Hasta La Gadget!

A cursory glance at this street in Wuxi, China would give the impression of a booming downtown marketplace that runneth over with only the hottest international brands. Look a little closer, and you’ll notice that some of the spellings are a bit—er, off. Look even closer than that, and you’ll realize that this bizarro strip mall is even more off-kilter than you could have ever known—all of the buildings’ interiors are totally bone-bare.

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IBM’s mad scientists have created a graphene-based circuit that’s 10,000 times more powerful than existing alternatives. This radio receiver is so sophisticated and futuristic, in fact, that it can… send a text message to your friends.

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Starting today, you’ll be able to order from GrubHub and Seamless restaurants directly from Foursquare. In addition to the usual info you see when you look up a restaurant, you’ll also see the option to order from participating joints. Which is kind of weird because Foursquare is about going places and delivery is about sitting on your butt. Hurray for lazy.

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There will come a time when the capabilities of robots will start to become eerie. In a way, they’ve already reached this point as they can walk, talk, and sing, but not without someone telling them to (we’re still a few years off from robot lords taking over). For the moment, they’re more pets than anything as they require updating and maintenance just as any animal would need nourishment and grooming.

If you’ve always wanted your own little piece of machinery to follow you around at home, then the Keecker would be perfect! OK, it’s not meant to take the place of a cat or dog, but is actually supposed to be used as an entertainment hub. This has a projector which is capable of tossing up a regular screen display or 360 degree image. It also has a webcam, which will allow you to not only be seen by friends who are far away, but let you see them projected on a wall.

This has an internal speaker set so you can stream music wirelessly or play games on a big screen while controlling everything through your smartphone. Through the Keecker, you’ll also be granted the ability to see your home analytics such as the temperature, humidity, CO2 levels, and more on your phone so you can keep your home at its optimal level for your comfort. Of course, even with the $4,000 price tag, this would likely just end up being a way to browse the web on a large screen while in bed.

More information available on Keecker, found via OhGizmo
[ Keecker is a projector and webcam that wants to follow you like a shadow copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Four million songs on Spotify—a whopping twenty percent of the site’s tracks—have never been streamed. That is a ton of lonely tunes, but thanks to Forgotify they’re going to start getting some listening love; the service queues up stuff that’s never gotten a spin—the non-Biebers, the un-Mileys, the bizarro-Beys—and creates a running playlist of all-but-unknown audio.

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