Samsung B9000 HDTVs
April 23, 2009
Samsung has recently announced 46″ and 55″ HDTVs from the B9000 series that are actually sequels of the A950 models released sometime last year. These additions offer LED backlights alongside localized dimming to ensure you get the sharpest image possible, while Media 2.0 with YouTube/Yahoo! Widgets support add another dimension of interactivity. A built-in USB port allows you to view your favorite photos over a big screen, while DLNA functionality and a wireless connection to the external media box further adds to the overall desirability of the product. Too bad Samsung has not revealed important information such as pricing or availability, but that’s just a matter of time really.
Prelit Clear Light 4 Foot Corner Upside Down Tree
December 15, 2008
Is your living room short on space? Here’s an interesting alternative Christmas Tree. With the Prelit Clear Light 4 Foot Corner Upside Down Tree, no corner goes undecorated. This upside down tree is designed to fit into an interior corner. Fitting neatly into the corner at ceiling height, the cords and the tree are out of the way. The 370 tips give the tree a medium shape and a realistic, lush look.
Main features
- 4-foot tree is 45 inches wide
- Medium shape
- Prelit with 200 clear lights and has 370 tips
- Hangs upside down, filling in corners
Flower Rock 2.0 Rocks
December 13, 2008
It’s back and better than ever! The Flower Rock 2.0 (made in collaboration with Sanyo) celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original Flower Rock, but with much more modern technology behind it. Integrating multicolored LED lights into the leaves and petals, Flower Rock 2.0 can flash seven separate lighting patterns with 50 different colors! Plug it in to your iPod or other audio source, and the flower will bump and flash to the music through its 1W 40mm speaker.
Flower Rock 2.0 features:
• Size: 12×27x10cm (4.7×10.6×4”)
• Mini stereo plug
• Power: AA battery x 4
• Seven LED patterns
• 50 color combinations
• Manual: Japanese
STC Wireless Router Vase
November 28, 2008
Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications company STC have designed a wireless internet router that can also be used to hold flowers.Yes, you can fill it up with water and place actual flowers in it. And from the looks of it, this router doesn’t have that large a footprint. “The STC Router successfully bridges the gap between lifestyle and technology with it’s flower vase functionality,” say the designers.
Features:
- Elegant look
- Wireless internet
- Voice over IP
- Land line telephone
- Wired DSL
Ecotones- Noises are now nice to hear
November 4, 2008
Silicon Valley start-up Adaptive Sound Technologies is out with its first product, Ecotones. It’s an adaptive noise-masking machine that blends with the audio in your specific environment to create a relaxing individually crafted soundscape called a “SoundStory.
Primary audio tracks are mixed with hundreds of individual secondary sounds in a pseudo-random way to create audio that’s less repetitive than that of the typical sound-dimming machine or CD. The company says its audio backgrounds are so vivid and realistic (listen to a few of them yourself below) you’ll forget the unit’s in the room.
The unit measures a compact 6.125 inches x 7.5 inches x 5.5 inches and has a frequency range of 90Hz to 20,000Hz. A headphone jack enables private listening as well as connection to an external stereo or audio amplifier. Also included is an adjustable sleep timer. You have to pay a price of around $300 for all the soft music you hear out of noises.