New Gadgets

Looking for a cell phone deal? There are a number of questions to answer before you start looking for the best cell phone deals. Determine for yourself what kind of phone do you need and what features do you like it to have. With the wide variety of phones available from such mobile phone manufacturers as Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericson, LG and it can be a bit confusing to choose a right phone. Each year mobile companies design and introduce new phones that contain new and unique features, including, the camera pixels and the multimedia facilities, as well as video or internet capabilities. Today, there are various mobile companies that operate at the international level and offer their phones online.

One more important thing to consider is the cell phone providers. Do you prefer AT&T phones, T-Mobile phones, Sprint phones, Verizon Wireless phones or phones from any other provider? Different service providers have different types of coverage and offer various plans to meet the needs of their customers. From time to time, some of the largest wireless providers run promotions and offer their customers a decent phone for less or bonus minutes. With some providers you will even be able to get a free phone.

The easiest way to find the best cell phone deals is to do your own research and make sure that what you get is what you want. Compare all the plans and phones available in your area and make sure you are not paying for features or minutes you don’t want or need. Being an informed, knowledgeable consumer will ensure you the best cell phone deal available.

Despite the fact that such popular products from Apple, as iPhone or player iPod Touch, has no problems coping with video playback, but sometimes you want to watch interesting videos with friends, so this miniature projector from Honlai Technology will help you.

This gadget is a docking station for Apple phones and players. It also has audio and video inputs, allowing connection of various devices. The projected image size of 15-37 inches (0,5-1,5 m) has a resolution of 640×480 pixels, brightness of 10-15 lumens and contrast ratio of 200:1. The sound is played through the built-in 2 Watt speakers.
This quality is of course difficult to compare with those that provide the home theater, but it is still better than the small screen of mobile devices.
Dimensions of this gadget are 76×102x54 mm.

We often write about various chargers that may be useful in the absence of nearby power sockets. Many of them offer to charge your gadgets on batteries. But where can we find constantly charged batteries? Charger Powerfilm will solve this problem.

Usually in order to charge batteries you need socket, but Powerfilm will charge four batteries anywhere. More precisely, anywhere where there is sunlight. It fully charges two batteries in 4 hours, and four batteries in 8 hours.
The gadget itself is soft, so let’s hope that the developers took into account all the possible consequences of its use, say, in a trip through the mountains.
Purchase charger for $130.

Have you ever faced the problem of cataloguing disks of your home collection? Certainly, you have. And everyone does it in his/her own way. Someone uses program directories; someone writes the “content” for each disc and puts them on the shelves, etc. But in any case, when searching for the necessary records you have to pass several stages: search the directory; find the disk from the stack and only then you can use it. The new gadget offers to simplify this process.
USB Storage Carousel will help you store up to 150 CDs in perfect conditions, and thus get access to them by a simple click.

The set of this device comes with a software for cataloguing the contents of the disc. You can only use it and send the disks into the USB Storage Carousel.
Now when searching your favorite disk, you need only to make a double click and the disc will be served to you from the repository.
The form of this USB Storage Carousel allows you to compose few gadgets like Lego, so that problems with the deployment of additional storage facilities will not arise.
You can use this gadget without a computer, but then you have to enter the number of the removable disc manually.
You can simplify your life paying only $129.99.

Modern cell phones are very small in size and have no similarities with their prototypes. This unusual hands-free accessory will remind you of old times.

Classical Hands Free is a gadget made in retro style by which you can talk on a mobile phone and feel that this is an old telephone. This device can impress friends and help you stand out from the crowd.
It can be connected to Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, Nokia and Panasonic cell phones. The dimensions of the handset are 195×55x45 mm.
Classical Hands Free costs $19.

Gadget called Universal Solar Cell Phone / iPod Charger will charge your cell phone or iPod MP3-player, using solar energy. Thus you will make a contribution to improving the ecology of our planet.
The device is very small and it’s easy to carry with you anywhere, even in pockets.
It can charge the following models of iPods: iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Mini. And there are inputs for charging mobile phones of the following companies: Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Motorola and Blackberry.
Universal Solar Cell Phone / iPod Charger can be bought for $90.

Although, in principle, the word “compact” is not very suitable, this locator is very small and convenient. Zoombak company, known for its devices, represented its novelty Zoombak Universal GPS at the RetailVision conference.

Zoombak Universal GPS is a small device where you can use GPS to determine location. For example, you can put it somewhere in the car or in your dog’’s collar. And when needed, you can very easily find out where is a car or a dog.

GPS-locator is very easy to use and it is compact enough to putting or fixing it somewhere it can remain unnoticed. So you can save valuable things, or simply insure against their loss.

Zoombak Universal GPS’s price is $200 and requires $10 payment each month.

We continue telling you about high-tech toys. Today we’ll discuss the world-famous robot Pleo.

Pleo is a small but very lively and intelligent robot dinosaur. It behaves like a real one, made on the type of an ancient Camarasaurus. Its designer is Caleb Chung, the production and sale is carried out by Ugobe company.

Pleo is very clever, it can respond to sounds, when you touch it, it responds with name. It also remembers everything that is going around.

By the way, the robot can recognize another robot Pleo and can play and communicate with it.

Pleo has about 20 cm height, about 1,3 kg weight. It does not need any remote control, it expresses its feelings and emotions, makes sounds and moves, etc. when it wishes.

Pleo can convey moods, anger, caution, a desire to embrace, boredom, playfulness, disgust, fear, curiosity, joy, sorrow, surprise, fatigue, hunger, desire to communicate, etc – about 50 emotions. For this it has a very modern artificial intelligence.

Now Pleo is particularly well known in the West. Recently, the manufacturing company has released the updated software. For the first time the robot was introduced in February 2006, at the DEMO conference. Sales began in December 2007, and since that it has become very popular in the whole world.

Computer games are not very realistic.

Trakonya Mutator makes the next step in making games realistic. USB connecting device is designed to display the resulting damage in the game. But the damage will not be displayed on the screen, but on the player.

According to founders, Trakonya Mutator is attached to the human body and gives a little bit of electric current at each projectile impact in a game character. Such realism can be harmful to people with a weak heart.

How could gamers understand from the title, the gadget still works only with Unreal Tournament. The plans for the near future will include – Half-Life support, so that fans of Counter-Strike will be able to try it for themselves.

The cost of the gadget is $59.

Recently, the official site of Toshiba in Japan described a new robot called Toshiba ApriPoko. This robot is designed to fulfill the wishes of its owner and help him/her in everyday life. It observes, learns what you ask and what you want and, thus, becomes an indispensable assistant.

To say briefly, for the first time Toshiba ApriPoko takes command via special remote control and remembers what you asked. And the next time it will do the same thing just by your voice command. By the way, it has a camera and microphone for IDENTIFICATION of the person who asks something. It can have several users as the data is collected and summed separately.

Another interesting feature is that this robot can operate your TV from a distance, as it can be done by a remote control. That is, if you ask it to change the channel, reduce or increase the volume, etc., it will be able to do it.

At the moment there is only a demonstrational version of ApriPoko and it understands only simple commands. But we hope that it will soon be on shelves.