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Never Solo Cup Your Wine Again!

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Nothing compliments a romantic picnic in the park or beach sunset like a fine wine! In these settings that often lack even surfaces for standard glass bottoms, it’s near impossible to enjoy without a spill from existing stemware designs. Many even resort to flimsy plastic Solo cups (a total mood killer).

The Pointer ditches the glass flat bottom for a metal spike so you can enjoy wine from a glass anywhere! Simply pin it in the grass, ground, or sand and never worry about the wind causing a spill again.

Designer: Ramona Enache

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One More Thing Your Phone Can Do: iPhone Laser Pointer

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What can you do with your iPhone? Or better yet, the question should read: what can’t you do with it? First and foremost, it’s obviously a phone. Then it spins off into a camera, an audio and video recorder, a note pad, an organizer, a fitness tracker, a video game console, a music player, a map, and so on and so forth.

The capabilities of most smartphones are extended further with accessories like the iPin iPhone laser pointer. Dubbed as the “world’s smallest laser pointer,” the iPin fits right into the iPhone’s 3.5mm earphone jack. The entire thing weighs less than a gram and is powered by your phone, so there’s no need to replace batteries at all. The iPin also has an on/off switch so you don’t have to take it out when you want to use your phone in the middle of presentations.

It’s available online for $39.99.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ TIWIB ]

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Pix-Up iPad Stand

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The Pix-Up is a unique iPad stand from Ninki- UP that looks like a pixelated hand pointer. It has a small shelf in the front so it can hold most any tablet, not just the iPad (there you go Surface fans). You can use the stand on a desk, counter, or even your lap:
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Well that’s just some awkward placement but if you can avert your eyes from the sausage, you can see the usefulness. It’s got a cool 8bit retro style too. The Pix-Up will be released in January but is available for pre-order now.

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Liquidware team crafts laser tripwire that tweets intruder alerts, keeps fake sharks at bay (video)

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Liquidware team crafts laser tripwire that tweets intruder alerts, keeps fake sharks at bay video

Laser tripwire security systems can be expensive propositions that don't always work as planned -- just ask Raytheon, which saw its $100 million Perimeter Intrusion Detection System for JFK International Airport undermined by one wayward jet skier. Taking that as a form of dare, Justin Huynh and teammates at Liquidware have devised a much cheaper (if also much smaller) tripwire of their own. Any interruption of a laser pointer's beam is caught by an Arduino light sensor that promptly sends the alert to an Android-running BeagleBoard xM; if a toy like Bruce the shark dares cross the line, the BeagleBoard sends a Twitter message to let the authorities, or at least Huynh, clamp down on the trespasser. The invention won't replace Raytheon's handiwork anytime soon, although Huynh notes that additional or more powerful sensors could theoretically catch real, muscle-bound sharks and not just their plastic counterparts. The supply checklist and source code are waiting on the company's project page below, so those who'd like to ward off miniature invasions can get started today.

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Hillcrest Labs open sources Kylo web browser for TVs, hopes the people want one

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We didn't hear much from Hillcrest Labs' Kylo web browser for TVs after it launched in 2010, but now the company is apparently turning its fate over to the community. A Mozilla-based browser, Kylo will work with any mouse but is designed specifically for its Freespace pointer controls. It's available under the Mozilla Public License which means others can use it for commercial products, but so far web connected products have been slow to take off and even Google TV has had trouble pushing a typical browser experience on HDTVs. Interested devs can snag the code at Kylo.tv or GitHub, we'll see if anyone builds anything with more market impact.

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Interphase’s Penvue interactive display system highlights its strengths (video)

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Interphase's Penvue interactive display system highlights its strengths (video)

If you've ever been on the receiving end of "death by PowerPoint," you'll know just how tiresome a passive presentation can be. Interphase hopes its new Penvue (pronounced Pen-View) portable interactive display system can maybe help spice things up a little. The hand-held unit is about the size of a mouse, and has a corresponding wireless receiver that plugs into anything with a VGA connection. Using "invisible targets" based on missile technology, you can digitally draw on whatever screen you are using it with, altering pen color and thickness as you go. You can also flip it into mouse-mode for regular navigation, aided along by a number of gyroscopes and an accelerometer. The kicker is the price, with Penvue costing $700 ($500 for educational institutions) which the makers claim is a fraction of more conventional systems. Is the writing on the wall for interactive whiteboards? Head on past the break for the promo video to find out.

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Interphase's Penvue interactive display system highlights its strengths (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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