Lee’s Journal

The Hug Shirt is designed to make you feel loved even when your loved ones are miles away from you.

Bluetooth-enabled pads of some sort are embedded in the fabric of the shirt, and can receive signals from your mobile phone.

One person wearing a Hug Shirt gives themselves a hug, which is picked up by their mobile phone and transmitted to their friend. The friend, also wearing a Hug Shirt, then feels the squeeze, with the same pressure applied.

The designers promise that the Hug Shirt can be washed, and are soft and comfortable to wear. You can move the pads from Hug Shirt to Hug Shirt, so that you can wear different colours and styles.

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Seok Hong Jeong, a Korean inventor revealed a cellphone with dual LCD displays at Seoul International Invention Fair 2006.

The dual LCD mobile phone is specifically designed to optimize mobile internet sevices for a wide-ranging variety of multimedia contents.

This unique cellphone claims to offer an enhanced Web browsing experience as today’s cellphone displays are still too small for proper use. In addition, wider screens mean better support for multimedia-intensive webpages. Once you’re done surfing the Net, you can easily fold back the displays into a compact candybar format.

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Looking for a tech gadget that can reveal your future? You can get Zoltar, the classic animatronic fortune teller. In case you want more, you can try the Psychic USB key - in Japanese only.

Released by Princeton, a Japanese company, the Psychic USB key (they call it Seven Angels) comes with 256MB, 512MB or 1GB of memory, preloaded with software based on the well-known Japanese psychic, Masako Mitaki.

via Akihabara News - Buy a psychic USB key to discover your future!

RCA has released the Small Wonder EZ105, a point-and-shoot digital camcorder that sports a 1.5-inch TFT LCD screen, 512MB flash memory with 2x digital zoom, records up to 30 minutes of 640×480 video and an hour of 448×336 in the AVI format, AV out, built-in USB arm and tripod mount.

The RCA EZ105 is available for just $129.

Wanna know what a future notebook would look like? It should be like what you can see on this picture according to LG Electronics.

The futuristic LG ebook laptop uses organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for a display that consumes less electricity and operates an eco-friendly alcohol power. It also has a transparent cylindrical hinge, used as a storage space for clean fuels like methyl alcohol and an OLED panel as keypad.

via Digital Tech News - LG eBook Laptop Concept Wins Design Award