The Google Watch - How It Would Look Like

Adrian Maciburko came up with his own concept for a Google watch, called Google Time. This watch is super minimal and has been designed to fit Google’s minimalistic style. The concept includes voice search, Google Places, the weather, Google+ and a calendar.

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HoverBar Adjustable Arms for iPad

HoverBar hangs iPad beside your Mac, letting you use iPad as a secondary, touchscreen computer. The flexible HoverBar arm positions iPad in a place where you can keep tabs on Twitter, stocks or partake in a FaceTime chat. As a bonus, you can use HoverBar separately to float iPad as a micro workstation, a handy kitchen mount or as a tool that elevates iPad, creating a whole new way to interact with apps.

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Ipad Mini costs $188 to build!

Previously known as iSuppli, and widely known for its so-called “teardown” analysis reports, IHS has just completed its teardown report on the Apple’s newest iteration of the tablet. The verdict: The base model, a Wi-Fi-only 16 gigabyte iPad mini, which sells for a starting retail price of $329, costs about $188 to build. Adding additional memory — the options are 32GB and 64GB — adds only incremental cost but a fair amount of profit, amounting to an additional $90 for the 32GB version and $162 per unit on the 64GB model. (I revised this paragraph. See my note below.)

Aside from the cost of materials — known in industry lingo as a Bill of Materials (BOM) — the teardown also revealed the identities of several key suppliers on the latest device. The most visible component is the 7.9-inch touch-sensitive display.

LG Display and AU Optronics were found to have supplied the display components. Parts related to the display cost about $80, or about 43 percent of the total BOM. The screen uses a new technology known as GF2 that allows the overall display to be thinner than on previous generations. Andrew Rassweiler, an IHS analyst and head of the company’s teardown team, says that the new technology is proving somewhat problematic to manufacture, which is, for the moment, driving costs on the display up. But as kinks in the manufacturing process are worked out, those costs will come down.

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The Portable Handheld Scanner

This is the portable, cordless handheld scanner that preserves important documents, letters, or recipes, recording its contents onto a memory card for later retrieval on your computer. As you move the scanner over an area as large as 8 1/2" H x 50" L, its sensitive color image sensor scans at high (600 dpi) or standard (300 dpi) resolution, saving images as JPEG files stored on an inserted microSD card (sold below). A scan of a passport takes only five seconds. You can download your images to your computer using the included USB cable. Its built-in display shows the selected resolution, remaining battery life, and memory status.

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The Lumia 820, Nokia is back!

Nokia is back! With this awesome design. You can change your backcover very easily. It reminds me of the old Nokia time. It's only the question if Windows Phone 8 will get as good as android and IOS. We will see, at least it's the most beautiful phone at this moment.


The Lumia 820 is powered by the same 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 as the flagship Lumia 920, but will arrive with a smaller 4.3-inch display, only 8GB of storage, and a five-megapixel rear camera. The 8GB internal storage can be expanded via Windows Phone 8's extended microSD functionality.

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Wood Earbud Holder / Earphone Organizer - Cocobolo

Tired of untangling your buds every time you want to use them? Then this earbud holder was meant for you. 

Simply thread your buds through the hole in the middle and through the slot in the side, then wrap the cord around like a yo-yo. 

When you're ready to use them, hold onto the plug and drop the bud holder. You buds will unwind in seconds and with no tangles in the cord.

Meticulously crafted from a beautiful piece of Cocobolo, this elegant ear bud holder is a must have for any ear bud user.

Approximate Dimensions: 9/16" wide, 2" diameter

You can order one here

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Smartphone projector

Projecting images at a diagonal angle on a flat or an uneven surface using a smartphone projector tends to produce out of focus projections. To combat the problem, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering in Germany have developed a new prototype LED projector for smartphones that can produce distortion-free, bright and crisp display at non-perpendicular angles and on onto irregular surfaces. Using the bio-mechanism that compound eyes of insects possess, an array of 200 micro projectors are used in the system that output the identical complete images and superimpose them on the wall or any other surface on top of one another which allows the system to adjust the focus of its image independently via each micro projector.

To provide the necessary data, a camera and the position sensor of the smartphone can be integrated into the system depending on the distance of the projector from the surface. This would allow the array to gauge its own unique distance and custom focus micro projectors to reflect an image perfectly even it is projected on a curved surface.

A grid of infrared lines also overlays the image that allows users to interact with the projected image as well. According to researchers, the system is well-suited to mass-projector since the whole LED projector system measures just 0.79 x 0.79 inches or 2 x 2 centimeters though it could only be available in regular smartphones only a few years from now.

Via: Gizmag

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