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Time presents its list of this year's top inventions. Really? The Peek? I don't think anyone's grandmother even used that gadget.
Tech Buzz Gloves with features to help you access your gadgets are all the rage. No need to turn on your iPhone with your nose, glovemakers have caught on to our need to stay connected while staying warm. Glove will save the day.
Tech Buzz A Poken is a small gadget for your keychain that allows you to share all your social networking information with other people just by touching your Poken to theirs. A less dirty-sounding description is that it's like an electronic business card that stores your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles. So your new friends and business contacts can see your goofy-ass Facebook photos without even having to Google you.
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Time gives thumbs up to 10 inventions from the past year. The top spot goes to the Peek, which should leave many scratching their heads.
Tech Buzz Because no one makes mix tapes anymore and giving someone a mix CD just doesn’t do the job, you might as well go all “2.0” with the USB stick that comes inside a cassette. If only Lloyd Dobler knew what iTunes was!
Tech Buzz Check out the latest cool gadgets to turn your office or cubicle prison into a tech heaven. I’m thinking every day would feel like Friday if I had carpet skates and a cubicle security system to keep me entertained.
Tech Buzz The Fitbit promises to not only track how many steps you take and how many calories you burn, but how long it takes you to fall asleep and how many times you wake up during the night. Apparently your wrist “experiences tiny tremors” while you’re slipping into REM sleep. So if you wake up feeling un-rested, you can check Fitbit’s online database to find out exactly how long you were asleep, and thus justify your caffeine consumption with fancy statistics.
Tech Buzz New cameras from Casio come will a “make up feature” which uses in-camera technology to “beautify” the image. A natural next step after the Slimming Camera trend these cameras are able to recognize facial features and make skin look smoother, cover wrinkles and hide shadows, but you will still have to apply your lipstick and mascara yourself. Or you could just start taking pictures of better looking people.
Tech Buzz There are a slew of products designed to help you get a handle on that tangle of cords created by all your gadgets. You know you put off Spring cleaning and were planning to reorganize your life for optimum productivity by the time the J.C. Penny’s Back to School ads came around. Here is your chance.
Tech Buzz These electronic devices light up just like cigarettes but contain no tar or carcinogens. Used as a smoking cessation aid, or just to get a nicotine fix when smoking is not allowed the e-cigarettes can be filled with mint, fruit or nicotine cartridges which create a vapor which seems like smoke when exhaled. But are they ‘cool’? What would James Dean think?
Tech Buzz With built-in speakers, these pillows make for the ultimate lullaby to lull you to sleep. So tell your significant other to stop memorizing the words to that Cat Stevens song - you’ve found your solution.
Tech Buzz A compact digital recorder, easy to use, with good sound quality. This new version of the Microtrack lets you record in WAV or MP3 formats, with 2-channel sound and has great battery life — ideal for recording at your next Radiohead concert.
Tech Buzz Houson, Texas is being invaded by so called “crazy rasberry ants”, that came over on a cargo boat. Apparently, they infest electronic devices and can ruin computers and even gas meters. They’re like the bedbugs of the tech world! Reading about these ants is giving me that creepy-crawly tingly scalp feeling, not unlike the feeling I get from looking at manbabies.
Style Buzz Tokyoflash watches are high-tech, futuristic-looking wristwatches from Japan known for their hard-to read and esoteric faces. Everyone’s blogging about the new “Infection” watch, an LED watch that makes
Tech Buzz Photos of the first RIM clamshell flip phone have been unveiled. It will be out by the end of 2008. A novel flip phone seems kind of oxymoronic, but that’s what this phone is being touted as.
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