The coolest things in the world!
26 Oct
You certainly won’t get electrocuted if you wear this new NU Dolphin MP3 player doing a few lapses on the pool, wakeboarding or diving in your favourite dive spots. The NU Dolphin MP3 player was specifically designed for swimmers and water sports enthusiasts.
This ultra light weight and compact mp3 player that weighs only 25g and measures 60 x 20 x 20mm, was made with water resistant materials that passed international standards. So, you are assured that you will be safe while using it even in the deepest water level.
To give comfort and ease of use to swimmers and divers, the Nu Dolphin MP3 player is encased in a cylindrical casing with control buttons on one side and the headphone jack on the other side. And to keep the device water light, the earphone is attached to the main body of the player with a screw-in jack.
Did that convince you enough to believe that the mp3 player is as safe as it can be when you used it on water? Then it’s time to know its details as an mp3 player. The NU Dolphin mp3 player can play only two music formats, mp3 and WMA. It complies with full speed USB 2.0 specification so you won’t have a problem uploading large size mp3 files.
Transferring files the PC to the Nu Dolphin mp3 player is not a problem as well. Being a USB Plug and Play device, you can immediately plug it into your PC and start transferring your favourite mp3s up to 2 GB in file size.
So, are wondering how you can wear the NU Dolphin MP3 player? Well, it has a fluorescent holder that can be strapped onto your swimming goggles. But if you are not comfortable strapping it unto your goggles, you can wait for awhile until NU releases the armband where you can put your Dolphin MP3 player.
25 Oct
Now this is one gadget/clothing apparel that I could really say is uber nifty and cool, the Bladerunner children’s jacket with GPS tracking device. Bladerunner a company known for making some of the world’s coolest jacket apparel has teamed up with UK’s top GPS operator to come up with this jacket for your kids. But unlike your ordinary winter jacket, this one is equipped with a GPS tracker that when your child wanders too far around from you, a mobile phone alert will be sent to your mobile phone.
And here’s the coolest part, you can monitor the movement of your child who is currently wearing the jacket on a secured website. By paying a monthly charge of around $20, you can have a secured access to the said website which also gives a historical account of movements made by your child while wearing the Bladerunner GPS-equipped jacket.
The Bladerunner jacket is made up of lightweight material which specifically suits the needs of children. It is loaded with the latest GPS SiRF III Chipset which effectively tracks the movements of your children wearing the jacket. The jacket is operated by long lasting and efficient batteries so you don’t have to worry about losing your children because of low powered battery.
Another positive feature of the Bladerunner jacket is its fast signal acquisition. So, after tracking down your child and you immediately take off to fetch him, you are ensured that your child couldn’t have gotten too far away before you reached him/her.
And what’s more, you can train your child to seek help during an SOS situation by instructing your child to push 2 quick dial when your child gets lost.
To activate the mobile alerting feature, you have to set the boundaries where your child should wander around before the mobile alerting feature is triggered.
24 Oct
The Archos TV Plus which was previewed by Engadget sometime in June is the first Wi-Fi Digital Video Recorder. It does not only provide easy access to video content but also has the most advanced features of any DVR available in the market today. Where else can you find a DVD player that lets you enjoy movies, music, photos, podcasts, web video and almost everything on the Internet, through a high capacity DVR? Only if you get yourself an Archos TV Plus.
You might ask, where could the Archos TV Plus possible store those gigabytes of multimedia files? Don’t worry about storage space because the Archos TV Plus can accommodate up to 250GB of data in its multimedia hard drive. 250GB is definitely a lot of storage room to accommodate hundreds of hours of video. And you don’t even have to worry about transferring those file from your source into your Archos TV Portable Media Players.
So, what else does the Archos TV Plus offer ? Just like your old trusty betamax or VHS players, you can program the Archos TV plus to record schedule TV shows even when you’re out working or somewhere else. You can also stream digital entertainment content from your PC to your TV via a fast transmission method.
If those are not enough to convince you to buy the Archos TV Plus, how about if you know that you can access your email, surf the internet and watch YouTube videos, wirelessly through the Archos TV Plus’ Wi-Fi access point. You can also synchronize recorded TV Shows to your ARCHOS portable media player at high speed. That allows you to take your home entertainment wherever you go.
With all those features, the Archos TV Plus is definitely worthy of its name. It’s a TV tuner loaded with other functionalities.
23 Oct
The newest in the line of Philips’ digital pocket memo product, the 9370 model is a handy, powerful and efficient dictation recording machine. The Philips digital pocket memo 9370 is easily controlled by single push button to start recording voice dictation which is good sound quality.
The Philips Digital Pocket Memo 9370’s sound quality is brought upon by the .dss file format. This is the international standard for professional speech processing. It allows high compression rate and reduces file size, network traffic and storage capacity.
After recording a dictation, you can immediately transfer the recorded file into your PC or any media player via the USB cable. So, when you need to do a professional transcription, you would immediately have the file ready in your PC’s hard drive. This speeds up the transcription process especially when a transcript of proceedings is needed at once.
The Digital Pocket Memo 9370 also has a large backlit LCD which gives user a way to view information about the voice files, such as length of dictation, position within the file and other relevant information about the voice files that you have recorded. A good thing about the 9370’s LCD is the fact that you can read it even in poor lighting environment.
And lastly, like with any other Philips digital pocket memo products, the 9370 is designed following industry standards. An example of this its use of both SD and Multimedia Card for storing the voice files of up to 2 GB capacity.
The Philips Digital Pocket Memo 9370 is a nifty device that can be used by many types of users. From media people to students who are to conduct interviews and would need an efficient and effective voice dictation recording machine.
22 Oct
If you’re into downloaded web video, then you’d want to have SanDisk’s new video player, the Sansa TakeTV. It’s not really you’re ordinary video player where you have to burn your video into a DVD and load it up in your video player which is hooked up into your TV source input. The Sansa TakeTV takes away the hassle of burning the video into a DVD.
Instead, the Sansa TakeTV video player works like a USB flash drive. All you need to do is plug it into your PC, drag your video file into it, insert the Sansa device into its dedicated TV cradle which is connected to your TV and that’s it. Enjoy your downloaded video right where it should be watched, your LCD TV.
The Sansa TakeTV video player is available in two storage capacity, 4GB and 8GB. That’s 5 hours and 10 hours of video capacity for you. The Sansa TakeTV video player is USB 2.0 compliant, so it connects with USB 2.0 compliant PCs and laptops. It works well with various operating systems, Vista, Mac, Linux and Windows XP. So you wouldn’t really have a problem trying to make it work with whatever desktop systems you are using.
Connecting the Sansa TakeTV video player into your TV system is not a problem as well. It is connects with standard TV supported AV outputs, whether it is a composite video, analog stereo or S-video output systems.
The last question you probably have in mind is which video formats do Sansa TakeTV supports? Well the Sansa video player works well with Divx, xVid and Mpeg4. So you definitely have a variety of video sources to choose from.
Now, if you’re looking for video downloading source, SanDisk’s Sansa TakeTV is tied up with Fanfare BETA, a web service that gives access to TV shows and movies that can be downloaded directly into your Sandisk Sansa TakeTV video player.
19 Oct
I may prefer a small LCD TV for home entertainment purposes, but when working online I prefer m y working screen to be as big as Eizo’s Flexscan SX3031W 30” LCD. Eizo’s latest offering boosts of a wonderful 2560 x 1600 native resolution which is perfect for its 30” screen. With a 900:1 contrast ratio, you can use the entire 30” screen for working with one PC or use it to display two different PC sources. The picture by picture function of the SX3031W is perfect for your multitasking needs. When using the SX3031W’s split screen functionality, the screen is divided into two equal halves of 1200 x 1600 resolutions. The two screens are seamlessly separated with no bezel in-between. The best part is, you don’t have to toggle back and forth between the PC input sources.
Describing the Eizo in details would entail a lot of technical jargons and specifications since a hardware such as this is obviously too complex. And you might just get bored and confused while reading those technical information.
To put it simply, the Flexscan SX3031W is a nifty device for all tech guys who are into working with dual screen enabled in their workstation. This has been a current norm among technological work horse today. And Enzo’s 30” LCD suits well with today’s current crop of LCD’s with sleek look and great features. The Eizo SX3031W is a class of its own and in fact could very well be among the best LCD with split screen functionality that you could probably see in the market today.
18 Oct
If the digital photo frame that can store only up to 128mb of digital photos did not excite you that much, well the new Sony HDMS-S1D digital photo album with up to 8GB of photo storage might does. The HDMS-S1D is the latest in the line of Sony’s digital photo albums which gives photo enthusiast a nifty way of archiving, organizing and enjoying slideshows of digital images.
The HDMS-S1D lets you upload digital photos in several ways. You can either upload directly from your flash memory cards. This little black box supports multiple flash memory card formats. Or you can also transfer photos stored in CDs, DVDs, USB media storage or through Ethernets. And the good thing is, after uploading your photos into the HDMS-S