Archive for: wall
- December 22, 2010 6:39 am
Facebook users unhappy with how there are only two options — “Most Popular” and “Most Recent” — from which to sort wall items will be pleased to know that a change is coming. Starting today, Facebook is rolling out several new items to sort your news feed by, including: Most Recent, Games, Status Updates, Photos, Links, and Pages. On top of that, users will now also have the ability to sort by groups.
For hardcore Facebook users and no0bs alike, the change should make your walls a tad cleaner and easier to follow.
- February 25, 2010 8:25 am
Wanting to stand out from the crowd is nothing to be ashamed of. Far from it actually. It is that striving for individuality that makes us unique. “Unique” is what it would take to rationalize a wall made out of hundreds of OLED screens that detect motion, and then shoot the image back to you. The concept sounds pretty cool with the only “gee, I think I’ll hold off for now” moment coming when you see the $16,000/sq. meter this setup commands. IF I had $16,000, it wouldn’t be going to a wall of OLED’s. There are plenty of other gadgets I’d add to my stable.
In case you were interested, Phillips is offering up this little OLED wonder for €10k – 12k/sq. meter (roughly $13.5k – $16k) or renting out to those who want to give it a test drive first. The test drive mind you, isn’t cheap either, clocking in at a still expensive €10,000 (again, €15k-ish). At that price you may as well just purchase a panel outright, no?
Oh well. When you do sell your soul, organs, or first born child for a few panels of this motion detecting OLED wall, you can at least bask in the ego-filled glory that no one else in your neighborhood country has such a toy. Bask away.
Gizmodo
- February 17, 2010 2:49 pm
Unbeknownst to many, even if an electronic is fully charged, it will still draw power from the wall. Now it may not seem like much. And in reality, it isn’t — for a single gadget in a single day. But then take into account how many gadgets there are sitting fully charged in wall outlets across the world. It adds up. What if there were a “smart” plug that would detect a charged battery and released said battery accordingly?
Welcome to the Leech Plug. Designed by RSID student Conor Klein, the Leech Plug get’s it’s name after it’s real world ability to sense when it’s sucked all the power it can cram into the host battery and spit out the plug when the deed is said and done. There isn’t much to say other than sit back and watch the movie below. Prepare to be captivated. An automatically puking wall plug is quite the sight.
Video
http://www.vimeo.com/9392135
- December 29, 2009 10:16 am
Wall outlets — what exactly can we say? It’s a hole in the wall from which electrons spew forth when the appropriate (and sometimes inappropriate) material is inserted. How could technology and society actually make it better?
Enter the world transformed with the Rambler Socket. For starters, who says technology and mundane things such as wall outlets have to be ugly and unsightly? The Rambler is quite the looker.
Just because it looks good doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be functional. The Rambler excels again — offering up a fair amount of real world practicality.
The houses of tomorrow could have such a gadget pictured above and below. An outlet that stores an extension cord inside the outlet itself, allowing for more versatility and options when designing and building homes as well as giving homeowners one less thing to fret over.
I just with such concepts would come more quickly. It will easily be 15-20 years before we see any such technology implemented as “common” construction techniques in the U.S.*sigh*. Then again, they’ll have to swap out that goofy euro-connector in the pictures with a U.S. style before we could even use it anyway.
Who’s excited for wall outlets!?
Geeky-Gadgets >
Engadget
It certainly seems like more and more these days, we’re charging our electronic gadgets not by the standard power outlets in our walls, but via Universal Serial Bus (or USB) cables plugged into other gadgets of ours — like laptops, for instance.
But we certainly can’t lug around one piece of equipment at all times to charge another. Sometimes we have to revert to the “classical methodology” — plugging into the wall. Which is why the USB power outlet we have pictured is sheer genius.
The wall outlet allows for two standard electrical connections, and the addition of two USB ports for charging devices such as iPods. No need to run cables all over your home to get that quick charge in — no sir. Best of all, the outlet will only run you approximately $9.95 USD. Engadget reports that wall outlet will not be available until sometime next year, however, the product is available for ordering at FastMac.
[ image courtesy: FastMac ]
If that isn’ t a slap in the face, I don’t know what is. Whether Mr. Anderson has some ill will or salty feelings for his old love is between him and himself for the time being. What is immediately apparent to all of us is now that he’s free, he can be a bit more, um, social. Even though the page is fake, as one can see above, it is well done and a great play on social networking none the less. Did it have you fooled at first?
Mashable > Comedy.com
- September 20, 2008 8:31 pm
Uh oh….if you have been electorcuted yet by your “Ultra Compact” USB power adapter, STOP using it!!. Seems these little things have been discovered to have a nasty little defect. The power prongs can snap off in the wall outlet potentially giving your heart a not to welcome jumpstart. Most of the defective adapters came with the iPhone 3G. Follow the link to apples recall page to see if you’re affected. http://www.apple.com/support/usbadapter/exchangeprogram/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss
