Seiko has announced that they’ll be coming out with the world’s first wristwatch to rock an Active-Matrix e-ink display. What the watch will be called is still unknown, but it’ll be able to show four levels of gray through a crisp 80,000-pixel, 300dpi screen, with features that includes the basic time and date, plus a world-clock feature that comes with a nicely-rendered image of the earth.
Good news for smokers who want to quit for health reasons: Japanese gadget-maker Thanko has just come out with this USB-powered “e-cigarette” that’ll let you skip on the tar and nicotine by-products that you get from traditional rolls of tobacco, but you still get the good old “me-blow-smoke, me-feel-good” feeling that no amount of nicotine gum or patch can provide.
Here’s something that was bound to get discovered. Give a guy—any average Joe—a gadget that plays around with words, like a program that reads out stuff you type or another that types out stuff you say, and average Joe is bound to test if it can recognize certain four-letter words we all tend to blurt out every now and then. It appears someone tried it out on Google’s Nexus One, a phone that comes with a speech-to-text feature. The result? The Nexus One will automatically “censor” your #### out.
It’s no secret that solid state drives are the future. They’re faster, more durable, and they need less power to operate compared to traditional hard drives. Unfortunately, it’s also no secret that gigabyte for gigabyte, they’re also significantly more expensive than platter-based hard drives. If you’re looking for just enough to raise your PC’s performance, Kingston offers a quick fix by releasing the SSDNow V Series Boot Drive with TRIM support, a 30GB solid state drive that promises to accelerate boot up, shutdown, and application load times.
It looks like a guitar, shaped like a guitar, and can be set to sound like any kind of guitar you can think of, but it’s not really a guitar. Like those ”guitars” that you typically see used for games like Rock Band, the Misa digital guitar doesn’t come with strings. It’s not a toy, but seasoned guitar players might actually learn to have a bit of fun with this though.
