Archive for the ‘Misc. Gadgets’ Category

Volkswagen rolls out foldable ‘Bik.e’ electric bicycle concept

Well, it looks like it’s the season for automakers to show off electric bicycle concepts, with Volkswagen now following Lexus’ lead with its own “Bik.e” concept. Unlike Lexus’ hybrid concept, this one is a full-fledged electric bicycle (sans pedals), and it boasts a few innovations of its own, not the least of which is that it’s [...]

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SnapStream’s monster DVR records 50 channels at once

Get ready for an acute case of DVR inadequacy courtesy of SnapStream, which has pieced together what it’s calling the world’s largest DVR, and we’re inclined to believe them. Run a coax in the back and, with a fully configured unit, you can record a whopping 50 channels simultaneously onto over 100TB of storage. The trick [...]

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Elecom’s USB numeric touch keypad

Elecom’s USB-powered numeric touch keypad is pretty simple. You plug it into your machine, tap your digits on the board and watch the numbers appear in your calculator app. Once that gets boring, you can also use this as a secondary trackpad. And given that it supports a variety of multi gesture functions (zoom in [...]

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Belling’s Media Chef digital cookbook

These days kids and their fancy rock and roll cooking shows have taken over, and Belling’s new Media Chef digital cookbook — which looks like a glorified digital photo frame — actually houses 48 cooking instructional videos from chef Brian Turner for playback on its 8-inch screen. Brian can be harnessed with an included compact [...]

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 blazes onto the scene

Watch out now — the evergreen revolution has arrived, right on schedule and with the promised DirectX 11 and Eyefinity in tow. AMD’s new flagship graphics part, formerly known under the Cypress codename, is built on a 40nm process, sports an appropriately inflated 850MHz engine clock speed, 1600 stream processors, 153.6GBps memory bandwidth, over two billion transistors, and the freshly [...]

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