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December 28, 2004
The Philippe Starck designed VIOlight is a small and sleek toothbrush sanitization system. Independent tests has shown the VIOlight gets rid of up to 99.9% of bacteria living on your toothbrush. VIOlight uses a germicidal UV bulb - the same technology used in hospitals - to kill germs. You simply brush, rinse, place your toothbrush in the cup-sized holder and, with the push of a button, the sanitizer starts to kill. The VIOlight germicidal UV bulb is rated to last over 2000 hours -- $49.95.
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seen at engadget
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December 27, 2004
The Taiwanese manufacturer MiTAC recently launched the Mio 138 a new portable multimedia system. Features include Windows CE .net 4.2 backbone, 300Mhz Intel PXA255 CPU, 64,000 color 3.5" TFT LCD, 32MB of RAM, SD slot, GPS and MP3 capabilities!
The Mio 138 measures 120x71x16.5mm and weighs 163 g. Available in Korea priced at 499,000 won. No word on if the Mio 138 will make it to American soil.
- Seen at Dapreview
Buy MiTAC Mio 138.
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Sharp Corporation Japan has announced a new compact electronic dictionary "PW-M100" with 400 hours electric battery life. The dictionary will be available January 21st 2005 for around 15,750 Yen.
Features include 159x80 dot FSTN liquid crystal display and and it t contains 15 contents: six Japanese related, two English related, two health related, three living related, and two business/travel English related. Measures 125x79.4x14.7 - 16.7mm and weighs 148g (including electric battery)
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December 25, 2004
Structured Solutions II has introduced "the whovel" a human powered snow thrower which comes just in time for the winter months. The Whovel uses your body weight to lift and throw snow and slush. With leverage, the Whovel magnifies your effort. It can double the power you supply and avoid many of the risks associated with snow shoveling.
- Seen at Engadget
More via Whovel
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December 24, 2004
The snom 220 is the latest addition to snom line of VoIP phones from German Snom Technology AG. The high-end affordable VoIP business phone features include a 128 x 64 pixel graphical backlight display, 4 dynamic context sensitive soft keys for navigation, UpnP, STUN, ENUM and an extra Ethernet port are supported and runs embedded Linux and can be configured via a web interface.
Available on Ebay for $369
via i4u
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December 23, 2004
SorobanGeeks reports on the Sharp Dual Display Cash Register, a high tech version of what is currently seen in some of the fast food restaurants which displays additional selections to go with your order, so you could send more money, this version has the same purpose, while your bill is being totaled, instead of trying to look over to make sure the cashier is not trying any funny business, you can watch ads, which just might jog your memory to get those pants you have been thinking about.
- Seen at Gizmodo
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So your doctor tells you -- hey stay off the donuts, like a responsible person you are able to hold off for a day, but your craving overwhelms you on day two, instead of a donut you go for a twinkie -- all about compromise -- right. If you find yourself in this position or just like starving yourself -- umm being healthy the new Diet Aid Watch by PINA can give a quick reminder of the pains of eating certain things. It works like this, you wear this horrid piece around your neck (Aid), as you are about to put the food in your mouth (within ten inches), it lets you know if to eat or not by emitting a series of gentle vibrations. I am sure that would work. The Diet Aid watch is still in development but on launch it should be able to calculate carbohydrate, calorie, sodium, cholesterol and bacterial contents in food. I am a little puzzled as to how a sensor can detect physical make up of food without a sample, but hey if it can do all that great.
via Popgadget
Seen first at WristFashion
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December 22, 2004
BiosMagazine reports on the ICR-B250, a new portable voice recording gadget from Sanyo, not only can the ICR-B250 record voice, it can play MP3, and act as a USB drive. Other features include 17 hours mono recording, 8.7 hrs of stereo recording, Backlit LCD, USB 2.0 and 128MB built-in memory.
- Seen at UberGizmo
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LiveDigitally reports on the "Home Heartbeat" a Zigabee based home monitoring system from the Cleveland based - Eaton Corporation. Zigabee allows for wireless monitoring so you will be able to maintain your very seamless no wires apartment deal. The Heartbeat is made up of a base station, a network of detection sensors and a home key. you place the sensors around your space to monitor different elements like water, etc., no need to come to a flood, the base station monitors all the sensors, and sends status updates to the Home Key.Once you are within 90 feet of the base station, you can get a simple glimpse of the status of the devices around your house on the home key. You can also receive updates of intrusion via a SMS message. Pucci in danger, get home now. I am not sure what you would do at that point but you will know.
- MORE via LiveDigitally
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December 21, 2004
Stockist - While this time piece may not be new, it speaks Japanese(time), and hey with Christmas just around the corner, I realized I need some color to spice things up here at Ployer, so compliments of Best Bets (New York Mag) I present the $20 French named Marchand de Legumes Japanese talking watch. Woo hoo. Press a tiny button and you can hear the time spoken in Japanese! Available in five cute colors.
Marchand de Legumes New York Shop,
272 Elizabeth St., 212-965-1954.
Order online at fredflare.com.
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