Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
A guy over at prusadjs has hacked up his old MSI Wind 3 cell battery, attached a USB connector and now it is capable of charging an iPhone.
The iPhone takes about 2.5 hours to fully charge and the netbook battery is left with about 50% of it’s charge left meaning a second full charge of the iPhone should be possible. [Read more…]
The iPhone Document scanner was designed and built by Kyle Koch and was an answer to problems he had taking pictures of class assignments (so that he didn’t loose them).
Documents taken by hand normally came out clear, but occasionally there was a bit of blur which is why this iPhone Document Scanner was his answer. Mixing this custom document scanner with software like Evernote and you have quite a decent system to store all of your documents digitally and as it’s all stored on the iPhone it means you can sync it with your computer and take documents everywhere with you. [Read more…]
These Plastinkuzz DJ Scratch cards allow you to carry a turntable in your pocket ready to be used for impromptu scratching. Each has a colorssurface that allows you to run your fingernail across it to create some sort of scratching noise.
Each card uses a lenticular technology to make it appear that the turntable is actually floating above the surface of the card. [Read more…]
Check out this Mario Crochet Hat I guess designed to make you look like the Mushroom character from the popular game series.
Each of the Mario Crochet hats are hand-made and colours can be chosen too. [Read more…]
When using a wrench it’s generally obvious when it’s done it’s job and the bolts are tight enough. The digital monkey wrench is designed for those who are not convinced with the feel and need something to tell them all is well.
It has a digital display telling you exactly when you can stop tightening. Also if you are too strong then it will let you know you should calm down a bit rather than break things. [Read more…]
A new Palm Pre app has just been announced by VOXOFON. The application will be the first VoIP for Palm Pre app and as it will use VoIP it will allow international calls to be made starting at 1.3 cents per minute.
The application makes use of your data plan, so if you intend to use this then go careful if you are not on an unlimited plan. The VoIP app will use a 1 – 2KB data stream to establish the phone calls. [Read more…]
A few months ago Acer announced that they were introducing a new netbook that would dual boot in to either Windows XP or Android. If launched it would have been the first Android powered netbook to be launched. Unfortunately Acer have delayed this a few months due to not being able to find a market for a netbook of this specification.
The worry about finding the right market is that they don’t want an almost brand-new operating system landing in the hands of those who do not know how to use it. It was to be aimed at the less tech savvy but out of those, many wouldn’t really see a need or understand why the netbook dual boots. [Read more…]
The Samsung SNE-50K is a new eBook Reader that enters the already competitive eBook Reader market. To be successful it will need to go up against the Amazon Kindle that is backed by a huge brand as well as the Plastic Logic eBook Reader that has Barnes & Noble providing eBooks for it.
The SNE-50K has a 5 inch screen that has a resolution of 600×800 pixels. It weighs 6.5 ounces and has half a gig of memory. The device also has handwriting recognition built in and can read text files, PDF’s and MS office documents. [Read more…]
The Acer AspireRevo is a nettop that features a dual-core Atom 330 CPU. Inside the little box you will also find 4GB of RAM and the option of 320GB or 500GB of storage.
Prices for the AspireRevo are $494 for the 320GB version and $565 for the 500GB version when launched in the next few weeks. [Read more…]
Super Talent have managed to squeeze 32GB of NAND based Flash storage on to it’s tiny thumb-sized USB drive. The 6 new drives are named the Pico drives and have a transfer speed of up to 30MB/second.
Each of the new drives are waterproof and the 3 high end USB drives also feature AES 256bit security to protect the data you store on them. [Read more…]
MaxLinear and Hauppauge Digital are working together to create a UMPC and netbook TV card. The netbook TV card will allow HD signals to be received over the air. The tv tuners for the netbook are based on the MXL5007T CMOS silicon tuner that MaxLinear builds.
As well as being able to pick up HD signals OTA the TV tuners will be capable of European standards that includes DVB-H, DMB-T, DVB-T and QAM. [Read more…]
I just came across the Tron Legacy (Tron 2.0, Tr2n etc..) trailer today and have to say it looks like it will be great. The new film will star Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wild, Bruce Boxleitner and will be released in 2010.
The film is a follow on from the Tron film back in the early 80’s. It is being shot in 3D and should be making it to the huge screen over at Imax cinemas which will be good. [Read more…]
