Romteck Heat Stress Monitor Can Predict Heat Stroke
Anyone who is off to somewhere very hot this summer—it could be the Burning Man Festival or a tour of duty in Iraq—might find Romteck’s heat stress monitor useful. The gadget, which is a miniature weather station, can predict whether your body is in danger of collapsing due to excess heat and humidity. It also…
Kutaragi Plans New PlayStation 4, 5 and 6 on His Own, Rest of the World Looks the Other Way
Former PlayStation Big Kahuna Ken Kutaragi has finally left the company. However, instead of going home to fish, play Wii or pinch bonsais, he plans to keep contact with Sony, helping them to cut costs on the PS3 after making it so expensive himself. He says he also will advise them on the next versions,…
New Sony Vaio Laptops with Added Santa Rosa Goodness Leaked
Sony is going for a pretty significant update of its laptops this summer. Pictured above is the 15.4-inch Vaio FZ19, which will use Intel’s Santa Rosa chipset and integrated X3100 graphics card. There’s also the TZ, a retread of the current TX series, which will be an ultra-portable number with 11.1-inch screen, and a refresh…
Motion-sensitive Tablet PC To Help People With Disabilities
The make-your-device-a-Wiimote craze continues. Now is British Telecom researchers at Ipswich who, putting on their Mario hats and completely ignoring the fact that this technology already exists in other notebooks, have developed a Tablet PC with motion detectors to make it easier to use. They say they want to use their combination of hardware and…
Small LG Quidam XCanvas TV won’t do Splits, Will Change Backlight
Ouch. LG’s new Korean-for-now LCD TVs have been named the Quidam after that bendy, fiery, circus troupe, the Cirque du Soleil. There are six models to choose from, all with a rather spanky circular base design and sensors which automatically adjusts the brightness depending on how much surrounding light there is. That’s rare for a…