We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again…whatever has happened to Sony? Talk about a turnaround. The company is now on some kind of roller coaster of cool product launches, each one seeming to be more innovative than the last. Has it hired Tony Stark or something? Anyway the latest launch is the Xperia Z1, a veritable monster of a smartphone in every way.
Read More![Sony Xperia Z1 & friends – exclusive hands on with the new Sony super phone, Smart Watch, QX10 WiFi lens and more [Video]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sonylaunch4.jpg)
Ever felt the need to take a quick shower while on the road? Of course you did, most of the times we’re all sweaty on the go especially when camping, hiking, etc and nothing can replace a hot/cold shower when it’s needed. But of course, it’s pretty difficult to take a bath on a road trip, you either have to check-in at a motel or wait until you get home.
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It looks like the marketing wonks have realized that handheld games and mobile phones go together rather well, with the result that we’re starting to see a bunch of interesting products hit the market across the globe. Of course the big driver for all this is the massive impact Android has had on games and gaming, but even so it’s great to see people starting to try and pull it all together.
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Taking photos is fun, but using them or sharing with friends and family is even more enjoyable. And let’s face it, there’s a huge number of ways you can do this, using online services, software and even high street stores which will happily make you a mouse mat with your fave image on it. One other great way to use your photos is to set them as your home screen or desktop background.
Read More![Collagerator – create your own phone or tablet home screen with a stylish collage of your own images [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/collagerator2.jpg)
Using tripods is an excellent way of taking steady pictures via your phone. Although, not all tripods can easily sit on uneven surfaces, this is where Gorilla pods come into play. They are rugged tripods that easily grip or cling onto any kind of surface unlike traditional tripods.
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The Nvidia Shield was released about a month and a half ago ago and to be honest I wasn’t that excited, having been disappointed by handheld gaming devices in the past. However I finally got to try it for myself hands-on at the PAX conference recently, and boy has my tune changed.
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Sometimes a whole video is overkill, when all you need is a short clip of something. And it’s not just for LOLcats or other silliness either. Extracting a clip of a video can be very useful to demonstrate something, or teach and explain, and even to learn how something works in detail. The trouble is it’s not that easy to create short clips from full videos, unless you use complicated GIF tools.
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Who doesn’t like reading books? I most certainly do. Turning a page on a book gives the kind of real satisfaction an ebook can never provide. However with the benefits of physical contact also come the downsides of books as well. Because of course we usually need to put a bookmark in our book to remind ourselves of the page where we stopped reading. But the problem is these bookmarks are not precise enough, because they don’t mark the exact…
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More than 16,000 pieces of “space junk” currently orbit the Earth. This debris includes non-functioning satellites and burned-off pieces from former space flights. Satellites tend to cluster in similar orbits and pose serious threats to space faring technology as well as to the International Space Station. This may become a thing of the past due to a partnership that’s been announced between the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Swiss Space Systems (S3) to launch the CleanSpace One satellite…
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You wanna talk about small? We know about small. There’s the small that’s petite enough to fit into a hummingbird’s rucksack. Then there’s the small that’s a tiny bit bigger than Justin Bieber’s shoe size. And then there’s crazy small, like the kind of engineering that fits the text of Wikipedia onto a grain of Moroccan cous-cous.
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Who says cameras have to be all work and no play? We’re so obsessed nowadays with our multi-megapixel, pattern weighted, flexi-ISO beasts that sometimes we forget that photography is simply capturing light. And if you’ve ever gone through the pangs of not having a camera in your pocket when a perfect shot appears, you’ll know how annoying it can be.
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There’s no doubt about it, for city dwellers, parking is a real drag. It’s not just the uncertainty of knowing whether you’ll find a free spot where you want to go, it’s also the realization that if you can’t find anything you’ll probably spend hours (OK, well it seems like hours) circling around trying desperately to beat someone else to the punch. How demeaning.
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We all still unfortunately suffer from cable complications. The iPhone 4 uses the 30 pin connector, while the iPhone 5 and latest generation family all use the lightning connector. And every other device, including the top Android phones/tablets or even the latest digital cameras have support for microUSB. So, if you own a couple of devices with the mentioned connectors then you are definitely familiar with cable clutter on your desk.
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A cup filled with coffee or any other liquid is just old school, so we bring you the latest speeCup –  a cup filled with sound and nothing else. It’s a surround sound portable speaker with support for gesture controls and a few other tricks.
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We like fun, we like games. Heck we even like fun and games together. No-one can accuse us of being backward when it comes to…like, enjoying stuff. But one big downer when it comes to kicking back is the hassle of setting everything up, and all that boring woo. It would definitely be better if there was a way to have everything for our fun times neatly contained in one place.
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