Microsoft Evous - V-Shape Mouse Pen

Design looks like a spaceship, but it is the concept of a new mouse to produce at Microsoft. It is a model created by designer Evous Marcial Ahsayane. 

Its V-shape is intended for dual use: one part standard mouse buttons with touchscreen and other virtual stylus to draw on the areas of image editors. Inside there is also a scroll that gives a feedback through a bright green LED.

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Corky the Kinetic Mouse - no batteries required

Corky from designer Adele Peters, a finalist is this year's Greener Gadgets Design Competition...

Freeing oneself from the shackles of wired PC periphery does come at a cost. In order to power such liberation, users rely on batteries. Even rechargeable ones impede workflow when they run out of juice. Designer Adele Peters proposes capturing the energy from moving, clicking and scrolling and using it to power Corky, a kinetic mouse made from recycled materials.

A finalist in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the eco-friendly peripheral has an element within the body to harvest energy from movement, a similar setup is fitted to the scroll wheel and a piezoelectric element stores energy from each click of the left and right buttons. As its name suggests, the outer shell is made from waterproofed recycled cork and all the plastics are from recycled stock too. Regional material sourcing and assembly and end of life recycling add more green points to its credentials.

Precise details of internal electrics were not outlined in the design so it's not known whether Corky will be able to harvest enough energy from user movement to enable consistent operation, such things will no doubt be answered as and when a prototype results.

The concept just missed the bronze medal in the audience vote at the Greener Gadgets 2010 Conference in New York last month, coming fourth behind a USB device charger that is powered by interior light, a rocking chair kinetic device charger and the winner, a mobile phone app that provides consumers with pertinent food information from local growers.

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Sony Vaio Conceptual Transparent Screen Laptop

I received an email from a friend of mine about the new latest conceptual technology gadgets which we expect will be coming out in the market soon.
It included a Sony Vaio laptop which has a transparent screen. You can see through the screen if the laptop is off.

 

  

What’s the future laptop will look like? The Japanese consumer electronics giant, Sony has introduced its new VAIO Zoom that looks like future concept. It’s a cool, sleek and stylish notebook which features a touch-sensitive keypad, as well as a holographic glass screen that able to go transparent when turned off.

For sure, an innovative and cool holographic glass screen that involved in VAIO Zoom doesn’t really exist in the market yet, it’s just a concept for now. Anyway, it’s pretty sure that many consumers would like to see a high-tech and fantastic laptop like this in the future.

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The Ten worst Passwords on the web

You’re not fooling anyone with that “123456” password of yours. “Password” isn’t much better, and sorry ladies, but “princess” is also no good. These are among the findings in a report released by Imperva, a data security firm that analyzed 32 million passwords recently exposed in the Rockyou.com breach. Not only did they identify the most common, and thus easily-guessable passwords, but they also suggested some effective methods for creating secure ones.

Rockyou.com is a website where users can develop apps to use on social networking sites. Last December, a hacker gained access to all of Rockyou’s members’ usernames, email addresses and passwords (which had been stored in plain, unencrypted text) and posted the passwords to the Internet. Given that many people use the same username and password for all of their online dealings, such as banking, the results could have been disastrous. Fortunately, the perpetrator seemed to be mainly interested in exposing Rockyou’s insufficient security, as they didn’t post the usernames or emails.

Imperva analyzed the hacked data, and compiled their findings in the Consumer Password Worst Practices report. Of the 32 million passwords involved, the ten most common were:

• 123456
• 12345
• 123456789
• Password
• iloveyou
• princess
• rockyou
• 1234567
• 12345678
• abc123

It was found that almost half of the members used names, slang words, proper words, or trivial passwords such as consecutive digits, or adjacent keys on the keyboard.

So, what sort of password SHOULD people be using?

Imperva made the following recommendations:

• It should contain at least eight characters (30% of users had passwords that were six letters or less)
• It should contain a mix of four different types of characters (i.e: upper case, lower case, numbers, symbols)
• It should not be a name, word, or contain any part of your name or email address

The report also suggests using a different password for every website, not sharing your passwords with third parties, and using the first letters of each word in a sentence as your password (For instance, “this little piggy went to market” would be “tlpWENT2m”).

“The data provides a unique glimpse into the way that users select passwords and an opportunity to evaluate the true strength of passwords as a security mechanism,” said Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman. “Never before has there been such a high volume of real-world passwords to examine.”

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AirMouse - the mouse that fits you like a glove!

 

It’s no secret... Studies have shown that excessive Mouse usage can cause repetitive stress injuries. Unfortunately for most of us, “excessive” can mean anything more than a few hours a day. Fortunately, however, there are alternative styles of mice out there designed to be easier on the hands and arms. One of the more interesting ones to come along in a while is the AirMouse, made by Canadian firm Deanmark Ltd. What makes it unique is the fact that you wear it like a glove.

Deanmark founders Mark Bajramovic and Oren Tessler met in university, where Mark learned first-hand (no pun intended) what it’s like to OD on mousing. “Half way through our first year, I developed a computer mouse related RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) and lost the use of my right hand and arm for several weeks,” he tells us. “Numbness, pain, most things that you hear about with RSI’s, I had it.” Later that semester, Mark and Oren heard about an ergonomic mouse being marketed in Europe. While they thought that particular product wasn’t perfect, it got them thinking about designing their own. The AirMouse is the result.

The wireless mouse utilizes an optical laser, and can run for a week without recharging. According to the company website, the clinically-tested product works by aligning itself with the ligaments of your hand and wrist. This lets you keep your hand in a neutral position, and transmits more of your vector force than would be possible with a regular mouse. Not only does this make it easier on your hand, but it increases your mousing speed and accuracy as well. The mouse is also designed to remain inactive until your hand is placed in a neutral, flat position, so you can easily go back and forth between typing and mousing. Other ergonomic designs have strayed from the AirMouse’s style of traditional flat, one-dimensional mousing, but Mark and Oren’s market research indicated that consumers tend to reject such products.

The AirMouse should be available for purchase within the next 6 to 12 months, at a price of $US129.

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Printing With A Pencil Stub:

Now here’s a rather interesting concept design. Instead of throwing away your pencil stubs, you could always feed them to this concept printer, which will then convert the pencil into “ink” for your document printing needs. It supposedly works by separating the wood and lead inside the printer, which can then be used to print your document. The cool part is that it can even erase the “print” on your documents, thanks to an eraser that you can pop into the printer too. Considering the rising cost of printer ink nowadays, it wouldn’t be too bad if they turned this concept printer into a reality!!! 

 

 

  

 

 

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