Portable Gadgets

Nov 17, 2008

Flip Mino: the next craze in tiny camcorders?

Posted by Daniel in Gadgets, Portable Gadgets No comments
flip mino

Looks can be deceiving, this stylish little number may have the appearance of a remote control but the simple design hides a camcorder with 2GB of memory (enough to record an hour of standard VGA video).

Once upon a time people wanted their camcorder to have all the bells and whistles that money could buy but [...]




Nov 1, 2008

Sub aquatic listening with Speedo AquaBeat

Posted by Daniel in MP3 Players, Technology No comments

Any exercise can get a little dull without your favourite bit of music to keep you going, so a small MP3 player has become a common site in gyms. It is all well and good to strap a MP3 player to your arm and go for a job but there are a few problems if [...]




Sep 29, 2008

iRiver MPlayer Eyes - the world’s cutest MP3 player?

Posted by Mike Evans in MP3 Players, Portable Gadgets No comments

IRiver have released what could possibly be the cutest MP3 player in the world. The iRiver MPlayer Eyes is based on the famous sillhouette of Mickey Mouse, but without any Mickey-like features, it looks more like a frog(well, ti does to me, anyway!) Regardless, frog or mouse, it’s a damn sight cuter than the [...]




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

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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

Spotlight: Archos Multimedia Machines

Posted by Mike Evans in MP4 Players, Portable Gadgets No comments

Archos Multimedia - two words that are almost synonymous with each other, as when you think multimedia player, you instantly think of Archos (and if you don’t, you really should!).
We’ve put together a brief overview of the latest Archos players and recommend which Archos Multimedia player you should buy.




Sep 23, 2008

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

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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 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 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 [...]