The best current ebay auctions for oobject heads, including a Mickey Mouse that has been in space, a $4000 armor dress and some great vintage computer gear including an original Altair 8800b. vote for your faves.<p />
Here are the 15 contenders for Oobjects gadget of 2007, including the obvious: iPhone; Wii and Sony OLED TV and some lesser known items such as the cellphone roaming charge eliminating SkyQube. Vote for the winner.<p />
What are the essential gadgets to carry around every day? The first in a series where various people describe their current or ideal stash. Today its Oobject’s turn. Vote to rank our choices.
The fact that Intel had to produce a concept reference design for a laptop to show what could be done, gives some idea of what a depressingly poor choice there is for laptops.<p /><p />These are very personal items, something that usually stimulates value-added qualitative design rather than bigger and better CPUs drives and screens. But the fact is, unlike the multitude of smaller hi-fi equipment manufacturers, the number of people making laptops has reduced massively in the last few years. Laptops look pretty much the same, product design wise (not feature wise), as they did almost a decade ago and none come close to other areas of high end consumer electronics in terms of design flair.<p /><p />So here is our list of recent laptops you can currently or will shortly be able to buy that are subjectively well designed. There are no real surprises other than the ones we chose to omit.
An Alarm clock is one of those gadgets that is simple enough to warrant a thousand different design variants. Here are the ones we consider most innovative or fun.<p /><p />Be awoken by a muezzin or a drill sargent and switch off by feeding money, doing a puzzle, diffusing a bomb, stepping on scales or grabbing a swinging pendant. We’ve included everything here except the Clocky, which you can see on a hundred thousand other blogs. Vote for your faves.
What digital cameras have the largest zoom? Three new non-SLR cameras were announced in September, with 18x Optical Zooms, here they are along with their nearest rivals.<p /><p />The optical zoom on a camera of a type that you can easily carry around most of the time, seems like the single most important feature, since all other principal features, like megapixels, seem to have maxed out.<p /><p />Our task is specific. Photographing ‘architectural details on buildings in New York’. (We can’t be bothered to schlep around 15 lenses, but want to capture details, without a ladder). However, a good zoom is what you really need for most photographic tasks.<p /><p />Three new non-SLR cameras with 18x Optical zoom, have been announced recently. They look like the ones to beat: The Panasonic DMC FZ18, Olympus SP-560 UZ and Fujifilm Finepix S8000fd.
These are the absolute best that money can buy, when it comes to headphones. The ATH-W5000s are nearly $2000 and the Ultimate Ears UE 11’s are custom made to fit the ears of many rock stars.<p /><p />If money were no object these are the headphones you might want. Cans for Cannes.<p />
Tokyo flash became famous for selling amazingly abstract watches which told the time in any way imaginable from Morse Code to a video game display.<p /><p />Here are some of their classics along with any other amazing Japanese watches that we find.<p />
LEDs have made ordinary flashlights much more interesting and diverse. From military grade ‘tactical illuminance’ that will strip paint off a wall at 600 yards, to teeny keychain brite-lights.<p /><p />We will constantly update this category with interesting or unusual finds.
The focus here is on a stand that doesn’t mess up slick Apple designed laptops, when they are parked on your desk.<p /><p />Closest to the Apple design in terms of looks, is the Mstand. Although the wire hole seems to serve no purpose other than decoration and so misses the Apple spirit of ergonomic simplicity.
Since the Psion III showed the way forward for a super small keyboard device, somewhere between a cellphone and a Laptop. Its a type of device that offers something that the iPhone or Blackberry will never<p /><p />These days this form factor is dominated by devices used to play videos and some of the designs are very good.
