Gadgets Control

Let’s face it, watches are kind of useless. When it comes to fulfilling our basic time-telling and alarm needs, cellphones do the job and more. Today, most people either wear watches out of habit or, in some cases, because they’ve been convinced that pimping their wrists with an array LEDs is fashionable. The point here is that it’s refreshing when someone actually releases a watch with a useful feature. True to its name, the WiFi watch will detect all networks within a 300-foot range, giving you relative strength of those local connections so you can select the best spot to borrow your WiFi. Oh, and it also has an alarm and a countdown timer. (Read the full post about ‘Handy Dandy Watch Hunts Down WiFi Networks’…)

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by Joshua Topolsky, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 8:34AM It seemed like it would never happen, but the impossible has occurred: Apple’s iphone is coming to Canada. (Read the full post about ‘iPhone finally coming to Canada’…)

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Photo [3dnatureguy/Wikipedia] Some of science fiction’s predictions have passed fitfully into the present; video phones and geostationary satellites for example. Others seem destined to remain forever in the hereafter, despite being almost universal in movies and literature. The list will be familiar: jetpacks, food pills, silver clothes with giant collars. One technology, though, resurfaces every few years and makes it to market, only to disappear into the morass of nostalgia soon after. These are 3-D displays, attempts to turn boring old flat telly into a depth-charged experience. Some products failed because they were junk, others just fade from view and resurface years later. (Read the full post about ‘Five Failed 3-D Technologies’…)

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With energy costs rising all over the world, it makes perfect sense to get more power-friendly devices in your home, along with the Cost Controller Power Strip. After all, seeing the number steadily increase while you turn on that dual SLI gaming rig of yours will surely cut down on your gaming time as your brain goes into overdrive, wondering what you’re going to survive on in the coming month after a huge chunk of your salary ends up with the energy company. The Cost Controller Power Strip is also able to monitor the voltage, line frequency and power factor of your power. It retails for a shade under $100 and would make a pretty decent gift for virtually anyone. (Read the full post about ‘Cost Controller Power Strip’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 7:43AM Go on, admit it — your day in the early 90s was never complete without reaching down in public and giving those Pumps a solid squeeze. In all honesty, we can’t say that Ki-Seung Lee’s Airboard is quite on that level, but it’s certainly got the potential to be. This laptop stand was designed to reside in your lap or on your hotel room table and give each individual user the ability to elevate it as he / she sees fit. (Read the full post about ‘Airboard laptop stand puts your Reebok Pumps to shame’…)

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Tags: cellphone, game, ipod, Ogg Vorbis

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Diamond Keyring You can have this for ?7.99 Tags: TV, mobile phone, mobile devices, video games (Read the full post about ‘Diamond Keyring’…)

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by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Apr 28th 2008 at 7:50PM This unlocked blackberry 9000 was spotted on eBay just before the auction mysteriously ended. The seller says the phone is unlocked and will “Not be released until August 2007″ — we’ll guess he / she is a little unclear as to what year it is. However, said seller promises that this particular unlocked phone is actually in stock now and ready to ship for the lucky winner. Listed features (according to this auction) include: 3G, Edge, WiFi, and Bluetooth, as we’ve seen elsewhere. There’s no telling how legit this is, and the seller clearly pulled the auction for some unknown reason, but there do seem to be at least a few of these floating around. (Read the full post about ‘Unlocked Blackberry 9000 spotted on eBay with new pics’…)

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If you’ve ever owned a car that doesn’t have air conditioning, you know that wonderful feeling of sitting in the middle of traffic sweating through your clothes. Without that wonderful component of your car, there’s really no good way to keep cool when stuck in traffic. That is unless you had one of these shirts. If you’ve ever installed a liquid cooling system in a computer, you’ll be familiar with this concept. The tubes you see carry cooled water all over your chest and back, thus cooling you down without getting you wet. You’ll need to hook the tubes up to a pump that pulls water from a cooler in your car. (Read the full post about ‘Cool Shirt is a liquid cooling system for your body’…)

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If you’ve been wanting an easier way to unlock your mobile phone then you’ll want to check out the latest gadget put out by 24/7 Mobile Solutions Ltd. It’s called SIMable and the solution consists of an ultra thin chip which can be attached to a SIM card. It is said to be compatible with a majority of mobile handsets including 3G devices. SIMable works by fooling the mobile phone into thinking that it has been unlocked. The device comes with a manufactured cutting press which allows the user to drill a tiny hole into the SIM card which is required by SIMable. Once the hole is cut then SIMable is simply aligned with the SIM card and inserted into the mobile phone. (Read the full post about ‘SIMable unlocks your mobile’…)

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