Gadgets Future

Avid readers like me have a real problem when it comes to shoving in a few chapters before rolling over to sleep. The real problem is that there is just not to many ways to get comfortable when you’re forced to hold your arms up above your body. Your arms start getting tired before your brain wants to give up.

But for the voracious consumer of literature, there is nothing that can hold us back from our most beloved hobby. Inspired from the design of The Great Pyramids, the helpful Peeramid is a gadget made for us bed readers.

The Peeramid is a pillow book holder with a unique design. Its pyramid shape props up your reading material without the need of a heavy plastic gadget. The integrated bookmark ensures that you never lose your spot, even if you close your book a bit to early.

The Peeramid is offered in a wide selection of color and materials. For $33, you can enjoy the comfort of your bed even when reading. Just prop a pillow behind your back, open the pages, and let your imagination do the rest.

Product Page via Home Improvement Ideas

• Email to a friend
• Leave a comment

by Nilay Patel, posted Jul 12th 2008 at 6:33PM
We’re not certain why Kodak is trickling out these middle-of-the-road digicams instead of announcing them all at once, but here we are. Joining the M1093 IS are the new M1073 IS (pictured) and M1063, while the C813 get a new friend in the C913. As you’d expect, almost nothing about these is all that spectacular: the $179 M1063 and M1073 IS are both 10 megapixel units with ISO1000 sensitivity and face detection, while the $120 C913 is a 9.2 megapixel unit with a 2.4-inch display and digital image stabilization. Expect to see these all in October, and check out the C913 after the break.

Read - M1073 IS
Read - M1063
Read - C913

• Permalink
• Email this
• 1 Comments

Filed under: Digital Cameras

NTT DoCoMo has just released its new FOMA SH706i handset, and what makes this different from what you’ve seen so far in the past is the Symbian operating system. This new handset will begin shipping in Japan today, and chances are it won’t function outside of the Land of the Rising Sun. Just in case the FOMA SH706i sounds familiar to certain quarters, that’s because a whole lot of cell phone from Japan do share similar sounding model numbers in addition to the insane amount of features found within. Currently, 3G phones in Japan that are powered by Symbian’s operating system are manufactured by Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Nokia, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson.

Press Release

• Email to a friend
• Leave a comment

by Paul Miller, posted Jul 12th 2008 at 3:04PM
Well, that was quick. We mentioned Ion’s fancy drum kit yesterday, which will be released around when Rock Band 2 ships, but works with both Rock Band games, and now we’ve got a price and a press shot of the Drum Rocker. The $300 set has high-durability pads, which are supposed to play quiet and will register the velocity of your hits, but the real win is the re-configurability of the whole set — much like a for-realises electronic drum kit. We’re also really digging the metal-reinforced kick pedal, which seems a major improvement over the junky, difficult pedal packaged with the original game. Only $300? We’ll take two.

[Via Joystiq]

• Read
• Permalink
• Email this
• 7 Comments

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

So the iPhone 3G has been making big news worldwide a good 24 hours ago, and one of the more interesting aspects would be the Apple App Store which enables users to purchase media or applications of their choice directly from the iPhone 3G. There are tons of applications and software available, and among them is Big Canvas PhotoShare. iPhone users will be able to seamlessly share, store and manage images taken on their device using PhotoShare. These images can then be uploaded live a few seconds after capturing them, with the option to throw in captions for a more memorable imag.e Sounds like the perfect tool for the socialite. More about the Big Canvas application right after the jump.

PhotoShare is an innovative new application built from scratch just for the iPhone, using the iPhone SDK. It combines a native iPhone application and a Web 2.0 service, which work in harmony to ensure customers get the best possible user experience on the iphone. As part of the development initiative, the Big Canvas team has optimized the overall architecture – not only the application, but also the underlying network protocols – to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities, features and requirements. Some key features of PhotoShare include :-

• Family and Friends – share photos with family and friends directly from the iPhone (just as secure as sending private e-mail messages, but a lot more convenient)
• Most Popular – when you save a public photo to your personal favorites, you essentially cast your vote for the best public pictures on PhotoShare; help distinguish the best-of-the-best from thousands of pictures posted by users, win great prizes
• Following – subscribe to other user photo-casts and enjoy the ongoing photo postings instantly

Best of all is, Big Canvas PhotoShare is free and immediately available for download.

• Email to a friend
• Leave a comment

by Paul Miller, posted Jul 12th 2008 at 1:01PM
Sony Style is running a rather large teaser on its main page, featuring a quite distinctive power button and the blurb “Performance / Style / Mobility. Redefined.” Hrm. We wonder what it could be?

[Thanks, Mathias S.]

• Read
• Permalink
• Email this
• 19 Comments

Filed under: Laptops

Microsoft has decided to drop the price on the Xbox 360 console by $50. You can now pick up a console bundle at a Target store for $299.99.

• Bundle Includes HD A/V Cable
• Includes Headset, Ethernet Cable, Wireless Controller, Xbox 360 Console
• Features Xbox Live for the Ultimate Broadband Gaming Experience, High-Definition Multimedia Interface, Multimedia Capabilities, Rumble Feature for Realistic Gaming Experience, Wireless Gaming Capabilities, 20GB Hard Drive
• Also Functions as a DVD Player to Watch your Favorite Movies

Posted in Miscellaneous

by Paul Miller, posted Jul 12th 2008 at 2:16PM
If you hadn’t heard, hundreds of people were turned away from Apple Stores last night, iphone 3G-less. However, being gluttons for punishment — and having nothing to do over the weekend — they’ve returned in droves to Apple Stores, with reports of lines longer than 200 people stretching out from The Cube, Apple Store Chicago (pictured) and even a store in Durham, NC. Apple offered up vouchers last night, at least at some stores, to anyone still waiting in line, so those folks can show up whenever and jump the line for a phone — about 30 of them are lined up at The Cube currently. If you don’t mind you can let us know in tips what the current status on the line / stock is at your local Apple or AT&T store is, and we’ll try to keep track of this mayhem through the weekend. Good luck out there!

[Thanks to everyone who sent this stuff in]

• Permalink
• Email this
• 63 Comments

Filed under: cellphones

It looks like those who are eagerly awaiting the release of the LG Chocolate 3 with Verizon will be able to get their hands on one a little earlier than expected. Verizon has announced that the Chocolate 3 will be available at Verizon retail stores, Circuit City and online beginning July 13, which is a full day ahead of schedule. The LG Chocolate 3 will be $129.99, which is after a $50 mail-in-rebate and comes along with a two-year agreement.

Via [Verizon Wireless]

Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed →

Alcatel has just released a new mobile phone designed for first-time mobile phone users who still want “just” a phone and not a full computer like device in their pocket. We’re referring to the Alcatel OT-S520 which is a somewhat stylish, simple to use and no-fuss basic camera phone that boasts of a decent 1.8-inch 65K (128 x 160) display, a 0.3-megapixel VGA camera that doubles up as a webcam when the phone is connected to a PC and 2MB of internal memory.

Other features of this dirt cheap dual-band mobile phone include MP3 ringtone support, 10 hours talk time, 400 hours standby time, pre-installed games, speaker phone and USB connectivity. You can score an OT-S520 from Woolworths for around $30 free of any mobile phone carrier obligations.

Product [Alcatel] Via [Register Hardware]

Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed →