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Archive for April, 2004

Geos Weather Station

Friday, April 9th, 2004

The Geos is a hand-held multi-function meteorological station. It provide data on wind speed & direcion, temperature, wind-chill, barometric pressure, altitude and relative humidity as well as being a compass & clock. Good for checking conditions before going hang-gliding or boating.

Car Chip

Friday, April 9th, 2004

A flight-recorder for your automobile. This product plugs into your car’s OBDII connector and logs performance data for subsequent downloading to/viewing at your PC. Tracking can include such parameters as : RPM, Engine load, Fuel pressure, Coolant temperature, Air flow rate, Intake temperature & pressure and O2 sensor. The device also provides engine diagnostic [...]

CLEVER

Thursday, April 8th, 2004

CLEVER (Compact Low Emission VEhicle for uRban transport) is a kind of three-wheeled enclosed motorcycle under development in the U.K. Meant to solve the problems of urban congestion and pollution, at a width of three feet and a fuel consumption of 188 miles per gallon, it might just do that.
Now if they can only [...]

Disguise your Voice

Thursday, April 8th, 2004

With Voice Cloak software ($30), you can change the pitch and timbre of your voice when using chat, video conferencing, or through VoIP connections, i.e. any computer-based telephony interfaces.
“With a little practice men can sound like women and women can sound like men. That’s only the beginning, though- you can add echo, chorus, flange, robot [...]

Toshiba V401T TV Cell Phone

Wednesday, April 7th, 2004

The V401T is the first cell phone with a analog TV tuner, QVGA resolution, with up to 12 minutes of program recording time, + an FM radio.At 30 frames/second and 320×240, viewing should be quite good. Recording at 7.5 fps and 160×120 will last for about 8 minutes with the 24MB of memory. Announced [...]

Speed Trap Database

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

The Morpheous RoadPilot is a standard type of GPS-based navigation system meant for drivers in the U.K. The RoadPilot, however, comes with a unique feature…insofar as I can tell. That feature is the ability to warn the driver as the vehicle approaches most speed traps and all speed cameras in the U.K. This feature [...]

TED Highlights

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

The Technology Entertainment Design (TED) Conference for 2004 was held a few weeks ago. What a remarkable event. If you are able to attend TED, then consider yourself fortunate. At $4,000, it’s by invitation only.
Started in 1984 by author and design impresario Richard Saul Wurman, TED brings together more than 800 thought-leaders, movers and [...]

FM Radio for Snorkellers

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

This unique product allows swimmers & divers to listen to FM radio broadcasts. Interesting, in that the sound is transmitted by bone conduction, thus avoiding the need for earphones and wires.
Waterproof to 30 feet, but at that depth, the device would be useless because sea water attenuates FM radio frequencies by about 100 dB [...]

Have you been hacked?

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

No, not your system, but rather, you personally. A new novel entitled “Smart Genes” by Rick Heller made me realize that I have not taken a backup of myself.
The novel concerns a group of grad students who hack other people’s DNA for fun and profit…a petty thief becomes a super-criminal through unscrupulous genetic manipulation, etc. [...]

TiVo for Radio

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

PoGo Products’ Radio YourWay AM/FM Radio Recorder is a pocket radio whose main feature is support for scheduled digital recording of AM and FM broadcasts.The $200 version of this device lets you record 18 hours of audio. The quality of recorded talk shows is acceptable; the quality of recorded music, however, could be improved. This [...]