Sexy Gadgets, Cool Gadgets and Concept Gadgets

Huawei – Shenzhen, China is a leading name in the next generation telecommunications network solutions. Huawei’s latest invention in broadband terminals, the i-Mo HSPA modem with WiFi is the smallest and lightest wireless modem so far, which is to be debuted at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona next week.

Almost the size of a small key chain, the Huawei i-Mo includes both HSDPA / HSUPA USB modem and a WiFi b/g chip on the board offering you to share the connection with other devices. The device supports a maximum downlink speed of 7.2 Mbps, while the maximum uplink speed being 5.76 Mbps – although it depends entirely on the network. You no longer need to carry those bulky Internet cables when just the size of a small key chain that easily slips into your pocket serves the same purpose. As its reviews, this amazing piece of device can create group internet access automatically and also WiFi hot points for the purpose of network digital equipments including laptops, mobiles, cameras, MP4 devices and game consoles. But that’s not all, the Huawei i-Mo supports plug-and-play feature where music and videos can be downloaded and uploaded in just seconds. The i-Mo can also be used as a USB disk due to its in-built MicroSD card slot.

One can hardly even guess the number of features and technology packed into this smallest wireless modem. With the release of the Huawei I-Mo wireless modem, users can reach up to a level of convenience. All you need to do is simply turn on the Wi-Fi switch and get the access to a high speed HSPA network almost immediately. It has been observed that Huawei generally releases its products through a carrier partner instead of offering directly to users. So, there is no news on pricing and availability of the device yet. However, it is expected it to be available in Q2 2009.

Although the Internet connectivity is extending like anything and broadband is taking up around the world, but Skype is holding back its position dominating over others – be it Internet or broadband. Skype’s simple and easy-to-use software in combination of the free calls from Skype-to-Skype around each corner of the world can never be taken up by the Internet telephony business.

Asus has introduced its standalone Videophone certified by Skype at the 2009 Vegas CES. The Asus Eee Videophone AiGuru SV1 can be connected to the Internet via your home WiFi. And with its in-built speaker, integrated camera, screen and microphone, the Asus AiGuru SV1 becomes a fully functional videophone. Easy to set up and much quicker also, the AiGuru SV1 can be connected to your broadband through a LAN cable or a WiFi and sign in to your Skype account. The device can be made to sit by plugging in or can be made to run on its built-in rechargeable battery. So, you can very well take the device with you for any special video call or conference calls. For additional privacy you can also plug in the headphones and a microphone in you wish. You can even dial the non-Skype numbers with the same cheaper rate of Skype landline. Featured with a simple and icon based interface, a comparatively bigger and colorful high resolution 7 inch LCD display and approved by Skype. The balanced curves, sleek design and ergonomic get up in all make the device so attractive that you are sure to fall in love with it.

As the features, Asus Eee Videophone AiGuru SV1 happens to be the world’s first Skype certified standalone large screen Videophone offering you to make unlimited video Skype calls without any computer or additional software and hardware. The price of The Asus Eee Videophone AiGuru SV1 has been fixed at US $300 and is available right now at the online stores of Skype, especially for North Americans.

The O2 Mobile Broadband Pay & Go has joined hands with Henry Holland, one of the most exciting fashion designers in London, to announce the release of a limited edition polka dot mobile broadband modem in the UK. The polka dots, the limited edition mobile broadband device, is claimed to be rooted in one of the hottest styles for 2009, and boasts of allowing those who are on the move to make check of their email, surf internet in a trendy way.

Peter Rampling, O2’s Marketing Director, was quoted as saying, “Henry Holland is one of the most exciting designers in London and the perfect partner to help us add some style to our mobile broadband offering. Our customers have been telling us that they time after time crave individuality and this delivers stand-out, personalisation and a bit of fun.”

Henry Holland continues: “I’m really pleased to have been asked to design this for O2. It’s a fun project and something great to give to all my friends and something I know they all need!”

As its reviews, the O2 Mobile Broadband Pay & Go also boasts of making available a swift web browsing capability whether on the move or at home. Users are also allowed to make access to not less than 5,000 Wi-Fi hotspots all through the United Kingdom. The special House of Holland O2 Mobile Broadband Pay & Go is expected to be made available from 27 February 2009 at O2 stores and from the O2 online.

As the features, if you are subscribed to O2 and make use of the laptop for wireless Internet connectivity, then directly visit at the nearby O2 store and ask about the latest designer modem, created by Henry Holland especially for the telecommunication company.

Designer Rune Larson has made a name for himself coming up with simple, but unique new takes on the cellphone. However, with this shape-shifter concept he complicates things a bit by incorporating two layers of plastic into his design—one flexible layer and one hard layer with liquid inside. The liquid would be pushed between the layers, forming different shapes on the surface.

As you can see in the renders, a variety of keyboards could be generated using this technology—a feature that could come in handy for people who like the idea of touchscreens, but prefer the tactile feedback of actual buttons. I’m sure other applications would be possible, but I’m not sure if this technology is even feasible at this point much less marketable in the foreseeable future.

Now we all know that BMW is the ultimate driving machine so how about the ultimate video mobile phone.

A designer has proposed a stunning concept mobile phone for the Finnish phone makers “Nokia”, the handset is called “Nokia BMW video phone”, what a concept phone it is as well, come on make the handset and I will buy one.

The Nokia BMW mobile phone has something stunning called “push to open” which is basically a mechanism that rotates 90 degrees which will turn it into a handy-cam. All we say is Nokia should pull their finger out and get this into motion before someone like Sony Ericsson steps up to the plate.

The iRecord Pro is a one touch device which allows you to record the content for your iPod and many other devices. The device not only records content for the iPod but it is first device to record content directly to the Sony Walkman, the Sony PSP, and other devices. However, the device seems to be overpriced at $259 but it will definitely save money in the long run.

When it comes to the design, the iRecord Pro shows significant improvements over its predecessor, the iRevord. The device is designed with rounded edges and sliver piping accents which look pretty good. Measuring 5.5 x 3.6 x 1 inches, the device is much larger than the iPod. The device features only two button controls- power and record, both are located on the top edge of the device. The back panel sports RCA AV, S-Video, and power inputs and the left side sports a USB port which allows you to connect the device to portable players and the mini USB port located on the right edge allows you to connect the device to your computer.

The front panel sports a number of LED which act as indicators for various features such as recording, recoding time- 30, 60, 120 and 180 minutes, power, and USB device detection etc. An included remote features buttons for timer, pausing and stopping the recording and buttons for recording video or audio only.

The device is upgradable which will solve compatibitly issues in the future. The device is capable of recording MPEG-4 or H.264 video and Mp3 audio. The device is compatible with all the iPod models as well as the Sony PSP, Sony Walkman, and USB flash drives. Moreover, the iRecord Pro is the only device which is capable of recording the videos to Apple’s iPhone 3G and audio to the Creative Zen Vision, the Toshiba Gigabeat S, and the SanDisk Sansa e200 series. The list does not end here, it is also capable of recording audio and video to your laptop or PC, both Windows and Mac. But the device lacks the feature to schedule recordings. Another addition that you will definitely like is the ability of the device to record from protected DVDs. But it is illegal unless you own the DVDs.

The device is pretty simple to use. It automatically detects the format based on the type of cable connected. You just need to connect the cable and press the record; the device will do the rest of the work. The recorded video quality is excellent and you will not see any sign of pixelation or audio delay.  Another limitation is that you can only record in real time which means the commercials will be present in all the recorded content. But the device is a great option for those who want to record content for their portable device without worrying about computer or any software.

A recent introduction in the family of mouse and pointing devices is the Cyber Sport Orbita Mouse in a different look. Under the silicone skin, the Cyber Sport Orbita Mouse is much cleverer in its action and features as compared to others in the family.

This $98.50 mouse is packed with the Orbita mouse itself, an USB wireless receiver and charging dock, user manual and software mini CD and a neoprene carry pouch. The installation is easier and just need to plug the mouse into any XP or higher version or Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later system and the magic is that it will be recognized as a normal mouse. The software mini CD includes the drivers for configuration.

As its reviews, the major difference with any other normal mouse is that the Orbita requires a total charging of approximately 3 hours and its internal compass needs to be calibrated. One of the useful features of the mouse is that it automatically goes to sleep mode if kept idle for five minutes, thus saving the charge. The 800dpi optical sensor of the Orbita mouse proves out to be accurate and precise in its action. You can set the silver dimple button of the mouse as a middle-click or as a toggle one between vertical and horizontal scrolling. All this can be done by the help of the configuration software provided with the mouse. You can even switch the mouse between a situation to recognize I as a mouse, a multimedia keyboard or a multi-axis controller with the help of the custom button and direction mappings, sensitivities and many more by the help of the advanced settings.

The Cyber Sport Orbita mouse is not for the gamers, but for those who has a habit of spending long time online, reading long documents or engaged in multimedia editing. It is for you all who suffer from finger cramping and gripping problem. It is not just like other normal mouse but the one you can customize according to your need and requirement.

Keeping its word to make public a line-up of GPS phones, Garmin-Asus – a co-branded alliance between Garmin & ASUSTeK – has come up with the unveiling of its nuvifone G60 GPS phone at the Mobile World Congress. Though I have already given you a brief and sound account of the upcoming phone, but then there was not much to talk about its features. So now get ready to learn what all features the nuvifone has to offer.

The Asus nuvifone M20 is a multi-facets handset, mobile web-browser and navigation system including a Windows Mobile operating system. The dual-band 3.5G/tri-band GSM phone comes built-in attributes such as a large 3.55-inch touchscreen display, 3 megapixel camera along with auto-focus, Wi-Fi connectivity, built-in accelerometer, push email, desktop-like internet browser, document viewing, multi-media capability, Bluetooth and Garmin sat nav.

By virtue of the built-in Ciao, location based services (LBS) application; users can keep an eye on the location of their dear ones, friends and families by connection a variety of location-centric social networks. The phone has been crafted with (LBS) connected to often utilized apps such as calendar, contacts, email, internet apps etc and makes simpler the nüvifone user’s day as they pass through from one location to another.

The navigator-cum-phone also boasts of being preloaded with maps of North America or Western Europe and Eastern, millions of points of interest (POIs) with restaurants, hotels, and street addresses; and give support to turn-by-turn voice prompted directions. Further apps built-in in the G60 are White Pages, real-time traffic information, weather, local events, flight status and movie times.

The nuvifone boasts of a full QWERTY soft keyboard and is easily able to be synced with a PC in order that emails and contacts could be availed all the time. Enterprise grade Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and HSDPA wireless connectivity allows emails to send and receive fast, comprising those with attachments.

HP has launched the Photosmart C6380 all in one printer. This printer aims to conquer the market of all-in-ones by promising excellent scans and copies and high quality photo prints. The printer gains advantage of the wireless connectivity with built-in 802.11g Wi-Fi. The printer also features an Ethernet port. This port will help you in connecting the printer to power line networking over the mains in case you have poor wireless signals in your office. The printer boasts of sophisticated white and silver design. The front of the printer houses various buttons and a 2-inch colour display rests on the left. The color display assists you to preview and execute basic editing on images that you may load through the multi-format card reader on the device. However, you may not like the small size of this display and may prefer editing images directly on a PC.

The Photosmart C6380 is extremely easy to set up and you do not need to connect it first via USB to configure the wireless settings. The built-in display on the printer scans for nearby networks and you can select the desired network and enter the WEP/WPA key. The name of the printer will suggest you that it is aimed at printing photos to near perfection. The A4 colour photos printed by the device look stunning. The five-ink system comprising Photo Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow and a separate Black ink for text produces great, rich colours and provide an excellent depth of detail.

The Photosmart C6380 is pretty average in terms of printing speed. The A4 colour prints of the highest quality settings take about four minutes to come out. The standard capacity colour cartridge for the printer comes for around £8 each, while the black ink one costs around £10. The text pages are printed pretty fast with a speed of 15 pages per minute. Scanning is pretty decent with a 300dpi A4 colour scan taking about 17 seconds to be done. The HP Photosmart C6380 is available at a price of £249.

HP’s latest Scanjet N6310 is a versatile, speedy and performance oriented scanner with a brain of its own. The scanner measures 502 × 415 × 162mm. It weighs a hefty 6.7kg. The scanner is perfectly styled in black and off-white colors. It is powered by an automatic document feeder that has a capacity of 50 sheets. HP has made sure that the scanner is able to work with bound or stapled documents, business cards, photos, and big size documents.

The scanner connects to the PC via traditional means. A standard USB 2.0 cable forms the connection device between the system and the scanner. The scanner offers a maximum resolution of 2400 × 2400dpi. The scanner has a built-in Transparent Materials Adapter under the cover. This adapter can accommodate two 35mm slides or three 35mm negative frames. The scanner is pretty simple to use in terms of controls. It houses buttons for scanning, copying, and cancelling tasks. Loaded with an alarm LED, the device also houses an LCD that guides the user to all the mentioned buttons and tasks. The device is loaded with the HP Scanning software. With the help of this software, the user can store commands according to the need, edit photos using crop, resize and rotate options. The user can also choose colour-drop-out that improves the OCR accuracy.

The device takes a mere 6 seconds to start up and offers a maximum speed is 15ppm for documents. It also offers a speed of 6 images per minute in the case of A4 size colour photos. The resultant photos are crisp, vibrant, detailed, and accurate. For Mac users, HP provides a separate installation disk which includes Readiris Pro OCR software and Presto Page Manager. At the same time, PC users get Readiris Pro plus PaperPort and Presto! BizCard, as bonus software, along with the device. The HP’s latest Scanjet N6310 is available in the market at a price of £374. All in all, it is a versatile, high quality and economical scanner that is worth its money and is an extremely good business scanning tool.

Do you want to buy a printer for yourself or for a small or home office? If you do, then you must consider a laser printer for this job. Laser printers offer higher speeds and a lot better text quality than the regular inkjet printers. However, laser printers are extremely expensive and offer mediocre photo quality. It is because of these shortcomings that traditionally, lasers have been left for large-office settings. But these days, there has been kind of a U-turn in this picture. The lasers have become cheap, and have improved on the photo output at the same time. The problem of photo output typically arises if you belong to the category of photography buffs. But here is good news for you. These days, lasers have also started being excellent on the photo front. Take for instance the Samsung CLP-315. This printer prints photos good enough to be put on doors, walls and is also good for business work like printing client newsletters or basic brochures.

The Lexmark T650n, is a monochrome laser that provides excellent speed, durability, and paper handling ability. This printer can easily handle printing volume of a busy office; can hold a load of paper up to 4,000 sheets and prints at an overwhelming rate of 45 pages per minute. For small offices or home offices, the Brother HL-2170w offers a good deal. It is a monochrome laser that is capable of offering high speed, decent output quality and handles ample printing volume at the same time. It is available at a decent price at the same time.

Lasers like the OKI C5650n and the Lexmark C544dn are also apt for small offices. These color lasers printers provide the usual laser advantages and also boast of an exceptionally high quality of photos. Printers like the Samsung CLX-3175FN and the HP CM1312nfi MFP belong to the category of all-in-one printers. These printers can work as home based or office based printers and come with added features like copying, scanning, and faxing. These laser printers are the best printers to go for these days.

Samsung has come up with the rollout of their SE-S084B series of external DVD writer in the US. The slim DVD writer series comes weighed just 0.4kg, and can be availed in a 8X DVD+R & DVD-R writer, a 6X DVD+R, -R Dual Layer writer and a 5X DVD-RAM writer, including color choices of white, pink, blue, black, silver, sky-blue as well as red.

As its reviews, the SE-S084B series, the company claims, has been brought about to be a foil for mini-notebook & netbook PCs, and boasts of functioning on a standalone interconnect cable in order to send data and even offer energy. Besides, the users are also allowed to mount the drive vertically or horizontally.

Hooked up through a USB port, the latest line of tray-type DVD writers doesn’t need any different power cable for easy operation. Besides that, the easy-to-take drive is consistent with 8cm or 12cm media and boasts of burn speeds around 8X for DVD+R or 24X along with CD-R. Appropriate to RoHS standards, the newest external drive lineup also boasts of a high-speed mode and low-noise mode with lead-free solder support.

Jin-soo Lee, VP of strategic marketing for Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology, was quoted as saying, “By adopting lead-free soldering technology, the SE-S084B has an eco-friendly design and is RoHS compliant. The new external DVD writers offer a wide choice of color and added portability for enhanced usability.”

Besides, the handy SE-S084B DVD writers comes built-in with SAT (Speed Adjustment Technology), TAC (Tilt Actuator Compensation) plus Double OPC (Optimum Power Control) to put forward best-of-breed performance.

As the features, the device also has Buffer Under Run Free Technology, which is capable of stabilizing writing operation within Magic Speed and high speed as well as ABS (Automatic Ball Balancing System) technologies, which claims to remove vibration and noise.

The Samsung SE-S084B series of external DVD writer is available for $79.99 (almost. Rs. 3,895).

Influenced by the release of NEC’s 24x SOC chip, Lite-On, leading worldwide in optical storage solutions, has come up with the release of their latest internal DVD writers that boast of offering 24x DVD writing speeds. Known as iHAS324, iHAP424 and iHAS624, internal DVD writers are claimed to be the fastest in the market, integrating Lite-On’s SmartErase technology that boasts of providing users a long-lasting solution for obliterating discs with confidential and private data.

As the features, in addition SmartErase technology, select internal DVD writers also boast being featured with Lite-On’s LabelTag, which users can make use of bringing about a label ring on the data side of any standard recordable media.

Christine Hsing, Marketing Manager at PLDS (Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions), was quoted as saying, “PLDS is proud to make the fastest 24X writers in the market, specially with built-in technologies such as LabelTag. LabelTag boats of providing a cost-effective and flexible method for professional disc labeling, a great solution for today’s demanding professional and people on the move.”

In terms of features and availability date of these new Lite-On Internal DVD Writers: the iHAS324 – 24X SATA along with SmartErase is expected to be made available till Mid-March, and the iHAP424 – 24X PATA along with SmartErase and LightScribe is likely to be made available till the end of March, while the last but not the least iHAS624 – 24X SATA along with SmartErase, LightScribe and LabelTag is slated to be made available
by Mid-May

But sorry to say there is no mention as their pricing and software compatibility up till now.

However, I have had three DVD-RW drives die on me in the last 2-3 years. All were made in 2005 or after. It seems optical drive quality aren’t what it used to be. Heck, one of them exploded last year. A DVD-RW drive from Optiarc. One of the IC’s just blew. Pretty loudly too. Insides looked like somebody used the flamethrower on the PCB. I never saw an IC blow up before. I’ve seen capacitors and MOSFET blow but never an actual IC.

SmartShopper Electronics has recently announced its new and much improved Grocery List assistant that is sure to give you a strong support in today’s busy schedule. As its reviews, the SmartShopper Deluxe Grocery List Assistant has been introduced with a sleek and improved design to help for those who hardly have any time to spend in the supermarket or grocery store. This USD $100 SmartShopper Deluxe Grocery List Assistant is smaller than the original SmartShopper with additional features like better voice recognition, longer battery life, greater memory and many more. It can maintain two lists at a time and can even organize and print the shopping list according to the store category.

The Vice President and Co-inventor of the gadget, Greg Vittardi says in his comment about the device, “The new deluxe model not only is smaller, sleeker and more attractive but we have added some fantastic new features. These include the ability to keep two lists simultaneously, a category management module that allows for categories to be created, changed and made to print in the order of the users favorite store.” The President and Co-inventor, Rick Brindisi added up, “The recognition is fantastic and we have added some great new features. Our test group gave this model, very high marks and didn’t want to give up their prototypes when testing ended.

In fact, in a recent consumer acceptance study, 79% of the respondents said they would stop keeping track of their grocery needs as they had been doing and would switch to the SmartShopper Deluxe!” As per the press release information, the SmartShopper Deluxe Grocery List Assistant bagged a very high acceptance from the consumers who have tried it. As compared to the original SmartShopper model, the Deluxe is featured with a number of improved and advance facilities that is surely going to be a perfect solution for your daily busy schedule.

It is a concept of a mobile phone developed basing on the most modern technologies. The entire face surface of this phone is a colour sensor display 4.2 in. in diagonal (a TFT-matrix of 700 times; 266 pixels) protected with a 2-mm transparent plastic shield.

Buttons appearing on the display are 13 in diameter. They are convenient to press with a finger. Besides the virtual controls, the telephone is equipped with a joystick. The standard position of the phone is vertical, but it can be turned horizontally when watching video. The joystick and the on/off button are of metal. The loudspeaker is located immediately between the sensor surface and the display.

The telephone will support GSM networks (900, 1800, 1900) as well as the 3G networks (the third generation). A wireless data exchange feature (Bluetooth 2) is provided to enable synchronization with a computer. A fuel cell-based battery feeds the telephone with electricity. The battery is charged by a wireless means: the phone should just be laid on a special pad connected to the electricity supply network (the SplashPower technology).

Designer: Roman Kriheli

The Ecoquiet RM ONE 50 desktop PC is a low cost desktop PC launched by RM (formerly Research Machines) technologies. The desktop PC is priced at £548, and as the name suggests focuses on ‘green’ credentials such as low power and low noise. The number 50 in the model name suggests the power consumption of less than 50 watts. This desktop PC is made around a new Intel Mini-ITX motherboard, the D945GCLF. This new motherboard has been codenamed ‘Little Falls’. The motherboard features a 1.6GHz Atom 230 processor, accompanied by 512KB of Level 2 cache and a 533MHz front side bus. The Diamondville version of the Atom chip in the machine is primarily optimized for low cost. It has a Thermal Design Power (TPD) rating of 4W.

The computer is power packed with a supporting chipset in the form of Intel’s 945GC Express. This chipset includes features like GMA 950 graphics, Intel High Definition Audio and a PCI Express X1 bus interface. The down side of the motherboard is that it has only a single memory slot. The ecoquiet RM ONE 50 houses 1GB of DDR2 RAM that can be expanded to a maximum limit of 2GB. As far as connections to the machine are concerned, the computer houses two PS/2 ports, four USB 2.0 ports and three audio jacks. Also, there are serial and parallel connectors, VGA-out, and Ethernet ports.

As far as computer screen is concerned, the ecoquiet RM ONE 50 has a height and tilt adjustable 17 inches TFT monitor. This monitor is attached to the side of tower orientated system unit. The backplane connectors are not visible as they are hidden in an easy-access panel. The screen houses two USB ports in the front, a FireWire connector. Also on the front is a pair of audio jacks and button for volume control. The computer is available with an 80GB hard drive and lacks an optical drive. The padlock-and-bolt system of the computer secures the PC to a desk. Like many of the RM technologies products, the Ecoquiet RM ONE 50 too is specifically targeted at the education market and is an excellent initiative for the same.

Kodak has announced the availability of their two latest digital scanners from its i700 series, which are labeled as the i730 and the i750. The company says that the two digital scanners are being rolled out after the success of i780 Scanner, which was meant for mid-to-high volume production, Crafted specifically for business purposes, both the document scanners take advantage of the next-Gen document capture technology, which is claimed to be capable enough of enhan-cing the access to detail by removing particular content for instant use.

Founded on Kodak’s sophisticated image processing attributes, the two scanners are also touted to be capable of fast scanning the document along with image quality of 300 dots per inch (dpi) at 200 dpi speeds. The i730 also boasts of delivering throughput speeds of 90 pages per minute, while the i750 promises to offer 115 ppm of throughput speeds.

Built-in with Kodak’s Perfect Page Imaging Technology, the i700 series of scanners also boasts of correcting image correction automatically for faultless quality and accuracy of digital images. The devices also make use of (OCR) optical character recognition as well as further intelligent detection features to considerably cut down on document processing costs and time and simultaneously continue the higher level of performance.

As their reviews, the i700 scanners also have duplex scanning, automatic page orientation founded on content, image cropping, auto image deskew; color dropout & blank page deletion. The two scanners also boast of an automated feeding technology, which claims to minimize manual document sorting to effortlessly grab mixed batches of photos, documents and tear sheets and provide archiving, processing and sharing.

Aside from that, the i730 & i750 scanners are also featured with a Triple Ultrasonic multi feed detection function to lessen potential scanning errors and workflow logjams for a continual and reliable workflow.

A small and simple gadget, yet very useful in our daily life when every single device we look for has been reduced to micro size. There’s hardly any gadget with so called bigger size. So we really need something like the i-vu Portable Digital Magnifier, which is a handy and portable device that has the capability to magnify objects between 5x – 20x of their original size.

As the features, Portable Digital Magnifier lets you view even micro particles or pictures. Just a scroll wheel flick and you are able to view every details of an object on Portable Digital Magnifier’s 2 inch LCD screen. The scroll wheel helps you to change the level of magnification almost instantly in increments of 1x. There’s something more than its 2 inch LCD screen, 3 built in LED lights are also integrated in this small device, which helps in illuminating the magnifier. The three LEDs are a real help for you when you have stepped into the darkness. It also helps you get a clear view of the image captured. The gadget has the ability to freeze the image on the screen too. All you need to have is a USB connection to charge the device.

The Portable Digital Magnifier measures about 4.75 x 2.4 x 0.85 inches in dimension and weighs approximately 4 oz (113 grams), which easily fits into your pocket. It is included with 3 rechargeable AAA batteries and the battery run time is approximately 3 hours. The device is also included with a manufacturer warranty of one year. This $180 device is something you can take along anywhere you go and zoom out any corner or object you are curious about. Its ability to zoom objects at various levels of magnification has actually made the Portable Digital Magnifier has made it an amazing piece of electronic gadget. Now the days of using a standard magnifying glass is gone. You can now get a crystal clear view of anything you are spying about in an LCD screen with this Portable Digital Magnifier.

Garmin, upgrading to the monochrome handheld line, has announced the availability of its latest eTrex Legend H & the eTrex Vista H – low-priced handheld navigators, which, the company claims, brags of a variety of novel features that are thought to be essential for nowadays outdoor adventures.

Predominantly, the units come built-in with a high-sensitivity GPS receiver, which claims to make satellite acquisition faster and boasts of providing a solid lock, even during dense vertical canyons or tree canopies that is frequently experienced by the hunters, hikers and geocachers. The eTrex Legend H & eTrex Vista H also come included with a quick USB interface & 24 megabytes of internal memory for downloading full topo maps from a PC. The eTrex Vista H comes additionally included with an electronic compass & barometric altimeter.

Dan Bartel, vice president of worldwide sales, “The eTrex Legend and Vista models have long been considered standard equipment for anyone who wants to make the most of their outdoor excursions. Now, entry-level customers can get some of the latest features for the same price as the earlier versions, making the units attractive for those wanting a rugged and reliable GPS for fewer than two hundred dollars.”

Either of the units also boast of consisting of a basemap of North and South America, in-cluding major rivers, lakes, interstates,  cities, national and state highways, railroads and coastlines, which the users can easily view on the units’ high-contrast 2.4-inch (diagonal) grayscale screen. The eTrex Legend H comes with the a manufacturer’s retail price of around $149.99, while the eTrex Vista H could be yours for just $199.99.

So, if you want to take advantage of your outdoor excursions, the eTrex Legend & Vista models could be your perfect choice. They are not just good, but also don’t hit hard on your pocket, that is, they are within your reach. Grab them soon!

Edimax has hit the Indian market by announcing the release of their new three-in-one BR-6324nL wireless broadband router. This Ultra Range plus Wireless-N Broadband Router comes with a Wireless Access Point, which, the company claims, is capable of effortlessly hooking up to the network but for wires, built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch, which can get hooked to wired-Ethernet devices jointly and the Router function that keeps the network hooked and offers sharing of a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection.

As its reviews, the latest broadband router also boasts of giving support to wireless IEEE 802.11b/g and IEEE 802.11n standards that boasts of enhancing the wireless speed around 6 times faster and extending the coverage four times additional with the help of included  Wireless-N’s “Multiple In, Multiple Out” (MIMO) technology. The Wireless-N makes use of twice as much radio band and offers a combined speed of standard Wireless-G & -B equipment, further decreasing dead spots in the coverage area.

Besides, the BR-6324nL comes built-in with Edimax EZView and Remote Management, and is capable of managing router locally and even distantly via the internet. It is able to identify UPnP-capable devices and allows users to manage directly information such as bandwidth control, IP address, open ports and DMZ.

As the features, the Router, as to data privacy and security, boasts of encoding all wireless transmissions along with industrial-strength 256-bit encryption. It doubles as a network’s DHCP Server that comes with a robust SPI firewall for protecting a PC against web-based attacks.

For wireless security, the router boasts of WPS (wireless protected setup). Further facets of the Router include: an exclusive multi-language setup wizard for Internet connection, wireless settings and firmware upgrade.

Last but not the least the new wireless broadband router is built-in with a control button, which boats of shifting between wireless connections to a wired connection for making access to Internet. There is no mention of its pricing so far.