Convergent technology enters the realm of bathroom fixtures by means of the IHouse SmartFaucet that includes facial recognition technology.
The facial recognition software is able to identify the person in the bath and then set the water temperature and flow volume to the user preferred settings.
iLane is a device that connects to your Blackberry via bluetooth. Once connected, using a Bluetooth headset, you can use voice commands to have your Blackberry automatically read your personal email and news out loud.
This phone gadget will also permit the operator to respond to email as well as place phone calls using nothing but voice commands.
The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2009), one of the largest consumer technology tradeshows in the world was held this week. This along with Microsoft’s decision to announce the free download of Windows 7 Beta resulted in some of the hottest gadgets being seen.
Here are some of the more popular gadget reviews completed this week.
Razer Mamba Wireless Gaming Mouse
Free Windows 7 Beta Download
Fuji EnviroMax Non-Rechargeable Batteries - CES 2009
iSteam - The Free iPhone App
One A Day Napkins Calendar
Watermelon is that wonderful summertime fruit that provides the body with so many vitamins and protective agents. Who knew that it’s also great as a screen cleaner and doubles as a wrist rest. Here’s your chance to kill two birds with one stone. Protect yourself from wrist strain injuries such as carpel tunnel syndrome and when you notice that the LCD looks a little dirty, just clean it with the wrist rest. All this for $12, just be aware of the seeds.
OCZ Technology recently announced the availability of a new flash drive that takes advantage of the benefits offered by the eSata port on newer model computers. The Throttle eSATA drive offers the end user some impressive speed gains, including 90MB/second read speeds and 30MB/sec write speeds. With drive sizes up to 32 GB, there is plenty of space to hold all of your multimedia files including pictures and video files. The full press release is available after the jump.
For $199 you can pick up a special x-ray filter lens that attaches to a camcorder to give it x-ray vision capabilities. The theory behind the lens is that clothing that is worn allows for ambient light and infrared light to pass through until it reaches the skin. At that point, it is reflected back. Normally, we see is a combination of this light and infrared light. What the lens does is filter out the regular light so that all that remains is infrared light. It is this process that renders the clothing “virtually invisible” and allows the operator to see through clothing.
More then any other presidential race in recent history, this race has been about technology and the differences between the two candidates in how they use it. Obama has run what would amount to a shock and awe campaign. His support system have been on the cutting edge on how they have used technology.
Bandai’s Luminodot brings back fond childhood memories of the Lite-Brite. How did that go again. One peg for the pegboard, one for the mouth. For it’s era, Lite-Brite was great, allowing children to use their imagination to create unique and wonderful masterpieces that only a child and his parent would love.
