GoPro announced the availability of the LCD BacPac, a detachable LCD screen for its HD HERO video camera. The screen attaches to the camera via a small expansion port located on the back of the camera. The screen can be attached to the waterproof housing of the camera, as well as the wrist housing.
Since the screen is detachable, it allows the camera to be small and light, and still have and LCD screen for easier shooting. According to Nicholas Woodman, GoPro’s CEO: “At the core, we’ve kept the HD HERO camera as small and light as possible, cutting out everything that isn’t required for capturing incredible HD content. Our wide angle lens allows for the omission of an LCD screen for most uses, but of course there are times when an LCD screen comes in handy.”
The detachable screen sells for $79.99.
You know how it is these days – there are just way too many passwords to remember what with numerous user accounts of various social networking sites, emails and what not. Not only that, no longer can you just use “password” as your password, as many sites require a minimum length of characters as well as a healthy mix of numbers and letter. Well, the Password Vault will definitely come in handy, as this smartphone sized device is capable of holding account information for website addresses, usernames, passwords, and ATM PINs securely, storing them for immediate retrieval.
It will work differently from password information that is stored on a computer, since your passwords are stored offline in the vault’s memory. This makes sure that sensitive information within can never be compromised – not unless someone close to you nicks it away and uses brute force hacking to figure out its content. The Password Vault comes with a slide out keyboard, where you can also key in additional text notes and accounts after, surprise surprise, entering an initial password. Capable of storing up to 400 account records, it will certainly do its bit in mitigating the risky practice of leaving passwords on notes under keyboards or using a master password for every single account in your possession.
Buttons can be used to scroll between accounts for display on the LCD screen. Just in case you happen to have your precious Password Vault misplaced, lost, or stolen, all it takes are five unsuccessful attempts to access your accounts and the device will lock itself for 30 minutes, making sure your passwords remain safely protected. Pressing the reset button does exactly what it says – all data within will be permanently erased, so hopefully there is some sort of fail safe procedure there that requires you to key in yet another password to confirm the reset, otherwise the itchy fingers of an inquisitive kid might just do in your entire password collection.
At least it sports a built-in flash memory that ensures all of your passwords are retained in memory even when the CR2032 battery required is dead and has to be changed. At $49.95 a pop, this is certainly shaping up to be a pretty neat Christmas present for anyone who uses the computer a whole lot!
Those who cannot be parted with the voices of their favorite radio DJ or prefer to stay updated with the latest news; will surely have to buy Sangean H201 radio, and they will be able to listen to it while taking bath or shower.
Having waterproof shell this gadget meets the standard U.S. Marine JIS7. It has a built-in AM / FM antenna and a digital tuning system PLL. Sangean H201 can store up to 10 radio stations, and all information about its current condition is displayed on a rather large, easy to read LCD screen.
For 64 dollars a waterproof radio Sangean H201 can become your friend in bathroom.
Although the format of the broadcast HD radio has been found a few years ago, its receivers were only in cars and in the form of stationary gadgets for your home or office. It seems that this problem has been solved.
Recently customers in the United States could buy portable radios Insignia NS-HD01, which could work with HD Radio.
The size of the gadget is 7,8 x5, 2×1, 6 cm, which is not too small for the portable player, but for the first gadget of its kind these parameters are quite well. Insignia is also equipped with 0,5-inch (3.81 cm) LCD screen for displaying information about the station, song and artist. It has a memory for ten channels of radio and 3.5 mm headphone input.
The gadget is sold only at Best Buy stores for $50.
Every day we write about the latest gadgets in the world, but today we would like to draw your attention not on a gadget. We have all heard that often the cost of the gadget does not exceed the value of its production, as the main revenue producers receive the related fee-based services (the sale of music, programs, books, subscriptions, etc.). And to complete the background we have only to recall the system of additional contract mobile operators that allow buying a new phone model for peanuts.
The operator Vodafone UK has announced that will spread netbooks Samsung NC10 with built-in 3G modem in the country. We’d like to point out its main characteristics:
- Diagonal LCD screen 10.2 inches
- Screen resolution 1024×600 points
- Processor Intel Atom
- RAM 1 GB
- Hard Drive 160 GB
So, the operator gives a laptop to its subscribers for free. But for it you have to sign a contract for 25 pounds per month (1GB traffic) or 30 pounds per month (3GB) for 24 months.
If you have a full 3G coverage this is an excellent variant. Let’s hope that this method of propagation of netbooks will be taken by other operators in other countries. I would be happy to have such a contract, and what about you?
If you are a romantic and prefer paper letter to an email with flashy cards, we can please you, as even these wishes have already been taken into consideration by modern geniuses of technical progress.
If you stubbornly send your beloved handmade paper cards and letters, splashed with kisses and tears, and then it turns out that somewhere among cities, it has been lost, no need to fall into gloom – there is a solution.
A postcard with a timer will help your letter reach the addressee and show how long it took to get to him/her.
Built-in timer shows your addressee, how much time has passed since you sent this message. Before you send your message, you simply need to click on the button and the timer starts counting, and embedded LCD screen will show everyone who gets this envelope, how many minutes, hours and days the letter was on road.
The developers, who were engaged in making this gadget, also look forward to further benefit from these unusual greeting cards. According to them, this invention is able to monitor the quality of postal services.
