Japanese Alarm Clock Grabs Music from Phones April 20, 2007
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This simple yet useful alarm clock from Japan can grab up to five songs from any Japanese cellphone wirelessly via IR. It doesn't have a monster hard drive or a bevy of different card slots or a USB port, but just one simple feature that works as advertised. It's pretty cool, if you ask me, and I'd love to see such simple, basic gadgets appear to compete with the overly complicated and expensive stuff that's already out there. –Adam Frucci
Product Page [via Tokyo Mango]
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Digital Bath Spout Cover Keeps Kids From Crying About the Bathwater April 20, 2007
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Instead of manually checking the water with your hands to make sure it's not too warm or cold, just plop on this digital bath spout cover and be done with it. The easy-to-read display shows both the temperature in number form and in color form. Once you get your water just right, dump your child inside and get back to blog surfing.
Even though we have no kids of our own, we still really want one of these. We swear we've burned our peepees for the last time, Trebek. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Kidsafeinc via Crave via Gearlog]
£500,000 Laptop Might Be Real After All April 20, 2007
READ MORE Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , Laptops , Portable Media
While we’ve shown you how £500,000 can get you a luxury phone, you might want to waste it on something a little bigger, like a luxury laptop. News of this - the mysterious Luvaglio - surfaced a few weeks ago but now here is a new photo.
Does it tell you anything more? Not really, although it makes it less likely to be the April Fool’s prank I thought it was, but only by a little bit. Although, the idea that anyone would shell out £500,000 for a laptop is a joke in itself.
What do you get for your cash? Well, details are scant but there’s an 17in self-cleaning LED display, a 128GB solid state disk drive, a rare diamond jewellery piece that you insert to power it up, a Blu-ray drive and more diamonds.
For £500,000, that baby better be visible from outer space. -Martin Lynch
Flying Motorbike Gets Road Legal April 20, 2007
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The problem with concept and experimental flying cars and bikes is that they tend to be just that – experimental prototypes that live in a garage most of the year, will probably kill you and are highly illegal.
Meet the Super Sky Cycle, the exception to the rule. This is a motorbike that flies and is now fully road legal and for sale. At least in the Oklahoma. Developed by Larry Neal of the The Butterfly LLC – a man who could probably make your toaster take off – the Super Sky Cycle is now road registered thanks to its foldable rotor blades and other safety features.
It can land almost anywhere and can be in air in 5 seconds. It has a range of 300 miles. On the ground it will do up to 55mph and a has top airspeed of 100mph. Yours for around £18,500.
Watch the video – you just gotta love that cheesy Knight Rider theme music.-Martin Lynch
Medion Does Ultra-Cheap UMPC April 20, 2007
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Medion, the German PC giant, is entering the ultra mobile PC (UMPC) space next month. The company that likes to build high-end PCs, pile ‘em high and then sell them cheap through the supermarkets, is hoping there may be a wider audience for UMPCs which, to date, are very niche and massively overpriced.
Medion will change all that next month by launching the good looking RIM 1000 for £799.99 online. So what’s the hitch? That’s just it, the specs look decent. Here you go:
* Genuine Microsoft® Windows VistaTM Home Premium with Touch Pack
* VIA C7-M 770 ULV processor (1.0GHz, 400MHz FSB)
* VIA UniChrome Pro II GFX
* 6.5" WVGA TFT Touchscreen with LED backlight (800x480px)
* High definition audio with integrated loudspeaker
* 30GB hard disc
* 768MB DDRII RAM memory
* Wireless LAN 802.11b/g with up to 54 Mbit/s
* Integrated Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR module
* Integrated webcam & microphone array e.g. for video over IP
* SD/SD-IO/MMC card reader
* External AC adaptor & lithium polymer battery VDE/GS approved
* Synchronise your UMPC with you desktop pc or notebook
* Transfer data from your MP3 player or digital camera via an SD or MMC card using the memory card slot
* Connect your mobile phone via Bluetooth
* Connect to a projector via the VGA port
* Share files via the USB port
Check out the connectivity options, software and another photo after the jump. –Martin Lynch
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