Glows Archive

  • Citizen Japan to release new i:Virt M Bluetooth watch for cell phone control

    Citizen Japan to release new i:Virt M Bluetooth watch for cell phone control

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Citizen in Japan has two new models in its oddly named i:Virt M series of Bluetooth-enabled wristwatches ready [JP], the TM84-0351V (108g, leather band) and the TM84-0352V (178g, stainless steel band). The last update i:Virt M happened about a year ago. Owners can use the watches to interact with their (Japanese) cell phones, i.e. by noting incoming calls, controlling the phone camera (the shutter button, to be more exact) or displaying emails.

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  • Daily Crunch: This Is Amiga Speaking Edition

    Daily Crunch: This Is Amiga Speaking Edition

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Vegetable synthesizers are pretty tasty XBLA’s Earthworm Jim HD trailer The Amiga is coming back! Don’t let Tron guy have all the fun – get this glowing Tron shirt Concept USB drive glows different colors for different file types

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  • Desktop lamp powered by hamster cells

    Desktop lamp powered by hamster cells

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    This seems a bit odd, but here's another take on alternative power; Dutch designer Joris Laarman came up with a concept for a desktop lamp that glows from bio-luminescent hamster ovaries. Seriously, I'm not making this stuff up.

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  • X-Tube: Hanwa’s USB dongle makes PCs DTS-compatible

    X-Tube: Hanwa’s USB dongle makes PCs DTS-compatible

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Vacuum tubes are usually used in tube or valve amplifiers (electronic amplifiers) to boost the power of a signal. The technology has been around for decades, and vacuum tubes seem to be pretty enough for Hanwa Japan to announce [JP] the X-Tube today, a USB dongle that looks like one of those tubes and allows you to upgrade your computer with DTS sound.

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  • The Dell Adamo XPS’s pricing has been revealed, the usual questions remain

    The Dell Adamo XPS’s pricing has been revealed, the usual questions remain

    Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Dell has been playing the media with the Adamo XPS with tid-bits of info here and there. First there was a teaser site, followed by a lackluster press conference, and then two more product shots. At least the price has been finally released by a Business Week article, which states the halo computer will carry a $2,000 price tag. But other than that expect price tag and a little gimmick heat-sensing strip on the lid that, when swiped with a finger, glows white and opens the lid, the Adamo XPS is still a mystery.

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  • Illuminated keyboards too expensive? Try glow in the dark stickers

    Illuminated keyboards too expensive? Try glow in the dark stickers

    Posted on September 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Hooray for illuminated keyboards! Boo to buying new keyboards! There’s got to be a better way! Ah, wonderful, here are some glow in the dark keyboard stickers for nine bucks. In yo' face, replacement keyboard!

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  • DIY: Make your own glowing glass jar

    DIY: Make your own glowing glass jar

    Posted on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
    The sun jar is a pretty cool item. I mean, it glows, looks cool, and it's a solar powered light. I actually have one of these I bought for my son to use as a nightlight. We even covered these about a month ago — there's a site in the UK that sells them from about $33 US, plus shipping. So you don't want to spend the money to have one shipped from the UK? Build one yourself.

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  • Vacuum Tube Chess Set Flickers and Glows

    Vacuum Tube Chess Set Flickers and Glows

    Posted on July 7, 2009 | No Comments
    This wonderful vacuum tube chess set, by maker Paul Fryer, actually has electricity running inside the board so that the tubes can draw power and glow as you move them from square to square. It is called, somewhat appropriately, Chess Set for Tesla, and Paul actually made seven sets last year. The colors respect the good/evil [...]

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  • Retro-Electro Digital-Analog Ruler

    Retro-Electro Digital-Analog Ruler

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Shay Shafranek’s electronic ruler is a concept design with a difference. Instead of a boring mockup that only exists inside a computer’s brain, the ruler is a real, working model which lives in meatspace. The wooden stick is unmarked and instead has an LED readout which glows through the top layer of a multi-ply construction, [...]

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  • A mechanical flash drive too cool to be steampunk

    A mechanical flash drive too cool to be steampunk

    Posted on June 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Stunning. Too bad it's $165 and there is only one for sale.
    The key is made out of purple heart & has approximately 26 Ruby’s which look great when the key catches the light, & when the Keys plugged into a USB, it glows green from underneath the gears giving the key a good sense of movement.
    A couple more pics after the jump.

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