Apple Ipad SD card reader is perfect for a quick way to load photos directly into your ipad. It also has a usb connection as an alternative connection for your camera although cable is not provided.
As of June 11, 2012 at Sweetwater has it on sale at 29.00.
Coach Baseball Glove Wallet’s
The coach baseball glove wallet might be a great gift for the baseball fan who loves baseball. These are limited edition and being “coach” brand will be more costly than your average billfold. However how many people can say they have a wallet manufactured from 1.5 gloves worth of leather from 50 year old vintage gloves.
Diesel New Matte Watches
The Diesel New Matte Watches uses the same green ceramic powder coating that the military uses on tanks and firearms. One of the Diesel’s New Matte watches comes with a 4 time zone dial for those that travel.
Msrp varies from 160.00 to 325.00 depending on model the 4 time zone model is 295.00. Beware that its a huge 66mm x 57mm case, great for those that can wear and like big dials which seems to be the trend these day.
Open Garden
Open Garden has developed a way that people with smartphones will be able to share bandwidth on wifi data connections of other cell phones with the Open Garden app, very similar concept to bit torrent file sharing utilizing a network of computers. This will create a mesh network from the power of individual cell phones that will increase bandwidth and lower transmission power requirements.
Boulderionics
Boulderionics Ionic Electrolytes reminds of the movie the Graduate…instead of the word “plastics” it would be the words ionic liquids. With the use of ultracapacitors with increased capacity from Ionic Electrolytes it will be possible to start ones car with a battery the size of a flashlight cell is just one example.
It also might be possible with Ionic Electrolytes to store up to 10x the amount of energy compared to current lithium ion cell technology.
Facebook’s Timeline
Technology review reported in an article written by Ted Greenwald,TR10 May/Jun 2012 edition in their lists of 10 Emerging Technologies “Facebook’s data warehouse was adding 625,000 terabytes of compressed data daily by last January”. I find this an amazing amount of information based on the fact this what is the “daily” amount.If Moore’s Law holds true this huge amount of personal data is only going to get more larger going forward.
At the end of the day all this information will create a highly detailed digital autobiography of our personal lives whether information is shared or unfortunately not shared.
Dropcam
The Dropcam is the camera that we have all been waiting for. Home computers need not apply as it connects directly form your wifi and streams to a cloud server, can be setup and ready to use in 2 minutes with no complicated installation. You will be able to watch from your web browser of an app on the iPhone or Android smart phone. Also has two way communication to the camera as well. Video recordings are totally secure since its stored in the cloud so no possibility of someone stealing p.c. and evidence in case of a break in.
Msrp is 149.00 for Dropcam and 248.00 for Dropcam with 12 months of dvr server recording, each additional Dropcam with 12 month dvr service is 198.00.
Slimfold wallet
The Slimfold wallet claims to be 6x thinner and 5x lighter than the average traditional mans leather wallet. Its also waterproof and rip resistant as well.
It comes in 4 different designs with an msrp of 20.00 however currently out of stock.
Fubar Demolition Bar
Stanley tools offers up the Fubar Demolition Bar. This is one of those things one usually finds they need most when they do not have one handy. Its got an assortment of nail pullers, builtin prybar, cutting pryinging ripping material, makes it a great demolition tool. Has a bolt on grip for more comfort and less slippage.
Msrp 20.00.
The Symbol Record Console
The Symbol Record Console brings back the sound, look and feel, of the 50s style home entertainment system. Its constructed of solid walnut with 1/4 inch plated steel. It has a hand built tube stereo amplifier with turntable,
coupled with today’s modern wireless wifi technology for those that want to stream music from their ipods or iphones with built in router.
This is great for those who enjoy hearing some uncompressed audio from records instead of compressed mp3’s.