Around The Home
Multi-Zone Digital Music System
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September 14, 2005 Digital music fans can now listen to rock in the garden, punk in the playroom and fusion in the bedroom, with the launch of the Sonos Digital Music System. The Sonos offering is the first and only multi-zone digital music system with a wireless, full-color LCD screen controller that lets consumers play all their digital music, all over their home, while controlling it all from the palm of their hand. One of the hits of the Consumer Electonics Show earlier this year, the system is now available in all major markets. Read More
Field Tested: Logitech and Microsoft Media Centric Keyboards
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September 13, 2005 As society enters the next phase of embracing the computer - welcoming it into our loungerooms - every computer manufacturer and peripheral maker is dreaming up new ways of how they're going to break into the entertainment and consumer electronics business. Logitech and Microsoft are no exception, they have just released media center devices to help you transform your PC into the media hub of the future. Interestingly, though Microsoft is far better known for its Windows operating system, it has more than 200 people working in hardware development at redmond - which makes it the world's most focussed developer of keyboards and mice. Last year it conducted research across the world looking at how the world is using computers and the media centric keyboard is the result of that research. Dave Weinstein looked at both keyboards and concludes that Microsoft's research is beginning to show ... Read More
Reversica introduces innovative 'Rotaxial' Motion; Hides a Thin Screen TV on One Side and a Bookcase on the Other
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September 13, 2005 In April we first wrote about Reversica’s Gyre 6300 flat screen concealment hardware system and the news is that the system has now been released - the design uses an unusual ‘rotaxial’ motion to flip a 50 inch flat screen TV 180 degrees and reveal a bookcase on the other side – all in a slim 18” case. Designed to enable consumers to create flexible living spaces the system was introduced at the CEDIA EXPO 2005. Read More
Weather-Predicting Clothes Pegs
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September 8, 2005 Now whilst we’re generally very bullish about the use of technology to improve life in general, we’re split on whether this next invention is a good idea. Oliver MacCarthy, a Product Design student from Brunel University in the UK, has designed an intelligent clothes peg, which predicts the weather and locks itself shut if it forecasts rain, preventing you from hanging clothes out if they are likely to get wet. Two symbols on the holder – ‘clear sky’ and ‘rain’ – indicate the outlook and are positioned so they can be distinguished from inside. Only one stalwart in the Gizmag team thinks this is a good idea, three think it’s massive technological over-investment that can be saved by checking the weather forecast and one is rolling on the floor laughing, talking about all the poor people who might buy one having to mortgage their kids at a later date when their clothes pegs go on the blink. If you think it has merit, read on for details Read More
The Smart Companion: an intuitive human-like user-interface solution for easy access to your digital world
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September 7, 2005 Philips Home Dialogue Systems has announced that it will start licensing its Smart Companion technology to partners in consumer electronics and the PC or network equipment industry. Using Philips’ technology and support, these manufacturers can create their own Smart Companion consumer product and shorten time-to-market. The Smart Companion is a completely new type of consumer product that will act as a companion in the home. This robot device will communicate with users in a natural human-like way, serving as an easy and intuitive intermediary to the technology surrounding us. It will assist people in their daily routine tasks such as sending messages, accessing up-to-date information, selecting their favorite music or movies, or even controlling their home appliances. Read More
Egg and Muffin Toaster: just like ... errrr
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September 6, 2005 One wonders just how much influence the MacDonalds franchise chain has had on the human grazing habits of the planet during the last few decades. We’d hazard a guess at A LOT. Anyone who has ever spent time with children will realize how effective MacDonalds has been at accessing the collective pin-number of the next generation and it’s been an institution long enough to have fond memories for the last generation and even the one before that. Which is why, we hypothesise, gadgets such as the new Egg & Muffin Toaster exist. Comfort food is relative, and for a large proportion of the community that was raised on modern fast foods, this little baby delivers comfort food in under four minutes at home. On a purely functional level, it can simultaneously toast two slices of bread, (or English muffin, bagel, croissant, etc), cook an egg (poached or steam-scrambled), and warm a pre-cooked slice of ham or sausage ... or any combination of these three functions. Clever and functional with a hook to one of the world's best marketers ... ten out of ten. Read More
Tassimo's new micro coffee brewing architecture
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September 5, 2005 There is ALWAYS a better way, no matter what the endeavour and it seems the capsule-based single cup brewer market comprised of Nespresso, Senseo, Illy's
E.S.E Espresso pods, the Keurig system at al, is in for a further shake-up. The pod system offers convenience, cleanliness and in a world starved of the one commodity you can never get enough of (time), a semi-automated micro system providing top quality makes infinite sense, particularly when it comes to delivering one of the world's most loved commodities. Coffee is the world’s second largest traded commodity, second only to petroleum – 1.5 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day in the world, more than half the U.S. adult population drinks coffee daily and they average 3.5 cups a day. Coffee makers constitute the largest segment in the small kitchen appliance category with over 19 million coffee makers sold every year in the U.S. But now, there’s a new system that uses a microprocessor that makes intelligent decisions for you and refines the science of coffee making enough to give it a competitive edge – using barcode scanning. The Tassimo system has two key components: the Tassimo brewing machine and proprietary Tassimo discs (T-DISCS). Through Tassimo's smart technology, developed and designed by Kraft Foods, the machine's microprocessor reads the bar code printed on the T-DISC label after it is inserted into the machine and automatically calculates the correct water quantity, brewing time and temperature to prepare the perfect beverage. Read More
The world’s first software company and the world’s first player violin
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August 25, 2005 Prior to the advent of electronic mass media, the height of home entertainment technology was the player piano – a piano which played music encoded in binary format on perforated paper rolls. The company which became the dominant provider of both player pianos and the rolls they played is still in business today, and rightfully claims to be the world’s oldest software company. Interestingly, QRS (formerly Quality Roll Services) is now selling one of the most remarkable musical instruments in the world - the world’s first player violin, the QRS Virtuoso Violin. The QRS Virtuoso Violin is a real acoustic instrument. It produces sound by moving a bow across a string, just as a traditional violin does. Only in this case, bow and string are controlled by a computer chip rather than a human hand. Unlike the traditional violin, which has four strings, the Virtuoso Violin uses a single three-Inch steel "string-blade" to create sound. The bow, driven by motors and microchips in a box on which the violin is mounted, glides back and forth over this vibrating blade. The resulting sound rivals that of the traditional violin. Read More
Logitech rolls out clever wireless products for the home
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August 24, 2005 The wireless opportunity seems to abound everywhere, and the opportunity to long time computer accessory company Logitech announced three products today that will enable ingenious wireless home entertainment possibilities. The products include a system that wirelessly links an iPod to the home-entertainment system, a set of wireless headphones for PC users and system which can stream any format of digital audio from the PC to a home stereo system or to a separate speaker system. No wireless network is needed; everything required is in the box. Read More
MODE multi-zone wall-mounted interface allows you to control your iPod and other multimedia devices from six rooms in your home
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August 23, 2005 America's largest architectural loudspeaker manufacturer SpeakerCraft is preparing to release what it terms MODE (the Music On Demand Experience). MODE is a full-colour, wall-mounted screen interface with a scroll wheel and push button controls, that allows home owners to access and control all of their multimedia equipment, including their iPod, in up to six rooms of the home. MODE will support up to six multimedia devices through the SpeakerCraft MZC (multi-zone control) system, including hard drive music servers, satellite radio, AM/FM radio tuners, and all other sources that respond to infrared commands. The key feature of MODE is its ability to control and display all content stored on your iPod in up to six rooms, a feature not available on any other multi-zone home install system. In addition, MODE's sleek design and interactive display screen strike a perfect balance between style and functionality. Read More
NOMEX Oven rack Guard
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August 21, 2005 Okay, hands up all those people who cook regularly and don’t burn themselves on the steel oven racks! Aaah, hah, we thought so. So you’ll probably want to know about the Cool Touch Oven Rack Guard, a product whose job description covers only one thing - protecting against accidental burns from touching or brushing against oven racks! Made from a Dupont NOMEX, the same material that protects firefighters and race car drivers, the Cool Touch Oven Rack Guard protects by slowing heat transfer from hot oven racks to your skin. Jazinnovations also has a product that slips over the metal lid handles of cooking pots and saucepans (another “hot spot” that seems to attract people who burn themselves a lot). Read More
LG's jewel-encrusted refrigerator
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August 19, 2005 There’s something distinctly nouveau riche about the new limited edition jewel encrusted DIOS refrigerator from LG. Aimed at the Taiwanese market, the R-U719GWN three door refrigerator has all the usual LG high tech domestic wizardry such as an ice-maker and LCD panel, but comes with an extra helping of bling in that it has several inlays of Swarovski crystals – 4900 of them. What we can’t quite understand is why it’s so cheap - KRW 3,990,000.00 – approximately US$3900. Perhaps there’s a discount for being so over the top.
Nespresso Romeo Review
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August 17, 2005 Single Serve Coffee is a site devoted to the love of fine coffee and no sooner had we written up the Nespresso Essenza, which comes in at the compact-budget end of the Nespresso scale, than they came up with an actual review of the Nespresso Romeo before it launches this September. The Romeo will come in at the high end of the range for Nespresso, and utilizes the same coffee capsule loading system and is aptly named Romeo, as the coffee capsule is placed on a small balcony. Single Serve's review can be found here. Read More
Nespresso’s compact coffee-made-simple System
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August 15, 2005 One of the greatest challenges in life is to create a coffee at home which is as good as the best coffee you can buy in your favourite coffee shop. It's a complex equation involving obtaining the right equipment, refining the technique and obtaining the freshest and best quality coffee. There's a definite affinity between computers, high-performance people and coffee - we're not sure what the common elements are but high clock speeds seems to be part of the equation and there are few technology environments where caffeine is not the staple diet. Which sort of accounts for why coffee is one of the largest cost-centres for this humble magazine - all press briefings are over coffee, we have our meetings over coffee, and we drink coffee in our spare time, sometimes so often that the entire staff can levitate by 4pm in the afternoon on a busy day. So the news that Nespresso has unveiled a new compact coffee system was significant for us. Now while Nespresso is clearly related to Nescafe, the concept behind it is at the other end of the connoisseur scale, as we have previously explained. Indeed, Nespresso is so focused on nurturing the brand’s upmarket pedigree, it has opened dozens of coffee boutiques in the world’s cultural centres selling just Nespresso-produced coffee. Read More
UK’s New i-deck Ignites a British Invasion for the iPod Revolution
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August 12, 2005 The iPod continues to go from strength to strength, fueling an accessory industry that’s bigger than anyone could have possibly dreamt of. Now, there’s a new bent on the iPod accessory from UK loudspeaker technology company, Monitor Audio. The i-deck transforms an iPod from a personal technology digital music player into a stereo sound system with audiophile quality and the sleek looks to match. The i-deck’s functionality permits continuous playback when the user docks their iPod, so you no longer have to restart songs or playlists. The i-deck also sports a credit card sized RF remote that can control the i-deck from anywhere in the house and the unit also recharges iPods during playback. Read More
Iron with autolift
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August 11, 2005 Oliso announced the release of its Touch&Glide iron earlier this week, claiming the new iron would redefine the experience of ironing. Well let's hope so, cos we're pretty sure there aren't many humans on the planet that are all that keen on ironing as a hobby or past-time. One of the aspects of the new iron which really caught our eye was the iron's touch-sensitive handle which activates its AutoLift system, automatically lifting the iron off of the fabric when the handle is released. It lowers itself onto the fabric or an ironing board whenever you touch its handle. Now that's clever, though it does beg the question as to why it has taken so long to think of this. General Electric introduced the electric iron as we know it in 1892, giving us 113 years to think about it. When Seimens introduced the company's shirt ironing machine, we calculated it would save people at least 40 minutes a week. We reckon the Touch&Glide is a winner, as it focusses on usability and performance, claiming users of the iron have reduced ironing time by one third. Read More
VisionMirror TV and computer monitor
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August 9, 2005 The trend towards multitasking in everything we do is continuing, with UK-based VisionMirror now offering a commercial TFT-LCD display within a mirror. The Mirror TV concept originated from Philips HomeLab and was the first commercial product to emanate from the R & D “Big Brother-like” house run by the Dutch giant but MiraVision isn’t available in some countries so it’s kinda fortunate that VisionMirror appears identical to MiraVision – it is operated via infra red control, is impervious to moisture and can hence be used in bathrooms and when switched off, it functions like a regular mirror. Indeed, we must comment on the extraordinary amount of innovation being focussed on the mirror at present. In recent times we’ve also reported on the BabyCam monitoring system which uses very similar technology, the SUCK LED Mirror with RSS feed and Accenture's intelligent mirror that analyses your behavioural patterns and can reflect an image of what you'll look like five or ten years from now. Read More
The floating vacuum cleaner
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August 7, 2005 Somewhere between a miniature hovercraft and a traditional vacuum cleaner, the AIRIDER has been nine years in development. While we’re not sure why it took so long, it is nonetheless a very good idea because one of the most difficult aspects of cleaning is dragging the vacuum around behind you and with a cushion of air making the machine frictionless, there’s no effort required to drag it around. Apart from floating an eighth of an inch off the floor, the bag-less design also reduces clogging and increases performance, with a claimed suction speed of 200 miles per hour. Read More
The Satala: a one tree hammock
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August 3, 2005 Unique, beautiful and damned clever, the Satala is a one-tree hammock – which means you can have a hammock off a wall or any solid object. On top of that, there are no strings to tangle and no issues getting in and out – indeed, the manufacturer Aquagallery claims the Satala is just as comfy with two people. The Satala is the work of Israeli designer, Ayala Serfaty, a designer whose global renown is growing thanks to her brilliant development of shapes from nature into useful and incredibly beautiful objects. As can be seen from the variety of images here, the Satala can be adapted in many ways. The price is US$4000
How to make mowing the lawn fun!
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July 30, 2005 From the why-didn’t-we-think-of-this department, the Evatech lawnmower takes the lawn mower principle, adds a powerful motor and a remote-control unit and even adds in a hybrid power supply (well, sort of) so you don’t need to charge the battery. The result is an all-terrain lawnmower that makes mowing the lawn fun. The Florida-produced machine has found a lucrative and unexpected market with retiree and disabled customers though there’s apparently a whole bunch of able-bodied male suburban dwellers who have suddenly found a passion for mowing the lawn! Read More
Retractable Wall Oven Door!!!
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July 25, 2005 Now we also found it hard to believe that a retractable oven door hadn’t been done before because some people have really tiny apartments and it’s just so darned logical to have a door that doesn’t take up all that kitchen real estate, particularly if there are kids around with it being so hot and burny-burny and all. But it’s true. Manufacturer Oven Elite claims it’s the latest innovation in traditional wall oven design and it is a good idea, so there you have it … the Door-a-way. Read More
Wooden headphones
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July 16, 2005 With the trend towards exotic metals and composites in our consumer electronics products, JVC made an interesting move this week when it released its new HP-DX1000 wooden headphones onto the Japanese market. Priced at JPY 105,000 yen (US$1000 to you), the headphones reportedly produce exquisite rich sound thanks to their natural wooden housings and a special driver unit that is directly mounted onto the wood using the company’s proprietary "Direct Mount Construction." To complete the package, you can purchase a matching wooden stand for your headphones at JPY 26,000 yen (US$250). It’s all frightfully expensive we agree, but the headphones offer a frequency response from 4Hz to 30kHz which is probably better than your ears.
Digital Projector with Integrated DVD Player – instant home theatre
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July 15, 2005 Now this idea just might have some legs. The MovieTime Digital DVD projector by Optoma lets consumers instantly create a home theater environment anywhere there’s a flat wall and a power outlet. It’s a compact ultra bright, theater-quality digital projector with a built-in DVD player and integrated speakers. Originally shown at the CES earlier this year, the MovieTime DVD projector is designed for a wide range of home entertainment options, from watching the latest DVD movie releases to hooking it up to a gaming console so you can play on a large screen with friends and family. Because of MovieTime's integrated digital DVD player and two 5-watt speakers, as well as its short-throw lens, it is easy to turn any room in the house into an instant screening room - right out of the box. Read More
Intelligent solid-state lighting system relights Philadelphia's Famed Boathouse Row
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July 14, 2005 Blown filaments and broken globes aren’t the only casualties of traditional incandescent lighting compared to the coming solid state lighting, and that was never more evident than the recent relighting of Philadelphia's famed Boathouse Row. The new LED-based lighting system replaces the previous 30-year-old incandescent system, and is expected to save the Fairmount Park Commission approximately US$57,000 in annual operating costs.
Audio, Radio, internet radio and podcasting trickery
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July 13, 2005 While the world seems focused on television and Personal Video recorders, the technological leaps associated with podcasting and timeshifting audio/radio from different sources are often overlooked. One of the leaders in the field is Griffin Technology Inc., which has released some significant functionality for Mac, PC, and iPod. Among the company’s offerings are RocketFM (a wireless solution for broadcasting PC audio applications to any FM radio), radio SHARK (which adds an AM/FM radio to any PC and can record any AM or FM radio broadcast i.e. TIVO for radio), AirClickUSB Remote (a non-line-of-sight wireless remote control for PCs that allows users to control their computers from 20 metres away), BlueTrip (a wireless transmitter/receiver for broadcasting CD-quality audio from an iPod to a home stereo), SmartDeck Intelligent Cassette Adapter for iPod (which allows users to control their iPod using the built in controls of their car or home cassette player) and a beta software program entitled iFill. IFill is exciting because it streams mp3 files from thousands of free radio stations directly to your iPod while it is charging. You can choose several stations at once and select from many different genres. And you can download a trial copy for free ... just follow the links >>>> Read More
Motorised in-wall speakers change position to diffuse sound
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July 8, 2005 Last week KEF released the motorised in-ceiling speaker and today the company released a new in-wall speaker. The in-wall loudspeaker lies flush within the wall when not in use, and features a motorized, flat-panel, high frequency driver that automatically extends outward to evenly deliver surround effects throughout the entire room. The Ci FDT’s combination of genuinely unobtrusive installation and advanced audio engineering creates a highly immersive film experience with performance "well beyond that of stationary in-wall speakers" according to KEF. Read More
1-2-PAINT: the epitome of good design
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July 7, 2005 The Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) have just been announced for 2005 and they’re well worth a look as any recipient, be it a Gold, silver or Brnze award, is among the best and most striking projects in the world of international design. One that really caught our eye in the 2005 awards was 1-2-Paint - a paint bucket with an innovative lid that serves as a paint tray. One of the jurors commented: “In my opinion, 1-2 Paint represents what design is all about. Some products become commodities until a creative design idea adds new qualities to one of them. Then, the whole market is redefined. Paint containers will never be the same after this project.” Read More
The Flying Carpet
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July 3, 2005 Digital imaging offers the ability to create fantastic images and use them in new ways by creating spaces to transform perceptions and indeed create whole new environments. We now have the ability to put any image on a wall (via digitally printed wallpaper), curtains, ceilings and now to have digitally imaged carpet created, giving us complete artistic control of interior design like never before. When we first saw the remarkable work of Iranian artist Seyed Alavi we were transfixed in that he offers perspectives we’d not seen before and for each person, those perspectives were different. Alavi’s latest project is indeed likely to inspire a myriad of ideas from creatives all over the world when they see how he had an aerial view of the Sacramento River woven into a carpet for the floor of a pedestrian bridge connecting the Sacramento International Airport terminal to the parking garage. It is indeed, a “flying carpet”… Read More
Photocatalytic tiles reduce pollution
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June 17, 2005 Italian ceramic tile manufacturer Gambarelli has produced a remarkable new tile that catalyses a reaction with pollution to break it down to salt and purify the air. Gambarelli’s new Oxygena range of tiles is coated with titanium dioxide, which has photocatalytic properties - when exposed to sunlight, it activates a reaction similar to that of chlorophyll photosynthesis in plants. In university tests, it has been found in eight hours of exposure to daylight, one square metre of Oxygena tiles purifies 72 cubic metres of air. Read More
Wireless smoke alarms – another no-brainer
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June 17, 2005 Add wireless technology to existing products and the result is often a quantum leap forward in functionality. One recent example of this was the ingenious wireless light switch. Now here’s another – the wireless smoke alarm. In this case the smoke alarms in your home connect wirelessly so that if one sounds the alarm, they all do. Many municipalities now mandate interconnected smoke alarms by law – even if it’s not law where you live, it’s a good idea because the ten to thirty seconds saved by getting the first possible warning might save a life. Other benefits of this clever system include a voice alert alternating with the alarm, and a low installation cost. Read More
The Girlfriend Lap Pillow
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June 12, 2005 A couple of months back we wrote up the boyfriend arm pillow and it became one of Gizmag’s all-time most-read stories (in excess of 250,000 page views at last count) because, well … people are weird. Now we have further irrefutable proof of that. The incredible success of the boyfriend arm pillow has spawned what the Japanese manufacturers are hoping will be the male equivalent – the girlfriend lap pillow. Unlike the boyfriend arm pillow which has a heartbeat and is soft and snugly, the girlfriend lap pillow comes with realistic-to-the-touch legs and a tight short polyester skirt in your choice of black or red. Read More
Another good hide-the-speakers technology
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June 10, 2005 In keeping with Gizmag’s quest to keep readers informed on how to make technology ubiquitous and invisible, meet the ELAC Imago picture panels with DML technology (Distributed Mode Loudspeaker Technology). They hang on the wall and look like normal pictures but they are hi-fi loudspeakers and the bonus is that you decide what they will look like – a Monet, a Duret, a Lombarte, or a Van Gogh. For stereo listening, all you have to do is connect two ELAC flat panel speakers and the matching subwoofer to your hi-fi. For home theatre systems, two, three or four of the five speakers can be easily integrated into every living-room environment. Read More
Philips LCD and plasma screens win blind comparison test
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June 9, 2005 There isn't a big screen manufacturer on the planet without a team of fast-talking, jargon-wielding product managers and technical experts who are all incredibly good at convincing you their brand is the most technologically advanced in existence. Which made it a refreshing change when Philips invited us to a blind comparison test – over 400 retailers and journalists were invited to go along and see its 42-inch Plasma and 32-inch LCD televisions placed alongside several other comparable brands and models in a ‘masked’ study. We were there – we participated – from a blind survey of 400 industry people 74% ranked Philips Plasma first, and over 60% ranked the Philips LCD first based on overall picture quality. The products tested were 42 inch plasma screens from Philips, Panasonic, Pioneer and LG and the 32 inch LCD screens from Philips, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung and Sharp. Read More
More “Groundbreaking” Hard Disc Drives
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June 9, 2005 A travelling Martian could be excused for confusing the digital storage and construction industries as it seems not a month goes by without a number of significant “groundbreaking firsts” in both camps. Whatever problems humanity will face in the future, massive digital storage in a very small form factor will not be one of them. In an industry characterised by extreme competitiveness and a level of excellence that can be quantified, each new product range seems to hold a number of “groundbreaking firsts.” Seagate’s new range of disc drives was released yesterday and the product plans outlined point to a future where every one of our main possessions has its own specifically-designed disc drive. What began as home PC storage capacity has been supplemented by digital storage in PDAs, MP3 players, game consoles, digital cameras and personal video recorders (PVR) and will soon be added to in our automobiles and mobile phones. Yesterday’s Seagate announcement included a number of “groundbreaking storage firsts” designed to enable a range of consumer electronics and traditional applications, including the first 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording, the first hard drive with Full Disc Encryption, the first 8GB 1-inch hard drive for handhelds capacities and a ruggedised hard drive designed specifically for automotive applications. Read More
Free Spirit Spheres go into production
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June 6, 2005 Following an enormous surge of interest resultant from our story a few months back, Free Spirit Spheres has commenced limited production of the 3.2 metre fibreglass sphere tree houses and now has sphere shells (US$6,300+) and kits (US$35,000+) available for the DIY market. Orders are now also being taken for the wooden shells and component kits (US$35,000+), and fully-finished made-to-order wooden Free Spirit Spheres. (US$120,000+). Shells can also be rented for the night (if you’re in Canada), and licensing talks are underway with manufacturers in Sweden, UK, France, Argentina and Costa Rica. Read More
