Well, these aren’t your little kids’ watches, that for sure. Studded with 0.62 carat Pavé diamonds, these fancy-dancy Hello Kitty Patent-Strap Watches don’t come cheap. At $1,295 a pop, these kitty watches come decked out with pearl dials, leather straps, and silver-tone minute and hour hands. Oh yeah, did I mention diamonds? The Hello Kitty Patent-Strap Watches comes in two styles, a circular and rectangular-faced dials. The circular comes in a black strap, while the rectangular shaped comes in pink. Get your Hello Kitty bling on at Neiman Marcus. If that’s not enough, they’ve got more Hello Kitty jewelry than you can shake a million dollar stick at, here.
Geez…and I thought Hello Kitty only came in the form of a cute teddy bear and other cheap, girly accessories at Sanrio stores. When can we boys get a diamond studded G.I. Joe watch? Huh?
Who would want to steal a damaged, rusty old looking bike or car? No one, right? That is exactly what these rust and scratch stickers are banking on. Simply apply these temporary stickers to your car or bike, and hopefully, they’ll discourage the thieves from stealing your precious transportation. I mean, who would want a scratched up car? I must say, it looks pretty real, but shhh…don’t tell anyone.
The rust and scratch stickers cost £3.99 ($8 USD) each at Dominic Wilcox.
The Musical Rumba Table, from Musical Furnishings, is sure to bring more fun into your boring family dinners. The wooden table has percussion instruments embedded underneath each “tile”, that be swapped around and interchanged. So, just grab a seat, forget your table manners, and start pounding the drums! The Musical Rumba comes in various sizes, the smallest one seating four, with the biggest one capable of seating 16. Specifically, the table comes in 2×2, 2×4, 3×3 ,and 4×4 configurations. 12 percussion instruments are available: cymbal crash, snare drums, high hats, etc. The Musical Rumba Table costs between $800 and $2,900.
These 10,000 Yen wads of handkerchiefs, hankies, towels, or whatever you want to call it, will surely make you look rich…for a brief moment. You can blow your nose and wipe your sweat just like a Japanese millionaire. You can buy the Yen hankies online for 6,800 Yen ($68 USD). Each pack comes with ten 10,000 Yen towels, so that’s 100,000 Yen worth hankies.
Pretty expansive for a gag item. However, they should make a USD currency version. I’d buy a whole pack and hand em out to people, just to see their “disappointed” expression once they realize the truth. Muwhahaha.
Now, if you want to bath like a rich Japanese, try this.
The Kodak EASYSHARE M820 (8-inch, $180) and M1020 (10-inch, $230) digital picture ups the ante with Kodak’s new “Quick Touch Border” feature. The new capability allows users to easily scroll and manage their photos, from deleting to sorting their images, with a simple slide or touch of a finger. The frames’ border, dubbed the “touch panel”, illuminates yellow signaling exactly where to touch. Smartly, Kodak opted not to go the touchscreen route to keep the frames’ 16:9 display free of smudges and fingerprints. Built-in speakers, backlit display, MP3 and video (MPEG 1 and 4) playback, USB, CF/SD/MMC/xD/MS card reader, and 128MB of on-board memory come included.
But, hang on, Kodak also has the EASYSHARE P720, which is a 7-inch frame that also sports the “Quick Touch Border”, but minus the fancy speakers and multimedia playback. The P720 does have support for various storage cards, including an additional microSD slot — allowing you to chose the storage capacity you want. The P720 will retail for $120.
All three digital frames should hit shelves on April 16th.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed circuits that are 1.5 micrometers thick. Made of silicon and plastic, the new circuits are elastic and flexible, able to bend to any shape or application, making it perfect for embedding in “brittle electronics.” John Rogers, one of the researchers behind the project, says that the circuits are designed for the plastic material, rather than the silicon, to absorb most of the stress when bent. The material can be stretched up to 15% before the circuit fractures.
To make the elastic circuits, the team binds the silicon wiring to a thin sheet of rubbery plastic that has been stretched out to be approximately 15% wider and longer than it was before.
Once the two materials are bound together, the researchers release all tension from the rubber. “It snaps back to its pre-stretched state and buckles with the attached circuit like an accordion bellows,” Rogers says.
Some proposed applications are brain implants and “smart” clothing — think wearable gadgets. Imagine wearing t-shirts with MP3 players embedded in the fabric! Personally, I can’t wait to own a cell phone that I can stretch around my head like a sweat band. Because…that…would…be…awesome!
Manual labor powered gadgets aren’t new. I posted about the Eco-Media Player last week. So, here’s a cranking MP3 Player, from Thanko, to add to the list. The player can be powered by AC outlet, USB, or by cranking. Its handle crank is located on the rear of the device that easily ‘flips-out’ for use. Each minute of manual cranking generates 10 minutes worth of play time. It supports MP3 and WMA audio files. It also doubles as a flashlight, for your adventures in the dark. Unfortunately, no LCD screen, but it does come with 1GB of storage.
The Cranking MP3 Player measures 75 x 45 x 34.5mm and costs just under $63 at GeekStuff4U.
Samsung has let the word out that its VLUU NV24HD point-and-shoot digital camera is about to hit the streets. The camera features a 2.5-inch AMOLED display, 10.2 megapixel image sensor, and Samsung’s DRIM Engine II chip, for high speed image processing and quality images. Other highlights include:
* Supports video recording of up to 1280 x 720 resolution at 30fps
* High definition stereo audio recording
* 24mm ultra optical wide 3.6x zoom lens
* automatic red-eye correction
* face detection with smile detection
The Samsung NV24HD pre-production model shown at CES 2008 was sporting a highly touted touch-sensitive UI, which surprisingly wasn’t mentioned. See video:
