The Gizmodo Award for this year’s best April Fool’s IT product – apart from the spiritual lifestyle coach for the iPhone – is the Dynamo Kinetic Keyboard.
Not only does it look like one of the coolest keyboards ever made, it also powers your PC based on how fast your little fingers can type. That’s right, this baby works using kinetic energy just as long as you have Fingers Of Fire.
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Sling Media, makers of the great Slingbox remote TV devices, has announced SlingPlayer Mobile for UIQ on Symbian OS to allow Slingbox owners with smartphones to access their TV no matter where they are.
The company has also revealed that that its existing SlingPlayer Mobile for S60 on Symbian OS will soon support Nokia’s N95 8GB phone this Spring.
As long as you have a Slingbox connected to your TV – which allows you to remotely view your TV or recorded TV programmes from anywhere via a PC or laptop – you can now access them from your smartphone too.
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I realise that today is April’s Fools so all ‘proposed’ technology developments will be taken with an extra helping of salt, starting with Apple’s plans to turn the iPhone into a fitness companion.
According to AppleInsider, Apple has lodged patents for a digital fitness companion system for use on the iPhone that would turn it into your very own lifestyle coach.
Well, considering that after buying the hugely overpriced iPhone you probably have a lot less cash for boozing it up at the weekend, you may need something else to do.
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The game, Tetris, drove me nuts. It was gaming cocaine. I wasn’t very good but I still couldn’t stop. I was glad to see the back of it, which is why I can’t really decide if I like these TT Tetris chairs.
Shaped like some Tetris pieces, the design is quite contemporary and, like the originals, you can turn them around for different shaped seats. You can even buy a few of them to fit together in order to create your own shapes, although down that path madness lies.
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Sony has confirmed that owners of the PSP will be able to transfer copies of their Blu-ray movies to the device later this year.
The company is working on a technology called Portable Copy that will allow PS3 owners to transfer Blu-ray movies - a standard def version only - to their PSPs. Still, it sure beats crappy UMDs.
Initial speculation held that the feature would come with the recent 2.20 firmware update for the PS3 but that didn’t happen. Now Sony has confirmed the technology is in development and the first Blu-ray movies sporting Portable Copy will arrive ‘later this year’.
Personally, I think it’s a great add-on. The PSP is already becoming a very versatile device while the increased integration and connectivity between the PSP and PS3 is making them a tough double act to beat.-Martin Lynch
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