If you want to keep a constant update of your weight then just log in to your Twitter account and check your weight on it. This sounds funny and a virtually impossible thing to do but it is true! Withings has announced its new Wi-Fi Body Scale that also works with Twitter. This is such a cool move made by Withings and Twitter together.

As the world knows that Twitter is becoming more popular by the minute, it definitely is going to have a great impact on the Twitterers. On the other hand, weight is a great issue amongst so many people. A lot of folks are fighting with weight issues be it obesity or under-weight problem. Therefore, Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale will benefit a lot of people who tweet regularly as they can keep a constant check on their weights. On the contrary, this may lead many Twitterers to get obsessed with their weights.

Now many people will tweet for a different reason not really to follow other fellow twitterers but to check their weight. Modern technology is indeed very powerful and extremely helpful. I wonder what Withings will come up with next.

Via: UberGizmo

If it’s upto Aydogan Ozcan, who works at the University of California, as an assistant professor of electrical engineering, he would make sure that, medical research tools such as microscopes, would be entirely replaced by mobile phones, capable of performing the same functions. It might sound like a far fetched day dream, bur Asst. Prof. Ozcan has infact modified an existing cell phone into a microscope, with the help of a software that he has designed and developed and has also some hardware required for the modifications.

The entire cost of his experimental projects set him back just $10. Imagine that, a mobile phone microscope capable of conducting all the tests that a regular microscope might do and that too for just $10. Asst. Prof. Ozcan has also set up his own company by the name of , with the sole aim of commercializing his creation and ensure that his dream does indeed gets realized. Explaining the necessity of such devices, Dr. Ozcan stated that, these device could become indefensible diagnosis tools, especially in places that are a great distance away from the nearest hospitals or diagnostic laboratories.

One of the initial prototypes have been configured as such that, the blood specimen is placed over the phone’s camera sensor, that in turn analyzes the contents of the specimen and then sends the information to the nearest health care facility wirelessly. According to Dr. Ozcan,

“For instance, the phones can detect the asymmetric shape of diseased blood cells or other abnormal cells, or note an increase of white blood cells, a sign of infection.”

Via New York Times.

In effect, it shows you direction without you having to see. Call it an external instinct that works for you! At the moment, its uncanny appearance and utility looks a little odd for lay people like us. But then the gadget has an immense potential to become the navigation device for those who cannot see – the sight impaired.

The ear navigator is called Pull-Navi. It has six helmet-mounted motors to pull the wearer’s ears forward, backward, left, right, up and down, in the respective directions that is. Designers of Pull Navi say users can follow its lead nearly at the instinct level. They can move forward, backward, speed up or even slow down, when they move. It is a finely tuned helmet. Connect the thing to a GPS, and the blind in sight would not have to be at the mercy of helping hands or their walking sticks.

Via: Engadget, Kaji-lab

If you have a difficult relationship with your emotions, you don’t to know them or don’t to control them, firstly know that you are not that alien and that can just be an indicative that you are really human.

Well, in a planet that has six billion humans, and all with dozens kinds of emotions, it is same to an enormous market. Philips has an eye and it seems to want to take advantage of that.First it was presented a emotions jacket reader which “allowed” people to try the intense emotions felt by the characters in the screen. And now there is the “Rationalizer”, a line of emotion indicative bracelets.

Developed by Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and the Dialogues Incubator, an initiative by ABN AMRO, the proposal is that they can be used by people that work in the finance market.

The Rationalizer system consists of two components – the EmoBracelet and the EmoBowl. As the emotions (which is indicate by the frequence of heart beats and the blood pressure) begin to arise, the thing is going being more and more diamond, alerting him/her so that people don’t make thoughtless decisions and end up selling their shares at the wrong moment.

The question is: if anyone is freaking out, would he or she take a time to look at the bracelete?

Via: Mirror of Emotions.

If you were wondering which is the craziest gadget to have hit stores lately, it has to be the USB-powered soldering iron by Thanko. Thanko is quite famous for churning out some of the weirdest gadgets ever. This time around, the USB-powered soldering iron also works with a 9V battery and reaches 500 degrees centigrade with the battery.

If you plug into a USB port, then it reaches 300 degrees centigrade and you could get your soldering job done easily. The USB cable is long enough and measures 100 cm long. Thanko is selling the USB-powered soldering iron for $28 and is well worth buying.

Nevertheless, it is quite a bizarre gadget and I fully do not comprehend why it needs to be USB gadget in the first place. I guess it really doesn’t matter if a gadget is bizarre or weird, and when gadgets get weird, they actually become quite attractive and inspire people to buy them. So go ahead and get one for yourself!

Via: Hobby Media

Sheilas’ Wheels really seem to know what the problems of women are. Though it may sound gendered. It is a known fact that women spend a lot of time searching for car keys in their handbags. If only they did not carry handbags or if they chose to keep the keys in their pockets, they would save like 416 hours in their lifetime from searching for car keys.

The company has devised a KeyRing which can be worn and thus the car’s key would always be with the wearer. Once the wearer gets inside the car, the person can start the car and also look for the real key which can be kept inside the car.

This would allow the person to avoid anxiety, stress and save time by not searching for car keys in the handbag. I would say, even men might need something like this, only if they are ready enough to wear a ring that consists of a girlish gemstone. There is no information about its price but you could always search for it if you truly want to buy the product.

Via: Trend Hunter

If you’re like most average individuals, then your pet cat surely has a more interesting life than you do. While you’re busy Tweeting away, and most dogs would be happy with a chewy, cats are out discovering the world. Haven’t you ever wondered why they have the most satisfied smirks on their furry faces at the end of every day?

If you’d like to discover just where your cat disappears after he has been fed to the hilt and groomed, then get yourself the Pet’s Eye View Camera. This little camera can be attached to your pet’s collar and would take pictures every 1min, 5mins or 15mins to give you a hint of what your pet has been up to. Unless you have an exceptionally naughty dog who enjoys peeing on your couch and blaming it on the postman, I suggest you don’t waste your money buying this for your dog.

Just one catch: you need to transfer the photos from the camera to a computer before the day is over else you’ll lose them. Also, it’s a tad too big for a cat. Plus, this £40 camera isn’t what you should be buying if your cat is Garfield!

Via: DailyMail

The spy gadget has two parts- the covert camera with a 2.4GHz transmitter which resides in a shoe and the fully working tri-band, 3″ GSM cell phone which receives the camera signal and records it. Thus it is possible to watch the video in real time, the video is clear and the handset is a normal handset which can be used to listen to music. The phone has 1 GB of built-in storage and the camera can broadcast out to about 50 metres. The shoe camera is priced at $329, thankfully making it just a fantasy for most, right ladies?

I wonder why Omejo did not make the hat camera considering that the shoe might get footage interesting only to perverts. Atleast the hat would have captured more relevant footage and possibly been featured in an Indiana Jones movie!

There is a Japanese gadget company called Thanko that is well known within the country as well as abroad for it whole range of quirky products (now, we have found someone to blame…errr…credit for the unique fashion-techie sense of some folks). The newest one is a pair of earphones that are connected to a fuzzy car ear hair band. Now, that is a fetish most Japanese trendsetters were looking for considering their love for the feline creature.

So now all the Akiba types and cat lovers have found themselves a great excuse to wear cat ears in public. Plus they have the added incentive of listening to their favorite music too. The earphones are in a combination of white fur ears with pink highlights for the ears.

The technical specs include a 3.5mm headphone terminal, a frequency between 0-10Hz, less than 5% strain at rated power input 0.003W 1000 Hz among others. The earphones weigh just 60g and the makers are also giving a warranty of 6 months. So go ahead and make a fashion statement that will win you some extra admiring glances from music lovers too.

Via thanko

The arrogance in us pushes us to treat our virtual life as though it were the real thing and completely ignore the facts of reality no matter how obvious it becomes. Yes, I am talking about the many inches of fat that hang from your butt and waist while you happily Twitter away online.

If there was a way to get some exercise and stay fit while also spending hours of time on the Internet, everyone would be doing that. And, now it’s possible. Tom Scott and Matt Gray came up with the WebCycle which turns out to be an exercise bike, with a slight sweaty twist to it: the faster you pedal the damn bike, the faster your download speed becomes on the Internet! Scott claims he only provided the bike and worked ont he software while Scott ended up doing the hard work. Whoever it was, the duo has come up with the bike that is the answer to all the Internet addicted obese of the world.

The WebCycle has foil sensors on the pedals which are connected to an Arduino that transmits the RPM you can manage to a laptop with Ubunto. Essentially increasing the bandwidth so your download speed becomes faster, the WebCycle lets you get to you get a healthy fix. Check out the video of the WebCycle.

Via: NowhereElse