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Sony SmartWatch Now Available In The US | $150
Earlier today Sony Mobile announced the Sony SmartWatch is finally available in the United States for $150, but online only due to low stock. A bit pricey, this Android-powered device works as remote Bluetooth display to control your smartphone wherever you are to make your everyday on-the-go life more convenient. Text messaging, music control, and social updating are just a few of the features available on the SmartWatch. Hit the jump for more information regarding this product.
You can purchase yours here.
Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion & Stock
Only weeks after announcing that Android users could now join Instagram, Facebook announced that it would be acquiring the photo-sharing company for a reported $1 billion dollars and stock. FB urges that it will keep the service independent from the social network, but IG employees would be joining the FB team.
Will this be the death of Instagram? A deal is supposed to close in the June quarter.
Read Mark Zuckerberg’s statement after the jump.
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Google | Project Glass: One day…
Earlier today Google[x] unveiled ‘Project Glass’, wearable Augmented-Reality glasses. In the video above, Google demonstrates how the prototype works to control your everyday actions. Announced in late February, the glasses were expected to be released to the public later this year but now there’s no release date set.
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Beats Audio HP Envy Laptop x Beats Solo On-Ear Headphones
Wooha got a little scoop on the upcoming Beats Audio HP Envy Laptop due to hit stores next month, which will include exclusive software strictly for the machine. As always, Beats strives to bring listeners the best audio experience to grace human eardrums. The laptop will be running on a $1699 price tab but it will feature cutting edge sound audio designed by Dr. Dre’s engineers.
Check the jump for some pictures of Beats by Dr. Dre x Monster new Solo On-Ear headphones. They will be available in black/white colors and will feature a smaller, compact and lightweight design than its predecessors, while still capturing the listening experience for portable devices.
Microsoft officially announce the red Xbox 360
To celebrate the up and coming release of Resident Evil 5 Microsoft have officially announced their rumoured red console. It will be released on the same day as Resident Evil 5 (March 13th) and comes as a bundle with the following:
- Matching red wireless controller
- 120GB hard drive
- Resident Evil 5
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
- Exclusive Resident Evil Premium Theme
- Xbox 360 black wired headset
- HDTV-ready component HD AV, HDMI and Ethernet cables
It will be sold in select retailers accross the globe and it’s said to be just abit more expensive than the elite. If you were thinking of upgrading you should wait for this. Let us know what you think.
A 1,474 megapixel image of Obama’s inauguration
A dude named David Bergman used a device known as a gigapan imager to take 220 pictures of Obamas inauguration which link together to form an incredibly large and detailed picture. He has put it up onto his website to allow everyone to zoom in and look around the crowd and the surroundings. Go and take a look, the detail you get when you zoom in and the distance you can see is remarkable, see the face of anyone in the crowd. People on engadget have found P.Diddy, Denzel Washington, Tom hanks, Aretha Franklin and some snipers in the windows.
Website: http://davidbergman.net/Obama.html
Apple’s latest quarter details: $1.61B profit
Apple just recently announced their profits for the last quarter and here’s the numbers. From $10.17 billion revenue they made a record $1.61 billion profit. Sales figures were up also, Macs went up 9% to 22.5 million sold, iPods were up 3% to 22.7 million sold and iPhones which you probably only care about….. up 88 % to 4.3 million sold, it’s a shame… more people will be walking around with my phone now, but congratulations Apple. Engadget also reports that “Apple’s now sold well over 10M iPhone 3Gs on top of beating its goal of 10M total iPhones in 2008″. I can’t wait to see what new devices apple come out with in 09. Also how many of you are using Macbooks ?
Sleek Tima Watch
The Tima Watch, by French designer Julien Bergignat, is just another example of why more things should be made utilizing e-paper. It’s a simple, sleek watch that tells you what you need to know about the date and time in either digital or analog, and looks damn good doing it. We especially like how big the watch face is, and there’s just something cool and retro about the pixel-blocks that make up the numbers and hands.
It really is a shame the Tima is just a concept at this time or I’d probably be picking one up for myself. Via. GizmoAve.com
New Motorolla Phones
2009 is a new year for Motorola. The firm’s sales are tracking down, the RAZR might be dead – hopefully – but these four upcoming phones look uncharacteristically good. Little is known beside about the mobiles besides what can be gathered from the pics. The branding indicates that they are Verizon-bound and at least three of the four are touchscreens. And none of the phones have the dumb RAZR-ish names. Each one, including the Flash above, has a normal, fully-spelled product name. Hopefully these devices will breath new life into the dying mobile phone maker. We only have one question, though? Any of these powered by Google’s Android? Via. GizmoAve.com
Solar Panel Bag
First, the bad news: you can’t power your laptop from the solar panels on the Voltaic Generator solar laptop bag. I know, it sucks. But the good news is, you can use the solar panels on this messenger bag to charge you laptop, and all the rest of your electronic crap, anywhere it isn’t dark, for free, over and over, for the next 5 billion years or so at which point the sun will enter a red giant phase and swallow the earth and the ambient surface temperature around here will probably exceed the safe operating limits of your gadgets. Via. GizmoAve.com
Nokia 7210 Supernova
Christmas is coming, and Christmas is coming, and as the goose is worried about her job prospects in the downturn, Nokia has decided to increase its efforts in the budget phone sector. If you’re not keen on the fantastic Nokia 6300, the 7210 Supernova might fit the bill. It costs about £98 SIM-free from the Nokia shop and will hopefully come out soon on a pay as you go contract.
Boasting a slim casing and colourful details with an 80s vibe, this is a stylish phone that’s not ashamed to rock some electric blue or pink. The 7210’s interface is simple and easy to use, with large icons and straightforward features — it’s no iPhone, but it’s not trying to be. Via. GizmoAve.com
Apple MacBook – TriBook
As someone who uses multiple screens when I’m working (or playing games) the idea of having a laptop with some extra screen space as portable as the unit itself is really exciting. Sure, that extra space would come in the form of folding, side-mounted monitors that have a break before the main screen — annoying for some — but some extra, segmented workspace on a portable platform is music to my ears.
And portable the triBook is: the conceptual rendering, picked up by Mac|Life, calls for a notebook that’s 10 inches wide and a little over six inches long. Click on through for more information than you’d ever want to know about the triBook concept. Via. GizmoAve.com
Zune Phone
Or is there? I don’t know, I’m not good at speculation. But I am good at making shit up. And also, making out. Ladies?
According to Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will announce a Zune-style mobile device during his keynote address at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, on January 7, 2009. In an article in Barron’s, Chowdhry claims that the company’s new centerpiece will combine the best features of the Zune media player with the hardware design of Danger’s mobile Sidekick, in addition to “motion enhancement features,” like an accelerometer. Basically, this means the device will come with a physical keyboard like HTC’s G1 and will likely feature a larger screen to accommodate heavy multimedia elements. And since we’re all here copying each other’s mobile phone features, we’ll be shocked if the Zune phone doesn’t feature multitouch capabilities. Via.GizmoAve.com
Classic Geeky Casio
When it comes to nerd fashion, I think the calculator watch trumps both the stereotypical bow tie and the pocket protector. But Casio is actually trying to put a little ‘Geek-Chic’ into its current line of Databank watches by introducing a little color. While the DBC32 series includes their standard model with a black face and black strap, it adds 4 other models that feature considerably more stylish color schemes. Since almost every device I carry with me has some sort of calculator function already built-in, my days of wearing a Casio Databank watch are long gone, but I do like the checkerboard keyboard treatment on a few of these. Via. GizmoAve.com
Ad-Tech MP15A is a Full-Blown Mobile Projector
We’ve seen a matchbox-sized miniature projector designed as a modular integrated system for portable platform devices. The Lcos-based miniature projection technology is proven useful and extremely portable. Here’s another with similar technology but a full-blown mobile projector promises to deliver a big picture.
The size of a palm, the Ad-Tech mobile projector is easy to carry and can throw 60-inch of picture from a distance of 7.87 feet. Placement is flexible thanks to its zoom focus lens that allows 4-inch of image from as little as 14cm of throwing distance. The Lcos based small wonder has a standard 4:3 size VGA resolution, 200:1 of contrast, 15 lumens of brightness and life expectancy of 20,000 hours. Via. GizmoAve.com
