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Archive for December, 2004

Magical Self-cleaning Glass

Well, OK, it’s not magical. It’s highly scientific! There’s an emerging technology which is bringing us the wonderful new, self-cleaning glass product from Pilkington Corporation. That new technology is nanotechnology; a science with a million uses in our near future.

The Pilkington Active Self-Cleaning Glass product is coated in a chemical layer that reacts with ultra-
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Time Logger for Microsoft Smartphones

Here’s a nifty little program for all of you consultants out there with a SmartPhone: Time Logger.
With Time Logger for Microsoft Smartphone, you can track time spent on the job, special projects or anything else you think of. It’s probably considerable as yet another time tracker for Microsoft Smartphone and, unfortunately, there is no trial […]

The Pedometer Pen

The Mustang Industrial Corp. offers a unique little Pen. It’s a pen with a built-in Pedometer. The pen counts steps and has step pacer function. The pen also displays burnt calories and the walking distance.
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The Pedometer pens are available for bulk purchases. You can find out some further details at the Mustang Industrial Corp website.
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Time Logger for Microsoft Smartphones

Here's a nifty little program for all of you consultants out there with a SmartPhone: Time Logger.<p><p>With Time Logger for Microsoft Smartphone, you can track time spent on the job, special projects or anything else you think of. It's probably considerable as yet another time tracker for Microsoft Smartphone and, unfortunately, there is no trial […]

The Pedometer Pen

The Mustang Industrial Corp. offers a unique little Pen. It's a pen with a built-in Pedometer. The pen counts steps and has step pacer function. The pen also displays burnt calories and the walking distance. <p><p><center><p><img src="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/images/pedometer_pen.jpg"><p></center><p><p>The Pedometer pens are available for bulk purchases. You can find out some further details at the <a […]

UPS Tracking via an RSS Feed

Recently, my buddy James (of <a href="http://jkontherun.blogs.com/">jkontherun</a>) wrote a little blurb about a guy who created a way to view UPS tracking information via an RSS feed. I thought this was incredibly cool and had to share it.<p><p>The basic premise of the whole thing is that the guy (<a href="http://superjason.com">SuperJason</a>), who is a developer, […]

Battery Powered HDD Enclosure

If you're looking for any easy (and cheap) way to take up to 80GB of storage with you on the go, take a look at the Alpha-Data Copy Bank 2.5-inch hard drive enclosure with USB 2.0 support. It'll be made available during January in Japan for only $60. But the differentiating feature of this […]

Emergency Bobbles for the Terminally Geeky

The company <a href="http://www.touchofginger.com/cat/browse/gadgets.html">touch of ginger</a> sells some interesting stuff; most all of it made of metal. One of the things that caught my eye (no pun intended) was their neat metal bookmarks. I love to read, and I also love to have good bookmarks to add to the sexy feeling of a real […]

Bang and Olufsen's iPod Killer?

The BeoSound 2 is a portable MP3 player from the uber Scandinavian electronics company Bang & Olufsen. Priced at $460 USD the player designed for music playing and that alone will set any connoisseur of simplicity and style at peace. <p><p><center><p><img src="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/images/beosound2.jpg" width="177" height="169"><p></center><p><p>Features include USB interface, no on board memory (SD memory card required), […]

BeamDock: Flying iPod Tunes!

Networx (Germany) has announced BeamDock a wireless music transmitter for your iPod. The BeamDock includes a transmitter and includes a receiver that connects to your stereo. <p><p><center><p><img src="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/images/beamdock.jpg" width="177" height="169"><p></center><p><p>BeamDock has analog audio output ports for use with other audio devices. Features a 100-foot transmission range via 2.4GHz ISM broadcasting, built-in volume controls, iPod-to-computer connectivity […]

E-Paper Gets On The Right Page

Cambridge-based Plastic Logic is to work with US firm E Ink to produce what could be the nearest computing has yet got to electronic paper.
It has also signed a deal with Siemens to develop flexible screens for mobiles.
The company, which was spun-off from Cambridge University, has demonstrated a screen that can bend to a radius […]

DefendAir: Stop Wireless Leaks!

A company called Force Field Wireless has developed three products that reduce the leakage of wireless signals from a room, or buildings; adding an extra layer of security and peace of mind.
DefendAir Radio Shield is a latex paint which contains copper filings and an aluminum compound. With an even spread on a wall, the paint […]

E-Paper gets on the right page

Cambridge-based Plastic Logic is to work with US firm E Ink to produce what could be the nearest computing has yet got to electronic paper.<p><p>It has also signed a deal with Siemens to develop flexible screens for mobiles.<p><p>The company, which was spun-off from Cambridge University, has demonstrated a screen that can bend to a radius […]

DefendAir: Stop Wireless Leaks!

A company called Force Field Wireless has developed three products that reduce the leakage of wireless signals from a room, or buildings; adding an extra layer of security and peace of mind. <p><p>DefendAir Radio Shield is a latex paint which contains copper filings and an aluminum compound. With an even spread on a wall, […]

iRiver introduces first 5GB MP3 Player

AME Info Business News talks about the new iRiver Color Screen MP3 player, saying that iRiver, the
emerging leader in digital entertainment, announced the H-10, a new MP3 portable HDD music player with 5GB of internal storage and an array of features.
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MFeed your iPod!

Mfeeds.com lets you create podcasts from any web page or RSS feed containing links to media files. Simply enter the URL of a page or feed and mfeeds generates a new URL for you to paste into podcasting software like iPodder.
Mfeeds generates enclosures for links with the following media file extensions: mp3 ogg mov torrent […]

iRiver introduces first 5GB MP3 player

AME Info Business News talks about the new iRiver Color Screen MP3 player, saying that iRiver, the emerging leader in digital entertainment, announced the H-10, a new MP3 portable HDD music player with 5GB of internal storage and an array of features.<p><p><center><p><img src="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/images/iRiver.jpg"><p></center><p><p>Source: [<a href="http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/51334.html">AME Info Business News</a>]
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mFeeds for your iPod!

<a href="http://www.mfeeds.com/">Mfeeds.com</a> lets you create podcasts from any web page or RSS feed containing links to media files. Simply enter the URL of a page or feed and mfeeds generates a new URL for you to paste into podcasting software like iPodder. <p><p>Mfeeds generates enclosures for links with the following media file extensions: mp3 ogg […]

Opera Listens and Acquires Feeds

In an article and interview given to eWeek on December 23, 2004, (Opera Tackles Voice Browsing and RSS in Beta Release) Opera Software ASA unveiled a beta of its forthcoming Web browser. The new browser features new functionality such as speech recognition, discovery of news feeds and automatic Web-page resizing.
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Opera said that the next release […]

SwissMemory - The Swiss Army USB Knife!

The Swiss are definitely well known for their ability to be neutral, and combine all kinds of things into "little" folding devices that fit into your pockets, as well as make a pretty good watch! Well, this time, they've outdone themselves with probably the best fold-in device; the SwissMemory. The SwissMemory is a […]

Tiny USB SD Card… Drive…

A Taiwanese OEM vendor, Digimaster, is releasing a new SD Card that also has a USB 2.0 interface on one end of the device, and the SD Card interface on the other. Basically, you can use it as two devices on one piece of technology!

You stick the SD card side into your camera, cellphone, PDA, […]

eStone Rips Audio In Your Car

A group of Asia and North American folks from a company named EStone have created an MP3 car stereo that not only plays back Mp3 format audio, but can rip CDs directly at the console in your car. <p><p><center><p><img src="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/images/estone.jpg"><p></center><p><p>The car stereo, which can be purchased at a small store called "<a href="http://www.z-media.us/">zMedia Technologies</a>" […]

More on the Ovideon PMP!

Yesterday, I reported on the <a href="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/2004/12/new-oled-digital-video-player.htm">new Ovideon digital video player/recorder</a>. Today, I had a quick volley with the sales and marketing folks at Ovideon and they supplied me with a little further detail, including some cool pix from a presentation.<p><p><center><p><a href="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/images/aviah-front-side.jpg"><img src="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/images/aviah-front-side.jpg" width="154" height="194"></a><p></center><p><p>As was not mentioned in <a href="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/2004/12/new-oled-digital-video-player.htm">yesterday's article</a>, the device […]

Digimaster SD Card... Drive...

A Taiwanese OEM vendor, Digimaster, is releasing a new SD Card that also has a USB 2.0 interface on one end of the device, and the SD Card interface on the other. Basically, you can use it as two devices on one piece of technology! <p><p>You stick the SD card side into your […]

Announcing: Infinium's Phantom

It appears that Infinium Labs has finally announced plans to demonstrate its flagship Phantom Game Service(tm) - the highly-hyped gaming system that proports gaming on-demand, game rentals, game demos, seamless upgrades and patch management, all built on Microsoft's Windows XP Embedded technology.<p><p><center><p><img src="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/images/Phantom-Game-Service.jpg" width="218" height="124"><p></center><p><p>Infinium is planning to make this announcement at the Las Vegas […]

Speegle: The Speaking Search

Back in October of 2004, a Scottish computer speech technology company launched, what it claims to be, the world's first talking search engine. CEC Systems, which operates from Edinburgh, has based its "Speegle" search engine on the look of Google and on its own <a href="http://panavox.panaserve.net/">PanaVox</a> computer speech technology.<p><p><center><p><img src="http://www.manoogian.net/blog/paul/images/speegle.gif" width="260"><p></center><p><p>The original voice technology […]

NEW OLED Digital Video Player

Information, stolen directly from LIVEdigitally, says that Ovideon, an Illinois-based manufacturer of flat-panel LCDs, announced today their new portable media player with an OLED screen. Wow, who knew there were companies like this in Illinois?
What is OLED? OLED, or Organic Light Emitting Diode, is about the best way a manufacturer can make a small screen […]

HomeSeer: MainLobby Touchscreen Interface Software

I’ve been doing HomeAutomation for about 15 years, now. I absolutely love this stuff, and I curse my friends with the excitement of it. Why are they cursed? Because they visit my house, see what it can do, and then they have to explain to their wives why they’ve just spent $900 on new switches, […]

FireFTP: Yet another FTP, with a twist

Lately, as I mentioned a few posts ago, I’ve really gotten into the whole “FireFox” thing. Let me tell you, the experience has been just amazing, as these folks have really hit on all of those things that IE has absolutely failed to deliver over the years.
I realize that Microsoft has a lot of stuff […]

OLED Digital Video Player

Information, stolen directly from <a href="http://www.livedigitally.com/">LIVEdigitally</a>, says that <a href="http://www.ovideon.com/">Ovideon</a>, an Illinois-based manufacturer of flat-panel LCDs, announced today their new portable media player with an OLED screen. Wow, who knew there were companies like this in Illinois?<p><p>What is OLED? OLED, or Organic Light Emitting Diode, is about the best way a manufacturer can make a […]