If you have a kitty in your house and you need a humidifier, here is a gadget you should consider buying – Wool Ball Hybrid Humidifier. Not only will it humidify your house but will also entertain your darling kitty. On top of all, you stay green since the innovation is eco-friendly.

Yuan Gu, a Chinese student came up with a unique design of Hybrid Humidifier that resembles a wool ball (the one which Kitty loves to play with). In its hybrid mode, energy in it is generated by rolling. This means you can allow your kitty to play with it and roll it over and over again and in return you get to humidify your house without expending any extra penny on your electricity bill.

Besides hybrid mode, there is also a standard mode where you need to generate energy for it like any other conventional humidifier – using electricity.

Social Media is a great way to interact and find new buddies and discover new opportunities. The use of social media has increased to such a great extent that it now has bundled itself in our daily lives. A day without Twitter and other social media elements is quite hard for me. Recently, we witnessed a great influence of social media on real life goodies. In this post, I bring to you 5 social media influenced goodies and treats that are really hard to believe.

Facebook Sweets

Audrey Wells, a UQAM student, came up with a fantastic idea of eating Facebook friends. Basically, the idea is to wrap sugary sweets in packaging made from randomly chosen Facebook friend’s profile pics. Though the idea is quite quirky, but this shows how social media has started influencing every bit of real world – even chocolates.

Facebook Portraits

Another example of Social Media influence is the four portraits by visual artist PJ Smalley. PJ Smalley released a series of four Facebook profile inspired portraits in his work titled ‘Personal Shrines, Redefined’. His four paintings – ‘Young Love,’ ‘The Static Age,’ ‘A Cyber Stalk to Remember’ and ‘Space Invaders’ – have all been inspired by Facebook profile pictures.

Tweeting Paper

I love Tweeting and  I am (@anddjournal) a Twitter fan. There are various web and desktop clients for tweeting but there is a real life client as well. No, its not that you can write on a paper and upload it on Twitter but still, there is a paper that copies Twitter style. Paper Tweet Notepad has everything you need to write in Twitter style – hashtags, RT column, DM column, a column for your name and bio. Further, it has space for just 140 characters – ya, that’s exact of a Twitter.

Tweetography Maps

The guys over at Urbantick came up with a series of maps that use tweets for plotting density. The contours represent tweet desnity in an area. The ‘mountains’ or lighter shades of green, yellow and red reflects a high Tweeting activity, whereas dark green areas indicate areas in which Twitter is not used much.

Twitter and Facebook All-in-one iPad Magazine

Flipboard is a social media magazine just for you. All your friends’ tweets and Facebook updates are packed as one stylish and geeky magazine. Flipboard iPad magazine lays out your social network connections and updates in a fashion similar to print media. The idea is quite handy taking into consideration the number of updates and tweets we send out daily.

iPhone is a great device – it is simple and its touch technology is fabulous. However, QWERTY keyboard still tops the list of features that some people want to see in their iPhone. One the other hand, there is still quite a good number of people who don’t want to distort the simple and sleek design of iPhone just for the sake of few moments of easy life. No worries whatsoever. Altamash Jiwani has found a midway – a QWERTY keyboard add-on for iPhone.

The QWERTY keyboard comes with a slider tactile keyboard and an impact case to protect your iPhone from bumps and bruises. Using the add-on is very simple. Simply slide the iPhone in the case and connect the keyboard’s port with your iPhone’s dock connector. Install the bundled apps and Voila. You now have a QWERTY keyboard for your very favorite iPhone.

Another good thing about the accessory is that you can charge your iPhone while even using it. The Keyboard accessory comes with a female dock connector which allows you to charge your iPhone even when you are busy texting or tweeting.

You are on the go and you are tired. You take out a bottle from one pouch of your bag and a travel mug from the other. You drink water from the first and order the mug to play music. Surprised? Don’t be because Sony Japan has come up with a travel-mug style speakers.

Sony SRS-V500IP is a 360-degree “Circle Sound Stage” speaker with an iPhone or iPod dock. The speaker spreads audio from 16W sound system which is quite loud for people around you to enjoy every bit of music. The mug can be detached from the dock and can be well used in your car by operating it on your in-car power and slotting it into a cup-holder.

When at home, you can simply put your iPhone or iPod in the cradle available in the dock. Besides, there is also a 3.5mm stereo audio input for non-Apple PMPs. The equipment comes with a remote that can be used for adjusting sound levels and switching between th two input modes – Apple PMPs and non-Apple PMPs .

Sony SRS-V500IP is available for retail in US through AudioCubes.com at a price of around $240. Checkout the AudioCubes product page for more info about this amazing singing mug.

Hollywood Fiction Movies are full of unbelievable tech inventions and gadgets. They really bewilder me at times. The same was the feeling when I came across Smart Plus, a kick-ass combination of a smartphone, a laptop and a projector which is not less than a Hollywood invention. People nowadays realize that they are unable to handle most of their computing even after owning a smartphone. That’s where Smart Plus comes in action.

Smart Plus seamlessly combines a smartphone, a laptop and a projector to provide ultimate computing experience while making the whole setup as portable as it could have been. The Smart Plus device comes with an in-built projector which beams light on the inside lid of a laptop case. This eliminates the need of having a large screen while letting you enjoy the same. Your smartphone acts as the brain of the system and is the Operating System of the setup. There also comes a detachable remote control which can be used with mouse and joypad.

The Smart Plus system fulfills a range of needs that are currently being performed by several products. You can read more about the inventor Eunggyu Lee and the Smart Plus project on the official website – Inqde.com.

Ever wanted to change your iPhone Service provider while on the go but did not do so ‘coz you felt it was too fussy and mussy? No more now. Thanks to Dual Sim Adapter Case for iPhone 4 which lets you change your iPhone service provider as easily as changing options in your iPhone settings.

Using Dual Sim Adapter Case is extremely simple and even works a nerd. You just need to slide the Dual Sim Adapter Case into your iPhone 4 with both SIM card inserted. Now just head over to your phone settings and chose your desired Service Provider anytime and at any place you want – Voila!

Dual Sim Adapter Case costs $28.99 and works only on jail-broken iPhone 4G. You can purchase this dual SIM adapter from USBFever.com website.

Want to give the classical web browsing a bit of spin? Well, there is a web service which literally ‘spins’ your web browsing experience. The Revolving Internet website gives you a great experience of browsing websites while the webpage rotates on your screen. Though the entire website turns round and round but it is still capable of doing anything you can do on a stationary webpage.

When you open The Revolving Internet website you are produced with the Google home page. The page (unlike the normal one) rotates in all directions. Just click in the text area and type a query and hit return. Your search results will be displayed. Click on search results to open it in the same rotating style.

Here are snapshots of this blog and Wikipedia in rotational motion:

Now before I say a word on the subject of my post, I would like to mention that I am a MJ fan and have no aim of hurting the feelings of his fans in anyway (We miss you MJ!). Now back to business, here is a website came across that turns almost anyone into an ugly dancer. It serves as a great refresher in the middle of a working day.

The web app over at TheUglyDance.com asks users to upload a photo and chose a outfit and the uploaded character is ready to dance on some uproarious music. Besides, you also get to chose your dancing style – stomp, aerobic, twist, sway, limp, grease and many more.

Here is some snapshots of TheUglyDance.com website and an ugly dancer-

Go ahead and turn a celebrity (or even yourself) into an ugly dancer using TheUglyDance.

“Human emotions have lost importance in this modern and technological world”, they say. But I guess it is not. Scientists and tech enthusiasts are bent on integrating human emotions with technology. The tech camps are exploring world of human emotions to better understand it and are doing much hard work to apply it to technology. With some serious innovations that integrate human emotions with technology, we can rest assured that human emotions will never be sacrificed.

An apparel to suit your mood

The guys over at Philips are putting a great deal of effort in the work of integrating human emotions with technology. SKIN is an emotion sensitive apparel that changes its color and form according to the wearer’s mood. This means you can communicate your emotions with your techie clothes.

LED Furniture that glows with your Mood

Philippe Boulet, a French designer has come up with a line of LED furniture that glows in various colors. You can change the color of LED lights to suit your mood. A calming shade of blue, or a romantic shade of pink – many a options for innumerous moods.

iPhone app that plays Mood-Based Playlists

Ghostly Discovery is an iPhone app which allows users to create a mood-based playlist from Ghostly International and Spectral Sound. The app uses different colors to symbolize different moods. Users just have to select a color and the app will generate a random playlist to suit that mood.

Emotion Reflecting Phone

Ahmad Bittar’s Gaia Phone reflects one of the most basic human traits – emotions. The phone uses contact photos and call records (calls in and out) to determine the strength of relationship between you and your phone contact. It brightens up the photo of that contact to whom you often talk and it fades the photo of those whom you talk rarely.

Emotion Sensing Jewelry

Philips’ VIBE is an emotion sensor that can be used as a necklace. This emotional sensing necklace combines conductive ink and textile sensors. It can read multiple biometric signals of the person who is wearing the necklace and can then communicate them to other devices and other wearers.

Sometimes it happens that a song gets stuck in your head and repeats and repeats in your brain. It really becomes hard to forget the song and get it out of your brain.Not now though. Thanks to technology which has now made easy to unhear a song and get it out of your brain.

UnhearIt is a website which plays a random equally catching song and uses latest techniques in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology and gets a song out of your head.

For those who doubt the service, I can serve as a proof. I unheard Akon’s Lonely using their website. They played “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and it got that tormenting ‘Lonely’ chorus out of my head. Unfortunately, I started buzzing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and sang it all day. But that is just how I am.