Gadgets Base

Posted Mar 13th 2008 9:50AM by Paul Miller
Filed under: cellphones, Peripherals
You know what’s wrong with phone conversations? All that dang talking you have to do. Luckily for us, some scientists at Ambient Corporation are bent on fixing that with their “Audeo” wireless neckband which taps into nerve signals being sent to the vocal chords and vocalizes those “thoughts” for you — without all that pesky implant nonsense. Users have to specifically think about voicing words for them to be picked up by the band, but it saves them from saying potentially sensitive things while on a cellphone in public. The device is also being aimed at those who have lost the ability to speak due to diseases such as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Currently the device can only recognize roughly 150 words and phrases, and has a decent delay between “speaking” with your mind and the computer vocalizing the words for you, but the upcoming version will be phenome-based and therefore allow you to speak anything — though it will come at the cost of even slower recognition. Video is after the break.

When was the last time a packet of magnets made you squeal with excitement? If you’re thinking “never” then you obviously haven’t come across Tiny Mighties yet. (Trust me: I don’t squeal easy).

At just a quarter-inch in diameter, these teeny-tiny magnets are the ultimate in minimalism and they’re useful, too: one Tiny Mighty can hold three sheets of paper. Plus, being so small, they allow you to actually see little Jimmy’s artwork or the date of your sister-in-law’s party (or whatever). Something tells me the days of alphabet magnets are numbered…

Fridgedoor.com has them at $7.95 for 16 but if larger, slightly sacrilegiously-named magnets are more your style, you might prefer The All Mighty, so-called for its ability to hold 36 sheets of paper and turn water into wine.

Via Mighty Goods.