We often write about gadgets with a combination of several functions.
Webcam from Brando has gathered the four most requested features for gadgets that are connected to USB: a lamp, fan, camera and microphone.
The main gadget is a webcam, which allows to organize video and just record video. Naturally, the microphone is also present. In order to record in bad lighting there are located LEDs around the camera. Well, in order not to make the process of shooting a torture – it has a brightness control. You can use LEDs just as a lamp. Apparently, connected with global warming, the developers added a fan.
You can buy this gadget for $23
I will continue to talk about interesting and useful devices from Brando. At this time I’d like to talk about the gadget for charging iPhone. It sometimes happens that the charge goes down, and since there is a USB-cable or the charger from the electricity.
iPhone Power Station is a small charging station, which you can carry with you and charge iPhone as usual. It is suitable for both first-generation iPhone and for iPhone 3G. The device is charged from USB. It is convenient as they can be used anywhere and in any place, even if you do not have computers and electricity.
There is a LED arrow, which flashes when the device is working. iPhone Power Station is available in two colors – black and white. The price of this gadget is $25.
We often write about different digital photo frames. Their basic purpose is to scroll the pictures, which are loaded into memory and thus replace many conventional photo frames with a photo. But their extra features may be different. The one, which will be discussed in today’s article, has an additional function – it is also a magnet that can be attached to the refrigerator door.
You want to decorate your refrigerator door? There is a lack of family warmth in the kitchen? You want to see your favorite people in front of you even while cooking? Then this picture frame is right for you. It’s called DigiFrame.
DigiFrame has a capacity of up to 66 different photos (32 MB memory), which are loaded via the USB of PC. It supports JPG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF formats. By attaching DigiFrame to the refrigerator, you can enjoy photos on a 2.4-inch TFT LCD display. Screen resolution is 320 x 240 pixels.
The gadget costs about $60.
How do you let your colleagues know when you leave your workplace? If you need to say something to family members you can use SMS, but at work it’s not possible to write all your colleagues that you have gone out for an hour.
Of course, you can also just stick a note to the table, but this will be old and trite version. Brando is a USB LED Message Board.
On a small LED screen, which receives power from the USB-port, you can leave messages with sound and animation effects (as in running lines). In the memory device can be stored up to 8 different notes, there are 8 speed and 3 levels of brightness. You can scroll through the messages left, right, up, down.
USB LED Message Board weighs 60 grams, size: 8,5 cm x 2 cm x 5,5 cm. You can buy USB Brando for $27.
A wireless mouse, of course, is very comfortable, but to some extent. Once the batteries begin discharging, harmless mouse turns into a horrible rat, causing a headache.
Of course, you can always keep a number of spare batteries or take a break to reload it, but what if there is no time? In this case, it is better to have a mouse that can be recharged itself.
Naturally, such mouse exists, and it is charged from a standard built in USB.
You can buy this useful gadget for $20.
Recently we wrote about the external storage-cataloguer for 150 discs. Well, the developers of Disc Makers successfully developed this concept.
Gadget Disc Manager 100 will not just hold hundreds of discs, but also protect them from breaking the password. Thus, we get not only a cataloger and storage for drives, but also protect our data from prying eyes.
This gadget gives the owners of every large collection an opportunity to connect up to 5 modules in one way USB (500 drives) or up to 100 devices through USB hubs (50 000 titles).
The price of this gadget ranges from $99 to $129 depending on the quantity.
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.
This gadget can be called photo frames for the speakers, or vice versa, speakers with frames. In any case, it combines these two subjects. For example, if there is not enough space on your table, and you want to put your favorite photo there, this gadget is useful. An also in case you just want to “hide” the speaker.
Photo Frame Speakers connect to your computer or laptop via USB. At the manufacturer’s website it is written that the sound of stereo is of high quality.
Two speakers cost $50.
USB, of course, is the most frequently used port on your computer. But the length of a USB cable does not always satisfy: the flash does not work through the extender of a half meters in length, the printer does not hold out and you have to do the next reshuffle, clearing the way closer to the system unit. What can we say about the desire to connect to devices that are installed much further and require a serious effort to move.
As it turned out, this problem is insurmountable. Company Icron offers a gadget that allows you to increase the distance of the USB port on … 100 meters.
Ranger 2101/2104 allows you to connect any device to the USB port on your computer at a distance of 100 meters. This cable is used as a common standard twisted-pair CAT5 Ethernet.
Extension consists of two blocks. One of them is connected to a computer, and is equipped with a 8P8C plug (which is popular as RJ45), transmits the signal further. Second block receives the signal in the same slot and accordingly transmits it to the input (or inputs, depending on configuration) of the USB. Manufacturer claims that the devices work as connected to the connectors of the PC.
This gadget’s price is $349 (one USB exit) or $389 (4 USB ports).
Digital Photo Watch is a watch with built-in full-color LCD display, which can store and display up to 60 photos. You can watch a slideshow of these photos or separately put them on display. And, of course, it shows time and date.
You can download pictures from a PC or Mac via USB input. The diagonal of the screen is about 4 cm. It is recharged via USB, one charge is enough for 8 hours of continuous work.
Digital Photo Watch costs about $100.
