Control Any TV With The Ninja Remote
Take control of any TV with this Ninja Remote from ThinkGeek.
This little universal remote is the newest (secret) weapon in the Ninja’s arsenal and we assure you in the right hands it can be used to quickly assassinate dangerously annoying TV shows. Simply point the Ninja Remote at the intended target (a television set) and press the mute button for a few seconds - once the TV mutes the remote is now ready to assume full control of its victim. Innocent bystanders will be frozen with fear (or very animated with anger) as the volume and channel change magically in front of their eyes, seemingly controlled by some mysterious force.
The Ninja Remote’s powers will work on a wide variety of televisions (Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba, Sanyo, Aiwa, Mitsubishi, Philips, JVC, Sharp, etc) and its small size will safeguard you against discovery.
The Ninja Remote is available now from ThinkGeek for $8.99 (about £5)
Via Techeblog
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iPhone UK - Everything you need to know about the UK iPhone
The UK iPhone went on sale on November the 9th, and the it costs £269, plus a contract with O2.
The plans will be unlimited data, costing £35, £45 and £55 per month, and the iPhone will also come with free Wi-Fi with access to over 7000 Wi-Fi hotspots around the UK.
You will have to sign up for an 18 months contract. There is a limit: 1,400 internet pages as part of fair usage agreement.
So lets have a look at what this revolutionary mobile device will cost us.
First of there is the £269 purchase price, next you have to sign up to an 18 month contract with O2.
The cheapest one available is £35 per month, so the total cost of the contract over the 18 months is £630, add on your £269 purchase price and the total cost of iPhone ownership in the UK is £899.
That is a lot for a mobile phone, especially since mobiles in the UK are usually free or at low cost, but this is no ordinary mobile phone.
Is the iPhone UK worth the investment ? that remains to be seen, it has had amazing reviews in the US so far, lets hope that they don’t drop the price here in the UK as soon as they did in the US, leaving a lot of the early iPhone adopters unhappy.
Updated 11/11/2007
I would recommend if you are buying an iPhone in the UK you do not buy it from the Carphone Warehouse, I have written about my experience with buying it from them here.
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iPhone UK Launch Date Confirmed
According to Mobileshop, the Apple iPhone will be available in the UK on the 15th of December.
So I decided to give these guys a call and they confirmed, that the iPhone will be available on two networks, Vodafone and O2 from the 15th December 2007.
Whether this is definite remains to be seen, I guess we will know in a few days if Apple makes them change their website.
You can see for yourself on their website.
Update 22nd August 2007
Looks like O2 have won the deal for the iPhone UK, you can read the full story here.
Update 13th September 2007
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Update 18/09/2007 - iPhone UK will launch on November 9th
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iTunes Sales Top 3 Billion Songs
Apple have announced that their popular iTunes music stores have sold over 3 billion songs to date.
Apple have become the third largest online music retailer in the US, and with songs retailing at 99 cents that’s am impressive revenue of approximately 2.97 Billion US $Dollars to date from iTunes alone.
Via Reuters
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Control All Your HDMI Devices With This New 4 Port Switch
Iogear have released details of the new 4 port automatic HDMI switch, the GHDMIAS4.
This new HDMI switch enables you to have a cleaner and simpler home entertainment setup by eliminating cable clutter.
Iogear’s HDMI switch connects your HDTV to your source devices with a single HDMI cable, eliminating the cable clutter from connecting each single source device directly to your HDTV.
Instead, simply connect your HDTV using a single HDMI cable to the switch which is placed along with all your source devices such as your DVD player, video game console, AV receiver, media servers etc. All your source devices will then connect into the switch.
The GHDMIAS4 4 port switch supports 1080p and HDMI 1.3, and is available now for $189.95 (about £95).
Iogear Via Engadget
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‘Mobile USB’ - Transfer Data From Your Mobile Easily
Check out this mobile phone accessory from Tomato Flash.
Insert your Micro SD card into the USB slot and plug it straight into you PC or Laptop for easy transfer of data.
No pricing details are available at the moment.
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Gadget Of The Month - July - Compulab’s fitPC
This months ‘Gadget of the Month Award’ goes to the fitPC from Compulab.
The fitPC is a Linux based fan-less PC the size of a paperback book, which uses only 3-5 watts of power, and cools itself with its black anodized case, which serves as a heat sink.
You can read the full details and specs, about July’s gadget of the month here.
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LG Philips develops oil and water based flexible OLED display
LG Philips has recently filed a patent for a flexible OLED screen technology which would use water and oil to display images.
Apparently one of the problems with current flexible OLED displays, get to hot which makes them hard to manufacture.
LG Philips plans to get around this problem with their water and oil based display, which would used plastic electrodes to create the pixels.
The opaque oil would float on the water and obscure a colored surface beneath — when an electric charge was applied to the field it would reveal the surface and change the color of the pixel.
Apparently this new process is a lot simpler and cheaper than current flexible OLED displays and could possibly bring these displays to mass market at a reasonable price.
Via Engadget
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Pilot Your Wii With This Flight Controller
Check out this Flight Controller for the Nintendo Wii.
It sticks to any flat surface with suction cups, you then add your Nunchuck to one side and your Wii-mote to the other, and you are ready to control any flight game on your Wii.
The Wii Airplane controller is available for $12.99 (about £6) from Renchi.com
Via Technabob
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Brando’s Multi Coloured USB Hub
Brando’s Chromatic USB Hub allows you to connect 4 different USB devices at the same time.
This colourful hub can help to decorate your desk, and you can bend it in any shape you want, a square and circle version are available.
Here’s the Specs
- Features: 4-port hub
- Colourful design
- USB 2.0
- Plug and play, hot swapping
- Low power consumption
- Interface: USB compliance
- Support Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP
- Size: 142×35x17mm
- Weight: 54g
This four port USB is available from Brando for $12 (about £6).Via Gizmodo
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The World’s First Water Cooled Hard Disk Drive
NEC and Hitachi have announced a joint venture, which has resulted in the World’s first water cooling system for Hard Drives.
NEC will be equipping some of their desktop PC’s with this new water cooling system, which was originally designed for Media Centre PC’s.
No details are available yet on pricing or release dates.
Via Akihabara News
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Bluetooth Football - Sounball Controls Music Through Motion
Check out this Bluetooth football from inventor and musician Aleksi R. Stevens.
It is called the Soundball, and it is filled with motion sensors, that detect when the ball is being kicked, rolled, dropped or spun.
The data is then transmitted to a pc that makes corresponding electronic noises.
Via Crave
Here’s the Video of it in action.
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Samsung’s Dual Format HD Player Coming Soon
Samsung have released details of their new dual format HD player, the BD-UP5000, which will support full interactive features of both Blu-ray and HD DVD.
Here’s the specs
- Blu-ray playback at content native HD resolution of 1080p/1080i/720p and 1080p 24Fs/ 60Fs
- HD DVD playback at 1080p/1080i/720p
- HQV (Hollywood Quality Video) video selectable up-conversion processing 720p/1080i/1080p
- Stereo and 7.1-channel audio outputs
- Coaxial and optical digital audio outputs
- Dolby Digital Plus, DTS HD, MP3 audio decoding, Dolby TrueHD
- HD DVD/BD-ROM/ DVD-ROM, DVD-+/R, DVD-+/RW, CD, CD-R and CD-RW
- HDMI 1.3 digital interface (1080p/1080i/720p)
- MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264, HD JPEG decoding
- 12-bit/216 MhZ video D/A converter; 24-bit/192KHz audio D/A converter
- HDMI, Component Video, S-Video and Composite video outputs
- HDMI CEC
- Local Storage
- Picture-in-picture
This Dual HD Format player is due to be on sale in the US in October and will retail for about $1,049 (about £525)
Via ElectronicHouse
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Lost Video Game - Trailer
Here’s a trailer of the upcoming Lost video game,from the guys over at GameTrailers the game is due to be released some time in 2008.
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Vitar’s ViviCam 6200 Waterproof Digital Camera
Vivtars ViviCam 6200W digital camera is designed to be fully waterproof.
It Features a 6 mega-pixel camera, and is coated in rubber, it can go to depth of up to 30 feet.
It also features a 2 inch display. a built in flash, 16 MB of memory and an SD slot.
This waterproof camera is available now for $179.99 (about £90)
Here’s the specs
- 6.0 Megapixels
- Rubber Armored
- Waterproof – 30 ft
- 2.0” Color LTPS
- 16 MB Built-in Memory
- Supports SD Cards to 1 GB
- PictBridge Support
- Flash - Built-in Multi Mode, Auto / On / Off
Via ChipChick
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