Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The Street View service from Google is expanding around the globe. The next place to get it is Antartica.
From what we can see, it looks like a camera is being carried around rather than driven around and has captured scenery around Antartica of an expedition happening.
Image quality is good and overall its very interesting to see what happens down that way. [Read more…]
With the launch of the Nokia N8 yesterday, one of the big questions about the new smartphone is how it compares to the iPhone 4 in terms of picture quality.
The Nokia N8 has a 12 megapixel sensor with Carl Zeiss optics while the iPhone 4 has a 5 megapixel sensor.
Engadget decided to run a side by side video and picture test to see which performs the best. Naturally you’d think a 12 megapixel camera would be the winner, but surprisingly the results are quite similar. [Read more…]
Super Talent has created the CKB USB flash drive that has been designed to attach to your keychain. The reason for creating it was due to the need to carry keys around with you when you leave your home. If a flash drive is attached to them, you’ll never forget to carry it around with you.
Storage capacities for the CKB starts at 2GB and goes all the way up to 32GB. Dimensions of the flash drive reveal it measures 40mm x 25.9mm x 3.7mm making it quite compact. [Read more…]
The Roomba robot vacuum cleaner appears to currently employ a random approach to vacuuming the carpet in a house although we have been informed that its more involved that being just random. In that way, we mean that it does cover every part of the floor a certain amount of times to make sure every square inch is clear.
This new patent though looks to make cleaning the floor even more accurate. It uses external celestial beacons that track Roombas movements across the floor and that data looks to then be used to create a map of the floor and a way to vacuum it. We assume that this will also ensure every inch is vacuumed as well as making it quicker to vacuum the floor. [Read more…]
The BlackBerry Curve 3G and Pearl 3G will soon become available on the AT&T network in the US.
The announcement came from AT&T who said that each of the smartphones would be made available on its 3G network.
Each of the smartphones has social networking access along with access to the BlackBerry App World. Carrier billing is also integrated with App World that allows customers to purchase apps from the store but be billed by AT&T for the download. [Read more…]
Borders has announced the new Kobo Wireless eReader. When it launches on the first day of November, it will cost $140.
New features include wireless access that now lets you download and purchase books when you are connected to the internet.
Borders has a library of over 1.5 million eBooks making it a very good choice when wanting to find something to read. [Read more…]
Gateway has launched a new laptop with WiMAX built in. The laptop is the Gateway NV59C66u and it comes with the Intel 6250 Wi-Fi/WiMAX card allowing you to connect to the net wherever you are.
The WiMAX service works by pairing up to a WiMAX service provider and once done, you get access across many cities in the US.
Other technical specs reveal that the new laptop has the option of an Intel Core i3 or Core i5 CPU. AMD Athlon and Turion processors are also an option. [Read more…]
With robots being created to clean windows, mow lawns and vacuum your carpet we thought we’d show you something a little more interesting.
Meet iCub the robot archer. Scientists at the Italian Institute of Technology have created a cute, childlike robot that can actually learn to shoot a bow an arrow by itself by using a kind of trial and error algorithm. [Read more…]
HTC looks to be launching another QWERTY slider Android OS based smartphone. It looks similar to what we have seen before, as in the HTC Desire Z or the T-Mobile G2 (also made by HTC). But, this one is slightly different.
It is listed as the HTC ADR6325 which is all is known about the device at the moment. Other details indicate it runs Android 2.2, has a five megapixel camera and a micro SD card slot. The QWERTY keyboard four rows of keys with the top QWERTY row sharing with the number keys. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] is rumoured again to be revamping the MacBook Air. This time the rumours indicate that it will have an LED backlit display that measures 11.6 inches. The 11.6 inch screen makes it almost 2 inches smaller than the current 13.3 inch MacBook Air.
The MacBook Air its self has only received a couple of revisions in the almost three years of its existence. It is believed this is the case due to lower sales than expected and Apple kind of forgetting about it. [Read more…]
VISA has launched a pilot scheme that allows people travelling in New York to use their iPhone as a payment system.
The system is called VISA payWave and allows you to simply open up an application and wave the phone over various paypoints located around the underground. When a payment is detected you can then proceed through the barrier to make your journey.
As well as using the iPhone for the pilot test, VISA is also looking at payment cards as well for an alternative quick method for making payments. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] could start building the CDMA version of the iPhone 4 beginning in December this year. Apple Insider is reporting that the company will be getting 3 million of the said handsets ready for a launch in early 2011.
Analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro with Susquehanna Financial Group said in a note to investors on Wednesday that checks with overseas suppliers indicated Apple is prepared to build 3 million CDMA iPhones in December, keeping the device on track for an early 2011 launch. That would put total GSM and CDMA iPhone production for the quarter at between 21 million and 22 million.
