Gadgets – Page 3 – Mind the gap

Samsung’s Q1 Ultra released

Yesterday Samsung released a second generation its UMPC Q1 Ultra. It was done exactly a year after the Q1 first arrived on shelves 7th May 2006.
The Q1 Ultra UMPC features the new Intel Ultra Mobile Processor running at a clock speed of 600 or 800 MHz, along with 1 GB of high speed DDR2 system memory. Aslo the Q1 Ultra is equipped with a seven-inch wide WSVGA LCD touch screen that boasts a native, high-resolution of 1024 x 600. The new, LED backlit LCD supports 300nits of brightness, making the Q1 Ultra ideal for both indoor and outdoor applications.
The Q1 Ultra supports a minimum of 4.5 hours of continuous run time. The Q1 Ultra continues to push the connectivity boundaries, by including integrated 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and the factory optional 3.5G HSDPA cellular modem. Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows XP Tablet Edition operating systems are supported, enabling full PC compatibility with all applications.
The Q1 Ultra has not only exciting features but also it’s tagged at good price – $799 only (the previous model cost more than $1000!). So, it’s good tendency!

[via Engadget]

Driving LED Emoticons

Driving LED Emoticons
I really need this gadget when I drive my car:

The Driving LED Emoticon is a battery powered, wirelessly controlled message sign that can be attached to the rear window of your car via the included suction cup. A remote control unit is kept in the front of the car (fixed to front window, dash, or laid in a storage compartment) to activate the messages by pressing one of its buttons.

It’s extremely easy to install the Driving LED Emoticon on the back window of your car:

To display a desired emotion just press appropriate button on the remote control. The Driving LED Emoticons is available on ThinkGeek and tagged by $29.99. Hope it’ll be enough five emotion on the Cyprus road 🙂

[via Ideal Gadget]

Hidden Camera Spy Clock

Now you can watch easily how your babysitter makes her/his work. With a Hidden Camera Spy Clock it can be done very effective. It comes with a full color camera that transmits signals to a remote receiver for real-time recording. The price of the Hidden Camera Spy Clock is $64.00 which is good for this kind of gadgets. But personally, I’d prefer IP cameras. They are much handy and power. And possibly the babysitter should know about supervision.

[via Ubergizmo]

Nov 20, 2006 4:42 PM LG VX9900 in Verizon

VX9900
This cool mobile communicator is available now in Verizon with full retail pricing at $320.00, one year contract is $200.00, and a two year contract is $149.99. LG VX9900 features a 2.0-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, miniSD card slot, and a host of productivity applications.

[via TechEBlog]

Nokia 870 spy shot

Nokia870

Nokia 770 is very popular now. IMHO, it’s the best product of Nokia. So, it’s reasonable that Nokia decided to release next version of Internet Tablet. The new model – Nokia 870, will have a built-in webcam, which can apparently rotate to face towards or away from the user, 180 MB internal memory and SD slot instead of RS-MMC. Internally it’ll be still 770 and it’ll run OS 2006. The new model won’t have a slide-in “dock” casing which is useless IMHO.
More photos after jump.

[via Engadget]

The next generation of UMPC

Kohjisha

Japanese company Kohjisha announced a new mini-PC – SA1F00A. Basically, it isn’t UMPC but it may be a good competitor for it. SA1F00A features AMD’s 500MHz Geode LX800 CPU, a 7-inch 800×480 touch-sensitive display, up to 1GB of memory and 80GB of disk, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, 3-in-1 memory card and CF card slots, and respectable 5-hour battery with a 2.2-hour full recharge. It measures just 218 x 163 x 25.4mm and it weighs 960-grams. The price of the mini-PC is tagged by $754 for 40GB and $930 for 80GB HDD respectively. It’s less than the price of most popular UMPC on the market. So, SA1F00A has every prospect of success.

[via Engadget]

Rate of arts

Art-O-Meter

Recently I found this interesting device Art-O-Meter:

Art-O-Meter is a device that measures the quality of an art piece. It bases its evaluation on the amount of time that people spend in front of an artwork compared to the total time of exhibition. The measurements are graphically represented by comments and a 5 star rating system.

This device may help you to evaluate of artworks. But IMHO it’s very very visual. And it might be more reasonable to read some information and opinions before visit of art gallery.

Mister Tipster

Mister Tipster is an another way to read RSS:

The small, stylish display unit allows users to keep current on all the latest headlines, financial news, weather reports, sports scores, blog updates and even jokes â€“ all without taking space away from the spreadsheet, document, browser or game on their computer screen.

Mister Tipster has monochrome LCD display and needs open USB port and Internet connection to bring RSS. The device is $150. Maybe I missed something but you can add another $150 and buy Nokia770 which is much power and useful than this old-style gadget.

[via eHomeUpgrade]