SEA-DOO SEASCOOTER EXPLORER

The SEA-DOO ® Sea Scooter EXPLORER, introduced in 2006, is the highest specification Sea-Doo ® water scooter available - ideal for swimming, snorkelling and diving, both in the SWIMMING POOL and the SEA. What's more, SEA-DOO® is part of Bombardier - one of the world's most respected engineering companies - so you know you are buying a quality product from a quality company. 

The new Sea-Doo® Seascooter Explorer is designed and engineered to withstand the toughest environment. It was created for commercial and rental applications, making it ideal for both recreational and professional divers. This product is patented and patent pending worldwide.. The EXPLORER delivers THREE levels of thrust for a speed of up to 3.3mph/5.3km/h down to 160ft./50m. With the EXPLORER you save air, stay down longer and get more fun out of diving.
The new Sea-Doo® Seascooter Explorer weighs just 32lbs/ 14.5kg including battery and includes new improved safety features such as water leakage protection, low battery voltage protection, over current protection, high temperature protection, safety lock, auto shut-off function and battery voltage indicator.

 
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Rubik's Touch Cube

The Toy Industry Association's annual toy fair had some standout 21st century innovations. Some were creepy, like the Dora the Explorer doll whose hair actually grows when you play an online beauty game. And some were just plain cool. The best thing I got my hands on: A fully electronic version of the classic Rubik's Cube.

See below for details on the technology, plus exclusive video of one of the two existing prototypes.

Hidden in a darkened black tent in a far corner of the fair -- I think by the time I found it I was technically in Jersey -- was the Rubik's TouchCube. Instead of a bunch of interlocking mini-cubes, it's made up of six LED-lighted touch screens. (The dark room gave it a very disco-floor flare.) You simulate twisting the blocks by sliding your finger along a row of squares in the direction you want them to turn. An accelerometer inside determines which side is facing up (i.e., which one you're looking at), and desensitizes the other five so you don't accidentally make a move with the hand you're holding it in.

The folks at Techno Source, who distribute Rubik's products, brought the prototype to PopSci's office for us to play with. The TouchCube is powered by seven chips, one for each side to control the squares' colors, plus one mother chip that keeps the rest in sync, ensuring that if you swipe a row of green-red-yellow row to the right, you get green-red-yellow around the corner. Every square contains three LEDs, one each of red, green, and blue, which light up at different intensities to produce a square's color (the familiar white, orange, yellow, green, red, or blue of the old-school stickers). It comes with a display stand/charging dock for juicing the battery.

The TouchCube is endowed with internal memory, so it remembers every move you make from the start of the game. Center squares double as function buttons, including "undo" to step back your moves in reverse order. Or if you really get stuck, you can press another button to get a hint, or another to watch the puzzle solve itself. Gives you a different sense of satisfaction than getting frustrated and chucking the darn thing across the room. Of course, at this price point -- 150 smackers -- you don't want to be tossing it around.

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Confrérie Horlogère La Clef du Temps Tourbillon

The La Clef du Temps watch actually allows the user to control the pace of time by modulating the speed of every passing hour through the crown at 9 o’clock. Aside from featuring technical triumph, it returns luxury timekeeping more importantly to all range of users. These 24 watches of different time zones of the world surely stand a chance to be a great collector’s choice. The weird symbols of the watches can be revealed by close examination and no matter how long you misrepresent time on your watch, you can return to the standard time anytime by simply movingthe crown at 9 o’clock. These watches would be quite expensive, only a prototype of such a watch fetched the 2nd highest price in a recent watch auction at $410,000.

From the website:
LIMITED EDITION OF 24 PIECES
An exceptional mechanism created by Mathias Buttet – founder of Confrérie Horlogère – for the Only Watch 09 auction: an event that takes place every two years and is aimed at raising funds to help children affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Touched by the devastating effects of this disease, Mathias Buttet has developed a Vertical tourbillon watch which features a hand-wound mechanical movement able to make the time last longer for those who don’t have much of it. Moreover, the prototype developed has been enriched with a further function allowing users to shorten the time if they so wish.

Eletrolux Flatshare Modular Fridge

Nearly all refrigerators are designed for single-family households. Ask someone who has lived in a group house or shared living situation and you’ll get a story of woe about a time that someone was looking forward to enjoying a lunch of leftovers only to go to the fridge and find their meal usurped by a roommate. (Curiously, the speaker is always the victim in these stories, never the perpetrator).

To the rescue comes the Electrolux Flatshare Fridge, the refrigerator designed for shared living situations.

Flatshare Fridge—or, more accurately, the Flatshare Fridges—is comprised of self-contained modules that operate like a mini-fridge when placed atop the base module. Each module has it’s own temperature control. Need more refrigerator space? Is another housemate moving in? Simply add another module to the stack.

What’s especially cool is that the module exteriors are highly personalizeable. Add a skin to give your module a distinctive pattern. Attach an optional extra like a bottle opener. (See a photographic example, below). Or get a chalkboard for your module onto which you can write your name . . . or a shopping list . . . or a warning to would-be food thieves.

The Flatshare was conceived and built by Stefan Buchberger, a student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, for the 2008 Electrolux Design Lab competition (which is subsequently won). No word on when (or if) Electrolux plans to market this refrigerator or whether the final version will have some sort of lock-and-key system. Roommates everywhere are hoping it will be soon.

The Dyson Air Multiplier

And you thought fans were boring. This new table fan by Dyson features a bladeless design that seems to be a first in the “things that blow stuff industry.” I’m quite impressed.

A large ring channels the air through a very thin slit and over a specially designed surface. The result is a jet of cool air. There are three controls – on/off, speed, and oscillation – and it can bend up and down for more precise targeting.

Here’s what Dyson says about it:

How it works: inducement and entrainment
Air is drawn into the base of the machine. The air is forced up into the loop amplifier and accelerated through the 1.3mm annular aperture, creating a jet of air that hugs the airfoil- shaped ramp. While exiting the loop amplifier, the jet pulls air from behind the fan into the airflow (inducement). At the same time, the surrounding air from the front and sides of the machine are forced into the air stream (entrainment), amplifying it 15 times. The result is a constant uninterrupted flow of cooling air.

Generally this is just a fan, but it’s well-designed and very cool so it’s worth a second look. No price right now but it’s interesting that they decided to launch right now. Presumably people would already have bought their fans if they launched in the Spring? Or do they know something about global warming that we don’t…

Now for the bad news: this fan costs $299 for the 10-inch model and $329 for the 12-inch. It will be available from a number of higher end shops and you can read more about it at Dyson.com. I guess you have to pay a price for blowing air the classy way.

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Eigenharp Alpha

professional level instrument which allows the musician to play and improvise using a limitless range of sounds with virtuoso skill. The unique design of the keys makes this the most expressive electronic musical instrument ever made. The Alpha can play and record loops, change scale and key, transpose, alter tempo, program beats, create arrangements, switch and layer multiple sounds, all while the musician is performing live on stage.

Available in a variety of finishes, it has 120 highly sensitive keys, 12 percussion keys, 2 strip controllers, a breath pipe and numerous pedal inputs. This gives almost endless possibilities for flexible keyboard layouts, fast instrument switching and expressive musical control. The comprehensive software system provides a wealth of musical performance features, including playback of its own native instruments, many common software plugins, soundfonts or midi instruments.

You can get more info @ www.eigenlabs.com/ , take a look at this videos also.

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Nikon COOLPIX S1000pj

Nikon COOLPIX S1000pj Digital Camera with Mini Projector [Innovation] 

The just-announced Nikon Coolpix S1000pj digicam / pico projector has been blowin' up the Interwebs this morning, and we have the video to prove it. First of all, there is a hands-on provided by What Digital Camera over in the UK, and aside from the projector they've uncovered a pretty straight forward digital shooter: 12 megapixel, 5x optical zoom, pretty standard dimensions, and a 2.7-inch LCD. However, the projector itself seems to do the job quite admirably. Sure, it's not an extensive demo, but the image looks clear and crisp. The reviewer deems it "a very, very clever party trick." And if the straight ahead tech demo doesn't get you in the mood to snap pictures and project them onto something, advertisers have offered us two visions of the future: take your pick from a spirited get together choc full o' photogenic American actors, or a somewhat subdued, more elegant affair in the presence of photogenic French actors. All that fun (and more) is to be had after the break.

A new breed of digital camera which brings mini projector to personal digital cameras. The inbuilt mini projector can project images and videos upto 40" in size. It also comes with a projector stand and a remote to control the projector operation.

Features of Nikon COOLPIX S1000pj:

• 12.1 Megapixel Resolution
• Personal theatre on the go with inbuilt projector
• 5x Wide Angle Zoom-NIKKOR Lens
• ISO range from 64-6400
• 2.7-inch Wide Angle LCD display
• 5-way VR Image Stabilization System
• Subject Tracking; Scene Auto Selector Mode
• Nikon’s Smart Portrait System and movie mode

The camera will retail for $429.95 when it launches in September 2009.

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Samsung Blue Earth

Samsung Blue Earth cell phone is made from recycled plastic.

Blue Earth is the first solar powered full touch screen cell phone which beautifully designed by Samsung. By charging with the solar panel located on the back of the phone, users can generate enough electronic power to call anytime anywhere. This cell phone is made from recycled plastic called PCM, which is extracted from water bottles, helping to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions in the manufacturing process. Samsung Blue Earth mobile phone and the charger are free from harmful substances such as Brominated Flame Retardants, Beryllium and Phthalate.

JK Shin (Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division of Samsung Electronics) says: “Samsung’s ‘The Blue Earth Dream’ demonstrates our small but meaningful commitments for the future and our environment. We are committed to achieving the highest eco-status with our customers and by providing the best eco-products and promoting eco-activities.”

Source: Samsung

Reactable

The Reactable is a revolutionary new electronic musical instrument designed to create and perform the music of today and tomorrow. It combines state of the art technologies with a simple and intuitive design, which enables musicians to experiment with sound, change its structure, control its parameters and be creative in a direct and refreshing way, unlike anything you have ever known before.

You can see it by this images...   they worth a thousand words...

Visit: www.reactable.com/

Curiosity: Bjork dj uses Reactable in some of her performances

Pharox light

New Super Efficient Pharox 60 LED Bulbs Last for 25 Years

One of the most exciting new products we found at West Coast Green this past weekend is the latest innovation by Lemnis Lighting, the Pharox 60 LED Dimmable Lightbulb, that uses just 6 Watts and has the equivalent luminescence of the traditional 60 Watt incandescent bulb. The Pharox 60 fits a standard sized household light fixture, is made of recyclable material, and is the most energy efficient bulb of comparable light quality on the market today with a light output of 300 lumens and a warm white light of 3000K. A patented heat sink keeps the bulb temperature low (we think it’s the aluminum housing surround) and it is the most environmentally safe option on the market as well, containing NO lead, mercury, or wolfram, unlike it’s compact fluorescent competitors.  

Compared to the incandescent bulb, which lasts an average 1,000 hours, the Pharox 60 is expected to last a 35,000 hour lifespan. According to Lemnis, if every American household switched just one 60W light bulb to a Pharox light, $1.4 Billion in electricity costs and 9 billion kilowatt hours would be saved annually. This would equate to a carbon emissions reduction of 5.2 billion kg annually. Though it may not be practical or economical to switch out all of a home’s light bulbs to the relatively expensive Pharox bulb, switching out a few (especially those in light-sensitive areas) is a more accessible energy savings strategy than investing in solar power, and it makes more sense to cut down on the energy load before finding alternative energy sources.

Lemnis claims the Pharox 60 will last 6 times longer than a CFL and 35 times longer than an incandescent bulb, with an estimated 25-year lifespan. In a line up with three other competitors currently on the market, the Zetalux EarthLED (retail $38.95); the Crane GeoBULB (retail $99.95); and the Philips EnduraLED (retail $40.00), the Pharox 60 beats them out in cost, weight, power factor, wattage, and most notably, its ability to be dimmed.

At West Coast Green, we were presented with the Pharox 60 by none other than Lemnis’ founder Warner Philips, the great grandson of Anton Philips, who founded Philips Electronics and brought the incandescent bulb to homes world wide in the last century. So it’s no surprise that the latest generation of Philips family should bring us the warm hue we are used to with the substantial energy savings that households need. The kicker, you might say, is the price tag, at $39.95 a bulb… but compared to the hefty price of lesser quality lighting debuting this time last year, we can only expect the price to go down as these bulbs reach mass market. Pharox 60 bulbs are currently available at mypharox.com and will be coming soon to Amazon.