Envious of the Kindle your neighbor keep flaunting? Don’t be. You can get something much better. Try the all-new MiBook, pronounced as my book. Only as big as a book, its white exterior is dominated by a 7-inch color screen. The screen shows the “books” which are actually memory chips with instructional videos. Home projects, gardening, child care, and cooking are only some of the topics or “books” that the device comes with. You just choose which among these you want to watch. MiBook comes with speakers so you can watch and listen to the videos at the same time.

Do you want to get a view of your favorite pictures anytime you want to? Here is a good idea, get for yourself a Digital Photo Keychain. This is an ingenious device that stores numerous images if you want to have special pictures with you all the time. The Digital Photo Keychain is only a small device having a 1.5-inch 128x128 LCD display where you can view the pictures stored. Aside from the pictures, it also displays time, date, week, hours, minutes, and seconds. This is a very handy feature especially if you do not have a watch.

Battery life is very important for any potential purchaser of a laptop, but what some usually do not know is that you can make your battery last longer just by tweaking some simple settings. For starters most laptops will allow you to change how bright your screen is, the brighter the screen the less time the battery will last before needing to be recharged! Also set your laptop to what are known as ‘energy saving settings’ which will again increase the time that you can use your laptop for.

Have old photos that are worth preserving? Instead of just putting them in albums, convert them to digital files. Well, you must have the negatives for those pictures to do so. And using the Summit Photofix Scanner you can easily convert them to digital files. Things get done in just a press of a button. The Scanner can be connected to your PC via USB cable. Be sure to install the software to make it work. To scan the negatives or the slides, all you have to do is load them into the scanner. Once loaded, you can choose from the slide which image to scan, so no need to cut off any negative.

Almost all commodities we have today are becoming more and more expensive. Among them is energy. Together with the rising prices, we are also suffering from energy crisis. I guess this doesn’t come as a surprise since almost every household makes use many appliances all at one time. And take note of this, a report shows that big TVs are the cause of the huge rise in energy consumption. Yup, it’s the LCDs and HD TVs that are being pointed out as the cause.

Night lamps have taken on the typical form of either round, oval, or square shade that is placed on the desk or table. Now if your room is of modern design, the new Yoyo Lamp would be a great touch in it. From its name, the Yoyo Lamp really looks like your regular toy, but don’t let appearances deceive you. This Yoyo Lamp measures 18” in diameter. It has 16-meter cable coiled around its middle and the entirety is made up of durable translucent polyethylene. This material enables even and soft distribution of light for just the right amount of night light.

Sometimes we see gadgets as just plain and simple materials that serve a specific function. As such they can be boring after some time. Good thing Dalumi Group paves the way of making some of these gadgets that we use more interesting. Well, interesting and more expensive. Dalumi partners with LG Electronics and Ricoh for super-enhanced gadgets. With LG, Dalumi made a diamond studded flash drive! See it’s a cute-looking gadget with the diamonds mounted on white gold! Just imagine if you have one, you can already wear it like an accessory around your neck. Just make sure no one snatches it from you, coz that would be a shame. It’ll be like flushing away $10,000 down the drain since that’s how much it costs.

Just in time for summer a new must-have gadget has arrived!
The thing you need most this summer on the beach is a UV MONITOR!
This new monitor from Oregon Scientific, is designed to track solar radiation levels in real time! There is even a cool feature where you enter the level of SPF you have applied on your body and the gadget actually calculates the amount of time you will be protected under the sun!

Is the Plustech Oy Walking Machine good news to environmentalists? This is actually a spider-like logging machine that is designed to make logging easier without inflicting much damage to the environment. Are you skeptic about it? Well, this machine is capable of moving around in a more nimble and responsive manner. This way it can avoid rampaging along the terrain that should be preserved. Looking at its structure, I think it can really do that. And compared to the wheeled and tracked logging machines, the Plustech Oy is a big improvement.

I can remember clearly that when we were kids we had a Rubik’s Cube at home.
Well, being just a child, I didn’t know its name was Rubik’s Cube then!
For me, it was just an ordinary cube with colorful surfaces. My older sister and older brother played with it a lot. And now, seeing this Rubik’s Cube Alarm Clock brings back memories. This is a very cool and cute little device that you can put on your bedside table. To use the clock you’d have to twist the top blocks to set the display to time, date, or temperature. Below the display are the set, up, and down buttons in case you need to reset.

Netflix subscribers now have another option if they want to get movies in a faster manner. Instead of delivery via postal service, Netflix has come up with a device that lets users download and watch movies straight to their TV sets. The new device only costs $99! Very affordable compared to Apple TV. With this device, subscribers can watch movies and shows on the spot. And the great thing is that they won’t pay beyond the subscription fee. The device is also easy to set up with the TV, so it won’t be a hassle.

Compared to Apple’s iPod, Microsoft’s Zune still needs more work and features to be categorized as outstanding and impressive. Well, Microsoft is working hard to bridge that gap that is why Zune is now equipped with new updates. The Zune is now also a social networking tool with more TV shows added to its content. If you will recall back in November, Microsoft launched a community website called Zune Social. With the new update, Zune users can now download each others most recently played songs as those flagged as favorites. Nine songs from each category can be downloaded. To be able to do this, users must subscribe to Zune Pass, Microsoft’s mobile music service. For an affordable cost of $14.99 you’ll get an access to Microsoft’s library.

In this day and age, a woman needs all the protection she can get. How would you feel if that protection comes from a lipstick? A lipstick can now be a deadly weapon. Muggers have to watch out if the lady they try to rob owns a Lipstick Stun Gun. This lipstick really has the capacity to knock out an assailant because this gives out 350,000 volts. The Stun Gun looks exactly like a lipstick as it also comes in a variety of colors and shades. No one would suspect that what you have in your purse is an almost deadly weapon.

Who doesn’t miss being able to snap a shot then enjoy it instantly? With the creation of digital cameras we find that you have to wait in order to access a printer and print the photos to enjoy them. Not for long. Polaroid, the producers of the ‘Polaroid Camera’ as it was known, have come up with a new device that gives you instant gratification. Surely this device has to be massive!