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Do you have memory gap? Or often forget important matters so you always miss many things? Why don’t you try this Boogie Board, It can be used to jot down ideas and significant things in technological way.

The Boogie Board from Improv Electronics uses “Reflex LCD” technology which is a pressure sensitive, flexible plastic which, believe it or not, requires zero power to write on it, but does require power for the erase feature.

The erasing uses the power of a small watch battery, and it is good enough for 50,000 erasing cycles. Maybe it’s like an Etch a Sketch when you shake it, but you just push a button.

Just so you know, the Boogie Board has an included stylus, but there is nothing special about the stylus. In fact, any instrument, such as a fingernail, that can exude pressure on the board is good to make a mark on the Reflex LCD board. The user can make wide or thin marks on the board, just like writing with a pencil.

It costs only $29.97 at the Improv Electronics site.

Impress your friends, co-workers, or perfect strangers on the street or subway when you bust out your rock moves on your shirt.

That’s right, the Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt is a t-shirt with a guitar built right in.

Now you may be thinking, well, it must just be pre-recored music that starts with the touch of a button. But this Guitar Shirt is the real deal. Easier to play than a real guiter, each button on the neck of the pictured guitar is a major chord. When you hook this Electronic Shirt up to the mini amp you can play almost any song anywhere you go. The amp includes a volume control along with a tone knob so you can adjust your sound to sound like a real rock star.

The Electronic Guitar Shirt functions with a magnetic pick that is used to make sound by strumming it across the body just like a real guiter. The sound of the chords is recorded from a real electric guitar making your guitar shirt sound very realistic as well.

Dyson has launched a new vacuum cleaner to the UK market with the introduction of the City DC26 specifically designed for city dwellers that inhabit small spaces.

Initially launched in Japan, Dyson is hoping for sales success for the small scale cleaner considering  that according to its stats, over 90% of Brits are city dwellers with 2.3 million homes in the UK smaller than 50 square metres.

The City cleaner was apparently born from a James Dyson challenge to his engineers to create a cylinder vacuum cleaner small enough to sit on an A4 piece of paper.

The newly launched City DC26 is aimed at studio apartments and other small living areas where full-size vacuum cleaners simply aren’t welcome. It purportedly took five years of development to create a Dyson vac small enough to sit atop an A4 sheet of paper without any overhang, but it’s now available to London’s most cramped citizens for £249.99

Virgin Media has announced that it will soon offer the HTC HD2 smartphone, its first HTC offering.

As many of you will know, the Windows Mobile HTC HD2 is powered by the 1GHz Snapdragon processor, boasts a 4.3-inch touchscreen, HTC’s Sense UI, and offers a 5-megapixel camera with a dual LED flash.

HTC HD2 delivers an experience your senses have been waiting for. The unprecedented 4.3-inch pixel-packed display is stunning. The world’s first capacitive touch technology on a Windows® phone along with 1 GHz processing power ensure a smooth and lightning-fast response to the lightest touch of your finger.

HTC HD2’s expansive display is like a canvas on which you create a phone that is just right for you. Customize the phone by prioritizing essential features like mail, calendar, messaging, browser and more. Next, with just a tap, put shortcuts to the most important people, favorite websites, or most used application right on the home screen.

With HTC HD2, communication is focused around people rather than applications, so all of your interactions like email, SMS, phone logs, and even updates from Facebook are all in one place. Right where your instinct tells you to look – next to the photo of the person with whom you want to stay in touch with.

The 5 megapixel auto-focus camera is perfect for capturing the beauty of the great outdoors; combined with the dual LED flash it’s also ideal for capturing images in dim conditions. And when you’re ready to move from behind the lens and start sharing your collection, you’ll dazzle your audience with the large beautifully displayed pictures in the new river-flow gallery.

The HTC HD2 will be available for free on a £30, 24-month contract with Virgin Media, which the company claims “represents one of the most compelling tariffs currently available”.

Mad Catz has finally launched the newest approach of gaming mouse technology, the Cyborg RAT mouse.

The device offers a ridiculous degree of customization options, coming with an Allan key that slots into the base of the mouse for adjusting the different parts of the device to precisely fit your hand.

The new range takes all the same principles normally applied to ergonomic fully adjustable flight sticks, and incorporates them in gaming mice. For the first time ever on a mouse, the key points of contact between the gamer’s hand and the mouse are fully adjustable allowing it to be customized for any grip preference. Cyborg claims they are the most comfortable gaming mice in existence, but who cares, cos they are the coolest you’ll ever see.

The USD$130 top of the range Cyborg R.A.T. Gaming Mouse has specifications to match its looks in that it’s wireless with rechargeable Lithium Ion batteries, fully adjustable and fully programmable, has a 5600dpi laser and has a removable weight system.

The company’s stated strategy is to “develop products that evoke a passionate consumer response” and the Cyborg R.A.T. definitely achieves that goal.

It has a 5600 dpi laser, and comes in wired and wireless variants. The wireless one comes with two batteries – one to use, and one to charge.

Pure is previewing two new products at this year’s CES event as the Oasis Flow and Sirocco 550 get their public debut.

Sirocco 550 features PURE Clearsound to provide clear dynamic audio, higher volume levels and low power consumption. Clearsound generates room filling hi-fi sound with incredible detail.

Ideal for the living room, or wherever you do most of your listening, Sirocco 550 has a fully-featured remote control, easy-to-use controls, a large graphical OLED display, quick access to your favorite FM stations via presets, and unlimited internet favorites via its companion website www.thelounge.com.

With Flow technology for internet content (thousands of stations, podcasts, and PURE Sounds) and music streamed from your computer, Sirocco 550 also features FM, CD playback and an iPhone/iPod dock – all delivered in hi-fi quality.

While the Oasis Flow, a rival to Robert’s Terrain model, is a weatherproof and splash resistant rechargeable digital and internet radio with FM. A follow on from the first-gen Oasis, this new model adds internet connectivity, touchscreen controls, enhanced audio, FM and a crystal clear OLED display which is readable at any angle.

Kodak has announced a new touchscreen enabled digital camera at CES in Las Vegas on Tuesday which is expected to be available from April 2010 at £299.99.

This new model, called the Kodak Slice will feature a 3.5-inch touchscreen display on the back, come with a 14MP CCD sensor and 5x Schneider-Kreuznach lens, and like the Sony Cybershot offerings lets users search up to 5000 images that can be stored on its internal memory.

Using advanced ARM processor technology, this smartbook is designed to “provide instant-on functionality, persistent connectivity and all-day battery life”. The smartbook tablet will include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth wireless, a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard support with the option to include a SIM and a 3G modem.

Featuring a 7-inch touchscreen (said to be four times the viewing area of a typical smartphone) and one-third the size and volume of a typical netbook, Freescale suggests the smartbook will be on sale for less than $200.

Toshiba, the one-time cheerleader for HD-DVD, has now officially gone to the azure side with the BDX2000 Blu-ray player. It supports BD-Live (Profile 2.0) and REGZA-LINK (HDMI-CEC), outputs 1080p at 24 frames per second, and does Dolby True HD / DTS-HD Master Audio… but really, all that needs to be said here is that it’s a Toshiba Blu-ray player. Look for this one-time paradox this November for a penny under $250.

Picture quality, though, is excellent for such a cheap Blu-ray player. Discs enjoy a great deal of detail and a smooth, fluid playback. DVDs are also handled particularly well, while even an HD clip of 2012 downloaded from BD Live looks great; the BDX2000’s treatment of a scene showing the sea flowing over the Himalayas is as precise as it is smooth, with plenty of contrast.

Are you having hard times listening to exaggerated and suspicious stories of your friends and relatives? Try this DeFIBulator more commonly known as a lie detector that can detect their bluff by voice tensions.

So how does it work? First you have to train the DeFIBulator to recognize the user’s voice by asking your potential liar 3 yes or no questions, recording the voice for a baseline.

Then when the questioning begins you simply watch the screen, which features a digital figure of “Demonochio”. Demonochio’s nose and horns will grow with the amount of tension the device detects in your suspect’s voice.
That’s right, the DeFIBulator was developed to measure different degrees of vibration in a person’s voice. When the user’s voice goes from a calm to nervous tone, like when someone lies, there are vibrations that can be detected through this gadget.

The DeFIBulator has shown about 65% accuracy in lie detecting, and can even be hooked up to your cell phone for questioning over the phone.