AccessoriesThat ratty old bean bag chair was fine when your were an undergrad, but why deal with all of the verbal jabs and piercing stares now that your lady-friend has coerced you into moving in? You clearly can’t leave your Xbox 360 behind, and of course you need a proper gaming-cathedra to keep you on [...]
Art Lebedev, creator of the long awaited and highly anticipated OLED keyboard, has just posted a mock up of the Optimus Tactus keyboard concept. A Transformer of sorts, the design consists of a large touchscreen panel that would allow users / software to create keys and other interfaces in any shape or pattern. This forward-thinking [...]
With a formal announcement coming at CES 2008 in January, the upcoming Mustek PF-i700 combines a stylish digital photo frame with a full-function iPod multimedia dock. Mustek’s new 7" TFT digital frame will feature an integrated iPod dock, stereo speakers and 480 x 234 resolution with a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. Users will be able [...]
After seeing images and the video from this Japanese trade show it looks like "digital paper" isn’t the only ultra-thin technology we have to look forward to. Japanese researchers have managed to create a prototype of a paper-thin speaker that not only has decent sound quality but also is capable of creating a virtual surround [...]
Oregon-based Fusion Audio Technologies (FAT? Seriously?) announced the availability of their new power extender for iPods and the iPhone this past Friday. Pulling its juice from six AAA batteries, the iPowerRush can turn the standard "oh crap my iPhone is about to die" dash home into a simple flip of a switch. FAT reports that [...]
Next month at CES 2008, Liquid Image will be displaying what is sure to become an instant favorite among perverts around the world. The Digital Underwater Camera Mask is a pair of goggles equipped with a center-mounted camera capable of recording video or capturing still images. Initial details dictate that the camera is waterproof up [...]
Fortune 500 giant Shell Group has just taken their first installation of AirPoint, the world’s first hand-tracking unit. Freshly launched, the AirPoint Bar is a compact device that allows users to control interactive multimedia content on any computer using only hand gestures. During a preview run at the Dubai Airshow this past October, Shell witnessed the [...]
The current trend in headphones is noise-cancelling / noise-isolating but Korean company En-Tech is taking a different approach with their latest audio delivery offering. In fact, the En-Tech Vibe NVE-100 ear-phones are essentially the polar opposite of noise cancelling. By design, the NVE-100s allow sounds to be heard so that the wearer is not disconnected [...]
There are plenty of guides across the ‘net recommending all sorts of gift ideas for this holiday season. Looking for gadget gifts on a budget? There are guides for that. Need the perfect luxury gift for your friend who has everything? There are guides for that. How about a nice body sock for your girlfriend’s [...]
As suppliers of news to the Royal Court of the Doggfather, we thought there should be something which had both street cred and tech cred. We’re in luck, because Jabra made us look no further than the BT3030. The BT3030 is no ordinary stereo Bluetooth headset, and it doesn’t bother to look like it. It [...]
We’ve all been there, when we were kids. Seeing those people touch their left ear, and secretly saying something into a headset was so cool. Then when we grew up, and had the money to buy a headset for our phones, it just didn’t feel the same.
Maybe there is a chance to regain some of [...]
We just got one of these in here at BGR world headquarters, and had a chance to play around with it. From early findings, we’re actually quite disappointed at the "noise cancellation" that the headset supposedly offers. Well, that’s CrystalTalk for you, right? The great part about the headset, is that it is actually one [...]
Motorola went and announced their H12 Bluetooth headset just now, and it’s the first headset to feature CystalTalk, previously found only in some of their handsets. It supposedly was designed with "TrueComfort" which should alleviate those awkward irritating moments when wearing a Bluetooth headset for longer than 5 minutes. They didn’t just stop there, though. [...]