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During these days with a cellphone or laptops, we humans are no longer relying on the traditional ways to leave messages, but it’s still nice to get this “Record me” home recorder designed by Luc van Hoeckel. It’s a simple and practical concept that allows you to leave messages with sound, your own voice. That means any messages you leave to others are more personal, all with your own styles, so it must be more interesting to either leave a message or checking a message.

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I’m sorry the LomoKino camera only lets you capture retro 35 mm movies while forgetting to offer you an easy way to share those creations, and I believe the Lomography Company feels sorry too – thus it launched a smartphone adapter that lets you digitize your flicks. Simply attach the adapter onto your smartphone, connect it to the LomoKino (with films inside), get the LomoKino to work and record the videos as they’re played, and then you can restore your retro movies on your cellphone.

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Coming from Genius, the Ring Presenter is a sleek version of the company’s Ring Mouse that adds PowerPoint functionality, making it extremely ideal for corporate meetings. Built with a touch-sensitive cursor pad surrounded by four buttons, the Ring Presenter gives the users a better control of both their remote PCs and the slide shows. When not in presentation mode, the device can serve as a miniature mouse too, with touch sensitive scrolling and right, middle, and left buttons.

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With more and more electrical products coming into our life, our small spaces seem to have been filled with various kinds of USB cables, but obviously we don’t need so many of them, coz what we need is only the Innergie Magic USB cables. It offers up to three different connectors to meet your various needs, and quite specially all the connectors are attached to each other so that you can keep an easy track of them.

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Check 1-2 is rightly the all-in-one self-service check device I’ve been dreaming of for years, but the concept is actually put forward by designer Adrian Taylor. Based on Wi-Fi, touchscreen tablets and other technologies, the digital check device allows users to easily split the bill, pay for specific items, or charge the entire bill with a single swipe of their credit cards. After payment, the customer can even request an email receipt that may include a coupon or alternative return incentive. As an additional bonus, Check 1-2 also support non card-based payment methods like PayPal, thus to offer the users with much more convenience.

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Apparently the computers will become much smaller than we’ve ever imagined, because we people may finally serve as part of the computer. Or in other words, the computer is rightly built in human bodies. Put forward by a team from Washington University, the new contact lenses are embedded with a mini computer that enables people to read their emails directly via the contact lenses. The mini computer’s circuits are made from layers of metal, only several nanometres thick and thus thin enough for comfortable wearing. But is it safe to have circuits in our eyes? That still needs to be further researched and developed.

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As the best thing we’ve ever met until now for us to use the Kinect, Microsoft’s “Code Space” is a smart system that combines the Kinect gaming controller with laptops and cellphones, in order to bring people a totally different experience of meeting. It allows people to actively participate in the meeting, to upload or download meeting data directly with their gestures or cellphone. Check out the video below and you’ll know how wonderful the “Code Space” is.

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You know I have three little pigs and a young sow that has recently farrowed, and I’d like to share with you my joy… So look at my pig buddies, wow, they’re so cute USB flash drivers and USB hubs as well.

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We’re now in a time full of 3D products: the 3D movies, 3D glasses, 3D TVs, 3D computers, and also the 3D cameras. Launched by Japan-based Panasonic, the “Lumix DMC-3D1″ is a dual-lens camera capable of taking high-resolution 3D images.

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The world’s leading manufacturer of digital interface solutions “Wacom” have recently issued its Inkling, a magic pen set that transforms paintings or writings finished on paper into digital ones. With such an amazing function, the device would soon change the way we paint and write. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Let these tiny 0.3Mpix Cameras with the Mini Digi refresh your colorful summer days. They’re available in five different colors, all measuring merely 60×30x43mm and 24g. Their mini-sized body make them quite ideal for carrying around, and their strong function allows the users to shoot both photos in JPEG in 1280×960 and QVGA AVI videos. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For people with hearing problems, the Beyond Silence digital piano is the best thing they may get to help them listen to music. Put forward merely as a concept now, the music instrument is built with a diaphragm that creates stronger vibrations and music waves, and therefore the piano would let hearing-impaired people listen to music by feeling the wave and vibration of each tune from the resonance board. I’m quite looking forward to see this piano commercialized and hopefully people with hearing problems will soon be brought to the world of music. [Read the rest of this entry...]

To build USB optical mouse with a digital photo frame? What an astonishing idea, because we seldom have the chance to see an optical mouse’s body when we’re using it. But it seems quite good when we leave the mouse unused – the 1.5″ LCD digital photo frame displays photos automatically to give your desk a refreshing look. The USB optical mouse has a built-in 8MB memory, expected to store about 50 photos. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wacom recently launched its Bamboo Stylus, a premium digital pen especially designed for iPad. It aims to help iPad users to further experience the convenience of handwriting, editing, drawing or sketching with their iPads. A 25 percent slimmer tip than main competitors not only ensures the users a more comfortable writing, but also brings a real writing feel as that of a real pen. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Featuring a small dimension of merely 2.5cm×2.5cm×2.6cm and a light weight of 12g, the Chobi Cam One is the world’s smallest and lightest SLR camera. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You must have gotten some protective coats for your DSLR camera, but you’ll still need the Camera Armor that fits your camera really well. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Featuring a unique shape of a tube, Yaniv Berg’s Digital Reflex Camera (DSLR) will create you an entirely different experience of photography. Firstly, you needn’t have to hold the camera to your face but simply put it against your stomach during the process, since the new camera curves at the end to show you the images. Another change the camera will result in is that you photographers needn’t have to bend down awfully or even lie onto the ground to check out what you’re shooting. The last but not the least is that when you turn the camera, its interface screen then turns the image to display mode and the image will be rotated 180 degree for the observers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Where should we drill, most people asked that same question whenever they needed to drive in a nail. No matter what methods you’ve ever used, we bet the Wise Hammer will offer you a new choice. To find a suitable spot, you simply need to place the butt of the handle against a wall and keep moving it until you see the red light flash. Easy as that! [Read the rest of this entry...]

I always thought of slingshot as a toy especially created for naughty boys, as we often saw young boys sending stones or balls onto girls. But the SMS Slingshot designed by Berlin based VR/URBAN has changed my opinion. It is a handheld digital slingshot device that can send color splashes and text messages onto public screens. There’s a mobile built in the wooden device to store messages and a laser to blast those contents onto nearby screens via a projector. So just as what you can see from the video below, the user keys in the messages, shoots the slingshot, and then he/she can find a color splash appear on the screen with the text inside. [Read the rest of this entry...]

How tiny could a camera be? From the picture, we noticed that the pocket camera shown here seemed even not much bigger than the adult’s thumb. Wow, that’s really incredible! But the mini size doesn’t weaken its function- the camera not only records AVI color video in a 1280 x 960 pixel resolution with a speed of 29 frames per second, but shoots photos in a 1280 x 960 pixel resolution. Plus, the thumb-sized camera still features a mini USB socket on its side, ensuring a convenient connection to PC and other appliances. If you think $51 is an acceptable price, please click the website below for more information. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The two common kinds of watches separately has their own advantages—digital watches tell us the exact time directly and clearly, while mechanical watches also double as fashionable accessories for success men. So what about combining them two together? Apparently, the result is the 4N watch. It features the quirky disc-based mechanism, which rotates the numbers to deliver the time as the digital watches do. Leaving aside its high-quality material and fine workmanship, simply the limited run of only 16 units has confirmed our speculation that the watch must be quite expensive! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Not all the hands on watches are used to indicate the time. Sometimes, they’re just designed for decoration, or merely for fun, such as Stas Aki’s watch. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Especially designed for specific designers, the wonderful eVouse concept combines two important functions in one: a mouse for laptops and a pen sensor for design works. Its unique triangular design not only means appalled comfort, but indicates great convenience. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Compared with conventional digital mouse, the “SPHEREtouch” from OreObject not only features a distinctively circular shape, but integrates a large horizontal scroll wheel and two touch-sensitive buttons, allowing you to use it more freely and easily. Finished in steel ($155), titanium ($175) and platinum ($225), “SPHEREtouch” is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X Leopard version 10.4. Both right and left-handed people will find great convenience with the mouse. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Creative Factor: The digital mouse becomes an integrated part of your body.

Who has ever thought that one day we could wear the digital mouse on our hands just as we’re wearing the gloves? But that’s not merely an exciting concept and Canadian firm Deanmark Ltd has come up with a radical wearable mouse- the ‘AirMouse’. It integrates the right and left click-buttons in the palm and uses an optical laser for operation. Since every part of the ‘AirMouse’ fits the ligaments on your wrists and hands so well that the cool mouse also ensures you enough flexibility. As a result, you won’t have to be bothered by the painful rollers any more. Besides, the users could easily type on the keyboard without removing the mouse. You love it? Then you’ll be glad to know that the revolutionary mouse will be on the market by the end of 2010 for $129. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Ontario has developed these interactive OLED gaming tiles, which are surely to challenge current toys on the market. By connecting different tiles to each other, you can easily change the gaming background and participant members. And for extra fun, you can flip the tiles to create some unique effects: for example, when you flip the tile full with water to another tile, the water will flow into that tile, just as you can see from the picture on the right side. [Read the rest of this entry...]

At an earlier time, we used to look up words in dictionaries, and nowadays we turn to the electronic dictionaries for help. But there’s still too much work we need to do, say, we have to key in every hard word from time to time, and therefore we start to look for something better.

Possibly it is rightly the Unichal Dixau DX3 Digital Dictionary that we’ve been expected for years. Equipped with a camera, DX3 can take a picture of any word you want to define, look it up quickly and show you the definition on its screen. Sounds great, huh? Well, thanks to the development of technology, we can study and work more effectively nowadays. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Given by the name of SQ28m, the cute mini camera is a new product from Japan, which is famous for advanced electronic products. Measuring 53×23×19mm and weighing 21g, the camera is so compact that you can easily put it inside your pocket, therefore to free your hands. Available in red and blue, SQ28m was firstly launched to the Japanese market on December 12, each costing 70 dollars. [Read the rest of this entry...]

‘Conserve water’, ‘conserve water’, almost everyone has had that at heart, but what do we actually do? We just incidentally waste water time and time again. But next time you use the water, you’ll have to think twice as the ‘Twist’ faucet will make things difficult if you use too much. Controlled by an aerator, the tap won’t give out any water unless you twist it to a certain degree, and the more water you use this time, the more work you’ll have to do next time. Just look at the digital read-out, you’ll know clearly how much water you’ve used. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Milky Way, as Henrik Amberla named his new design, is an innovative alarm clock that features a turning motion to trigger the snooze function. That means you no longer need to open your eyes and seek for buttons on an alarm. When Milky Way alarms, you only have to reverse it and then go on with your sweet dream. [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Hello, this is saya, and who’s that?” When we were still kids, most of us had the same experience to call others, not through telephones but two cups attached with a long piece of string. And it is rightly the classic toy that brings us much fun. That’s also why we may feel quite familiar with the “Cup Communicator” presented here. But obviously the new product is based on the digital technology. When you want to talk to your friends, just tune into a certain channel and then a conversation is allowed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Are you lost again? Turn to the nearest manhole for help then. I’m not kidding as we’re showing you an innovative design here, the ‘Eco Sign’. It is a digital manhole that provides information about location of public transportation. Simply put your left or right foot on it for 2 seconds, the manhole will then refer you to the nearest train station or bus stop. More amazingly, it is powered by rainwater. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Presenting here is a refreshing computer mouse named as “Demat Mouse”. The new product is designed with almost no more components except a base, a ball and two thin buttons, reducing much weight of the mouse. As a result, “Demat Mouse” works in a different way from regular ones. When you press the button on to click, it will then send a signal to the hardware and therefore implements your instructions.

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Inspired by the fantastic movement of planets revolving around the sun, designer Kenneth has found his way to conceptualize wristwatches with the Eclipse Wristwatch. Though still maintaining the mechanical aspects of traditional watches, Eclipse features an exceptional way to tell time. As the two rotating discs rotate clockwise, seemingly as if the planets are revolving around the sun. The time is referenced via the two time marks on both dials. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The “Infinite Book” by Ewald Neuhofer is a new kind of electronic tools that helps to transform paper into digital media, still satisfying your reading needs to paper copies. Therefore the book allows you to look through digital newspaper by flipping pages, just in the same way as normal books. What’s more, when you flip the previous page backwards, the content is renewed while the pre-content will be restored if you flip the page forwards.

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Due to digital technology, this visual space football may bring you with absolutely different feeling when you are engaged in these space football games. It is cool, because though all balls are shown in the screen, you can still control the games via usual sort of spiny axle controllers.

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The greatest merit of this radiogram is that it provides a cooler way to enjoy radio programs. On the touch screen, there is a global map. Wherever you may touch, the radio will always look for the radio programs of that district through Internet automatically. And just via another selection, you will get your radio programs. Hasn’t it gotten your attention?

With almost every household furnishing article becoming creative, how could your timepieces lag behind? So presenting here is a “Switchital” clock, designed with digital letters. Based on small metal bars that are controlled via magnetic force, the timepiece tells time by forming different digital letters on its surface. As time passes by, some letters will disappear from the display while the rest ones will be regrouped to show a new time.

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During the years when timepieces were not invented yet, we used to read time by distinguishing the various positions of the sun while we went blank again in the night. Then never could the stars tell time? No necessarily, for we have the ‘Stars Tell Time’ clock now. Simulating those twinkling little stars, the innovative clock tells time by lighting up several LEDs on its display. For example, if there’re twelve, three and four stars respectively shown in different parts, it means ‘thirty-four past twelve’ by the time. Do pay attention that the two blue LED lights, for they represent the colon sign (:) on a digital clock rather than time.

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Digital BBQ tongs ensures you the best barbecues! Consist of 7 preset temperatures and one customized temperature, it can measure the meat’s internal temperature with a built-in sensor and alarm you when your meat is done. Powered by two AAA batteries, the BBQ tongs is also equipped with a stainless steel clip and a plastic handle.

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