Get your kids hooked on going green- Hydrogen Fuelled Racing Car

The genius boffins at Horizon have come up with the world's smallest hydrogen-powered fuel cell car which has been nominated for the Intel Environmental award in Silicon Valley's Tech Museum – a grand honour for those of you who are not so technically inclined! The H2 Racer has all the notches on its belt, design, engineering and most importantly is as green-friendly as you can get without being a tree! This wicked little racer comes as a kit so it's perfect for those of you who fancy themselves as being ‘good with your hands', or just those of you who have some serious time on their hands! Full instructions are included of course.

In a nutshell, you power up the fuelling station using just good old H2O (water) in a matter of minutes…siphon it off into the H2 Racer and you're all set to run for up to 100feet ( or around 4 minutes)! The fuelling station can be powered using batteries or solar panels so you can charge up the racer over and over and over and over and over – well, you get the idea!

H2 Racer Pack Includes:
·H2 Racer in kit style for the handy enthusiast
·Car runs on water and solar or battery power
·The fuelling station produces hydrogen for fuel from simple water in a matter of minutes
·Car can drive up to 100feet or around 4 minutes before needing a recharge
·Requires 2 x AA batteries, alternatively use the sun (solar panels are included)
Car is 15 x 8 x 5cm and Fuelling station is 11 x 9 x 7cm.

Hydrogen Fuelled Racing CarBoys Stuff Price: £59.95
See H2O car

Nokia Launches the E62 available from Cingular

Nokia might have found a sweet spot with the E62. Comfortably priced at around $150, the E62 should attract a lot of buyers balking at $500 above prices for similarly featured smart phones.

The E62 packs quick a punch with a suite of features including:
Email and Messaging
Enhanced voice features
320 x 240 pixel active matrix display
Up to 80 MB of fixed user data memory

The E62 weighs about 5 ounces.

The only important missing feature is the camera :-(

Palm Treo Series : Palm Treo 700x & Treo 750

Palm recently announced the Treo 700wx, a windows mobile powered phone available from Sprint that packs more memory than the older 700w. Also slated for release at the end of the year is the Treo 750v that combines phone, email, messaging, web and Windows Mobile. Includes a 1.3Megapixel zoom camera.

Read about the Treo 750v

Fashion meets phone: Motorazr V3i Dolce & Gabbana

Sold at stores like Bloomingdale's, this high-end version of the Razr comes with gold-colored accessories like a Bluetooth headset, too.

The MOTORAZR V3i DOLCE & GABBANA unites the elegance and unique design of Motorola with the individual style and attitude of DG. This distinctive gold handset comes with a fashionable lanyard and is loaded with DG ringtones, screen savers & wallpapers. Available for purchase in the same exclusive collection are a DG gold eel skin carry case, S200 gold headphones and matching compatible Bluetooth® enabled H700 headset. MOTORAZR V3i DOLCE & GABBANA, perfect marriage of design and technology.

Read more about the Motorazr at Motorola.

ElekTex® Powers Fashion-Conscious Professionals with iPod®-enabled Tailored Suit

Eleksen Group plc. the world’s leading provider of touch-sensitive smart fabrics for consumer electronics in apparel and accessories, has been chosen by the top innovator of men’s and women’s tailored clothing, Bagir, to produce its iPod suit for men. Bagir works with major retailers throughout the US and UK including Brooks Brothers, Lands End and Marks & Spencer. The suits are expected to hit the racks at the end of November ‘06.

The Bagir suit jacket integrates Eleksen’s ElekTex® smart fabric touchpad technology, which transforms a lapel into a five-button electronic control panel. The ElekTex-enabled iPod Suit is both fashionable and functional. The suit is machine-washable and wrinkle-resistant, making it the ideal choice for today’s music-savvy and style conscious business professionals.

ElekTex is the breakthrough touch-sensitive textile which is also lightweight, flexible, durable and washable. Virtually undetectable once integrated, ElekTex transforms clothing into must-have-fashion for the billion dollar portable MP3 and mobile phone market. Marrying cutting-edge fashion with ElekTex empowers clothing designers to reinvent their brands and products. ElekTex allows designers to truly combine fashion and function, creating clothing which responds to the dual consumer demand for fashion that both reflects personal style and incorporates mobile entertainment and communications devices.

The Bagir iPod Suit will be available in five styles, and has a suggested retail price of £149. Visit http://www.eleksen.com/www.bagir.com for additional details.

Biometric Bodysuits

A team of the Applied NanoBioscience Center at Arizona State University has built prototypes of biometric bodysuits. They can detect chemical attacks, deliver drugs to their wearers, or even perfume scents if your body temperature rises too much. The military version of the Scentsory Chameleon Bodysuit incorporates fuel cells to provide a lightweight source of power for the soldier's equipment. The civilian one can monitor your heart or blood pressure, deliver interactive games or simply work as a wearable computer. You will even be able to download new colors and patterns from the Web to change your appearance according to this article from East Valley Tribune in Arizona. Both versions should reach the market within a few years.

Read more about the Biometric body suits here.

Heartbeat Hoodie

Some interesting glimpse at wearable technologies coming into market in the near future. Recent exhibits at the "Seamless: Computational Couture," a runway fashion event curated by MIT Media Lab graduate students include the Heartbeat Hoodie.

Heartbeat Hoodie explores the idea of involuntarily documenting parts of life using a camera to take photographs at moments of interest or excitement. The camera, strategically placed above the eyes on the hoodie, takes photographs as the wearer's heart rate increases. The camera is wired discreetly through the seeming of the garment to a basic stamp that communicates with a wireless heart rate monitor. The basic stamp uses an algorithm to analyze the heartbeat for increases that might signify a moment of excitement or interest as opposed to physical exercise. At the end of the day, you can reflect on moments that caused interest and excitement by viewing the photographs. Since the photographs are taken involuntarily, you may find new points of interest that you were not conscious of.

Check out other interesting wearables at Computational Couture

Apple's iTV Hometheatre Playback Box - Send your videos from your PC to TV

Apple's newest innovation code-named iTV is expected to transmit digital media files straight from your PC to your TV.

Jobs described the forthcoming $299 set-top box about 3 times a CD case, as “completing the package” of Apple’s multimedia offerings. Users can download music, TV programs, and now movies from the iTunes Store. They can watch those multimedia files on both their Macs and iPods. However, there’s no easy way of watching such programming on their television sets—Jobs sees iTV as the key piece of that puzzle.

Resembling a squat Mac Mini, the iTV will use wireless networking to stream movies and TV shows from iTunes to a television. The power supply is built right in to the unit; it also features USB 2.0, Ethernet, High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) plug, component video, analog audio and optical audio interfaces.


The box is driven by software that carries a slight resemblance to Front Row, the multimedia control application Apple bundles with newer Macs. However, software features 3-D animated graphics with a menu on the right while dynamic graphics are displayed on the left.

Read more at Apple.

How small can MP3 players get?

The new cube like MobiBlu DAH-1500 is a tiny MP3 Player measuring only 24x24x24mm.

The MobiBlu DAH-1500 has a OLED display and sports a 20 hours playback time. It features a FM tuner and the headset plug is also the data connector. This cube style player is smaller than the iPod shuffle in Volume.

The DAH-1500 has an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display- It has FM Radio, FM Recording, and Voice Recording- It supports MP3, WMA and protected WMA (DRM).

As a note, there are currently two versions of the Cube Player being sold in the world today: The DAH-1500 and the DAH-1500i. The DAH-1500 is being sold outside of the US market under the brand name JNC with the model numbers SFF-8100, SFF-8005, and SFF-8002.The JNC Version are not THE AUTHORIZED PRODUCT FOR THE US MARKET. The DAH-1500i is the only version authorized for the US market and it adds two very important features: USB 2.0 and WMA DRM (Digital Rights Management). The USB 2.0 provides much faster file transfer speeds and WMA DRM means that the device is compatible with major music download sites (pay per song).

See the DAH-1500 at MobiBlu. You can also buy the cube at Eyezotica.