Dunhill’s biometric wallet protects your money while looking stylish

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If you’ve ever been a fan of Dunhill products, you would know that one of their mottos has been “Style, quality, excellence.” Well now they have one more to add to that list: security. Dunhill’s latest wallet, the Biometric wallet is a thing of marvel. Besides looking ruggedly stylish & handsome, this high-tech wallet protects your cash using high-tech security – Biometric security. The card features a biometric that detects your finger before allowing you to open it. Thieves & robbers who manage to steal the wallet off you will be hard pressed to get to the cash without the use of your finger. The wallet also comes with a feature to link to your phone using Bluetooth. When the phone & your wallet are separated for over 5 meters apart, an alarm will sound on your phone letting you know that your wallet is missing. Security & style won’t come cheap though. At $826, this wallet will usually cost over the amount of cash you’ll keep inside it. Head here if you’re interested in purchasing it.

Nook Color earns its very early, very unofficial Android 3.0 Honeycomb wings

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One of the first things that happens after a brand new platform emulator breaks loose is that a bunch of hackers far smarter than ourselves get hold of it, tear it apart, & port it to whatever's convenient. In the case of this week's Android 3.0 Honeycomb preview, "whatever's convenient" would be the Nook Color, which reigns as perhaps the lowest priced decent-quality Android tablet funds can currently buy. Naturally, xda-developers has a thread going on the subject as they speak; the current port is said to be  slow & mostly broken -- but then again, that kind of describes the current state of the emulator itself. excellent news is that the developer says they designs on working on graphics acceleration to improve performance over the weekend, so with any luck, the Xoom might have some unofficial competition before  long. Follow the break for another shot.

Over the Top is a 17 x 17 x17 Rubik’s Cube

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would like to see someone solve this particular cube, which was designed by Oskar van Deventer. It is a 17x17x17 puzzle cube printed using Shapeways.You got to like how it has a black frame around the edges. In case you doubt whether or not this is genuine or not, this 17 x 17 x 17 Rubik’s Cube, also known as Over The Top, will be on display at the New York Puzzle Party Symposium on Saturday, February 12th.

iCar has discovered the secret of flight: It’s the wheels

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This one, which is called the iCar, doesn’t need any wings or magic to fly but makes use of specially designed wheels. Apparently round spinning surfaces can generate lift, which is called the Magnus Effect.

The iCar takes advantage of the Magnus Effect to turn its wheels in to wings. On the ground, the iCar is a one seater sports car with three traditional wheels & giant cylindrical hubs. To get airborne, it extends its hubs outward to generate a bigger lifting surface, the hubcaps on the two front wheels swivel forward to turn in to propellers, & the car is prepared for takeoff. As it starts to move forward, the cylinder wings spin (driven by electric motors), & they generate  lift to get the iCar airborne in about 1,500 feet.Apparently, the car has a range of about 500 miles & has a cruising speed of 200 miles per hour.

BlackBerry PlayBook reportedly in production

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It appears that they might be getting our BlackBerry PlayBooks by March or earlier – if recent reports turn out to be correct. According to DigiTimes, RIM has begun production of their QNX tablets and they expect have 150,000 to 200,000 PlayBooks made each month. RIM selected a factory in Taiwan called quanta computer Inc. to manufacture their tablets instead of a factory on the mainland of China to help prevent other manufacturers from copying their designs, as well as  protect its security features. No wonder they haven’t heard much news about the tablet at the factory until now. Well they all can’t wait to get our hands on this QNX device, so a March release date sounds nice to us. Keep your fingers crossed, and stay tuned.

Motorola Atrix 4G and Xoom tablet launching at the end of February, Droid Bionic and LTE Xoom in Q2

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Motorola had one of the best CES showings of any company in recent memory, & now we've got some rough ship dates for all that new gear: CEO Sanjay Jha  announced on the company's earnings call that the Atrix 4G for AT&T & 3G Xoom for Verizon will arrive at "the finish of February," while the LTE-enabled Droid Bionic & LTE Xoom will arrive at "the finish of the second quarter" as historicallyin the past promised. That sounds good to us -- & with that earlier Best Buy leak proposing the Xoom will hit on February 17, we're hoping that Moto's taking a long view of when the finish of February actually begins. Even better, a late February Xoom release supports those rumors that Honeycomb will be usually released in March, which is when the actual Android tablet invasion will start. It's all happening, folks.

Amnesia Razorfish offers gesture sharing with Microsoft Surface

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Heard of Amnesia Razorfish before? they haven’t either, & think that it's a chilled name for a rock band. The company, however, offers high tech solutions, & their latest effort would involve Microsoft’s super costly Surface multitouch display. Their effort at letting you share your content between your smartphone & the Microsoft Surface is an effortless one (for the finish user), as all you require to do is place a compatible smartphone or tablet device on the Surface, dragging pics & other documents straight onto the device. Of coursework, there is also the ability to preview them instantly if that is your cup of tea. No specifications were given on how that is going to be achieved, but according to Amnesia Razorfish, a purported “Connect” system will make full use of Wi-Fi connectivity, nearness detection, a matchless ID & phone accelerometer, where all of them depend on the type of phone & location. It works with iOS devices only at the moment, but Amnesia Razorfish intends to roll it out for Android, Windows phone 7 & BlackBerry smartphones as well.