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Feeling you want to be more like James Bond or looking for a video monitoring solution for your home/office? Check out the IZON Remote Room Monitor. This item lets you video monitor any area from your iPhone or iPad over WiFi/3G/4G. Reminding us of the Looxcie and Pico Dolly, the IZON Remote Room Monitor is a very cool new security extension to your iPhone.                Features: IZON Remote Room Monitor :                                                                               The IZON Remote Room Monitor is a WiFi-based video camera which enables you to see how things are going at home or practically any place where the camera is placed – using your iPad or iPhone as the control device. Small in build, this item is ideal...

Pedal Power Engineering (PPE) is a small engineering firm that designs and builds human-powered devices. We focus on stationary pedal-powered machines called dynapods. Our first dynapod (shown in the video above) will be available for purchase in the fall of 2011. We also build custom machines.  Our dynapod is designed for off-grid applications and features a work surface, ergonomic seat for comfort, quick adjustments for different riders, a flywheel to smooth pedaling, a wide range of gearing, and an all-steel, hand-built frame. An average adult can pedal it to generate 100 watts of electricity, pump 5 gallons of water per minute, grind a variety of grains, operate an air compressor, a hydraulic pump, most any hand-cranked machine, and a variety of small shop tools. It has been found to be particularly suitable for small scale agricultural applications such as cracking grains, churning butter, and pumping water.  PPE is a full service engineering firm committed to co...

Phones have come a long way since Innocenzo Manzetti played around with the idea of a ”speaking telegraph” in 1844. Development of the landline telephone came in leaps and bounds but it is the mobile phone that truly captured a global audience. The first mobile phones were produced by Bell System for use in cars only, introduced in 1946 on their Mobile Telephone Service in St. Louis, Missouri. The first call on a handheld mobile phone was made on April, 3 1973 by Motorola’s Martin Cooper to his rival, Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. Nicknamed “the brick” the first mobile phones weighed 2 lb (0,9kg) and cost $3,995.  As with most inventions, it takes a while (and a lot of teething problems) before a product reaches an acceptable cost factor for both the producer and the consumer. Early mobile networks were patchy and phones were expensive, bulky and less than attractive. When the 1G network launched in 1983, the phones were still too b...