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Planilum Light Emitting Glass Can Illuminate Your Home For 20 Years

With fluorescents and LEDs making major headway in the market, energy efficient alternatives to the incandescent bulb are becoming big business. That having been said, the next big thing could be coming out of a partnership between Saazs and Saint-Gobain Innovations in the form of Planilum—the "world's first light emitting glass." Planilum is only 0.8-inches thick and is composed of four layers of special glass, a rare gas and serigraphed phosphors—which will give you 500,000 hours or around 20 years of normal usage. More »

5:10 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Sean Fallon
10,461 views, 35 comments

Latest by icelight: They do look nice, but I still think that OLED light from a few weeks back wins in terms of absolute sleek, minimalist design. Although these might have more potential in shapes other than flat rectangles, unless OLEDs follow what more »

security

Personal Pocket Safe USB Drive So Secure It Has Its Own PIN Pad

There are plenty of secure USB drives, but the Personal Pocket Safe has to be the paranoid PC users' best friend. Its inventor CHDT Corp. calls it the first "encrypted, epoxy coated, pin-protected smart drive." It comes with the expected security features, such as military-grade encryption, safekeeping of passwords and other sensitive info and a track-covering feature that makes sure no one can trace its presence once it's removed from a system. To top it all off, though, the drive has its own rubber-key PIN-pad, so that you can key in your own 4-to-10 passcode. No passcode, and the thing goes into full lock down. More »

2:43 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Wilson Rothman
6,753 views, 27 comments

Latest by n/a: @all those who won't see the point of a keypad vs. typing your password via the computer's keyboard: ever heard of a keylogger? There's a whole site dedicated to rating key logging software: www.keylogger.org @a make a password-protected ZIP of the more »

best of the pc

The 100 Greatest Tech Innovations Of All-Time List Takes Balls

Whenever someone does a comprehensive countdown list like this, it goes without saying that they are really sticking their neck out. And Maximum PC is putting everything on the line with their list of the 100 greatest tech innovations of all-time. The title is a little misleading given the fact that the list is confined to PC innovations, but with a name like Maximum PC, what did you expect? Naturally, the top ten list will be a source of great controversy, so hit the following link and get your fingers limbered up for some heated commenting debates. [Maximum PC]

9:10 PM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Sean Fallon
17,218 views, 93 comments

Latest by bitfactory: @Syndication: "Until OSX can run on multiple subsets of hardware as stable as Windows does " Thanks for the giggle on this snowy night. more »

gadgets

Foldable Fabric Oven, For Baking On the Go

Scientists in Taiwan have figured out how to make an oven out of cloth. Here you can see they've heated up a couple of pieces of tasty cheese toast in the thing, and the inventive tinkerers at the Taiwan Textile Research Institute say they've also baked a chicken in this lightweight and foldable oven that's conveniently portable, weighing "just a few hundred grams." There's just one little problem with this idea: You still have to furnish some serious power to make it go, but still, it might be nice to carry an oven around in your laptop bag, whip it out in the hotel room, plug it in and bake some bread on the go. Its inventors say we'll be seeing the oven for sale next year. [Texyt]

9:20 AM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Charlie White
2,127 views, 10 comments

Latest by strider_mt2k: @dontforget: That was fast. more »

innovations

Mygo Cane Guides the Blind, Turns Them Into Potential Superheroes

Sebastian Ritzler, a design student in Germany, has created a feature-laden rolling white cane called the Mygo that will make the blind scoff at us eyesies. The Mygo uses a sensor-camera combo to measure the ground below it and give the user real time feedback via a wireless headset. The cane also ends in a small wheel that uses a steering engine that helps the user steer by providing feedback through the grip. More »

11:45 PM on Mon Sep 24 2007
By ybaranovsky
4,842 views, 18 comments

gadgets

Luring the Hot Babes: Innovations Just for Women

In a major initiative to attract more lovely ladies to Gizmodo, we've been working on figuring out just how this world should be arranged to best accommodate their discriminating and sometimes eclectic tastes. Top of the list is this prototype mouse with a flip-up body and makeup inside, complete with a mirror for easy application. More »

9:42 AM on Fri Nov 3 2006
By Charlie White
4,944 views, 48 comments

gadgets

Aerocool Power Supply with Sockets Instead of Too-Many-Cables

PC case modders know that power supply units (PSU) usually have a spaghetti bowl's worth of cables along for the ride, and what do you do with that mess if you don't need them all? This Aerocool Turbine Power 550-watt PSU solves that problem, letting you add just the cables you'll use, plugging them into its convenient sockets. Hey, less clutter, more coolage. More »

11:08 AM on Fri Sep 8 2006
By Charlie White
423 views, 8 comments

gadgets

The Future of Intel--Kinda


Intel showed some "future innovations" today, though most of them weren't anything you'd actually be able to put in your pocket anytime soon. Demonstrators were quick to explain to me that I would never see the exact products they were showing, but hopefully, sometime in the next 3-5 years, we'd see something similar. In terms of hardware, there was something called The Ruby, a complete PC running XP about a tad bigger than a PDA. This included wireless capabilites and of course, Centrino mobile technology. The biggest problem with something this small is heat, so Intel is focusing mainly on low-power efficiency rather than just minaturization. Very cool, though I'd definitely bring a bigger keyboard if I ever planned on actually working on this thing.
Another little diddy I saw was called the Bishop Rock (not quite sure why). Again, it was quickly pointed out that this was not a real product and never would be. In fact, this tiny media player (which was really just a small LCD with some buttons along the sides) was really just being shown to explain to less technically inclined people how small working LCDs could be. One day, something like this could possibly play full length movies and other longer content, but for now, it played maybe one hour of video and had a mini-SD slot. Lastly, the Universal Communicator was a great idea, but I dare anyone at Intel to get it past the cellphone carriers. With five different radio signals built in seamlessly, you could easily switch from a VoIP call, to a GSM call, then move to WiFi and to a GPS network—all without any interruption. Except explain to me why any carrier would want to switch you from a paid call to a free one? I certainly can't. Maybe Intel has some inside deals working.
Basically, an interesting array of technology, though it would have been nice to see something that was a little more pret-a-porter. More »

6:34 PM on Thu Oct 20 2005
By tgrumet
106 views, 1 comment

Latest by TheChaz: A lot of carriers are actually going to be offering exactly that service. The catch, of course, is that they're doing it for enterprise. Many big companies have large-scale internal voip networks which they want to leverage for more »