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Microvision now shipping SHOWWX pico laser projector
Posted by David on January 15, 2010 · 0 Comment
We caught our first glimpse of the Microvision SHOWWX laser pico projector back around CES 2009 in January. The projector is the world’s first laser pico unit. Pico projectors have hit the market in force this year, but they typically use DLP technology. Microvision has announced that it has received a purchase order and is now shipping the SHOWWX projector. In case you missed the projector before, [...]
Filed in: Computers, External Articles
WiFi Robot Spybot is basically a DIY Rovio
Posted by David on January 15, 2010 · 0 Comment
Want a WowWee Rovio but either can’t justify the price-tag or fancy building something yourself? Over at Instructables there’s a guide to pretty much doing just that, with an off-the-shelf radio controlled car, Barracuda Controller, WiFi router and IP webcam. The end result is a vehicle you can remotely drive while seeing exactly what the car sees. The basic process involves stripping the R/C [...]
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Immunet Announces Immunet Protect, Next Generation Anti-Virus Software
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
Palo Alto-based Immunet launches the new company’s web site and a public Beta of Immunet Protect, the first free AntiVirus product designed to protect your community. Under development for the past year, Immunet Protect takes a new approach to the decades old virus problem. Immunet leverages the computers of your friends, family and a worldwide global community to harness their collective security. [...]
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Toshiba Media Controller, ReelTime and Bulletin Board Software
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 1 Comment
Toshiba Adds New, Innovative Content Organization and Media Sharing Apps to Laptop Lineup :Toshiba Bulletin Board, ReelTime and Media Controller Apps Deliver Enhanced Functionality to Further Simplify Everyday Tasks In collaboration with Microsoft engineers, Toshiba announced three new software applications to help customers simplify everyday tasks and boost their home entertainment capabilities. [...]
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O’Neal Element Fastrack Bluetooth Motorcycle Helmet
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
The O’Neal Element Fastrack Bluetooth Motorcycle Helmet offers all of the same features of add-on Bluetooth communications for biker helmets, in a built-in and ready-to-travel helmet. Whether you want to listen to your MP3 player, satellite radio, GPS device, talk on your cell phone, chat with your passenger, or communicate bike-to-bike, this helmet does it all – and it does it extraordinarily [...]
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Heil PR-40
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
The Heil PR-40, used by legendary music stars and media stations all over the world, is an excellent low-end response microphone, and also shines on the mid and high-end range as well. With professionally looking metal build quality, the Heil PR-40 offers a wide frequency response, studio-quality articulation and superior natural reproduction. The PR-40 is the text-book definition of dynamic microphone [...]
Filed in: Media Gadgets, Miscellaneous Gadgets
New Point Inside App for ANDROID and iPhone -Helps Shoppers Navigate Their Favorite Shopping Mall Using their iPhone, iPod touch, and now ANDROID Device
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 3 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, Point Inside™, Inc. announced its Point Inside App, available free from the App Store. Now it is available for Android devices as well, and it’s FREE. The app for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android makes asking for directions in the shopping mall a thing of the past. Point Inside is the most comprehensive indoor navigation application, providing the only fully interactive [...]
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Parrot AR.Drone iPhone Accessory
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
The Parrot AR.Drone iPhone accessory is a quadricopter piloted with an iPhone or iPod touch that carries two cameras, and delivers live video feed onto your iPhone. Parrot is positioning the Parrot AR.Drone as a video game for the iPhone. It combines wireless, video and gaming technologies to allow real-world objects and conditions, like a tree or wind, to become a part of the video gaming experience. Parrot [...]
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EKS Otus RAW – Highly Configurable DJ Tool
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
EKS, creators of the world’s most innovative and fully configurable DJ controllers, announces the debut of their latest innovation – Otus RAW. Designed to work as a single or dual deck controller, EKS’ Otus RAW will contain many new features that were requested by professional DJs from around the world. Otus RAW is also designed to fully utilize the possibilities offered by today’s and [...]
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Hammacher Schlemmer’s Palm Size DVD Player
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
A portable palm sized DVD player is not a new concept by any means. But this model from Hammacher Schlemmer may just be giving a different look from the usual designs that you see out there. Most of such portable DVD playersyou see are of the flip top variety. This palm sized DVD player is designed much like the portable CD players of the past. This palm sized DVD player from Hammacher measures six [...]
Filed in: Media Gadgets
Optoma MovieTime DV10 Digital DVD Portable Projector
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
The Optoma MovieTime DV10 Digital DVD Portable Projector is an older product, but worth re-mentioning based on the popularity of home theater and portability. The Optoma DV10 came out a couple of years ago. It lets you instantly create a home theater environment anywhere there’s a flat wall and a power outlet. It’s a compact ultra bright, theater-quality digital projector with a built-in DVD player [...]
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Optoma HD66 3-D Home Theater
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
3D is a very popular concept, and now reality, in the video arena, particularly cameras, gaming devices, video players, and now TV and home theater projectors. 3D is set to become the new HD within the next couple of years – and with that in mind, Optoma has introduced its HD66 digital projector at CES – a $699 home theatre projector capable of showing 720p content in 3D with a max image [...]
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Asus ROG G73jh Gaming Netbook
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
ASUS has introduced its first G series gaming netbook, called ASUS G73JH-A1. It is a netbook with a 17.3-inch screen with a HD resolution of 1920×1080 pixel, a quad-core processor Intel Core i7 (Clarksfield) can vary between models: a 1.6GHz Core i7-720QM, a 1.73GHz Core i7-820QM or 2.0GHz Core i7 920XM processor. ASUS G73JH-A1 notebook main feature like ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB of GDDR5 [...]
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Toshiba Portaro SD-P12DT Portable DVD Player
Posted by David on January 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
Toshiba announced the Portaro SD-P12DT today, a new portable DVD player. The main selling point of the device is the 12-inch LCD screen that features an LED backlight and 1,366×768 resolution. Sized at 342×73×326mm (weight: 2.8kg), the Portaro is available in black or white. Apart from video DVDs and music CDs, the device supports DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW (there’s also an SD card slot). It also has [...]
Filed in: Media Gadgets
Thanko USB Dust Vacuum Mouse
Posted by David on January 13, 2010 · 0 Comment
This mouse concept, by Thanko, lets you maintain a clean desk while using the mouse, as it has a small vacuum hole near the optical sensor. The USB Mouse Vacuum uses a small switch on its side to turn on and off the cleaning process, providing a very interesting alternative to the traditional dust wiping. A simple 800 dpi optical mouse, with a cleverly built-in miniature vacuum cleaner, the Dust Vacuum [...]
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Lenova LePhone Smartphone
Posted by David on January 13, 2010 · 0 Comment
Lenovo has announced its first Android phone, dubbed the Lenovo LePhone (“Le” means “happiness” in Chinese). The new handset features many high-end features, and reminds one of the Google Nexus One or even an iPhone prodigy. The LePhone has a 3.7 inch WVGA touchscreen display (AMOLED, apparently), 1GHz Snapdragon processor, WCDMA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3MP camera and MicroSD [...]
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Samsung New IceTouch & MyFit MP3 Player
Posted by David on January 13, 2010 · 0 Comment
The market leader and award-wining innovator in consumer electronic, Samsung has unveiled its two new MP3 players, the IceTouch (YP-H1) and MyFit (YP-W1). These two players have been designed for media savvy and those who concerned with managing their personal well-being. The new 16GB IceTouch is featured with the world’s first 2-inch, full-color and transparent Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting [...]
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DIY Quadrocopters: Quaduino NG and AeroQuad
Posted by David on January 13, 2010 · 0 Comment
Parrot’s AR.Drone was a surprise hit at CES 2010, but if you can’t wait for the off-the-shelf option and want some quadracopter action right now then there are a couple of DIY projects that might scratch that itch. The Quaduino NG and the AeroQuad (pictured) both rely on the Arduino microprocessor as their flight boards, combining gyroscope information with other sensors to make steady flight [...]
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SilverSTAT 7 Advanced Thermostat with In-Home Display
Posted by David on January 13, 2010 · 0 Comment
Silver PAC have created the SilverSTAT 7 in home advanced thermostat that has an LCD display called “In-Home Display” or IHD for short. The system functions as a climate control for homes and can be programmed for 7 days in advance. The LCD screen (IHD) is used for displaying your energy usage and is designed to help you be more in touch with what energy you might wasting. The LCD screen on the [...]
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Saygus VPhone Hands-On
Posted by David on January 13, 2010 · 0 Comment
The VPhone was on show at CES in Las Vegas last week. The VPhone comes from a company called Saygus, a small company based in Utah. The VPhone allows for two-way calls to be made on the Verizon network and is part of Verizon’s [VZ] Open Development initiative. The VPhone’s hardware specs show that it has an 806MHz processor (Marvell PXA 310), has 512MB of flash memory, 256MB of RAM and can support [...]
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ASUS Eee 1005PE Gets Atom N450 and 14 Hour Battery Life
Posted by David on January 13, 2010 · 0 Comment
ASUS had a number of new netbooks on display at CES this year that included the ASUS Eee 1005PE model. What makes this model stand out is it’s impressive 14 hour battery life. The reason for the increase is down to the new Intel Atom N450 processor that the 1005PE uses that requires less power to run, thus allowing for longer usage between charges. The ASUS 1005PE follows on from the excellent selling [...]
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Casio Hybrid GPS Tracks both in and outdoors
Posted by David on January 13, 2010 · 0 Comment
Casio are launching a new hybrid GPS camera that aims to track where you are when you capture photos both in and outdoors. It achieves this by using a mixture of GPS data and accelerometer data. The theory behind the Hybrid GPS system is that most cameras, if not all, spend most of their time out of sight of a GPS lock and thus, you can’t really get a fix most of the time. By getting a fix with the [...]
Filed in: Car Gadget, External Articles
Rumour: Apple iPhone 4G Coming in May
Posted by David on January 13, 2010 · 0 Comment
More rumours have been started saying that Apple are looking to launch the next gen iPhone (4th gen model) in May rather than waiting for an official announcement in June like usual. The reason for this is that they are looking to counter Google who are looking at releasing a new Google Phone (perhaps a Nexus Two) around that time. In my opinion this rumour needs to be taken with a bucket load of salt [...]
Filed in: Cell Phones, External Articles
Razor/Sixth Sense Bringing Motion Control to PC
Posted by David on January 12, 2010 · 0 Comment
With the Wii’s MotionPlus on the market, and Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s PlayStation Eye likely to hit this year, Valve, developers of hit series such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Portal, showing support for Razer and Sixense’s new, as-yet-unnamed motion control hardware for the PC. The system uses electromagnetic fields to track movements along six axes, offering [...]
Panasonic 360-Degree Quick Steam/Dry Iron
Posted by David on January 12, 2010 · 0 Comment
Panasonic’s new 360° Quick Multidirectional Iron reduces ironing time and makes side-to-side movements easier and can be used in any direction. The oversized, non-stick titanium soleplate has an elliptical shape with pointed ends. It is also slightly curved outward – this assists in making side-to-side movements smoother and allows you to remove wrinkles in any direction. According to Panasonic, [...]
Filed in: Home Gadgets
Casio Green Slim Projector Line
Posted by David on January 12, 2010 · 0 Comment
This week at CES, Casio debuts its Green Slim Projector, equipped with mercury-free laser and LED hybrid lighting that can achieve brightness up to 3,000 lumens. This means it can be used for data projection in well-lit rooms – removing the need to draw the shades or switch off lights.Up until now, any projector brighter than 2000 lumens has required a high pressure mercury lamp. Casio’s [...]
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Skiff 11.5-inch Touchscreen Electronic Paper Reader
Posted by David on January 12, 2010 · 0 Comment
Skiff is previewing its new electronic reader at CES this year. At a quarter of an inch thick, the Skiff Reader is the thinnest device of its kind. Not everything about it is small, however; its 1200 x 1600 pixel, 11.5-inch screen is the largest and highest-resolution consumer e-reading display yet.The Skiff Reader’s display utilizes a thin, flexible sheet of stainless-steel foil. Developed by LG, [...]
Filed in: Media Gadgets
K2 Eco Inline Skates
Posted by David on January 12, 2010 · 0 Comment
K2 skates announced an industry first the environmentally-friendly ECO Inline Skates. Not only are the boots and laces made from recycled plastic bottles, but the wheel frame is made from one of the most sustainable materials on the planet, bamboo. K2 Eco’s Mao bamboo frame i inexpensive and very strong. Bamboo can have a greater tensile strength than steel. Thanks to its fine fiber structure, [...]
Filed in: Miscellaneous Gadgets
RadarGolf Ball-Tracker System
Posted by David on January 12, 2010 · 0 Comment
RadarGolf Ball Tracking System, which uses an embedded RFID tag in the balls and a compact hand-held device which locates the golf ball. The handheld unit “beeps” when pointed at the ball and is effective at a distance of 40 to 125 feet. The tag is extremely small and is built into the ball at the time of manufacture. The tag could be easily included in any commercial golf ball though until [...]
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Sony Dash Personal Internet Viewer
Posted by David on January 11, 2010 · 0 Comment
Sony always has a stunning display of new products at CES. This year was no different, with many additions to their current category line-ups as well as a few new categories including the very popular 3D and Internet-connected television categories. Even more impressive, however, is their new Dash, a 7-inch screen device described by Sony as an “Internet access device”. More than 1,000 [...]
Filed in: Computers, Media Gadgets
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