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Gadgets December 12, 2007 posted by
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BlueTrek SurfaceSound Duo – NXT flat speaker visor car kit turns your headset into a handsfree. Why?

At first glance the Bluetrek SurfaceSound Duo seems an eminently useful idea. Clip it to your car visor and when you enter the vehicle just pop your headset into the slot to get a handsfree voice system for your mobile phone. It’s only when you think about it a bit more, and realise that a headset offers more hands-free voice clarity and convenience than this thing can ever provide, that you realise this is a product without a reason for…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites December 12, 2007 posted by
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Qik – stream videos direct from your mobile phone to the web

Qik. Fascinating new service which lets you stream video directly from your mobile phone to the Web. You download a small software applet onto your handset and from then on you’re a one-person, roaming live camcorder, and better still all streams are recorded to your own personal archive on the site. Neat concept and an inevitable result of the improvement in mobile data bandwidth. Currently very much in private beta, and only supports a small set of Nokia phones. Oh and…


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Gadgets December 11, 2007 posted by
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Hands on with the Invisio G5 – trying not to lose the smallest Bluetooth headset in the world

They sent me a new Invisio G5 Bluetooth Headset to look at a week or so back and I’ve been stuffing it in my ear ever since. It’s billed as the smallest and lightest headset in the world, and at 3.3cm long and a trifling 6 grams, who’s going to argue. I have a bit of a long standing ‘thing’ with the Nextlink folk, ever since two of their supposedly awesome Bluespoon headsets failed to work for me out of…


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but is it art? December 10, 2007 posted by
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Pocket Films Festival – celebrating the art of movies taken with camera phones

The Pocket Films Festival celebrates the art of making movies with camera phones. It’s been running for two years now and has got to be the strangest example of the festival craze going. Still, if you like staring at a 2 inch screen for an hour or more, this should be right up your street. Watch out Cannes!  Japan’s first attempt at the Pocket Films Festival is based on a partnership between the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music…


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Bookmark This! December 5, 2007 posted by
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Hovr – yet more free games for your mobile phone…and friends too

Hovr is a new service which offers free games for you to play on your mobile phone. And guess what? There’s a community as well. Plus forums and stuff and stuff. It’s all ad supported, so be prepared for…well adverts I suppose.  Hovr is the world’s first ad-supported consumer based mobile content provider spearheading the evolution of a free mobile content based social network across Mobile platforms. Hovr provides loads of titles from a dozen world class mobile game publishers, all…


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Bookmark This! December 3, 2007 posted by
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Rent an iPhone – and save your purchase pennies for the upgraded model?

Rent an iPhone. OK, so you’re probably one of those cautious types who’s not that convinced by the hype. Or maybe you’re too attached to your present handset and don’t want to leap to something else without checking it out first. So why not rent, sayeth those enterprising folk at Erento. We’re talking £29.00 a day VAT inclusive, or £99.00 a week. You’re gonna need a SIM card, dude.   iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to…


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Gadgets November 30, 2007 posted by
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Driinn Mobile Phone Holder – cool tool banishes phone charger cable chaos

The Driinn Mobile Phone Holder takes the clutter of cables away from the floor and stores it neatly up against the wall. Your floor will thank you, your pet will not and your phone will not care less. It’s super simple, fabulously practical and costs just €5.00. Great pressie fodder.  How does it work? Driinn hangs between your battery charger and the wall socket. It provides a support for your mobile phone and convenient storage for your charging cord. Tags: driinn+phone+holder,…


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hmm..interesting November 30, 2007 posted by
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Get Me Out of Here – the super slick excuse machine

Get Me Out of Here. Super neat telephone callback service delivers excuses, audio greetings and celebrity prank calls. So you’re stuck in a looong boring meeting with your sister’s accountant’s partner and the game is on in 40 minutes and the guy is still talking about his vacation in Duluth and…hey a call’s come in and you’ve got to go. Bing! With one stride you’re free. Geddit? You can set calls up to any number, any country, choose from an impressively…


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Gadgets November 29, 2007 posted by
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Mini MOB Mobile Phone – tiny handset brick packs retro street style

Mini MOB Mobile Phone. Remember when phones were phones and bricks were bricks? When you had to reinforce your pocket with steel just to carry around the latest cell phone wonder? Well you can relive those halcyon days without all the back ache, with this mini retro model ‘brick’ handset. Fully functional but only 11cm in size, it’s got 30 days standby, 3 days talk, miniSD slot and an MP3 player. £160.00.  The block phone is back, but with a…


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cool tech November 27, 2007 posted by
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Satechi Bluetooth FM Transmitter – play your mobile phone music wirelessly on your car stereo

I’m guessing that this new Satechi Bluetooth FM Transmitter which can accept AD2P Bluetooth music from your mobile phone and transmit it to your car stereo via FM will get really popular now that more and more handsets come with MP3 players as standard. The fact that you get echo cancelled handsfree via an internal mic, plus a Line In socket for iPods etc is just a bonus really. Not cheap though at $99.00.  Bluetooth Hands-Free Transmitter provides a live full…


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cool tech November 26, 2007 posted by
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Mobiola Webcam – turn your mobile phone into a wireless webcam

Mobiola Webcam. Turn your mobile phone into a wireless Bluetooth or USB webcam for your PC or laptop. It’s compatible with Symbian, Java (J2ME) and Windows Mobile, so it should work with a fair few handsets. It feels like quite a neat option if you travel a lot and want a quick and dirty webcam for calling home. Oh and it works with Skype and the other major IM clients, which is pretty cool. Prices start at $4.95 and there’s…


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cool tech November 22, 2007 posted by
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Nokia 6131 NFC – touch to pay credit card mobile phones start trickling onto the market

The Nokia 6131 NFC (for Near Field Communication) is one stealthy handset. Released earlier this year by a crack team of Nokia undercover ninjas (aka Nokia Emerging Business Unit), the phone offers pay by touch, touch ticket and other very cool RFID applications inside a conventional phone form factor. Basically they’ve embedded an RFID chip into the top part of the flip lid. We got a heads up on the technology from Richard Humbach, Head of NFC Business in Finland…


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cool tech November 22, 2007 posted by
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Guide By Cell – create and beam an audio guide direct to your customers’ mobile phone

Guide By Cell. Very cool service which lets you record your own audio tours for your visitors or customers which they access via their mobile phones. You either record the audio direct or upload voice guides, music, interviews etc etc, and then it’s just a matter of telling people which number to call and what keypress delivers which guide. It’s a great idea because it gives a free value-add service to your customers (although you can charge for it if you…


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Free Software November 16, 2007 posted by
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AmAze – cool free GPS software for just about any mobile phone

AmAze is free GPS satellite navigation software for any Java enabled mobile phone (which covers a huge selection of handsets). Unlike similar offerings from elsewhere, this is your full on, voice enabled, turn by turn software which features not just maps but also photo satellite images during navigation in many areas. It’s got a great selection of international maps, offers yellow pages type business info and gives a choice of pedestrian or vehicle navigation as well. The free bit? Well they…


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Gadgets November 14, 2007 posted by
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Sony Ericsson FM Transmitter – beam your mobile phone music to a radio near you

This has got to be one of the only 3rd party FM transmitters for Sony Ericsson phones on the market. Which means that it ain’t pretty, it ain’t cool, but it sure is cheap. Any colour you like, as long as it’s white sweetheart. $29.99.  Powered by the mobilephone, no need for extra mobilephones – Remembering the last used Frequency – Range up to 10 meters – Mutes the music during calles – When a call comes in, the music…


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