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Microsoft Arc Keyboard – Stylish, Portable, Wireless & Curved!
March 17, 2010
First introduced to the world earlier this year at CES 2010, the Microsoft Arc Keyboard has been released which compliments their previously released Microsoft Arc Mouse, which debuted in late 2008. It’s small form factor and unique design offers a compelling wireless experience, and I for one couldn’t wait to check it out at first glance.
The first thing that struck me when seeing the keyboard was how much the curvature resembled Apple’s Magic Mouse rather than Microsoft’s Arc Mouse design. It certainly takes some getting used to; the curved design feels unnatural when you first start typing on the keyboard, I know that much from using other curved Microsoft keyboards in the past.
Continue reading »New Samsung Digital Camaras Announced (CES 2010)
January 7, 2010
As the day goes on at CES, more press conferences continue to take place! In Samsung’s CES 2010 press release earlier today, we saw a new line of cameras and camcorders, and of course, some love for 3D!
Samsung TL-Series Digital Cameras
The first thing on show was a few new additions to Samsung’s digital camera line-up, starting with two new point and shoot models: the TL210 and TL205. Both of these models contain a front facing LCD display measuring 1.5”, giving your subject enough time to get their pose just right! Specifications for both cameras are pretty similar: the TL210 comes with a 12.4MP sensor, and the TL205 with a 12.2MP sensor. The lenses on the two models also differ – if you opt for the TL210, you’ll become familiar with a 27mm wide angle lens that offers 5x optical zoom. The TL205 on the other hand comes packed with a 35mm lens and just 3x optical zoom.
Continue reading »WildCharge – Wireless Charging Your Hi-Tech Gadgets (inc iPhone)
December 3, 2009
The WildCharge wireless charging device is an unbelievably great value gadget which relieves your room of trailing wires and overloading plug sockets. Charging gadgets has always been a chore to me, finding the right charger, finding an empty socket, plugging it in, connecting the device to the charger and waiting…waiting…
But no more, the WildCharge allows you to get rid of all that time and space consuming wire, and instead, have an aesthetically acceptable device which wirelessly, yes wirelessly charges your gadgets such as an iPhone/iPod, Blackberry or Nokia phone with just a single plug socket taken up by the WildCharge itself.
Continue reading »Starbucks UK WiFi Hot Spots Now Free To Its Customers
October 6, 2009
Starbucks coffee shops are now offering free wifi hot spots to their customers! In the past they have offered a wifi internet access facility, but you would have to pay each time you went and wanted to use it, thankfully Starbucks have changed their policy and now offer this as a free reward for registered users of their Starbucks Card.
For people such as me, who sometimes like a change of scenery when working on their computer, this means I can now head down to my local Starbucks and get some actual work done without the need to be paying separately for a internet-enabled wifi hot spot or sign up for a mobile broadband dongle on a contract.
Continue reading »Travelling With My Netbook – Part 5
August 6, 2009
This is the fifth part of my netbook related tale telling the story of my travels through France with a netbook, and we are on the way back to England. If you missed reading “Travelling With My Netbook – Part 1″, “Part 2″, “Part 3″ or “Part 4″, be sure to read those first!
So, I’ve spent a lovely two weeks in France sampling not only the French lifestyle but also seeing what living with a netbook (or more specifically the Acer Aspire One) is like on the road; but alas it is time to return home, say goodbye to France, and look at what we’ve learned.
Continue reading »Travelling With My Netbook – Part 4
August 3, 2009
This is the forth part of my netbook related tale telling the story of my travels through France with a netbook, and we are continuing on the road with my netbook on my lap and a glint in my eye. If you missed reading “Travelling With My Netbook – Part 1″, “Part 2″ or even “Part 3″, be sure to read those first!
Onwards we traveled to our destination at Cap Ferret, netbook in hand (or to be more exact on lap), and soon enough we arrived and set up camp. As you can imagine exploring isn’t too easy with crutches, but fortunately it didn’t take me too long to find what I was looking for despite the fact that we were on a campsite in the middle of nowhere – WiFi.
Continue reading »Travelling With My Netbook – Part 3
July 22, 2009
This is the third part of my netbook related tale telling the story of my travels through France with a netbook. We’re continuing on the road to France with my netbook on my lap and a glint in my eye. If you missed reading “Travelling With My Netbook – Part 1“ and “Part 2”, be sure to read those first!
We left off at my friend’s house where I was staying the night to catch the early ferry, and it was here that I was reminded of the interesting task of naming your wireless network – by having a quick look at the networks around this London suburb I was able to deduce the names of many of the neighbours simply by their unimaginative wireless names.
Continue reading »3rd Generation iPhone Rumours Roundup
June 8, 2009
Later today at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) we should hopefully be finding out more from Apple about their 3rd generation iPhone, what it will look like design-wise, what specifications/features it will have and a definitive release date of when we can expect to be able to buy one and start playing with it for ourselves.
However, before that official announcement we thought it might be good to take a quick look back at some of the rumoured features that we’ve reported on in recent months.
Continue reading »3rd Generation iPhone – Low Power Wireless 802.11n?
April 6, 2009
We recently reported about the new iPhone 3.0 software that Apple are planning to launch later in the year for existing iPhone/iPod Touch owners and also for a rumoured new 3rd generation iPhone, which from looking into the development specification of the iPhone 3.0 beta software, people are perhaps getting a sneak peek at what can be expected from the next iPhone product.
Wireless radio component specifications contained with the iPhone 3.0 beta software would indicate support for a new Wireless/Bluetooth chip model – the newer and faster Broadcom BCM4329 chip instead of the older BCM4325 found in the iPhone 3G. This would add support for the 802.11n standard and would mean there’d be several benefits to the 3rd generation iPhone.
Continue reading »Mir:ror Offers A New Way To Use Your PC
February 21, 2009
RFID chips are nothing new: they have been around since the 1970s and are used for a wide variety of things from race timing to passports, and from libraries to human implants. However we don’t often see take a prominent place in the home, and considering their versatility there is definitely scope for it.
Violet have been looking at internet enabled devices for a while, so it is no surprise that they have decided to utilise the technology behind RFID chips. They have done this by creating the Mir:ror which allows you to interact with your computer using everyday devices.
At first glance this little device looks, unsurprisingly, like a mirror, with a nice ring of LEDs surrounding it giving it a nice friendly ambience. When you open the box you are confronted with the said mirror as well as two nano:ztag (I will explain in a minute!) mini rabbits and three small Ztamps (or for every normal person: stamp shaped RFID devices)
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