Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Source: NewLaunches
Sony have made a tiny projector which works using LED’s as the source for light. As seen in the pictures below, this thing is tiny. It will fit in your hand!!
The devices uses groups of different coloured LED’s and uses the light there to throw the image on to the screen.
This handy little speaker that doubles up as a 4 port USB Hub is now for sale at iwoot.com.
* A stylish cube shaped computer stereo speaker with integrated USB hub.
* The Cubite has an easily rechargeable 4-port USB hub so you can plug in all manner of USB reliant things such as memory sticks, digital cameras, MP3 players and PDAs.
* The speaker has a treble and bass control for optimal sound tuning.
* Totally plug and play, no software required.
* Suitable for ages 8 years+.
* Requires a USB port as it’s totally USB powered.
* Requires a PC with an audio-out port with operating system Windows 98 SE or above or
* Mac OS 8.6 or above.
* Size: 10 x 10 x 10cm.
Ever wondered what phones will be like in the future? A recent competition was launched in which the contenders were asked to design the phones of the future. Below are 2 pics. The first is the winning phone with which the designer won an internship with Nokia.
Toshiba have made this amazing 0.85-inch 4GB HDD. Looking at the pictures below you will be amazed at how something so small can be made.
The drive is slightly larger then a stamp and would be ideal for cameras, phones, MP3 players as well as card readers where transporting data around would be made far easier. I can see this device from Toshiba doing really well!
This Tiny PC called “The Space Cube” is tiny. It’s just 2 x 2 x 2.2 inches and has a 300MHz CPU with 64MB SDRAM. It can run at quite a decent resolution at 1280×1024 and costs $325
Source: Fosfor.se
The PicoFlyer is the worlds smallest functional RC helicopter. It’s rotors are 60mm in diameter and the helicopter can fly for around 3 minutes. Looking at the screen shots it reminds me of the insides of a tiny RC car (the Tomy ones) and from what I can tell it’s made of 3 motors (2 for the rotors and 1 for the rear rotor) and charges just like the BitChargE cars.
More Pictures can be found here.
Absolutely stable without the use of any gyros or autopilots
There are no servos, actuators, rods, links, gears or other moving part
The whole helicopter is operated and controlled by 3 electric motors
Forward flight is achieved by tilting the helicopter with the tail propeller
The rotor blades are encircled by a ring that supports and protects them
It is very efficient, all the power is used to generate lift
It is silent, the mechanical drives and the rotors generate very little noise
There are no vibrations
It is safe
Solar powered phones may be the way forwards in the future. They are requiring more and more power as more functions are integrated, so Fraunhofer researchers have decided to try integrate solar panels in to phones so that they can provide the extra boost needed to keep these things running.
I personally am wanting to see Fuel Cells in mobile phones. They would last for weeks at a time and have instant power if Toshiba and other companies could shrink them down to a small enough size. No doubt Solar panels will help also.
Source: Slashphone.com
The ION USB turntable allows you to play your old LP’s from whenever… 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and earlier and plays them direct in to your USB port on your PC allowing you to convert your vinyls in to WAV, MP3 and many other formats.
Available from iwoot.com
* A super sleek adjustable pitch belt drive turntable.
* The turntable includes: –
* A slipmat
* A counterweight
* A platter (no, not for your dinner)
* A USB cable
* A pre-mounted cartridge with Stylus.
* Includes Audacity software for Mac/PC recording as well as a trial of Bias Soundsoap 2 for cleaning and restoring vinyl.
* Line level RCA outputs to connect up to your stereo
* 33 and 45 RPM Buttons (78’s are played at 33 and then converted by the software).
* Adjustable Anti-Skating control for increased stereo balancing
* High speed vinyl recording
* A CD with Mac/PC Recording Software.
* Full instruction manual.
* Suitable for ages 12 years+.
* Requires a PC running Windows 98, 2000, XP, a MAC running OS9 or higher and a USB port 1.1 or higher.
* The USB Turntable is compatible with any software that supports USB audio input sound cards – simply plug it into a spare USB port – it requires no special drivers for Windows (98,2000,XP) or Mac (OS9 and above).
* Please note that the turntable is not compatible with Macs with Pentium chips.
* Size: – Product weight: 12lbs
* Turntable: 42 x 37 x 14.
When you were younger… or maybe even now, you might have watched Sumo Wrestling and wondered why they wear that skimpy underwear and are so huge and love to fight each other.
If you enjoyed watching it, but do not fancy doubling or gaining 4 times your current weight to join in then a Sumo Suit is the answer!
The Sumo Suit comes with the costume, crazy weird hat (hair piece thing) and also a small fan in which you insert in the back and it quickly inflates you to Sumo size rather quickly.
Available from iwoot.com
* Sumo Suit and Hat
* Battery operated fan
* Inflates in seconds
* One size fits all (unless you’re already a Sumo wrestler, in which case what are you doing?)
* Requires 4 AA batteries
* 100% nylon. Hand wash cold and line dry. Do not iron.
iwoot this time bring us the SSX Snowboarder. Have you ever walked around the amusment arcades and seen the snowboarding games, but been too shy to have a go because you might get it all wrong and be laughed at?
Well… you can now have one of these in your home to play the legendary SSX game with.
Available from iWoot for £34.99 – Not a bad price at all!!!
* Based on EA’s #1 selling SSX video game
* Ride the snowboard to control the action on the TV
* All you need is a TV or VCR with AV inputs (RF adapter required if your TV or VCR does not have AV inputs)
* AV/Scart adaptor is included
* Maximum weight is 91kgs/200lbs/14.5 stone
* Ages 8 and up
* Batteries: 4 x AA (not included)
* Board 53 x 18 x 4cm
* Control 14dia x 3cm
* UK helpline 0871 222 8278
Iwoot.com have the new Twilight Umbrellas for sale now which are for rainy days and for cheering the mood up when all you see is rain and boring black brollys everywhere.
2 designs are available. The one below is the Red brolly with neon stripes and the other is the Black version with speckles of light over it.
Available from iwoot.com
Someone decided it would be good to take apart a torch and stick a 4 inch speaker in it, connect it to an iPod and power the thing with a Duracell 9V battery… what do you get from that? An Eveready Boombox (sub for those in the UK).
The assembly is quite obvious from what I can see although you will need to figure out how to make the amp. I am sure an electronics geek friend could help in that catagory though. Maybe some ultra bright LED’s should be put at the front also so that it can be used as a torch also.
