Cool Gadget Toys

If looks could kill... Actually they can, with the cool new arcade game made by a Swedish company Tobii. Standing in front of the game, the console contains cameras that track your gaze. As you look at the screen asteroids are hurtling toward your battle station. The game then shoots laser beams at the asteroids you look at, destroying them. The game is sold for $15,000 but Tobii’s main idea is to get the gaze tracking cameras in laptops and computers.

One other cool new gadget toy is Foam Fighters. Foam Fighters are two sheets of thin foam painted and shaped like WWII fighter planes. They fly like paper airplanes when tossed in the air. You can attach the Foam Fighter plane to the back of an iPhone, iPad or Android phone next to the camera and the airplane shows up on the screen of the device. You then have to download a free app that will make the fighter plane zooming around in a war zone sky scene. The Foam Fighter is then controlled by the movement of the phone or tablet. This toy will go on sale in April and will only set you back $10 for a pack of two.

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High-Tech Bedroom

If you are someone who loves tech gadgets and wants to geek out your bedroom, here are a few that you can choose from:


When you are lying next to someone who snores or if you are the snorer, then there is a wrist band for you: Operating on one AAA battery, Snore Relief Wrist Band can be worn to establish the difference between ambient noise and snoring. The band uses electrical signals that gently stimulate the median nerves located at the inner wrists without waking you. A recent study showed that 80 percent of those who used the wrist band stopped snoring after a few weeks.

To catch some shut eye but still needing some relaxing music then you just plug your MP3player into your bed. Tune-In bed  features two 4-inch speakers with audio input to connect your music player. All you have to do is control it with your bed knob.

Snuggle up with the Story Blanket! This blanket is described as a children duvet cover and comforter that incorporate LED lights and a themed soundtrack. You can choose from four different Story Blankets each one telling a different story through artwork. The LED lights blink to music and sounds for a soothing two minutes. The Story Blanket has a Sleep Mode where the lights fade slowly to darkness over one minute. The blanket does require three D batteries.

Also, go with your Story Blanket try a light up pillow. The d-light Huggable is a 12 LED lit pillow that stays lit up for 4 hours then slowly dims. Your lit pillow runs on four AA batteries or you can just pull down on the chain to power off of the 5-volt adapter

Last, before resting, unwind with karaoke in your boxers. Who hasn’t sported their under garments and sung their heart out in their bedroom? With Play Print iBoxers you can shout out with your brush in your cool new karaoke boxers. And they are not just for the ladies, there are iBoxers for men as well.  A  small pocket is located in the front so you can tuck your MP3 player or mobile phone in a convenient place. So with a few batteries or an adapter you can have your very own geek-ed out bedroom.

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TV Turns on with a Notion

Remember when people thought using the remote was lazy? A Chinese appliance company has come up with a lazier way to watch TV. The company made a wireless mind-reading headset to be used to control a TV set! One sensor pad is held to the person’s forehead and another is clipped to the earlobe. The mind-reading potential is actually just a measurement of brain waves and can only be used to sense if the person wants something to go up or down, in order to do anything else you need a remote. They are working on something that allows the person to change channels by thinking it as well. The Chinese company is selling the wireless mind-reader headset in China but not any further. Maybe someone else could come up with a headset for the sloths of the world to watch marathons of Grey’s Anatomy with their thoughts.
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Web Protests Censor Bills

When the clock struck 12 and midnight arrived several websites such as Wikipedia went dark or went “black out” in protest of antipiracy bills now in Congress. On January 24, 2012, the Senate will begin the voting of two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House. Several millions of people in the United States believe the bills would censor the Web and inflict damaging regulations on American businesses. The bills essentially say they are giving power to the copyright holders to gain court orders against websites that link to people that download material off the Internet and anyone who shared it. This could mean several of your favorite websites may become blacklisted or blocked, meaning Shut Down! Even the search king Google has joined the protest by covering their logo with a black rectangle stating “Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the web!” Reddit, a popular voting website that allows people to submit interesting links from all over the websites, is another that went dark and they are a prime example of whom the bills could target. Could you imagine if YouTube didn’t exist? They would be one of the first to go down because they just couldn’t function with the passing. Search engines and other providers would have to block rogue sites when ordered to do so by a judge. Internet companies are worried they could be held liable for users’ actions. If you want to join the fight, sign the petition Google has on their homepage. If you’re for the antipiracy bills, I am sure there is something out there to support them. 

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ISPY

Smartphone applications joined with certain toys gives you access to spy on people in close ranges. This idea is not new, but none have been this small or this cheap before. Remote-control specialists Interactive Toy Concepts, have come up with two great spying toys. The ‘Wi-Spi helicopter’ and the ‘Intruder’ are both controlled from an app on your smartphone via wi-fi. The Wi-Spi can send video and still pictures to the smartphone instantaneously. Intruder sends recorded video with sounds.The down fall is that since the are working on wi-fi this gives them a short distance to work with. The cool new gadget “toys” can also record and rapidly upload video to your favorite social media sites. You can expect to see Wi-Spi and Intruder this fall, maybe under the next Christmas tree…and hopefully in the box and not recording.

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Lost & Found

Landfills are no longer a dirty little secret and would be hard to deny what role you play in polluting. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been studying what happens to used and discarded electronic devices. The researchers developed and applied two technologies that allow electronics to send out their locations, once they are tossed out. In an incident the research team at MIT got the opportunity to test it out. Their equipment was stolen but was operational for image capturing and the exact location was reported back. Needless to say pictures of the thieves and the equipments GPS reported information for an arrest to be made and for the return to the team. Soon you will no longer be irresponsible by throwing your electronics “away”, because they Will return. 

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Computers Controlled by your Minds

Controlling your computer with your mind seems more Science Fiction than real but it is reality. BodyWave, bio-feedback armbands attach wirelessly, and transmits the brainwave data back to a personal computer or other devices such as a cell phone. BodyWave uses software called Play Attention that reports interactive feedback and trains attention and teaches stress-control in mobile situations. The Play Attention software includes mind-controlled 3D games and interactive virtual reality simulators. The person using BodyWave controls an avatar with their mind. When they happen to lose concentration the game stops functioning properly until the user engages more fully. The system starts off free of any distractions and then gradually progresses with distractions. People in education, industry and the military as well as people with disabilities such as ADHD, have found great use for the BodyWave. The BodyWave uses three dry carbon sensors that lay on the skin of the arm. These sensors search and measure the brainwave activity then send feedback. In sports they can analyze the physiological data of their players while they are in action, making adjustments in their plays. The military can measure the stress levels of soldiers in a combat environment and make strategic adjustments. The United States Women’s Bobsled Team and the U.S. military are already using this technology. In the U.S. the BodyWave runs about $1,795, a hefty price to pay for one to sharpen their mind.

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