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Power Brick Charger

Power Brick Charger
The Power Brick is a new battery device which is high capacity. It has a 2400Mah capacity allowing it to charge a regular mobile phone or iPod about three times before it needs recharging it’s self. It weighs less then 100g and can be charged by USB. Outputs on this device are a plenty too. It comes with “tips” for Nokia (x2), Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola/Blackberry/mini USB, iPod, PSP and digital cameras. Also in the pack is a retractable USB cable which connects the tips to the battery. Full charge can be held for 3 months and the on/off switch is located on the side. So you do not loose all the bits and bobs included, the package comes with a small white case too.

For those who are out and about a lot, this small package could be a nice source of power should you need to make a call and your phone is dead.

It costs just £14.99 also which is not bad considering it contains all the above tips for a ton of devices.

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iKaraoke

iKaraoke
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

1 Tb Laptop Hard Drive

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

Nano Case

Nano Case
These cool iPod Nano cases are built from old reclaimed cassette tapes. The inner parts, ie the tape and spools are taken out and the iPod sits in there nicely. All they need now to do is hook up the tape sensors and shove it in the front of your stereo and you have an all in one iPod to cassette deck player. We can only hope 😉 Each case costs $45 CAD plus shipping. I guess it wouldnt be too hard to make your own if you wanted though.

Via: 45ipodcases

Sneaker Power

SneakerPower
You will have seen over the past year or 2, kids rolling around on their sports shoes. They are basically regular sneakers but with a roller in the back allowing kids to slide around rather then walk. These latest custom built versions feature a small generator built in which can harvest the power from rolling around. I guess it would be good for powering an iPod or mobile phone in an emergency although I cannot say how much harder it would make it to skate around with the generator kicking in.

Via: TheDailyInvention

Kawasaki ZX10R with 12 Speakers

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12 Speakers on a Kawasaki ZX10R

A modified Kawasaki ZX10R has been built which has 12 speakers around its body which have an output of 1500 watts. To make use of all this power needed to be heard, you have two iPods, a Sony PSP, flat screen with DVD and remote control as well as an input for electric guitar. This is a crazy bike and gives out a lot of noise. I am just not quite sure yet who gets to watch the movies on the DVD player and flat screen when the biker is riding around 🙂 At least he will be heard a few more miles off.

Via: Seihen-World

iPhone Hacks – What do you want to see

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iPhone is coming today! What iPhone Hacks do you want to see?

After several months of waiting, the iPhone will be launching at 6pm tonight in the US. Wired put out the question today about iPhone hacks and what people want to see should they want more from their expensive iPhone. Suggestions such as Skype, MP3 ring tones, Instant Messaging, iPod and Internet without a phone plan and quite a few more have been mentioned. No doubt we will see an ongoing battle between the hackers and Apple like we do with the PSP and homebrew. Hopefully some decent apps can come out for the iPhone to make it in to an even more useful device. The collection of all programmers and Apple could make the good even better.

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Sony A800

Sony A800
The A800 is Sonys attempt to beat the iPod video. It is a video MP3 player which uses Sonys expertise in the audio and visual arena. The device has a 2 inch screen which from the video after the jump looks very crisp and clear. The A800 can be used in landscape or portrait mode allowing you to watch movies in widescreen. The A800s battery is quite impressive. It is a lithium-ion battery which claims to allow for 30 hours of audio and 8 hours of video playback. Sound is enhanced by DSEE (Digital Sound Enhancement Engine) technology which restores frequencies lost during the compression of MP3.

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Multimedia Remote Control Wrangler

Remote Control Wrangler
If you are the type who often looses the remote control for the TV, Video, DVD player, Stereo, iPod Dock and a number of other devices then you need to pick up a remote control wrangler. Ok, you dont really as you would look extremely strange wearing one of these. The Remote Wrangler is a Velcro type stretchy material that you wrap around your head. On each remote you put the other side of the Velcro and when you need to change channel you just reach up to your head rather then hunt around the floor, cushions and other random places that remote controls get lost.

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The OIO Nano Projector from ExPlay

Explay Nanoprojector
ExPlay demonstrated the OIO Nano Projector at SID 2007. The projector is small as its name suggests. The quality of image projected is supposed to be high quality with bright images which always stay in focus. It is not intended to replace projectors used in meetings for PowerPoint, but is aimed at the market of iPod video and other PMP users. It can project a screen about the size of a large monitor on to any surface and yet is smaller then the palm of your hand and can be carried around easily.

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A Wearable TV – The Teleglass

Teleglass
The teleglass is a tiny screen which you wear on your glasses. It is aimed at the bored commuter to allow them to watch TV while on the move. When viewing the screen so close to your eye it appears to be the equivalent of a 28 inch screen 2 meters in front of you. As well as being able to watch TV the device can also connect to portable video players such as an iPod to allow you to watch your favourite movie on the go.

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Nokia 1100 – 200 Million Sold

Nokia 1100
The Nokia 1100 was launched in 2003 and since then has sold a massive 200 million+ units. That is a lot of phones sold and beats ipod sales by double the amount. The 1100 is a simple phone which brings the mobile back to basics. Although this type of phone doesnt generally appeal to me because of my like of more fancy phones, I do actually own one I think somewhere. I purchased it in France on a cheap pay as you go offer so that I could receive calls with out paying stupid roaming charges. Although I have not used it since then, it still comes in handy for switching SIM cards around occasionally.

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