For those of you who find hoovering a hassle, who hate hefting furniture to find floor dust, the MSI M800 may be the gadget you’ve been dreaming of. The M800 is a robotic vacuum cleaner with a powerful suction system and an ‘arm’ that maneuvers dirt towards its dust hungry mouth. It uses ultrasound to detect and negotiate potential obstacles and a ‘cliff’ detector to avoid falling down the stairs. You can programme when you would like the gadget...
Microsoft used this week’s D8 conference to demonstrate Project Natal. Billed as the next big thing in gaming, Microsoft claim Project Natal is the console that can overcome all technophobia. Senior Vice President of Microsoft Don Mattrick’s rather utopian claim is that Project Natal “is about breaking down barriers – between generations, between games and entertainment, and most importantly, between dreamers and the future”. To use it, you only need to know how to move your hands, shake your...
Nokia has unveiled plans for a bicycle-powered phone charger, to be available by the end of the year. The €15 kit will include a bicycle charger jack, Nokia phone holder to keep your handset safe in city traffic or on bumpy off-road trails, and a dynamo, which will kick in when you hit 4mph (6kmph) – a speed even my Gran can manage. A 10-minute bike ride at 6mph (10kmph) will produce enough power for 28 minutes of talk...
Sony Ericsson have come out with two new Bluetooth headsets. The first, VH410 comes with good noise cancellation features. It also blesses users with the ability to connect to two mobiles at a time and can also make it possible to toggle between calls. You can answer and cancel calls with a single button press. The VH110 is a powerhouse that can keep up with your conversation for a good 10 hours. I wonder if your phone can handle...
iRiver’s T8 Candy Bar line of MP3 players surely live up to its name. They come in all colors that would match the whims and fancies and stupid style statements of the creepiest of them all. With support for formats like MP3, WMA, ASF, APE, FLAC and OGG, these players work well enough with an addition of FM and voice recording facilities. All of this can be viewed and monitored on the one inch OLED display....
Nokia’s E73 Mode will be a cool new addition to the amazing QWERTY line of phones with Symbian Series 60 phones. The phones has a 2.4 QVGA display phone also adds a 5 megapixel camera, Wi-fi, HSDPA, Ovi Maps, HTML browser with Adobe Flash support, a media player and GPS. The good news is that this one will be available with T-Mobile on June 16th. [Ubergizmo]...
Hotel keys are pretty much an extra responsibility to take care of. Because of the liability, InterContinental Hotels Group will come about with a cool new means of granting access to guests into their rooms. They will be running test on a new technology that will enable users to enter their rooms with the help of their iPhones as against the usual keys. The application is called ‘Open Ways’ and it will be tested by the hotel chain in...
The G73JW and the G53 laptops seem to seep into the world of wireless connectivity along with HD support. In addition to this there’s the whole elimination of wires thingy that works pretty fine for most among us. Of course, it does remind us of Intel’s WiDi, but SiBEAM’s 60GHz WirelessHD technology surely has its share of surprises. It’s a whole new realm of technology when you have HD feeds coming in from a receiver that’s placed 30 meters...
We saw the Eee PC make its way into the keyboard but here’s another option for those who aren’t Asus suckers. So we have the Commodore Invictus keyboard that’s all armed and geared to be the coolest in-keyboard PC. It comes with specs as cool as a 1.6Ghz Intel Atom 330 processor, 4GB RAM, 250 GB hard disk, Nvidia GeForce 9400, Wi-fi, HDMI (yes, and it’s still in the keyboard, remember) and even Windows 7. It seems to overtake...
Toshiba are all set to give us something more for the eyes and this time, it’s a Blu-ray player line that will most probably take us to the extremes. The BDX2500 and BDX2700 are already announced and seem to be a great addition for home theater sets of tomorrow. Armed with Wi-fi capabilities, these player will facilitate superior streaming of movies as well as Internet radio to all users. Besides this, there’s the usual photo, video and music support from...
Would you ever imagine, before reading this post, that you are well in the age of 2333 MHz memory sticks? Of course not. Hence let me tell you that Kington have gone from a pony to a Porsche as they speed up their personal best with these cool triple-channel memory sticks called the HyperX triple-channel DDR3 memory kit. All of this combined with the Core i7 (yes, it’s already Intel certified) will pretty much bring down the house. The company...
The Nokia C1 is a cool, simple, get-the-job-done phone that of course, sports two SIM card slots. The dual SIM phone can switch between SIMs by just holding down a key. The specs include FM radio, 3.5mm jack, a flashlight and a six week long stand-by time. Beat that now. Never mind the looks though, it’s ugly. Following suite in a heavier style comes the Nokia C2 that manages to keep both SIM active simulatneously. It comes with an array...
How cool can it get when Dell decide to jump in betweek HP and Apple, not to calm down the waging monsters but to challenge them both with their interesting new table called the ‘Streak’. Now the specs are what make it a total winner. It is powered up by a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5 megapixel camera, a 5 inch capacitive touchscreen, an additional front camera for video chats, microSD memory expansion to 32 GB, 3G and Wi-fi....
If you’ve had enough with all the annoying stinkers that the old men above send you every morning then it’s high time you resort to some means of the sound of your atrocious parties getting to them in the first place. With a peculiar air of awesomeness come these amazing sound dampening foam tiles that look like speakers and work effectively. They soak up the sound and don’t leave a mess on your walls even when removed. What more could...
Now you are one of those totally pissed off men who do not want anything more than your wife’s clumsy mother’s head on a platter. Inspired by the famous Internet chain that says that you can cause an eplosion in your stomach, we have this cool new means of getting your car to blast of into oblivion. However, in this case the oblivion only happens to be a mere 221 feet. To make this possible it would need 108 two...