Monthly Archives: February 2009

Verison Touchscreen Hub

  Here comes the touch screen Verizon Hub, which recently made it to the market around the first of February. It is basically Verizon’s idea of a VoIP phone for the home powered by Wi-Fi and run with a couple of smartphone features. It’s even got a touchscreen, for you convenience. Some of the nifty [...]

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To The Book Cave, Reading Fans!

Here’s a nifty device that was just released late in 2008: a seat literally inside a book case designed to accommodate book lovers who want to spend their time “around” their books. Japanese designer and artist Sakura Adachi came up with the idea of crossing a comfortable chair and the ordinary bookcase and came up [...]

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Look at the Safari 4 Beta

Just released very recently, Apple has come up with the Safari 4 Beta, which is its very own browsing application that promises really fast browsing speed among other great features that users can enjoy such as thumbnail views of your frequently visited sites and page history cover flow, and so much more. As opposed to [...]

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Femtocell for better mobile signal

Got problems with low or bad signal on your mobile phone when you’re in places that have faulty mobile signal? Well, homeowners who just can’t find signal in their own homes or workers who are employed in certain establishments with bad reception can think of getting a Femtocell. Femtocells are basically small devices that look [...]

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High Color Quality in Cheap Laptops

When you think about laptop manufacturers like Apple, you give yourself the assurance based on the company’s reputation that its products are actually rich in color and display quality. True enough, Apple does have a good reputation for digital art. But did you know that even the cheapest of laptops can also have the same, [...]

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Amazon’s got Wii Promos

  Here’s an interesting offer from Amazon on the Nintendo Wii: buying a console at $249.99 within the month will get you a 10% discount for every single subsequent Wii bundle. So when you buy an official Nintendo Wii Nunchuk, Wii Wheel, Remote Controller, and every single Wii game that Amazon has, you get a [...]

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Pre-installing Skype on Nokia N97

It first came out straight from the companies themselves during the 2009 Mobile World Congress that the mobile Skype application will now be pre-installed in Nokia’s N97 model. It seems that aside from the exciting announcements of Nokia such as the putting up of the N86 8MP for sale at below $400 in the US [...]

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Trouble With Touchscreens?

In a study coming from Reevoo.com, 226 mobile phones were subjected to evaluation based on a range of criteria from functionality to style by over 19,000 users. The study came up with a list of top ten popular phones and the ten least popular phones. Here’s a note: five out of the ten least popular [...]

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Martin Szekley’s Parrot Specchio

Say hello to the Parrot Specchio, probably one of the most ingenious designs by Martin Szekley for digital photo frames so far. This little device cleverly masks itself as a mirror which you can place in your home and turns into a multi-functional and versatile digital picture frame when you turn it on. While digital [...]

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Sony Ericsson’s New Concept: Idou

While Barcelona’s recent World Mobile Congress shows many great cell phone models to be available for Europe, the “Iduo”, a new product from Sony Ericsson, really caught a lot of attention – even if it was still “just” and idea. The Iduo is presented by Sony Ericsson as an entertainment phone. Among its main features [...]

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