Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Light Emitting Wallpaper is a cool concept idea created by Jonas Samson. The wallpaper is embedded with lights and can light up to give “mood lighting” in your home. When not needed, the lights can be switched off leaving just the regular wallpaper on the wall. What would make it more interesting is if the pattern could be customised by controlling individual pixels/LED’s? Heck, you could even connect it to your PC via Wifi and download patterns to it.
Via: Coolest-Gadgets
Several months ago, Barclays announced a new security system for online banking in the UK. The device is named PINsentry and is used to log in to their online banking sytem by providing it your PIN code. The PINsentry is a small calculator sized device which has a slot for your credit card on the top, a screen and a keypad to enter your PIN number. After successful authentication you then use the number provided on the screen to log in to your online bank account. Not every Barclays online customer will get a PINsentry device right away. Only those who set up payments to new third party accounts will begin to use the PINsentry device. Around half a million customers either will, or have just received their PINsentry device.
I received mine a couple of weeks back and it does what it says it does. I can log in first time, every time with an 8 digit number generated from my card and PIN code. On a security side it is more secure because it requires that the person logging in has the physical card to log in with and also knows the PIN code as well as having a Barclays PINsentry device. The only downside I have found is that it needs to travel with me so that I can access my accounts anywhere I want and I tend to still forget this and find I cannot log on when needed.
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The G.41 is made by Blusens and is a cool looking PMP which measures 160 x 65 x 13 mm. The screen is 4.3 inch and touch screen allowing for fairly comfortable viewing of MPEG4 movies. Wi-Fi is another feature of this device allowing fast connections to the internet should you be in a hotspot. An FM radio is built in as well as camera, voice recorder and the device features a loud speaker to listen to the music or audio from a movie.
Via: Gizmologia
I have not come across a burnt out Wii yet, or seen any heating issues mentioned anywhere, but that doesn’t stop Nyko introducing the Wii Intercooler. The device attaches to the back of the wii and plugs in to the power input which then allows the power cord to be plugged in to that. The fan then positions over the vent allowing the Wii to cool down (although it runs fairly cool anyway).
Via: Engadget
The Cect W100 is a wrist watch with built in GSM on the 900/1800MHz range. This allows it to be used as a phone. It is built by Qiao Xing Mobile Communications Co Ltd and is fully packed with features. As well as being able to make phone calls the watch can play MP3 music or show 3GP and MP4 movies. As well as the audio and video capabilities there is a camera built in which has a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.
Talk time is around 3 – 4 hours with about 200 – 280 hours of standby time. SMS and MMS messages can be sent/received and calls can either make the watch ring or vibrate. Ring tones are fully customisable too with the ability to play MP3 or MP4’s. The screen it touch screen which allows you to either write on the face of the watch or tap the screen for dialing. Memory wise, the watch phone supports up to 2GB on a MicroSD card. That’s a crazy amount of features just there with others such as Bluetooth, Alarms, calculator, graphics editor, memos, calendar, stopwatch and a few more.
Via: BusinessWire
If you are an exercise freak then you need to grab one of these GPS watches. The watch has a ton of features which will help you know many things such as time, speed, distance, calorie consumption as well as a database to store the lap times and routes. The watch is fairly large and appears to have a USB port for connecting to your PC so you can analyze the data on the big screen.
Via: Gizmodo and Aving
When you get that new phone, or new toy you just want to show it off to everyone. This is where a solar powered revolving table will fit in. It’s small enough to fit on your desk and allows you to place your phone or something of a similar size on to it so it revolves around for every one to see. It’s solar powered so will never run out of batteries and costs $15.90.
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Before you ask, I have not got a stutter. The Water ButtButt is called that because it’s a water butt, that is actually a butt. It was designed by Gerardine and Wayne Hemingway who wanted something more contemporary. To be politically correct it has been made in 3 colours. It is fitted with a tap and can store 215 litres of water inside.
Available over at GoneGardening for £89.99.
The Dough-Nu-Matic creates mini-doughnuts in just 50 seconds. All you need to do is add the dough and the machine takes care of the rest. The oil fryer keeps cleaning to just that part and the maker is fully adjustable to create the finest.
Available from SkyMall for $129.99.
Hitachi have successfully scaled-down a key component in the hard drive down to nano-scale and this accomplishment allows for a 1 TB Laptop Hard Drive to be created. This breakthrough will allow hard drive capacities to quadruple in the next 4 years. For a desktop you can expect a hard drive to have a 4 Terabyte capacity with laptops and iPod’s having 1 Terabyte of storage. To give you an idea of what a Terabyte of information can store it would be equal to 1 million books, 250 hours of HD video or 250000 tunes. Quadruple that for the desktop sized hard drives and there you have an even more insane amount of storage space.
I can understand the need of such storage amounts in a business situation, but for personal use… I have barely broken the 20Gb mark and I bet half of that is just junk anyway. It is still an impressive accomplishment and although not needed right now, a 1 TB Laptop Hard Drive could well be needed in 4 years time when higher res photos will be stored, HD DVD’s will be stored and a lot more.
To accomplish this….
Hitachi said it has created the world’s smallest disk drive heads in the 30-nanometre to 50-nanometre range, or about 2,000 times smaller than the width of an average human hair.
Via: ZDNet
If holding your watch up in the light for a few minutes to make the hands glow is not enough, then the Reactor watch feature tritium-filled tubes which will keep the thing alight for around 10 years. The watch is named the Superluminova and recharges instantly with just a small amount of light which then keeps it illuminated for up to 10 years. That’s a long time and I sincerely hope you do not plan on staying in the dark for 10 years to test if it stays lit for that long.
It will set you back $300 – $450 over at Reactor Watch.
Via: Adult Style Watches
The Nokia N95 8Gb model will be coming to a store near you soon. Shipments of the 8Gb phone started today which features a large screen, Assisted-GPS and improved battery power. Along side those features is a massive 5 Megapixel camera, Wireless Lan, HSDPA and a 2 way slide which gives access to the keypad for making calls, and sliding the other way opens up the multimedia controls. 8Gb of memory can store 20 hours of video and around 6000 songs.
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