Archive for the ‘Mobiles & PDAs’ Category
Hammacher Schlemer’s Virtual Keyboard for iPhone and iPad: A spookily clever device!
How would you feel sat at your desk typing away on a projected laser-generated ‘virtual’ keyboard, pretty surreal I bet? Surreal and futuristic visions of typing away on what fundamentally equates to ‘thin air’ are beginning to surface as a reality, with the long-serving provider of ‘unique’ products, Hammacher Schlemer, introducing The Virtual Keyboard. This Bluetooth Class II laser device projects a cybernetic keyboard onto any flat and opaque surface,…
Proporta TurboCharger: Ludicrously useful
Proporta, gadget accessories specialist (they’ve got pretty much everything your wired-up heart might desire: cables, power solutions, protective cases and more), have recently announced the newest and best addition to its award-winning USB TurboCharger range. This ludicrously (love that word…) useful little product is a compact, high-powered rechargeable battery that charges from any USB port and allows you to juice up even the most power-hungry gadgets again and again, no…
Acer Liquid Express: Because smartphones certainly aren’t getting any dumber!
Acer is extending its range of smartphones with the Acer Liquid Express – But will it live up to other premium smartphones? Following on from the launch of Acer’s first Liquid smartphone equipped with Android, Acer’s latest model is the company’s first NFC-equipped device. For those of you unaware of what NFC is abbreviated for, it is Near Field Technology, which is basically technology designed to make life easier and…
‘Oh-my-gosh-have-you-seen-that’ Gun Stylus Assault Rifle?
I have personally never been an advocator of toy rifles, or war gaming for that matter that requires the use of virtual guns, due to the simple reason that they encourage violence. When therefore I read a press release from the creative interactive software developers, Plow Games, about the arrival of the Gun Stylus Assault Rifle Limited Edition, a gun that you point at an iPhone, iPad or other touch…
Tascam iM2 review: CD quality recording comes to the iPhone
One of the best things about iPhones and by extension all smartphones, is the amount of amazing things they put in your pocket. The humble mobile phone was transformed into swiss army knife – at a moment’s notice it was a games console in your pocket, a camera in your pocket replete with editing and uploading abilities or a pocket music studio, where multi-track recording and effects processing, once expensive…
January’s get fit schedule just got smarter with the Wahoo Fitness Blue Heart Monitor
I don’t know about you but with all this drinking, too many late nights and excessive eating, I felt like bypassing the New Year and beginning the January detoxing early – perhaps it’s just my age! Although if I want to exploit the get fit advantages of the Wahoo Fitness Blue HR Heart Rate Monitor, the world’s first Bluetooth Smart Heart Rate Monitor, I’ll have to wait until mid-January, when…
£300 to spare? How about a wallet for your iPhone 4S?
Now here’s a problem I’d like to have. You have just under 300 quid burning a hole in my pocket and want to buy a present for the woman who has everything – including the new iPhone 4S The answer to the problem would be? The Capulet Wristlet for the iPhone. This designer piece from the London-based luxury accessories brand, is a wallet, which has room for your iPhone and…
Turn your phone into a games console with the Gametel
Turn your Android smartphone or tablet into a portable games console with the Gametel.The Gametel, produced by Swedish gaming peripheral company Fructel, is a wireless controller that helps you play games on your mobile device. The Gametel looks familiar to gamers – with its D-pad, four buttons and two shoulder triggers. It is compatible with phones and tablets running Android 2.1.1 Éclair or later and connects to your device using…
Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Three: Hands-on review
Three were so excited about the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the flagship Android phone, that they sent me one to cast my weary eye over for a week or so. So how is the new hotness? Samsung and Google left little out of the guts of the Galaxy Nexus. Inside the device you’ll find a dual-core TI OMAP 4460 CPU clocked to 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM, 32GB or 16GB of…
Blackberry goes multi platform at last with Blackberry Multi Fusion
The ongoing battle between Blackberry, iOS and Android users as to whose platform is best has taken an interesting turn with the recent announcement that RIM (Research in Motion) the manufacturer of Blackberry is releasing a set of cross platform enterprise mobility tools entitled Multi Fusion. The tools have been designed to simplify the headache facing corporate IT heads trying to effectively manage their employees’ smart phones and tablets running…
