Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
On the subject of medical type stuff, we now have the gamma watch. Basically it’s a watch that can detect gamma waves and show radiation levels around you. Very handy if you live next to a nuclear power plant. If not, then it might not be as useful.
The watch costs 250 dollars and does also tell the time 🙂
Via: UberGizmo
PIMP has released this new watch in to the Japanese market. The Pimp Jive Turkey is another interesting type of watch. I happen to have another type of Pimp watch, and it is built solid. The Pimp watches are definatly conversation starters.
The Pimp Jive Turkey creates psychedelic animations with it’s 60 LED’s on the screen.
Suunto have released their D6 dive computer watch. From the picture below it looks to be a great watch. It sports many functions which divers will find useful. 3 modes are included which has a Gas switching system, an integrated digital compass and Suunto’s RGBM deep stop algorithm. The display is crisp and it provides all the information you need such as depth, time, direction and your decompression status.
The watch can connect to a PC so you can analyse your diving data.
Via: UberGizmo
I just love these concept designs from Yanko Design. The Triple Watch Cellphone is a wrist watch that converts in to a mobile phone. Seems more like a transformer watch. If used as a speaker phone it can remain on the wrist while driving.
Via: YankoDesign
Sported by the Norwegian Winter Olympics team are this pair of walkie talkie watches which have a nice range of 3km as well as having 300 channels to talk over meaning you shouldn’t get interference. The good thing about these watches is that no licence is required which means you can talk for free to the other watch owner.
Similar items available from Amazon.
If you use an iPhone, iPad, or macOS then now is a good time to grab the latest updates due to a zero-day vulnerability found. The latest updates, released yesterday, fix this up by patching the vulnerability.
On the security page at Apple it describes the impact as follows:
[Read more…]Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.
If Apple keeps to the schedule of launch events for the iPhone over the last few years, then we can expect the iPhone 14 to be announced, and likely be launched sometime in September. The predicted date is currently September 7 for the announcement, and likely open for pre-orders a few days later.
We can probably expect the usual updates such as better cameras, a faster processor, as well as some cosmetic changes. Listing those changes doesn’t particularly sound too exciting, although for those who keep hold of their iPhones for a few years at a time, a speed bump and better camera is always welcome.
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Entering passwords on a system can be risky if done in a public place where onlookers are watching what you do. A new system has been created that adds a swarm of moving cursors to the screen so that it helps mask and confuse onlookers as to which mouse cursor is the real one.
Amazon has sent out invites for a press conference it is holding on September 6th. The event is being held in Santa Monica and at the moment, that’s all that is being announced by the company.
Speculation at the moment is revolving around the launch of a new Kindle Fire 2 or perhaps even a smartphone. Alternative options could be a new generation Kindle announced (of the reader variety), perhaps one with colour eInk, or perhaps back-lit.
According to the design chief at Nokia, the company is working on a tablet. He also reports that he is spending up to one third of his time working on this device.
Apple has launched the next gen Apple TV. The new device is very similar to the older Apple TV that was just retired other than a few bumps in specs.
Apple has uploaded a video of the iPad/Apple TV announcement yesterday. The keynote is about 90 minutes in length and is available to watch on the Apple website.
