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Turn your iPad into a Digital Coloring Book with Crayola ColorStudio HD

Children at one point of their life create and live on their own colorful world, let them share that world with you thru the new Crayola ColorStudio HD coloring and painting apps for iPad. This evolution of the coloring book helps unlock the inner artist in your child by means of exciting discoveries and play on iPad using pictures, color, sound, music, and even animation. The Crayola ColorStudio comes with an iMarker digital stylus that serves as a marker, crayon, coloring pencil, and paintbrush in one. The iMarker seamlessly interacts with iPad’s multi-touch screen by automatically distinguishing the difference between finger taps, swipes, and other touch inputs from the stylus. Not only this increases the accuracy of the digital stylus but also enables the child to control both the canvass and color without having to toggle between input modes.
ColorStudio HD has always some new picture, animation, sound, and music to discover and play with. In fact new pictures are always available during updates and iPad sync. Furthermore, parents can proudly share the artistic creation of their children by printing the artwork, emailing them, or posting them on popular social networking sites like Facebook.

All in all, the new Crayolo ColorStudio HD delivers the best of coloring book experiences and bundles them with the best of Crayola’s crayons, paints, pencils, markers and other art products in one convenient child-friendly digital product. This iPad gadget is the new ink-free and mess-free way for children to color, draw, and express themselves in this new digital era.

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Add Animation to Your House with Japanese Electronic Blinking Eyeballs


Are you running out of unique good ideas these coming holidays? Here’s something that will redefine “eye popping”. Something round and cute, anyone? The new Japanese Electronic Blinking Eyeballs is a funny gadget that will earn you a few stares during gift giving. And don’t worry; this decorative toy has been thought not to stare back. Like its name suggests – it blinks in a cute and not haunting kind of way. The blinking electronic eyeballs randomly blinks simultaneously in a very realistic manner, it uses infrared signals to synchronize blinking.

To add more fun, it comes with a decoration sheet that you can use to customize the blinking eyeballs. The sheet includes tears, eyelashes, angry brows, and a funny nose. It also comes with suction and hooks so that you can attach and mount them almost anywhere. The blinking eyeball’s application is virtually endless and is limited only by the user’s imagination. Next time you have a party, you can put those watchful eyes in a wall, door, window, or fridge and expect mixed reactions from your guests ranging from “Dude, I think your TV is watching me” to “Whoa! Did those pair of eyes just blinked?”.

The blinking eyeballs would make a truly different gift for ages 15 and above. Each of the Japanese Electronic Blinking Eyeballs measures around 3-inch in diameter and about 2-inch deep. This item requires 6 AAA batteries, which sadly are not included, to operate.

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Plan Your Great Sea Voyage with Garmin HomePort

homeportGetting prepared is always better than cramming and getting unexpected happenings that are way beyond your control. Seasoned navigators are indeed good in what they do but they cannot just bank on their experience but also needs some technological upgrade. HomePort is a PC software that allows users to plan their trips ahead of time and organize routes at the comforts of the computer.

HomePort makes voyaging in the open waters safer, easier and more convenient since the planning software makes most of the things for you. Safer because by putting in your destination, map details will be shown with underwater hazards, hidden obstacles, depth measurements, distance, bearing, and tidal predictions. Easier and more convenient because your trip data can be managed not only to your way points, routes and tracks but also helps your create point-to-point routes, determine fuel usage, and even estimate your estimated time of arrival per leg of your route. In case that you have an internet connection in the middle of the sea, HomePort automatically uploads your selected data to GoogleEarth allowing you and others to see where are you located – giving your family and friends peace of mind and even a tool for boasting how cool your “great sea expedition” is.

Installing the HomePort is a breeze since it only needs minimal system resources and needs a 2GB card for transferring the preloaded maps. The drawback here is that HomePort isn’t available on Mac so MacBook users might not be able to take advantage of this software unless they’re running boot camp.

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Eye-Fi Geo Makes Your Camera Wireless

Wish your photos could automatically fly from your digital camera to any folder on your Mac, or directly into iPhoto? Well, we’ve got good news for you all Apple users out there! Here’s a cool gadget that will move all your photos to your computer at the touch of a finger – the Eye-Fi Geo. Just switch on your camera and your photos will land in any folder on your Mac or straight into iPhoto. No need to sit down and find cables. No need to import. No need to go through extra steps. Plus, with iLife ’09, you’ll get the benefits of unlimited photo geotagging.eye-fi geoSo no more struggling to remember where in the world your favorite shot was taken. With the Eye-Fi Geo, your latest photos are automatically marked with geolocation information as they are captured. The next time they land into iPhoto, you will be able to use Places to automatically show your pictures on a map and your album is instantly searchable by location. Organizing and finding your memories has never been this easy!

The Eye-Fi Geo card is the latest addition to the Eye-Fi product range that is built to seamlessly integrate with Mac products and applications including iPhoto ’08 and ’09, the iPhone and MobileMe. With a capacity of 2GB, the Eye-Fi Geo is now available and priced at $60.

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Virtual Reality of the Future – Look like Anyone You Want To!

It is called “Body Swapping”, this new Virtual Reality program allows for the user to have the perception of another body. The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden concocted the idea of utilizing duel cameras and simple mind trickery to accomplish this great feat. Tests have shown that the user perceives its own body to be that of the person wearing the other rig. Also they can feel movements and touches made to that body as well as their own. This technology is not only entertaining but it gives us a deeper look into the connection between the physical and mental self.

This illusion is created with CCTV cameras mounted on the heads of the subject and the perceptual subject. The use of small screens in front of the subjects eyes reacting to the view the camera has on the perceived image is how they are able to fool the mind.

There are practical applications for this technology. Kynan Eng, a researcher in neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, suspects that after a stimulus of an appropriate duration it could “produce measureable ownership responses to any virtual or real object, such as an often-used tool”. As of yet tests have shown that gender doesn’t affect the “Body Swapping” but one can not identify with an inanimate object.

Health professors from the University are beginning to look into this technology for assistance with rehab patients, such as; stroke victims, limb amputees, and mental body image disorders. Tests are being conducted that incorporate virtual limbs onto amputees to assist them with the use of prosthetics.

This technology may prove to be extremely useful in the health field as well as aide us in gaining insight into our own minds. But if it doesn’t, it sure would be fun to feel like you have Cindy Crawford’s or Brad Pitt’s body for the day.