Archives for June 2006

Dell Wireless 5700 Mobile Broadband ExpressCard

June 28, 2006 by Leave a Comment

The Dell Wireless 5700 card has been released. It integrates Verizon EVDO and is on special offer from Dell at $179 which allows you to use Verizon free for 30 days.

What is EVDO? It means “Evolution-Data Optimized” and is a wireless technology which allows high speed connections to the internet using the Verizon Wireless network. It allows you to connect with out a wireless hotspot from anywhere. An unlimited subscription costs just $80 a month which is not a bad amount. If you currently subscribe to Verizon then it is even less at $59.99 per month.

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Via: NoteBookReview

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets

Greenhouse GH-PDV720-TV

June 28, 2006 by Leave a Comment

The Greenhouse portable DVD player (the GH-PDV720-TV) not only is a portable DVD player, but has a built in TV tuner also. Not something I have seen before on other portable DVD players. It has a nice 7″ wide screen display and hits the market in a months time for around $213.

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Via: TechEBlog

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

Acer AL1517A 17″ LCD Monitor

June 28, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Acer are launching the AL1517A 17″ LCD monitor which comes on the market next month at around $175. It’s not bad for the price. It has a 12ms response time which is not as good as others, it has nice resolution settings (1024 x 768) and quite a wide viewing angle of 130 degrees.

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Via: TechEBlog

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, Displays

Samsung P300

June 28, 2006 by Leave a Comment

The P300 is the latest in the line up of mobile phones from Samsung. My first impression was that this looks like a calculator. It is a phone though 😉 and I am sure it does have a calculator on it too.

The P300 is the size of a credit card and not much thicker either. It’s dims are 8.6 x 5.4 x 0.9cm. It’s screen is a 1.8″ LCD which is very good on the eyes.

Important stats include Bluetooth, tri-band (900/1,800/1,900 MHz) GSM/GPRS network connectivity and a 1.3 megapixel camera with flash and 4x digital zoom. If that wasn’t enough the phone manages to pack in an MP3 player supporting MP3, AAC, AAC+ and e-AAC formats, a video recorder with playback and video messaging capabilities, and 80MB of memory.

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Via: RegHardware

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets, Displays

Lego AT-ST

June 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Someone thought it would be cool to make a lego (working) AT-ST from starwars. Check out the video although it has developed some kind of funky limp 🙂

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

Cheap Wi-Fi Routers

June 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment

A company in Spain are creating a cheap wi-fi router which is set to cost only $5. The reason for this is that they want to promote the use of home wi-fi networks in to becoming public hot spots. To me it sounds like a great idea although the fear could be people using a wi-fi spot for illegal purposes and then the blame being passed to the bill payer. So, they would probably need to use some kind of proxy service so that users need to log on. Also ISP’s will need to back this up too.

More details can be found at BBC News

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, Tech News

Nokia N80 Video Review

June 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment

This is a bit late coming 🙂 But still worth a post. The Nokia N80 (out now) has the added bonus of wifi built in (which the N70 does not). This is a great move for Nokia because no one likes the sucky charges that WAP, GPRS, 3G etc… impose on us… so a wifi connection is just great. What I like about the N80 is the browser shown below. It can shrink down and then you can move a box around which will zoom in to where you want to see on the web site. Helps immensly for sidewards scrolling which should be made illegal 😉

Via: PhoneScoop

Filed Under: Cell Phones, Cool Gadgets

Pong Clock Now Shipping

June 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment

If any of you have ordered one of the $285.85 Pong Clocks then they are starting to ship. The Pong Clock just sits on your wall playing Pong while telling the time some how 🙂 Great for childhood memories.

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Via: UberGizmo

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, Gadget Clocks

Bullet Proof iPod

June 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Have you ever walked down the street and had your iPod shot at? I guess the inventor of this case has because he has made a bullet proof iPod case. Ok… well thats not true. He didnt make it this way because of having been shot at. He made it because he loves his iPod (dont we all!) and was fed up of it being crushed in the Japanese subway. Regular cases didnt do the trick, so he made the rather tasty Bullet Proof iPod case.

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As can be seen above, it is a huge heavy case which is 5mm thick, made of aliminium and can stop a .22 bullet.

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Filed Under: Cool Gadgets

Qool Labs QDA Lite and QDA Icon

June 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Qool labs, another company I have never heard of, have launched the QDA Lite and QDA Icon.

Quote from UberGizmo

The QDA Lite and QDA Icon from Qool Labs’ are actually repackaged devices, with the former being the Lite-On Phoenix 2 and the latter a TechFaith Wireless prototype. The QDA Lite is powered by an Intel PXA270 520MHz processor and comes with 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM, tri-band GSM/GPRS support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, USB Host, a 2.0-megapixel camera, an SDIO/SD/MMC slot, a 2.8″ QVGA (240 x 320) TFT-LCD, 1240mAh battery, and Windows Mobile 5.0. The QDA Icon has less detailed specs, but it is confirmed to carry GSM/GPRS/Bluetooth/WiFi connectivity, a 4 megapixel camera, and a 2.4″ QVGA (240 x 320) TFT LCD.

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Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, Displays

Bell + Howell 10 Megapixel Camera

June 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Bell + Howell have created a 10 megapixel digital camera which is to be launched soon at $219. It has some cut down features and is classed as a camera for extremely casual beginners in the digital camera scene. It measures just 0.875″ in thickness, has 8x digital zoom, 16Mb built in memory and a much needed SD card slot. Also it can make videos and has a 1.5″ colour LCD screen. It doesnt look too great in my opinion and for being 10 megapixel I would have expected more built in memory as well as a better screen as well as optical zoom 🙂 Not much more I want other then that.

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Via: UberGizmo

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets, Displays

Sony Vaio Type U

June 27, 2006 by Leave a Comment

I have had my eye on the the Sony Vaio Type U. According to Sony, is to switch from a 20/30Gb model to use a 16Gb flash memory. This is great news in some ways because it gives the device an increase to 4 hours. Other specs of the device have not changes from the 1.06Ghz/1.2Ghz depending on the model as well as the 1.3 Megapixel motion-eye camera. It goes on sale on the 13th July for $1798.

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Via: TechEBlog

Filed Under: Cool Gadgets