CES 2009: Logitech Unveils New Gaming Products

If you were excited with all the gaming products exhibited at the CES 2009, Logitech has treated gaming fans with the new G Series Peripherals, which allows gamers to have total control while playing. These G-Series gadgets come with high precision, performance, and customization. The gear includes the G19 keyboard, G35 Surround sound handset, and a G9 laser mouse.
These accessories provide gamers with everything they need, 7.1 channel surround sound, 5000 dpi laser keys, and a sleek design. The keyboard shall cost $199.99, the headset would cost $129.99, and the mouse will be available for $99.99. All these products should be available in the US by March. Looks like the CES 2009 has many goodies in store for gamers.
Keep a watch on this blog, for we shall feature continuously all the products that could be featured and would be exhibited at the CES 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada. Logitech’s gaming gear comes with extreme technology and engineering that has already astonished many people and will continue to amaze all the gamers. I would say, we need more companies like this so that gamers get the real deal and not some pansy looking accessories.
Via: BusinessWire/LikeCool

Motoman SDA10 Cooks its Way to the Kitchen

Robots are among the man’s fascinating creations which have made life easier and simpler for us. After proving their expertise on the industrial front, these amazing machines are now leaping towards the kitchen. Yaskawa Electric Corporation’s new-generation dexterous dual-arm industrial robot Motoman SDA10 was shown off at the latest International Next-Generation Robot Fair in Osaka for its skill in cooking okonomiyaki.

Measuring 4.5ft tall and 220 kg, the futuristic robot was designed to operate neck to neck with man in workplace. SDA10 has 15 joints in entirety, 7 in each arm and one in the torso. The joints enable it with wide range of movement useful for any job. The robot can proficiently assemble a disposable camera from two dozen parts in just 2 minutes. Not only this, it can turn into a chef and based on speech recognition technology, it takes your orders, prepares the okonomiyaki batter using utensils, then pours it on the iron grill, makes it into a pancake-like disc, tosses it like a professional and then applies condiments before serving it hot.
I sense that very soon in the future, we might see robots managing the kitchen not only in homes, but also hotels across the world.

Source: Pink Tentacle

Virtual Games Now A Reality For The Disabled

COGAIN, which is a European Union funded organization recently launched a state of the art software, that would enable users with severe motor disabilities to use the internet and other programs, with just a look of their eyes. This innovative technology that is known as the gaming-with-gaze software open up new avenues for the disabled, previously unperceived. Highly successful games such as, Second Life and World of Warcraft that employ this technology, will now be available to the the disabled users.

Patients suffering from life altering illness like, cerebral palsy, motor neurone disease (MND) or locked-in syndromes will now have an entire world right in front of them explore, with the help of their gaze and eye-tracking technology. This in turn, would be a “truly liberating experience”, according to Howell Istance, who helped develop the gaming-with-gaze software.

ero Blue Robot: A Silly Robot that Can Spoon Feed You!

I wonder where the world is leading these days! There is a robot that can literally feed you by picking up your food and putting it into your mouth. The robot is named “Aero-Blue robot”. It’s a personalized robot specially designed to feed its master. This robot can literally spoon feed you just the way your mother or nanny used to do for you while you were a small baby.
The robot is smart enough to perform certain activities including spoon feeding you. It can handle delicate objects like the eggs and. This is the heights of laziness. This is total nonsense and you do not require it unless you have movement problems. Aero Blue robot will make not only make you lazier but also inactive over a due course of time if you get used to feeding by it.
I wonder why this silly robot was ever designed. Who is anyways interested in getting spoon fed when you are already too old? There is no information announced with regard to it availability date and the cost of it. It might be expensive though considering it’s a robot. I really hope this was not designed at all.

Via: TechChee

MyDeskFriend: A Cool Robot for Your Desk from Arimaz

If you ever wished to have a robot as your companion at your work place right on your desk, then your wish may just come true. Recently, we came across a demo of a prototype of a cute penguin robot that was shown by Pierre Bureau, the founder and CEO of Arimaz in Switzerland. The robot is named as “MyDeskFriend” and it will be sold at $99 beginning from September.
The robot comes with various smart features like a docking station, which is hooked to the PC. The most interesting feature of the robot is that you can interact with it in many ways. It does the job of following your finger and detects the edges of your desk thereby helping it not fall off your desk. With the help of its accelerometer, it can sense when it’s being touched or shaken. Besides the five infrared sensors, the robot also changes its color depending on its mood. For example, if you shake it too much, its eyes turn red suggesting that it is in a bad mood.
Another interesting feature of the robot is that it can get connected to your Facebook profile and there you can see if it’s hungry, tired or needs exercise. If it’s hungry, you can feed a cookie. It can also read the weather forecast, news and messages from your friends. It can also memorize 10-15 words of your choice and also follow voice commands. Surely, this robot will prove to be one amazing companion, and i can’t wait for September to arrive.
Via: Botropolis\Getrobo

A Tiny Mouse That Weighs Less Than 2 Grams

Mouse can never be a joy to use especially when they are heavy and huge to use. If you wanted a mouse that was thin and weightless, and if you had been looking for weird gadgets and landed up at some antique shop, don’t blame us, for we now bring to you the smallest mouse ever, or so they claim. This mouse comes with a wireless dongle and is just 19mm long, 14mm broad and 6mm tall.
The mouse also weighs just 1.8g. This mouse comes with a good resolution of 1600dps and also uses 2.4GHz. You can go ahead and connect it to PC or MAC. In my opinion, this mouse would be best suited for laptop users as it is small, portable, wireless and also weightless.
If you are interested in buying the smallest mouse ever seen, you can do so for $63. I wish it also came with Bluetooth technology and perhaps LED lights? Well, I’m just being greedy. Nevertheless, this mouse has to be one of the coolest computer accessories or hardware I ever saw, online or offline.

Freeloader Solar Charger Helps You Charge Gadgets for Free

So you always thought you are a freeloader and you managed to gatecrash any party? Well, if you are still paying for the electricity bills and also for charging your gadgets, you are not quite a freeloader yet. In order to be the best freeloader ever, you should try getting the FreeLoader Portable Solar Charger.
It has the ability to receive power from the sun and store it so that you can charge your gadgets while on the move. You can charge almost all your portable gadgets with this freeloading device. It can also store battery charges for about 3 months, which means even during the dark and gloomy days of winter you could use this little thing.
It is quite sturdy and is resistant to impact. This awesome gadget can power your PSP for 2.5 hours, a mobile phone for 44 hours and many other gadgets like that. It costs $50 and is compatible with many devices.