Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

Useless gadgets you can’t help but want – part One.

Monday, November 27th, 2006

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Did you ever find a product, may it be an electronic gadget or something else, and think that it’s totally pointless, then feel the need to play with it for a bit? Or did you ever find such an item, and immediately think “Wow, I wouldn’t spend a dime on this! But it would be cool to receive it as a present…”? I know I did. Here’s a list with some of these products. (more…)

DocuPen RC800 – hand held scanner

Sunday, November 26th, 2006
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Some time ago PLANon released a nifty gadget called R700, it was a portable, hand held, full page scanner. It was interesting at it’s time but then it could only scan in black and white. Since then science moved forward and so did PLANon, now they proudly present the RC800, we’re talking about a 226 x 12 x 12 mm device, with a weight of 54g, using a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery that can be charged via USB, 8mb flash memory with the possibility to extend using a MicroSD memory card. With that you get four scanning modes: Black and White ->1bit, Grayscale -> 4/8bit, Color ->12bit, Hi color ->24bit.

The scanning settings can be easily selected using the two side buttons and the row of icons telling you what configuration you are using for the next scan. The icon row also give you information about the battery left, memory usage and also a led that indicates when you are scrolling too fast over the page.

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The design is quite appealing, compact and (more…)

SPH-P9000 – Samsung’s wonder child

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
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All in one! Windows XP, 1GHz Transmeta processor, 30GB hard drive, 5-inch screen, MP3, video on demand, QWERTY keyboard, WiMax, 1.3-megapixel camera, CDMA, Bluetooth, 5.6- by 3.7-inch and just over an inch thick case. I am now talking about the new SPH-P9000 from Samsung, this awsome mobile device was released at the Mobile WiMAX Summit 2006. For access to the Internet the device uses wireless and the CDMA EV-DO technology provides mobile phone connection. For screenshots click here.
This is my kind of device and I would talk more about it but the above specifications just speak for themselves, it’s one of those devices that makes you want to buy them no matter what.