Tech Skipper

Protect your kindle from water with KlearKase

Ever heard of a water proof casing for Kindle? Well, here we are with a transparent casing that can protect your Kindle from being water sick. The polycarbonate case only weighs 6 ounces, so you’ll merely feel an increase in weight. Don’t overestimate the effectiveness of this casing; you might not be able to plunge it into water since it is only splash proof. However, it can save your electronics unless Kindle is a reader of your choice after an iPad buzz. KlearKase

Hopscotch Calculator brought back those old memories

I certainly remember the days when I was a kid and used to play hopscotch with my friends back then. In the beginning, I was not able to make it through to the last box though; I practiced it enough to be a hopscotch champ. Well, its time to pull those memories back with a calculator keypad designed with the hopscotch play arena in mind. That’s just a 8-digit calculator offering basic math operation and smart enough to carry it around with great ease but wait a sec, my math is not that poor,...

iSendr Shares Files Without Hosting Them on a Server for All to Access

There has been number of file sharing services, but for that you need to host your file on a central server. That can be a bit risky and many people don’t want to host their file on central server which can be seen by others. Here is a solution, “iSendr” a free web service, which instantly transfers your file directly to your friend without using any server or software. iSendr uses a very simple process and more reliable one and is not much different from direct file transfer process used in...

Cool Way to get rid of static discharge

Static Discharge is a real enemy of mine. Whether they are metal doors or other metallic objects, I am almost always freaked out by the shock they embark upon me. Apart from metallic stuff, sometimes this thing happens when making a hand shake with people and the spark is often visible; how worst it can get than that. However, here is good news for people who face the same shocks in their daily life; ‘Mickey Head Static Discharger’ is something that we need to avoid such situations. This...

Swipe a finger and get as much light as you want

Why does people use light lamps except for the reason for not disturbing their room mate? Well, there is a little philosophy behind it; the lamp allows you to concentrate on your study book, saving your precious time which you would spend staring around otherwise. This philosophy looked so promising that I started using light lamps back in my university life but sadly this didn’t work out for me; the darkness always seems to creep me out. So, I rejected this idea but that just popped up ag...

Evolution Of Apple iPHONE

It seems like Steve Jobs is thinking big now-a-days. A few years back, the release of iPHONE was a great success and till now no other phone has killed it. Then, recently iPAD came into being which seems nothing but a bigger version of iPOD but still it has made a success in the market right from the beginning. So, the bigger the better? Now the question is what’s next? As mentioned earlier, Steve jobs is thinking big. So, here is a clue to what we will have out of Apple in next 4 or 5 years...

Measure your heart beat rate with ‘heart beat watch’

That’s a life saving gadget! You can actually measure the heart beat if you find something abnormal about yourself and call the emergency in time. The watch uses no electrocardiogram system, rather it is embedded with a series of LEDs which are used to show the EKG spiking with respect to time. Heart Beat Watch has 2 modes of operation : 1) “Normal LED watch mode” will show the time for a few seconds by pressing the button as a normal LED watch. 2) “Always On” mode will keep the light...

RedEye mini – Turn iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch into Universal Remote

  The original RedEye by ThinkFlood was quite a show off, but it was also very expensive and complicated. Although it’s been just four months since its launch, but as new technologies are coming day by day, we can say that it is now a history. However, anew and advanced technology RedEye mini is conquering the world of iPhone, iPad, iPod touch remotes, with just a single plug-in Infrared (IR) adapter, it makes your Apple device into a device that beams out a near-limitless array of IR co...

Yellow Switch – A solution to confusing Control Boards

It happens a lot that when you go to someone’s home or office, you get confused if you have to turn on the light, a fan or any other electronics. That’s because the control board has all the switches with the same color and shape and doesn’t tell you which equipment will be affected against each button. So, you might end up turning on a fan instead of energy saver. Now, according to the design presented by Heo Jaesik and Lim Hojoon, we can have a wired diagram of all the electronics on th...

Project your map with MAPTOR

If you have been to a new place, you probably would have known that it’s easy to get lost in new places without a direction. Here is a killer concept produced by Jin-Sun Park and Seon-Keun Park. They have given an idea of a portable map projector which would help you eliminate the need for paper maps and at the same time keeping you on track. The MAPTOR is a highly portable device small and light enough to be carried to a strip around your neck. MAPTOR has the functionality of zoom in/out o...