Tag: bluetooth
Maplin intros virtual laser keyboard, type on any flat surface
Maplin has announced the availability of its Bluetooth Laser Key Projection Keyboard, a gadget that will project a keyboard onto any flat, non-reflective surface and allow you to type. It works by optically tracking finger movements, and incorporates both keyboard and mouse functions.
Maplin claims that it’s comfortable to use, and reduces the wrist strain associated with using a standard keyboard. The keys are also projected larger, which is supposed to assist faster, more accurate typing.
Mavizen intros BluDock: cheapest wireless music streaming dongle
Mavizen has introduced the BluDock Bluetooth audio streaming kit, a matchbox-sized dongle which plugs into an iPod dock or hi-fi system and allows streaming of music from any Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone or PC.
Intempo introduces BTA-01 – converts your iPod speaker dock into a Bluetooth speaker
Intempo has released the BTA-01 – a Bluetooth adapter which will convert iPod speakers, with a built-in dock connector, into a Bluetooth speaker, so you can listen wirelessly to music stored on your Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone, PC or MP3 player.
Sony Ericsson adds two more entry-level handsets – T270 and T280
Two further additions to Sony Ericsson’s emerging market portfolio – the Sony Ericsson T270 and T280.
Yamaha's Bluetooth NX-BO2 mobile phone speaker severely overpriced at £179.95
You’ve got to wonder about a press release, when in the first sentence they mention the ‘soon to be released i-Phone from Apple’. Did they write this product release a year ago!?
Nonetheless, if you disregard that obvious error, you’ll discover that Yamaha is having an early April Fool’s with their NX-BO2 Bluetooth speaker…
Jays introduces BlueStreamer 2 – Bluetooth stereo adapter
Jays has introduced the BlueStreamer 2, a stereo Bluetooth music adapter that provides a wireless connection to a PC or mobile for listening to streamed music.
Clarion launches CD-less car audio system with Bluetooth functionality
Clarion has ditched the CD, offering the FB278RBT without any moving parts.
CES 2008 LEFTOVERS: iRiver SPINN – complete with novelty knob
None of our CES field reporters have done anything on this yet. Odd, seeing how staggering cool it looks. iRiver’s silver Spinn handles MP3 tunes, MP4 movies, has an FM tuner, a 3.2″ LCD, does Bluetooth 2.0 with ease, has a microphone and a 160GB hard drive and so on – all the sort of stuff you’d expect from a modern electric thing that fits inside the pocket of even your tightest trousers.
BUT! iRiver’s newest media matchbox has a clever little gimmick. An analogue knob. That twiddly bit on the right there. This makes it easier for people to find and play stuff, apparently, with iRiver touting this as its “Extremely Intuitive User Interface.”
Opinion: Bluetooth is not the colour when it comes to football technology
We’ve all experienced it, walking or driving past a mysterious embedded Bluetooth advert somewhere that tries to download itself to your phone automatically because the BT is switched on, ready to receive on your handset.
Of course, you’ve got the option to decline it and unless you are very stupid, you will do so because that download could be anything, from a mobile-type virus to porn.
But now a firm called Bluepod Media is hoping to deluge us with adverts each time we step inside the football stadium of our favourite team…
