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Technogel – Your “Dream” Mattress by Dr. Scholls
Kiddie Voice – No Child Left Behind
Soap bubble screen touted to be thinnest display in the world
BPM Drum Machine Style Calculator Wristwatch
ChildMinder car seat sensor could help save lives
HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE to arrive this July 5th on Verizon Wireless

Technogel – Your “Dream” Mattress by Dr. Scholls

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:23 PM PDT

There isn’t a single product I can think of that can influence how you feel, quite as much as your mattress. If you have ever spent the night on a bad one, you know exactly what I’m talking about. With a few exceptions, mattresses haven’t changed very much in a very long time. I have one of those adjustable firmness air beds, but even that’s really old news.

Check out the Technogel Mattress, with a special, patented jelly-like layer (think shoe insoles) designed for the medical industry, they mold to each individual’s body and distributes your body weight over its entire surface, this special gel layer actually conforms to every curve, enveloping you in a cool comforting surface that allows you to sleep like never before.

The mattress has been specifically designed to optimize ventilation with little columns of jell that act as air channels all along the top surface of the mattress, allowing both airflow and proper moisture conduction so that body heat is evenly dispersed throughout the mattress which, lowers surface temperature by a few degrees so the mattress is always dry and cool. Cool, is much better for good sleeping than warm. Heck, they just look comfortable.

In the U.S. the Dr. Scholl’s Technogel Mattress will come in 2 styles, in all the regular sizes from twin to California king and have varying amounts of Technogel covering them (depending on the model) this mattress is designed to relax and comfort your entire body like never before. Technogel is made in Italy, but the mattresses are assembled in the USA and will be available for $2,899 to $4,899. Check the technogelsleeping.com for more details, including information on Technogel pillows.

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Kiddie Voice – No Child Left Behind

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 08:41 AM PDT

It was just a day or two ago that I told you about the Child Minder safety alarm. I found it a shame that our hectic lifestyles could put any of us in such a haze that we could actually forget our child in the backseat of the car. It’s an unbelievable tragedy and I thought the 70 dollar safety alarm had its place, even if it saved just one kid.

But can the interest of safety go to far? As of February, one Florida county has an ordinance that requires all licensed daycare centers to install alarms in school vehicles that remind drivers to check for children upon vehicle shut off, and of course a patented device called Kiddie Voice was there to meet the call. Kiddie Voice, was specifically designed to make the driver walk to the back of the van or bus in order to deactivate the system. This feature ensures that drivers check all the seats before they leave the bus.

I understand that a parent who usually doesn’t take their child to daycare could make a tragic mistake, but a school bus driver? It must be so, because stories of child fatalities or heat related injuries on day care vans and school buses continue to make news. But did we really need an ordinance? Palm Beach County passed a similar ordinance last year and more counties in the U.S. are soon to follow suit. Who knows what comes next?

Well, in case your county is next, the Kiddie Voice Child Reminder System is available at atwecgrp.com for under 300 bucks and is activated when the ignition is turned off and can only be disarmed by a button located in the back. Do you think its actually possible to legislate common sense?

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Soap bubble screen touted to be thinnest display in the world

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 06:00 AM PDT

I am quite sure that as a kid, you had your fair share of fun with those soap bubbles. These days, I see automated soap bubble blowers – even your kids need not build up their lung power any more, as all they need to do is dip the dipstick into a bottle of soap, pick it up, press a button and a built-in fan will do all of the blowing. Dogs and cats have had fun chasing down after these bubbles, and so did kids. Who would have figured out even remotely that the humble soap bubble could eventually be used as a display of some sort?

In fact, it has already picked up the moniker of being the 'world’s thinnest display’ along the way, coined by no one else other than the team behind this transparent screen. This is made possible thanks to the research team who came up with new technology that is capable of projecting images onto a screen that is made up of nothing else but soap film. Just how does this work? We shall take a closer look after the jump to find out.

Basically, this international team managed to come up with this particular display by relying on ultrasonic sound waves that will change the film’s properties, resulting in either a flat or a 3D image. As for the bubble mixture used, you can say that it is somewhat akin to the one sold in stores for little kids, albeit with a far more complex chemical make up.

The team is quick off the mark to claim this as the world's thinnest transparent screen, so you can more or less kiss those ultra slim Samsungs and LGs goodbye from their once lofty pedestals. Lead researcher, Yoichi Ochiai from the University of Tokyo, wrote, “It is common knowledge that the surface of soap bubble is a micro membrane. It allows light to pass through and displays the colour on its structure. We developed an ultra-thin and flexible BRDF [bidirectional reflectance distribution function, a four-dimensional function defining how light is reflected at an opaque surface] screen using the mixture of two colloidal liquids.”

No idea on when a commercially available version will arrive.

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BPM Drum Machine Style Calculator Wristwatch

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 05:30 AM PDT

I remember back in the days when I was a wee lad at school, wearing a watch was considered to be cool – and not just any watch, you had to have either a Swatch, or a Casio calculator watch. Those that came with a built-in remote control worked as well, too. Calculator watches are the coolest in my opinion, especially when it comes to math tests. Well, fast forward to today with all my math basics intact in my noggin', here we are with something far more sophisticated, although its main purpose is to still tell the time – the $79.99 BPM Drum Machine Style Calculator Wristwatch.

The BPM Drum Machine Style Calculator Wristwatch comes with a polycarbonate strap and Hot Rubber applications, boasting a fully functional calculator, not to mention a faux drum-machine that ensures the beats are there to keep your minutes on track, allowing you to make that special countdown until a particular moment in the day or week. Something Junior would definitely appreciate, I believe.

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ChildMinder car seat sensor could help save lives

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT

I have read tragic stories in the papers as well as on the Internet before, where some absent minded parents suffered unspeakable heartache when they realized their toddler or baby was left in the car, only to return to a lifeless body afterwards. Sometimes, we are just too preoccupied with our work that we even forget the extension of ourselves, and for those who firmly believe that prevention is better than cure, how about a $30 device known as the ChildMinder car seat sensor?

This particular device is capable of alerting you just in case you happen to walk away while leaving your helpless little one all alone in the car. Developed by Baby Alert International, the ChildMinder Infant-Toddler Elite Pad System has been described to be “a passive safety seat monitoring system,” where the Elite Pad is placed under the child’s car seat. This Elite Pad will then "talk" to your Key Ring Alarm Unit, should you move 15 feet away from it, will take half a dozen seconds of lapse before the alarm goes off.

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HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE to arrive this July 5th on Verizon Wireless

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:52 AM PDT

So, you are in the market for a spanking new smartphone (preferably from the Android side of things), but have yet to made up your mind whether the Samsung Galaxy S3 is going to be your next big purchase? Well, I guess since you have yet to arrive at a particular decision, you might be interested to know that Verizon Wireless will be offering the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE from July 5th onwards. Yes sir, this means you can take the entire July 4th off to think over the decision before making a new 2-year commitment with Big Red.

First announced earlier this year at the CTIA Wireless show, the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE will be available in a couple of days' time, be it via online channels or at a brick-and-mortar setup. Just what does the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE pack? Without much further ado, let us dive into its system specifications right after the jump.

The HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE will run on the latest version of HTC Sense 4, which for newcomers would mean HTC’s branded user experience, which has been cleverly integrated with Google’s mobile operating system, running on top of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich so that you can have a truly enhanced mobile experience while enjoying the latest Android features.

As the name suggests, this particular smartphone will allow you to roll along with the power of 4G LTE speeds, and the amazing 8-megapixel camera ought to leave you with nothing but smiles thanks to a quick activation process from the home screen, ensuring that no more randomly cute shots will miss your radar when you come across it. Not only that, HTC Video Pic lets you capture HD quality video and shoot pictures simultaneously without having to choose between the two.

All of the images and videos capture can be uploaded to social networking sites in a jiffy, thanks to 4G LTE speeds. Make sure your area has such network coverage before you make a commitment!

Your ears will also be treated to Authentic Sound, thanks to Beats Audio which is an enhanced auto tuning technology that enables you to hear music the way the artist intended his or her listeners to. Beats Audio will work well regardless of whether you are enjoying audio or video playback.

A 4-inch super LCD qHD display, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with autofocus, a front-facing camera, a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, Wi-Fi connectivity, and a microSD memory card slot rounds off the list of features. You can pick up the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new 2-year contract.

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