Gadget - 3 in 1 DSi Game Selector from BLAZE

Another release from Blaze. The World’s First 3 in 1 Game Selector for the DSi!

This revolutionary new device is designed to clip perfectly onto your DSi consoles holding three of your favourite games which are quickly and easily selectable using a single switch action.

The built in game selection indicator allows us to see which game has been selected at a glimpse making the operation of the BLAZE 3 in 1 Game Selector simple and intuitive.

Features:

• Choose between 3 DSi games at the flick of a switch
• Holds 3 DSi Games
• Built in Game Selection Indicator
• The perfect for for the DSi console
• Self powered – No batteries required

The BLAZE 3 in 1 Game Selector combines the practicality of storing 3 games, with the complete ease of selecting which one to play all wrapped up is a sleek stylish unit which compliments the look of our DSi consoles.

Gadget - Sony NEX5

I like the NEX5 because it offers good performances, it is easy to use and it is also super light.

NEX-5 comes with a 14.2 megapixels Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor and a a sensitivity which reaches ISO 12,800 NEX5A provides clear, pin-sharp pictures even in low lighting conditions.

In fact Sony NEX-5 is one of the world’s smallest and lightest interchangeable-lens camera.

It is DSLR-style quality camera. The NEX5 will allow you to capture stunning images with DSLR-like picture quality, plus the convenience of interchangeable lenses – all without the size and weight of a DSLR.

The main menu is completely intuitive so you won’t have to go scrabbling for the manual every five minutes. It features six clearly labelled icons that can be selected simply by rotating and pressing the control wheel. Inside, standard scrolling menus provide quick access to settings for shooting and playback functions, as well as a host of other preferences and camera settings.

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Gadget - FR60 Fitness Watch

Garmin launched the FR60 Fitness Watch. This gadget will help you set fitness goals and track your progress.

While you exercise, the easy-to-use FR60 accurately tracks your time, calories burned, heart rate and other data from linked fitness equipment. Once you’re done and within range of your computer, that information is wirelessly transferred and stored for later analysis.rty fitness equipment at the gym or at home.

FR60 system is an advanced fitness watch which interfaces wirelessly with other ANT+ compatible fitness devices such as a heart rate monitor, a foot pod that monitors speed and distance or third-party fitness equipment at the gym or at home.

Garmin FR60 is available in men’s and women’s versions.

Garmin FR60 features:

• tracks your time, calories burned, heart rate and other data from linked fitness equipment
• can track and record up to 15 hours and 100 laps of detailed exercise data
• records its data from the heart rate monitor, foot pod and ANT+ compatible fitness equipment
• cycling enthusiasts will enjoy the versatile options of adding a bike speed and cadence sensor and a handy bike mount
• wireless USB ANT. Stick that plugs into the user’s PC or Mac and automatically downloads workout data
• available in three colors – red, lilac and black

No info about the price yet.

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Gadget - Sony Headphones

Hip-hop? Dubstep? Drum’n’bass? Whatever you’re into, there’s a new range of headphones from Sony for music lovers with tastes that go a little deeper.

The dramatically styled new XB series creates a heavy club vibe with rich, powerful bass you can really feel. Standing for “eXtra Bass”, the new XB range accurately reproduces ultra-low frequencies without compromising crystal-clear midrange vocals and high frequency sounds.

 

The five-model XB range is headed by the closed-type MDR-XB700. This premium headphone features innovative Sony technologies that take you straight to the heart of the dancefloor.

Inside, there’s a rugged, extra-large 50mm dome-type driver that effortlessly reproduces pristine ultra-low frequencies. Optimised bass performance is balanced by clear, uncoloured reproduction of high- and mid-frequencies for a rich, satisfying soundscape.

As you’d expect from Sony, styling is as striking as the sonic performance. Sumptuously crafted from synthetic leather, the king-sized ear cushion (MDR-XB700/500/300) reduces sound leakage for fat, booming bass with excellent sound isolation. The unique urethane cushion spreads pressure evenly, providing comfortable wear over extended listening periods.

Complementing the king-sized ear cushion, a wide headband features a new ‘seamless’ design for cutting-edge looks plus extra wear comfort.

Also available, the in-ear MDR-XB40EX and MDR-XB20EX deliver seismic bass thanks to an innovative ‘direct vibe’ acoustic design that minimises sound spillage. The innovative vertical driver orientation (with MDR-XB40EX only) delivers clear, powerful audio with extended bass without compromising listening comfort.

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Gadget - Nokia N8

N8

Shoot your masterpiece in HD
Film, edit and perfect your high-definition masterpieces, then share them with the world. Add music, images, text and transitions - all from the phone. With a large 12 MP sensor and Carl Zeiss optics you can capture great images. The Xenon flash allows you to take good pictures in low-light conditions as well.

Connect to your home theatre
The Nokia N8 features an HDMI connection so you can easily show off your images, videos and music on compatible televisions and projectors. All in stunning high-definition digital 720p resolution. It also features premium-quality *Dolby Digital Plus technology - compatible with home theatre systems - so movies will sound as good as they look.

Integrated social networking
The Nokia N8 brings your friends together, by pulling feeds and updates from Facebook and Twitter to one handy application. Photos and videos can be shared the moment they're captured, Facebook events added to your calendar with just one click. Live updates are shown on your home screens, making it even easier to stay in touch.

Make it your own
Personalise your phone by adding your own widgets. Not one but three live home screens – make one for work, use one for fun, and have one with your favourite picture as the wallpaper. Swipe between the home screens with an easy gesture. Download more widgets from Ovi Store.

Download thousands of opportunities
Turn your Nokia N8 into a tool for showing off, having fun and being creative. In Ovi Store you’ll find thousands of different applications to constantly upgrade and improve your device. Download apps, games and videos. The possibilities to make your phone smarter, more useful and simply more fun are endless.

National Geographic in your pocket
The Nokia N8 with on-demand WebTV. Access your favourite TV channels like CNN and National Geographic and get them piped to your phone from the comfort of your bus seat. Visit Ovi Store to find even more WebTV channels.

Navigation. For free. Forever.
Voice-guided navigation wherever you are in the world. Absolutely free. Simply enter where you want to go and Ovi Maps with voice guidance will tell you how to get there, turn by turn. By car or on foot.

Fifty hours of music playback
You can browse smoothly through all your favourite albums and once again get thrilled by the album artwork. Re-experience your record collection for over 50 hours straight.

Make a good thing even better.

Hear Ovi Map's voice guidance navigation conveniently through the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-608. Or go all out and make your flight a pleasure with the Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-905 with eight microphones for cancelling up to 99% of background noise.

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Gadget - Blackberry Playbook

Blackberry Playbook

RIM redefined the possibilities for mobile computing with its new professional-grade BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry Tablet OS.

Perfect for either large organizations or an “army of one”, the BlackBerry PlayBook is designed to give users what they want, including uncompromised web browsing, true multitasking and high performance multimedia, while also providing advanced security features, out-of-the-box enterprise support and a breakthrough development platform for IT departments and developers. The incredibly powerful and innovative BlackBerry PlayBook is truly a game-changing product in the growing tablet marketplace.

The Tablet You'll Want to Take Everywhere
This beautifully designed and incredibly powerful tablet is ultra portable, ultra thin and super convenient for both work and play. Measuring less than half an inch thick and weighing less than a pound, the BlackBerry PlayBook features a vivid 7” high resolution display that looks and feels great in your hand. With such a unique mix of utility, performance and portability, you’ll want to take it everywhere.

The New Benchmark in Tablet Performance
At its heart, the BlackBerry PlayBook is a multitasking powerhouse. Its groundbreaking performance is jointly fueled by a 1 GHz dual-core processor and the new BlackBerry Tablet OS which supports true symmetric multiprocessing. Together, the abundant processing power and highly sophisticated OS enable the BlackBerry PlayBook to provide users with true multitasking and a highly-responsive and fluid touch screen experience for apps and content services.

Uncompromised Web Browsing
With support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR and HTML-5, the BlackBerry PlayBook provides customers with an uncompromised, high-fidelity web experience and offers them the ability to enjoy all of the sites, games and media on the web. For more than a decade, the mobile industry has worked to bridge the gap between the “real web” and mobile devices through various apps and technologies and, in fact, a significant number of mobile apps today still simply serve as a proxy for web content that already exists on the web. The BlackBerry PlayBook closes that gap and brings the real, full web experience to mobile users while also opening new and more exciting opportunities for developers and content publishers.

High Performance Multimedia
The BlackBerry PlayBook features premium multimedia features to support high-quality mobile experiences. It includes dual HD cameras for video capture and video conferencing that can both record HD video at the same time, and an HDMI-out port for presenting one's creations on external displays. The BlackBerry PlayBook also offers rich stereo sound and a media player that rivals the best in the industry.

BlackBerry Integration
For those BlackBerry PlayBook users who carry a BlackBerry smartphone, it will also be possible to pair their tablet and smartphone using a secure Bluetooth connection. This means they can opt to use the larger tablet display to seamlessly and securely view any of the email, BBM, calendar, tasks, documents and other content that resides on (or is accessible through) their smartphone. They can also use their tablet and smartphone interchangeably without worrying about syncing or duplicating data. This secure integration of BlackBerry tablets and smartphones is a particularly useful feature for those business users who want to leave their laptop behind.

Enterprise Ready 
Thanks to the seamless and secure Bluetooth pairing experience and the highly secure underlying OS architecture, the BlackBerry PlayBook is enterprise ready and compatible (out-of-the-box) with BlackBerry Enterprise Server. When connected over Bluetooth, the smartphone content is viewable on the tablet, but the content actually remains stored on the BlackBerry smartphone and is only temporarily cached on the tablet (and subject to IT policy controls). With this approach to information security, IT departments can deploy the BlackBerry PlayBook to employees out-of-the-box without worrying about all the security and manageability issues that arise when corporate data is stored on yet another device.

QNX Neutrino Reliability 
The BlackBerry Tablet OS is built upon the QNX Neutrino microkernel architecture, one of the most reliable, secure and robust operating system architectures in the world. Neutrino has been field hardened for years and is being used to support mission-critical applications in everything from planes, trains and automobiles to medical equipment and the largest core routers that run the Internet. The new BlackBerry Tablet OS leverages and builds upon the many proven strengths of this QNX Neutrino architecture to support a professional grade tablet experience and to redefine the possibilities for mobile computing.

An OS Built for Developers 
The Neutrino based microkernel architecture in the BlackBerry Tablet OS delivers exceptional performance, high scalability, Common Criteria EAL 4+ security, and support for industry standard tools that are already familiar to hundreds of thousands of developers. The OS is fully POSIX compliant enabling easy portability of C-based code, supports Open GL for 2D and 3D graphics intensive applications like gaming, and will run applications built in Adobe Mobile AIR as well as the new BlackBerry WebWorks app platform announced today (which will allow apps to be written to run on BlackBerry PlayBook tablets as well as BlackBerry smartphones with BlackBerry 6). The BlackBerry Tablet OS will also support Java enabling developers to easily bring their existing BlackBerry 6 Java applications to the BlackBerry Tablet OS environment. Key features and specifications of the BlackBerry PlayBook include:

• LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support
• BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing
• 1 GHz dual-core processor
• 1 GB RAM
• Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording 
• Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV
• Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA
• HDMI video output
• Wi-Fi - 802.11 a/b/g/n
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• Connectors: microHDMI, microUSB, charging contacts
• Open, flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java
• Ultra thin and portable:
• Measures 5.1”x7.6”x0.4” (130mm x 193mm x 10mm)
• Weighs less than a pound (approximately 0.9 lb or 400g)
• Additional features and specifications of the BlackBerry PlayBook will be shared on or before the date this product is launched in retail outlets.
• RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.

Availability
The BlackBerry PlayBook is expected to be available in retail outlets and other channels in the United States in early 2011 with rollouts in other international markets beginning in (calendar) Q2.


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Gadget - HTC Aria

OVERVIEW

It’s got everything you’d expect from the Internet. And with HTC Sense™, the Android™ 2.1 OS and 50,000 apps to choose from, it goes beyond every expectation of a pocket-sized phone.


Know the time and weather, wherever. No matter what time zone you turn up in, the auto-updating display keeps you on schedule and a step ahead of the weather.

App it up. With the Android 2.1 operating system and instant access to the Android Market™, there’s never a short supply of cool new ways to use your phone.

FriendStream forever. With HTC’s FriendStream app, you know what’s going on with your friends on Facebook® and Twitter™, without actually going on Facebook and Twitter.

Take the easy route. With Google Maps™, getting there gets a whole lot easier. Launch the app for instant turn-by-turn directions, live traffic updates, alternate routes and more.

The office has left the building. With Visual Mail, emails are presented like a stack of paper on your desk—you can flip through, read what you want and discard what you don’t.

Tech Spec

Operating System	Android™ 2.1
Touch Screen	Yes (Capacitive)
Screen Size	3.2 inches
Band	HSPA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/GSM; Dual Mode UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (1900/850MHZ) & GSM/GPRS/EDGE (Quad band 850/900/1800/1900MHZ); HSDPA/UMTS (3GPP Release 5 Compliant; 7.2 Mbps Enabled) EGPRS Functionality
Integrated GPS	Yes (GPS/AGPS)
Camera Resolution	5 megapixels
Video Camera	Yes
Speaker Phone	Yes
Expandable Memory Capability	32GB
Memory Card Type	microSD
Bluetooth®	V2.1
Hearing Aid Compatible	HAC M3 - T3 Class
MP3 Player	Yes
Napster Mobile Compatible	Not preloaded
Mobile Internet	Yes
E-mail Sync	Yes
FM Radio	Yes
Talk Time Hours (up to)	6 hrs
Stand By Days (Max)	15.5 days
Weight	115g
Ford Sync	Yes