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Battery Charger Gadget

Posted by admin on Jan 30, 2009 in Computers, Power

Did you ever found out in the middle of working you have almost no power left on your laptop? If yes, then this interesting laptopgadget I saw is just the right thing for you. The peddle charger is a mechanical (kinetic) power based gadget so you will get the power for as long as you are physically capable to activate it.

The only problem with this peddle, which I think will make it useless to many people is the fact that it is a bit big – its size is : 170 X 184 X 49 mm, but for those of you who can’t afford losing the power while working on their laptop this is a nice solution.

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3D Television in Your Living Room

Posted by admin on Jan 24, 2009 in Television

Panasonic demonstrated its new 3D television in the CES conference that took place in Vegas this here. The new TV will show 3D movies using special glasses.

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New Palm Phone Against iPhone

Posted by admin on Jan 16, 2009 in Cellular, GPS, iPHONE

Palm introduced a new touch- screen phone in CES, Las Vegas.  Palm who was “quiet” during the massive success of the PalmiPhone and Blackberry shocked all the visitors in CES with this new phone. The phone has slide out full keyboard (QWERTY) and introduce new operating system (webOS). It includes also GPS, camera (3GMpixel) and 8GB internal memory. Another interesting feature is the TouchStone which is a wirelees charging dock that powers the phone just by pacing it on the dock.

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Nevigation Inside Buildings

Posted by admin on Jan 12, 2009 in Cellular, GPS

How many times have you enter to a building just to find out that it takes you forever to find the office you need?
Nokia has published research which its findings show that ‬ people who enter into buildings, “wasting” in there ‭ 90% of their time looking for the right place.

GPS nevigationWell, all familiar navigation devices perform only outdoors, where there is a way to communicate with  satellites in space. Another problem is that the accuracy of the civilian GPS versions is about 10 to ‭ 30 – ‬ meter. This fluctuation make it impossible to rely on.

Nokia, in collaboration with several leading universities, develop navigation program for indoors to help us easily find the car we left in the parking lot, to get to the right store in a shopping center within seconds, or rush to the right gate at the airport.

The idea is to use wireless Internet access point in the building, and the exact location will be calculated by the cell-phone accordance to the distance from the nearest access point. Nokia runs the system on ‭ 40 – ‬ buildings in the world, including shopping centers, airports and universities – all with existing wireless acces points.

The new development, will be integrated into Nokia Cell- Phones and probably will change the area of location-based services (LBS) which is the main lines of growth of cellular marketing.

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Benefits of Vehicle Tracking Devices

Posted by admin on Jan 10, 2009 in GPS

GPS devices for navigation and tracking your vehicle are increasingly popular. There are more ads regarding the devices as well as information on how they can help you. If you want to learn more about the system that seems so complicated you might consider the information we have for you in the below article.

With every vehicle tracking device, with the GPS technology you have a panic button inside the car. The panic button allows you to speak with personnel in case of emergency. For example say a passenger is having some type of medical attack like asthma, and you need to find the nearest hospital. You can hit the panic button and get a hold of emergency personnel to help you get to the hospital and alert the hospital that you are on your way. The button can assist you if you are in a small accident or in case the car is about to be car jacked. You simple hit the button and the GPS system alerts the emergency personnel. Since they will respond by voice it could deter a thief from continuing their pursuits of taking your car. You will have to verify who you are of course.

Another example would be if you get locked out of your car. All you have to do is phone the call centre that takes care of your vehicle tracking device. They will be able to unlock the door because of the system installed. This is great if you find that your child is locked in the car, but you are outside. It is also a great feature if you lose where you parked your car after going into a store. They can track the GPS and point you in the right direction.gps

Travelling in your car can be difficult at times. Sometimes mechanical problems happen that were not foreseen. This issue could leave you on the side of the road stranded in a place where you are not familiar. Luckily with a vehicle tracking system they can locate you, wait with you on the line, and send the nearest available help to get you out of a jam.

Teenagers with driving licenses can be somewhat fearful for parents. Parents like to know where their children are and that they are safe. If a teenager is not home on time with the car, all a parent has to do is check the GPS signal in the vehicle. They don’t have to phone and embarrass their child.

GPS vehicle tracking systems are mostly known for theft situations. Your car can be parked on the side of the road in your subdivision and it gets stolen overnight. If you have a GPS system, you just let the police know the vehicle has been stolen and that it has a tracking device. They are then able to help you recover the vehicle. They can even track the speed the vehicle is travelling. Usually the police will let you know when they have recovered the stolen car.

There are several reasons a vehicle tracking device should be installed in your car. You have plenty of options that will be affordable to you and you have the option of comparing these different choices before signing up with any one company. You will want a qualified individual to do the installation though.

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2008: Top Breakthroughs

Posted by admin on Jan 2, 2009 in Cameras, Cellular, Computers

1) Android: HTC G1 phone has lot of disadvantages if you look on some other solutions, but the most important news that we got with this phone is the free mobile operating system from Google- Android. The HTC G1 is only the first of many phones that will use it in the near future. As it looks, the Android has high potential to take the cell phone industry to very intersting place where large developer community will support it growing.

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2) USB 3.0: The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is very popular standard for transferring data from PC to many kind of devices and charging PDAs/Phones. These days there was major update in the standard, which will get 10 times faster rate than the current USB 2.0 (4.8 gigabits per second). Another improvement will increase the amount of electrical current that USB cable will deliver ( 900 milliamps instead of 100 milliamps), and this will allow more devices to be charged faster.

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3) Video-Capable SLRs: This year the camera industry overcome major limitation that prevent high-end single-lens reflex cameras to shoot video. Two new cameras Nikin D90 and Canon 5D Mark II shoot HD video and capture top notch still images.

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Did you get iPhone already?

Posted by admin on Dec 28, 2008 in Cellular, iPHONE

So, ever since they started selling those iPhones at Wal Mart people can now get them easily, so did a friend of mine who was at a conference at the US. He bought himself one of these (well, actually not at wal mart since he is not living in the US and couldnt commit to the cellular plan they were offering) and after returning he was trying to unlock iPhone, he was trying to do it through a guy his brother knew, didnt work for some reason, so he was searching the net for a solution. So, basically, the thing you need to know, there are a lot of sites dealling with the all issue of unlocking iPhones, but, just keep in mind before you buying something, not all of them will unlock your 3g iPhone, so pay attention to it. Anyway, he then found out a site all about how to unlock iPhone 3g, it worked this time so if you are looking to unlock your iPhone, even the new 3g’s, there are things that already works perfecly.

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Wii Fit is it Healthy?

Posted by admin on Dec 26, 2008 in Console, Games

The console-Wii has done several revolutions, it led people never thought to play video games, to jump in front of the television. It showed Sonny and Microsoft that bigger explosions are not the only important thing in games and more than that it caused players to get up from the couch and activate theie muscles a bit.

Recently doctors in Britain told the Sun newspaper 10 people a week are coming to hospitals due to injuries caused due to the use of the Nintendo console. Following the reports, doctors suggest to do some workout before using the console for fitness.



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