Cool gadgets and new gizmos – news and reviews

LG has a great device called the Wine Cellar, that of course, is used to keep the wine in perfect condition before being ready to drink it. Actually, this gadget is an advanced fridge, capable of creating similar conditions for wine keeping to the ones in a real cellar. So your wine will taste just as if it was just picked up from a Burgundian castle a couple of minutes ago.The Wine Cellar from LG protects the wine against vibrations, ligh...

The British from Land Rover are really good at producing all road adapted vehicles. The SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) isn't so well approached by the company yet, although the Freelander is kind of an SUV. The LRV+ concept is on the other hand a car that addresses both the SUV lovers, with its look and capabilities, and the contenders, being eco-friendly.The LRV+ targets the American market, by offering the comfort, the luxury and the size th...

What's the next big step in user interfaces? For me will be something without buttons, because no matter how good you are you will be always limited by how fast your fingers will do the job.I will love to use something like the Lazy Thumb concept, a voice activated phone which only uses three buttons.Lazy Thumb may be available in two versions: cheap and expensive Lazy Thumb is credited to Koo Ho Shin designer, and has imagined a simple ...

CVT stands short for Continuously Variable Planetary Transmission, a type of transmission designer for bikes and small vehicles.It is used for the first time on a bike, called The Ride, manufactured by Ellsworth.The Ride is "the Bike", not a bike CVT has designed in concept in 1490 by Leonardo Da Vinci, and is a system that uses small rotating spheres to vary the speed ratio smoother than a standard bike chain or gear system. The Ride c...

HTC (High Tech Computer) never lived up to its name, being a Pocket PC manufacturer in essence, but all that has to change now, as HTC announced their first UMPC, a mobile device closer to a PC than a smartphone.Their UMPC is called Shift, a clever name that also suggests change for the company. As HTC accustomed us, Shift it's no ordinary UMPC, as it features for the first time a sliding and tilting keyboard. Unfortunately, the price is not ...

The days of the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 seem to be numbered, now that the new Helio Ocean is here. I've written about the Sidekick 3 before, but this new gadget so out-beats it, with a nice dual-way slide design and a great multimedia and office related functions.I must repeat that the Helio Ocean is a dual slider, an it has a numeric keypad (slide down) and a full QWERTY keyboard (slide sideways). Of course, it is not the first device with th...

The era of dull and normal peripherals seems to be over, as you will see from this two concepts I'm going to present here: the OLED Optimus Keyboard and the Mus2 cordless computer mouse. Both are unique and come from the Lebedev Art Studio in Russia. The Optimus Keyboard Yes, i know, they are a little old, but are interesting nonetheless. Let's take the Optimus keyboard. It is based on the OLED technology and has the ability to display differe...

Have you had enough with people saying "you shouldn't do that because it's not normal, because other people don't"?Apparently Sandrine Oppliger, an architect/designer from Switzerland, had enough and created the Ring watch, a watch that you're supposed to wear on fingers, not at your wrist.Ring watch is available in silver or gold colors The french name for Ring watch is Au Doigt et a l'oeil, but that's complicated and doesn't describe t...

 A mouse that can just show your photos on an incorporated LCD display would be an interesting gadget, i might say. I'm not so sure how practical will it be, as the screen will most likely be covered by your hand while operating the mouse buttons, but let's not talk about this issue now.Anyway, some people thought at this concept and invented the Photo Mouse. It doesn't have a screen, but a nice compartment where you can put a pictur...

Today function is outperformed be style. It doesn't matter any more what you do, but how you're doing it.This can be seen not just in IT industry, but in all consumer products, regardless on their main function. People just want cool stuff that looks nice. Megabytes and gigahertz are not trendy any more.Hansaclear Hansa is a leading fittings manufacturer that stood as a name for quality, safely and reliability for over 90 years. They m...