Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The Roller Toaster is concept now, but does look pretty cool… enough cool in that I wouldnt mind owning one when it does get released. The roller toaster is a simple idea. You push bread in one side and it rolls through and turns in to toast on the other side.
Via: Fosfor
A new patent from Apple was published recently which now puts a new menu item in to the iPod specifically for Podcasts. The Patent Application is 20060265637, Utilization Of Podcasts on Portable Media Devices. The podcast menu item is basically a way of filing your podcasts that are downloaded. When you open up the new podcast menu item you will see a list of podcasts in which you can click on to listen.
Via: ZDNet
Today we saw the 1st December 2006 appear on our callendars. This means that it’s not long till christmas day and what better way to start then with a circuitboard christmas tree decoration. Acorn Studios have created the christmas tree circuitboard which is basically and old cut off from a calculator or something similar and it’s shaped in to a triangle with some metal wire soldered on the top and shaped in to a star. This “was” available for 19.95 dollars but due to demand, or lack of calculators, they no longer have them in stock. However, I am sure you all have the technical know how, to make one of these your self. Just dont go burning your self on the soldering iron.
Via: OhGizmo
The Hannspree LCD TV is a 9.6″ flat screen. As you can see above, it’s a tad different to your average TV in the way of it being a giraffe. This giraffe TV has built in speakers, a remote control, RF inputs, 4-in-1 input cable (SCA) and a headphone jack. The Squeezable TV is great for children to play with and also makes this particular TV very unique from regular LCD’s you see.
Not only can you get a Giraffe screen, but an Elephant, Basket Ball, Apple, Football and Golf ball type screen’s are also available each with a unique design. Check out more pictures after the jump.
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The Kenwood 10GB7 is a very small hard disk based DAP. The screen is small at just 1.5 inches and is OLED too. For the size of this thing it doesnt cut back too much on disk space too. It runs a 10GB hard drive. Other features available are 7 preset EQ modes, USB and a picture viewer.
Unfortunatly it comes at a price and weighs in at 345 dollars. Dimensions for this DAP are 62x44x17mm.
Via: TechEBlog
If you are bored one day and decide it’s time to anoy someone then go pick up an Annoy-A-Tron. It’s a small circuit board with a battery on it and it’s designed to make your friends or office workers get annoyed. The circuit board can be planted anywhere with it being very small in size. An example would be under a desk. It then emmits a noise from 2KHz to 12KHz from time to time which could really drive the boss up the wall.
Via: OhGizmo
A-DATA have created a solar powered flasg memory stick. The solar power which takes it’s energy from the sun is responsible for powering the display. The display shows how much space is available on the memory. The VoIP is a similar idea to the V-Phone but it has audio funcionality also which allows you to make calls. More details after the jump.
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If you suffer from poor quality calls on Skype then a video has been made to give you instructions on how to improve the quality. Some technical know how is needed, although there are plenty of tutorials on the internet to help you get more clear calls. A few things they cover are setting up your router to give you a fixed IP address, opening a skype port to that IP and then setting that port to have a priority. Making these changes can greatly change the call quality as it gives priority over the other traffic such as downloads that are being done at the dame time.
Let us know if you have any success with this, and also feel free to drop an email to us if you need any advice as I can help also with your quest for better call quality.
Via: Gizmodo
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The K3 is Samsungs latest in to the market which has a 1.8 inch OLED display and FM tuner. Not much more is known although it might come packed with either a 1, 2 or 4Gb option.
Via: Engadget
The Optimus 103 was set to be a wonderful keyboard with each key featuring a nice OLED display which was fully customisable via some software on the PC. Unfortunatly it seems like the Optimus was a little bit of a let down on the recent announcement. It appears now that it will not feature a nice set of colour OLED keys… but rather grey scale, and maybe worse… black and white.
The colour 113 version will still happen no doubt, but it seems it’s a little longer then we expected to hear.
Via: Engadget
Credit card fraud can cause some big issues for people if it catches them out. The credit card alarm is just one step to keeping your card safe. The device is made out of plastic and stainless steel and is made to beep every 20 seconds should your card mysteriously get taken from it. The alarm is not a loud noise, but rather a discreet noise to notify you and not others around you.
Maybe I misunderstand the purpose though… surely if someone was to swipe your card then surely they wouldn’t go to the trouble of getting it out of your wallet, taking the card out of the card alarm case, putting it back in your wallet and putting that back in your bag for you to hear the beep (hopefully) which says the card is gone. Very odd!
Via: UberGizmo
u-blox is releasing a new GPS chip which boasts 100% road coverage even in the most challenging GPS signal environments. The TIM-4R has dead reckoning technology which I will explain shortly. The u-blox has a 16 channel ANTARIS 4 positioning engine. It is this engine that ensures uninterrupted positioning where previously this was not possible. To add to this ability, the chips use less power consumption then other GPS chip sets.
Dead Reckoning is a technology that uses additional sensors that can detect the distance travelled with an odometer and gyroscope. This then can be put together with the last good signal (for example you enter a tunnel) and can predict where you
are in the tunnel due to the gyroscope measuring when you turn the vehicle.
Dead reckoning is great for those who need 100% accuracy with GPS such as emergency services as sometimes they need to go through situations where a signal is just not possible.
Hopefully this GPS chipset can live up to it’s standards and deliver what it promises. I have to admit that I am looking forwards to this solution.
Via: u-blox
