I love how technology lets you mess around with all your devices at the same time. I mean, I’m watching stuff from my computer on my TV. I am listening to my iPod and watching my family photos on the big screen. The technology is fun, entertaining and pretty easy, could anything make it better?
Yup, I have just been introduced to The Loop, the freehand mouse that moves your cursor with natural motions made in the air. Simply point and click on the TV that’s connected to your PC or Mac. The Loop pointer’s intuitive design has a scroll wheel and four buttons.
The Loop patented air-mouse has the ability to compensate for normal hand tremor and varying positioning while responding to the motion of the Loop pointer. Its a pretty simple, intuitive design that is really easy to use. The Loop could probably be a pretty valuable tool for presenters and educators who use PCs and Macs connected to projectors. You could control presentations, navigate web pages and more from almost anywhere in the room. The Loop pointer will work with computers running Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
I’m crusin’ the net from across the room, and I see the day coming when I never have to get off the couch. Only $49.00 from www.amazon.com
It might be a good idea to you keep yourself aware of your blood pressure while you’re in front of your computer, browsing some very exciting web contents. The MDMouse is a special computer mouse that comes equipped with a flip-out blood pressure monitor, which lets you keep an eye on your own blood pressure that might go beyond the normal level while you’re surfing some illicit contents.
The blood pressure monitor on the MDMouse comes in the form of a flip-out finger cuff, which apparently needs you to insert your finger into it for taking the measurement. It also comes with software which records the blood pressure readings as well as analyzing the collected data over time.
The MDMouse was first intended to reach the market two years ago. For some unknown reasons it’s been delayed till now, but it should be hitting the market in the next few months.
If you love wireless connections, you’ll love the versatile Easy Dock Pro, an improvement to Warpia’s original Easy Dock. With it, you can wirelessly connect a laptop to your desktop monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. You can also link your notebook to your big-screen HDTV.
Unlike the first version, the Easy Dock Pro is capable of displaying any online content in HD quality. It works with Windows or Macintosh PCs and supports monitors and other displays up to 25-inches, with resolutions of 1920×1080. While the Easy Dock Pro can mirror your laptop screen, it also offers an extend mode, which allows you to operate two displays side-by-side, as if they formed one large desktop. If it sounds hard to operate, it’s all plug-and-play. You can get one from Warpia’s site for $149.99.
iOGear have just added a new mini wireless keyboard to their range the iOGear GKM571R. Its deigned for multimedia systems and home theatre systems.
Together with a full QWERTY keyboard the palm sized device also incorporates an optical Trackball and scroll wheel with a 1200 dpi sensor and connects to your system using 2.4GHz wireless technology via a USB receiver.
On its based the iOGear Wireless Keyboard has a no slip rubber coating to help you type and use the controller without slippage. Its also compatible with media center applications together with game consoles, including the PS3 and Xbox 360.
The keyboard is backlit with an LED and there is a dust cover to protect the keyboard when not in use. The iOGear GKM571R wireless keyboard will be available later this year for around $99.
AAXA’s micro projectors may not be as small or pocket-friendly as their pico projectors, but they compensate with vastly superior tech specs and capabilities. But don’t get me wrong, they’re still surprisingly compact when compared to the video projector you probably have at your office. The latest addition to their family, the M2, is the first to boast an XGA or 1024×768 resolution with an impressive 110 lumen light source. In comparison, the M2’s predecessor, the M1, could only muster up 800×600 at 75 lumens.
And because it’s designed for travel and as a sort of, all-in-one multimedia device, the M2 also features 1GB of built-in storage with an SD card slot and USB ports for connecting and playing back media directly from an external storage unit. And like your office projector is also sports a VGA input for connecting a laptop, as well as composite AV inputs and HDMI for connecting other multimedia devices. $369 available directly from AAXA.
Creative is famous for their line of audio products for computers, so it is no surprise to see the company roll out yet another addition to the sound card family which they’re noted for, in the form of the Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro. I clearly remember back in the days when I was running a 486DX 33MHz, and was extremely envious of my friends who had an 8-bit Sound Blaster since they enjoyed games in a totally different way while I had to settle for lousy beeps and boops on the PC speaker itself. The only game which I was thoroughly impressed with using a PC speaker was Loom by LucasArts, boy did that blow the mind (and ears) away!
This is a portable sound card since it is actually an USB audio solution, so that means plug and play magic right from the get go. First of all, your ears will be able to enjoy THX TruStudio Pro audio technology that allows you to easily enhance your onboard audio for notebook or desktop PCs. The Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro is capable of offering maximum entertainment for the home in true 5.1 surround sound, giving you a more or less instant upgrade to a THX TruStudio Pro entertainment system with 5.1 surround sound when plugged in. Among the features of the Creative announces Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro include :
- High-quality, gold-plated RCA stereo and optical digital out for 24-bit/96kHz playback performance when connected to the PC via USB 2.0
- Recording capability up to 24-bit/96kHz
- Dolby Digital Live! with a single cable connection to a decoder or home theatre system for compelling 5.1 surround sound from any source
- Cyberlink PowerDVD software (free download) with DTS and Dolby Digital-EX decoding delivers a cinematic DVD movie experience
- Compact IR remote controls mute, volume and playback
- Microphone and headphone jacks
- XP, Vista and Windows 7 compliant
It will arrive in markets from the middle of next month onwards for $59.99 a pop, which isn’t too expensive when you think about it. After all, to see so much technology packed into something this small is always a joy and wonder to behold.
We’ve had to tolerate wireless USB adapters that were several inches long for years and now the folks over at trendNET has finally come up with a solution to that by offering a wireless USB adapter that is tiny, similar to the wireless receivers used by Microsoft and Logitech for their portable mice nowadays.
The trendNET TEW-648UBM is touted as the world’s smallest 802.11n adapter and supports speeds of up to 150Mbps, measuring in at just 0.59” x 0.74” x 0.28” and only sticks out of the USB port by 0.3″ when installed, allowing you to leave it plugged in most of the time. The adapter is priced at $39.99, though the trendNET online store is currently offering it for $15.99.
LaCie, a company known for their external hard drive solutions has introduced a new USB 3.0 drive to it’s inventory. Their new drive is the 500GB Starck Mobile USB 3.0 HDD which was developed by Phillippe Starck.
The new drive includes USB 3.0 support, taking advantage of the much higher speeds offered with this technology. However, recognizing that many computer systems may not have access to USB 3.0, the Starck drive is also backward compatible, supporting USB 2.0 technology.
Overall, the device comes with a nice aluminum finish that won’t make you embarrassed to carry the drive around with you. Aside from its looks, the external hard drive offers up 500GB of storage space and you’ll also get access to BackUp Assistant and a free one year subscription to 10GB of cloud storage.
The going price on this device is $109.99 within the US and £89.99 within the UK. The LaCie Starck Mobile USB 3.0 drive should be available shortly.
It’s another 3D mouse which comes in the form of Axsotic 3D-Spheric-Mouse. The Axsotic 3D-Spheric-Mouse allows you to push, pull, and lift it to re-position a model in 3D space.
Inside the Axsotic 3D mouse, there are springs and magnets. And the mouse is able to provide 1,000 dpi optical precision and 2,170 dpi when panning or zooming.
The 3D mouse works with hundreds of Autodesk-owned 3D packages. Pricing and availability are not yet announced.
This particular Legend of Zelda NES cartridge has been converted in to an external hard drive with a 1TB capacity.
The external drive has a USB connector allowing you to connect it to a Mac or PC. When connected you’ll be able to transfer any files over to it like you would with any other external drive.
Other capacities are also available with drives starting at 500GB, on to 750GB and finally on to the 1TB mentioned above. Each drive inside measures 2.5 inches and is made by Toshiba.
The drives are of course custom built and available over at Etsy.
Price wise, the 1TB model costs $180 while the smaller ones cost $150 and $130 with the latter being the smallest capacity drive.
