Category Archives: Gadgets

iWatch 2 Concept by Antonio DeRosa

iWatch 2 Concept by Antonia DeRosa

via Swag­SoFresh

Towards the lat­ter half we took at the incred­i­ble Apple iCam from designer Anto­nio DeRosa, and it looks like the tal­ented designer has come with another incred­i­ble con­cept in the iWatch 2.

A suc­ces­sor to the orig­i­nal iWatch Con­cept, the details of this watch are sim­ply stun­ning all the way down  to the pack­ag­ing which includes the clas­sic “slide to open” fea­ture that is syn­ony­mous with Apple prod­ucts.  Don’t think because this thing is aes­thet­i­cally stun­ning that Anto­nio Derosa slacked on the tech­nol­ogy fea­tures. The watch is equipped with WiFi, Blue­tooth, face cam­era, and even and LCD pro­jec­tor. Check out the snap­shots below.

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The New iPad (and Apple TV)

The New iPad was revealed today in sunny Cal­i­for­nia, and although chrono­log­i­cally it’s the iPad 3, it’s just called “The New iPad”.

Apples newest addi­tion to their ungodly pop­u­lar tablet col­lec­tion looks just about iden­ti­cal to its pre­de­ces­sor on the out­side, but once pow­ered on and in use, users will notice some great changes.

As rumored heav­ily over the past year, the New iPad sports the same retina dis­play as it’s cousin the iPhone 4 and 4S, com­ing in at a stag­ger­ing 264 pix­els per inch (2048x1536)!  Paired with a super high qual­ity 5MP cam­era, back­lit dis­play and IR fil­ter, this isn’t your aver­age “sec­ond” cam­era.  Switch to video, and you’ll hap­pily be record­ing in noth­ing less than 1080p resolution.

Accord­ing to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the new A5X proces­sor that pow­ers the iPad is “twice as fast” as Tegra 3, and offers four times the graph­ics per­for­mance of Nividia’s chip.

As if the super thin iPad isn’t full of enough awe­some tech­nol­ogy, Apple has also stuffed it with a ton of con­nec­tiv­ity, with 21Mbps HSPA+, DC-HSDPA offer­ing 42Mbps, and LTE chuck­ing in at a whop­ping 73Mbps if you can get it.

The price point was a thing of spec­u­la­tion, with the cost of the retina dis­plays many peo­ple were hint­ing of a higher price for the new gad­get, but Apple man­aged to main­tain the same price point as the iPad 2, start­ing at just $499 for 16GB w/ Wi-Fi.  Now have fun with your pre-orders!

And oh ya, Apple also announced it’s newest Apple TV today.  At $99 you’ll now get videos avail­able in 1080p and Genius func­tions incase you can’t decide what to watch!

 

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New Gadget: Belkin Bluetooth Audio Receiver

I hate wires.  I’m always on the look­out for new ways to elim­i­nate the need for things to be wired.  Today I was for­tu­nate to receive a gift card with which I bought a Belkin Wire­less Audio Receiver, thus elim­i­nat­ing the need for me to con­nect my lap­top and/or iPhone via RCA cables.

The price was rea­son­able at $39.99, con­sid­er­ing what it does.  Hav­ing the abil­ity to trans­mit audio via Blue­tooth is a valu­able com­mod­ity in my world, and I would’ve gladly paid up to $100 for the service.

There isn’t much to say about this lit­tle black gad­get.  The con­nec­tion was sim­ple, it plugs into the wall for power, and comes with 2 cables for audio con­nec­tiv­ity — RCS to 3mm head­phone jack, and 3mm to 3mm for smaller stereos with just a head­phone jack.

5 min­utes after remov­ing it from the box I was hear­ing the won­der­ful sounds of Blue­tooth sig­nals car­ry­ing MP3’s through­out my liv­ing room, but only in my liv­ing room.  The only down­side to this receiver is its range.  As soon as I walked into the kitchen I noticed some gaps in the sig­nal, but as long as there are no walls in the way, the con­nec­tion is sta­ble thus far.

Conclusion-great prod­uct for the price.  I only need it so I can lis­ten to iTunes via my Mac­Book Pro while I’m hangin out in the liv­ing room, so over­all I’m happy.

Bentley Mulsanne Executive Interior | FreshnessMag.com

via Bent­ley Mul­sanne Exec­u­tive Inte­rior | FreshnessMag.com.

If you’re ever for­tu­nate enough to own a Bent­ley Mul­sanne sedan, you will be quick to notice the unwrit­ten fun­da­men­tal – you don’t drive a Bent­ley, you get chauf­feur in one instead. With that premise, inte­rior design­ers at Bent­ley inte­grated old world refine­ments and mod­ern day gad­getry into the new Bent­ley Mul­sanne Exec­u­tive Inte­rior. High­light­ing both The­atre and iPad Spec­i­fi­ca­tions, the con­cept fea­tures beau­ti­fully appointed wooden inlay with Yachting-style veneer of either Dark Wenge with Maple Pin­stripe or plain Maple. Front and cen­ter is a 15.6-inch HD LED dis­play, with two sep­a­rate 8-inch sup­ple­ment dis­plays on each of the head­rests, thus offer­ing pas­sen­gers a wide range of flex­i­bil­ity and options in theirview­ing habits. With a push of a but­ton, two Apple iPads and wire­less key­boards fold out into view. And if addi­tional pro­cess­ing power is nec­es­sary, the whole sys­tem is con­nected to a Mac Mini by Apple in the trunk. For those who are more in tune with a tra­di­tional mind­set, Bent­ley pro­vides a cus­tomize foun­tain pen in match­ing pen holder. Of course, a Bent­ley isn’t for busi­ness occa­sion only. To help you kick back and relax, a push of another but­ton at the cen­ter arm­rest unveils two full bot­tles of Cham­pagne behind frosted glass pan­els. Accom­pa­nied both are coor­di­nat­ing Cham­pagne flutes by David Red­man of Lon­don accom­pany, each a crys­tal glass shaped in the forms of Mulsanne’s 21” 5-spoke Sports alloy wheel. The Bent­ley Mul­sanne Exec­u­tive Inte­rior will be mak­ing its debut appear­ance dur­ing the upcom­ing 2012 Geneva Motor Show. How­ever, designer con­sul­tants at Bent­ley are more than happy to carter all of your needs and real­ize your Cham­pagne wishes and caviar dreams.

 

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Hands on with Apples New Digital Textbooks


No mat­ter how hard we try to keep up with tech­nol­ogy it’s always the same old story:  Be care­ful or you might blink and miss it!  Well, you won’t miss Apple’s new Dig­i­tal Text­books because theres a very good chance these will be manda­tory in schools within the next five years!

Here we have a video out­lin­ing some of the awe­some fea­tures of Apples new learn­ing tool includ­ing high­light and note func­tions, video and other medias, and a ton of other interactivity.

It kind of makes me want to go back to school! To read more click here

 

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Polaroid Flips it Yet Again

What an inter­est­ing com­pany Polaroid is.  If you ask pretty much any­one what Polaroid is, you’ll get an answer like “Don’t they make those cam­eras that print pic­tures right away?”  So, basi­cally Polaroid is a com­pany that does things dif­fer­ently, and all the power to them.

Now they’ve done it again with the SC1630 Smart Cam­era.  We’re all used to hav­ing smart phones with basic cam­era fea­tures, but now Polaroid has released a great cam­era with basic smart phone features.

With the SC1630 you get all the func­tion­al­ity of a high end point and shoot cam­era includ­ing a 16MP sen­sor, and a 3x (36-108mm f/3.1–5.6 equiv­a­lent) opti­cal zoom lens, and on the flip side theres a hi-res 3″ touch­screen run­ning an Android OS.  Blue­tooth and Wi-Fi offer instant con­nec­tiv­ity for on the go sharing.

The Android plat­form adds a num­ber of fea­tures to the cam­era that you won’t find on oth­ers, includ­ing a Smart Albums func­tion that auto­mat­i­cally orga­nizes your pho­tos by date, loca­tion, and peo­ple. A geo-tagging func­tion is also avail­able to add lat­i­tude and lon­gi­tude coor­di­nates to pho­tos. Photo edit­ing is avail­able via a built-in app. You’ll be able to crop, remove red-eye, resize, and per­form color cor­rec­tion with­out offload­ing your pho­tos to a PC. One-touch upload to social-networking sites is also sup­ported. The cam­era uses microSD mem­ory, sup­port­ing cards up to 32GB in size.

If this isn’t your cup of tea Polaroid still pro­duces point and shoot cam­eras with built in prinit­ing capa­bil­i­ties like the retro styled Z430.

 

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Update: Vans $125 iPhone Case

Back in Decem­ber I brought you images of a sam­ple iPhone 4 case that Vans had released in lim­ited quan­ti­ties.  At the time the case, which resem­bles the clas­sic waf­fle sole of the iconic footwear wasn’t avail­able for retail, but once their iPhone acces­sory almost went viral on the web, they did a lim­ited run which sold out on their web­site in a mat­ter of min­utes, and have now run up an extra­or­di­nary price on eBay.

$125 for an iPhone case?  It is pretty amaz­ing though!

 

Waterproof Your Device With LIQUIPEL

Water­proof your device with­out a case?  But how?

Cal­i­for­nia based com­pany Liquipel has cre­ated a unique process that cov­ers your entire device in an invis­i­ble layer of a spe­cial mol­e­c­u­lar mate­r­ial which ren­ders the device water­proof upon completion.

The web­site doesn’t pro­vide much more infor­ma­tion then what you see here, but there are a cou­ple of unbe­liev­able videos of devices being com­pletely sub­merged in water and com­ing out unharmed!

 

The process takes place at their plant in Cal­i­for­nia, and at the moment is only avail­able to US res­i­dents.  The cost includes ship­ping to and from their plant, and track­ing is available.

Stan­dard Ground $59.00 — 2 or 3 day turnaround

Pri­or­ity Liquipel $69.00 — Same day turnaround

Liquipel & Gad­get Film (pro­tec­tive film) $79.00 — Up to 3 day turnaround

For more infor­ma­tion and to order go to Liquipel.com

Nikon D4 Launch Video

It’s been a busy cou­ple of weeks in the pho­tog­ra­phy world with the mul­ti­tude of camera’s announced for release at this years CES 2012. But the biggest news was the announce­ment of Nikon’s $6000 ground­break­ing D4 DSLR.  But as a self pro­claimed ama­teur I can barely wrap my head around all of the specs and fea­tures that come along­side Nikon’s lat­est frame catcher, but this video shown at the press release does a great job of sum­ming up the poten­tial this cam­era has.  Check out the time lapse around 1:56. Enjoy.

WHY — Nikon D4 Release Video from Corey Rich on Vimeo.