I sat next to the founding team of Eye-Fi, a Shasta Ventures-backed company that makes a WIFI enabled SD card for digital cameras, to automatically upload photos to photo sharing sites such as Facebook, Flickr or Picasa, or to your computer, last night at the Gadget Fest last night. The Eye-Fi service automatically handles site logins and passwords, and photo resizing, for whatever outlet you choose for your photos. The card retails for $99.99.
Where I was last night…
Check out this video of the new Brenta 38, a high performance Italian designed sailing machine, which can be sailed by one person with ease. Every sail-trim function is controlled by push buttons at the helm.
WooMe is now open to the world. Check out this video!
Check out this packaging concept for Axe. [source]
I may be a bit behind the curve on this, but this is the first I’ve heard of the air car, a car powered via compressed air.
CNN’s report
Alexander Graham Bell makes a “special-guest” appearance pointing out the fact that his 100 years old Telephone line invention wasn’t designed for today’s Broadband connections. This is set in a traditional Chinese Hell like environment to imply the hellish experience of surfing the internet with a slow connection.
When I was a kid, there were matchbox cars that changed colors, when you dipped them in hot or cold water. Nissan is allegedly developing a color changing technology, whereby the driver can select from an array of colors, to change the car’s color. They have developed a “paramagnetic” paint coating, which is a unique polymer layer that features iron oxide particles that are applied to the vehicle’s body. When an electric current is applied to the polymer layer, the human eye then interprets the crystals in the polymer as different colors. [source]
When the ingenious Sumerian who invented writing first carved those cuneiform symbols in stone along the Tigris River some 6000 years ago, a skeptic standing nearby predicted with concerned countenance that people would stop talking to each other.
(Slack, 2000 via Marks, Cavanagh and Gega, 2007)
