Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The Parking Pilot is a device that assists people to park their cars more easily. It uses the traditional ultrasonic sensors that you see on the back of a number of cars, but inside it uses a few more graphics to help you judge the distances more easily.
The gadget is on sale over at Chinavasion and therefore it can be expected to be a bit different to a traditional gadget and in this case the Parking Pilot also has a breathalyser built in so you know if you are over the limit. [Read more…]
If you are like me and hate opening those blister or clamshell packages that usually contain stuff like memory upgrades and what not then the Zipit is looking like a handy gadget to have in the home. The Zipit is designed to open these sorts of packages and was designed because of a condition they jokingly call Wrap Rage!
The Zipit is battery powered and requires 2 AA batteries to function and should have you ripping open the blister packaging in no time at all. [Read more…]
PhoneArena have posted a copy of a letter headed with the Apple [AAPL] logo that supposedly shows the specs of the rumoured iSlate device.
Features mentioned about the iSlate include a new operating system called Mac OS X Clouded Leopard that suggests the iSlate will be cloud based. Bullet points on the image show that it has a new user interface, a widget based homescreen, connectivity to the app store, 2x faster wakeup and shutdown speeds (compared to what I am not sure), and built in support for Microsoft Exchange Server. [Read more…]
This is one of the most random gadgets I have seen in the last few years. The device is called the automated turn switch off machine and all it does is switch a toggle switch off every time you try to switch it on. I can’t see any other purpose then perhaps reminding you to switch off all your electronic devices when you are not using them – and that’s really stretching the purpose of it in my opinion.
When switching the toggle switch on the lid opens and a wooden hand type device jumps out and switches the switch off. The device has no micro-controller inside and everything is analogue. Check out the video below. [Read more…]
The Apple iSlate concept drawing was created by Rodolphe Desmare and shows what the Apple iSlate should look like. The concept drawing shows the tablet device as having a large 10 inch screen with no bezel and no buttons.
As the whole idea of a tablet is to have a screen to work with we can understand fully why no physical buttons on the front surface would be needed or wanted. If a “home button” was to be found then they could tuck it away on the side of the device or just create an onscreen close all button. [Read more…]
Amazon have started taking pre-orders for the ASUS UL30Vt-A1 13.3 inch laptop. The ASUS laptop has some impressive features that include a 12 hour battery life, 4GB of DDR3 memory, Wireless 802.11n and an Intel 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo Processor.
The UL30Vt-A1 is a step up from the older X1 model that lacked a decent battery. The new battery has 8 cells and is rated at 5600mAh which makes the laptop ideal for those who need more power and longer times between charges. [Read more…]
Tablets are getting a lot of mention these last months with mentions of the JooJoo and the Apple iSlate recently. Of course Google can’t be left behind in all the fun and information has now leaked saying that both Google and HTC are working together (for the last 18 months) on a Google Chrome OS tablet device.
The source actually mentions that Google have collaborated with HTC on a few test models with one of them running Chrome OS and perhaps the others running Android. [Read more…]
The USB flash drives were designed by Art Lebedev and have a capacity of 4GB to store your files, photos and video on to. The flash drives are USB and connect direct to the USB port on your computer.
The USB flash drives are called Folderix and have a read speed of 14 MB/sec along with a write speed of 2.5MB/sec. The folderix drives are available in three colours. [Read more…]
BGR have posted a rumour/unconfirmed information about the Google Nexus One being made available unlocked on the AT&T network. The AT&T version will be 3G compatible. The person who provided the information to BGR also said that it will be a second unlocked model with T-Mobile still having the unsusidized version although I assume both types of phone will be sold on the Google site as previously mentioned.
Although just a rumour and very unconfirmed at the moment, we only have to wait till the 5th (next week) to see what Google has planned for the phone if that is what the press event is about. [Read more…]
If you can’t live without your iPod Touch being in arms reach 24/7 then these bed sheets are just for you. The set costs $49 and is designed to look like the screen of an iPod Touch in that it has all the icons and shortcuts across the top of the duvet.
The pillow is also designed with the drawing of an iPod on it to make the full set complete. [Read more…]
Although nothing official has been announced about the Apple Tablet (to probably be called the iSlate), there are still a number of rumours floating around which still suggest it will be announced this month. The latest information says that the engineers and companies working on the project have all dropped off the map in the same way the same companies did back in early 2007 when the first iPhone was being prepared for launch.
The drop off the map is described by Josh Gruber as a “cone of silence” and sees Apple going in to meetings with potential partners with no prototype or presentation where potential partners are asked if they were interested “if they were to create a new platform”. [Read more…]
Blu-ray discs could soon see the storage capacities increased from 25GB to 33.4GB per layer thanks to a new methods of reading and writing data.
The science behind the new capacity is quite detailed and involves something known as i-MLSE (Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation) that in the near future will be calculated real time allowing for the larger capacities to be read successfully. [Read more…]
