Thursday, August 26, 2004
Cool gadgets site blog that I came across while surfing
Gadget insight quoted and posted from this cool site.. engadget.com
Watch this Wednesday: The GPS Watch >
Related entries: Features, GPS
http://www.engadget.com/entry/4722831173095828/
Last week we did the Wrist Watch Walk-Talkie. This week, we bring you the Garmin Forerunner 201 GPS Watch.What it is: This watch has all the goodness of a GPS packed in to a small form factor and geared towards the gadget wielding jogger. It calculates speed, location, and altitude as you run. Software syncs up with you computer to keep track of distances and progress.Why we like it: The best part of using a GPS watch is you can use it to take routes and create your own custom photo maps. If you’d like to do this too, check out our How-To article.Where to get it and how much: You can pick one up on Amazon for usually less than $129.
The Search Engine Belt Buckle >http://www.engadget.com/entry/6833839062762584/
It was a late August Saturday night in Seattle, we decided not only to hit the dance floor, but boogie on down in a whole new way. All the cats in town are wearing big belt buckles now, so we thought, hey, here’s our chance to show the world our latest hack, the Search Engine Belt Buckle.
What is the Search Engine Belt Buckle?The Search Engine Belt Buckle is a PDA which shows 24 hours of all the bizarre and banal things people are looking for on the web. Art project or pointless hack? That’s for you to decide, but all we know is that people are searching for some pretty freaky stuff out there, so why not put in a belt buckle and get on the scene like a sex machine?
Samsung’s SGH-i530 Palmphone turns up
http://www.engadget.com/entry/5574683146068893/
This was actually one of the very first gadgets we ever wrote about on Engadget, and though it still hasn’t been properly announced yet, Samsung’s Palm-powered SGH-i530 smartphone has turned up in an animation on their Olympics website. Anyway, we don’t know when it’ll actually become available, but what we do know is that it’ll run on Palm OS 5.2, have 32MB of RAM, a 324x352 pixel LCD screen, an SD memory card slot, and a built-in megapixel digital camera.
Lie-detector beanie
Posted Aug 26, 2004, 8:25 AM ET by Katie Fehrenbacher
Related entries:
Misc. Gadgets
Lie-detector beanie cap for use with Laptop
http://www.engadget.com/entry/6561346357945546/
By morning its your trusty ol’ lie detector but by night its a sassy red polkadotted beanie perfect for ladies night at the Drunken Clam; really breaking out of the drab lie-detector mold never felt so good. Unfortunate appearance aside though, the new lie-detector cap created by Japan’s Brain Functions Lab uses Emotion Spectrum Analysis to measure brains waves through the cap’s 10 electrodes (polkadots). Supposedly Sharp is using Emotion Spectrum Analysis to measure consumer satisfaction of audio equipment, we just hope they’re getting a new designer soon.
Sony’s VRP-T5 DVRPosted
Aug 26, 2004, 1:13 PM ET by Simon Spagnoletti
Related entries: Home Entertainment, Peripherals
http://www.engadget.com/entry/4744286863117275/
Sony’s coming out with the VRP-T5, a new 160GB digital video recorder which connects to digital TVs and tuners via i.Link (which is essentially their version of FireWire). It debuts on October 1st, when it will retail for a rather pricey $665, and a has a nice old school computer peripheral styling to it rather than the typical A/V component look that pretty much all other DVRs have. Or maybe it’s maybe someone at Sony realized there were enough generic external hard drives out there and decided to throw in a DVR function to convince people to actually consider buying it.
Oregon Scientific’s PV100 digital camera has a very large LCD screen. Seriously.
Posted Aug 26, 2004, 8:47 AM ET by Peter Rojas
Related entries: Digital Cameras
http://www.engadget.com/entry/4845287874128386/
http://www.oregonscientific.co.uk/press_detail.asp?p=28
http://www.onlineshoppingsite.co.uk/Digital-cameras/5602197
http://www.argos.co.uk/ Shopping
We have no idea whether it takes decent pictures or not, but at least Oregon Scientific’s three megapixel PV100 digital camera has a massive 3.5-inch LCD screen which takes almost the entire back side of the camera.
P.S. - Anyone know who really makes this thing or seen it under another brand name?
Watch this Wednesday: The GPS Watch >
Related entries: Features, GPS
http://www.engadget.com/entry/4722831173095828/
Last week we did the Wrist Watch Walk-Talkie. This week, we bring you the Garmin Forerunner 201 GPS Watch.What it is: This watch has all the goodness of a GPS packed in to a small form factor and geared towards the gadget wielding jogger. It calculates speed, location, and altitude as you run. Software syncs up with you computer to keep track of distances and progress.Why we like it: The best part of using a GPS watch is you can use it to take routes and create your own custom photo maps. If you’d like to do this too, check out our How-To article.Where to get it and how much: You can pick one up on Amazon for usually less than $129.
The Search Engine Belt Buckle >http://www.engadget.com/entry/6833839062762584/
It was a late August Saturday night in Seattle, we decided not only to hit the dance floor, but boogie on down in a whole new way. All the cats in town are wearing big belt buckles now, so we thought, hey, here’s our chance to show the world our latest hack, the Search Engine Belt Buckle.
What is the Search Engine Belt Buckle?The Search Engine Belt Buckle is a PDA which shows 24 hours of all the bizarre and banal things people are looking for on the web. Art project or pointless hack? That’s for you to decide, but all we know is that people are searching for some pretty freaky stuff out there, so why not put in a belt buckle and get on the scene like a sex machine?
Samsung’s SGH-i530 Palmphone turns up
http://www.engadget.com/entry/5574683146068893/
This was actually one of the very first gadgets we ever wrote about on Engadget, and though it still hasn’t been properly announced yet, Samsung’s Palm-powered SGH-i530 smartphone has turned up in an animation on their Olympics website. Anyway, we don’t know when it’ll actually become available, but what we do know is that it’ll run on Palm OS 5.2, have 32MB of RAM, a 324x352 pixel LCD screen, an SD memory card slot, and a built-in megapixel digital camera.
Lie-detector beanie
Posted Aug 26, 2004, 8:25 AM ET by Katie Fehrenbacher
Related entries:
Misc. Gadgets
Lie-detector beanie cap for use with Laptop
http://www.engadget.com/entry/6561346357945546/
By morning its your trusty ol’ lie detector but by night its a sassy red polkadotted beanie perfect for ladies night at the Drunken Clam; really breaking out of the drab lie-detector mold never felt so good. Unfortunate appearance aside though, the new lie-detector cap created by Japan’s Brain Functions Lab uses Emotion Spectrum Analysis to measure brains waves through the cap’s 10 electrodes (polkadots). Supposedly Sharp is using Emotion Spectrum Analysis to measure consumer satisfaction of audio equipment, we just hope they’re getting a new designer soon.
Sony’s VRP-T5 DVRPosted
Aug 26, 2004, 1:13 PM ET by Simon Spagnoletti
Related entries: Home Entertainment, Peripherals
http://www.engadget.com/entry/4744286863117275/
Sony’s coming out with the VRP-T5, a new 160GB digital video recorder which connects to digital TVs and tuners via i.Link (which is essentially their version of FireWire). It debuts on October 1st, when it will retail for a rather pricey $665, and a has a nice old school computer peripheral styling to it rather than the typical A/V component look that pretty much all other DVRs have. Or maybe it’s maybe someone at Sony realized there were enough generic external hard drives out there and decided to throw in a DVR function to convince people to actually consider buying it.
Oregon Scientific’s PV100 digital camera has a very large LCD screen. Seriously.
Posted Aug 26, 2004, 8:47 AM ET by Peter Rojas
Related entries: Digital Cameras
http://www.engadget.com/entry/4845287874128386/
http://www.oregonscientific.co.uk/press_detail.asp?p=28
http://www.onlineshoppingsite.co.uk/Digital-cameras/5602197
http://www.argos.co.uk/ Shopping
We have no idea whether it takes decent pictures or not, but at least Oregon Scientific’s three megapixel PV100 digital camera has a massive 3.5-inch LCD screen which takes almost the entire back side of the camera.
P.S. - Anyone know who really makes this thing or seen it under another brand name?
