Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
AirStash is a wireless device that allows you to keep a wireless flash drive in your pocket for expanding the memory of gadgets such as iPhones and iPod Touch’s. The device looks similar to a large flash drive and has a USB connector on one side as well as an SD card slot on the other.
When charged you can put the AirStash in your pocket and connect up your iPhone wirelessly to grab data stored on the AirStash’s memory. [Read more…]
If $1,000 for a rumoured Apple iSlate is too much for you to eat then you could check out this way cheaper tablet from Freescale. Several Freescale tablets are being made with some of them having a sub $200 price tag. The tablets will be powered by ARM Cortex Chips and will run either Android or Linux.
The tablets are set to launch in the summer of this year and Freescale will include wi-fi, Bluetooth and have an onscreen QWERTY keyboard as well as a physical separate QWERTY keyboard. [Read more…]
AllThingsD are reporting that Apple [AAPL] are set to announce something big on January 27. The event has been described as being “on and it’s going to be a big deal”.
The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts in San Francisco and it is expected that the iSlate will be announced at this event although nothing has been confirmed if it is or is not the device that will be mentioned.
Other information found over at The Wall Street Journal mentions that the iSlate (or whatever Apple choose as the name) will be shipped in March with either a 10 or 11 inch touch-screen and will cost around $1,000 which could possibly include a 3G data plan to allow you to be online at all times. [Read more…]
A new system has been created by Microsoft that could see Guitar Hero being played with an air guitar. The system is called the muscle computer interface.
The new technology uses EMG sensors places around muscles in the arms that detect movement from your hands and fingers. By placing the sensors on to the arm it allows for a more hands free operation for times when you are unable to hold a remote control or game controller. Other ideas are that of controlling an iPod type device while jogging allowing you to switch tracks or change volume by just flexing a muscle or two. [Read more…]
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…]
