Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Belkin have created a new Bluetooth music receive for iPhones that allows you to listen to music from your hifi. The device comes with the bluetooth receiver along with a cable that can attach to your hifi. When you pair your iPhone up to the receiver you can then listen to music from the stereo as well as use your iphone as a remote control to skip though music.
The Bluetooth Receiver has a working distance of about 33 feet allowing it to work quite well in a regular sized home. [Read more…]
Oppo are preparing to launch a new smartphone early next year that will run the Android OS and have a 3.5 inch WQGA screen with an 800 x 400 pixel resolution.
The renderings of the phone show a number of LED’s running down the side of the device which according to Akhibara news will be used to reports on the current temperature and humidity as well as providing the date. [Read more…]
Neato have built the XV11 robotic vacuum cleaner perhaps in attempt to knock Roomba off the top spot. The Neato XV11 appears to be a serious challenger to the Roomba range of robots and has a number of significant improvements that could see it do very well.
The Neato XV11 works slightly different when cleaning a room by using what appears to be a more methodical approach. When compared to the Roomba that uses a spiralling pattern along with a system which allows the Roomba to bounce of objects and appears to randomly cover the carpet, the XV11 maps along the walls of the room to know how big the room is. Rooms are typically broken down in to 15′ x 15′ and if power gets low mid clean, the XV11 goes back to it’s base to recharge and then carries on where it left off. Another difference between the two vacuums is that the Roomba uses virtual walls and the XV11 uses laser to detect doorways and wont leave a room unless it is told to do so. The system used on the XV11 is called SLAM which means simultaneous localization and mapping. SLAM has lasers on the top that detect objects 360 degrees around it. With that data pathfinding can be done as well as obstacle avoidance. [Read more…]
It’s not that often you get the chance to drop your Digital SLR camera 3000 feet to the ground, but this is exactly what happened to the camera pictures above. The camera dropped was a Canon Rebel XT that fell from a plane to the ground and managed to survive somehow.
Judging by all the dirt on it, it seems to have had a cushioned landing although dropping a camera from a few feet isn’t recommended let alone 3000. [Read more…]
A new iPhone application has been launched by Microsoft [MSFT] that brings Bing the search engine to the iPhone. The new Bing iPhone application gives you the ability to search for webpages, images, movies, maps, news and even directions from your iPhone. One of the features built in allows you to use voice search while looking for places on a map as well as using voice for regular web search.
As can be expected, the Bing iPhone App makes use of your GPS or radio location and when you perform a search for something it can localise the results pointing you in the direction of the nearest electronics store for example. [Read more…]
CPT have created a new 21.5 inch projected capacitive touch screen panel and have sent it for validation by their clients.
As well as having a nice sized capacitive touchscreen panel, the company have also started shipping a 10.1 inch projective capacitive touch panel as well as 3D panels.
As well as creating projected capacitive touch panels the company are also looking at using optical touch and in-cell photo sensing with the latter two here possibly shipping early next year. [Read more…]
TheNexusOne website have posted a few videos of the Google Nexus One. Unfortunately they don’t really show anything too interesting other than a boot up animation and what the home screen looks like. However, it’s still good to see what the phone looks like on video rather than relying on just pictures.
Check out the two videos below to see a brief view of the phone. [Read more…]
CherryPal have launched a new netbook called Africa. The real interesting thing here is that they are selling it for $99. For the $99 you get a 7 inch screen along with a 400 MHz processor, 256MB of RAM and 2GB of storage.
The Africa netbook runs either a Linux or Windows CE operating system and is designed with developing countries in mind allowing the digital divide to close up. [Read more…]
If you want to get something different to hang on your Christmas tree this year then take a look at Walyou’s guide to Geeky Christmas Tree ornaments. In total there are 194 listed showing various themes like Star Wars, Video Games as well as a bunch of weird trees. [Read more…]
BGR managed to get hold of a couple of Google Nexus One photo’s. The first seen above and below shows the profile vs that of a T-Mobile G1. As can be seen, the Nexus one is very thin. Some things to note here is that the G1 does have a physical keyboard though that does add a little bulk.
The second picture shows a nice crisp screen showing the home screen icons. [Read more…]
Google’s [GOOG] App Market is ticking along quite nicely for them it seems. Google haven’t published details of how many apps are included, but another company have and have said that there are now 20,000 applications available for download.
The distribution graph created by AndroidLib says that of the 20,056 applications 62.2% of them are free vs the 37.8% paid apps. [Read more…]
Thesearethedroids hjave taken a look at the ROM on the new Google phone that will be called the Nexus One. The Nexus One appears to be running a Snapdragon processor due to some specific Snapdragon libraries found in the ROM.
Other details include a proximity sensor/light sensor along with a 3 axis accelerometer and a magnetic compass. WiFi and Bluetooth have also been found. [Read more…]
