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A bona fide experience! – Five of the best interactive gadgets
I am still recovering from a “Wii” party I went to this weekend, where a dozen or so tipsy women battled it out on the virtual ‘hula hoop’, becoming more and more determined to win after each glass of wine. It was one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed. Interactive gaming, whether it be playing golf virtually or pretending to shoot flying ducks, has really exploded in recent…
Education all year round – An ‘educational’ gadget roundup
With the end of the school year upon us, the prospect of keeping the kids entertained for six weeks can be a slightly daunting one for any parent to say the least. Without wanting children to spend mind-numbing days sat in front of the television or playing video games, latestgadgets has come up with four of the best ‘educational’ gadgets, which will ensure for an enlighteningly developmental summer break. Veho…
Pioneer CDJ-850: Bedroom DJ kit goes pro
Pioneers have always been ubiquitous with DJ culture; from the early years of the digital mixing with their first CDJ 1000 and have been at the forefront of the CD mixing phenomenon since the death of Vinyl mixing over the last few years. They are now ready to release a new line of CDJ that will bridge the divide between the bedroom DJ and a true professional. Pioneer CDJ’s are…
Top 10 iPad games
With the official UK and international iPad release more than a month old, we thought we would give you a run down on the best games that have been keeping us entertained for a month now. We trawled through the iTunes store and here is our top ten. We’ve tried, tested and reviewed all the iPad games below ourselves to see whether the revised iPad editions are better than their…
Test driving the new ZTE Racer
ZTE, whose F930 we looked at here, are back with another medium spec handset, to the delight of budget conscious shoppers everywhere. ZTE invited Latest Gadgets to have a play with their newest attempt to win the hearts and minds of the average mobile phone shopper. The ZTE racer is an Android powered smartphone, that shuns the latest and greatest for “quite good”. Unveiled to an audience of spec hungry…
myID have your biometric passport covered
When you travel abroad, your passport is by far your most valuable asset. And with the rise of identity theft, not to mention all manner of sophisticated cloning techniques, passport safety is serious business. A simple holder to pop it into will keep it secure – but where’s the glamour? After all, there’s no point going to the bother of colour co-ordinating your designer luggage to match your designer outfit,…
The GE Wattstation electric car charger – redefining the electric car industry
“Good design is when a new technology enters our lives and makes it more simple, beautiful and healthy”, were the words of the great industrial designer Yves Behar, founder of Fuseproject, a branding and design company based in San Francisco. Pertaining these words of wisdom to the electric car industry, which currently boasts only relative popularity, and is notably absent from roads in the United States, Behar has announced the…
Round-up: Wil Wheaton T-Shirts, Blinkx beat on Samsung Galaxy, Shazam Encore
Awesome things have a way of getting into the Latest Gadgets inbox. Here are just a few. Remember when we mentioned Jinx– clothing for geeks and the like? Well they’ve teamed up with nerd icon Wil Wheaton … y’know ensign Crusher from Star Trek :The Next Generation … Sheldon’s rival in The Big Bang Theory? Gordie Lachance from Stand by Me? If you don’t know what I’m talking about deduct…
Girls get the chance to shake their groove thing – the Samsung Tic Toc mp3 player
Here’s one for the girls – a cute little MP3 player with an unusual control system. Samsung’s Tic Toc has only one button, which can be clicked to change the volume, and clicked three times to skip to the next album. A nifty motion control features allows other controls to be undertaken by shaking this palm-sized gadget (rather like the shake to shuffle feature on the iPod nano and Shuffle)….
Toshiba’s libretto W100 challenges iPad to a dual
Here’s the situation. You have your desktop at home with dual screens and use it for gaming and generally doing a hundred things at once. Then you have your laptop or tablet for out and about. Trouble is it only has one screen so not so great for multi-tasking. Well Toshiba’s libretto W100 might be the answer to your prayers. The libretto W100 is an ultra-mobile concept tablet laptop with…
