Logitech Unveils New Harmony 300 Remote

Priced at under $50, the new Logitech Harmony 300 is first remote in the Harmony line offered at such an affordable price. The Harmony 300 replaces up to four devices, making it perfect for those who have only a few devices to control. The remote includes a “Watch TV” button that turns on your TV and cable or satellite box with just one press. It also has a set of programmable buttons that you can use to go directly to your favorite channels.

Setup is easy too. The Harmony 300 features a new simplified online set up with MyHarmony.com. Designed exclusively for Logitech‘s newest remote, all you have to do is connect the remote to your computer, go to MyHarmony.com, input the devices you’re using and in just a few simple steps you have full control of your home-entertainment system.

The Harmony 300 will be available in April for $49.99.

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Lifetimer clock

Time is so staggeringly elastic. The seconds of terrifying anticipation before your parachute opens stretch ahead of you like hours, the minutes before you have to get out of your warm bed to go to work flash by in a nanosecond. The Lifetimer clock lets you keep track of the important things in life in a wonderfully novel way. The clock face is surrounded by a collection of buttons relating to different aspects of your life, such as your next holiday, your next tea break, your birthday, the time you knock off from work, even the last time you had rumpy pumpy. Simply pressing any of these buttons will give you the number of hours, minutes and seconds you’ve got left (or that have passed in the case of some) till the event happens. Press, and it’s only seven minutes and twenty seconds to your coffee break; press, and you’ve been in your current relationship for two years, three months, six days, ten hours, four minutes and twelve seconds, etc etc. It’s a brilliant idea and great fun – in fact it’s amazing quite how much time you can waste simply pressing the buttons to see how much time you’re wasting. Watch the seconds left till you can go home from work tick away (backwards of course), or the days since you last made like a rabbit add depressingly up.

The Lifetimer – possibly the most interesting and interactive clock ever invented.

• The Lifetimer keeps track of the important things in life, counting up or down to momentous events like ‘home time’.
• An option to set the clock to 12 or 24 hour clock.
• A stopwatch function.
• The Lifetimer counts the days until your Birthday, Christmas, next holiday, lunch hour, home time, the weekend, the event of your choice.
• The Lifetimer times how long it has been since you started your job, began your relationship, last had sex.
• The calendar stretches up to the year 2050.
• The Lifetimer is an interactive little thing, pinging away with date reminders and scrolling messages across its back-lit LCD screen.
• Ergonomically designed.
• Powered with 2 x AAA batteries (not included).
• Suitable for ages 16 years+.
• Size: 8.5 x 9.4 x 8.5 cm.

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Pentax K-x Robo Edition Launching

The Pentax K-x is a new camera that was announced just a month ago. The announcement said that it comes in the usual black colour along with white and red options being available. Now we hear that a new version has been launched in a Kore Ja Nai Robo toy set of colours.

The colourful model of camera resembles the toy robot that was first introduced in Japan back in 2001 and aims to be more of a fun entry level digital SLR camera. Other than the fancy colour casing there are no other differences on this camera.

The special edition robo Pentax K-x will cost $880 when launched and only 100 units will be made with pre-orders beginning early next month in November. As of now it seems that all 100 units will be staying in Japan unless you can find some way of getting your hands on one of them through someone else if you want to take part in the mad array of colour.

 

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Hyper Blast

It really is impossible to talk about Hyper Blast without talking about 1-2-3 Stomp. These two games are made by Wild Planet, and they have the same basic concept.

Each one comes with a talking base, powered by 3 AAA batteries (not included). At the base’s command, the player stomps on the center, and stuff goes flying. In the case of 1-2-3 Stomp, it was numbers that had to be put back in the proper place. In the case of Hyper Blast, it is numbered balls that also have to be put back in the proper place. You can’t see from the picture here, but each of the HyperBlast balls has a hole in the back so that it will only fit in its proper numerical order.

Unlike 1-2-3 Stomp, there doesn’t seem to be much of an educational value to the game other than learning colors and numbers, which ought to be known already from those ages six and up. No, the point of Hyper Blast is to simply to beat the previous time of putting the balls back. I’m not really certain why it was slapped with a “six and up” warning label, because a five year old could do this, really. The only complex action consisted of setting the balls in, which as to be done a certain way or it will not count.

This could be a great gift for children. I would say children of all ages, but I’m not certain what the “cut-off” age would be for a product like this. After all, I certainly had a fun time playing it. Anyway, it is available at the Wild Planet Shopping site for a sales price of $29.95.

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