Girl Tech Voice Protected Journal, Foiling Little Brothers Daily
How many sitcom episodes are centered around a teenage girl trying to protect her inner most secrets found in her diary from her pesky brother? Well, just like cellphones have made “we don’t know where our friends are” episodes unbelievable, this voice-protected journal may cause Hollywood writers to retire yet another plot device. The journal…
Inflatable Cloud Meeting Room
“If you need me, I’ll be up in the clouds” is how comedian Brian Regan ends one of his better jokes. It turns out that now everyone can be up in the clouds thanks to designer Monica Forster and her portable inflatable cloud room. It’s designed to be a place where you can get away…
Pixel Magic HD Media Box
Pixel Magic has released the HD Media Box, a hard drive-based device that plays back pretty much any format of digital media you throw at it, including 1080p video, the current Holy Grail of high definition displays. The HD Media Box supports HDMI connections (which, hopefully, you’re not paying artificially high prices for) as well…
Swiss Planning Unmanned Marketing Drones
In the hard-edged world of international marketing, you do not want to put your boys at risk when trying to beam your message to millions via Bluetooth. Swisscom, a Swiss telecomm (hence the name), is working on remote controlled planes that will fly over concerts, malls, and battlefields, beaming down advertising messages to the surging…
Take an HIV Test, Get Games
Just to confirm, I have nothing against HIV testing. It’s important. But Werd Interactive is trying to drum up publicity for HIV testing by… wait for it… giving away two mobile games. Yeah. Why not take all the money—$50 by our count, considering that it probably cost them a bit to get the press release…
Wii Dropping October 30 (??)
A drunken Nintendo exec apparently told a french website, Impact Virtuel, that the Wii would “officially announce” the Wii on October 30 with subsequent launches in Japan at the end of November and US and Europe launches a few days later. Unfortunately, this smacks of someone making merde up, but we’ll give them the benefit…
Availbot
Not unlike ourselves, the Availbot falls down when your friends leave. However, instead of falling down in a bar near the river, the Availbot connects to your PC or Mac and can tell when your buddies enter and leave your IM session, giving you a leg up over other’s who are unable to tell a…
Celltick: Push for Phones
Celltick is launching LiveScreen, a screen-saver for cellies that pushes news, weather, and other updates via your phone’s idle screen. That it also displays ads and other dosh is purely incidental and should stop you from downloading it. Looks like they’re focusing on Symbian phones right now, but look for this company to tank in…
eBay Deal of the Day: Kraftwerk’s Vocoder
While Cher, Britney, and Kid Rock have twiddled the Vocoder in their day, Kraftwerk was probably the first band to really remind us of the techno-hell we’re descending into by opened Autobahn with the magic of a voice distorted with custom electronics. It’s stuck at $3,800 right now, so head on over and bid. eBay…