Keyboard as Art
Logitech’s diNovo Edge keyboard reflects the growing importance and visibility of the PC in today’s home. Meant to be seen and touched, the new keyboard, only 19.05mm thick, has a high-gloss finish, is laser cut from a single, semi-translucent piece of black Plexiglas and set into a brushed-aluminum frame. Its minimalist style is further evident in the limited number of buttons and the dynamic, backlighted icons embedded within the keyboard, which are invisible when not illuminated.
The keyboard is rechargeable and features an integrated touch-sensitive navigation and scroll panel, and includes embedded Bluetooth technology. The diNovo Edge is part of Logitech’s family of Advanced Peripherals. It complements the Logitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse and the Logitech Z-10 2.0 Interactive Speaker System, which matches the diNovo Edge with a soft-orange liquid-crystal media display and a glossy black surface.
Simplified Product Research for Better Decisions
Wize.com offers a way to conduct product research that is better than using a search engine. The website consolidates expert and consumer-written reviews for more than 10,000 consumer products. Then, products are sorted by Wize Rank — a score that represents the public’s collective wisdom, good or bad, for each item. Wize Rank is determined by the content of the consumer and expert product reviews and allows people to quickly determine which products are worth further consideration. Each product on Wize.com is presented along with reviews and links back to the original sources so that customers can easily read the full reviews.
Focusing on Stock Market Blogs
Since launching its service in July, InstantBull.com has doubled the number of stock blogs it tracks and added more ease of access tools to its time-saving free interface. Investors can now browse blogs alphabetically or by stock blog rating. Blog ratings are determined by polling popular sites for various criteria such as the frequency of updated content, uniqueness and credibility of the content and overall coverage and participation in the stock market community. InstantBull is not affiliated with any of the stock market bloggers being aggregated and intends to continue to upgrade its blog offering in an objective and time-saving manner.
Sweep Up the Dirtiest Places
iRobot Corp.(www.irobot.com) has introduced a new addition to its family of home robots — the iRobot Dirt Dog Workshop Robot. The rugged robot is designed to pick up small nails, dirt, sawdust and other debris that accumulates in garages, basements and workbench zones.
iRobot Dirt Dog features an oversized, bagless debris bin. The robot also has two counter-rotating bristle brushes that spin at nearly 1,000 rotations per minute to pick up heavy debris such as nails, wood chips and small shop scraps. With brushes specially designed to sweep up dirt that clings to rough surfaces, the robot is recommended for use on hard floors, shop carpets and industrial surfaces only. iRobot Dirt Dog is easy to use — simply push the Clean button and it goes to work. Priced at $129.99.
Control Home Lighting Costs
Watt Stopper/Legrand is putting the spotlight on its new decorator style Miro lighting control products. Miro is a line of wireless RF lighting control products that bring affordable, simple, whole-house lighting control to homes.
Miro provides easy-to-use, fingertip control functionality. Powered by 900MHz wireless communication technology, Wireless Miro offers control capabilities, without control wiring, central processor or power line carrier, or elaborate programming software and tools. In addition to one-touch whole house ON/OFF, Wireless Miro features whole house and room scene control, a “panic” function, “vacation” mode, and coordinated control of lamps and small appliances. Completely scalable, Wireless Miro installs easily using standard wallboxes and existing electrical wiring.
