Following in Sonys way of slimming things down, the NV-U92T follows this trend. It is a very slim GPS sat nav system which is just 2CM in depth. It has a 4.8 inch wide screen display which is also touchscreen. An interesting feature that caught my eye is the gesture command support. If you draw a picture of your house it will navigate you home. The device has 2Gb of internal memory and can be expanded by using a Sony Memory Stick.
Unfortunatly we do not have pricing or other details yet, but as soon as they arrive we will get them out to you.
The Nixon Lodown Ti watch is aimed at the surfer type person who needs to know tide information. It features tide information for 200 beaches and covers the next 15 years of tide details.
As can be seen, the Nixon Lodown Ti has a cool inverted screen showing white on a black background. It is made of titanium and hardened with mineral crystal. With 100 meters water resistance it makes the perfect stylish watch.
The watch costs $200 and is available at the link below.
Above you will see a Nike trainer in the form of a transformer. The (non wearable) running shoes can sit nicely on your shelf and then turn in to a robot. The image above shows Nike Convoy and the image below shows Nike Megatron.
If you take a close look you can see that each robot is wearing tiny versions of the shoe that it just transformed from.
Thanks to Tony for pointing out the video from Youtube. It is a couple of years old and made in 2005, but still it is cool to see the actual product.
If you are an owner of a Sony PSP and frequent T-Mobile hotspots then you could be entitled to 6 months of free wifi access. Hurry though… there are only 362 days left to qualify for 6 free months. I have heard rumours that you also need to have the latest firmware, but as I am in the UK and this offer is for the US its a tad far for me to travel and test.
To get this working you need to follow these instructions…
Create a T-Mobile HotSpot Network Profile
1. Bring your PSP® system to a location that provides a T-Mobile HotSpot. (Refer to the T-Mobile HotSpot U.S. Location Map.)
2. Select (Network Settings) under (Settings).
3. Select [Infrastructure Mode].
4. Select [New Connection].
5. Select [Use Wireless Hotspot].
6. Select the T-Mobile HotSpot icon.
7. If you have an existing T-Mobile HotSpot account, select [Enter User Credentials]. Enter your user ID and password, and then press the right button. or If you do not have an account, select [Use Promotional Access] to sign up for a complimentary six-month T-Mobile HotSpot account . (To qualify for this promotional access, you must authenticate your PSP® system to the T-Mobile HotSpot network prior to March 28, 2008.)
8. Check the contents of the settings list.
9. Save the settings.
10. Perform a connection test. If you select [Test Connection], the system will connect to the selected access point.
11. Confirm the connection test results.
If the connection is successful, information about the network is displayed.
Loosing power to your mobile in this day in age is like loosing an arm. I have seen a number of people have to suddenly go home to charge their phone because they dont want to miss that all important text message from a friend.
Philips has launched a new celphone which supports the use of a backup AAA battery which allows up to 3 hours more of talk time on the handset. The phone is named the Xenium NRG and its primary source of power is a regular phone type battery and the AAA can be put in as a secondary battery.
The idea is actually great and more useful then I first imagined. AAA batteries have an advantage over regular mobile phone batteries in that they are a lot cheaper and also come fully charged off the shelf. Also availability is far greater with them being in almost every shop you walk in to.
Cables connecting devices may seem not so important, but when you compare quality side by side a good cable suddenly becomes very important. IXOs has introduced luxury HDMI cables which offer full-HD 1080p and range from just 1m to 11m in length. To get better quality images on the screen the connectors are silver plated which is the key to minimising losses in quality. With this cable there is not just 1 sheild protection, but a triple sheilding.
The combination of wire, connectors and sheilding give the best possible picture quality with the least possible loss. Costing from 109 pounds to 268 pounds you expect to be getting the quality you pay for.
We finally have found out the release date for the Apple iPhone in the US. It is set to arrive in the US on June 11th and will be priced at $599 with a 2 year service agreement with Cingular/AT&T. Thats a huge contract to take out on a phone and hopefully the service agreement has some good breakdown cover on it. The model at $599 will be the 8GB version.
The iPhone is estimated to cost $280.83 for the 8GB model. For a full comparison of costs take a look at the link below.
The Hannspree VibeWhite is a 32 inch Widescreen LCD screen. It features removable speakers which can be moved around the room to provide optimal sound. When attached or unattached the screen still shows a lot of style.
The Vibewhite costs $1149 and is available direct from the link below.
Nathan Davis has created the concept MP3 player watch which is a silicone band that you wear on your wrist. It features an OLED display under a layer polycarbonate. To listen to the music, you need no wires. This watch features bluetooth technology along with bluetooth headphones to send the audio wirelessly.
This is another cool watch design from Yanko Design that we would love to see hit the market. No doubt in the next year or few this type of watch will be readily available.
This is one of the most uniqe home made wallets I have seen. It is built from the insides of a computer keyboard and has been folded together to make one kind of cool looking wallet.
To make one of these yourself you will need the following items…
A desktop computer keyboard (for the circuit sheet and a metal piece as a straight edge)
A screwdriver to open the keyboard
A ruler or tape measure
A cutting board or cutting mat
A razor knife
Sharp scissors
A roll of clear packing tape
The Helio Smartphone was introduced a few days ago here and I was impressed with the quality and size of the device. The Helio Ocean features a dual sliding keyboard which can slide out sideways to reveal a QWERTY keyboard, and also slide out from the bottom to reveal a number pad. As can be seen in the video, the phone is quite small considering it is a slider (and even a dual slider). The phone has a number of powerful features such as a full HTML browser, 2.4 inch screen, stereo speakers and 200Mb of internal memory.
Kaser pens come equipt now only with 1Gb of storage, but also a laser pointer for presentations. Not many details are available except we know it is USB 2 which we can assume data transfer speeds are quite high.
Having all 3 items in 1 can be handy for some users and at a low $20 price it really is a bargain. However, we are unsure of the quality of this device. But for $20, you cant really go wrong.
With streaming video services becoming more popular and IP TV coming around, data transfer is key to making this run succesfully and smooth. Alcatel/Lucent have just smashed the record which was set at 14TB/s and set a new record of 25.6TB/s. That is 25 terabytes of data in one second that was transferred with just one fibre strand. That is an insane amount of data and like shifting 1000s of movies in just a second.
This of course will allow providers to bump up the speeds offered to end users and could greatly reduce costs of communications around the world.
If you remember a few months back we mentioned a Star Trek house for sale which was created by Tony Alleyne in the UK. The house is a fully refitted appartment which has a transporter room, High tech bathroom but unfortunatly no bed. Take a look at the video to see the appartment and let us know what you think.
A new application to the US Patent reveals that Nokia are planning to create a visual search engine which will be used to find images by using their shape, colour and texture. The search engine will be able to generate keywords about each image uploaded allowing you to sort through images. If you want to find a picture of something then you can also take a photo with your phone, upload the image and the app will be able to pick out matching details.
The whole process behind this is quite complicated but very interesting to read. More details can be found at the link below.
