Hand-crank 2-way radio cum walkie-talkie

The world is getting little crazy, going backward in history, producing gadgets that are getting more and more primitive. We’re getting more hank-crank gadgets here. Here comes the hand-crank 2-way radio cum walkie-talkie, which is a new member for the hand-crank series.

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Gravia Lamp – a gravity-powered lamp!

Gravia Lamp is a super green LED floor lamp that makes use of gravity to generate power for it to glow for hundred years. The Gravia Lamp is the LED lamp that is completely free from electrical cable or any related structure as it needn’t be attached to any power source to shine for you.

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Gator lightweight electric guitar case with iPod dock

Nowadays, almost every single piece of everyday objects comes associated with Apple gadgets. Especially the iPod, we’ve seen numerous everyday objects, furniture that come with an iPod dock. There is no exception for the Gator lightweight electric guitar case presented to you here.

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AquaSkipper lets you fly across the water like ancient Kung Fu kids!

Big fans of Chinese Kung Fu movies surely know those Kung Fu kids in the movies can easily fly themselves across the river or lake. As been told by some ancient stories originated from China, this type of Kung Fu needs many years of practice, which is the technique to hold the “Qi” or air flow in one’s body, lifting the body above and moving fast across water. And this technique has vanished through many hundred years and doesn’t exist anymore in these modern days. But, no worry, today’s technology seems to have brought you closer to what the ancient Kung Fu kids could do – flying across the water in high speed. AquaSkipper is one these technologies that we’re talking about here.

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Official: HD-DVD is dead! Final winner is Blu-ray!

The format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray has been going around for years. Until today, the announcement of Toshiba for stopping production of HD-DVD players and recorders, has put a stop to the format war. So, the final winner of the high-def content optical discs is Blu-ray!

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Pig Phone might lower productivity

We’ve already stepped into the lunar year of Rat, but some people are still fond of looking around for gadgets designed to look like pigs. It’s not meant to offend anyone here, I personally think gadget shaped like a pig copies the pig’s laziness to the owner as well, meaning it could bring you low productivity. Anyway, lets look at what the Pig Phone can do for you here.

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Machines as intelligent as humans by 2029

BBC reported that machine would be as intelligent as human in about 20+ years’ time. The world will have both the hardware and software ready to mimic the intelligence of human by 2029. An artificial intelligence engineer, Ray Kurzweil says that by 2029, the machine could achieve human level artificial intelligence including copying our emotional intelligence.

Artificial intelligence has existed more than 20 years, but so far it’s still far behind the intelligence of human. Kurzweil predicts that in about 20 years’ time that we could make machine to have level of intelligence, by continuously improving the algorithm that remains as the main roadblock for computer to advance and become as intelligent as human.

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Recover scratched CDs using toothpaste

If you’re interested in some traditional methods of fixing scratched CDs, here you go, how you can fix those scratched CDs by using toothpaste only.

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iAno – app that turns iPhone or iPod touch into a piano

We have the PocketGuitar for guitarist to play tunes on iPod touch or iPhone. We have one for the pianist too – the iAno, which turns iPhone and iPod touch into a piano. The iAno application takes the advantage of the multi-touch capability on iPhone or iPod touch and make them simulate a complete four octave keyboard with realistic piano sampling sounds. You can press up to 5 keys at once allowing complex chords. Video to show you how the cool iAno plays on your Apple gadgets after the jump.

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Quickorder: Order your Starbucks coffee directly from your iPhone!

Some geeks who always have their iPhone or iPod touch around might also be addicts of the Starbucks coffee. How you wish you could make use of your iPhone or iPod Touch to order Starbucks coffee, so you could always stay ahead of anyone in the queue for ordering. Quickorder has made this possible. They’ve developed an application for your Apple gadgets, which allows the users to make their Starbucks coffee ordering much easier than before.

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