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Archive for October 28th, 2007

Hello Kitty… The 5Mpix Digital Camera

October 28, 2007

Sanrio will start selling in Japan at the end of November a 5Mpix digital camera using the shape of the head of Hello Kitty for its body. The Shutter of this camera will be located on the left ear of Hello Kitty, and the lens in the bow tie. Our camera will have a 2″ [...]

Payment card and authentication in a single device

October 28, 2007

A next-generation credit card that incorporates a 12-button keyboard, a microprocessor and an embedded alphanumeric display promises to provide unprecedented security in phone and online banking transactions.

Appearing in the standard form of a payment card, the Credit Card Embedded Authentication Device has a number of authentication ‘modes’ for use in online, phone, or ATM transactions. [...]

Chinese Man Invents Fly Catching Device

October 28, 2007

A retired technician from China invented a nifty fly-catching device “based on the principle of how frogs catch flies, using a vacuum to trap them — the bait is a piece of raw fish.”

he tested the device in Wuhan Steel Mill where flies were not so concentrated and found that 400 to 800 flies [...]

Cool Bizarre Jewelry Ideas

October 28, 2007

A collection of weird jewelry ideas from Open! Design and Concepts Studios that has been designing extraordinary designs since 1996.

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Tyvek Wallet Dot Matrix Tri-fold

October 28, 2007

 
Printed in a classic dot matrix font with the first 3,000 digits of pi this tear-resistant wallet is designed without any stitches. It is one single sheet of high tech tyvek folded to create this seamless design. Tyvek is made of thousands of long plastic fibers creating a surface that is both lightweight and durable [...]