New Gadgets in Market

Wall E Laptop For Kids

2009-03-29T09:00:00.000-07:00

The VTech Wall.E Learning Laptop probably will not interest you at all. Kids however, will enjoy 15 activities in five modes that teach letters, words, math, logic and games. Other features include moving arms, an LCD screen, QWERTY keyboard and a "winking" right eye.

When we were kids our version of this toy was the 2-XL Robot from Mego. That learning toy was basically a glorified 8-track player that only had four buttons and blinking red eyes. The Wall.E Learning Laptop looks like a great learning toy for children but we can't hide our disappointment in the lack of advancement in learning toys. See, when we were kids we envisioned that ACTUAL ROBOTS would be the toys our kids would be learning from. (Think Teddy from the movie "A.I." and you'll catch our drift.)

Most Expensive Toy Watch Ever

2009-03-28T08:59:00.000-07:00

Designed and made by Seiko Instruments, this unique timepiece features a small, rotating earth that makes a full rotation every 24 hours and uses a time zone indicator and orange dot to indicate the minutes. In addition to quartz movement and a 10 year Lithium battery, the watch crystal is made of Hardlex and the watch casing is made from Titanium. Water resistant to 100 meters and ridiculously expensive, this watch is the perfect gift for any evil arch-villain who wants to look down at his or her wrist and exclaim: "Yes, all mine! YOU WILL ALL BE MINE!"

The Dynamite Alarm Clock

2009-03-27T08:57:00.000-07:00

Waking up in the morning is rarely exciting or even interesting for that matter. Well now you can wake up to dynamite every single morning. It doesn’t get much more exciting than that. Granted, it might not take away the Monday morning blues, but it might at least on occasion give you enough of a laugh to cope with the morning a little better. Although being so tall and slim it would be far easier to knock this over or on a particularly grumpy morning, be chucked at the wall.

AC to 5-USB Power Adaptor (3000mA)

2009-03-26T08:56:00.000-07:00

USB charging is the way to go these days, and I long for the day where all USB connectors are standardized so that we need not bring so many different chargers when traveling. Gadget mavens Brando takes a step towards that reality with its AC to 5-USB Power Adaptor, allowing you to charge up to five different USB-powered devices simultaneously whenever there is no computer or notebook available, as long as it is hooked up to a wall socket. What happens if you’re in a different country then? Fear not for Brando has that ground covered by offering alternative plugs for the US, UK, Australia and Europe, making it compatible with virtually any country you step foot onto. The travel charger is smart enough to adjust all voltages and frequencies automatically when plugged in, so there is no need to lug around a heavy converter with you. This nifty device will cost you $22 a pop.

The USB 3-in-1 Rota-Rota Combo Hub with thermometers

2009-03-25T08:52:00.000-07:00

If you’re in serious need of some extra hubs, this is packed full of them. It also has a couple of extra features, such as a thermometer. I’m not really sure why you’d need a thermometer to tell you the temperature of the room you’re already in, but it has one. It tells both Celsius and Fahrenheit one on each of the dials on the front of the hub. It’d be nice if they added a clock, or pretty much anything besides a thermometer. On the plus side when your boss keeps the office too cold or hot, you can tell them the accurate temperature within your complaint about the room temperature.

Maxtor BlackArmor 160GB USB Drive for $59

2009-03-24T20:51:00.000-07:00

They say that good things come to those who wait. Like us you once looked at the super-secure Maxtor BlackArmor drives and thought "Wow, I'd really like one of those, but they are way too spensive." This is a drive you could feel safe about putting your tax returns on, with its hardware-based full-disc encryption technology and all. Hmm, what's that? BlackArmor drives are only $59 at TigerCompUSA? Whoa!

USB Cellphone Booster

2009-03-24T08:55:00.001-07:00

If you somehow happen to live within the blind spot where cellphone signal coverage is concerned, or have certain parts of your home “blacked out” for no apparent reason, might we suggest the USB cellphone booster from ThinkGeek?

The USB Cellphone Booster plugs into your USB port and improves incoming and outgoing cellphone voice and data within a 5 foot radius. Simply place the wired antenna up to 15 feet away from the USB base unit in an area of marginal coverage. We got an increase in signal strength of 2-3 bars and made our iPhones very happy in the process. You’ll be the hero of those impromptu Starbucks meetings as your co-workers enjoy improved voice and data coverage.

Needless to say, you can’t make something out of nothing, so it is a great idea to have at least one bar of signal in order for the $99.99 USB Cellphone Booster to work. Has anyone used something like this yet, and how do you find it?

GigaPan Epic: How Do You Create Your Own 1,474-Megapixel Photo?

2009-03-24T08:47:00.000-07:00

Some people like to say that "size doesn't matter." We think that those people have never seen the gigapixel photographs taken with a GigaPan Epic Sytem. David Bergman, a self-described "All Access" photographer took his GigaPan Epic to the recent inauguration of President Barack Obama:

My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.

Priced at $379, we think the GigaPan Epic is a steal for what it does.

2008-12-15T04:58:00.000-08:00

MTI Micro has unveiled a new fuel cell charger to power up your gadgets. This little device uses replaceable fuel cartridges. MTI Micro is not the first, and hopefully won't be the last, company to go to the fuel cell for portable convenient power. The MTI Micro Mobion prototype works with cartridges of the liquid fuel methanol. Each cartridge offers about 25 hours of power. When it's depleted, users just pop it out of the charger and replace it with another one.

The Fuel Cell Charger is set to be available as a product by end of 2009. This definitely seems like a move in the right direction. So what does this 25 hours of power get you - 10 charges for your cellphone and enough power for your favorite MP3 player to play 10,000 songs or 100 hours of video!

Remote Kill Switch To Disable Stolen Laptops

2008-12-15T04:57:00.001-08:00

Ericsson and Intel have developed an all new technology to locate your laptop if it is stolen and disable it. It works using GPS technology and you might just even be able to locate it if the chip has not been removed from the laptop just yet. Some of us have laptops with data encryption software which protects all the data in the hard drive in case of theft but this technology is just taking it one step further.

Nokia Mobile Testing Laboratory

2008-12-15T03:56:00.000-08:00

Humidity Test

Various liquids, creams and Gels Test
Bending Test

Dust Test

Samsung i900 Omnia

2008-09-10T01:56:00.000-07:00

Samsung i900 Omnia 16GB is one of the trendiest phones around.

The user interface lets you control the Samsung i900 with simple and intuitive gesutres and touches; scroll, pan, flip or zoom with a single touch.

The large WVGA display and touch sensitive screen brings full control to your fingertips.

Features:

large WVGA display with touch screen (3.5" touch sensitive display, 240 x 400 pixels)
5 mega-pixel camera with auto-focus, digital zoom, LED flash, face detection, landscape mode
MP3, AAC, eAAC+ & WMA player
FM Stereo Radio (RDS)
Video Recording and Video Streaming. Supported formats: MP4, 3GPP & H.264
Memory 16 GB internal, microSDHC external
Connectivity: Bluetooth (2.2), Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11g), GPRS Class 32, HSDPA (7.2 Mbits), DLNA Support
Navigation: AGPS
TV Out
Office Document Editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
PDF Document Viewer
Opera Mobile Web Browser
SweepUI Interface

Samsung Omnia specs: runs on Windows Mobile 6.1, GPS receiver, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, image stabilizer, Bluetooth support, 3G HSPDA, 3.2 inch touch-screen, Samsun TouchWiz interface.

With Samsung Omnia 16GB you can:

do all the things you do with a regular cell phone
listen to your favorite music and radio shows
watch movies. The TV out is a great feature.
have mini computer with you all the time. You can surf the Internet, edit and create documents, read ebooks.
easy find locations due to the incorporated GPS

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2008-09-09T01:55:00.000-07:00

Intel has published the specification for the next generation of USBs - USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed USB).

With version 0.9 released vendors can work to improve the interoperability of their USB 3.0 hardware.

USB 3.0 is an evolution of USB 2.0 that adds to take the bandwidth up to 4.7Gb/s.

The gadgets and gizmo manufacturers will build their new products having USB 3.0 in mind.

Intel is not the only company developing USB 3.0. Other companies working on this standard are

Texas Instruments
Microsoft
HP
NEC

The USB 3.0 is expected to be the number 1 solution in 2010.

New TVs from Sony BRAVIA X4500 and W4500 series

2008-09-08T01:54:00.000-07:00

Sony launched 2 new BRAVIA TVs. BRAVIA X4500 and W4500 series. Both TVs feature full HD 1080p, Motionflow PRO100hz technology and BRAVIA ENGINE 2 PRO for increased picture quality

BRAVIA™ X4500 series

Full HD 1080p
Available in three screen sizes (40-inch, 46-inch, 55-inch)
Graceful floating design with translucent frame
Best-ever clarity, colour, contrast and definition with BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2 PRO
Rich, deep colours, superb contrast and reduced power consumption from new RGB Dynamic LED backlight (46, 55-inch)
Smoother, sharper fast-moving action with Motionflow PRO100Hz technology (46, 55-inch)
Enjoy digital music and photos from networked DLNA devices

BRAVIA™ W4500 series

Full HD 1080p
Innovative styling inspired by new ‘draw the LINE’ design concept
Superb clarity, colour and contrast with BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2
Smoother, sharper fast-moving action thanks to Motionflow 100Hz with Image Blur Reduction technology
Enjoy digital music and photos from networked DLNA devices
Available in three screen sizes (40-inch, 46-inch, 52-inch)

The BRAVIA X4500 and W4500 were created for the ultimate entertainment experience. The TVs are recommended for latest movies on Blu-ray Discs, console games, HD broadcasts.

Ovei home theater pod

2008-07-03T10:53:00.001-07:00

As with pretty a little equipment unveiled at CEDIA Expos, the Ovei is as well aimed frankly at folks with wallets so fat they can hardly contain themselves. This is home cinema pod made its most new debut at CEDIA UK show, where the creator is explain that users could slip into the air-conditioned capsule and control their home theater and gaming knowledge via the built-in touch screen. We are told that it was intended by Lee McCormack and engineered by McLaren Applied Technologies, but aside from that, pretty a great deal everything else remains a mystery. The Ovei can be ordered up now for around £50,000, other than if you get ‘em to toss in some foot pedals and a steering wheel (or whatever else you dream up), count on that figure heading north in a hurry.

Motorola announced officially ZN200

2008-07-03T10:51:00.000-07:00

Arriva a new slide-phone by Motorola, the ZN200, mobile from simple design with telephone and multimedia functions. The phone is equipped with the now inevitable camera (2 megapixels), the slot for microSD, FM radio and an integrated media player. Regarding the internal memory, the ZN200 has 30 MB integrated and should be sold bundled with a microSD 1GB.

It seems that currently the target market is the Brazilian to September, to follow everyone else.

Alcatel OT-S320: an entry-level phone with charm

2008-07-03T10:50:00.000-07:00

Ok, we do fine. The entry-level phones often do not treat, and that Alcatel OT-S320 is the first after a long series of mobile phones from 100 € up. It will be for his design, which elevates to the standards of stylistic cellular band medium / high, it will be for the price so low (39 €), the fact is that this OT-S320 may well be an excellent purchase as the second mobile phone for another SIM, without sfigurare next to well over costosti masters of elegance.

Given the budget vocation, OT-S320 offers functionality purely telephone, with dual band GSM module, screen from 1.8 inches to 65000 colors, bluetooth, MP3 ringtones and FM radio. In the pack, finally, includes stereo earphones.

Shozu no charge for sharing online multimedia files soon on iPhone

2008-07-03T10:47:00.000-07:00

After compatible with the service OVI Nokia, Shozu is coming on the terminal of Apple. The native iPhone will be released through the new App Store and provide access to over 45 services file sharing and blogs.

Among these, we point out once again the most famous: Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google Picasa, OVI, BuzzNet, Hyves Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Dada.net, blip tv, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Vox, WordPress, Meta Weblog, Box.net and many others. Shozu, is free - and will also version iPhone-is also compatible with many terminals: a complete list, are here.

Finally, I leave with a video showing a preview of ‘application in action on the terminal of Cupertino

Samsung i740 Windows Mobile

2008-07-03T10:45:00.000-07:00

It adds a new phone at a team of Samsung, this is the i740 model governed by the operating system Windows Mobile 6.1. Large 107 x 59 x 13.8 mm, has a touch screen with large 2.8 haptics technology “with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The camera, however, shoot photos up to 3 Megapixels.

Equipped with a processor LV Monahan at 624 MHz, has a memory expandable through microSD cards. There is the GPS, FM radio, Bluetooth connectivity and EDGE. There is no presence, however, QWERTY keyboard and WiFi. Pricing and availability not disclosed.

Pico Flash Drive Makes Fingernails Look Big

2008-07-03T10:43:00.000-07:00

Either that is Hogwart’s Hagrid investment or regular sized USB Flash drive or it is one very, very, little Flash drive indeed.

Get together Pico USB Flash Drive which is not immediately possibly the world is least at 31.3 x 12.4 x 3.4mm but with a wonderful 8GB onboard, it is positively one of the most helpful tiny Flash drives out there.

USB connector aside, this baby is not a large deal bigger than your fingernail, which is probably why Thinkgeek is selling it with a bundled chain so that you don’t lose your next best little storage friend.

AT & T reveals Plans for 3G iPhone

2008-07-03T10:40:00.000-07:00

In yesterday AT & T, the exclusive carrier of 3G iPhone for the U.S., has made known all the details of subscription coupled with a smartphone. The picture is rather complex, to see clarity and observe in detail the proposal by the American carrier.

First we talk about the price of the device.
The new customers (who did not already have a contract with AT & T or is a customer of another operator) will be able to buy 3G iPhone prices known: $ 199 and $ 299 for versions respectively 8Gb and 16Gb. Customers will undergo a credit check (to assess the economic solvency) and will be checked the possibility of making the portability of your phone number.

Those who, however, are already customers of American carriers will have front two options, depending on the status of its contract in place. If they are close to the natural conclusion of the biennial, in practice or have already paid their current device, 3G iPhone will be able to buy the same numbers of new customers, adding a one-off for the upgrade of $ 18.

If, however, the status of its contract does not allow this type of upgrades, should pay a larger share for 3G iPhone, set at $ 399 and $ 499.

USB Fairy Lights Add A Touch Of Twilight

2008-06-27T14:31:00.000-07:00

You have to be pretty festive, pretty nerdy, pretty girly, or all of the above to want to add stary USB lights to the design of your office space. Luckily for you festively girly fabulous nerd readers, we have just the ticket with these USB Fairy Lights, which add a touch of Christmas light ascetic to your boring old notebook.

If there was ever a word which isn’t associated with brute manliness, it’s got to be the word fairy. Forget it’s mildly homoerotic overtones. The word itself just sounds, well, girly. For the sake of argument, let’s just say this gadget is a little confused about it’s title. The USB Fairy Lights are not so much fairies, as they are cute little illuminated stars.

And while we’ve sifted through specs trying to find a use beyond their cutie-patootie appearance, we’re not really finding anything to hold in our defense. They aren’t going to be bright enough to light up your room. And despite their fantastical name, fairies aren’t going to pop out of the walls and finish your work for you. They are just a set of pretty lights to strap right into your USB port.

You can buy all 36′ of these Office Fairy Lights for your computer for $12.95, but you might want to keep that information to yourself. When no one else is around, and all of your friends have retreated to their own nerd dens, that is probably the right time to whip out these lights and admire the starry goodness.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS3: What’s Hot, What’s Not

2008-06-27T14:29:00.000-07:00

Throughout my use of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS3, here’s what stood out for me:

What’s Hot

* Really compact, small enough for pockets
* Lightweight
* 8.1 megapixels made affordable (market prices don’t go above $200)
* Supports up to 4GB SDs
* A battery that lasts the entire day
* VGA (640 x 480) video capture capability
* Lots of available colors (including black, silver, blue, pink)

What’s Not

* Limited photography controls
* Produces grainy pictures under lowlight conditions
* Flash washes out everything; used rarely in my case

The Dell XPS M1330: What’s Hot, What’s Not

2008-06-27T14:26:00.000-07:00

I’ve been using the Dell XPS M1330 for at least a week now. So far, so good, save for a few irritations.

What’s Hot

Lightweight
Looks good
Powerful
Great extras: bundled sleeve, earphones, and remote
High-contrast led-backlit display
Aluminum wrist rests resistant to discoloration
SD, MMC, xD card reader great for camera users

What’s Not

Slot drive noisy and won’t accept small CD/DVDs
Tinny external speakers
Vista slows everything down!

As configured

“Tuxedo” Black
Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 (2.4 Ghz)
2GB RAM
13.3″ 1280 x 800 glossy display
Integrated 2.0 megapixel webcam
250GB 5400rpm hard disk
Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS (128MB dedicated video memory)
Bluetooth and WiFi (up to 802.11g)
Slot-loaded DVD Writer
Touch-sensitive media playback controls
Fingerprint reader
2 USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet jack, 1 Firewire port, HDMI out, ExpressCard 54 slot
SD/MMC/Memory Stick (with adaptor) card reader
Windows Vista Home Premium

Logitech Launches Mac-Only Hi-Def Webcam

2008-06-27T14:24:00.000-07:00

It initially seems odd that Logitech would launch a Mac-only webcam: All Macs but the Mini and Pro have a built in iSight camera.

Reading the specs gives the answer — the QuickCam Vision Pro is a significant step up in performance from the built-in option.

The two megapixel Quickcam can supply 720p video via an autofocus Carl Zeiss lens, and has a built in microphone.

The camera will cost $130.00 USD and – floating eerily as it does in the product shot – the Quickcam reminds me of nothing other than the Empire’s Imperial Probe Droid