In the past we have written about what we think should be the perfect GPS device to be placed in your car.
The usual GPS that you find in your car today has pre loaded maps on it, possibly sitting on a memory card, a big screen, crystal clear voice that helps you during your navigation. [...]

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It seems that spending too much time surrounded by Industrial Design and User Interface guys is mining my technical background but I am definitely falling in love with the Yanko Design web site.

This small white cube will sit on your desk and will wait for your mobile phone to come close.
When the cube will detect [...]

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I remember when in 2002 I bought a Palm IIIx device during a visit in the US.
One of the most fascinating thing at that time was the possibility to beam my contact details to other Palm user by simply aiming at the other device. That was the birth of the digital exchange of business cards.
Later [...]

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Accelerometers are not new technology since they have been around in several devices. Apple MacBook just to make one well known example.
Since the launch of the iPhone it seems that every mobile phone manufacturer has gone wild with this technology.
You can also find one in the Nokia N95 and Nokia has recently released the Accelerometer [...]

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Yesterday my attention was drawn by this YouTube video:

The video has been released on YouTube and as the title suggests it is a teaser. The quality of the video is pretty good and it really seems that a video professional has worked on it.Form what I can see Modu will release a very small module [...]

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I have never looked deeply in toys innovation during these years but it really seems that there are some great new products coming to the market.
One of the most interesting I have seen is Pleo coming from Ugobe.
Pleo is a robotic dinosaur that is able to interact with the external world. Reading throough the Pleo [...]

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I have been following the Bug blog for a long time waiting for the commercial availability of their products and they are finally on sale! That’s great news.
Bug Labs is a collection of modules that you can plug together to build any electronic gadget you can imagine. The great thing about this product is that [...]

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A few weeks ago I bought a Nabaztag and I was impressed by functionalities and possibilities of the “first second connected rabbit“.
I started playing with it and after a few days I decided to explore a little bit deeper in the services that I could run.
I came across opennab that is basically a proxy server [...]

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On this blog we have been writing a lot of posts on mobile phones, and, sometimes, about other kinds of consumer electronic devices.
We have seen the functionality of mobile phone evolve over time, offering to the customer always new functionality.
Bluetooth, WiFi, better camera lens, Global Positioning System, motion sensors and so on. From this point [...]

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No more than a week ago we were talking about this in a brainstorming/party session while hidden in a cave in the Gavi countryside.
It was no more than a joke and the sentence come through as a joke: “How long will the GPS industry take to build something that makes use of Heads-up display technology [...]

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This blog usually does not talk about gadget even fi I have to confess that I am really tempted about doing that.
In this occasion I think I will do talk about one great gadget I read about some time ago. I have already talked in the past about the weirdness of taking with you plenty [...]

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