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Sony Japan Unveils Low-End Walkman Series NW-E060 and NW-E062

Sony Japan is getting ready to start selling a new batch of so-called Walkmans, the NW-E060 series to be precise. As reported here, they will have capacities of 4GB and 2GB and, 1.4-inch screens, FM radio and various audio features, like five-band equalizer, Clear Stereo, Clear Bass and Digital Sound Enhancement Eng...

25 January 2012
09:02 GMT

Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet ODM Orders Allegedly Cut in Half

Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet continues to be the retailer's best-selling product, but the post-holiday slow season doesn't seem to have spared it. Since the Kindle Fire is one of the hottest products on the tablet market right now, market watchers are paying more attention to it than they do most ever...

23 January 2012
04:10 GMT

CES 2012: Awesome 3D Printer Turns User into Green Artists

The 'Do it yourself' trend has inspired businesses and consumers from all parts of the world, during the last decade. From solar generators to fashionable accessories and even electric cars, everything could be manufactured easier, at home, with just a little bit of knowledge and the right tools. However...

13 January 2012
06:43 GMT

First Water-Powered Fuel Cell Charger Unveiled

A company has recently announced the debut of its innovative product, aiming to help us recharge our devices even when we're far away from any outlets. Portable chargers have already been implemented on the market, but the water-powered fuel cell charger, launched by Sweden-based myFC, sounds good enough to ra...

9 January 2012
02:41 GMT

Designer Invents Wireless Yo-Yo Mouse That Charges Itself

What Yanko Design just showed is one thing that we wouldn't mind seeing in the hands or dangling from the fingers of everyone we know. After all, there is something particularly intriguing about a Yo-Yo mouse, especially when it's wireless and is just as practical as it is cool. You'd think the world...

14 December 2011
07:27 GMT

Buy Your Cement-Wrought Gadgets Now

You'd think that gadgets should be light, cheap and easy (as well as reasonably safe) to throw around, but those traits definitely do not apply to the BugHouse Future Fossils, and that's not just because of the prices. While the $50 to $500 (37 to 371 Euro) range does raise a few question marks, the mater...

7 December 2011
04:50 GMT

Smelly Computing Takes On a Whole New Meaning

Olly is a small enough device which is supposed to add smell to the computing experience, for better or worse. Dubbed a robot, it is more of a small, block-like, white thing that emits smells based on Internet inputs. It is fully described over here, even though it isn't actually up for order anywhere, t...

29 October 2011
13:01 GMT

Gadgets We Buy at The Environment's Expense

The Internet is overpopulated by millions of websites which would make us sell our soul to buy the latest/best/most efficient/ automatic gadget that cuts onions without making us shed a single tear.The ultimate tiny robot that makes us useless around the kitchen, or the mascara brush that vibrates. No matter how grea...

24 October 2011
07:35 GMT

30 Million E-Readers Will Sell in 2012, Some Say

After several announcements about e-book reading devices, market watchers have outlined their latest expectations in regards to the e-reader market. E-readers are those compact, portable gadgets that people use to read books, newspapers, magazines, etc. in electronic format, and not only. Since people like to...

10 October 2011
10:50 GMT

IFA 2011: Hands-On with WiFi Sony E-Reader

Sony continues extending its already impressive IFA 2011 lineup with the addition of a certain e-reader revealed late last month, as well as a certain accessory that some may definitely find worthwhile. If anything is true about this year's IFA trade show, taking place in Berlin, Germany, it is that it promp...

5 September 2011
09:25 GMT

IFA 2011: Medion Reveals Two E-Readers

Trying to carve a slice of the e-reader market for itself, Medion decided to attend this year's IFA trade show and officially announce a pair of such gadgets, both featuring e-paper. Though the tablet segment is the fast-growing segment making the news most often recently, it wasn't too long ago that e-...

3 September 2011
06:22 GMT

WIMM Creates Computer That Can be Worn Like a Wrist Watch

One might think that computing has reached the portable stage now, but WIMM Labs would probably have something to say about that, perhaps along the lines of things today not being portable enough.No doubt everyone has seen, or at least heard, of those inventions in spy movies, which are made to fit inside hand watch...

2 August 2011
09:24 GMT

Installing IE9 on Windows 7 SP1 Can Break the Calendar Gadget

It appears that installing Internet Explorer 9 on top of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is not always a smooth experience. Microsoft has confirmed an issue in which IE9 deployed on Windows 7 can break the Calendar gadget. The Redmond company published KB 2584532 detailing the issue earlier this month, but the knowledge b...

29 July 2011
07:11 GMT

E Ink Demos an E-Paper Using Snowboard, Among Other Things

Even though it said it wasn't going to deliver any new e-reader screen this year, E Ink's booth at SID Display Week was, nonetheless, packed full of concepts and prototypes that some OEMs are said to be already considering. This past week definitely saw the appearance of quite a few ambitious inventions...

20 May 2011
08:56 GMT

Mind Control Research Spawns Working Cat Ears

The world might not yet be at the point where one can control all technology with just the power of the mind, but research of this sort does exist, as proven by the newest invention of a Japanese company.The idea of technopathy, or the ability to control machines with just a thought, is one that has been around for ...

7 May 2011
06:34 GMT

Hardware Recycling Policy Gets Going in the US

It seems that after all the waste that has been gathering from old computers, peripherals and all sorts of gadgets, the US E-Waste Law has begun to be seriously enforced, and the State of New York seems to have landed a fairly convenient deal with the Per Scholas non-profit organization. It is a generally accepte...

2 April 2011
06:05 GMT

New Gadget Makes All Shoes Snow-Proof: WinterTrax

If you love high heels but simply can’t wear them now because it would mean certain death (figuratively) on icy pavements, WinterTrax may be the solution. This little invention makes almost all shoes snow-proof. As the Daily Mail also points out, one of the trendiest and most popular shoe this winter remains th...

3 December 2010
16:31 GMT

Tweeting from the Womb with the Kickbee

Twitter is the perfect way to stay in touch with your friends and with people who may have the same interests as you but that you never met – and probably never will. Applications developer Corey Menscher doesn’t see tweeting as exclusive only to people who can read and write, and he created a device that...

20 July 2010
13:31 GMT

Samsung Intros SPF-800P Digital Picture Frame

These days, hardware pieces of news are rather scarce, with practically all hardware developers, researchers and manufacturers saving their best releases for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. Besides a peek at an upcoming motherboard or the emergence of a certain lawsuit, nothing much can be seen sprouting up o...

11 December 2009
10:49 GMT

MacBook, iPod touch Make ‘The Best Travel Gadgets of 2009’

Time (in partnership with CNN) has compiled a list of gadgets that are most suitable for traveling, going by the magazine's standards. Although, for one reason or another, the Slingbox Pro-HD tops the list of ‘Best Travel Gadgets of 2009,’ Softpedia was happy to find Apple’s MacBook and iPod to...

4 November 2009
05:06 GMT

Women Vote Shower Radio Worst Gadget of All Time

Women are constantly looking for new gadgets that would make their life better and easier – not only this, but they’re also willing to pay the extra money for whatever that gadget may be. However, they’re also very quick when it comes to abandoning the newly purchased item once they realize reputati...

25 September 2009
13:21 GMT

Concerns About the Safety of E-Cigarettes

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are the new rage as far as quiting the habit of smoking goes. They are purely electronic devices, but they can actually make you feel like you are smoking an authentic cigarette. The producers went to some lengths to create the perfect substitute, and apparently some of them did i...

12 February 2009
07:13 GMT

Sony Announces VGN-CS60B Laptop With Rolly

Sony Japan announced that its new Vaio Type C VGN-CS60B laptop would become available on September 13th. The new mobile PC will have a 14.1 inch LCD display featuring a 1280x800 resolution in WXGA and LE liquid crystal clear black, as well as an entire series of colors, including Dove White, Cosmopolitan Pink, S...

10 September 2008
06:21 GMT

Download Windows Media Center Gadgets for Windows SideShow

Microsoft has extended the control of Windows Media Center in Windows Vista beyond the limits of the operating system to devices adjacent to the platform via Windows SideShow. With the Windows SideShow technology, users are enabled to access information from their Vista machine on a variety of additional hardware fro...

8 July 2008
09:45 GMT

AMEX Digital Brings Wireless USB Remote

We have recently brought you news about a product that was meant to capitalize on Father's Day, namely the ESPN's Ultimate Remote. It appears that there's yet another similar product that aims at providing media enthusiasts with a new remote control experience. This time around, the manufacturer is fam...

23 May 2008
11:13 GMT

IOGEAR Enables USB Device Sharing Across a Network

I always enjoy a good product that bundles a number of features which you can just find useful. One such product was released by IOGEAR on Monday. Dubbed IOGEAR's USB Net ShareStation, this device allows users to connect one USB device and share it across an Ethernet network. At a price tag of $80, this gadget i...

21 May 2008
11:39 GMT

iPods Held Responsible for the Death of Internet

iPods, portable media players, as well as the vast majority of the consumer electronics gadgets are allegedly posing a threat to the future development of the Internet. According to a study conducted by Professor Jonathan Zittrain, such devices are sealed plastic shells that are allegedly turning their users into pas...

8 May 2008
10:56 GMT

iGoogle Steps into the Social Networking Jungle

The Mountain View-based company has just rolled out a developer sandbox for iGoogle in order to let them build more advanced gadgets for Google's personalized homepage using the OpenSocial APIs. This means that iGoogle makes now the first step into the social networking jungle, a special side of the industry in ...

22 April 2008
02:47 GMT

Two Gadgets That Will Have You Fired: USB Jokes At the Office

Working in an office can sometimes be extremely boring, especially if you have annoying people around. Rest assured, you can get what they deserve using one of these nifty and undetectable devices. Your could watch your potential targets rip their clothes off in despair, throw their computers off the window, or even ...

8 April 2008
06:24 GMT

iPods Behind 'iCrime Wave'

Could it just be that Apple's releasing two new models of its iPod player three years ago has somehow triggered an increase in the U.S. crime rate? Even though Apple is just one of the companies rolling out new goods during that period, researchers believe the iPod alone is responsible for a 50 percent (or highe...

5 March 2008
09:07 GMT

Google Chatback Gadget

The Google Talk team has been working their arses off these past weeks and has come up with two new features that will make heavy duty chatters' lives a lot better. First, there was the option to choose not to be seen by your contacts when you are online, the much talked about invisibility that would slow down a...

26 February 2008
16:31 GMT

Nokia Text Messenger Gadget for Windows Vista

Nokia, via its Beta Labs website, announced the release of Nokia Text Messenger for Windows Vista, a gadget that enables users to view their latest SMS messages and send new ones from the Vista sidebar. This means that Nokia owners who also have PCs with Vista on them will have from now on a quick and convenient way ...

21 February 2008
03:49 GMT

Hey, Where's The Mouse? Three Pointing Oddities

What's inflatable, can be molded and senses when you're starting losing it? The answer is simple: three absolutely weird mice you haven't heard of yet. Let's start with the beginning...Travel mice are really on the wave lately, because of the same reason external storage is facing increased demand...

31 January 2008
09:46 GMT

Google News Going Political

I'm already tired of all the products coming out on the market in order to get a slice of the election cash pie. I wish that they would just have a meeting and come together one day and decide something like "a week from now, at 12 o'clock, we'll all release our election gadgets, pages and anything els...

27 December 2007
04:43 GMT

Google Has Gadget Frenzied Engineers

I've always considered Google to be a sober company because of the all-white background that it has and because of the simplicity that it displays in every aspect of the many domains it has gotten involved in. Apparently, this isn't the policy of the company, about a month ago I enviously found out about th...

20 December 2007
05:10 GMT

The Perfect Google Holidays

Working at Google's Mountain View headquarters can and is an all-around the year time occupier big time, so the engineers and everybody else there is thinking of the Holidays as a well deserved break from everything. And if they're not working, why should you stop? Here's what they have offered as an a...

20 December 2007
03:23 GMT

Google Talk - the Easy Pretty Pictures Reloaded

I remember the first days when I started using Google Talk, how new and strange everything felt to me, a more than experienced Yahoo Instant Messenger User. Not as easy a way to select the avatar, the smilies looked like hell and the lack of color really depressed me. I had to endure through it as some of my friends...

13 December 2007
03:51 GMT

Google Book Search Getting the Tools for the Job

Right. Books being digitized. Libraries running out of real human beings walking through their doors and going to the librarian for help. Librarians - on the brink of extinction? Save the librarians, take one home today. Possible idea for a campaign against the digitizing which I'm totally opposing. As much as ...

11 December 2007
03:12 GMT

Politician Stalker Tool Available

Next year is election year and, oh, boy, will it be thrilling to watch every politician out there making promises they know they cannot keep, but still try to mystify themselves into thinking that. If you have a liar-liar pants-on-fire politician list that you want to constantly update, this Google gadget is for you....

5 December 2007
11:51 GMT

iGoogle Themes are Disciplined

No, there's still no option regarding the creation of your own theme, so if that's what you were hoping for, just drop it. Not yet at least.To make up for that stupid option which is very important to many, they rolled out a new gadget, the "Custom iGoogle Skins" online, that lets you choose between more th...

27 November 2007
06:17 GMT

How About Some Twitter?

In case you're not all that familiar with Twitter, it's a service that allows the communication between friends, family, co-workers etc., through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to just one simple question: "What are you doing?"It might sound a bit weird to constantly update your status every time y...

22 November 2007
03:03 GMT

Google Gets Ready for The Halloween Party

We all know that Google likes to celebrate in style every new event or special moment in our lives. This time, Halloween will receive Google's 'gratitude' and the Mountain View company can' wait anymore to roll out its special goodies for the real fans. Today, the super giant presented some new ga...

30 October 2007
15:31 GMT

Google News On Tabs. How 'Bout That?

In case you're one of the iGoogle fans out there, I'm sure you strive to set up your Personalized Homepage in order to get more information in no time. That's why I recommend you to install the recently released Google News gadgets which is supposed to bring you the articles you want straight on iGoogl...

30 October 2007
05:54 GMT

Computer/Cellphone Recycling Boosts Cancer/Reproductive Issues Inducing Toxins in Mothers' Milk

You replace your old computer with a new one annually, you do the same with your mobile phone even more often and you still breathe a fresh air. But your gadget wastes go to recycling places where people living nearby load their organisms with gadget toxins you have not even heard of. These include dioxins and furans...

23 October 2007
06:23 GMT

Gadget Lover? Google's Designer Helps You Build One!

Google's gadgets rose in popularity since the Mountain View company started a powerful campaign to promote it and some of the users became real fans of them. Because they are able to work with Google Desktop or iGoogle, the gadgets target a large segment of consumers who are already registered for these technolo...

22 October 2007
03:34 GMT

70 Countries Using Their Own Google

iGoogle, Google's Personalized Homepage, is a product which gives you the possibility to create your own homepage equipped with lots of Google goodies. Since a lot of consumers use it every day, it's obvious the Mountain View company had to improve it and allow the fans from all around the world to access t...

19 October 2007
03:10 GMT

Google Technology to Control Your Music Online

In case you're one of those addicted Google Gadget users, this is probably the best piece of news you could read today. As you know, Google Desktop and iGoogle are two different products which are fully compatible with the gadgets developed by the same company. The gadgets represent some tiny tools which can be ...

9 October 2007
02:16 GMT

New Solar-Powered Jacket Charges Your Devices While Outside

You just love drinking your coffee outside on some bar's sunny terrace. But what do you do if your iPod's or your mobile phone's battery is low? Well, now technosexuals (or 'technological geeks', if you like) that love to spend time in open air will see their dream come true. This is better t...

3 October 2007
07:15 GMT

Finally, Google Rolls Out Gadget Ads

A long time ago, it was reported that Google was testing a new format of adverts distributed in its own content network that might be based on gadgets and that appeared only on a limited number of websites. At that time, it was quite obvious that Google tested the Gadget Ads which can implement almost any format of m...

19 September 2007
14:26 GMT

Microsoft Romania Launches Gadget Competition for Windows Vista

Microsoft Romania has just launched a gadget competition for Windows Vista and Windows Live. Essentially, the contest is nothing more than a repeat of the Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project, with the sole exception that entries can now be submitted for both the client and the cloud Microsoft operating ...

10 September 2007
11:27 GMT


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