Gadgets and just Gadgets

This cotton gadget machine is right for you if you love candies.

Just put the sugar and the aroma you want and you’ll have a deliciously meal.

That’s why you need to get spinning with our ingenious Candy Floss Maker. With this idiot-proof contraption you’ll be making funfair-style candy floss in minutes. Simply add regular granulated sugar and switch it on. That’s all there is to it. Well, almost.

Candy Floss Maker As the machine heats up, the central head begins to spin, forcing liquid sugar through its tiny perforations. The instant the threads of sugar hit the air they cool and re-solidify, causing a web of sugary threads to develop in the dishwasher-friendly collection bowl. All you have to do is gather up the yummy wisps on your candy floss cone and get munching. The whole process is really rather wondrous.

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The Tokyo Company Mediaseek invented an application that can translate words from English to Japanese.

The application for mobile is called Camera Dictionary. What you have to do is to simple put you camera on the word that you want translate and the software will translated.

Camera Dictionary automatically recognizes words from images taken by the camera as it is scanned. Also included is a client server facility where the user can access more detailed information such as explanations, examples, pronunciation sound files, etc from the main online dictionary.

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Another Zune article.

What can I do? This is the big news. I have talked till now how Zune designed was stolen, how Walmart partnership with Microsoft for selling Zune in supermarket.

Now I’m wonder of Zune battery Life Time.

Zune Battery Life

It is believed that the batteries will last 12 hours of music playback, 3.5 hours of video, and 4.5 of continuous slideshow.

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This smart phone is named XDA Cosmo and is known as HTC Excalibur and will be launched next month.

The XDA is making competition to Motorola Q and it has Windows Mobile operation system on it.

T-Mobile Dash aka HTC Excalibur

The phone witll have built-in RAM of 64/128 MB, Windows Mobile 5, Smartphone Edition, a 320×240 screen (non-touch), and a full QWERTY keypad

This offering, along with the Pearl, really beefs up T-Mobile’s business/smartphone line-up. There’s a little something for everyone here (except for us Treo fans, *ahem*), making T-Mobile a real force in high-end service (finally).

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The Chinese companies copy zune. Zune is a new product from Microsoft launched against iPOD.

No one accused Microsoft for copying iPod. Anyway… what is your opinion?

zune

The MPF2110 plays MPEG, AVI, AMW, and MTV video formats (what the hell are those last two?), MP3, WAV, and WMA audio, has an FM / voice recording, USB 2.0, a 1.5 or 1.8-inch display, and up to “2GB flash memory chip by Samsung/Hynix, the most reliable.”

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JVC launched a “revolutionary” speaker. It looks like a sphere with angles.
It is supposed that this gadget it is able to give birth of a sound more natural.

JVC Pulsating Sphere Speaker

I said this JVC Pulsating Sphere Speaker is “revolutionary” because JVC’s first sphere speaker was from 1967.

Main Features

1. Natural, ideal sound-field reproduction from 12-sided ball-shaped compact speaker
With a diameter of 10 cm, about 4″, the speaker is divided into twelve 5-sided sections. Excluding the bottom, each are driven dynamically by 11 drivers, realizing high-power for the speaker’s compact size. Sound coverage is uniform in every direction in range up to 10 kHz, varying by less than +/-1 dB. This results in an unprecedented natural sound field.

2. Linked diaphragms permit entire speaker surface to act as emitter
The JVC developed linked diaphragm construction utilizes the entire surface of the speaker as an emitter, with eleven 5-sided segments linked only at their edges. This eliminates effects from a frame or cabinet, and results in a clear sound without distortion.

3. Wide, flat frequency range thanks to Weibull-curve diaphragm
The diaphragms have a ‘Weibull curve’ shape optimized using computer analysis. Plastic reinforced with stiffening fibers, flat frequency characteristics and low distortion result in a clear presence without hotspots. This also results in a wide frequency range.

4. Double neodymium magnets give high magnetic-flux density of one Tesla
With two high energy density neodymium magnets, the equal-diameter speakers produce a high magnetic-flux density of one tesla. Thus, thanks to the magnetically held and driven linked-together diaphragms, the speakers reproduce clear sound across a wide range.

5. Orthogonal double-suspension construction stably supports edge-linked diaphragms
The new two layer right-angled orthogonal suspension has good hardness but avoids fixed resonances, leading to highly accurate drives. Using this technology, JVC succeeded in driving the linked diaphragm precisely, as if it were breathing.

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Walmart in partnership with Microsoft will sell Zunes very soon.

This partnership for sure will give them some market shares against iPOD.

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The QDOS Genesis is a new iPod dock sound system that is supposed to be able to produce a 360-degree soundfield. Yvan Lazareff, Director of QDOS, declared:

“We have literally put the iPod on a pedestal! We believe that Genesis is the most chic portable sound system on the market, plus it produces the sound quality of a decent home audio system. We’ve managed to keep the price low so it really stands out as cost-effective in comparison to the competition.”

QDOS Genesis Ipod Sound System

Genesis offers a four-way sound system comprising 4 x 3 watt speakers and produces a 360-degree soundfield. Available in black or white, the contemporary design of the unit is further enhanced by customisable skins. Measuring only 115mm in diameter and 85mm in height when closed and 125mm in height when open, Genesis is compact yet sturdy, weighing no more than 0.8kg.
Using four AA batteries, Genesis boasts up to eight hours continuous play for use outdoors and a DC adaptor for use indoors. Genesis also synchronises the iPod and recharges the iPod battery when docked and running on DC power. In addition, Genesis connects to other audio devices including PC, DVD, CD and other MP3 players.

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The little brother of SD900, Canon PowerShot SD800 packs a steel body with 7.1 megapixel sensor.
Press information from Canon:

The 7.1 megapixel SD800 IS Digital ELPH camera is the second and newest Optical Image Stabilized Digital ELPH model in the PowerShot line, and is now the top-of-the-line Digital ELPH IS entry. Canon based the optical image stabilization system on advancements made in the development of the company’s EF and video lenses, and then scaled it down to fit the diminutive Digital ELPH camera profile. Unlike electronic or “digital image stabilization systems” that typically degrade image quality, Canon’s lens shift-type stabilization system preserves maximum optical quality while providing up to three stops of shake correction in shutter speed equivalent.

Canon PowerShot SD800

This new SD800 IS model features a number of significant advancements, including improved low-light performance due to the combination of optical IS and a top ISO speed of 1600, and for the first time in the Digital ELPH series, an optical 3.8x wide range zoom lens (28-105mm equivalent), which employs Canon’s UA lens technology that permits a longer zoom capability in a smaller amount of space.
The camera’s large, 2.5-inch high resolution LCD screen has been enhanced to approximately 207,000 pixels with a bright, wide, easy to read viewing area and is set attractively into the Digital ELPH’s rugged, stainless steel shell with its iconic perpetual curve design. In keeping with a decade of ELPH philosophy that proclaims, “great things come in small packages,” this pocket-sized photo powerhouse measures just under an inch thick with lens retracted, 2.28 inches high and 3.52 inches long. The Canon PowerShot SD800 IS Digital ELPH carries an estimated selling price of $399.99*.

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Toyota has said it has developed a robot leg that can jump like a human’s, an evolution from today’s stiff-jointed machines. The one-meter (3.3-foot) leg has a joint on its toe letting it jump as high as four centimeters (1.6 inches) by bending and stretching its toe and another knee-like joint, Japan’s top automaker said Wednesday.
The Toyota Motor Corp. spokeswoman said:

“This is a basic technology that can be applied to a two-legged robot in future. It was a difficult step for robots. But it was made possible after making a number of prototypes. Besides the joy of jumping about, robots will also be able to run faster and to handle unpaved roads more smoothly.”

One Legged Jumping Robot

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