Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Slan LED watches are simple but look great. They do the basic functions a watch should do ie. Tell the time and date. The displays are large and made from coloured LED’s which shine fairly bright. The back of the watches are stainless steel and the strap is leather. The watches can go around 165 feet under water and cost around $100 depending on the model you get.
Via: Adult Style Watches
You might be a bit worried about ghosts with Halloween being just around the corner. If you are the type who lays awake in fear about ghosts being around, then a cell phone ghost detector is needed. It comes from Japan (surprised?) and detects magnetic field alterations and body temperature fluctuations. When a ghost is detected it will flash and make ghost noises. You then know if being frightened to death is needed or not. It costs just $17 and is well worth it if you get frightened about stuff like this.
Via: SlashGear
Rumours have been floating around about Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1. The pencilled in date is for May 2008. The main feature seems to be the layout and how the menu’s all work. The menu’s are believed to work similar to the Treo 500v which uses a carousel type menu where you can move left and right between menus and then up and down those menus to choose the action. According to MS this allows a thinking along the lines of “what do I want to do today?”. As well as a new layout (if rumours are true) then you will also see better WiFi, Exchange integration and Bluetooth.
I literally in the past couple of weeks picked up my first WM6 device and I do hope that this will come as a free upgrade. If not, I am still happy with my current version and no complaints there 😉
Via: gadgetvenue and WMExperts
If you are the lazy sort and cannot be bothered cleaning the laminate flooring then Slipper Genie is the answer. Underneath it has microfiber fingers which gather dust and dirt as you walk around. They will work on any smooth surface such as tiles or vinyl. The bottoms can be taken off and are machine washable. They are for dry floors only, so no jumping in a bucket thinking they are a mop.
Costing just $9.99 you have a very easy way of cleaning up the dirt around your floor.
Product Page Via: GadgetGrid
For those of you with an entertaining streak running through you, check out the iKaraoke which is designed to be attached to the bottom docking port on your iPod. It allows you to sing along to the latest tunes you just downloaded, or to sing out loud through your iPod playing over loud speakers. All you need now is some funky words displaying across the screen and you have a fully fledged pocket sized karaoke player.
It costs $44.99 and is available from Target.
Via: 7Gadgets
Out of all the hacks I could possibly think up of on my own, the HP LaserJet screen hack wouldn’t be one of them. A guy over at Kovaya has successfully hacked the little dot matrix display on a laser jet printer to display any message you want such as Insert Coin. On the larger printers with a larger screen he also managed to write some code to send weather reports that automatically update every 10 minutes. The weird thing is that nobody really notices and although some read, they didn’t question why a printer was doing weather reports on it’s screen.
Via: PCNews
If you feel the need for a bit of a laugh and want to hand out insults to work colleagues with out them knowing it’s you then go and pick up an Echo Bot. The Echo Bot is a 1 eyed alien which can record a message of up to 10 seconds and then play it back when someone walks with in a meter of it. The motion sensor inside picks up who is in proximity. I cant see this one frightening people away from your home, but it will brighten up the office for times when things are just boring.
Product Page Via: Random Good Stuff
TechLives owner recently purchased a Nokia E61i after several days of hunting around for the perfect phone. In summery the phone does real well. It’s slim, has a plethora of connectivity including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The keypad is QWERTY which can handle easily around 25 WPM. The screen is 2.8 inch and it has a 2 mega pixel camera. It runs on the Symbian OS 9.1 S60 3rd Edition and includes office apps such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Overall techlivez is happy with the E61i and mentions it is a good step between a phone and Pocket PC.
Via: TechLivez
We see a ton of different case mods here at Gadget Venue and we can see that many people spend hours carving away at their computer cases and making them in to the next Half Life or Digg style. The idea of this mod was to drop the case completely and just dangle the parts from cat5 cables and a couple of hangers. The idea is weird but cool and makes for some amazing cooling as the surrounding air can just absorb the heat.
Toshiba have created an LCD screen that is not the usual rectangle shape. This one is round. It is designed for use in cars on instrument panels and it measures just 2.95″ in diameter which is about a perfect fit for your dash board. The screen is just 11mm thick and this includes the backlights and other electronics needed to work the screen. Viewable area of the screen is 2.44″ diameter.
What I look forwards to is this being hackable. It will allow more customisation of your dashboard allowing easier colours on the eye as well as other information to be displayed.
Via: Technabob
The HDMS-S1D comes from Sony and is a feature packed Digital Photo Album. The device can be attached to a HDTV via a HDMI cable and has an 80Gb hard drive allowing a ton of photos to be stored and kept in 1 location. Transferring files to the device is easy as it sports a number of memory card formats as well as a CD reader, DVD and USB or network connections. Once the photos are on there (50000+) high res, you can file them away by using the remote control on a simple interface. It costs $400 so would be affordable to those who want to take and store a lot of photos. Although nothing is mentioned about backups we can assume the Ethernet cable can be used to transfer files to the PC so you have photos in 2 locations.
Via: UberGizmo
A simple toy for Christmas is a pack of 2 LED gyroscopes. There isn’t anything complicated inside as it just spins and the LED’s light up to make a pattern. However, no batteries are required as it uses the spinning motion to generate power to power the LED’s. The package of 2 will set you back just $3.39.
