Emoticon Keypad Makes Instant Messaging a Breeze

Called “Bajca”, this USB-powered device “connects to the computer, adding 16 emotional keys that represents a different ’smile’ each one: finally each emoticon is found in one key, apart from before where a combination of keys had to be used in order to create the same emotion.”

The keys can be replaced with others having different graphics and meaning. The keys can also be used to make emotional “jewels” to be worn, given away and exchanged.

FreeLoader Portable Solar Charger is iPod Compatible

The FreeLoader Portable Solar Charger from ThinkGeek “is an advanced portable charging system that can power any hand held device anywhere, anytime.”

Once charged, the internal Li-Ion battery can power an iPod for 18hours, a mobile phone for 44 hours, PSP for 2.5 hours a PDA for 22 hours and much more.

TrueMotion 3D Offers Motion-Sensitive Gaming

Aside from using an accelerometer, the TrueMotion 3D system employs “a magnetic field to track both your hands’ positions in 3D space.”

With a refresh rate of ten milliseconds and accuracy up to a millimeter, and interest from developers including Activision and EA, this guy could someday relegate your Sixaxis to the back of your junk drawer — right next to your old Atari’s paddle controller.

Sony Could be Building PSP2

Britain’s Imagination Technologies announced that they have licensed their “high-performance graphics processor core to a major international consumer electronics company — actually meant Imagination had inked a deal with Sony to supply the graphics processors for a PSP successor.”

On the one hand, it’s certainly plausible: Imagination are also the team behind the iPhone’s graphics processor, though the one mooted for the PSP2 - the unannounced SGX55x - is obviously more powerful.

Fake iPhone Clamshell Phone

Priced at $100, this fake iPhone clamshell phone from China features a “.3MP camera, a 2.6-inch screen with a 240 x 320 resolution, the ability to play mp3s and mp4s and some ‘built-in’ games.”

Also note the plastic “brushed aluminum”, almost-but-not-quite Macbook Air look and the adorable Apple icon on the front. It lights up.

Weird USB-Powered Lunch Bag

Made by Japan-based Thanko, this weird USB-powered lunch bag “easily connects to your desktop PC and warms anything up to the size of a traditional Japanese bento box lunch to a temperature of 60 degrees Celcius.”

Much like Thanko’s other weird but useful USB warming devices, the Hot LunchBox Pouch is safe to use and available now for just 1,980 yen ($20.49).

The Peugeot Touch Boasts Touch Sensitive Doors

Unlike other vehicles, the Peugeot Touch “has a light weight body that in some areas, like the doors, are placed touch-sensitive sensors and finger recognition — these sensors ensure that only the owner can use the car.”

The lights compose symbols made out of LEDs, in this way the car has its own identity at night. This associates the car with its parent company, identifying it uniquely as the Peugeot Touch.

2009 Nissan 370Z Road Test

Edmunds reports that you “can feel the difference in the new Z-car as soon as you roll out of the driveway and into the street.”

There’s so much tire grip that the engine almost bogs at the starting line, yet 60 mph comes up in just 5.1 seconds (4.9 seconds with 1 foot of rollout like on a drag strip) — quarter-mile comes up in 13.4 seconds at 104.8 mph.

Top Gear: Toyota iReal Concept

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond visits Japan to get a hands-on demonstration of the Toyota iReal concept, which is a futuristic wheelchair of sorts.

The “walk” mode brings the driver to a higher position, minimizing the space the vehicle takes up and making movement through pedestrian traffic easier. The high-speed “cruise” mode lowers the vehicle’s center of gravity, allowing for better handling.

Classic Quake Game Ported to iPhone with OpenGL Graphics

Yes, the classic Quake game has been ported to “the iPhone with native OpenGL graphics and multiplayer support — includes unique controls and menu overlays that make it easy to play.”

The graphics were rotated to landscape mode using the full screen resolution of 480 x 320 and native Open GL ES. Numerous optimizations were added to make full use of the iPhone�s PowerVR MBX GPU.

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