CX-919 II Android TV Stick

Nowadays, Smart TV has become a popular range of TVs. Like Smartphones, they are TVs which have built in OSes, allowing you to install apps and surf net on your TV. Now before you decide to go for the best range of Smart TVs out there, there are some downsides of getting a Smart TV.

Pebble Watch

I've mentioned about Pebble Watch in my previous post here. It's basically a Smart Watch that is compatible with iPhone and Android devices. Similar to the Bluetooth Wrist Watch, it connects to your smart device via Bluetooth.

Self Stirring Mug

I used to buy coffee from the vending machine in my office. Ever since I changed my job recently, there's no vending machine in my new office and I have to resort to making my own coffee at the pantry. As I'm a lazy person and I refuse to bring any spoon to the office, I ended up buying this, the Self Stirring Mug.

Qi Wireless Charging Pad

It was said that Nikola Tesla had invented wireless electricity transmission more than 100 years ago. Conspiracy theories have been going around suspecting that it wasn't successful because he was threatened by the electricity companies whose business was at stake if wireless electricity could be tapped freely from anywhere. Today however, we have some progress. Although it's considered "wireless" electricity transmission, it's not as impressive as one would imagine it to be. 

Rotating Power Extension Cord

Do you always encounter problems with badly designed power adapters plugged into your power extension cord that can sometimes take up spaces of another power socket beside it? Then you may find this extension cord useful.

Magnetic Tablet Case With Auto-Sleep And Auto-Wake Feature

It seems that tablets nowadays has an auto-sleep and auto-wake feature for magnetic tablet cases. It works by detecting the magnet from the front part of the case, putting the device to sleep whenever you close the case, and waking the device up when you open it. Below is a video of how it works on my Nexus 7 2nd generation.

出ない順試験に出ない英単語 The First 150 Nonessential Vocabulary

If I must choose a WTF book that is really WTF to blog about, this will be the one. It's basically a reference book on words that won't appear in exams. Yes, you heard that right. Words that WON'T appear in exams.

Talking Minion Dave

The Talking Minion Dave available at Toys'r'us ever since the minion craze, this is the figure that every Minion fan needs to get their hands on.

Inception Spinning Top

I dreamed of a spinning top yesterday night. When I woke up this morning, the same spinning top appeared beside my bed. I tried spinning it, and it doesn't stop...

Magnetic Levitating Globe

Even though nowadays there is Google Earth on our desktop that is much more useful and informative than a physical globe, some people still prefer keeping one or two globes at home, well, at least for decoration purposes. If you are one of those people, you should definitely get your hands on one of these cool levitating globes.

Wow-Pen Joy

Yes, it's a mouse. Yes, it has a weird shape. But it's the best ergonomic mouse ever! 

Bluetooth Wrist Watch

A watch I bought from Aliexpress. Like a Smart watch, it actually connects to your phone using Bluetooth. Though it doesn't do as much as what a Pebble watch can, it's much cheaper (around 57 USD) and actually has some cool functions that most Smart watches do not tend to have.

Retro Telephone Handset

Well. The picture above explains it all. It's a Retro Telephone handset. Connect this to your smartphone and you can pick up calls in a retro way! Helps avoid radiation by keeping your ears away from your phone. (Just like any other hands-free sets)

The sound quality is decent, can't comment much about that. There are also volume buttons on the side, just to make it a bit more useful than it already is!

Seriously I have no idea why I bought this though. But if you, like me, is succumbed to your own impulse, you can get it at Aliexpress for around 6 USD with Free shipping.

LG Optimus 3D

You probably have heard of Nintendo 3DS and it's glasses-free 3D technology, or maybe even own one. But how many actually heard of glasses-free 3D smartphones?

A couple of years ago both HTC and LG released their 3D smartphones at around the same time, namely EVO 3D and Optimus 3D respectively. Probably the product exposure didn't go very well, or people just aren't really interested in a 3D smartphone, sales weren't good, and thus till date these two phones are still the only glasses-free 3D smartphones that have ever existed in the market. (Well, at least in Singapore market)

The 3D effect generated by these devices uses a display technology known as parallax barrier. When the viewer's head is in a certain position, a different image is seen with each eye, giving a convincing illusion of 3D. 

Huawei Mobile Wifi

Many people prefer tablets with 3G/LTE support, mainly because they don't have to search around for hotspots while in public places.

Introducing the Mifi (Mobile Wifi). Well there are people who have never heard of it. It's a portable router that works the same as tethering 3G/LTE with your smartphone to share the connection with other devices through Wifi.

Some people may ask. Why do we even need this if we can tether with our smartphones? Well, tethering uses a lot of battery, and heats up the phone quickly. You still need your phone for call and messaging don't you? Besides, some old devices (e.g Nintendo DS) have some issues supporting ad-hoc connections like smartphone tethering. In those cases Mifi would be your saviour.

The V-Cube

I’ll start off my blog by introducing everyone to my 7x7x7 Rubik’s Cube.

The brand is V-cube and I bought it from Comics Connection a few years ago.

Solving a standard 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube isn’t that hard, and if you’re interested to learn you can find plenty of tutorials on the web teaching you the steps and algorithms. You can choose to remember all of the algorithms, or you can just remember the few essential ones, which you can still be able to solve a cube. However do note that the more algorithms you memorise, the faster you’ll be able to solve it. Many people do that to improve their timing, and it’s known as speedcubing.

Any cube larger than 3x3x3 isn’t any much harder, as one of the methods involve solving centres and edges to turn the cube into a 3x3x3 and using the exact same steps for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube.

Currently the largest Rubik’s Cube I’ve seen selling in the market would be 9x9x9. However do take note that the larger the cube is, the longer it takes to solve it. Again, it’s not hard, but it requires patience.

For large cubes my preference would be 5x5x5, 7x7x7 and, if I had a chance to get my hands on one of them, the 9x9x9. This is because even number cubes, excluding the 2x2x2, have an extra step to solve parity errors, which happens 50% of the time. It involves a very long algorithm to memorise, so I choose to avoid those cubes.