GPS is becoming more and more popular in high(ish)-end phones so that SatNav can be used on the move and for a good laugh on Google Earth. But a growing use of GPS is seriously cool (and useful!) – digital cameras with GPS capabilities which allow you to tag your photos onto a map, so you can see exactly where you took them. Let’s look at the current contenders.
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Bluetooth headsets have never really been the epitome of style. Presenting The Ripple – coming from the designer Ilya Fridman, this headset is a small, circular disk with ‘ripples’ emitting from the center which is also a small button used to control the device.
Without knowing what it actually was, most people would just assume it’s a very modern and very large earring, but part of the circle flips outwards to reveal the microphone and when a conversation is over, you can press the center button to keep the headset active for listening to music.
via Popgadget.
Rarely do we find a bargain in this day and age, but that seems exactly what GetUSB.info have done; they’ve spotted a very nice D-Link print server for just $20 on Buy.com, with free shipping and no sneaky discounts – just an honest price – even D-Link are selling it direct for $40! If you’ve got an old printer knocking around that needs plugging into a computer to be used, then there isn’t any excuse not to get it set up wirelessly with this print server.
The DP-301U is compact, has easy configuration via a web-based utility and supports USB 2.0 for extreme printing. The majority of operating systems are supported, but Windows users get a lovely admin program to help manage it.
Buy now!
More info from the manufacturer
Price: $19.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Here are some of our notable articles for the past week. First we pondered whether Twitter’s popularity would last. Google News now has a Timeline of Events – nice feature.
We noticed that YouTube were looking to accept full length and legal content, while Fuijitsu have developed some secure new memory sticks. Adobe announced their plans to integrate Flash technology with TVs.
Oracle is picking up where IBM left off, buying out Sun for around $7 billion. That’s a lot of Rubik’s Cube Clocks!
ReQall is a very nice piece of to-do software; it allows you to make a to-do with reminders via a wide range of media. When setting yourself a to-do note, you can call their toll free number and dictate the note (using voice recognition software), text the note, instant message (IM) the note, send via a Firefox extension and by applications available for many phones (including of course iPhones and Blackerrys).
There is integration with Google Calendar & Outlook, sharing of items with other people, and the premium version even has location-aware reminders (ex: you go to the supermarket and want to be reminded to buy milk).
The basic version is free and the Pro version is $2.99/month or $24.99 a year – a real bargain for what you get.
Fujitsu have just announced their latest memory security device; one that erases the data after a certain time period and also has the ability to block users from copying the files from the memory stick to a PC. Perfect if you’ve had your memory stick with confidential files on lost or stolen (something that that would probably be welcomed in the UK).
No word on pricing or availability yet, but hit the link to find out all the gory details: Read more.
YouTube and Sony are currently in talks to display full-length content from Sony Pictures on YouTube. About a week ago, a deal was closed between YouTube and Disney to do the same with some short Disney clips – but it seems that Sony Pictures may provide some longer content for YouTube.
This may be a case of YouTube are playing a game of ‘catch-up’ as service providers all over the world are allowing their shows to be watched online through their own websites which may be lowering the demand for YouTube slightly. Unknown to many, Sony Pictures owns Crackle.com which produces high quality video in-house for the sole purpose of being uploaded to that site.
If this deal goes ahead, we can look forward to a lot of quality content on YouTube professionally produced in addition to the excellent amateur movies out there. Nice.
Spy cameras – nothing new here; hidden cameras have been around for years and have slowly made it from the upper echelons of the security services down to ordinary consumers like us. Here we’re going to feature some of the best hidden spy cameras that are available right now for an ordinary person.
Starting off our list is the calculator spycam, this very clever gadget allows you to do some calculations and can also record at a very nice 25FPS into 320×240 resolution on its 128MB internal memory – don’t worry though; it supports SD cards up to 2GB. The camera will record the video in AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, VOB, DAT and ASF with a similar amount of options for photo and audio recording formats! What more could you realistically want in a spy camera? A cheaper price maybe – $349.99 Buy Now or look below for some cheaper ideas to invade your loved ones’ privacy have a laugh with.
Lots more spy camera gadgets after the jump. …
So you’ve been rocking out on Rock Band and have plastic instruments strewn around the living room in front of the TV. Want to get it out of the way when you’re not fake-shredding? the AK Rock Box should solve this – it is essentially a stylish ottoman, that wouldn’t look out of place in anyone’s house – it opens up and all your Rock Band instruments come out.
Inside, there is enough space to store 2 guitars, a foot pedal and a microphone, and there is a specially designed drum kit lift to help you get your drums out in one, easy motion. A pretty nice solution to a problem most Rock Banders have.
Buy now!
Price: $204.34
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
I recently got rid of all my VHS tapes, simply because I decided there were only 4 or 5 worth keeping, and I might as well just buy them on DVD if I ever wanted to watch them again, but what if you have hundreds of VHS tapes that you don’t want to throw away? How do you convert those VHS tapes to DVD? Well, over the years we have featured a few solutions that will allow you to copy your VHS tapes to DVDs for a fraction of the cost of buying new ones. Here’s our Top 4 countdown:
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