Genius Navigator 380 - the optical mouse with a VoIP phone

Taiwan-based Genius' Navigator 380 is a VoIP mouse that can support up to six instant messengers (IM) like Skype, MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, QQ and AIM and combine these IMs into one window. Besides, there are seven buttons in Navigotor 380 especially for the phone functions -- phone on/off, list up/down, volume up/down.

Mouse Buttons


Phone Buttons

Genius Navigator 380 can be carried along with a notebook and features a 1,200 dpi optical engine. The LED on the mouse blinks when there is a call through the IMs. And if the PC speaker is on, the ringing will also alert an incoming phone call. The mouse opens like a clamshell mobile phone. The Genius Navigator 380 is available in India for Rs.1,850 (INR). » Continue reading

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Believe it or not: Iceberg Ahead!

Now you know why the Titanic sank. A rig manager for a marine drilling company in Newfoundland clicked this photo. Ships have to be diverted for miles away from these icebergs, which look smaller from above the water than their real size underwater. The weight of this particular iceberg is estimated to be around 300,000,000 tons! » Continue reading

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Online oafs

BT's Home IT Adviser service has published its quirkiest conversation with tech-hassled customers. Here are a selected few:

Adviser: Press any key.
Customer: I can't find the 'Any' key.

Customer: My mouse pad isn't wired up.
Adviser: I'm not sure I understand, your mouse pad shouldn't have any wires.
Customer: Then how does it know where the mouse is?

Customer: I met a man on the Internet, can you give me his phone number?

This takes the prize.
Adviser: You have spyware on your machine.
Customer: Spyware? Does this mean that they can see me getting dressed through the monitor?

Laugh not, they walk among you! » Continue reading

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Can't find a microphone in an emergency situation? Don't worry, use your headphones (earphone)

Have you ever come across a situation where in you have to have an important online discussion with some one and you are running out of a microphone but you still have a headset (earphones)? Here is a trick by Robin Good where in you can convert your good old spare headset into a live working mike by just plugging in your headset into the microphone jack of your computer. I've tried it myself and it really works, although the sound quality is not as good as a real microphone as told by Robin. But who really cares as long as you are able to get your job done with this workaround in an emergency situation.

Tech-Recipes has detailed step by step instructions to use your iPod headphones as a microphone.

Sometime back I had accidentally plugged in a microphone into the headphone/speaker jack and guess what? Yeah, it worked like a speaker! » Continue reading

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Ouch, that was beautiful!

With a sophisticated clientele who seem to have a penchant for the bizarre, Singapore's beauty providers often go the extremes.

The most recent is the Fish Reflexology clinic, where clients' feet are exfoliated by tiny fish that nibble off dead skin -- a method traditionally used in the Middle East to treat skin diseases. The clinic says that over 2,000 customers have fed their feet to the fish. So the next time you visit this beautiful city-state, don't forget to pamper your feet!

Another popular beauty treatment is eyebrow embroidery. It entails plucking out the natural brows and drawing strands of hair back using a pen-like device that injects ink under the skin. Reportedly, the result looks more natural than a tattoo, and better than Mother Nature.

And if that sounds painful, several salons offer 'boyzilian' waxing. It is the male equivalent of the 'Brazilian,' where almost all public hair is pulled off using strips daubed in warm wax.

Image courtesy: omaritosan » Continue reading

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Creative Marketing: European semi-trucks with missing sides

These are pictures of European semi-trucks whose trailers are decorated to look like the sides are missing. The products they are hauling are painted on the sides and back.


This one shows Pepsi cases stacked on the ceiling, while the bottom of the trailer is empty.


This one is of a giant bottle of beer that looks so real, like it is coming out of the side of the trailer.


This truck has a windshield facing the back and there has been a driver painted in the driver's seat looking back over his shoulder to appear like he is driving backwards.


Here is one of a canvas tote bag.


Can you believe that the aquarium with fish swimming in it is not the real thing?


This one is of a bookshelf with giant books lined up in it and a post-it note with an advertisement on it, probably for the company that sells the books.


This one looks like it has no sides and top at all! But if the truck happens to move out of spot and it will have no effect at all.


This is the most innovative one for Pringles Hot & Spicy chips. The trailer appears as though the inside of it has been through a fire.

Now you might have thought these images to be real photographs, didn't you? You've been deceived, just like how these trucks give a deceiving look of the inside. These images are just digital mock-ups created for the Rhino Rolling Advertising Awards 06 competition in Germany. Seven winners (English translation by Google) were selected (with the Pepsi design taking first place), and those designs were implemented for real and showcased at the Awards ceremony, take a look at them here:

1. Pepsi
   
2. On the wrong way?: Windshield facing back
   
3. The tote bag
   
4. Crash
   
5. Toastbrot
   
6. Aquarium
   
7. Pringles

Special prize: Slave trade

You can take a look at the rest of the submissions here. » Continue reading

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Meet Kevin Bondelli

This 24 year young man from Tempe, Arizona is the Southwest Region Director of the Young Democrats of America, overseeing Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Yes, a politician he is! Not just that, he is the Internet Organizer, Internet and Technology Strategist and Non-Traditional Campaigns Director for the Arizona Democratic Party.

What I like about this politician guy is that he believes in the freedom of speech and is deadly against censorship of content on the Internet.

Kevin has not just got a long list of achievements in his political carrier but he is a professional graphic designer, just take a look at this F16 breaking out of this photo.

This multi faceted personality has some great ideas on how to get your book or DVD reviewed by blogs and websites.

Kevin has also pointed out some hilarious incidents where Google Maps asks you to swim across the Atlantic in order to reach Paris from New York.

His blog features some really very interesting and original content on a regular basis. Do subscribe to his blog's feeds so that you don't miss out on some really good information.

Kevin Bondelli was the fourth to submit his review of HashOut as part of the Review My Blog campaign. » Continue reading

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