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Get your breakfast from the new design of robot

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Good news for people who facing a problem to getting out of bed in the morning. The new design of robot are just been developed from Japanese scientests that can help to provide you breakfast every morning .

The robot named as Twendy one is the 17-stone robot. It was developed at Tokyo’s Wasada University. This robot are built completely with arms and hands the size ‘of an average adult female’, Twendy has enough strength to support humans as they sit up and stand, and can pick up and manipulate delicate objects such as a drinking straw.

They organize a demonstration on the robot and showed how it can picked up a loaf of bread without crushing it, served toast out of a toaster and delivered a food trays to someone in a wheelchair.

Control your mouse with your feet

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

A great news for people who having a strain injury on their finger, arm or hand because the new technology just create an alternative  to allowed them using computer mouse with their feet. According to the stat, there are more than half a million Brits suffer from RSI. Actually this things happen because of the constant clicking and scrolling on a regular mouse. That will affects RSI on tendons, muscles and nerves.

By using this new concept of mouse, you only operate the mouse with your foot as its specially designed to reduce hand and wrist stress. As like regular mouse, you also can do right or left click with a control pedal. It comes with two separate slipper where is the other one are using to move the cursor.

Company sales manager Phil Guest today said: “As the number of employees working intensively with computers has increased, so has attention to their work station environment become more significant.

“Musculoskeletal disorders amongst computer users now occur on such a scale that the cost of lost work time and the sourcing of occupational health support services has become a serious issue.

“The foot mouse is a great way to cut down the risk of suffering from one of these disorders

Great watch for parents

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Now parents has not need to worried of losing their children anymore. British firm just launched a watch with satellite tracking device that will plot a child’s location to within 10ft. This product apply same  technology like car sat nav systems by using GPS Satellite.

The Nu.M8 digital watch can be securely fastened to a child’s wrist and will trigger an alert if forcibly removed. Parents can then track their children on a website.

Parents easily can notice where their children is by clicking ‘where r you’ on the secure website.They will provide with google map complete with the stress address and postcode to help them to know where is the location

The main purpose of producing this product is to give parents peace of mind and also bring some of the freedom to children.

Suggested price for Nu.M8 is £149.99 and there is a monthly charge that will cost you up to  £19.99. It’s depending on level of use.

Director of children’s charity Kidscape, Michele Elliott has reservations about using satellites to track youngsters. ‘Anything that makes children safer is a good thing but is the world really that unsafe that parents need to electronically track their children? I don’t think so.’ She told Media.

Nu.M8 expected to be launched to public this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Makcik PC – First Malaysian Computer

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Malaysian first computer has been launched. All the Malaysian really excited with this product because it is the very first computer product from this country. The name that they used for this product is quite unique. They named it as Makcik PC produced by Mimos Berhad.

Many people saying that the name for this PC is quite funny because Makcik is consider as Auntie in Malay words. By the way we strongly believed that they got a good reason to use that name and it sound user friendly as well.

Makcik PC Specification :-

* Price within RM 500 – RM 1000 ( $170 to $350)
* Flash memory
* VoIP Phone
* Weight is below 800 gram
* No keyboard and mouse
* Touching screen
* 16 inc screen
* comes with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth dan WiMAX

The specification looks great. What really surprised me is this PC has no keyboard and mouse. Makcik PC been certified as the thinnest PC of the world. Credit to the inventor.

Energizer Rechargeable Solar Charger

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

This is a portable solar battery charger for AA and AAA type of battery. Actually Energizer haven’t launch this little gadget yet. This news only taken from sneak peak by them pass few weeks. Some of the features offered by this device is:-

• will feature a USB-out port to power other devices (since some cell phones, cameras, and GPS units have  USB plugs, like most iPods for example);
• can be charged from an AC wall outlet in addition to the sun;
• and is weatherproof to withstand the elements.

According to Energizer this Rechargeable Solar Charger is expected to be available on this summer and the possible price is about  $49.99. For that price you will get two Energizer Rechargeable batteries. Is it enough? Don’t buy now because this gadget still not in the market.