Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
This 10″ wireless picture frame can receive signals from your Vista ready wireless PC. Basically dump pictures in the pictures folder and Vista will transmit the pictures as a slide show to the picture frame on the wall. Sounds cool, but at $380 I would rather have a cheaper frame and stick a memory stick in the side 🙂
Via: Fosfor
McDonalds, the food giant, had a promotion to give away free MP3 players which unfortunatly turned out that they were riddled with spyware. Oops. This all began in Japan when a text to win competition was running. You would text in a code written on your drink and if you were one of the “unlucky” 10000 winners then you received a nice bit of spyware. The MP3 players were Mac branded DAP with 10 tunes loaded. Unfortunatly these were infected with QQpass.
McDonalds have apologised and have set up a support line for those who need information on how to get rid of the spyware. It makes you wonder where this came from. Surely it wasnt MC’D’s who did this! Well, in my opinion I doubt they knew about this at all till it came to light.
Via: DailyTech
BenQ have launched the smallest 7 mega pixel digital camera. It is named the X720 and has 3 x optical zoom, a Pentax lens and a body thats just 12.5mm thin. The screen is a 2.5″ LCD, it has a nice stainless-steel body and looks to be a great camera all around.
Buslink have created a 64Gb flash drive thats not too cheap. It costs over $5000. This drive provides an easy way to transfer large amounts of files. It can read at 20Mb/s and write at 15Mb/s. The case is a ribbed metal allow and very sturdy.
This is the ultimate in portable storage. I guess the only con right now is the heafty $5k+ price tag. No doubt by next year these will be common place and a lot cheaper! I will be waiting a year or 2 before even thinking about buying one of these.
The device can plug right in to your PC/Laptop and files can then be transferred right away. It uses the USB mass storage standard.
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Sony realise that they are not at the top of the list for MP3 players. They know that the iPod has won over many people. Sony want to change this in a statement that Hiroshi Yoshioka said “Sony has a lot of strenghts that Apple doesn’t have”
The new Sony Walkman has been launched which should be out by the end of this year. The new line of audio players features things which no other device currently offers, and they hope that this will boost sales for them. Several models will go on sale up to 4Gb in capacity and this will sell for around $240.
Features
This new walkman from Sony features several snazzy functions such as copying direct from CD in to the MP3 player, a fancy noise reduction system which can boost levels according to the ambient noise around. The display is colour.
One thing that stands out most is the 3 minute charge which gives a nice 3 hours of playback. This is certainly a nice step forwards for those who love their music.
Noice Canceling Technology
Noise cancelling works on the NW-S700F in the way of discreet microphones built in to the 13.5EX headphones. These capture ambient noise, the walkman analyses it and adjusts volume, bass, treble levels to different levels to enhance the users experience in listening to the music. The actual functions invert the outside noise also which can then null the outside noise. The walkman boasts a 5 channel equaliser which can be used to adjust the music to different sounds such as club, arena and studio effects.
The screen is colour and is enhanced with a nice backlight which gives a floating effect of the text.
The models that will be available are the 1Gb NW-S703F which is available in gold and black, the 2Gb NW-S705F which comes in violet and black and then the mean 4Gb NW-S706F which comes in black.
Price is a little higher then the usual 4Gb flash player, but with the noise cancelling, quick charge and direct from CD to MP3 player technologies, it makes it well worth the $240 ish price tag.
Via: RLSLog
The USB twister hub has been launched which has 4 ports and the top 2 ports can twist 180 degrees. The USB Twister Hub comes with or with out a power supply and costs $22 or $26 depending on which option you select. Full features are listed below.
Features:
* 180 degree revolving hub
* Aluminum case body
* Red LED indicator
* Power out increases from 500mA to 2000mA
* Support high power consumption products such as printer
* Size: 106x20x20mm
* Weight: 46g
Specification:
* Transfer Speed: 480Mbps (USB 2.0/HS), 12Mbps (USB 1.1/FS), 1.5Mbps (USB 1.1/LS)
* Interface: USB 2.0 and 1.1
* Support OS: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP, Mac OS X (USB 2.0 upgrade PCI card is required)
Package Contents:
* USB Twister Hub
* USB Cable
* With or without AC adapter
Via: USB Brando
Nokia have introduced another concept phone which is quite smart. It is based on 2 touch sensative screens fastened together by fuel cell battery. Nokia is keen to have phones like this hit the market and also have them wearable.
The 2 touch screens can act as anything you like, such as the buttons on one side, the screen on the other, or in any form you like.
Mersive have created a 50 Million pixel display. The screen measures a huge 25 x 15 foot and is seamless as well as ultra high resolution. The display works with 80 off the shelf projectors and driven by the mersive software. The mersive software marked the public launch of their visual display technology. This technology allows anybody to create a screen of any size and at the same time be affordable.
Via: Mersive
Haloween is coming closer by the day and it will soon be time to be putting a pumpkin on your door step. If you are like me, then you will struggle to make a pumpkin look cool. But alas, in this modern world, help is at hand and Dremel have created a solution to your problem. Grab your self a Dremel Pumpkin carving kit, grab the templates, and spook up those pumpkins.
The Dremel pumpkin carving kit is child friendly with adult supervision, which means it’s great for the whole family to use. Grab one now and be prepared for haloween 🙂
Nokia recently unveiled their latest N series (the N95). This new phone which will hit the market later this year, is packed full of some amazing features which we will list below.
The Nokia N95 features a dual sliding feature which when sliding one way you reveal the keypad and when sliding back the other way the music keys are then available. The N95 features integrated GPS, a 5 mega pixel Carl Zeiss camera and HSDPA enabled on 3G. The intergrated GPS is currently a gray area as some claim it ships seperate and others say it’s built in. Hopefully, it’s all inclusive. Wifi and Bluetooth are integrated also.
More details and images available after the jump.
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LG and Philips have worked together to create an extremly slim screen for mobile phones. The screen is just 1.3mm which is 32% – 55% slimmer then their competitors.
Via: UberGizmo
Nokia today announced the new Nokia N75 at Nokia Open Studio 2006, NEW YORK. The N75 phone is the smallest multimedia computer offering digital music playback, high quality photos and rich internet communication. The N75 is a clamshell device which is thin and elegant in looks. Also the phone boasts Nokia’s easy to use interface.
When the device is closed you will see a reflective 1.36″ colour display which shows you the music you are playing which is just a button push away. Various music formats such as MP3, M4A, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA are supported and the N75 also has a graphic equalizer. Standard features sych as shuffle and repeat are also included. On a 2Gb card around 1500 songs can be stored. The N75 has stereo speakers built in which also have a 3D option to make the sound come out around you.
Built in is a 2 Megapixel camera (1600 x 1200). The main screen is a 2.4″ LCD with 16M colours. Stacks of other features such as MPEG video recording are packed in to this phone.
Enhanced web browsing has also been included with some software which allows the browser to use RSS feeds and also allows web pages to be loaded as they should look by shrinking them down.
On the connectivity side we can see that there is EDGE, 3G (WCDMA 850/1900MHz), GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) which all ads up to some seriously nice connectivity accross the board.
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