Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap lets in your cat only

Even though I have a pet, I don’t have one of those pet doors. Of course, I have a Chocolate Labrador, and a burglar could easily fit through a dog door that big.

What if there was a way to put a lock on a pet door, and somehow give your pet the only key? This is a basic concept of the Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap.

This pet door works by identifying a cat by its microchip implant, which is a trend of identification amongst pet owners. In case you are not familiar with this emerging technology, it allows a pet catcher with a specialized scanner to scan an implanted chip in a pet. This allows for proper identification of a pet that is better than an easily removable tag.

Too bad they don’t make a Pet Porte Microchip Dog Flap, because I could keep out burglars and still have the revolving door for my dog. However, the Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap can successfully keep other cats out. This is especially good for owners who can’t stand it when uninvited cats use their pet door. No more sharing the Meow Mix!

If you would like to get down on this little bit of cat tech, it will cost about £127.00. You should be able to purchase it from the company website.

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The Snowball Launcher with 50′ range

Just because you’re an adult does not mean that you don’t still enjoy chucking an occasional snowball at your friends. Actually, at times it makes it more forbidden and therefore a lot more tempting. Well if you don’t have the greatest throwing skills then you might want to look into a cool contraption to help you out. With this cool gun, hopefully no one will notice that you didn’t buy it just because you thought it was cool. Likely they’ll just see a new toy to drool over and your secret of a puny throwing arm will stay quiet.

Not only would this be great for those that have a throwing handicap, but for those that want a longer range with their snowballs. You could stay out of range of your friends efforts at retaliation. The launcher has a 50′ range and shoots at rapid speeds. Hopefully you can either have a friend making the snowballs to load into it or you can reload quickly. Otherwise your enemies might take the chance to gain on you and get revenge. The launcher works with a slingshot mechanism and can be bought for $29.95 from Hammacher and Schlemmer.

Source: OhGizmo

EA Mobile releases Tetris, Bejeweled and Monopoly for G1

Today, EA Mobile has announced the 3 games for the T-mobile G1. First is the Tetris, it is now available while the other two will be the Bejeweled and the MONOPOLY Here & Now Edition which will be available this November (tomorrow?). The three games will be available in United Stated for purchase, download them directly from the www.eamobile.com.

[via Slashphone]

HTC G1 unlocked is available worldwide

HTC G1, the over 1.5-million pre-ordered phone, the iPhone competitor and the first Google-powered phone. Are you getting one? Yeah it’s with T-mobile at $179.99 with 2-year contract.

Recap, The T-Mobile G1 is powered by Qualcomm MSM7201A, 528 MHz processor, the first that runs on Google Android operating system and comes with 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 320 x 480 (HVGA) resolution, One-click Google Search, Customizable Home screen with instant Email, text message and IM notifications, Instant access to Google services (Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Google Talk, Calendar), High-speed 3.5G network connection, trackball with Enter button, slide-out 5-row QWERTY keyboard, 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS navigation, WiFi, microSD memory card (SD 2.0 compatible), Digital Compass, Motion Sensor and more.

Good news for you all, the unlocked version is available now with free shipping worldwide, get yours here.

Screenshots: New Microsoft Operating System

According to earlier reviewers report, the new Microsoft operating system, Windows 7, is much faster and stable. Windows boss Steve Sinofsky has confirmed that this os can be run on a system with just 1GB of RAM.

“The interesting part is that the Win 7 boots faster, (even with the other computer’s BIOS startup out of the way), but apparently takes longer time than the other system to shut down. But yes, these are totally unscientific.”

[via Techeblog | Gizmodo]

Homeloo’s Jumbo Gear Clock

It’s always obnoxious having a wall clock you have to stand excessively close to in orderto read it properly. I have one of those, I can never see the placement of the hands from a distance. Yet, I keep it because I like the overall look of the clock. I imagine a lot of people will pick up this clock for the same reasons, the overall look is fascinating. Even if the watch face is overly difficult to read from a distance. If they had varied the color of the hands a little from its background it would have helped a great deal.

However, with them both being one color it does simplify the look of the overall clock. Having fifty exposed gears is plenty to clutter the clock up by themselves without adding a contrasting color to the clock hands. The clock is 16” and yes, all of those gears do move. The larger gear behind the watch hands also spins, it spins clockwise while the rest of the gears spin counterclockwise. The clock will cost you $78.

Source: bbgadgets

Gene Simmons Axe Guitar controller

Gene Simmons is a bassist from Kiss, and this is Gene Simmons Axe Guitar controller for Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Yeah, basically an axe-shaped guitar and it features Simmons. It’s compatible with PS3 or PS2. Available at Amazon for $80.

[via Kotaku]

NASA new Lunar Rover Vehicle concept

NASA has come out with a Small Pressurized Rover Concept which set to be put in service by year 2020. It is a futuristic recreational vehicle mounted on six sets of wheels, 12 wheels altogether. This battery powered rover can speed up to 6 mph.

“The new prototype has a pressurized cab and is fitted out with leather seats and bunks. It would allow a crew of two astronauts to take extended exploration trips for up to two weeks at a time, covering distances of up to 625 miles, says Craig, the NASA program’s manager.”

The vehicle is being tested in a remote corner of Arizona which found to have similar surface conditions to those found on the moon. It has a range of up to 625 miles (1,000 km).

[via Yahoo News | Engadget]

E ink Phone by Anthony Reed

Designer Anthony Reed has come out with the black and white E ink Phone. Yup, a cell phone with E ink display, no other features mention. Just love the simple and the fully gray scale design.

[via Yanko Design]

Unboxing: T-mobile G1

Notcot has got their hands with the HTC G1 the Google phone. Check out the unboxing after the break

iBangle puts the iPod on the wrist

When it comes to iPods and other MP3 players, not much has changed about them in the past few years. Sure, the memory is getting better all the time, but the design is the same: they clip on the belt and the obligatory wired earplugs.

This iBangle design concept is a little bit daring as the design fits right on your wrist instead of clipping to your belt. Don’t let its loose look fool you, the iBangle won’t easily slip off like other “clip-on” MP3 players. Apparently, that tiny blue button that you see in the illustration somehow fills the blue area with air, so it fits snug, but hopefully not too snug.

As for the earphones, forget about it! The audio sound is transmitted via wireless earbuds. So how do you navigate through tracks, you may ask? Just use the multi-touch track pad.

Now, if only it had a way to play video files. Perhaps a screen could be put on it, and the iBangle could pass for a watch.

Too bad this iBangle remains only a concept from designer Gopinath Prasana. Apple, this could easily be the next big thing for MP3 Players, so please feel free to put one million iBangles into production.

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The Safe Bedside Table Helps You Get Medieval On IntrudersStumble This

If you live in fear of people breaking and entering your home and you are made of sterner stuff than the guy who needs to sleep with a shotgun under the bed, then this is definitely for you. The safe bedside table breaks into a club and a shield - ready for you to put some serious hurt on whoever is invading your home.

Just hope that the said intruder does not have a gun, because I am not sure that the puny little wooden shield will stand up to bullets. [Bauldoff via Slippery Brick, Gear Fuse and Boing Boing Gadgets]

Husqvarna Solar-powered Robot Lawnmower

As you can see by the title, this Husqvarna Solar-Powered Robot Lawnmover deserves its own acronym. Of course, HSPRL is really lame, and I suppose the Swedish-based company will have to change a few of the descriptors into synonyms that start with vowels so they could get an actual word.

This HSPRL (just humor me for this article’s sake) was announced at the Green Industry and Equipment Expo 2008. I’m certain that this isn’t the first autonomous robot lawn mower, but I’m guessing this one won’t be the last.

Of course, the real selling point of the HSPRL is the fact that it is solar powered, which doesn’t sound like an industry first. This limits it to daylight usage, but it uses a rechargeable nickel metal hydride battery.

This device weighs in at about 22-pounds, and can work a half-acre lot of grass with a wire that can be slightly buried or staked in place as a safety border. Speaking of safety, the Solar-powered lawnmower has some great safety features. For example, it will automatically shut off its blades when it is lifted, and built-in sensors to work around objects.

Unfortunately, the Husqvarna solar-powered lawnmower does not have a release date or price. I could give you an estimation based on another model the company produces, so we’re looking at about $2,000.

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Butt-On by Ashish Chaudhary

Designer Ashish Chaudhary has designed the Butt-On for butt lover. It is a night light with integrated switch. To switch on the light, on you need to do is pinch the butt. The butt is made of soft translucent silicon based rubber for a better tactile feel. Hope you don’t obsessed for a real one after pinching that Butt-On every night.

[via Yanko Design]

Cowon O2 PMP

The new Cowon O2 will be available in Japan this November 13. It is a PMP that comes with a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 8GB/16GB/32GB of memory, T-DMB, e-dictionary, SD card slot and it supports DivX, XviD, MPEG4, WM9, H .264 for video files and WMA, MP3, AC3, AAC, FLAC, OGG for audio files. The Cowon is priced at 240€, 280€ and 350€ respectively.

[via Akihabaranews]

Make your dog an Apple fanboy with the iBone Dog Toy

You know you’ve gotten far too obsessed with your iPhone when you start buying a toy for your dog meant to resemble the iPhone. Slightly more squishy and with far less functions than your iPhone, but it does resemble it nonetheless. The only real function it has is that it will squeak as your pup plays with it. It measures 6” x 4” x 1” and will cost you $11.95 from Chimpfeet.

Source: GeekyGadgets

Minox’s Agent M Digital Belt Camera

If you’re aspiring to be a super secret spy at some point in your life then you’ll need the equipment to go with the job. No one can be a true spy without the proper tools. Well Minox is selling a seemingly innocent belt that happens to have a hidden camera built into it. The belt can record videos, which will likely be every perv’s dream. I’m sure with this in hand many teen boys would love a chance to accidentally walk into the girl’s locker room and then have the recording to enjoy for years to come.

Actually, likely their father’s would probably wish for the same thing at the local gym. In all fairness though, this could be used for non-pervish tasks. It not only records video, but it will record audio as well. Giving you handy blackmail material when needed. It records onto an SD card and includes a USB adapter. It will cost you a pretty penny though, it is priced at about $300.

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Hardcore Computer’s Reactor

Some of you may need to pull your mind out of the gutter when you hear the word “hardcore”, but Hardcore Computer is a custom designer and manufacturer of high-performance computer systems.

Hardcore Computer’s newest product, the Reactor, is quite unique as all of the heat producing components, such as the CPU, motherboard, video card, memory and power supplies, are immersed in a custom dielectric fluid called Core Coolant. This gives the Reactor a cool look of a fish tank that is like no other.

So besides the Core Coolant, what else is inside the Reactor? How about a choice of Core 2 Extreme processors, 8GB of DDR3 memory, and an option of up to three GeForce GTX 280 GPUs.

Other features include optional, dual, and diversity Wi-Fi antennas. a CMOS battery and BIOS reset switch, full-throttle processing, HD/3D realism, Creative Labs X-Fi, and a 7.1 channel Dolby digital surround sound.

Yes, the Reactor should be probably popular with the gamers, as well as anyone who needs a lot of memory to run their business. Supposedly, upgrades are easy, despite the fluid immersion of the major components. Careful it doesn’t leak out, now.

The price of the Hardcore Reactor is quite high at $4,500, and some of higher-end models will fall a little under $10K.

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Pantech Matrix dual-slider 3G phone

Pantech has released its new dual-slide 3G phone called the Pantech Matrix in US through AT&T. This dual-band UMTS/HSDPA Matrix features both QWERTY keyboard and numeric keypad and comes with 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, AT&Tamp; Navigator service and Video Share support. The phone is available in red, blue or black colors.

4GB ID Card Spycam

It’s spy gadget time again. Last week we had the Bluetooth Headset Spycam with LCD Display, this week we’ll take a look at a spy camera hidden inside an ID card.

The 5.3mm thin card features a built-in high performance rechargeable lithium which can run for more than three hours, or up to 10 hours on standby. You can use it as a camcorder, a digital camera or like a dictaphone for audio recordings.

Specifications:

• Built-in 1.3 million high-definition digital CMoS camera
• Video resolution: 352×288 pixels at 15fps
• Photo resolution: 1280×1024 pixels
• Video format: AVI
• Audio formats: WAV
• Built-in memory: 4GB

Racing Grandads complete with oxygen tanks

If you need something to kill time while you’re supposed to be working, now you can have an afternoon laugh with this pair. Just set them up and let them race after each other. Now all arguments can be settled with these guys. All you have to do is say whose ever Grandad wins, wins the dispute as well. To make them go, just pull back and off they go, oxygen tanks hoisted to the back and everything. To pick up a set it will cost you $12.

iPhone Walking Robot

Sometime when you are doing your business in the toilet, you missed out a lot of important calls. Kazu Terasaki has found a solution for that by making a walking iPhone. At first, he uses the Roomba cleaning robot to get it moving unfortunately it doesn’t work. Finally, he developed a set of autonomous robot legs attaching to the device and yes the iPhone walk to him.




[via Gizmodo]

Multi-Computer F1 Racing Screensaver

Intel Brazil has come out with the best office screensaver ever seen in office. The computers in the office will form into one Formula 1 racing course screensaver. Once the screensaver is loaded up, the Formula one car will go from one computer to another. Check it out after the break.

Yeah it’s available for download for Mac or PC.

[via Gizmodo]

First China Solar-powered Car

China’s Zhejiang 001 Group has come up with the solar-powered car, the car was shown at the car exhibition in Hangzhou. The group has produced over 10 units of them and each will be sold at 38,000 yuan (US$5,560). The car is capable of absorbing 95 percent of the solar energy it takes in but can only transform 14% to 17% of that into electricity, quite similar to others solar car. The car can travel 150km after 30 hours of solar charging, yeah an hour of charge will get you 5km. No words if the car will be shipped outta China.

[via Engadget]

Welcome to the New Age of the PSP2

Here is a new concept for the Playstation Portable I hope to see in the near future. This PSP2 design concept by Tai Chiem probably won’t be made anytime soon, but it really should.

I mean, just look at the scrolling OLED screen! I think we are close to perfecting that technology, but not that close. Still, it would be nifty to have a screen that can roll up into the PSP itself. No more tiny screen, but it needs some sort of electrical charge to hold it up. I guess it uses the same “memory cloth” technology as shown in Batman Begins.

Not only does it have the rolling and scrolling action going on, but the side speakers fold inwards, presumably to hold the screen into place when it is rolled up. Rumor has it the speakers are the controls for the device. This appears to the only method of control, as I don’t see a controller or buttons.

This technology is too good to use on just portable video game consoles. I think that every cellular phone needs to be this wand-shaped thing that you can use to take and receive calls, and then roll it out to watch videos or whatever applications you care to run.

Well, as I said before, the PSP2 probably won’t be available any time soon, so if you want a new style of PSP, you’ll have to get the PSP-3000.

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Medieval Wagon-wheeled Hummer

A Hummer H3 was donated to a British artist named Matthew Harrison, creating it into a medieval wagon-wheeled vehicle. The car was currently being shown at the London’s ZOO Art Fair. A Tata Nano with those wheels will look even better.

[via mischief]

Nanokia by Mac Funamizu

So they said, if Nokia Aeon and the Apple iPod Nano 4G had sex, and the baby shall look something like this. It is a concept by designer Mac Funamizu. This Nanokia phone is using a nondescript tactile feedback technology making its surface adapts to different purposes, while the e-ink screen envelops the phone in graphics and information. I was thinking what if the Google phone G1 had sex with iPhone, will it be something like on right side


Giving it a name Giphone :D

[via Yanko Design]

LG unveils the LG-SU100 in Korea

LG has unveiled its 3-inch full touchscreen phone full touchscreen phone ‘LG-SU100′ during the KES 2008 in Korea.

LG-SU100 is equipped with the Franklin planner, a time management system which consists of a ring binder holding specially designed loose leaf pages. Divided by monthly tabs between the pages and accepting a wide variety of specialized accessories and inserts, the core idea is to consolidate tasks and appointments along with personal records in one place, methodically eliminating floating pieces of paper.

The phone boasts an OLED display, a 3.0-megapixel camera, electronic dictionary, S-DMB, global roaming, Bluetooth and web viewer.

[via Aving]

World’s Biggest Cake weighing 4340kg

This giant cake weighs 4,340-kilogram (9,568-pound), officials from Seoul city government and Shinsung College, this rice cake is showcased during the Seoul Design Olympiad 2008 at the Jamsil Main Stadium in Korea and they said they will register it in the Guinness Book of Records, as the world’s biggest rice cake.

[via Joongangdaily]

LG Intros Second-Gen Prada Phone

Hey, technorati fashionistas, good news: the LG Prada phone is back with a vengeance, of sorts. The good/bad news here is that LG hasn't really changed anything about the handset, save for one major feature--the addition of a keyboard.

The messaging keyboard slides out from underneath the phone's large touchscreen. Adds LG, in a weirdly sensual description, "As serenely as it appears it slides invisibly, effortlessly away - a modern icon of mobile style and design with an extra competitive edge."

The LG Prada also features a handful of other improvements, including 3G compatibility for video messaging, a full HTML browser, a 5-megapixel camera with a Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens, Wi-Fi accessibility, and 7.2-Mbps HSDPA.

It will be available in Europe by the end of the year for 600 Euros ($814.74).

Bandai's NetTansorWeb Robot Does Surveillance Work, Blogs Too

Why get a system that can only do surveillance work when you can get one that can do that and blog as well? Bandai's new robot presented during Robot Japan 2008 conference called NetTansorWeb can do both mentioned functionalities. The NetTansorWeb robot that's meant for home use can be controlled via WiFi and is properly built with cameras for surveillance. Since it can move autonomously, it's also equipped with sensors to avoid obstacles. The robot can send you reports of its surveillance through the computer or through your phone when you're away.

Aside from its security features, the NetTansorWeb takes a leaf (pun intended) out of Midori-san's book and can even blog. If you got one explosively successful blog, for example, it can monitor the comments section and respond to requests for image re-uploads. Unfortunately, its measly two and a half hours of battery life is a deal-breaker. However, it's still a good home surveillance option that costs only $500. The Bandai NetTansorWeb will be available in the company's home country of Japan by December

Sandal USB Flash Drive

Get ready for the latest item in the never ending stream of weird USB memory sticks - the colorful USB 2.0 compliant and 2GB large flash drive shaped like a sandal.

Features:

• USB 2.0 High Speed
• Plug and Play, Hot-Swapped capability
• Storage capacity: 2GB
• Support: Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and Mac OS
• Dimensions: 48 x 21.5 x 5mm (approx.)
• Weight: 5g

The Sandal USB Flash Drive is available from the USB Geek website for $17.

Another Laser Target Alarm Clock

Remember that Laser Target Alarm Clock that was all over the blogs in the beginning of this year? A new model from the Japanese Bandai company has now been released.

The Gun O’Clock looks slightly different and features two wake-up modes: Normal and Hard. The first one works as the original clock; the alarm goes off, you hit the target, the alarm shuts down. But with the Hard mode you will need to hit the target 5 times.

More about the Gun O’Clock at bandai.co.jp (automatically translated from Japanese).

(Tokyomango via Ubergizmo via Prylfeber, Unplggd and Hardware Sphere)