Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
On September 18th a magazine in the US will show the first video advertisement by using a small slim mobile phone sized screen embedded in to a page of the magazine. The video ads will show up in the Entertainment Weekly magazine and show a run of Pepsi commercials to users reading.
The video ads are activated when the page is turned and the screens have a chip capable of storing up to 40 minutes of video with 70 minutes of battery life. Batteries in the screens are rechargeable. [Read more…]
Orange have announced the official details of it’s launch of the LG watch phone (GD910). It will go on sale August 27th and cost £500 for pay as you go customers (non-contract). It appears that stock will be limited as Orange have restricted sales to just 1 per customer.
The GD910 will go on sale at 9am at the Bond Street store in London. If you can’t make it then sometime in September the LG watch phone will be made available in the Orange online store. [Read more…]
Check out these cool origami models made from money. The creator, Won Park, made each of the models using US notes. Unfortunately I can find no downloadable instructions like he made for the fish model which can be found here.
Hopefully some instructions to make your own startrek and starwars money origami ships will be made available soon. Another picture can be found after the jump. [Read more…]
The Varta Digital battery charger is a device that acts as a normal battery charger in that you plug it in to the wall to charge AA and AAA batteries. However, it also has a 12V car adapter so that you can charge batteries on the go. To make even more useful the Varta also has a USB port that allows you to use your PC to charge the batteries.
Another interesting feature is that you can also top up your MP3 player via the Varta’s USB port. [Read more…]
Vonage, the VoIP company, are updating their services for those customer paying for the $24.99/month plan. The first new feature called Vonage World will allow unlimited calls across the world to over 60 countries. This will cover about 4.5 billion people (2/3 of the population). Previously unlimited calls were allowed just for the US, Canada and 5 other European countries. Bumping that up to over 60 is a fantastic move.
Michael said, “That’s really 60 whole countries, unlike some competitors who offer specific destinations or cities within a country. When we say it’s a country that is included for unlimited we mean every place within the borders of that country. These countries represent nearly two-thirds of the world’s population.”
This bat cave home cinema was built by Frankston HiFi and was built from the ground up starting right at the carpet. Walls we then created carefully to make them look as realistic as possible. The room measures 26ft x 18ft making it fairly large.
On the technical side of things the bat cave cinema has a 10ft curved screen along with a communications room that holds all the audio and video equipment needed to run the room. A remote controlled pneumatic sliding door allows access to the room when needed although there are no poles to slide down for access. [Read more…]
I really don’t get the point of the USB Hub Alarm Clock. I just don’t remember a time when an alarm clock woke me up and I had the sudden urge to connect up 4 USB devices to it… but I guess the creators have done their research and found there is a need for such a device. With it being an alarm clock you would expect it’s for the side of your bed, but as it’s a hub does it sit with your PC on the desk? If so, doesn’t your computer tell the time anyway? Confusing!
The USB Hub Alarm clock does actually look really good despite the strange part about the USB connectors. It has the ability to show you the time in 25 different cities around the world. [Read more…]
Dell have revealed details on their latest laptop named the Dell Inspiron 11z. The Dell 11z is powered by a 1.2GHz Intel Celeron 723 CULV processor, has an integrated graphics chip and an 11.6 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.
The price tag is $399 for the starting model which runs Windows Vista Home Premium and comes with 2GB of RAM. [Read more…]
The Palm Pre App store has had a very slow start. This should change now as Palm is about to allow paid apps in to the store.
By allowing paid apps in to the Pre app store it should tempt developers in to creating more apps and actually making the store a useful place to visit. [Read more…]
The RuffStstem 840 is an embedded rugged PC that can function in harsh environments. Thanks to it’s strong build it can operate down to -40 degrees Celsius and up to +75 degrees C which is quite impressive alone.
The RuffSystem rugged PC has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor inside and also has two gigabit speed Ethernet ports. A VGA output is to be found on the casing along with four USB 2.0 connectors as well as 4 serial ports and 1 parallel port. [Read more…]
Amazon are giving a $70 saving when you purchase an Asus K50IJ-C1 laptop along with a Western Digital 250GB My Passport external hard drive. The laptop has a high definition LED based 15.6″ screen and is powered by an Intel Core Two Duo T6500 processor running at a nice 2.1GHz. 4GB of RAM is included with this laptop and it has 250GB of storage on a SATA 5400 RPM hard drive. It runs Windows Vista Home Premium and overall it’s a very powerful laptop.
The Asus laptop uses Asus’ Super Hybrid Engine that helps give more battery power too and thanks to a wireless 802.11 B/G/N lan card it can also connect at high-speeds if you have a wireless N router. [Read more…]
MSI are working on a series of touchscreen netbooks that are planned for a late this year launch. The netbooks will be powered by the Intel Pine Trail-M platform.
With them being launched by Christmas all being well, and touting a touchscreen I’d expect them to be running Windows 7 by that point due to the launch of Windows 7 this month. [Read more…]
