Category: Gadgets

Light Everything…

Lighted Costumes & Custom LED Fashion Section – Lightgod.com
LEDs and ElWire everywhere!
Light Up Ice Cubes, Lighted Wine, Martini, Margarita & Champagne Glasses + an Amazing Selection of Light Up LED Drinkware
Glow Lights, Battery Operated Lights, Flashing Jewelry, Body Lights & Light Up Toy Section
Light Up Promotional Items, Lighted Corporate Gifts & Glowing Imprinted Products
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Lighted Costumes & Custom LED Fashion Section

Palm and J2ME.. Very nice

Hand in Hand with PalmSource
Excerpt from the article:
Also at the conference, PalmSource announced it has licensed IBM’s WebSphere MicroEnvironment Java 2 Micro Edition and the WebSphere Studio Device Developer toolset. PalmSource will integrate WME into its platform, making it easier for the huge community of Java developers to create apps for the Palm OS. It will also let Palm developers execute Java MIDlet applications on Palm devices.

Dream a little dream

Dream Workshop by Takara
From the site:
Takara Co., Ltd (President and CEO, Keita Satoh) is pleased to announce the current development of a device which helps users to attain the dreams of, well, their dreams. Called Yumemi Koubou (Japanese for “Dream Viewing Workshop” ), this product is designed to help people shape their dreams in sleep, combining multi-sensory stimulus and sophisticated sleep-dream research to create an environment conducive to having a specific dream desired by the user.

Receiver

receiver
Vodafone’s online magazine about mobile art, media and philosophy. Nicely done.
From the site:
Wireless telecommunications have entered the media arts, and in accordance with their original functionality, they invigorated the discursive powers of various art forms. Terms like communication and interactivity acquire new significance in museum surroundings, in electronic music, architectural projects, and even poetry. Let’s have a look at art the wireless way Ö

Some interesting developments from Microsoft Research

Wired News: Does SenseCam Make Any Sense?
From the article:
The prototype responds to changes such as bright lights and sudden movements and might one day even respond to other stimuli such as heart rate or skin temperature — to track medical problems as easily as to record a Hawaiian vacation. And it could eventually link with other technology, such as face recognition to remind wearers when they’ve seen someone before.