Gadget Lab Notes: 8-Bit Camera App Snaps Game Boy Camera-Style Photos

The 8-Bit Pocket Camera App gives your photos a nostalgic, pixelated feel

8-Bit Pocket Camera App Wastes Your Smartphone?s Megapixels for Fun Photos

5-megapixel cameras, 8-megapixel cameras? Totally unnecessary?at least that?s what the makers of the 8-Bit Pocket Camera app want you to think. This $1 iOS app lets you take 200 x 200 tiffs reminiscent of the pictures (and quality) that the Game Boy Camera used to take back in the day (which were 128 x 112). The black and white pixilated pics you snap with this app can also be stylized, distorted, or enhanced with a border or different paper color, and will export as PNG files when emailed or posted online.

Recreate the Game Boy Camera with 8-Bit Pocket Camera App [Cult of Mac]

A Mouse That Doesn?t Click? My Ears Rejoice!

Click. Click click. Clickety clickclick click. For those who find themselves eternally irritated by the noise associated with every mouse button push, Nexus has a product for you: the Silent Mouse. It?s built with a patented switch that makes no sound when it?s clicked. The Silent Mouse is wireless, connecting to your notebook or PC via a nano receiver. It?s also got a button for selecting 1000 or 1600 DPI sensitivity, which is great for those who work on a large monitor.

Nexus Silent Mouse [Nexus via Slashgear]

Samsung Ships Notebooks With Keylogger Installed

The StarLogger keylogger program has been found preinstalled and active on two new Samsung laptops. The software logs every keystroke and takes screen caps, and can regularly email the data it collects without the user ever knowing this has been done. The affected laptops were purchased by Mohamed Hassan and detected when he installed security software. The first notebook that had the keylogger installed was eventually returned due to a driver issue; its replacement had the same keylogger program installed.

Samsung Installs Keylogger on its Laptop Computers [Network World via Geek.com]

Touchscreen Interface Simulates a Stretchy, Flexible Surface

Rather than just pinching to zoom and swiping to slide your position further along a screen, researchers at Osaka University have developed a touchscreen display that appears to flex, as if it were made of elastic material. So when you drag your finger to change what part of a map you?re viewing, for instance, the screen visually resists that movement, squishing and stretching the map?s proportions to keep your original position in perspective until you release your finger, almost like the map is printed on a sheet of rubber.

New Flex Touchscreen Interface Demonstrated Using Google Maps [Diginfo.tv via Crunchgear]

The PiCycle Electric Bike is Frowning at You

The PiCycle e-bike uses a 48V brushless DC motor to help power you up steep hills, across vast distances, or just on your daily commute. It can take you up to 20 miles without a single pedal on your part and reach speeds up to 30mph. Other featuers include an internal hub transmission, a beltdrive system, shifting on-the-fly, a suspension seat post, and hydraulic brakes. Its perfectly arched frame looks like a rainbow, or a frownie face.

PiCycle LTD Electric Bike [PiCycle via Uncrate]

Creative Coffee Table Is a Four-Person Pong Game

There?s no need for a coffee table in today?s world to be simply made of wood and just sit there. The coffee table is the perfect piece of furniture to transform into something interactive, like a four person game of pong played on a 30 x 30 matrix of red LEDs. Players use one of four knobs placed along each side to slide their bat left and right. The game can support up to 5 balls for more complicated play.

Super Pong Coffee Table [Instructables via Technabob]