Measure electricity by a clip

If you are like me, and your electricity bills also reaching skies, then here is some gadget, which we call as "Saverclip". It is a concept from the designer Lee Young Don that may prove useful to anyone who is looking to control there electricity or power consumption. This device look very similar to a clothespin and it actually latches onto any kind of power cable to determine the energy usage by just measuring the electromagnetic fields emitted. It can even recharge itself by the same electromagnetic field.

There is a LCD panel, which can help us to determine that what the devices are responsible for the most power wastage. The design is quite simple and looks friendly, which could be a useful gadget, if it may ever come to the reality.

SPINN by iRiver

Iriver is now seems quite popular with their latest designs for the latest gadgets. Their new SPINN mp4 player is quite an eye candy. As the name suggests, Iriver's SPINN will be using the SPINN interface and control system, its quite similar to their Iriver P20 model.
Iriver SPINN has flash memory ranging from 4 to 16 GB's. The screen is 3.2-inch, rich AMOLED display with the resolution size of 480×272. Also includes a photo viewer, DMB tuner, a dictionary, voice recording, a text viewer, Flash games (includes Flash 2.0), plays Mp4 Video at 30fps, Bluetooth 2.0 support.

SPINN's availability and pricing still not cleared, well some says it may be out anytime this year.

USB 3.0 is about to come

Intel and other companies are forming a group to promote USB 3.0, this will be even 10 times faster than 2.0, which is already running at 480Mbps, but soon the USB 3.0 will be able to transfer the data at speed up to 4.8 Gbit/s. It will remain be compatible with USB 2.0, which was always compatible with 1.1 version.
Intel stated that the USB 3.0 would be optimized for low power and improved protocol efficiency. The USB 3.0 ports and cabling will be designed with both copper and optical cable capabilities, which means even more higher speed is ensured in future.
The USB 3.0 specification should be out soon with the products arriving in 2009 - 2010.

iriver's handwriting friendly e-book or tablet

Well iriver did not show this at the CES, but it is definitely a cool product. It looks like a combination of e-book and tablet PC with the capability to recognizing handwriting, and have a quite good color display. Well it seems really an interesting thing, because from the top it does not look like an e-book or a tablet, more like a normal notebook. Nowadays, iriver seems more like developing prototype or concept gadgets, and we never get to hear much about its last terminal e-book. Therefore, there is not enough information about this gadget but hope to hear about this more in the future.

RFID tags for concept clothes labels

A survey shows that 70% of people do not bother themselves reading labels on clothing. This in turn causes several problems with the clothing by damaging, color fading or merging, shrinking, etc, but with the RFID clothes tag concept you may never have to read the tags or bother yourself. With the help of a compatible washing machine, your RFID tagged clothes will automatically tell the machine how to clean it up, so you do not have to change washing machine settings. This concept idea also help you with your iron, dryer and presses, so that you never have to set the iron temperature, and the burning shirts will be the talk of classic movies.

I really do love this concept, just load you clothes in the washing machine, add detergent and just shut the lid. It may make us a little bit more careless but in return, it increases the cloths life.

ECOshot by SeaLife - camera works up to 75 feet underwater

EcoShot the new camera by SeaLife. It has a 6 mega pixel CMOS sensor which takes great looking pictures from up to six feet drop. Specially designed to use underwater up to the depth of 75 feet without housing, which is very good for the use of scuba divers who wants to take photos of underwater views. The camera enclosed in rubber, which provides better grip inside or outside the water and acts as a good shock absorber. In addition, the same rubber grip makes it waterproof.
It uses simple AA batteries, well that may prove to be hurting your pocket in the long run, as we all know AA batteries dies out very early. The camera also has a spy mode, which allows you to take pictures automatically over a defined interval; interval can be set to start from 5 seconds to 5 minutes. The only problem is with its storage, it has just 14 MB of internal memory and restricted to use only 1 GB SD card.
This camera is definitely over prices at $230, but still good for those who really want to take this underwater.

CSkills for Construction Industry

If you want to know anything about the constructions related aspect, then try this web site named as CSkills, it is the partner of the sector skill council for construction. This site provide you all the information about the people working in to the construction industry, and can help you as they have topics going on like how to become certified in your trade by 2010, as its not so easy to get into the industry, by each passing day the competition gets tougher.

CSkills site also covers like health and safety legislation topics, and career development within your industry, which is very good for to become a successful entrepreneur. If you are a new and want to start earning in this industry, then CSkills also helps you with your training and qualification, so it covers almost each and every thing to help you establish a career in construction industry. Even if you are an established person or an employer in this industry, training and learning is always very much important for to satisfy your business needs.
CSkills is one of the best skill council for construction. This site is very easy to use as well as informative.

Beo Vision 8 by Bang and Olufsen (LCD HDTV)

Bang and Olufsen showed its 32-inch LCD HDTV at the CES 2008, particularly for the US market. The design very well and carefully made so that you can easily place it on a stand, either on a TV bench, or on just the floor, just anywhere in your house, as its designer David Lewis says: “...a television designed to be used instead of being switched off in the living room for most of the day”. So use it the way you like.
For this high-def TV the entry-level price is starts at $3950, which is quite cheap then the rest of other LCD HDTV in its class.

Most of the flat screen TV produces a flat sound, but its designer David Lewis created the Orchestra Pit feature, so that sound can move forward and up like in a real orchestra. There is a bass cabinet in the front of the screen fitted with bass speakers down facing, which provides a good experience while watching movies and just listening to music. In addition, the two front units specially meant for the reproduction of the human voice, so you can hear each word as clear as it possibly recorded.

This LCD HDTV Beo Vision 8 will soon be available in all Bang and Olufsen showrooms by coming February 2008 for the said price that is $3950.

Technical specifications

Designer: David Lewis
Dimensions (w x h x d): 72 x 44 x 22 cm + stand
Weight: 16.4 kg approx
Cabinet finish: Black/Silver
Remote control: Beo4 included
Power consumption: Typical 125 watt/stand-by 0.5 watts
HD-ready supports - 720p, 1080i
LCD: 32-inch16:9 TFT LCD (Glare surface with low reflection coating)
Resolution: 1366 x 768
Screen brightness: 500 cd/m2
Contrast ratio (center of screen):Typical 1200:1
Response time: Typical 6 msec.
Viewing angle: 178 ° both horizontal and vertical
Menu languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Swedish
IR control output: Built-in – supports two STB's or other external units (IR-blaster included)