doorbell comes with a 2W speaker that blasts the bird chime. It’s a wireless door bell which installation is super easy as you won’t get into the trouble of dangling wires, and double-sided stickers are ready at the back of it, just tear it off and stick it on. It also comes with a remote which lets you switch on and off its sound. The doorbell needs three AAA batteries, whereas the remote needs one.

Many tech companies are trying to create the best robot companion of the future.

MIT is taking the same foot step, making another companion robot for you. This MIT’s robotic teddy bear is called Huggable™. It’s designed to be much more than a fun interactive robotic companion for the lonely geeks. It’s able to be involved as a team member, to participate in a social network to interact with others.

The Huggable is also packed with more hardware than any average bear, such as the entire body is all covered in touch/force/temperature sensors (about 1,500 sensors to be highly interactive). He’s also got cameras behind his eyes, a speaker in his nose, and servo motors etc.

Huggable is also capable of capturing those images, videos, sounds with its eyes and ears, and exchanges the signals with a centrally located server wirelessly for crunching those data.

An interesting feature of this Huggable bear is you can set one bear up and having another slave bear to imitate or reproduce the actions of the master bear. The slave bear copies all the movements of the master bear and a computer is able to tell you where and how the Huggable is being touched, and transmits live video and audio feeds.

 

Add this spider to your page and watch it crawl around and follow your mouse. You might even be able to give some unsuspecting victim a little scare with this one . It is an aBowman creation.

Here is another gadget for you iPod lovers. This golden coin purse doubles as a mini boombox speaker for your iPod. The purse features a 1400 milliwatt stereo amplifier that can be connected to an iPod, MP3 player or cell phone. Measuring 2”x4”, this cool personal gadget includes two waterproof speakers, so you can take it out, rain or shine.

I love my chessboard collection. It has been a while since I last saw a chess board that actually lights up. I cant remember the name of the last one. Although I remember that it was much better than this. But here is another chess set that glows for you.

The Glo Chess set by Adam Craft is a great design that earned him the distinction of winning the Student Design Contest held by Velco. This miniature chess set uses Conductive V30 VELCRO that causes each piece to light up as it comes in contact with the board. The travel board itself is battery powered and activates as soon as the board is opened, causing the contacts on each side to come in touch with one another.

This is surely a gadget that you should get as soon as possible if you are an iPod / iPhone lover. I just love my i’s .. Cant wait till I am able to get my hands on the Apple Air .

The iPod/iPhone iBreath alcohol breathalyzer is here just in time for the Christmas holiday season to ensure that you don’t get your mugshot plastered on the wall of your nearest police station. Assuming you’re not so drunk that you can’t stand, all you need to do is blow into iBreath for at least 5 seconds and 2 seconds later, it’ll let you know if you’re under the legal limit or not.

Priced at $79, this is a must have gadget for the holiday season. For the nondrinkers out there, iBreath also has a built in FM transmitter that transmits your iPod tunes to an FM tuner.

The number one reason I went to the LA Auto Show was to see exotic cars. I’m not a car nut, not really… I mean, my vehicle of choice (of choice, not necessity) is a 1994 Volvo 940 Wagon. Swedish turbo bricks FTW! But still, exotic cars get my juices flowing just as much as the next guy (or gal), and I spent a significant amount of time at the show doing silly things like measuring the size of the brakes on a Ferrari or repeatedly opening and closing the doors of a Lamborghini. They open UPWARDS, it’s SO COOL! Check out a bunch of pics from the show, after the jump… Click on Gallery to view all the cars..

Ferrari California

460hp V8, 0-60 < 4s, top speed 193 mph, retractable hard top, $190,000.

Ferrari F430 Spider

460hp V8, 0-60 < 4s, top speed 193 mph, convertible, $201,000.

Ferrari F430 Scuderia

503hp V8, 0-60 3.1s, top speed 199 mph, $220,000

Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano

611hp V12, 0-60 3.7s, top speed 205 mph, $310,000

Gumpert Apollo

650hp V8, 0-60 3s, top speed 224 mph, $498,000

Aston Martin DBS

510hp V12, 0-60 4.2s, top speed 191 mph, $265,000

Lotus Exige

218hp S4, 0-60 4.1s, top speed 150 mph, $61,000

Lotus Evora

270hp V6, 0-60 <5s, top speed 160mph, 4 seats, $67,000

Porsche Boxster

255hp V6, 0-60 5.9s, top speed 165mph, $51,000

Porsche Cayman

265hp V6, 0-60 4.9s, top speed 172 mph, $55,000

Mercedes SL 65 AMG Black

661hp V12, 0-60 3.6s, top speed 199 mph, $370,000

Mercedes SLR McLaren

617hp V8, 0-60 3.8s, top speed 206 mph, $495,000

Chevy Camaro Black

422hp V8, 0-60 6.1s, top speed 140 mph, $31,000+ (trim concept)

Spyker LM85

400hp V8, 0-60 4.5s, top speed 187 mph, $300,000+ (race edition)

Spyker C8 Aileron

400hp V8, 0-60 4.5s, top speed 187 mph, $250,000

Maserati GranTurismo S

433hp V8, 0-60 4.8s, top speed 183 mph, $135,000

Audi R8

414hp V8, 0-60 4.4s, top speed 187 mph, $109,000

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder

560hp V10, 0-60 3.7s, top speed 203 mph, $222,000

Lamborghini Murciélago LP640

642hp V12, 0-60 3.3s, top speed 219 mph, $319,000

Stile Bertone BAT 11

No specs on this one, but supposedly 25-50 will be produced next year

Galpin Auto Sports Scythe

1005hp V8, all interior functions voice activated, car is functional but not street legal. I didn’t know where else to put it, ’cause it certainly is exotic…