Archive for April, 2010

New fitness-friendly W-Series Walkman debuts

Friday, April 30th, 2010

There’s more than one way to skin a cat make a wireless MP3 player, and building it right into a set of water-resistant headphones is an excellent way to do that and ensure that it’s ready to hit the gym right out of the box. This is the route Sony took with its original W-Series [...]

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e-Glove helps crime busters detect armed suspects

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Unlike most developed nations, the majority of police constables in the UK do not carry firearms. Instead, they rely on collapsible batons and pepper spray to apprehend suspects. Unfortunately, all it takes is a simple kitchen knife to make an arrest potentially deadly, especially if the perpetrator hides the weapon till the last moment. Enter [...]

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WePad Tablet Pricing And Launch Date Revealed

Friday, April 30th, 2010

A few weeks back, the WePad had it’s moment in the sun as the tablet seemed to offer the slim design of the Apple iPad, yet it came with some features that were unavailable on the Apple tablet. Out of the box, the WePad comes with an SD card slot and has support for Flash, [...]

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FM Transmitter for the Nexus One – Finally!

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

The accessories for the Nexus One may not be coming out as fast as they did for the iPhone or even iPad but slowly but surely they are trickling out. The HTC Nexus One FM Transmitter is the first one I have seen for the car and it isn’t half that bad in regards to [...]

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Sharp 3D Display For Book Readers And Tablet Computers

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Sharp has had a busy few weeks, earlier this month announcing a 3D LCD display that was specifically designed for digital cameras, mobile phones and game consoles. What was unique about these 2.4-inch and 3.4-inch touchscreen displays was that they did not require 3D glasses or any other 3D accessories in order to view 3D [...]

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Waterproof Sony NWZ-W250 Walkman MP3 Player

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Sony has come out with a new Walkman MP3 player. Called the Sony NWZ-W250, the new MP3 player will let you take your music with you wherever you go, be it in the shower or more practically, when you’re outdoors walking in the rain. There’s no worry about water damage with this music player as [...]

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Photo and Negative Scanners

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

If you’re out of short pants your shelves are probably heaving with old photos, slides and negatives. Yes, you could get a specialist company to digitize them, but do you really want some snooping lab geek to know you wore a Right Said Fred T-shirt to the sixth form ball? Course not. That’s why you [...]

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Intel’s SENS platform pictures a world of Moorsetown-powered and sensor equipped phones

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

We wish we could tell you those were working Intel Moorestown or Atom powered phones, but alas, they are just mockups that were created to illustrate what Chipzilla is hoping to do with its tiny silicon parts and SENS concept platform (not to be confused with HTC’s Sense or Samsung’s old Sens laptops). Now, we [...]

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Micro Camcorder Pro

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Catch the donut thief in the act Ever bought food and put it in the office kitchen, intending to eat it later? You may leave a passive-aggressive note saying, in a nutshell, that eating your donuts/cookies/cheetos will result in shouting, tears, blood, cuffs, jail time and eventually restraining orders. Still, there’s that sinking suspicion that [...]

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USB Negative Scanner

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

The great thing about old 35mm photos is that most of us have them ‘backed up’ on negatives stuffed in forgotten drawers. The bad thing, however, is that most of us can’t remember what’s on the negatives until we hold them up to the light and squint. And even then it’s hard to tell. Enter [...]

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