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In the bitter cold of winter, there are a myriad of ways to keep warm, and most of us choose to rely on a heater which is electronically powered. Well, it sure is more convenient compared to wearing layers of thick clothes indoors, eh? The Silent Space Heater keeps you and your household warm and fast with minimal noise to boot!

This is the electric space heater that employs micathermic technology to quickly heat a chilly room without a noisy fan. This efficient heating system combines convection and radiant heating, enabling it to reach its maximum temperature faster than oil-filled radiators. Unlike boxy electric heaters, this model’s large, flat panel doesn’t have glowing electrical coils, and because there’s no fan to stir up the air, it’s ideal for allergy and asthma sufferers. The unit has 750- or 1500-watt outputs with an adjustable thermostat, plus a frost-prevention setting for otherwise unheated rooms. An internal switch cuts power instantly if the unit is tipped over. Just 2″ thick, the lightweight heater rolls on its wheeled base or mounts to a wall using the included hardware. Heats a 144′ sq. area.

Just in case you had a rather bitter and cold Christmas, why not cheer yourself up for the new year with the Silent Space Heater for .95?

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Becoming a parent is no mean feat, and you don’t magically function as a good parent the moment your little one pops out and breathes his/her first through the mucus after leaving the security of the womb for the past nine months. Why not get yourself educated the right way, and instead of looking to the Internet as the source of all knowledge and information, there are other viable alternatives around like the Gravida’s Nurse Prenatal Education Device. Featuring a wide touchscreen display, a memory card slot and USB connectivity, all you need to do is insert relevant memory cards and other educational parental titles on a USB drive, and watch those lessons while paying close attention so that you know better on how to care for your newborn (and yourself throughout the pregnancy, of course). Not too sure where we’re supposed to get these lessons on memory cards from though. The Gravida’s Nurse Prenatal Education Device is going for .69 a pop.

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We covered the Pocket Radar in brief earlier last month, and much has happened since then, with the company releasing more details on how the Pocket Radar works. In fact, if you’re heading down to Las Vegas for CES 2010 next week, you might want to check out how the Pocket Radar looks like at their booth, but for those who can’t make it to Sin City, then there is always the alternative of using your imagination through the following description. Nominated as a 2010 Innovations Design and Engineering Award Honoree in the highly competitive personal electronics category, the Pocket Radar will come in a sleek, compact, palm-sized, ultraportable design, where internally it holds a break-through speed radar technology and point-and-shoot functionality to offer users with extremely accurate, real-time speed measurements of moving objects with the touch of a button.

The use of proprietary digital signal processing algorithms and state-of-the-art intelligent target acquisition techniques help users obtain unprecedented, industry leading accuracy and speed measurement detection regardless of the object. Pocket Radar has set a new standard for performance for the consumer electronics category, where it can be used by both professionals and everyday consumers in a wide range of methods – you can be a coach trying to clock baseball pitch speeds, or an athlete who want to improve your times, and even NASCAR racing fans are able to be more participative by clocking their favorite driver’s speed around the track.

Pocket Radar will rely on a Doppler radar signal detection and processing system that works in tandem with re-engineered microwave and antenna components, helping deliver a similar powerful performance that are currently available via traditional bulky radar guns. Being small enough to fit into a shirt pocket (and hence its name), it is accurate to within 1 mile per hour. Don’t worry about it running out of juice fast either – a set of AAA batteries are good for up to 10,000 speed measurements.

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Asphaltfighters of Germany will certainly wow motorheads with their latest production motorcycle – just check out the raw numbers of the Stormbringer and tell me that this beast isn’t your next dream ride (on two wheels, at least). Packing in a 999cc engine, the Stormbringer is capable of ekeing out 220hp with another 60 ponies which will kick in whenever you surpass the 180kmh – sort of like nitro for a bike, albeit under controlled conditions. Capable of surpassing the 198mph mark, the Stormbringer will hit 62mph in a mere 2.9 seconds, making it much faster in pick up compared to supercars, while other achievable targets include 124mph in 6.5 seconds, and 186mph in 13.9 seconds. Each purchase will come standard with a HELD riding suit and kevlar/carbon X-Lite helmet, and you know you will get your money’s worth since the riding position and suspension have been tailored for the buyer – you. This means no two machines are alike (unless you’re identical twins), and not everyone who sits on your ride will find it as comfortable as they might think it would be. The Asphaltfighters Stormbringer boasts the full array of cutting edge technology including 10 stage traction control, heads up display, rear-view camera and programmable speed limiter among many others for a relatively reasonable price tag of EUR 57,500 – that is, if you’re an oil baron or fall under the Forbes list.

Judging by the specifications, one can more or less argue that this is the world’s most extreme production motorcycle for the moment. Needless to say, something this exclusive will be produced in limited quantities, where each purchase will see the suspension tuned to the buyer’s weight and the riding position. Made in Germany, it has the standard 165bhp Kawasaki ZX-10R as its base, where Warm-up will then rework everything to result in such a beast.

Source: Gizmag

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Solar energy seems to be the way to go regardless of where you stay (we’re talking about populated areas and not some of those tribal peoples who live in extreme cold conditions, introduced to us through National Geographic), as it is free, environmentally friendly and capable of keeping your devices juiced up no matter what, albeit requiring far longer than usual compared to a regular power outlet. There is a new method of implementing solar cells, and we’re not talking about having it on your roof or the top of your car – as a partnership between researchers from Donghua University in Shanghai, China and Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, managed to come up with photovoltaic cells that can be used to recharge batteries in implanted devices simply by shining a near infrared laser beam via the skin.

Sounds creepy? Yeah, this was made possible using rare earth upconverting nanophosphors that are capable of absorbing 980 nm laser light, where it is followed by emitting visible luminescence that will subsequently excite traditional solar cells to produce electricity. This might get a bit more technical than usual, but the boffins discovered that “under the irradiation of a 980-nm laser with a power of 1W, the visible up-converting luminescence of rare-earth nanophosphors can be efficiently absorbed by the dyes in 980LD-PVCs so that they exhibit a maximal output power of 0.47 mW.” Before it can be used on us humans, further testing must be conducted, and initial results have showed that even after being covered with 1 to 6 layers of pig intestines with a thickness of around 1mm per layer, 980LD-PVCs still managed to exert a maximal output power of between 0.28 and 0.02 mW, which is more than enough juice to power a whole host of biodevices.

Guess we might just have heart pacers that keep on going, and going, and going in the future, eh?

Source: Medgadget

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Do you do plenty of traveling throughout the year? If the answer is in the affirmative, then you might want to consider getting the new Cydle P29A as your faithful mobile sidekick. Meant to kickstart the budding mobile TV revolution, the Cydle P29A will be introduced formally to public eyes at CES 2010 which is happening next week. Just in case you have not heard about Cydle, they are an emerging leader in car-based multimedia systems and is also one of South Korea’s biggest consumer electronics companies. This multi-functional device boasts a multimedia player and subscription-free Mobile TV to keep you entertained on the road, where we will take a closer look at it in the extended post.

The Cydle P29A will play nice with the P29H device from the same company as well, where it will result in the coupling of a multimedia player with HD Radio Technology. With the Cydle P29A targeting a Q2 2010 release date at an estimated retail price of 9, it will also boast of the distinction of being one of the pioneers in free mobile TV to hit the US market, incorporating the ASTC digital standard for mobile TV technology. Depending on where you stay, channels will vary so you might want to take note of that.

Features of the Cydle P29A media player include a high-resolution 2.9″ touchscreen display, an optimized interface for easy use even for first timers, high quality audio and video playback, a built-in gravity sensor to view in portrait or landscape mode, depending on how the device is orientated, a photo viewer to cycle through your favorite digital memories, a world clock, multiple alarms, a stopwatch, calculator and voice recording capability. Guess you and the family won’t be bored with this on the road – just make sure you juice it up before your travels.

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I would like to say “thank you” to Thanko. This company has given us some interesting devices in the past, such as the HDD Media Player that we just reported on just yesterday.

That HDD Media Player sounds useful, doesn’t it? I just can’t help but think that these Hot Cat Gloves are just downright useless. Of course, I have no right to judge, because, according to Thanko, their Catgirl Earphones from last summer are their “No. 1 selling item”.

I suppose that a pair of cat paws that warm your hands was an obvious choice for Thanko’s winter catalog. All the user has to do is connect the gloves to a USB port, and the pink paw pads that you can see in the pic deliver warmth to your bare fingers. Yes, your fingers are exposed with these gloves, but that’s only so you can type with these feline fists.

Clearly, there must be some sort of crowd out there that digs dressing up as a kitty cat. I’m not certain that I want to know the reason. Didn’t CSI do an episode about this?

These cat gloves weigh about 145 g, and you can get them on the Thanko website for about .

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Epson wants you to celebrate the new year with one of the coolest technological achievements from last year. I’m not talking about the tablet, but Augmented Reality.

True, augmented reality was not created last year, but it really flourished in 2009 with numerous ad campaigns. I first experienced it at CES 2009, and I called it the “Coolest Gadget ever”. I’m sure I’ll see it at CES 2010, and on many more applications throughout the next year.

Apparently, there is some tradition in Japan that uses end of the year greeting cards, and so Epson decided to liven it up with a dash of augmented reality. These greeting cards, also known as nengajo, allow the users face to be wrapped in the animal personna of the new year. For 2010, this is the year of the tiger. I have a video of it after the jump if you want to see it for yourself, but I don’t have it translated.

To make one of these cards, all a user needs is an Epson Colorio printer. Then he or she just holds it up to the webcam, and prepare for something very, very awesome.

Granted, I don’t send New Years Cards, but that is only because we don’t have this custom in the United States. However, most people send Christmas cards, so I wouldn’t be surprised if I see some homemade augmented reality Christmas cards next holiday season. Of course, it’s probably too early to start thinking about Christmas 2010.

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One of the most intriguing creatures in the animal kingdom is the hummingbird. These small birds have wings that move faster than 30 times per second, and they are the only bird that can fly backwards.

It does not surprise me that a Japanese researcher named Hiroshi Liu modeled his flying robot after the hummingbird. His robo-hummingbird, for lack of a better word, weighs up 2.6 grams and 10 centimeters long. Just to let you know, this is about the size of a non-robo-hummingbird.

Believe it or not, research into this robotic avian is at million, and counting. The end-goal of this project is to create a robo-hummingbird with a tiny camera. This will allow the robo-hummingbird to fly into tight corners for going to places that humans cannot reach.

For example, in situations where a mineshaft has collapsed, and there is only tiny openings for air. Just send in the robo-hummingbird and check on the status on survivors. Now, you could achieve the same effect by mounting a tiny camera on a small flying toy copter, but the toy chopper would not be as stable in its flight.

Personally, I can easily see this robo-hummingbird being used as some sort of spy camera. I’m not certain if adding a colorful hummingbird disguise would fool anyone, though.

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You may have spotted the bullet shaped USB drive that made its way onto the site only a few days ago.  If you decided to pick one up, you’ll need one of these space pens to finish off the set.  It not only looks like a bullet, but it can manage to write under conditions that a normal pen wouldn’t survive.  All of that is thanks to a special cartridge that’s placed in all Fisher pens including this one.

That cartridge was designed to be used in the zero gravity environment while in space.  It can write at absolutely any angle, including upside down and is capable of writing while you’re underwater.  Now if only you could get your notepad to survive underwater.  It can also write on top of grease and oil and when it’s dealing with extreme temperatures.  The specialized thixotropic ink can also write three times longer than if you were using just normal ink.  You can purchase the .375 Caliber Bullet Space Pen for .95 from Vat 19.

Source: Crunchgear

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