Sharp Announces 5.5-Inch And 10.8-Inch Android Tablets Called Galapagos

Sharp Inc. announced e-book reader with the name “Galapagos” in Tokyo yesterday. There are two versions: the smaller one, the “mobile type”, has a 5.5-inch LCD screen (1,024 × 600 resolution) that’s optimized for displaying paperback books (it will be available in red and black). It also comes with a trackball to scroll through pages.

The other model, the Galapagos “home type”, need you to turn pages just like you do on the iPad. It has a 10.8-inch LCD screen (1,366 × 800) for magazine content formatted across a two-page spread. By way of comparison: The iPad has a 9.7-inch LCD screen featuring 1,024×768 resolution.

The Personal Towel Warmer

This is the warming bin that heats up to three bath towels in five minutes for spa-like comfort at home. It gently heats towels to a soothing 135º F and maintains the temperature for up to 20 minutes to ensure a warm towel will be waiting after a shower. The towel warmer requires as little floor space as a small garbage can, it begins to heat as soon as the lid is closed and the button is pressed, and signals when the towels are ready with an illuminated LED. The device also warms bathrobes, blankets, or clothing. Plugs into AC. 17 1/2" W x 12" H x 9 1/2" D. (8 lbs.) Price $79.95, available at Hammacher Schlemmer.

Vivitek H9080FD LED Home Theater Projector

Vivitek introduces a high-end home cinema projector, the H9080FD with LED light source that offers 800 lumens of brightness and up to 20,000 hours of operation. The H9080FD features Full HD 1920x1080p resolution, 100,000:1 contrast ratio, 1.85 to 2.4:1 throw ratio, and 1.3:1 manual zoom ratio.

The Vivitek H9080FD utilizes Single 0.95-inch DMD DLP Technology by Texas Instruments and is equipped with Gennum 9450 video processor. You can find two HDMI 1.3, component, VGA, composite, S-video inputs as well as RS-232c port and two 12V Trigger.

[Via itechnews]

The Dogbrella Protects Your Dog From Rain

During rainy days it is often difficult to walk the dogs outside. But now there is no need to worry. The invention of Dogbrella makes everything simple.

This inverted bumbershoot forms a waterproof cocoon around a small dog, enabling canine and master to maintain a walking regimen in inclement weather. The umbrella's 29" diameter canopy is made from 8-gauge clear polypropylene that sheds rain, sleet, and snow while allowing an unfettered view of your walking companion. Not only does the umbrella eliminate the excuse "it's too wet for a walk" from a dog owner's lexicon (to the delight of most canines and the amusement of most spouses), it prevents moisture from getting spread throughout the home, along with the unpleasant scent of a wet dog. The tip of the umbrella hooks to your pet's leash to keep it from straying beyond its protective canopy. Sturdy stainless steel shaft and ribs with a white plastic crook handle. For leash-trained dogs up to 15 lbs. and less than 24" long. 24 3/4" L x 4" when collapsed. It sells for $29.95 at Hammacher Schlemmer.

Vintage Apple Computer Circuit Board Clocks

This is a real green creation! A creativity and sense of art. This is a clock made from circuit board of a vintage 1983 model Apple IIe computer.

This other clock above is from the ROM card of a 1978 Apple II model which by my calculations is not even a vintage Apple computer anymore, it’s an antique. You can pick up either one of these for under $50 at Geekware’s site.

[Via craziestgadgets]

MPE+ Field Tablet

Now you will understand how police look for evidence from a mobile communication. This is one of the tool used. AccessData's mobile phone analysis field tablet allows you to conduct onsite phone acquisitions and preview all data available on supported handsets, including the embedded file systems. The MPE+ Field Tablet integrates
seamlessly with Forensic Toolkit computer forensic software.

• Supports more than 2500 phones, because MPE+ enables viewing and acquisition of file systems on 80% of all CDMA handsets.
• Recover and document files that no other mobile solution can recover.
• Correlate mobile phone data with computer evidence and data from other phones.
• Analyze multiple phones within the same interface, simultaneously.
• Acquire phone data in a forensically sound container without altering mobile phone data.
• Analyze phonebook, last dialed numbers, missed calls, received calls, SMS messages, multimedia messages, photos, files, phone details, calendar, notes, tasks and more.
• An unsurpassed quantity of mobile phones are supported.
• Frequent updates and upgrades with new features and more phones.
• Direct SIM analyzer through SIM reader.
• Reads deleted messages from the SIM card.
• Generate reports.
• Hex viewer.
• MPE can be used as a stand-alone application for quick and easy acquisition in the field.
• Filters make it easy to find relevant data:

          o Call
          o Contact
          o Event
          o SMS
          o Files

•     HTML content viewer

TechPad - 7 Inch Android Tablet

TechPad 7 Inch Android Internet Tablet is a 7-inch touchscreen tablet for the web, email, media, ebooks, games, etc. TechPad comes installed with convenient applications such as Gmail, Google Maps, Skype, and of course Google Android Marketplace, which is home to almost 100,000 other third-party applications (with top favorites being Twitter, Facebook). It is equipped with Wi-Fi and TV Out.

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Star Trek Pizza Cutter

When we go to a distant galaxy such as NGC 4414 the pizza is probably better being transformed into capsules tho shrink its mass but here on earth we don't need to, so we will need this stainless steel pizza cutter!

This pizza cutter's blade is crafted from laser-etched stainless steel, and the body is made from a durable zinc-alloy chromium plate.

You can get your grubby little hands on the Star Trek Starship Enterprise pizza wheel over at ThinkGeek for $24.99 (USD).

[Via technabob]

Mozilla Seabird Phone - A Community Driven Mobile Phone Concept

Since Mozilla Labs launched the Concept Series with an open call for participation  we’ve had thousands of people join in, share ideas and develop concepts around Firefox, the Mozilla projects and the Open Web as a whole.

Designed by Billy May in early 2009, produced a throw-away concept for an “Open Web Concept Phone”. Working directly off of that community feedback, Billy has since finished the exploration with his concept “Seabird”.

This phone has the following features (if it exists):

• Dual Pico Projectors
• Virtual projected keyboard
• 8MP camera
• Built-in Bluetooth Headset
• Haptic Controller
• Wireless charging

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Lenovo F360 USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Hard Drive

The USB 3.0 is getting integrated into more products. Now, Lenovo is introducing their first portable USB 3.0 hard drive, the F360.

This slim F360 USB hard drive is only 11 mm thick with a brushed metal surface treatment and unique etching process to give it a contemporary look.  It has no screw chassis. The F360 will be a 7200RPM drive and includes a new calibration chip [no info on which one] which guarantees data transfer efficiency, error correction and security to insure your data is always safe, yet accessible.

[Via getusb]

Playstation Android Phone Coming This October?

Sony Ericsson chief Bert Nordberg in talking to GlobalAtlanta hinted that the company has a "big surprise" in store in the next few months. He couldn't say more but is believed to be alluding to the PlayStation phone, a Gingerbread (Android 3.0) device with a large touchscreen and slide-out PSP-style controls. It may arrive as soon as October.

The executive, who was in town to mark the opening of Sony Ericsson's Atlanta office, had mixed opinions on how the Sweden-based company would react to rivals. Competing with RIM would be relatively easy, Nordberg said. The BlackBerry is a "text machine" while Sony Ericsson aims to be an "entertainment machine" taking advantage of its connection to Sony.

On the iPhone, however, Nordberg said he couldn't say much and admitted Apple's device had been a "great success." His firm could compete on the entertainment front, but he didn't expect to upset Apple. Sony Ericsson primarily wants to become the leading Android device maker, he said.

The company has sunk out of the top five phone builders in the world as smartphones have undermined its once-thriving business in basic devices. Android has helped the company turn itself around, but it still faces both shrinking recognition and a lack of presence outside of Europe and Japan.

[electronista]