Weird Jukebox for your iPod or iPhone

Advance Sound devices Retro Tune Mini Jukebox (Image via Advance Audio Devices)

If you are the old school type that likes to have new gadgets and need a way to mix old and new, Advance Sound Devices has a strange product that might do just that. The device is called the Retro Tune Mini Jukebox and is basically just what the name describes.

You get a mini jukebox with all the style of the 50’s down to the rotating light column coupled with a dock for your iPod or iPhone. The dock allows you to charge and play your iPhone or iPod while viewing the screen.

Other features of the jukebox include an alarm clock that can wake you to music from your iPod or iPhone and a single disk CD player. The device also includes a remote that allows you to control your iPod or iPhone from across the room.

VIA [ Advance Sound Devices ]

Written by Trend Spotter on August 31, 2007  |   No Comments

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Logitech MX Air Mouse

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Written by Trend Spotter on August 30, 2007  |   No Comments

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Wolverine Photo Storage Device and PMP with Massive 250GB Capacity

Wolverine EPS 250GB PMP and image storage device (photo via Wolverine)
by Shane McGlaun

Now that digital SLR cameras can be had with up to 20 megapixel sensors, the size of photos files are getting ever larger. That means that you either need to get more and larger memory cards for your camera, or get something like the Wolverine EPS 250GB Multimedia Storage Player.

This device has a built-in 7-in-1 card reader allows you to move photos from your memory cards to the EPS on the go. The card reader is compatible with CF, SD & SDHC, MMC, MS, MS-Pro, and XD cards. An optional adapter allows the device to read MS-Duo, MS-Duo Pro, miniSD and RS-MMC cards as well. In addition to storing photos you shoot the device also acts as a PMP.

A FM tuner is built-in and video playback is supported in MPEG-1, MPEG-4, WMV9 and Xvid. Music formats supported are MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, AAC, and CDA. You can also record live radio to the internal hard drive. When combined with the optional cradle you can record directly to the ESP from your TV, DVD, VCR, camcorder or other video source. The 250GB ESP is available now for $649.99.

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Written by Trend Spotter on August 28, 2007  |   No Comments

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Volkswagen Golf GTI W12 Concept

Volkswagen Golf GTI W12 (Images courtesy Fifth Gear)
By Andrew Liszewski

I find it pretty funny when I see an ‘affordable’ car that has been completely retrofitted with after-market accessories designed to improve the vehicle’s performance. But I guarantee no one has gone as far as Volkswagen did with one of their own. “The Golf GTI W12 concept has a mid-mounted 6.0 litre twin-turbocharged Bentley engine, rear wheel drive and 642 bhp. That translates into a claimed 202 mph top speed and a 3.7 second 0-62 mph time: and that’s with the engine restricted to just half its full torque output in first gear.” (Quoted from Fifth Gear’s first drive article.)

And while the car is referred to as a ‘concept’ Volkswagen prefers to think of it as a “design study” since the vehicle is fully driveable. (With ‘driveable’ being the understatement of the week.) On the outside of the Golf the only thing that would make someone think there’s something unique about the car is the custom body work which not only looks cool but also provides vital air intakes all over the vehicle which feed the impressive engine.

Of course there are probably a few Golf drivers reading this right now who are a little envious of VW’s special toy. But if you’re willing to fork out the whopping €1,000,000 (or about $1,350,000) for the conversion you too can conduct your own “design study.” Otherwise you’ll have to just be content with reading Fifth Gear’s account of the time they spent with the car.

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Written by Trend Spotter on August 28, 2007  |   No Comments

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High-Tech Toys Recharge While You Play

Zen Design Group SEE Toys (Image courtesy DetNews.com)
By Andrew Liszewski

Batteries and the fact that they’ll eventually run out is another harsh lesson most kids learn at a young age. (Unless you’re one of those Amish kids.) So a company called Zen Design Group is launching a line of high-tech toys called ‘SEE Toys’ which have a built-in battery that is recharged as the kids play with them. SEE actually stands for safety, ecology and economy since the toys don’t require the batteries to be constantly replaced and do not rely on an external power source except for a sugar-fueled youngster.

Using kids as a power source is not a new idea, in fact I wrote about something called PlayPumps last year where a specially designed playground is used to pump water into a holding tank while kids are playing on it. So I guess the lesson here is that using kids as a source of energy is OK as long as they’re having fun while doing it. I think that’s the point they missed in all those factories during the turn of the century which resulted in a ban on child labor. If those assembly lines had just been ‘fun’ in some way there wouldn’t have been a problem.

The ‘SEE Toys’ should be available next month on the Zen Design Group’s website and will range in price from $19.99 to $29.99.

[ No batteries required for creative LED toys ] VIA [ Wired - Geekdad ]

Written by Trend Spotter on August 28, 2007  |   No Comments

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Zen Garden Sink Is A Good Idea In Theory

Zen Garden Sink (Images courtsy Gau Designs)
By Andrew Liszewski

In this age of ‘environmental awareness’ inventors and designers are always trying to come up with new ways to better use our natural resources. So here’s an interesting take on the bathroom sink that reuses the water from the basin to feed a plant.

But it’s pretty obvious the sink is more of a design concept than a usable idea because we all know how many chemicals end up being poured into a bathroom sink like toothpaste, mouthwash, shaving cream and soap just to name a few. And while I only took Biology classes up until high-school from what I remember none of those chemicals were used by plants for the purpose of living. Still, I wonder if that long channel could be outfitted with a filter of some sort ensuring that only H20 eventually made it to the plant.

[ Zen Garden Sink ] VIA [ TreeHugger ]

Written by Trend Spotter on August 28, 2007  |   No Comments

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