This USB Wireless PC Lock from Think Geek is pretty innovative. It’s made of two pieces, a USB dongle which attaches to your PC and a battery-powered keychain transmitter. As soon as the transmitter is more than 2 meters away from the PC, the PC is automatically locked. Once you get back within 2 meters, it’s unlocked. Available at Think Geek for $29.99.
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The Navman iCN750 GPS/Digital Camera Tags Pictures w/ Coordinates
Navman is set to introduce a GPS unit that combines standard turn by turn navigation with a built-in digital camera. Pictures snapped by the Navman iCN750 include a Geocode tag embedded in the picture, listing the longitude and latitude. This is meant to help you sort pictures by exact location. The camera (or GPS, depending on what you want to call it) has a 4-inch touch screen, preloaded maps, and the latest SiRF StarIII GPS chipset. The GPS/Digital camera (no word on megapixels) can be powered by either a power adapter or internal battery. The iCN750 should be available this may for around $800. Very cool!
The Henri Chamoux Archeophone
It is because of Mr. Chamoux’s creation that we can preserve musical history, come down to us in the form of cylinders from the good old days. I just had a listen to a few MP3 files published by the good folks at the UCSB Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, and I am truly thankful to Mr. Chamoux for building the machine. I am also grateful to UCSB for taking the time to preserve an important part of our heritage. There’s a Wired article on this as well, written by Rachel Metz, which is where I found out about all this wonderful stuff. (Photo courtesy of the Phonograph Makers’ Pages)
New Google Calendar
Just read about Google and its work on developing CL2 – a web calendar. The link will take you to a page with screenshots. CL2 will be done in AJAX, like Gmail, and it’ll be tightly integrated with it, but what I think is really cool is its integration with other calendaring products, like iCal for the Mac. Yay! Integration and information-sharing across programs is always the way to go!
If CL2 and iCal could work seamlessly, and if CL2 would provide a dynamically generated web page which would combine multiple iCal calendars, that would be ideal. What bothers me about iCal is that it won’t let me combine my Home and Work calendars into a single view when I publish them to my .Mac account. If I could do that with CL2, that would be great!
MonsterPod: the gooey tripod
This has got to be one of the coolest products I’ve seen so far. It’s made of a visco-elastic morphing polymer that will stick to virtually anything, and these two fellows, a father and son team, made it into a tripod for compact digital cameras. I hope they sell a whole bunch of them, it’s pretty cool stuff! Here’s their site.
Raoul Pop 