Sony has stopped selling PDAs on this side of the ocean, but continues to develop new models in Japan, such as the PEG-TH55DK. The “DK” is the based on the familiar TH55, but includes a number of new dictionary and English-Japanese-Chinese translation features.
The TH55DK has 6 dictionaries bundled with it, including the Oxford [...]

Some locales prohibit the use of cell phones while driving. The Personal Device Interlink avoids that by providing a Bluetooth connection to your phone via a small headset.

A small button on the side of the headset of the model PDI-B902/MAH connects and disconnects the call.

Most refrigerators work to prevent food from losing freshness. A new model refrigerator from Mitsubishi does the opposite: it increases freshness … well, at least for some vegetables and produce, anyway. This new model has an Orange LED located in the vegetable compartment emiting light at 590nm.

The manufacturer states that this 590nm light [...]

Some car drivers in the U.K. who are insured by Norwich Union are participating in a pilot project to evaluate the feasibility of basing insurance premiums on how and where they drive. Norwich is paying to install the following black box in cars that are in the pilot program.

The black box records how far [...]

Mike Mike is a portrait photographer based in Istanbul. His interesting website is called The Face of Tomorrow . Mike goes to a particular location in a city and photographs 100 people that he meets there. He then blends those images together into a composite male and a composite female face. The result is a [...]

Someone named Max Lyons is going around creating gigapixel images of places. He has just put together a 42,970×24,940 pixel image of The National Building Museum, in Washington, D.C. … here’s a smaller 576×334 pixel version of that image with just a tiny bit of loss of resolution:

And, no, he does not have [...]

VoiceSignal just announced some speech recognition apps for the soon-to-be-available Samsung MM-A700 cell phone.
Users will be able to say thing like: “Call John Smith at Home”, “Send Text to Mary Jones”, “Go to Downloads” or “Call 781-970-5200″. …Great for hands-free operation.

The EX-S100 is a new 3.2 megapixel digital camera from Casio.
The unit is the size of a deck of card, has a stainless steel body & fittings, and comes with a 2.8x optical zoom. In what seems to be a world’s first, the lens is made from transparent ceramics. This ceramic lens has a high [...]

Interesting video processing software from Dartfish provides a visual record of fast moving events such as sports.
SimulCam superimposes 2 or more performances and allows an athelete to compare their performance to that of the winner at the same point in time.

StroMotion creates a trajectory record of the evolution of a game strategy.

Great [...]

In a good move for those with zero-emission laws, Honda has just announced a fuel-cell-powered scooter based on its Fuel Cell Stack technology.
The motive power comes from an AC synchronous electric motor rated at 272 Nm of torque. The energy comes from a proton exchange fuel cell based on compressed hydrogen. No word yet [...]