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Upside down reversed cellphone design considered more ergonomic

The cell phone design we all know and love might be changing drastically in the near future. 180 degrees difference actually. A patent has been field for this upside down design, which is supposedly more convenient and comfortable for longer sustained periods of use. The new design would place the keypad above the display screen to ensure that the majority ...

LG Chocolate Strawberry, please no more

LG is starting to go overboard with their Chocolate line of cellphones. It’s getting to the point where comparisons to the constant flux of Motorola RAZR and KRZR phones need to be drawn. This time, the LG Strawberry Chocolate has been released. Nothing has changed other than the case color and the price. It might be suprising at first to ...

SENZ umbrella doesn’t take any crap from the wind

Damn, Disney tricked us. We all thought that Mary Poppins was using a regular umbrella when she flew around, turns out they were doing green screens and replacing this SENZ umbrella with the normal one. Well, maybe that didn’t happen, but the SENZ umbrella solves a problem we have had since umbrellas came around: the wind turing them inside-out. Not ...

Transcend USB key weighs 2g, feather anyone?

Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger. That’s the title of an amazing Daft Punk song, but they should have included lighter in there. That’s the way trends are leaning right now. If your device weighs any more than your competitor’s, just forget about it. Transcend doesn’t have to worry about this right now. Their new line of JetFlash T2K USB keys only ...

Buffalo Nfinity gets 144Mbps! Just a tad more than your current connection

Buffalo has just released a new wireless router using the IEEE 802.11n standard. They are claiming up to 144Mbps, but who the hell has a connection over 100? So apart from the fact that its speeds aren’t to useful right now, the Nfiniti does have an increased range radius. Now you CAN browse the internet while in the bathroom! ...

Logitech Io2 digital pen, yet another no one will buy

How many times have you wished that those notes you took could be transfered into your computer for editing? Not too many… Well, that might explain why not too many people have caught onto the digital pen idea. Not only is it awkward to hold something of this size and write with it, it is just dumb to spend $150 ...

Can this be Nokia’s next swivel music world-UMTS phone for 3GSM?

With 3GSM coming up all major phone manufacturers have great products under their sleeves, earlier we wrote about Samsung’s super thin phones, now we have Nokia’s next swivel-music phone. Supposedly this phone will be on the 5000 series, some claimed that it’s going to be a combination of 5500 and 3250, with a swivel design. It is also rumored that ...

Kuka Juke Bot, the robotic DJ out scratches the pros

So…You wanna be a DJ? Check out these Kuka robotic DJs. The two robots are encased in a circle of LPs. Both robots working independently, grab a LP and place it on the turntable, where it proceeds to consume you in scratching and mixing madness. The DJ’s are actually two Kuka industrial robots which have been modded to be master ...

Tactical Biorefinery incites trash talk

Scientists at Purdue University have created a portable power generator. Trash is its main source of fuel. Many of you might remember that the flux capacitor on the De Lorean in Back to The Future II was also powered by trash after being pimped up in the future. We might be approaching the time of this being reality. Without the ...

iDo P890 Pocket PC Phone iDoes it all

Hong Kong based iDo launched its new line of P890 smartphones which run the Windows Mobile 5.0 PPC Phone Edition OS with Push Mail. It might look kind of clunky, but it’s one of those phones that packs in enough meat to make it worth it. With a Freescale iMX21 350 MHz processor doing the powering deed along with a ...