TomTom just announced their latest GPS navigation system for bikers called TomTom Urban Rider . Expected to go on sale in Europe at the end of May for 249 € the new Urban Rider tries to make things very easy for hands with gloves on such as even bigger icons, glove friendly touch screen, and only two button operation
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TomTom Urban Rider GPS navigation for bikes
April has been a strange month for us Brits as election frenzy has taken over, and every TV show you watch has smarmy politicians trying to convince you that they have your best interests at heart. Add to that the late release of the iPad which has Apple fans crying themselves to sleep and the over enthusiastic London Marathon taking place, well, we’re all over the shop really. I could share with you related apps and election chit chat, but I think you’ll prefer an attractive overview of some of the strangest and sexiest gadgets we’ve feasted out eyes on this month
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Tech from a Small Island: Gymbox Shock Exercise Classes and Smart Brabus Color Coordinated Electric Cars
I caught this article by Jessica Guynn in the Chicago Tribune Google faces censorship issues every day, around the world I don’t think there’s a lot of new news here, but because it’s google & global, I feel compelled to comment. Here’s the tool to which the author refers http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/ That other governments, in addition
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google’s global barriers
My 2-year-old son is obsessed with the movie Cars . Obsessed, I tell you! While surfing the net for pictures of Lightning McQueen, I stumbled across this little oddity. An illustrator named Jake Parker wondered how the insides of one of Pixar’s cars might work, considering that these vehicles are “strange machine/flesh hybrids,” in Parker’s own words.
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Car guts
Once again, I am off topic of USB, but sometimes you get ultra cool products that you must mention. Today I found a great gadget from our buddies at Gizmos For Geeks . It’s the Gear Ring. Very elegant in design and intrigues the engineering in all of us. The Gear Ring is comprised of 6 mini gears which rotate in unison as you twist the top portion. The product is high quality stainless steel and engineer to very tight specifications. This makes for an easy and smooth feeling as you twist the ring. Although I’m not a ring guy myself, other than my wedding ring, it is intriguing enough that I’m going to buy one. It’s not THAT much, only $165. Ring sizes include 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Source: GizmosForGeeks .
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Off USB Topic – Have You Seen The Gear Ring?
After a delayed some time ago, Nokia officially announced the end smart phone that has the ability to 12 MP camera, which is N8. This Nokia N8 will blast the first time in England during the third quarter of 2010, estimated retail price is 370 euros, before applicable taxes or subsidies. According to the manufacturer, N8 will allow users to connect to favorite social network, and enjoy the on-demand TV programs and Web store applications Ovi applications.
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Nokia Announce N8, Challenger iPhone and BlackBerry
So I get a lot of questions about iPhone 4.0 and whether it’s now “enterprise ready”. Hard to tell at the moment, although Apple seems to definitely go towards the right direction. After all, iPhone is already used in the enterprise, mainly due to the amazing popularity of it (over 50 million iPhones sold already!) and the fact some IT managers simply don’t care about security as long as they get to play with the best toy in town… Let’s see what new stuff are there which can improve the way iPhone 4 will be accepted by enterprise companies: (…) Read the rest of Is the iPhone 4.0 enterprise worthy?
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Is the iPhone 4.0 enterprise worthy?
It finally happened! Palm has finally threw in a towel in it’s desperate struggle, and gave itself up to HP for a cool $1.2 billion. Last year Palm bet the company on it’s new WebOS smartphone platform. And lost. So, despite management’s assurances to the contrary, it became clear recently that Palm has no chance of surviving as independent company. The only question was who will buy it.
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HP gets back into smartpone biz with a vengeance. Buys Palm for $1.2 billion
So the 3G iPad is set to launch this Friday at 5:00 PM , and AT&T has finally got on the ball and given full details on how their 3G data plan for the iPad will work. First order of business, you get two data plans that work in the US – the charges are automatically billed on a monthly basis, but you can start and stop that at any time right from the iPad 3G, and both options are contract-free: $14.99 per month for 250 MB $29.99 per month for unlimited data Unlimited access – no added cost – to AT&T’s 20,000+ Wi-Fi Hot Spots That third one is a nice bonus. Basically, if you have an active iPad 3G subscription, then you get access to any AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot at no additional cost
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How the AT&T iPad 3G data plans will work
Nokia busted out the specs of a new phone this week, by releasing details of the N8 a big Amoled touch screen with a massive 12 megapixel camera. Last week we stacked up the iPhone 3G, the Android powerhouse…
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Nokia N900 v the N8 v the X6: the Nokia smartphone throw-down
Nokia busted out the specs of a new phone this week, by releasing details of the N8 a big Amoled touch screen with a massive 12 megapixel camera. Last week we stacked up the iPhone 3G, the Android powerhouse…
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Nokia N900 v Nokia N8 v Nokia X6: the Nokia smartphone throw-down
Today Apple purchased a mobile startup based in Jan Jose, California called Siri. The firm created an iPhone application by the same name that serves as a voice-activated personal assistant for the iPhone. For example, you can speak in common English: “Find a romantic sushi restaurant near home,” and the software will help find recommendations.
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Apple acquires Siri, developer of the Sari iPhone personal assistant application
U.S. Cellular today wrote on its Facebook Fan page that the HTC Desire could launch as soon as July, provided that it passes the carrier’s testing. The full post read: “Hungry for more Android info? How about a peek at some specs for the gorgeous HTC Desire including a 3.7″ AMOLED touchscreen display, 5 MP camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi, GPS, Android Market and an 8 GB microSD card. How about news of a launch date around July
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HTC Desire Android smartphone could land on U.S. Cellular this summer
This year, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will take place between June 7 and June 11. Since the iPhone 3GS was announced at WWDC 2009, the fourth generation iPhone (4G or HD or whatever it will be called) will likely be announced at WWDC 2010. That’s sooner that expected – the previously-rumored announcement date was June 22 . Apple has already announced iPhone OS 4 , so all it needs to do now is to unveil the new iPhone’s hardware, which is quite possibly similar to the hardware of this iPhone 4 prototype appeared at Gizmodo not long ago: Expectations are high when it comes to the fourth-gen iPhone, especially since lately we’ve seen quite many high-end smartphones that kind of put to shame the iPhone (feature-wise, at least). Will Apple rise to the expectations?
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Apple schedules WWDC 2010 for June 7, iPhone 4G / HD expected
No this isn’t some torture entrapment for your pets. It’s actually a spa for them… well not exactly, but it still looks kind of menacing. The Canine Shower Stall has 16 water-jet nozzles and a showerhead that will wash and rinse your doggy in this enclosed space
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The Canine Shower Stall is Perfect for Bathing Your Pooch at Home
Today Microsoft issued a statement about its patent-related “concerns” with Android smartphones that seems to suggest that yesterday’s HTC deal was also Android related. Read the full story here.
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Microsoft has "concerns" with Android, looking to license its patents to Android manufacturers
With a couple of App Store successes—like Ocarina and I am T-Pain—under their belt, Smule has partnered with FOX to unite Gleeks around the world with the new Glee app for iPhone and iPad. A melding of Rock Band style karaoke and auto tune technology, Glee (the app) lets users sing along in the vocal stylings of Glee (the TV show), share their songs and listen to the songs created by other users
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Glee for iPhone and iPad Unites Gleeks the World Over
Today Apple announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) would occur on June 7th in San Francisco at the Moscone West conference center. The five day conference includes development sessions for the iPad, as well as iPhone OS 4, and Mac OS X labs. “This year’s WWDC offers developers in-depth sessions and hands-on working labs to learn more about iPhone OS 4, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system,” Apple’s senior vice president of iPhone software, Scott Forstall, said. WWDC has been the place of past iPhone product launches, and so we could see a new iPhone announced this year as well.
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) set for June 7
Vodafone has officially introduced no less than 8 new phones, all included in its own-branded series of devices. The most interesting of the new handsets is the Huawei-made Vodafone 845 , which is the carrier’s first own-branded Android device. The Vodafone 845 runs Android 2.1 and features a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display, 3G, Wi-Fi, Vodafone 360 services, and a 3MP camera. The 845 should be available starting next month in 12 Vodafone markets (including he UK).
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Vodafone 845 (with Android 2.1) and 7 other new “Vodaphones” announced (video)
If you’ve heard of a little something called the iPad, then you’ll probably know it’s not available in the UK yet. But if you’re into the whole browsing the internet on a touchscreen computer idea – you may be…
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iPad rival – the JooJoo Internet Tablet – now on sale in UK
Introduction Competition in the mobile industry is fierce, and there are a number of manufacturers who are chasing hard the number one position that has been held for so long by Nokia. Not one to rest on their laurels, Nokia are slowly re-aligning their handset line up, including a new naming culture for their devices which should make it easier for consumers to know more about the phone before they purchase. Handsets will be designated by a single letter which will indicate the market focus of the device, whilst the number of the phone will show the level of technical specification. The existing N Series and E Series device names will be retained, and these will be joined by C Series and X Series. Two handsets have been released by Nokia in the X Series range so far, the X6 and X3 and we’ve had an X3 in the office over the last couple of weeks to review.
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7 Days with the Nokia X3