Techalyzer

Wired Magazine finally came up with its list of top gadgets for 2008 and the results are interesting simply because it was such a great year for the development of imaginative and absolutely practical gadgets of all kinds.
One of the top gadgets was not really a gadget but actually a chair. The Herman Miller Embody Chair was more like a body suit. It is just that the back is covered with the most precise engineering and as a result your back benefits. There are controls on this chair to adjust every part of your spine as well as your hips, neck and lumbar spine. There is also a multilayered seat that can cradle even the tiniest shifts in weight. Your rear end is well support no matter how much or how little you move.
Another biggie on the list was a pair of headphones called “Monster Beats by Dre”. This gadget is collaboration between Monster Cable and Dr. dRe to produce a set of headphones that can finally produce deep rich bass sounds… These are over the ear phones and they are quite a break through as until now nobody has really produced noise cancelling headphones that also can bring you that low satisfying thumping.
Cheap flip video cameras were also really big news all this year and although the Flip Mino HD was considered to be more popular Wired Magazine voted the You Tube ready camcorder called the Z16 to be the best in terms of turning out a real quality video.
Wondering which wide screened television was thought the best by the notoriously snarky and fussy magazine. For high definition they voted the Mitsubishi Laservue flat screen HD television as the best even though it cost seven grand. The reason it s that this television has twice as much color as any other television due to the large size of the internal lasers providing the light. This television is a rear projection television and they start at fifty inches in size. It also has lasers that not only make it brilliant and sharp but also enable to use it one third of the energy of other televisions. So not only is it really contemporary. It is also a Green television. That is why it got such high marks from wired.
There were also a lot of netbooks on the market this year and if Wired Magazine had to choose just one it would be the Netbook – MSI Wind. The magazine saw most of this crop of netboxes as being mediocre plastic boxes. The reason the Wind got top kudos from Wired is because it seemed to balance better than other models and you can implant Apple Os X on it using Wind’s Linux based OS.

Some of the most amusing stocking stuffers this year are the kitchen gadgets. They are usually, small, nifty and incredibly useful. Many of them deserve design awards simply because they are so cute and practical.
A good example is the new Tea Tool. This looks like a tear dropped piece of plastic with sharp teeth in the loop. Its sole purpose is to prevent you from burning your fingers by helping you fish your teabag out of your hot cup of water after you are done brewing.
Scared your kid is going to plunge a knife down the toaster and electrocute him or herself while trying to retrieve a piece of burning toast. This need no longer is a concern. Now you can get wooden toast tongues. Everyone knows that it is the metal that conducts the electricity that can cause electrocution but the metal toast tongs can help allay the common fear that one will forget this once the toaster starts flaming. It is a good safety measure just to keep around your home toaster just in case.
Another neat little thing is called the Fat Magnet. This looks like a tiny steam iron and you fill it with ice cubes. It is used to vacuum fat off of the surface of soup.
Of course manufacturers will never get sick of ways to figure out how to grate garlic without getting your fingers smelly. One of the newer gadgets is the Garlic Car which looks like a small automobile and is simply grated over the cheese so that the peelings fall out like exhaust. You can also get a grater that looks like a small credit card that is very handy. There is also something called the Garlic Zoom which looks exactly like a pencil sharpener.
Another garlic macerator is called the Cuilinare Fresh Hands which is like a magical pebble. This is a ball made out of a special metal that when fondled in the hand gets rid of the smell of garlic from your fingers (which after all is inevitable). It apparently also can get rid of the smell of oranges.
Have you noticed that your fruits and vegetables, such as delicate tomatoes and peaches were getting bruised by lying flat on your refrigerator hard surface. If so then it might be time to give them their own little pillows by buying vegetable cushions. This is basically bubble wrap that helps prevent spoilage and softness.
Of course Christmas would not be complete without a musical cake slicer. You can get all kinds of different versions of these on line with graphics and that play tunes such as Jingle Bells and For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.
And if crumbs land on your table be sure to investigate the Hoover Dog which is a small plastic musical dog that vacuums up the debris left on your cake plate.