Philco PC – Gorgeous retro PC

Philco PC – Gorgeous retro PC



This Philco PC harks back to the very stylish Philco Predicta TV from the 50’s, old pre-war typewriters and just a dash of steampunk. It’s just a concept at the moment, produced by SchultzeWorks Design. The design is being shopped around to manufacturers so maybe we’ll see these in the not too distant future. More pics here.[Via Yanko]

The design of the “Philco PC” was inspired by the 1954 design classic Philco Predicta, as well as an eclectic mixture of modern minimalism, the steampunk movement, and antiques. As lead designer Dave Schultze explains, “The result is a design aesthetic that blends multiple elements of the familiar, but with some surprisingly fresh styling that just so happens to house a state-of-the-art Windows 7 PC.”

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Digital Video Camcorder With Optical Telescope Lens – Got zoom?

Digital Video Camcorder With Optical Telescope Lens – Got zoom?



Is your current camera zoom making you feel inadequate? Can’t quite zoom close enough for the action? Chinavasion can help with this Digital Video Camcorder with Optical Telescope Lens. The camera is a 30fps digicam that shoots in MPEG4 and stores it on SD card. It can also shoot 12 megapixel stills, has a built in flash and a 3″ TFT flip-out screen. The camera doesn’t have a native optical zoom but it does have a 4x digital zoom and a macro focus mode. Bolting on the telescope provides 8x optical zoom. Pretty darn cheap too, ~US$97.



This DV cameras best feature is the screw-on optical telescope zoom lens, allowing you to take pictures of long distance objects. The zoom lens also has a manual focus adjustment, giving you ultimate control over the focus and quality of your distant shots. When combined with the camera’s native 4x digital zoom, you then have a monster of a zoom camcorder!

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SkyPix Handheld Scanner – scan your life straight to microSD memory card

SkyPix Handheld Scanner – scan your life straight to microSD memory card



This SkyPix Handheld Scanner captures full colour 600 dpi resolution images directly to a microSD card, or you can forsake convenience and transfer to a PC via the USB port. Your call. And your scan really, eh? $119.95.


This is the portable, cordless handheld scanner that preserves important documents, letters, or recipes, recording its contents onto a memory card for later retrieval on your computer (Play Video). As you move the scanner over an area as large as 8 1/2″ H x 50″ L, its sensitive color image sensor scans at high (600 dpi) or standard (300 dpi) resolution, saving images as JPEG files stored on an inserted microSD card. A scan of a passport takes only five seconds.

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Airtrax – Omni directional high tech wheels

Airtrax – Omni directional high tech wheels



Remember those funky wheels on the cars in the movie “I, Robot”? Well it turns out they’re sort of real. Airtrax make a range of warehouse vehicles that use a unique, omni-directional wheel. Controlled via a joystick instead of a wheel-and-pedals, the Airtrax system is extremely manoeuvrable allowing the vehicles to move forwards/backwards, side-to-side or rotate within their own length. So far Airtrax have released a forklift called the Sidewinder, a scissor-lift called the Cobra and an omni-directional mobile platform called the MP2. There are videos of the vehicles in action on the site as well.

The term Omni-Directional means “capable of moving in any direction”. that is exactly what Airtrax vehicles are designed to be. In fact, our vehicles are holonomic, which is to say that they can change direction instantaneously, without stopping, without changing the orientation of the wheels, and without moving in some undesired direction, prior to moving in the desired direction.

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