Miscellaneous

Nov 1, 2008

“Power Glass” music for the environment

Posted by Daniel in Miscellaneous No comments
power glass fountain

Do you love music, light, water and dolphins? Well if you do the designers of this enviromentally friendly fountain must have had you in mind when they put it together. This music fountain “power glass” was displayed at Seoul Design Olympiad 2008.
The light dances around the sculpture in time with the music, I believe there [...]




Oct 23, 2008

Hands on review of the Pure Digital Flip Camcorder

Posted by Mike Evans in Camcorder, Miscellaneous, Pure, Pure Flip, Video and TV, review No comments

I’ve been sent the Pure Digital Flip to review, and was looking forward to writing many words about this small toy-like camcorder. Upon receiving it, though, I have a feeling this review might be a shorter than I intended! The Flip, you see, is a camcorder, pure and simple.
In fact, simple is the operative word. [...]




Oct 13, 2008

Twinned MP3 player forces James Blunt on you

Posted by Mike Evans in Coming Soon, Miscellaneous, Prototypes No comments

If your significant other is just as much a gadget freak as you are, then you might want to think about the Twinned MP3 player. As you can see from the pic, the Twinned is actually two MP3 players in one,and can snap apart so that you both get one half of the device. [...]




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 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

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 11, 2008

Store the Web in a box with the 4TB Bit-Torrent iPhone Friendly Buffalo NAS

Posted by Mike Evans in Miscellaneous No comments

Forget 1TB - Buffalo have launched another NAS, this time with a whopping 4TB of space (enough to cram the whole Web inside it - well, the bits without video and images at any rate!). Not only that, it also comes with RAID 5 support for serious speed, and connects to virtually anything, thanks [...]




Sep 8, 2008

Pull my finger Apple

Posted by Daniel in Miscellaneous No comments

Apple were not amused when this developer sent them his application for consideration. They deamed the “pull my finger” joke to be too boring for their iPhone or iPod Touch.
Apple told the developer:
“We’ve reviewed your application Pull My Finger. We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod [...]




Aug 2, 2008

HDTV Armour to the rescue

Posted by Daniel in Miscellaneous No comments
HDTV armour

You might as well paint a giant target on your lovely HDTV if you have a Nintendo Wii. Accidents can happen but the costs are huge; if the screen on your TV cracks you will need to replace the whole TV. TV Armour screen protectors are crystal clear, optical grade plastic screens that fit TVs [...]




Aug 1, 2008

How to use your iPhone as a wireless modem

Posted by Daniel in Apple, How To, Miscellaneous, Portable Gadgets No comments
tether you iPhone

You are out and about with your laptop and want to access the internet, maybe to write a blog entry or you have some other work to do. Slight problem, there are no WiFi hotspots anywhere near you! You could do the stuff on your iPhone but it lacks a decent text editor and it [...]