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Starry night, learn the stories behind the constellations

I was told that each constellation is associated with one or more stories. It’s really so much fun that you can learn through the constellations in the sky in the starry nights. I used to do that when I was in school. I had to always check out and borrow those astronomy books from the school library and then lie down on my uncle’s pickup bed to study the constellations in the clear night sky.

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LaCie USB & FireWire Hub, unique design, modern look!

A hub for the combination of USB and FireWire (4 USB and 2 FireWire ports) for your PC or MAC. Its round shape, glossy white polycarbonate finish, and flexible cables give it a distinctive, modern look. Exclusive design by Ora-Ïto

It’s bundled with quite a number of accessories, as follows:
- 8 flexible, twistable cables (5 USB 2.0 & 3 FireWire 400)
- a USB fan, a USB light, (excellent cooling and lighting for your workplace), a USB extension cable and a FireWire 400 extension cable.

Available for pre-order at LaCie, $79.99 only

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A micro projector that embedded into your cellphone screen

Although today’s cellphones/PDAs allow you to stream video to it and surf the net, but most of us will get frustrated using it due to its tiny display. In order to comprise for fitting the images/video into a cellphone tiny display, surely, you will lose a lot either on the resolution or even worse on having to scroll around to see the entire web page.

Microvision is coming out with a new technology that will solve the tiny screen problem, i.e by embedding a pico projector into your cellphone screen, therefore the screen size can be increased via this projector.

This pico projector (a mobile projection application) will be able to project a laptop screen-sized full color image onto any surface and will remain in focus at any distance, even on curved surface.

Product Page via [OhGizmo]

Technorati: cellphones, gadget, mobile, projector

USB flash storage, stylus and ball pen, 3-in-1

As what the title says, a 3-in-1 useful gadget. It’s a USB flash storage that can store your documents, photos, music and porn clip. It’s a full-size PDA stylus and a traditional ballpoint pen. The USB flash has a storage capacity of 128MB. As most of us quite used to carrying a pen, this would be a good replacement for your traditional pen.

$52.99 at RestorationHardware

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BMW mistery gadget

I’m really such an ignorant guy! This is the first time that I get to know that BMW is producing gadgets. I’d always thought that BMW was a car manufacturer, which thier cars are quite well-known and in the range of the luxuries in our country. Here is the little mistery gadget by BMW, and noone yet knows what it is. It could be a digital music player or a multimedia-capable. According to GizModo, it comes with with a 65k color LCD. It has no GPS, but with Bluetooth and voice recognition. Isn’t it the car market too competitive to have caused BMW squeezed into competing in the gadgets world?

Take a look at the product page and make a guess on the flash presentation slide. BMW plans to release by mid of this month.

Technorati: gadget, bmw, car, mystery

Bank Of Life, best piggy bank ever!

The best piggy bank ever. It has a LCD screen where a little japanese man lives in it. When the bank is empty, the poor japanese man has to sleep in a shoebox. When more and more money added to the bank, the little man will gradually upgrade and stay in a luxury apartment.

It just became available in Japan last week, $40.00 (Hope it will be available online soon)

via ohgizmo

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Drink driving would cause you your life!

Drink driving will get you arrested by police, losing your driving licence, and the more severe is you will lose your life! Party animal, always bring along this little Digital Alcohol Tester, keep a close eye on your alcohol intake, so you won’t run the risk of a hangover.

Small enough to slip in your pocket or glove box you can take it with you wherever you go and use it as often as you like. Simple to use, just blow into this tester, it takes only 20 seconds to give you a reading.

£7.99 at GadgetShop

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Dracula-like verball (VOIP Phone)

This little verball allows you to chat to your friends anywhere in the world for free. It’s a VOIP phone, which works best with Skype. I do not like the little dracula-like look, especially with its fangs. When someone is calling, its horns light up and its arrms wave. When you are chatting to your friend via it, its mouth will be moving (together with its fangs). It would be fun using it talking to someone you hate as if talking to a dracula!

Easy-to-use, it doesn’t need batteries (USB-powered). It works with most messaging programs (Yahoo, AOL, MSN etc) but best with Skype. It has a speaker and a hands free microphone, which make chatting to your friends over the world so easily!

£29.99, DrGadget.co.uk

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LaCie Skwarim (Blue) 60GB portable hard drive

Small ultra-portable device with 60GB of storage capacity for storing your songs, video clips, files, porn etc. Design by Red Dot design award winner 2006, Karim Rashid. Just plug the Skwarim into your PC or Mac, laptop or desktop to back up and exchange files. It comes with an integrated USB cable.

$199.00 at LaCie [Via MightyGoods]

Technorati: gadget, storage, backup, shopping, porn

Some weird gadgets of 2006! Happy new year, see you all in 2007!

There are still couple of hours before we say goodbye to 2006. Lets take a look at some of the weird gadgets that had hit the market in 2006. I have just picked up 5 out of the 25 that I like most from TechDigest.tv’s list and added two more here:

1. Scratch n sniff MP3 player – This little iCool MP3 player from Japan, which has food-aroma. You have a choice of smell from chocolate, roses, lemon, strawberry, raspberry or blueberry.

2. Nabaztag - This little cute bunny is also in JRConnelly’s list as he fears any machine that’s better at Internet browsing than him. I personally think that this is quite a helpful one.

3. H-racer, the hydrogen car, a futuristic toy car that uses the technology that could power a full-size car in the future. It operates on 100% clean fuel produced by a miniature solar-powered hydrogen refuelling station – which converts water to hydrogen using energy captured from the sun.No combustion occurs inside the hydrogen fuel cell. The only exhaust discharge is pure water. It is really great modeling of the future polution-free vehicles!

4. Nimzy Vibro Blaster, a little gadget that turns any flat surface- wood, plastic, glass etc – into a loudspeaker.

5. Handmade beating heart, just a cushion-like “My Beating Heart”. It syncs to your own heartbeat, makes you calm and happy!

6. IBuzz, simply a sex toy, which makes use of the hot name of iPod to hit the market. Its funtion is the louder you play your iPod’s music, the faster it vibrates!

7. BreathCapture, a test-tube-like pendant, which lets you capture the stinking breath of your loved one and bring it along, so you can smell it anytime, anywhere.

Happy new year ! See you in 2007!