Category: Peripherals
Papershow: digital pen and paper for when you need to scribble and do PowerPoint
I’ve heard that there are still some people around who like writing and drawing with a pen and paper, yet have been dragged kicking and screaming into the PowerPoint age.
For those (and slightly saner people, too) the Papershow Bluetooth digital pen and pad has been created…
Freecom releases ultra-thin DVD writer for notebook users
Freecom has announced its thin and light DVD writer, aimed squarely at notebook users who demand compact units to go with their snazzy portable PCs.
Measuring just 1.7cms thick with an almost square 14.4 x 14cms footprint, and weighing 600g, it could “slide right into your pocket” – as the company claims – but it might be better in a padded pocket in your laptop bag…
Brando introduces USB 4-in-1 Web Cam for those long hot summer days
The phrase ‘less is more’ isn’t one used widely at Brando HQ. On the contrary, the more you can pack in for the miniscule price, the better – perfectly demonstrated by this USB 4-in-1 Web Cam…
Freecom's Mobile Drive XXS – the world's smallest 2.5" external hard drive
This one’s so small the official size comes in millimetres – and even decimal places of millimetres, whatever they’ve called. Billimeteres or something, probably. The Freecom XXS, which we would imagine stands for Extra Extra Small, measures just 109.8mm x 79.5mm x 13.5mm. That’s small.
We hired a scanning electron microscope to take the following photograph which illustrates precisely how small.
Not that small compared to an MP3 player, really, but small compared to other 2.5″ external hard drives – which Freecom says…
Incy wincy web-cam: Wireless Bluetooth internet camera concept by Flynn
Now here’s a pretty thing. Who would have thought that a Philips Bluetooth web-cam could look so desirable but it does, doesn’t it? Apart from looking like some fantastic, future, killer spider that injects its poison into your helpless veins as you sit frozen in terror, it also resembles a lemon squeezer I once had.
Just like the best things out there, it’s only a concept just now but with Flynn and Philips branded all over it…
Gyroxus Game Chair – because rumble pads are for poofs
Continuing in the grand tradition of game chairs, the Gyroxus is packed full of weird tech and looks ridiculous. That doesn’t matter though because you won’t be looking at the chair when you’re sat in it – you’ll be gawping at the telly and hanging on for dear life.
Canadian "Robot Doctor" is little more than a glorified webcam on wheels
EXPOSED! Some Canadian doctor who works out of Nova Scotia, has, so he says, been treating patients via a sensational “Robot Doctor” that helps him listen to his patients.
So what does this “Robot Doctor” actually do? It allows Dr Ivar Mendez to indulge in “real time” video communication with patients! Just like a £4.99 webcam. It also allows “real time” voice communication with patients! Just like a telephone. Or a Skype account. It’s basically a PC case mod…
Don't just get it clean – get it Cyber Clean!
If your keyboard is forever full of the, er, by-products of the working day, perhaps you might be interested in giving it a thorough Cyber Clean.
The Cyber Clean is a… some sort of… a thing designed to help stick to and pick up the human waste (I mean dead skin and hair, nothing rude) that tends to accumulate wherever humans sit still for long periods of time. It’s uses a “combination of viscosity and elasticity” to sink into recesses and pick up dirt. It was probably developed by NASA…
Hundreds of thousands of dodgy AC adaptors flood UK: potential deathtrap
I can almost see Lynn Faulds Wood shaking her head, tutting, and muttering about a potential deathtrap, on hearing the news that hundreds of thousands of cheap Chinese power adaptors are being sold on the British high street.
Some of the worst knock-off adaptors are labelled as working with the Nintendo DS, DS Lite, and Game Boy, no doubt because they’ll attract more sales from those hoping to save a few quid…
Oyster card hacked – details being published in October. Free travel for all!
The Oyster system could go into meltdown this October, after a court ruling found it’s OK for details of its security failures to be made public.
NXP, the company behind the Oyster technology, had applied for an injunction against a group of Dutch technology experts, who worked out how to hack Oyster cards back in June. The judge has now overturned this injunction, so the Dutch hacking masters (Prof Bart Jacobs and his team…
