Cool Gizmos – Gizmora

Every woman likes to include a dedicated computer or a system in her kitchen’s list, especially, when she is experimenting with a new formula from one of her favorite website or food blogs.

We see most of them struggling to set up their systems in the kitchen, and some use laptops. To avoid spilling and other accidents in kitchen, they cover the keyboard with a towel. After conducting a small survey, A French Company has decided to come up with a device that helps women in carrying out their ideas in kitchen.

So after going through several brainstorming sessions, they came up with an idea of kitchen computer and introduced the ‘Qooq’ a complete new style of a computer, exclusively created to use in the kitchen.

The term ‘Qooq’ is pronounced as ‘cook’

Features:

• This has a glass touch screen, which can be easily cleaned.
• It comes with, ten chef-presented recipe videos and 500 preloaded recipes.
• The cost ranges between $ 505 to $ 520, for initial recipes and the device.
• The monthly updates are available for just twenty dollars.

One disadvantage is that there is no web browser and the recipes, which are loaded onto the device, are limited.

There have been many attempts to create a mouse that doubles as a presentation device, borrowing designs ranging from pens to guns and often lacking along the way. But we’ve never seen one quite like this three-in-one device by a Chinese company called Vavolo.
        It claims that the gadget is a mouse, a remote, a laser pointer and a keyboard (?)–that’s four in one, not three–all housed in a slim design that can fit in a PC card slot for $40. It also looks like a large-button calculator for the sight-impaired, but that’s beside the point.

Belkin have introduced their new uniquely designed laptop cooling stand.
    It’s powered by a spare USB port on your computer, and its wave design creates a channel between the laptop and the stand to assist in natural airflow. The Cooling Stand takes advantage of the fact that heat rises, by pushing hot air upwards through the channel.

      If you were looking for a simple and efficient way to print on the road, in a plane, a boat, or in the middle of the desert, a contract worth millions of something… you’ll be happy to know (at least I hope) that Brother offers a new compact A6 printer measuring 160×210x18.5mm and weighing 500g.
      It is PC, Pocket PC 2003/2003 SE and WM 5.0 compatible, has a 300×300dpi resolution, and prints at 20ppm. You can connect this printer via Bluetooth, IRDA or USB.

     “USB Wireless Space Mouse” is an revolutionary mouse that can be use in the air ! It is quite simple to use. Reverse the mouse and hold it. Position your finger on the infrared part and move the finger. Then you will see the cursor moves on the screen as you move your finger. Since the infrared part functions as a switch for clicking, any operation of mouse including single/double click is possible. You are completely free to take any position off the computer to use it ! Excellent tool for presentation etc. !
     Needless to say, it can also be used as a normal optical mouse, on your desk or mouse pad. There is no tangling cable thanks to wireless system. Just put the mouse on a cradle attached for charging. No installation of driver is necessary !
     Aerial operation of the mouse is not difficult ! Hold the mouse in reverse, and move your finger on the infrared part. If you move your finger up then the cursor moves up. You can locate the cursor anywhere as it follows according to your finger movement.

                                                              Apple has been granted a patent (publication number 7,154,477) for a hybrid low power computer mouse by the US Patent & Trademark Office. This invention relates generally to low power user input devices. More specifically, the invention describes an ultra low power computer mouse having an optical tracking engine and inertial tracking engine that cooperate to provide velocity data to a computing device.
       Here’s Apple’s background on the invention: “A computer mouse is a small device that a computer user pushes across a desk surface in order to point to a place on a display screen and to select one or more actions to take from that position. The mouse first became a widely-used computer tool when Apple Computer Inc. of Cupertino Calif. made it a standard part of the Apple Macintosh line of computers. Until the late 1990s, most computer mice were opto-mechanical in nature that required a number of moving parts to work in tandem with some form of optical emitters/receiving device (such as an infrared LED/infrared sensor) to provide tracking information to a processor coupled thereto arranged to generate coordinate data that is used to move an on-screen icon (such as a pointer). Since this process is repeated hundreds of times a second, the motion perceived by a computer user is smooth and continuous.

      Lindy have introduced their USB MiniCam Pro webcam featuring built-in infra-red and while LEDs to illuminate the subject in dark conditions, an optional desk stand, and flexible neck design.
      The Lindy USB MiniCam Pro has a high sensitivity 350k pixel CMOS sensor and an adjustable glass lens which can focus on items as close as 3cm. The webcam can be used to capture still pictures, video at 30fps, and audio, making it useful for video conferencing, video IM, Skype, recording your own video podcast, and such like.
      The LINDY USB MiniCam Pro and USB MiniCam Pro with Desk Stand are available now for £21.99 each…

      Just FCC approved D-Link DWA-643 Xtreme N Notebook ExpressCard, will enable notebook computers to connect to high-speed 802.11n wireless networks, Mobile Magazine reports.
      Along with draft 802.11n wireless standard, which isn’t likely to become approved by IEEE until 2008, the DWA-643 Xtreme is backwards compatible with current 802.11g and 802.11b Wi-Fi. D-Link DWA-643 Xtreme N Notebook ExpressCard should start shipping pretty soon, according to Mobile Magazine.
      It is claimed that IEEE 802.11n wireless speed is expected to scale to 600Mbit/sec, with a range 50% greater than Wi-Fi currently offers.

      AOpen today unveiled XC Cube EZ956 and XC Cube EU965, the small form factor (SFF) Windows Vista Premium Ready barebone systems supporting Intel’s 64-bit Core 2 Duo processors.

      Both based on Intel G965 Express chipset, the white AOpen XC Cube EZ956 and black EU965 come with integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3000, which enables use of Vista Aero interface, but also provide a slot for a dedicated PCI Express x16 graphics card. The EZ956/EU965 barebone’s motherboard supports up to 4 GB of dual Channel DDRII memory modules running at 800/667/533 MHz. It has 3 SATA2 ports, HD-Audio 7.1, and 6 USB 2.0 ports.

     There is no info on AOpen’s XC Cube EZ956 and XC Cube EU965 availability dates and pricing yet…

Digital Extraction has released a new webcam which can connect to the web without getting connected to a PC. There are many webcams in the market but this type is a bit new one. It features a built-in high speed cellular modem and uses EDGE network of Cingular to get connected and transmit video through the internet. That is not the only greatness about this SCIRC t1, it is also solar powered which makes it a handy gadget when you go for a picnic or a long drive or something like that.

But it doesn’t come cheap as the camera alone will cost you $450 while its solar panel will cost $150 to $250 depending on the size of the panel you go for. This is not the end as you will have to shell out $60/year data subscription.