This is pretty hilarious for those who haven’t seen it before. The geeky man pictured below was recently spotted and featured on Gizmodo with his ‘mobile office’ convertible in New York. The ‘office’ consists of a desk, a keyboard, a desktop, a CRT, a lamp and a printer, all mounted on the passenger side of a convertible!
After looking through some other sites, it appears that quite a number of other people have spotted him before and here’s a picture of him in the exact same vehicle two years ago…
And just ten months ago…
I’m not a great fan of Buffalo products, in fact I haven’t actually bought anything from Buffalo as yet, but this latest invention is a brilliant idea. The wireless keyboard featured below is well equipped with 2.4 GHz radio frequency technology and offers users up to 17 hot keys (great for you lazy lot!).
Over at the top right is the solar panel, it is adjustable so you will be able to ‘get the most’ out of your solar energy. The only thing is I don’t know exactly how this will work, it would sound abit pointless to have a solar panel if it also requires some sort of battery in place to work, sometimes these things happen but I’m not sure.
Though we don’t know how much indoor light it will actually need to get it ‘warmed up’? One thing is probably certain, gamers don’t expect great performance if you’re planning on buying this piece of environmentally friendly gizmo, however I do look forward to finding more about it. The Buffalo wireless ‘green’ keyboard will soon be released in Japan for approximately $128 USD.
[via PCLaunches]
I don’t know if this should be called a PC or not, but the Cuppa is definitely worth a mention, it’s one of the finalist designs in this year’s NextGen PC Design Competition. Though it’s only a concept, basically it is a computer just designed for those who want to socialise, have an enjoyable time and nothing else. Yes, our PCs nowadays allows us to socialise as well, but it is also argueable that our present PCs also bring us alot of other boring applications that make us work (like a whole set of Microsoft Office for example). The idea behind Cuppa is, wouldn’t it be great if we could just sit down and enjoy using a device that would allow us to just chat and relax with our friends online without having the annoying compulsive thought that you should do some work while you’re at the computer anyway?
I’m sorry the pics aren’t of best quality, but you can click to enlarge them…
Would you fancy a 24 karat gold plated MacBook Air with a bejeweled version of the classic rainbow Apple? I have to say it’s great to look at, especially if you’re obsessed with gold! But I don’t see how this MacBook Air will be practical in anyway, would be too worried about damaging it or scratching it, nevermind what goes on inside! The Air within is just a standard 1.6ghz/2gb/80GB which costs at most $1,799 USD on the Apple Store and even cheaper if you find it elsewhere like Amazon or eBay, but for a 24k gold plated one, you would be looking at $5000 USD…
Obviously adding weight to the MacBook Air is an issue because lightweight is its main selling point, however, according to Gizmodo who talked with Alex Wiley from Computer Choppers…
The weight hasn’t noticeably changed since it’s plating. The jewelry may add an ounce or two if that. Diamonds and jewelry depend on what the customer asks for, the rainbow is 14kt gold with 3.8ctw sapphires adds another $3000 USD.
Check out this laser virtual keyboard which connects via bluetooth, the laser from a laser projecting device that is connected to your PC / Desktop is displayed in the form of a keyboard layout. The keyboard can be displayed on any type of surface (wow!) and I think what is clever about it as you will see in the video, is that touching the keys will give you a sound feedback letting you know an input has been sent whereas just placing your hand over the keys without touching the surface won’t induce any input or recognition!
It’s official! The latest N810 WiMAX which was much spoken about on many blogs earlier last month has now been confirmed at the CTIA in Las Vegas! It currently remains unpriced, but we do know for a fact now that it will be running the latest updated OS: OS2008, which features enhanced e-mail client, support for Chinese character rendering in the browser and RSS feeds as well as “Seamless Software Update functionality” to boot. The best is, once OS2008 is available, current N810 / N800 users will get to upgrade to the latest OS for free!
So what are some of the specs on the new N810 WiMAX? Well we now know for certain that it will have a whopping large 4.13-inch touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard (picture above). Also built-in webcam for video calls, Mozilla powered browser (Yeah! 
), you can also use it as a sat-nav as it is equipped with integrated GPS / media player, 2GB of internal memory and a microSD expansion slot. Access to the internet can be done via WiFi or via conventional cellular data networks by pairing to a compatible mobile phone via bluetooth.
Just stumbled across something quite interesting and useful for iPhones today, the My Touch Keys. If you’re an iPhone user, you would absolutely adore the iPhone’s touch screen but might still think there could possibly be more done to make typing on the screen more easy and effective. As of now, there is probably nothing out there that can improve your iPhone’s typing recognition ability, firmware-wise. However, gadgets are always available and I think the My Touch Keys will help you do the trick, at least for the time being…
According to OhGizmo, the main reason for our typing problem is a lack of tactile feedback, ie no feedback on which actual key we are pressing when we want to type something. So by using My Touch Keys, tactile feedback becomes achievable, it fits on nicely over your touch screen exactly where the screen’s keyboard layout would be, check out the video too…
