If Only I Had It

I know my tummy is getting bigger as spending too much time sitting in front of the computer and drinking my favourite Foster beer. But I’ll always give myself excuses such as having no time to go for sit-up exercise to keep my tummy in good shape. Here comes the USB exercise dog, a cute gadget that could be a good reminder to tell me it’s time to tone up my tummy.The USB exercise dog is purely a toy to keep you amused. Once plugged into your computer’s USB port, it’ll keep doing the sit-up exercise. But, too bad is it’s neither a WiFi dongle nor a USB flash drive. Perhaps, the manufacturer shall think of including any of these functions or both in the next version. It’s simply a good reminder for those really need a tummy tone-up workout!

 Are you an executive styled person who needs everything whenever you want it. Such as a mini vacuum cleaner, a usb lamp and even a cup warmer for your hot cocoa. Then this USB product is for you.  

Now, ThinkGeek has joined all these functions into one body - a Mini USB Desktop Multi-tasking Device that can replace all you have on your work desk. Consider this and throw away all other detached pieces. The point is this has only one USB cable running to your computer’s USB port, so it looks much neater and you’ll get almost all you need!

The Mini USB Desktop Multi-tasking Device from ThinkGeek includes 4 functions for you, including a blue backlit cup thing for holding pens, a flexible mini lamp, a mini vacuum cleaner, a cup warmer, and one additional USB 1.1 port. The big question remains here is whether how the 500mA provided by the single USB connection from your computer can power up all these gadgets. The whole thing is about 8? diameter and costs only $15.

There seems to be non-stop USB fun coming to your desk. After a few of the birds, the toilets, the music stations, now you get a little USB White Mike Tyson to throw punches for you on behalf. The desktop USB boxer is to be hooked up to your computer’s USB port. And you can control its fists to throw punches against the little punching sack by using your keyboard’s left and right keys.

The up and down keys on your keyboard will make it to rotate its base, which is a turntable. The USB boxer also keeps and displays on your screen for how many successful punches that you’ve landed through him. Simply fun to have on your office, once your nasty boss has screwed up your day and this is where you can simply throw punches to release your anger.

The price of this little gadget is £29.99 .

So is it worth getting this little piece of gadget to keep you happy by your PC when you burn that night oil. I leave this decision up to you guys . Below is a Video of how this things works.

This little USB device is called the iTornado which will be available soon. This gadget is for file transfers between the Mac and Windows based systems. Hmm.. enemies united…

When connected to the USB ports of two computers, iTornado immediately initiates a peer-to-peer network via its patented No Software To LoadTM, or NSTL TechnologyTM, which auto-loads and auto-runs the software and drivers needed to move the data bi-directionally from one computer to another via a user-friendly split-screen display that within seconds appears on the monitor of both machines showing the contents of each machine. From this interface, files can be dragged and dropped from one machine to another at speeds of up to 25 Mb/sec. The iTornado also can be used to quickly create back-up files and is compatible with most Apple® and Microsoft® operating system programs.

USB credit card launched in South Korea

USB credit card launched in South Korea Shinhan Card, a South Korean company, unveiled a new kind of credit card yesterday. A USB credit card. It functions as a contactless credit card in stores. To use it online, you just insert it into your USB port. It enters your credit card information for you. Added on Dec 28, 2007

Panasonic intros world thinnest Blu-ray Disc drive

Panasonic intros world thinnest Blu-ray Disc drive Panasonic today announced the development of world thinnest (9.5 mm height) internal Blu-ray drives. The firm made such a thin drive by using couple of exclusive technologies such as spherical aberration compensation mechanism, 2-lens actuator, low-profile and an optimized optical design for CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc laser. Added on Dec 28, 2007

Water Powered Calculator Blows My Mind

Water Powered Calculator Blows My Mind How many of you hate changing the battery in your calculator? I know that I would, were they not as a majority, solar-powered. Apparently someone has decided that light is a resource that we are using up far too quickly, and thus designed a calculator that runs off of water. Added on Dec 28, 2007

Haven’t you wished for a remote controller to move to next song in the playlist? It’s indeed irritating to get to your pc each time to adjust the singing volume. For those irritated folks, here is a remote controller which takes over all multimedia operations on your pc or laptop.

This multimedia remote controller is very similar to Front Row for Mac. This one for Windows PCs allows you to play songs, flip photos, present your power point slides and watch DVD from a distance of maximum 30 feet.

This USB media remote also features:

• Arrow, Enter, Back and Page keys to navigate Windows Media Center and give PowerPoint presentations.
• Volume Controls to crank the volume up and down in any Windows Program. E.g. PowerPoint, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Power DVD, Winamp…
• Media Controls to Play, Pause, Fast Forward and Rewind videos, DVD, live and recorded TV, even music.

This remote is never lost and is easily available as it is stored right inside your laptop in the PCMCIA slot. The design of the controller makes it protrude slightly from the slot making it easy to pull out.

This USB remote control offers support to Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and ME. You can even set the function of a key as one of your choice. The remote is powered by Lithium battery and comes with a dimension of 85.8×54.2×5.0mm

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USB foot warmer is nothing new to us. But now Thanko has made it into a pair of Santa boots that definitely blends well with a complete set of Santa costume for the cold Christmas nights. The Santa boot takes power from your computer’s USB port. It’s the most suitable piece if you have no one invites you for Christmas party, just hook yourself up to your computer and put on this USB Santa boot to keep you warm. And start waiting till the next morning for your lovely Santa to drop by or maybe you could become the Santa to keep other lonely IM friends accompanied.

Innovation always brings us great gadgets. I think the Wi-Fi has already changed our lives by changing how we work on our computers. Now it is the time for the beloved memory cards.

We know that we already have many new digital cameras with in-built wi-fi technology. What about the old ones without this capability? Can we bring the wi-fi to them? I think we can now say there is a solution. Thanks to Eye-Fi, they have just introduced the world’s first wi-fi memory card.

You will be amazed to learn that this tiny card has wi-fi technology built in to it. First you have set-up the wifi card using the accompanying USB card reader (one time process), and then you can easily share your photos wirelessly without taking it out from your camera.

The Wi-Fi card takes the power from the device to generate wi-fi signals. You can even set-up this card to automatically upload photos to your favorite online picture sharing website.

From Eye-Fi Press Release:

“Digital cameras have made it extremely easy to take pictures, but the rest of the process is a hassle,” said Jef Holove, chief executive officer of Eye-Fi. “The Eye-Fi Card removes the barriers and lets users get to the fun part of sharing and printing their memories. We’re putting the magic back into photography.”

Eye-Fi uses home wireless networks to eliminate the time-consuming chore of dealing with cables, card readers or software plug-ins associated with uploading photos. Users simply turn on their digital camera and their pictures are wirelessly uploaded. The Eye-Fi card works with existing and new SD-compatible digital cameras and stores photos like a conventional SD memory card.

The eye-fi card can be used in any device that supports regular SD cards. It allows you to store up to 2GB of data. This card allows you to connect to wi-fi /b/g/n networks and supports latest wifi security protocols.

Here are the technical specs:

• Memory: 2GB
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi b/g/n
• Security Protocols Supported: WEP 40/104/128, WPA-PSK, and WPA2-PSK
• Range: 90+ feet outdoors and 45+ feet indoors
• Card Dimensions: SD standard 32mm x 24mm x 2.1mm
• Setup: Using USB Card Reader

The wireless card comes with USB card reader and the Eye-Fi manager software that allows you to easily setup this card to your home wi-fi network.

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.

For those who wanna be free from wired data network but feeling uneasy with data security issue of wireless or WiFi data connection, you can make use of the Panasonic AC Outlet Internet Connection Kit to let you freely move around in your house or office space.

The AC Outlet Internet connection kit makes use of the building’s electrical wiring to link your computer with the broadband modem for Internet connection. In short, it’s an adaptor that can turn any mains outlet into a network point. Have one adaptor connected to your Internet modem (using a LAN cable) and plugged into the mains outlet. And you can then move around with your laptop from room to room, as long as you have another adaptor plugged into the mains outlet of the room which you’re in.

Tip for the paranoids, this is a more secure way of having your data transmitted over electrical wiring instead of transmitting in the air. Furthermore, the adaptor also adds extra security to your data by having AES 128-bit encryption. And it delivers much faster in speed, with 170Mbps, than any wireless network.