All posts with 'Gadgets' tag
iPod in space
Apple iPod spotted in the cockpit of the Endeavour space shuttle:
Here you can find the big picture from NASA.
Read More..>>iPod, iPhone unlocking service
As popularity of the recent Apple products such as iPod and iPhone grows in some third-world countries a lot of small businesses offer unlocking services for the ‘gray’ imported devices. Since no official mobile phone companies have iPhone on their shelves this is the only way to get one there.
Photo by NL
Read More..>>Hasselblad and Leica film cameras in gold
This is an actual snapshot of a camera store in Frankfurt airport taken by Tim Bray. Just a couple of traditional film cameras. They aren’t new - Leica R4 was announced in 1980 - 28 years ago. They haven’t any megapixels at all. But they are very good optically even nowadays. And they have a […]
Read More..>>Livre eBook reader concept
Nedzad Mujcinovic - a student of Australian Monash University - has won the 2007 Dyson Student Aword with the concept of the eBook reader which he called Livre.
The key feature of this device is that it has no buttons at all. Instead of that touch sensitive screen mounted on the electronic paper display. You need […]
Wibrain B1L affordable UMPC
Korean manufacturer Wibrain has announced the “lightened” entry-level UMPC Wibrain B1L (via AVING.network)
Read More..>>iToilets now and then
Somebody dropped me a picture of this shiny macbookpro style toilet today:
Read More..>>Terapixel digital camera
Unknown Chinese electronics manufacturer Penchan has quietly rolled out digital camera that undoubtedly will shake the market and smash down the current kings of the hill – Canon and Nikon. While the best (and the most expensive) professional digital cameras barely reached the 24 megapixel frontier, Penchan camera exceeds the 5 terapixel limit - more […]
Read More..>>Elektronika MK-152 programmable calculator from the year 2007
Don’t be fooled if you will be offered Elektronika MK-152 programmable calculator in the antiques store. This isn’t something from the late 70’s. This is the newly announced (November, 2007) model of Russian programmable calculator.
Elektronika MK-152 is a bargain deal. For just 3800 Russian rubles ($154 U.S. dollars) you’ll get non-portable (no batteries at all, […]
Mass destruction of the Canon cameras
This pile of digital cameras, lenses and camcorders boxes is worth no less than half a million U.S. dollar:
Read More..>>Canon G9 and A650IS digicams
Recent Canon’s announcements brought two jewels to the digicam market. I’m talking not about 40D or 1DsMIII - the former costs a little less than $2G and the latter a little less than $10G not counting high-quality (and though very expensive) lenses that you’ll need to unlock potential of these cameras. I’m talking about smaller […]
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