Dig Gadgets

The portable Chess set called Mirage is designed by pengtao Yu, a young designer from China and now located in Pasadena, CA after gradulation from Art Center College of Design.

Mirage is a portable digital chess which includes a digital projector and all chess pieces. It is designed for chess fans who want an easily carried chess set. By tracking the moves of the pieces, Mirage provides users various modes to play, including playing with people face to face, playing with people online and playing against the computer or watching a game played by chess masters and learn from them.

Designer: Pengtao Yu

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This watch named Bloc is designed by Carson Davis on Coroflot. The designer said: BLOC is a modern solution to clunky PDAs and old fashioned day planners. BLOC uses color and vibrations to alert the user of scheduled events in their day.

It is very funky and futuristic looking. It has a magnetic adjustable clasp to tighten around the wrists and is encased in a multi-colour flexible LED strip. When you have set an appointment, it will show you that there is a meeting instead of just a sound of the alarm. It is like – Time, Appointment (if any) or else the day of the week. It comes in white but the sides have different colored LEDs. (from designerlaunches)

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One thing is for sure, however tasty food you make, presentation matters. To make your dishes look even more delicious, Dutch designer Benjamin Hubert and his design company have created adorable serving dish called Yumbrellas. As the name suggests they are umbrella shaped yummy looking dishes to make your fruit, snacks, appetizers or desserts look even more scrumptious.

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You didn’t think Sony was going to just sit there and get steamrolled by the iPod nano and Zune HD, did you? Like the new Zune HD, Sony’s NW-A840 is sporting an OLED screen, this one’s a smaller 2.8-incher and it’s embedded in the slimmest Walkman ever — a whisper-thin 7.2mm.

If you’re looking for a touchscreen, Wi-Fi, or 720p output like the Zune HD, this A-series number is not going to be the player for you, but it does have a unique digital noise-canceling feature and gives you some fine in-ear phones, too. We also like the way video is automatically converted as you drag and drop it into the player.

Look for these beauties in either black or brown around Halloween time, in overpriced 16GB ($263), 32GB ($329) and 64GB ($439) capacities.

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many unofficial LEGO gadgets have been on the market for some time now, but next month will see LEGO themselves release a digital camera and MP3 player developed together with digital blue.

LEGO worked with the atlanta-based company who specialize in children’s tech-products for a range of gadgets that vincludes walkie talkies, boomboxes, alarm clocks as well.

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