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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...]