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Gadgets December 11, 2008 posted by Dan

Digital Photo Frame Keyring – perfect for Grandmas

We found this Kaiser Baas 1.5″ digital photo frame keyring in our local office supply super-mega-jumbo store and it’s quite nifty. It can hold around 70 photos and accepts either JPG or BMP files which it displays on a 1.5″ screen. The little screen is pretty ho hum, colours are bluish and you’ll need to find the right angle to view the photos clearly but it’s usable and quite bright. The screen looks like a colour mobile phone screen from…

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Gadgets December 9, 2008 posted by Nigel

Jabra BT530 – top notch Bluetooth headset says boo to background noise

The Jabra BT530 Bluetooth Headset is probably as good as it gets right now in terms of features and performance for this type of device. Why? Well the audio is excellent, not only because of the noise cancellation technology (I don’t know about ‘noise blackout’, but for once people can hear me while outside on a windy day) but also because it delivers reasonable sound from music files. When I’m cycling I tend to use a single ear headset rather than…

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Gadgets December 4, 2008 posted by Nigel

Nokia N97 hands on – it’s the services, stupid…

So I got to play with the Nokia N97 for a while in Barcelona last Tuesday, and left the encounter with somewhat mixed feelings. On the one hand disappointment – at the lack of an 8 megapixel camera, at the relatively narrow screen, at the rather complicated user interface. This is not an iPhone killer – whatever that means – in any way, and in fact may end up looking decidedly pedestrian should Apple upgrade their product significantly in the time before the…

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Reviews December 1, 2008 posted by Nigel

Windows Vista Problems of the Day – another day, another list of woes

Windows Vista Problems of the Day – The case of the lost peripherals. (previously) (clipart) Well well well, yesterday Vista decided to lose my mouse. I’m right in the middle of a straightforward image editing session, everything going well (got to say I like the new image editing features in the Vista image viewer) when all of a sudden, pop. Mouse gone. Totally. Logitech wireless model. Took the USB wireless dongle out, padded over to nearby second laptop, popped it in, mouse working…

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hardware October 28, 2008 posted by Nigel

Motor Show 2008 – short electric car round-up, and not a green one in sight

Went to the Motor Show 2008 a couple of months back and grabbed some shots of some electric cars on the stands. Here’s a quick round up for you to look at. The Quiet Car Company promises to deliver a full 4 seater electric car with 60 mile range, 35mph top speed for £9,995.00 on the road. The thing looks great in the brochure, but in reality it’s just a boring looking converted Chinese model based around a Lotus chassis…

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cool tech October 24, 2008 posted by Nigel

Violet Mir:ror – new system connects up the whole world via RFID

The good folk at Violet, purveyors of the Nabaztag Rabbit, are launching a new product on Monday. The Mir:ror system is a consumer oriented RFID system (reader and tokens) which lets anyone connect up ordinary objects to a computer controlled network via their PC, the Violet central server system and a newly designed RFID chip in the form of stick-on labels called Ztamp:z. The idea is you buy packs of these Ztamp:z, attach them to whatever you want – e.g. keys, books, umbrellas etc – register them with the central server and from that moment on…

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Hacks & How to October 21, 2008 posted by Nigel

Mobile Broadband Roaming – how to grab fast Internet cheaply while travelling

I spent a few weeks wandering around Europe and Scandinavia this summer and learned a few things about catching mobile broadband access at the right kind of price which I thought I might share with you. First off, mobile broadband roaming is disgustingly expensive if you do it via the normal, use your own SIM card way. Data roaming prices are the 21st century form of piracy, and the sooner the authorities clamp down on it, the better. That said, there…

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cool tech September 10, 2008 posted by Nigel

Google Chrome – nice…but needs a little extra sauce…

I’ve been playing with the new Google Chrome web browser over the past few days and I’m impressed. It’s fast, clean and I really like the combo search and address box. It means you don’t have to differentiate between doing a web search or entering a URL, you just type in the required text and boom, the browser goes off and returns the right content. Very slick. It desperately needs plugins though, because every Firefox user relies on at least…

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Bookmark This! August 28, 2008 posted by Dan

Exif Date Changer – Fix those pesky photo times and dates

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A couple of weeks ago it was our daughter’s 1st birthday. After the party died down a bit I grabbed a copy of everyone’s photos and dropped them into Picasa and, as I normally do, tried to sort them according to the time they were taken. Uh oh. There were photos everywhere. Turns out the clock in my father’s camera was out by about 11 time zones, thanks to a trip to Venice…

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cool tech August 12, 2008 posted by Nigel

Jabra SP700 Car Speakerphone – at last a hands-free device that is actually really useful

I’ve been playing with a Jabra SP700 Bluetooth Speakerphone for a while and oooh! I tend to stay away from this kind of tech, because it’s a bit sales vehicle boring, know what I mean, but this is the first hands-free product which has really made me sit up and take notice. It’s not just because it looks pretty cool either, although it does. All black shiny ‘use the force, Luke’ like. Nope, it’s because it adds value to my mobile life…

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cool tech July 4, 2008 posted by Nigel

Polaroid PoGo – instant Bluetooth printing from your mobile phone

We’ve been taking a look at the new Polaroid Pogo Instant Mobile Printer and it’s interesting. It’s a neat little product, a bit bigger than a deck of cards, with a rechargeable battery worth some 15 prints, Bluetooth or USB connectivity and a price point of around $150.00 (or £99.00). Read on for more…

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Gadgets June 24, 2008 posted by Nigel

The Flip Ultra Camcorder – pocket sized camcorder offers excellent video quality

So they sent me a Flip camcorder to play around with, no doubt hoping that I’d be bowled over by the thing like Mr Pogue of the New York Wotsits. Well blow me down and hornswaggle me feathers – the thing is actually pretty cool, hype or not. Shocker. And definitely proof that when it comes to product design, simple wins when done well. What makes this puppy so good? Video quality. General video quality is excellent, and especially low light footage which comes out…

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Awesome April 24, 2008 posted by Nigel

DuoSIM – how to convert a standard cell phone to dual SIM in 3 minutes

DuoSIM is a very cool new conversion kit to upgrade standard mobile phones to dual SIM operation so you can have two SIM cards installed and switch between them at the push of a button. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while to make the best use of different data and call rate plans, but up till now the adapters have all required that you cut your SIM card up first, which is something I didn’t really…

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Gadgets March 18, 2008 posted by Nigel

HTC Touch Cruise vs Nokia 6110 Navigator

HTC Touch Cruise GPS Phone vs Nokia 6110 Navigator. Just been playing around with an HTC Cruise GPS handset over the past few days, and here’s some quick impressions for you in comparison with the Nokia 6110 Navigator. They’re both GPS of course, and have fairly similar specifications although the HTC comes with a 3 megapixel camera (vs 2 mp on the Nokia) and a 2.8 inch screen instead of the 2.2 of the Navigator. Oh and of course the…

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Gadgets February 20, 2008 posted by Nigel

The iClone Shootout – five iPhone phonies, a camera, and some interesting conclusions

Ladies and gentlemen, in the blue corner the world famous iPhone, iconic symbol of democracy and the new millennium. And in the red corner, China. Yep, 1.3 billion souls beavering away in factories to destroy civilisation as we know it and trash our treasured way of life. OK, enough already. So I thought it would be interesting to check out a sample of five iPhone clones to see whether they are worth your time, money and pocket space. The results were unsurprising in…

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