Too. Many. Gadgets. Our lives are filled with em. They don’t operate on endless power, though. These things need to be charged and its easy to forget nowadays. Thanks to the Powerbag you won’t have to worry about losing juice on your iPhone right before needing to find a public restroom again.
Inside the bag is a removable rechargeable battery that’s connected to a dock with 30-pin Apple connector, micro-USB, mini-USB and regular old USB ports attached for charging up just about any gadget. This does add a modicum of weight to the bag, however. Worth it? We say yes.
The whole shebang will set you back around $140. It’s available now. Finally we can be lazy and forgetful in peace!
Posted in: Backpack, Bags, Mobile Phone Integration, Powerbag, iPhone Integration, iPod Integration
You gotta hand it to Plantronics, they really love pumping out headsets for smartphone users. Well, hold on to your iBritches as the company has prepped another cool unit for your collection. Introducing the Marque M155.
So what makes this one any different from previous models? For one it’s fast. Like super fast. There will be no delay with this unit. It’s also light, as a matter of fact it just may be the lightest Bluetooth headset of all time. It clocks in at just 7 grams. Somebody give this thing a turkey leg! The M155 also offers voice-guided pairing assistance, customized apps and the ability to answer or ignore calls with verbal commands.
The Marque M155 is available in black or white, just like the cookie. It is available for pre-order ..read more
Posted in: Bluetooth, Earwear, Mobile Phone Integration, Plantronics
Sleeping is awesome. Sleeping can also be difficult and ruin your health if you aren’t doing enough of it or if you just aren’t doing it right. But aside from getting an early stroke, how do you know? Sleep issues aren’t easy to diagnose. Now you may have help in the form of a rather ingenuitive smartphone peripheral.
Zeo are making their famous all-in-one sleep clinic available for smartphones. Dubbed Zeo Mobile, this gadget hooks up to your smartphone, and then to your brain, in order to give you up-to-the-second results on how you are sleeping. It does everything except make a Youtube movie of your dreams. Don’t worry, they are working on that.
All you do is wrap the patented headband around your head before you fall asleep, and then let the machine ..read more
Posted in: Armbands, Mobile Phone Integration, Vitals Monitoring, Zeo, iPhone Integration
Do you own anything that really shows the world what a geek you are? Now, I mean geek in a cool way not in a thrown in a high school locker way. Besides, you are an adult, you can’t even fit in lockers anymore. So with that in mind, it’s about time you got serious about showing off your geek cred. Let me open your peepers to this Arduino-controlled LED watch.
This piece of nerd-chic tells time with a series of brightly glowing LEDs on an exposed PCB. If you didn’t know what either of those acronyms mean then this is not the watch for you. If you did, however, then you may want to track one of these down. The watch also tells perfect time, if you are worried about ..read more
Posted in: Concept Design, Do-It-Yourself Industry Leaders, LED, Watches
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a shirt(or something vaguely resembling a shirt) that monitored our heart rate at all times? Well, wait. There is! Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have created an intelligent eT-shirt that purports to do just that.
Hey you hypochondriacs out there. It is intended for hospital use, to make it easier on doctors to monitor their patients. Also, it’s not just for your heart. The shirt is embedded with electrodes that monitor its wearer’s vitals, and a removable thermometer and accelerometer for the collection of temperature and positioning data.
This has already been tested in a hospital in Madrid and it passed with flying colors. No word on its bedside manner though. You never know with shirts. Sometimes they can be real sticks ..read more
Posted in: Concept Design, Shirt, Vitals Monitoring
An Atlanta designer has upped the ante on fan-made Daft Punk related merchandise. Harrison Krix has cobbled together a Daft Punk inspired helmet that is so cool, so amazing to look at it, that it may be better than anything the band can come up with themselves.
First of all, it’s Arduino-controlled and uses LED lights to get that flashing effect. You can use a computer or a smartphone to change the scrolling text to any thing you like. Do I sense a bad knock knock joke coming on? Maybe that’s just me. Anyways, you can watch how he built the thing via a video he posted on Youtube. You can also use that Youtube to him sad, pathetic messages begging to borrow it just for Halloween or your kid’s birthday ..read more
Posted in: Concept Design, DIY - Corner, Hats, LED
We warned you. We gave you plenty of time to prepare. The time is now. Vuzix has officially made available their 1200vR video 3D glasses. You know what these do don’t you? They inject an immersive 3D image right into your eyeballs. The future is here!
The Wrap 1200VR glasses enable you to view a simulated 75-inch, 3D (or 2D, if you’d prefer) 16:9 display at ten feet away. These bad boys feature a single 852 x 480 monitor per eye and support input resolutions of up to 1280 x 720. The VR in the name comes from the included Wrap Tracker 6TC with compass, which enables head-tracking with three degrees of freedom. Pretty cool right?
They will set you back a bit. A pair of these futuristic monstrosities cost around $600. ..read more
Posted in: Eyewear, Eyewear Display, Vuzix
We’ve written a lot about Burton in the past. The company is back, perhaps with their most innovative product to date. The company’s new gloves perform a dual function: Keeping your hands warm and controlling your everloving iPod.
Burton’s Mix Master gloves stick a wireless controller right inside the glove, thus eliminating the need to remove your fingers from their warm, comforting womb when you want to skip to the next Radiohead song. All you do is plug a small dongle into your iDevice and it pairs up with the music-controlling hand-wear. The rest is, well, magic.
The gloves are available now for around $160. Winter is coming. What are you waiting for?
Posted in: Burton, Gloves, iPod Integration
Mirror mirror on the wall who is the farest of them all? Well, actually, it’s you in your skivvies. The New York Times, yes that New York Times, has been developing a cool/terrifying bathroom device called the Magic Mirror. It, well, tracks your bathroom activity and lets you act accordingly. Sigh, I’m not letting one of those in my bathroom.
If you are one of the brave few who is ok having your bathroom activity monitored and commented upon by an all-knowing artificial intelligence device then here is what is in store for you. The mirror uses a hacked Kinect system to create a display/HUD that you can access via your movements. You can read news, your email and all of that stuff. The interesting part, is the system analyzes your ..read more
Posted in: Accessories, Display, HUD, Mobile Phone Integration, New York Times
