Category: Peripherals
Asus and Skype team up to create world's ugliest gadget – the AiGuru SV1 portable videophone
That deformed beast which looks like the remains of three microwaved mobile phones is an AiGuru SV1, the product of an alliance between globally beloved tech-maker Asus and quite loved chat-enabler Skype.
The SV1 is a self-contained video phone, using Skype software and its own little webcam to let users broadcast video calls from wherever there’s a wi-fi signal. In your bathroom, for example. There’s also an Ethernet socket, microphone…
Microsoft launches two new LifeCam webcams
Microsoft has announced two new webcams: the LifeCam Show and LifeCam VX-5500.
The LifeCam Show is a thin, mirrored webcam that attaches easily to a notebook or desktop PC via clip, or can be positioned on an 11-inch tall desk stand.
It offers two megapixel video recording and eight megapixel stills camera, plus built-in noise-cancelling microphone with echo-cancellation.
The lower-spec LifeCam VX-5500 comes with switchable coloured faceplates — red, white, or blue. It captures 640×480 video and 1.3 megapixel stills, and also the same style microphone as the Show…
IFA 2008: Philips brings backlighting technology to PC, with its 22OXW9 22" LightFrame Monitor
According to Philips, its new 22OXW9 LightFrame LCD PC monitor is “proven to reduce eye fatigue,” making your PC-based life slightly easier to tolerate. It does this in the same way Philips’ range of HDTVs have been doing it for years – powering up a backlight to bathe the sides of the screen, and your wall, and your desk, in a relaxing glow…
IFA 2008: Logitech unveil Squeezebox Boom, Digital Video System and Z-500 wireless speakers
Three radically different products, one post. I call that a challenge. Logitech have just unveiled a host of new products aimed at wildly different markets. They have just one thing in common. They’re all actually really useful, in their own ways.
First up is the Squeezebox Boom. Now that’s a fantastic name. I’m sitting here saying it right now, and enjoying every moment of it. It’s a network music player, meaning that it’ll let you listen to your music collection from anywhere in the house. Just plug it into the power, give it your wireless network’s password, and you’re off…
IFA 2008: Plantronics Gamecom 777 Gaming Headset
This is the horribly-named Gamecom 777 headset. Honestly, “Gamecom”? What does that even mean? It sounds like a 90s mouse manufacturer. Anyway. Minor naming matters aside, this is actually quite a nice cheap, light headset. As a gamer with light-sleeping neighbors I can appreciate exactly why someone might need a headset dedicated for gaming…
Canon PIXMA MP980 all-in-one printer – £279 upfront, hundreds in ink and paper
Do people still print out their own photographs? Well, according to Canon, they do and apparently that’s why they’ve announced the release of the PIXMA MP980 all-in-one printer today…
Logitech Speed Force Wireless Racing Wheel for the Wii – ready for Need For Speed
I nearly passed this one over because I was convinced I’d seen it before and as it turns out I nearly have. Logitech has released the Speed Force Wireless Wheel for Nintendo Wii – a racing wheel to you and I – which you’ll be able to get your mitts on come November this year for the reasonable price of £59.99…
Sidewinder X6: new gaming mouse and keyboard from Microsoft
Microsoft have never gone for the sleek look that characterises products from Apple. Their gear is always more utilitarian – as many buttons and flashing lights as possible. That's not to say that they don't look good, however. The…
Make Xbox 360 cooler (as in, less likely to melt through the floor) with Lan-Li's PC Modding Case
That anonymous aluminium box to the left there is the Lan-Li Xbox 360 Modding Case, a roomier bedsit for your Xbox 360 hardware to sit in.
The PC-XB01 comes with the bare-minimum spec, specifically for Xbox 360. So you get ONE 5.25″ external bay along with ZERO 3.5″ bays, but there is one saviour – a decent fan. A quiet fan. So, for once, playing…
Olympic flash drives don't make up for your lack of sporting ability. Sorry.
Back in the days of Chairman Mao China was really not big on capitalism and sneered at what it saw as the decadent west chucking its money around on pointless consumerism. Things have changed now though, and China is a total sell-out. It’s like they’re the band who were in it for the music but at the first whiff of cash signed to a major record label and slapped its logo on everything in order to score some cash. Sure, the band doesn’t have any principles, but at least it’s making a lot of money and can buy lots of nice things because of it.
The Olympics is proving even more lucrative for China, with Lenovo producing a line of… Olympic-themed flash drives…
