Tag: gadget
Logitech launches V470 Bluetooth Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks
Logitech has announced the V470 Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks, which works with any Bluetooth-enabled Mac or PC without the need for an external receiver.
The mouse features laser tracking, side-to-side scrolling plus zoom, claims a battery life of up to four months, and has a battery indicator light. It uses two AA batteries.
The US version of the mouse makes no mention of any other specifications, such as DPI, so we’re left guessing on that.
Decorated in high-gloss blue and white, it will be available from the beginning of September, priced £34.99.
Sony Panoramic Digital Camera concept: will it work?
Sony has mocked up the concept of an automatic panoramic digital camera, designed by Hye-Jeong Yang.
In principle, it works by setting it on a level surface, angling it, and then letting it rotate through 360 degrees to take the panoramic photograph.
In theory, it can store pics and video to a memory card – but of course a concept can do anything.
More importantly is whether it will actually work. One commenter claims that “If it is designed to make panoramas then it should spin around the nodal point (well entrance pupil) of the lens to avoid parallax. Unless I’m missing something then this design is inherently flawed.”
The design doesn’t look quite right to me, though it’s a great concept. What do you reckon? Additionally, as there’s no real model, there are no sample photo either. Guess we’ll have to still to tripod and stitching software for the moment.
"Fontastic" time telling with the Font Clock
Each to their own — though I love fonts I’m not sure I want different ones adorning my time-telling device.
The Font Clock is “a 21st century take on the British 24 hour clock design icon” which has twelve different fonts printed within the mechanism of the clock, providing a “random” mixed display.
It comes in three sizes. The smallest one, the G100, measures 29 x 14 x 11 cms and displays just the time.
AA launches Smart TravelGuides: interactive guides and maps for 3G mobiles
AA Publishing has announced a new set of AA Smart TravelGuides, that turns any 3G mobile or smartphone into an interactive travel guide and map.
The maps, provided by the Ordnance Survey, will cover a variety of areas, with the first in the series covering London.
The product comes as a memory card which is loaded into the phone and then allows you to search for points of interest, including sights, things to do, and AA-rated restaurants and hotels.
Logitech launches MX Air rechargeable cordless mouse
Logitech has unveiled its MX Air rechargeable cordless mouse, a versatile laser mouse that works both on the desk and in the air.
The device is like a cross between a remote control and a mouse, and is supposed to cater for those who want to command their media PC from the comfort of their sofa (or indeed, anywhere that there’s an absence of solid, flat surface to use a traditional mouse on).
“The MX Air mouse offers a radically new way for people to control their PC entertainment,” said Erik Charlton, Logitech director of product marketing for performance and gaming mice. “It’s for anyone who has listened to music on their PC and been frustrated by having to return to the desk to change songs or volume. It’s for people who want to share vacation photos with friends and family without being tied to the desk. It’s for any of the millions of people using the Internet to browse and watch videos on sites such as YouTube or Grouper. And it’s for people with a living-room computer or media PC who want to navigate their media content on their terms.”
LINDY launch two-port FireWire ExpressCard
LINDY Electronics has today announced the availability of its two-port FireWire ExpressCard, compatible with notebook computers that have this latest interface.
Nimzy ProtoKey: padlocks your files and makes them invisible to others
Widget UK has come out with a USB device for the security-conscious PC users who wants to protect their files.
Though it looks like a fairly standard memory stick, it isn’t. Instead, it allows users to encrypt and hide the personal and sensitive data on their PC hard drive, and any external storage devices attached to it, so that it effectively becomes invisible, secure, and untraceable, to anyone else who uses that PC.
Opinion: Why I DON'T want an iPhone
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
So, Apple’s “must-have” mobile phone has now finally launched. Well, I say launch. That’s obviously true if you’re reading this from America, but for the rest of us it’s tough luck. After all, it’s not as if anyone in Britain has ever put their hard-earned cash into Steve Jobs’ coffers.
Samsung launch YP-U3 flash MP3 player
Samsung has announced its YP-U3 flash-based MP3 music player – a successor to its U2 player that we looked at last year. We’ve known about it for a month or so now, but it’s hitting shelves around about now.
Adding itself to the mini-player market made popular by the iPod Shuffe, it measures just 25.4mm high and weighs 22.8g. It comes in five colours: black, white, pink, green and blue and with blue LED lights, and features touch sensitive controls, a matching colour earphone reel and buds, and an inbuilt retractable USB plug.
At last: a LARGE remote control that you can FIND!
Why oh why does everything have to get smaller? I’m getting older, as are my eyes. Remote controls, for which it’s a known fact get lost (and exponentially more so when Big Brother comes on the TV at volume 11), seem to be designed to cram ever more functions in ever smaller units.
Stop the madness!
Enter the Extra Large Big Button Remote Control (no, that’s its title – catchy isn’t it?).
