Australian company SMS Developments Ltd has just announced the world’s first truly mobile GSM watch phone. From the pictures it doesn’t look much bigger than a conventional (albeit bulky) watch but also sports full voice and SMS capabilities.

Must admit I’m some what surprised that this sort of technology has taken so long to hit the market. It just seemed a matter of time (no pun intended) before mobile technology was small enough to cram into an ordinary wrist watch.

Full details are a bit sparse at the moment but the specs include:

• Mode : GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900 MHZ
• Dimensions : 43 x 56 x 14.8 mm
• Display : 65K OLED (0.9″)
• Memory : 128 * 32
• Internal type antenna
• Bluetooth (with bluetooth headset for voice call only)
• SIM Card support
• Speaker Phone Text base UI
• Talk Time 80 Minutes, Standby Time 70 hours

The M300 is available to buy online from MyMobileWatch for $649 AUD (~$500 USD),

via: coolest-gadgets

HandiRack the world’s first inflatable roof rack.

The HandiRack is designed to fit on any car other than soft tops (duh). You simply attach it to the roof, inflate and it’s ready to carry. Due to how it’s made there is zero chance of paint scratches unlike with conventional roof racks.

It’s simple and it works, more info over at HandiRack,

Some time ago, Popular Science, in collaboration with Core77 organized a design competition called Human Powered, which sought to design products which harnessed human energy to power themselves. The winners were Chris Aimone et Tomek Bartczak for their design of the ReGen, an MP3 player that doubles as an electricity-generating Yo-Yo. Simply toss the player 10 to 12 times every hour, and it’ll stay fully charged.

If ever developed, the designers envision it coming with 512MB of memory, as well as Bluetooth headsets so you won’t run into any tangle issues when “recharging” it. Song and artist information would be displayed on an LCD screen, on the face of the player.

The competition was for the development of a concept only, so there doesn’t seem to be any concrete plans to commercialize this device any time soon.

[ReGen Yo-Yo MP3 Player] VIA [TechEBlog]

Eindhoven, the Netherlands – Philips Research intends to impress the visitors at this year’s IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) with a world-first demonstration of promotional jackets and furniture featuring its innovative Lumalive technology. Lumalive textiles make it possible to create fabrics that carry dynamic advertisements, graphics and constantly changing color surfaces. The Philips stand in Hall 22 will act as a showcase for the Lumalive textile products that will be worn by Philips’ hostesses and embedded into booth furniture of the Future Zone.

Via: philips 

Cabinet is basically an “appliance prototype for merging designers’ physical and digital collections of visual materials –users can add images, organize them into piles and narrative layouts, and reuse them.

via: techeblog 

We’ve seen some vintage phones given a new-age twist in the past, but this is just crazy. Crazy I tell you!

via: gizmodo and Make