Always looking for a new way to carry my USB key drive. Here’s another option (via Ubergizmo): Designed by Berlin-based Tonia Welter, the cufflinks are a prototype, but with plans to build with a capacity of up to 1 GB. A bracelet is in the works, which looks not unlike Imation’s Flash Wristband’, and will… Read More »
Here’s a podcast I did for the BBC World Service on the Mitsubish Jet Towel, the only automatic hand dryer I’ve come across that actually dries your hands. Here it is. http://www.loosewireblog.com/files/hand_dryer_with_cue.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
My favorite new gadget: the HeadLamp 6, known as the Pilot. It looks like a Bluetooth earpiece, the type you fit over an ear and appear to others as if you’re being attacked by a plastic mollusc. But it ain’t. It’s an LED light: It delivers a relatively powerful, focused beam onto whatever you’re looking… Read More »
Jiji Press of Japan is reporting (can’t find any link for this) that Seiko Instruments “has developed a prototype of a wristwatch that alerts the wearer to mobile phone calls.” The watch uses Bluetooth to monitor a cell phone and vibrates or sounds an alarm when a call comes in. Useful, I guess, if you… Read More »
I thought we had gotten beyond the era of people walking around with advertising hoardings hung around their necks like some medieval punishment, but apparently it ain’t so. Adwalker (motto: ‘You’ve got to find some way of saying it without saying it’, which apparently is something that Duke Ellington said) says that by wearing the Adwalker… Read More »