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Sep 28, 2008

AirCurve: Music without speakers or wires

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AirCurve iPhone Dock

I know the couple of entries have been relating to the iPod and iPhone but I promise we are not turning into fan boys, there are just some interesting accessories appearing on the market recently. This iPod docking station from Griffin is no exception.
The AirCurve for the iPhone and iPhone 3G is described as “breakthrough [...]




Sep 28, 2008

iPhone powered by the sun

Posted by Daniel in Miscellaneous No comments
solar powered iPhone case

Solar power, coud it be the answer to our power crisis? Well no, it is not efficient enough yet but it will charge your iPhone in less than 3 hours. A solar powered iPhone leather case has gone on sale and hopes to be the answer to the iPhones shocking bad battery life.
The case has [...]




Sep 26, 2008

Mental chargers: iPod and iPhone chargers with a difference

Posted by Daniel in Mental Media, Portable Gadgets, Technology No comments
iYo YOYO iPod charger

iYo YOYO
We saw the iYo YOYO (pictured above) and memories of our childhood came rushing back, yoyos are versatile toys; you can walk the dog, go around the world and now you can even charge you iPod or iPhone with one. The Swedish designer Peter Thuvander has taken your average yoyo added a little Apple [...]




Sep 25, 2008

Lyra Slider: The first PMP to use sliding technology

Posted by Daniel in Portable Gadgets No comments
Lyra Slider PMP

Mobile phones have been using the concept of sliding for a long time but it has never caught on in the portable media player arena before. Well this is about to change with the new Lyra Slider, a basic PMP which has used the concept of a sliding front to shrink in size without having [...]




Sep 23, 2008

How many WiMo devices does it take to display an image?

Posted by Daniel in Portable Gadgets No comments
Mobile device collaboration

When you think of you average Windows Mobile device what would you conceder to be the areas which require development and could be improved? Maybe the battery life or the performance…
Not quite what Microsoft was thinking when they filed a patent application called “Mobile Device Collaboration”. In essence mobile device collaboration will enable Windows Mobile [...]




Sep 22, 2008

Unboxing the new Samsung Omnia

Posted by Daniel in Miscellaneous No comments

“Unboxing” has been with us for a while and its format is widely known and accepted by tech geeks around the world. It is very exciting to open a new gadget and it is the trend at the moment to share that with the world wide web. So why pick out this one…?
In short I [...]




Sep 19, 2008

New PMP with touchscreen that pushes back

Posted by Daniel in MP3 Players, Portable Gadgets, Portable TV No comments
 ORACOM W30 PMP

The Korean company ORACOM announced this little treasure and our ears picked up. The specifications of this new PMP, the W30, are not that outstanding but it does have one saving grace: haptic interface that is selling for a reasonable price of $180.
A haptic interface tries to simulate pressing a real button when you press [...]




Sep 19, 2008

Ingenious display

Posted by Daniel in HDTV, LG, Miscellaneous, Video and TV No comments
LG Screen display

I don’t know about you but I am quite bored of seeing HDTVs and other gadgets displayed in the same dreary way they have always been. There is very little originality around; they are either just displayed on a stand or draped around a sexy model or if the manufacturer fancies being a little crazy [...]




Sep 16, 2008

Is that a projector in your pocket?

Posted by Daniel in Gadgets, Home Cinema, Portable Gadgets 1 comment
3M pocket projector

3M have beaten all their competition to the post and announced the launch of their MPro110 pocket projector. It will go on sale this month, to be more precise the 30th September 2008. This little projector was reviewed by PopSci and the results were pretty good. Through the use of LCoS display technology the MPro110 [...]




Sep 16, 2008

Mental Media: iRiver’s Mickey player

Posted by Daniel in MP3 Players, iRiver No comments
iRiver Mickey

iRiver are a little like Nintendo in the way they like to push the envelope on user interfaces and methods of interaction. The iRiver Spinn is a good example of iRiver going down a different route to everyone else and coming up with a truly outstanding PMP; the iRiver Mickey player is not another example [...]