Cool gadgets and new gizmos – news and reviews

What would be the result of a LEGO concept combined with a little chateau mystery tale combined into one furniture set?It definitely has to be the Obelisk, which consists of five chairs plus one table that can be assembled into an 8 feet obelisk. The name also inspires durability, and this furniture set will surely last, as it is made from aluminium and woven polyethylene.Obelisk on the left and guest table on the right This surely will ...

What happens when product manufacturers forget to say "this is confidential" to their partners? The answer is simple: you get Nokia 8600 codenamed "Luna" showing off on Carphone Warehouse. Of course now Nokia denies any involvement, but the harm was done. Harm for them, for us is just good quality news.8600 is intended as a premium model, with a price just above the utterly expensive 8800. Feature wise it's no blockbuster: it has a 2 megapixe...

If you didn't had enough with our beloved stylish clocks you might want to consider the Dancing on Water Clock, a masterpiece signed by YUnoBI. Why this name? Probably because it uses a simple, black design and the time we see is actually a reflection of LEDs placed on bottom of the clock.This is possible with the help of a highly reflective mirrored surface made from lacquered steel.Style has a price and YUnoBI knows that Dancing on the...

Someone said that the only thing that is going to kill the Apple iPhone will be the iPhone 2, cause this gadget has the huge Apple name behind it. I can see his point, but that doesn't mean that others can't try to outbeat it, like this project from Deeda, called Pi.Deeda has been working on this project since 2005, and is based on an Open source operating system, probably Linux. This makes if very customizable and more stable and reliable, c...

The Jack in the Box MZK-NAS02 is a gadget used for storage, with some incredible capabilities: 1.5 TB of space and a built-in Bittorrent client. This Panex device can operate on its own, without needing a PC or a MAC connected, and is a fancy piece of technology that could come in handy for those people downloading a lot from clients.Of course, you should only download legal stuff and not the materials protected by copyright, cause you don'...

We all know that the global tendency is to incorporate as many functions as we can into a single device. But what do you say about putting multiple devices into one, literally? Someone thought of that and filed a patent for a PDA with detachable phone.You heard right: a PDA with a small detachable phone.I don't know why the PDA in this schematics looks like a Treo, but it might be a clue How does it work? When you need only the phone fun...

Geography learning has never been easier than now, when we have the Interactive Globe from Oregon Scientific, which is the first Internet - updateable multimedia globe. It offers geographical and cultural information for every location you touch on the globe, in English.You have a SmartPen that you use to point the desired location, and then you'll find everything you want to know about it. This globe offers something else: interactive lesson...

Environmental issues are becoming more and more pressing and a lot of car manufacturers are making now hybrid cars or cars that use alternative fuels.Some are plain boring, others are just wolf in sheep clothing, but from this crowd we can still find excellent concepts, like Ringspeed's eXasis transparent car, which doesn't compromise style and performance for the sake of nature.eXasis looks like an ideal car for a beach ride Its transpa...

If you followed us from the beginning you might have read the news about Sony's OLED monitors, with 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Apparently they really want to produce them and made improvements in the three months that passed.As a result new prototypes were shown this week at Display Expo 2007, a Japanese show dedicated to displays.What's exciting, besides the million to one contrast ratio is their thickness, or should I say thinness. Th...

We're used to see smarter and smarter phones being launched every day, cause all the producers struggle to keep pace with the emerging technologies and include them on their products before the competitors. But the design of these new phones often lacks the spark.Simon Enever tries to change this with its new concept, the S-series mobile phone. It's not amazing from the technological point of view, but still has a big screen, integrated digit...