Card Shuffling Machine

If you like playing cards then you'll need to know how to shuffle cards well. This process is a beautiful show if you master shuffling or a boring routine if you don't. In our days, when all the boring and routine work we are trying to give to machines, they can also do this task. This gadget will help you if you are too unskilled to shuffle beautifully or too lazy to shuffle at all or if you want to be sure that the shuffler doesn't cheat.

Card Shuffler will be your ultimate helper during those long poker games. It will shuffle your card deck in seconds, just with a press of a button. You can shuffle up to two decks at a time; there are two slots for them at each side of the device. This method of shuffling is suspicious-free - no one will blame you for wrong or cheated shuffling, because the machine does all for you. When you are inviting friends for a bridge evening, they will be surely amazed by this interesting machine. This small shuffler will not take much space on the table, and will provide a great help for your card sessions. It is also can be used for card fortunetelling, if you practice such things - after a few seconds there will be a perfectly shuffled card deck which can tell you whether you will be successful at that new job interview or not... wait you got to shuffle the cards yourself in those cases.

This gadget is a good gift for a card player or gadget lover, because it simplifies the process of shuffling and makes the play more enjoyable. No need to learn how to shuffle perfectly, now all is done by a small device, which is powered by four AA batteries. This shuffler will cost you nearly 20 dollars.

A water tree - water filter

Everybody knows that pure water is extremely important for the health. This contributes a lot to the designing of various devices used to purify the water. Something of this type has been created by Korean designers who never run out of ideas. Their new invention is a kind of filter that differs a lot from its boring counterparts.

This new gadget was given a 'Water tree' name. To understand better the principle idea of the concept imagine a pendent lamp over your dining room table. This lamp represents a tree that has fruits. But the 'fruits' of this lamp are strange enough because they hold water. Moreover it's not usual water but a filtered one. That's the Water tree concept. Thus this gadget will help you not to leave the dining table when thirsty. All you have to do is to reach up and pull one of the 'fruits'. Just remember that blue ones are filled with cold water and red ones with hot. And don't forget to put them back to get a refill. Of course after some time you will need to replace your filter. To do so you have to always pay attention to the color of changing fruit. If they are grey, then obviously it's time.

It would be great if there was information about the volume of these fruits and the size of the tree itself. I hope it's not as big as a real one. In fact it's just a concept now but an outstanding one. I've never seen such a clever attempt to combine something natural with artificial.

USB mini digital camera

At present there is a great deal of different digital cameras that can easily meet any wishes. Quite a significant amount of them have as many functions as possible. But sometimes people want to possess something simpler and smaller, because often they don't need to make photos that look like professional ones.

Imagine a tiny USB camera with no viewfinder, no LCD screen, and no buttons except one. Such a camera was designed by Sungwoo Park who decided to exclude all the functions except the main one. This gadget represents a mini USB digital camera that combines the feeling of not knowing how your shots turned out with the ease of USB transfer.

Thus, in comparison with usual digital cameras and cell phones no additional cables, card readers and so on are required. You just insert your camera into USB port. As regards the size of this concept it's almost the same as that of a usual USB flash drive. Despite the fact that no information is given about the quality of the pictures taken by this camera we can conclude that it's quite poor. It's hardly possible to supply such a small device with all the elements that enable taking high quality pictures.

Taking into consideration all the facts mentioned above it should be emphasized that this gadget helps to make the process of photographing easier. Yet the only buyers of such USB digital cameras will be people who like compact things and do not need professional photos.

Extremely stylish USB flash drive

Nowadays the fact that an USB flash drive has very high data transfer rate is not enough to make customers buy it. In case producers want their products to be sold, something really special that can attract attention should be designed. Moreover the demand for an USB will be increased if it performs not just a single function.

Gresso company, which generally produces exclusive cell phones and mp3 players, took into consideration both of these points. So, its new gadget represents a well-designed USB flash drive and serves not just as data storage but as an adornment as well. There are three different types of this concept: in the form of an apple, of a cross and a classic rectangular form. Devices, which are made of wood, are decorated with 14-carat gold and Swarovski crystals. However, if you want to store a lot of information on this gadget you will hardly be able to do so, because its maximum memory size is just 1GB. Despite small capacity of this concept its price will varies from 100 to 1000 US dollars. Probably it will depend on the amount of gold and diamonds that decorate one or another device.

Thus, Gresso company again succeeded in designing something unusual and original. Given gadget most likely will be very popular among young people, because it can help them to add something really new to their style. Yet price and memory size of this USB leave much to be desired.

[Thanks: http://www.gadgets-reviews.com]

An "edible" message

Sometimes we feel the necessity to leave a message to the members of our family in order to remind about something, give some instructions or just say endearing words. In such situations everybody finds different solution: some use just a sheet of paper and put it on the place where it can be easily seen, others buy special tables, which are generally attached to refrigerators or walls, and etc.

Yet, a new method, which helps to make your message more original, has been recently found. The given gadget is designed to write messages on toasts. Quite an unusual message, isn't it? Moreover, the process of writing itself becomes more pleasant and interesting. The only thing you have to do is to take a special pen and to write on the toaster whatever you want. After that your message will be printed on the toast. That's it.

Thus, this gadget can be considered as a very useful one, because you prepare food and write messages at the same time. Besides that, children will love it for sure. It will be a sort of amusement for them. However, it should be mentioned that the size of the message is very limited, preventing you from writing "poems". Though, it can be used for fun.

Teclast T50 PMP

At present many people prefer portable media players like MP4 players to MP3 players because they allow you not to just listen to the music but watch clips and movies as well. The variety of them is no smaller than that of MP3 players, so new models, performing even more functions, appear everyday. Another novelty of this kind Teclast T50 has been just designed.

The Teclast T50 portable media player might not have arrived on the scene with a bang, unlike those well-known iPods, but this model sure adds something that the majority of its competitors do not have at the moment - a capacitive multitouch display. Unfortunately, the only available information about the T50 includes the aforementioned display, RVVB, FLV and dual independent audio processors. But it's quite enough to form a general idea of the gadget that seems to be very competitive. As regards the design of the concept I think that it looks great. The main reason for this consists in the fact that due to the touch-sensitive screen given device has just a single button and a big display.

Thus, this gadget looks like one of those easy-to-operate devices, from using which you derive a great enjoyment. Yet the lack of the information gives no opportunity to form a clear picture of this concept. But soon you will be able to find everything out, in case it arrives to the USA and Europe.

[Source: http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/teclast-pmp-gadget.html]

A Galaxy In The Palm Of Your Hand

By Evan Ackerman

We’ve taken some totally sweet pictures of other galaxies, but it’s kinda hard to get a decent image of our own Milky Way… There’s just no good place to stand and point the camera. This 12cm glass cube contains a pint sized model of our home galaxy. It’s not just an abstract rendering; there are 80,000 individual points, representing the relative positions of 80,000 real stars, based on data from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory.

According to Monty Python’s Galaxy Song, our galaxy contains a hundred billion stars, which is a far cry from the mere eighty thousand represented here. On the upside, this model will set you back 1 yen (just under a penny) per star, so if it was more accurate, you’d be paying upwards of a billion dollars instead of the $800 or so it actually costs. Oh, and before you start complaining that the galaxy is off center, this model is geocentric: Earth is in the middle. Yep, we’re kinda off in the middle of nowhere. Humbling, huh?

[ Living World Galaxy ] VIA [ DVICE ]

Warm Up One Hand With An Infrared Heated Mouse

By Luke Anderson

I’ve worked in a couple of different places where everyone seems to think that we work better when we’re freezing. Perhaps they think that merely by typing faster that we can warm our hands up, which would increase productivity. Thankfully these days I’m the one that controls the thermostat, so I keep it as warm as I like. However, for those of you that need a little something extra to keep you warm, you might look into this USB Infrared Warmer Mouse.

This mouse will keep your hand plenty warm, just plug it into your USB port and switch it on. The device will heat up to between 40-45°C (104-113°F), which should be enough to keep you warm. Just grab a cup of warm coffee with the other hand and you’re good to go.

[ USBFever ] VIA [ GeekAlerts ]

Bike Cuffs Look Cool, Keep Your Bike Safe

By Luke Anderson

I’ve never really had a bike that was worth a lot of money. Sure, they were nice enough for me to not be embarrassed when I rode them around, but nothing fancy. Plus my hometown was rather small, and rarely did you hear of anyone’s bike getting stolen, so I never bothered to lock mine up when I rode it around. However, these days I live in a much different place, and I’d definitely lock a bike up anywhere I went. If I had my choice, I’d probably use a pair of these Bike Cuffs.

As you may have noticed, these look a rather lot like handcuffs with a bike chain between them. They are made from hardened laminated steel and feature a drill-proof locking system. Aside from looking cool and being quite secure, these would likely be easier to carry around then some of the other secure solutions I’ve seen. They’re a bit pricey (more expensive than any bike I’ve owned) at around $160.

[ Firebox ] VIA [ Red Ferret ]

Open Your Beer Like A True Geek

By Luke Anderson

How many times have you reached for a cold one only to realize that you’ve got no bottle opener? You could try using your teeth, but if you’re very fond of them, I don’t recommend it. My suggestion is to bust out your 8GB flash drive and pop the cap like a real man.

We’ve seen other such devices before, but never one so sleek looking. Now if only we had some details on pricing and availability.

[ TrekStor ] VIA [ Pocket Lint ]

Camera that shoots in 3D

For centuries, people were able to picture only a two-dimensional image when taking photo. Even today, the most expensive and powerful cameras still give us a clear and beautiful, but flat image. We can't feel the depth in them, can't say how far the objects are from the camera. People tried to bring the stereo effect to photography in many ways, from a stereo slides to 3D glasses, but it always required image to be taken with two lenses. However, something that thought to be impossible before, now is one step closer from being real - Stanford University engineers have made a lens system capable of capturing the distance of subjects within a snapshot!

The whole system works differently from usual sensors work. Instead of having one lens for a whole sensor, it captures image in parts. Each part is a 16 x 16 pixel sensor with its own lens to view the world - thanks to that this system is called multi-aperture. Every lens gives to this mini-sensor a different picture than to others, which makes a final image composed of many small images which overlap slightly with that of the neighboring ones. Special hardware is capable of calculating the "depth map" according to the data captured by this sensor. This distance data is a result of work of special image-processing software, which analyzes slight differences between the positions of the same elements on neighbor sub arrays.

All this improvements not only can show a distance for each pixel, this technology can be used for making stereo images in future. It also reduces digital noise at the photos, makes the sensor more adaptive to shooting conditions and raises the overall quality of the final image. Researchers say that they see the future usage of this type of sensors even in the portable gadgets like cell phones, PDAs and other camera-enabled devices, because with this technology the sensors with small sizes, used in portable devices, will suffer less quality loss than they are suffering now.

Right now, the researchers have no specific file format for this data, but they say that this depth information can be written in the JPEG metadata. Unfortunately, this revolutionary idea has its flaws. First, it consumes ten times more power than usual sensor does, which is a very serious problem for portable devices. Second, necessity of using a small lens system for each sub array means that these sensors are more expensive to produce. And third, depth field calculation is possible only with subjects that have some texture and other small details. If you picture a smooth white wall, this information cannot be analyzed and calculated. However, this technology is developing fast, and if all this flaws will be corrected, it can be a new word in the world of digital photography.


[Source: http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/camera-that-shoots-in-3d.html]

Sun power for extra talk time

Nowadays many people clearly understanding that all the major natural resources are very limited started to pay even more attention to the energy they use. Moreover some of them worry about their impact on the environment. As a consequence we try to use different alternative energy sources. It's obvious that the easiest "green" power source which can be incorporated into many gadgets is that of the sun. Some practical solar designs for recharging phones have been already produced, however, the latest product from Strap-Ya looks much worthier.

This concept represents a solar panel that looks like a simple trinket. Yet it's designed to prolong your cell phone's work time. Despite the fact that the solar panel will not directly charge your cell phone, it will charge a small battery booster that can give your phone up to 25 minutes of extra life. It should be emphasized that this gadget is not supposed to be used for a full charge because you will need to wait between 6-10 hours of fair sun rays to do so. But it can help you a little bit in case of emergency. Besides that due to its small design it won't occupy a lot of space, so you can let it hang out of your pocket.

The gadget has recently appeared in Japan. So in case you really need the spare power for your cell phone and like small useful things, you will be able to buy it soon.


[Source: http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/sun-power-for-extra-talk-time.html]

Shelf with speakers

It seems that the trend these days is to combine absolutely different objects and devices trying not just to create something even more functional and useful, but to save the space as well. That's why some designers have recently started to incorporate speakers directly into furniture and fixtures. Jean Louis Frechin's new concept is a good example for this.

Designed gadget disguises computer speakers as shelf supports. The unit is described as "a shelf connected to a computer that doubles as a device for audio diffusion and archiving digital music files (MP3)"—but further details are scarce and the exact nature of the connection is unknown. It appears to be wireless, which would certainly be necessary for a wall fixture of this type. The design of the device is awesome, so it can help you a great deal to maintain high tech style of your room. Nothing said about the power of these speakers but it seems to be quite an ordinary one. The fact that it's impossible to place the speakers somewhere else (outside, for example), as they are attached to the wall, can be regarded as a small disadvantage.

Thus I think that this gadget represents quite a decent marketable concept. So those people, who love high tech things, hate wires and like seeing a lot of free space on their desktops will love it for sure.

Some retro and nature in the cell phones

It's not hard to see that nowadays there is a marked trend of making all the things slim and sleek, metal and glass. However due to this fact all modern devices have something common in their design, and, as a consequence, people get bored with them even faster. Maybe it would be better not to forget completely the retro styling of yesteryear?

Designer Seungchan Lee thinks that a well-designed device has to combine both retro styling and a piece of nature as well. In his opinion something organic should make its way into our hyper-tech designs. His gadget CulArt (pronounces Cool Art) represents a modern cell phone that internally has all the typical characteristics of a usual smartphone. At the same time its physical design differs greatly from that of its counterparts. First of all there is a wood paneling - a piece of nature of the design that helps to create a perception of the retro style. In case you flip the phone around you will find a rocky textured surface which prevents slippage. Besides that the included Bluetooth headset/remote control uses a series of knobs to control the phone's most basic functions.

Thus, all the mentioned features of this gadget help to conclude that it is quite a useful and stylish device. In spite of this these features are not enough to consider it as a really original one because there is nothing significant that distinguish this cell phone from the others.

[Source: http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/retro-and-nature-cell-phone.html]

Spice gun

Even people who like cooking sometimes encounter such a situation when the process itself seems to be pretty boring. But as you know you should be at least in a satisfactory mood to prepare a decent meal. To help you solve this problem Chinese designer Zhu Fei invented a very strange gun.

His gadget is a spice gun that helps you make the process of cooking funnier and more interesting. Thus, this gun fires with special bullets that are filled with spice. Using an air bag that compresses when the trigger is pressed, the Spice Gun allows for the bottom of the seasoning bottle to be hit by the handspike, blasting seasoning all over your food. Moreover there is a small button designed to change the bullet. So in case you need a certain "bullet" just push the button. In addition to that the gadget has very original design and does not look like a real gun at all.

Unfortunately additional details on the Spice Gun are scarce. Furthermore, it's still a concept and there is no such a real product yet. But in case this gun is produced in the near future,it will be in demand.

[Source: http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/spice-gun-gadget.html]

More than simple watch - Ultimate Gadget

Just think how many things we should take with us everyday - cell phone, watch, mp3-player and etc. Moreover we should always keep in mind what exactly we want to take and even when everything is with us there is a need to be careful not to lose something. Because of this all companies, which produce different devices, try to make "all-in-one" gadgets. As a consequence all modern devices, especially cell phones, are supplied with clock, organizer, mp3-player and so on.

Think Geek Company, trying to combine as many functions as it possible in a single device, designed video-watch with OLED display. Thus, this gadget is able to show time, photos, videos and even eBooks. So instead of "boring" time you can listen to music for example. Built-in microphone allows you to record whatever you want.

Actually this watch has a lot of characteristics that are mentioned below:

• Memory: built-in, 2Gb
  
• Display's resolution: 128x128 pixels
  
• Mp3-player
  
• Slide-show mode
  
• Built-in microphone
  
• 3D sound
  
• Rechargeable battery - via USB
  
• Dimensions: 4x3,8x1,2cm
  
• Wristlet's length - 22cm
  
• As a unit: headphones, CD with a driver for PC, service instruction and USB cable

So, this gadget features quite a significant number of functions that make it enough competitive among modern hi-end devices. Yet, in my opinion it's better to buy a Smartphone, which for sure has more functions and bigger display. But, in case data is true and the price is just about $ 100, demand for this watch will be quite big.

[Source: http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/more-than-simple-watch-gadget.html]

pen as cellphone

We at gadgetcool love cool gadgets, especially when they are compact and are not what they seem to be.

Take this pen for example, looks like an ordinary pen, right? Think again, this pen is actually a cellphone.

This gadget is still in concept stage, which means it doesn't exist yet. But here are some details: the pen is designed to connect with Bluetooth headsets, it will have a USB connector, a microSD slot, a mono LCD screen to show numbers and any other information you expect to be on a cellphone.

Numbers are dialed with a touch interface number system, which is etched into the pen itself. The USB connector also doubles as a control wheel to scroll through address books and call navigation.

The pen acts as an antenna, as it's nine inches long. And guess what, the pen actually writes!

We really like this design, and remember, , if you have to write down a phonenumber someone gives you, wouldn't it be silly to ask to borrow a pen, when there's one in your ear?

[Source: http://www.gadgetcool.com/gadgets/Cell-Phones/159/pen-as-cellphone.html]