Block Bulb
Block Bulb is a traditional light bulb enclosed in a green or blue plastic block (depending on the color you like). An incandescent bulb, as you have at home, locked in a transparent resin block.
The bulb will illuminated at night or in low light place. It is coated with a special pigment that gives it green color and makes them glow in the dark. You do not need wires or batteries of any kind, and that is recharged during the day with natural light.
Device Specs:
- Size: 8.5 x 8.5 x 11 cm
- Emits green or blue light (model choice)
- No cord or batteries
- It recharges during the day with natural light
Block Bulb is essential to create a very intimate romantic dinners.
via: Curiosite
Tea Thermometer/ Timer for Perfect Tea
You may know that different teas variations need different brewing times and temperatures to taste their best. We can not prepare in any way … the water temperature and infusion time spent in the cup will affect the outcome.
This Tea thermometer/timer will help you for this. Instead of trying to remember how long for each type, you can have an electronic device to work it out for you. This small device will tell you the temperature and time you wait to get perfect tea.
It comes with 18 different preprogrammed teas, black, green, chai, or else. You can choose whether you want it louder or softer between 8 different levels. Once you’ve punched in your preferences, it will start a timer. When the time is up the alarm will go off. It runs on 2 LR44 batteries and the stem is stainless steel and 4” tall.
You can purchase it for $19.95/ 15 Euros
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WikiReader, Portable Wikipedia
WikiReader is an electronic encyclopedia that brings Wikipedia physical form. Carry around and consult offline without being connected to the internet. Made by Openmoko, a mobile phone and small toys manufacturer.
It is small and simple, just four buttons. A small touch screen in black and white enough to read text without pictures … the interesting thing is that you can access information wherever you are. It even has a button to get random item as in real Wikipedia to entertain yourself while reading.
Works with 2 batteries and comes with an SD card which stores information. Insert this card into a computer with internet connection and update information automatically from Openmoko web. Or, if you prefer, you can receive annually 4 new SD with updates by mail for $29/ 25 Euros a year.
Now you can take Wikipedia with you wherever you go. Get it for about $99/ 70 Euros.
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Blue GPS Shoes
Let everybody know where you are and update your Facebook status at any time. The shoes will do that for you. Yes, that’s what the Blue GPS shoes offer. With a GPS receiver and bluetooth connectivity, you can talk to your phone, update your Facebook status, or even send SMS to up to five contacts indicating our position
I can not see wearing Blue GPS Shoes advantages for conventional use. It is bad for privacy. Fortunately no body (esp your boss) asking you wearing this shoes all the time.
The shoes might be great for hiking, cycling, mountaineering, or any other outdoor activity. For this, I prefer using Google Latitude system, which is already integrated in the mobile version of Google Maps.
It should be available before the end of the year for $ 150.
via: NaviGadgets
Google Remains the Flu Online
Due to the worldwide concern about the influenza, Google decided to apply the same technique to predict outbreaks of this virus in Mexico, as it has in other countries.
This tool can detect disease trends in our country to a calculation “near real time” the number of flu cases is in other parts of the world and that warn of new outbreaks in advance.
How does it work?
As explained in a press conference, ‘Google Flu’, uses a methodology quite simple but effective measures related to outbreaks in a number of queries made by users on topics that are directly related to the disease.
Thus it is possible to estimate the number of cases of disease in a given country.
“When we have symptoms of a disease, we turn to the Internet, as we go whenever we get information,” explained company spokesman. In fact, the designers of Google searches found that people did on their symptoms were “related” to the statistics published on this disease some health institutions ended.
Advantages
Google Flu offers a world map with the influenza color evolution in each country, and another page where you can see on a graph if the bird is increasing or decreasing and compare it with developments followed in other years.
What differentiates this new tool, other statistics, such as surveys that are conducted each year to doctors and patients during the months of highest incidence of influenza, is the immediacy, since the former usually take a week or two, while ‘Google Flu’ is updated every time a user conducts a search.
Background
In late 2008, Google released this tool to visualize in real time the evolution of influenza outbreaks in the United States.
In the case of the United States managed to validate the information with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, United States (CDC for short in English), so for the Mexican case the tool is only found in an experimental phase, because these data are not yet checked with the official authorities, ie with those provided by the Ministry of Health.
