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VoucherCloud iPhone App Review
March 9, 2010
Whoever invented discount vouchers should most probably be a saint…if you look hard enough, you’ll be able to find discount vouchers for most stores you’d want to buy from, but it’s the looking that’s the hard part!
Luckily for us, the VoucherCloud iPhone App takes the pain out of hunting for vouchers by simply offering you choices based on your current location and any category you wish to view.
VoucherCloud is available as a free application on the App Store, if you’re out and about you’ll be saving money in no time with all the offers in your area that you didn’t know about! Presenting offers around your current location using GPS is a great location based service that makes this app a great addition to your iPhone.
Continue reading »The Puma Phone – A Sporty Mobile Phone?
February 17, 2010
Yet another interesting and innovative device has been thrown up at this year’s MWC. The much anticipated PUMA phone is now upon us and it certainly adds something new and unique to the line up of great mobile devices already announced at the event in Barcelona.
PUMA AG and Sagem Wireless have unveiled a mobile device which not only looks great, but contains some incredible technology that they hope will enhance the world of mobile devices in years to come. This is for one simple reason, although packed with great features, this sleek and compact device contains an integrated solar cell along with a charge indicator. This means that your device will charge whilst on the go, no need to leave it at home or take your bulky charger along with you.
Continue reading »GorillaPod – Flexible Camera Tripod
December 10, 2009
I need a what? A Gorillapod???
Yes indeed, you know when you’re out and you want to take a photo or video, but there is no where to put the camera when you use the self timer and dash into your favourite pose?
The Gorillapod flexible camera tripod allows you to tie your camera down onto any surface and use the flexible, but strong tripod legs to wrap around the metal bars on fences or the thicker tree branches.
Not only is it capable of attaching to your camera for photo’s anywhere, you can also use it as a clamp for your GPS in your car or iPhone. Professional photographers told Firebox.com that it’s a must have accessory for any potential photographers or even those amateurs who just want decent family snaps including the whole family.
Continue reading »ECCO GPS Keyring – Don’t Get Lost Again!
November 23, 2009
Are you the sort of person that can never find your way back? No matter where you parked the car, agreed to meet someone or even where you live(?) then the ECCO GPS Keyring is for you. Just set it as you leave and activate it when you want to head back and a small arrow will guide you back. There are only 5 buttons on the device so it’s as simple as you could possibly want from a GPS device, especially one the size of a keyring.
The unbelievably simple interface is completely idiot-proof. Just follow the arrow. It even estimates the distance back to your starting point. It has a tracking range of up to 9,999 miles. Surely further than you would venture from your car and still use one of these.
Continue reading »Children’s GPS Tracking Watch Voted Coolest Gadget of the Week!
October 5, 2009
Well we’ve only gone and done it again and had our Children’s GPS tracking watch entry voted as Coolest Gadget of the Week for 1st October 2009! Zath truly is a place to come to see some cool hi-tech gadgets!
It’s only a few months since we featured the Amazon Kindle DX here on Zath, which was then submitted as an entry and subsequently won the title of Coolest Gadget of the Week as voted for by the readers of the Coolest Gadgets website.
Continue reading »DIY Space Camera – In Stores Near You Soon?
September 23, 2009
No matter how many times I see them, pictures of the Earth from space never fail to fascinate me and I wouldn’t be surprised to find that I was in the majority with that opinion… well there’s a least two people that do and they are Oliver Yeh and Justin Lee who have used their technical know-how and general curiosity to make a ‘homemade space camera’.
This photo taken by the camera is easily comparable to those taken my multi-million pound satellites, and yet this camera only cost the two MIT students £90 and paves the way not only for similar ‘budget space camera packs’ but could also inspire others to use the technology they have to do something different.
So how did they actually do it? Well you may well be quite surprised at the short list of simple things needed to assemble this kit: a cheap digital camera off eBay, a weather balloon, handwarmers, a drinks cooler and a mobile phone – and most of these still came back in one piece!
Continue reading »Children’s GPS Tracking Watch – ‘lok8u num8′
September 21, 2009
Is there really a need to tag a child with a GPS watch? Well it seems that every day in the press there’s more news about murderers, rapists and generally bad people and although you’d have a case in saying that a lot of this is just scaremongering, the fact that the streets are more dangerous than they ‘used to be’ is one that you’d struggle to deny.
So parents today are faced with the dilemma of either letting their children out to the mercy of the outside world, or restrict their freedom and keep them under tabs neither of which are in any way beneficial to the children in question… and that’s where the num8 Kids GPS Watch comes in.
Continue reading »Garmin Nuvi 1690 Sat Nav Announced
September 3, 2009
The global leader in satellite navigation, today announced the release of the new Garmin nüvi 1690 GPS sat nav. This portable navigation device (PND) has a built-in wireless module which lets the customer use Garmin’s nüLink! service which provides direct links to information such as Google, traffic, cheap fuel prices and weather updates and Ciao! (Garmin’s own location-based social networking site).
In the USA this is the first PND which offers the use of multiple online features in the purchase price as it comes with two free years of Garmin nüLink! access. Unfortunately that only applies to the US version and is not true for the UK version.
Continue reading »Google Latitude – Locate Your Friends!
February 19, 2009
Google Maps have introduced another new feature to their popular mapping software/service called Google Latitude which utilises the GPS functionality of your mobile phone to display your current location to your friends on their mobile devices or on their computer.
On a technical level, I think this a really cool bit of technology that Google have built into their Google Maps software, but another part of me thinks it’s perhaps a little creepy – but given you have total control over whether people can see you or not, I suppose that does make up for it and puts your mind at rest on that point.
Continue reading »A Strange Advert? – On 11/02/09 New York Became My Canvas
February 15, 2009
We’ve covered some funny adverts here on Zath before, but here I think this is quite a strange one which doesn’t directly show what it is advertising or publicising…that I can discern at any rate!
Take a look at the video for it below in which is shows people planning things on maps, the use of GPS devices and marking pavements and posts with chalk – what could this be about?
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