CrystalRoc rocked the geeks by rolling out world’s first Swarovski-studded iPad. Now that Steve has launched iPad 2, CrystalRoc has wasted no time to come up with first Swarovski encrusted iPad 2 cases. Caked with more than 4000 crystals, this casing is exclusively produced in their London Studios only. The Xilion cut crystals from Swarovski will definitely up the luxe quotient of Apple’s latest second-generation iPad. For just $700, you can encase you new iPad in either of the...
Games have evolved beyond recognition. Beyond the time we felt the shudder of the force-feedback mice and controllers and beyond the near-real graphics. What’s new is a whole realm of exciting effects that form the part of a complete gaming experience, and it’s getting more niche as we speak. Sensory Acumen and Scent Sciences have both mastered the art of creating scents beyond real, for gamers to get the gist of what it might smell like, on the other end...
You're a nerd. Okay, but that isn't half as good as being a geek. Now you can cloak your nerdness with the perfect geeky drape, on your shelf. Get the 80bit Book holder from Meninos that add some interesting, pixilated book holders to ensure that your books do not topple over the edge, and looks good at the same time. If you're a sucker for detail then you would like to know the fact that one of these is a...
It's all that was needed to be done but so soon? Well, it's exceeded our overblown expectations already as we see the steady build-up in jailbreak attempts. The iOS 4.3 GM was only just announced only hours before the hack. Cultofmac.com have already made the do-it-yourself procedure public. The manual method for the jailbreak is for hardcore geeks who are as relentless as the blooming hackers, of course, with the help of the PwnageTool bundle, the application with the same...
CeBIT has silently brought in some really exciting tech. To make portability less of a b*tch, Asus has given projectors a new avatar. Hence, they now consume lesser space in your bag, provide better output and are quite efficient. Being LED projectors, the P1 projector is just 3.3cm tall, but that doesn't hinder the satisfying 200-lumens brightness in the output. You can enjoy a projected output at 1280x800 pixels. It's lifespan is four times more than the usual projectors, thanks...
Japanese researchers are on a roll with this new type of phone that they've modeled. The phone is quite unique in its own right. Firstly, it is shaped like a person, which implies that you've got to press the receiver’s 'face' into your ear. Secondly, the phone is made to feel like skin. There's an explanation to this too. It seems that the feeling of a person's proximity is felt better while talking to them, if the phone feels like...
Here is a Nintendo NES mod that will definitely enamor people with a big beer belly. We have earlier seen a lot of novelty when it comes to NES mods but this one takes the top-of-the-heap position for it comes the goodness of ‘high’ spirits and Nintendo gaming. Hailed as the Drunken NES, the NES controller has been modified into a working breathalyzer. Once the hardware and software are rightly tweaked, the user can blow air into the apparatus...
BlackBerry Messenger Service better known as BBM has been a rage off late. Everybody from high school kids to adults have been picking up the Blackberry smartphones to make the best of their free messenger service. RIM has cashed in enough of sales owing to this unique offering and now wants to bring it to Android and iOS driven phones. The folks at BGR sounded pretty confident about this story and believe that RIM will be making this app...
Forget gadgets, these days luxe companies are busy giving lifestyle accessories a tech makeover. Sometime back we spoke of the Dunhill Biometric Wallet and today we have the iWalletT made on the same lines. Featuring a built-in biometric fingerprint technology, the electronic wallet doesn’t give access to anyone other than the authorized user. Fashioned out carbon fiber, it’s built to withstand practically anything. It has Bluetooth connectivity so when your wallet goes beyond a distance of 15 feet from...
Thanko has unveiled a unique pair of headphones that come with built-in alarm functionality. Hailed as EARINALM, these earphones pack in an alarm, stopwatch and a calendar pretty neatly into a stack that weighs just 21 grams. It is powered by a built-in battery that can be refilled via the USB port. I am using there is going to be the standard 3.5mm jack here to ensure compatibility with a host of gadgets. I wonder why did the company...
We like products that do more than we expect them to. Say for something like a watch, technology advancements tell us to look forward to more like time-telling features plus a few frills here and there like weather, GPS etc. Tech big wig HP and American watchmaker Fossil have partnered to create the “Metal Watch” concept which is ambitious of being the central point of connectivity for one’s gadgetry. Hp’s executives held a public demo in Shanghai that showed...
It’s just been two days since iPad 2 has been officially announced and this advertisement snapshot made us wonder if Motorola has began considering re-pricing for its XOOM tablet. The official price of Wi-Fi only version of XOOM is about $730 whereas this image from Sam’s club talks about a $539 price tag for Android ‘2.0’ Honeycomb driven tablet. We understand the 2.0 typo but how does one explain such a huge gap in the pricing. After all Sam’s...
Whatever happens, we aren’t going to compromise on a lack of touch interfaces, so what if they compel us to touch those amazing WQVGA screens and leave thumb prints. So, why not exaggerate the fact that we don’t mind touching our screens, with the Fogale Nanotech non-contact capacitive sensor at CeBIT. PCs that supported Windows Phone 7 emulators, and were running on them, had sensors set in front of them, thanks to Fogale Nanotech’s demo. The responsiveness between sensor and...
With a netbook that weighs under 900 grams, you can well do a lot of portable activities without cringing and wincing as the weight bears you down. Armed with a good specsheet to show-off, the netbook has some element to it. It starts off with a 10.1-inch display screen that has resolutions of up to 1024x600 LED-backlit awesomeness, a hard drive capacity of 160GB, a gig of RAM, 1.3-megapixel webcamera for face-to-face net-talks, a 4-in-1 card reader, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth....
Lord bless Amazon for being the reason we believe the price, availability and above all, the existence, of certain products. The Nikon Coolpix L120 Superzoom Digital Camera shows off a 14-megapixel CCD image sensor, a 21x wide angle optical Zoom-Nikkor glass lens, a 3-inch ultra-high resolution Clear color display, a HDMI port and 720p HD video recording. All of this can easily amount to some really good images. So if you’re into budget cameras that ensure quality and can shoot...
