Gadgets and Gizmos World

This is one of the hottest gadgets to be released this September. Apple iPod Touch, another cool gizmo from Apple. At the time of this writing, this gadget hold the first place for the most favorite item at the Amazon electronics shop. Well above of hundred-thousands of other electronics products. Kudos for Apple.

iPod touch is incredibly lightweight and only 8mm thick. In my opinion, the smaller and more portable a gadget is, the higher its cool factor. Therefore iPod touch can be categorized to “very cool” gadget. It’s very much like the Apple iPhone, I can say iPod Touch is actually iPhone without camera capability, but with some steroids. It also has the same photo-manipulation feature like the iPhone.

For you who want to know more, here is the list of the iPod Touch cool features:

• Cover Flow, flick through your music album cover, click it to see the tracks, another click to play.
• Multi Touch, bring up on-screen control with simple tap.
• Accelerometer responds to your movements; turn it sideways and your video, web or misc in Cover Flow presented in widescreen.
• Photos can be sync via iTunes.
• Apple Safari browser built-in for a wireless web access anywhere.
• YouTube player built-in, with bookmark and everything.
• Buy music from iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Browse New Releases, What’s Hot, and Just Added lists, and more.
• Order music at Starbuck wi-fi hot spot.
• Ambient light sensor for better viewing and battery-saving.

This cool gadget will be released on September 30, 2007. You can pre-order it at Amazon.com and be the coolest person in the club.

Apple 16 GB iPod touch

Small things getting lost every time, especially at the time we really do need it. Small things, like keys, purse, cell phone, TV remote or any other small things can be easily misplaced and forgotten. GE has a solution for this problem, with its Find It Universal Remote. Find It is a patented 2-way RF paging technology that allows the user to find missing things by following its sound clue. Pressing the button of either corresponding things will activate the sound of the other one.

Find It GE Universal Remote comes with five separate Lost Item Locater units. Hook those units to keys chains, cell phones, purses, anything that are small and can be easily misplaced. When you lost your key (or other things) that has Lost Item Locater unit attached, simply press the button at the remote and the locator at the key will beep. If you lost the remote, no problem, the individual Lost Item Locator units also communicates with the remote, just press it and the remote will beep. And remember, there are five of Locator Items Units, so you will always find your remote, no more missing remote incident.

Find It Remote and its kids communicate through walls and furniture up to 30 feet. It even has proximity sensor that will give us indicants if we are getting closer.

Controls TV, VCR, DVD, cable, satellite and audio. Compatible with over 325 brands. PiP, sleep timer, surround sound controls, and more.

Universal Remote 6 Device with Find It GE

Sony, the pioneer of portable music player, joins the portable video bandwagon with Sony Walkman Video MP3 player. Better late than sorry, son..

Hi-res 2-inch 320×240 QVGA LCD screen, can store up to 5,050 songs, 30 hours of video or hundreds of photo. Battery life is excellent, 33 hours audio playback and up to 8 hours video playback. Long enough for a day trip. Multimedia entertainment anywhere, anytime. Takes only 3 hours for fully charging the gadget, or only 1.5 Hours for 80% charge.

Support MP3, WMA, WMA-DRM, and non-DRM AAC audio files. Also, Secure Windows Media Audio.

Sony Walkman Video MP3 player comes with 4 Clear Audio technologies; Clear Bass (enhance the bass sound), Clear Stereo (reduces the leaking from one channel to another), Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE restores the higher frequency that lost when creating compressed music)), and EX Series Headphone.

The bi-directional LCD Display system allows you to watch your movie or photo either vertically or horizontally by adjusting the screen to the orientation you choose.

Available at SonyStyle.com

This is currently the biggest commercially available big TV screen line (up to a whopping 70 inch!). Hi-definition with unbelievable contrast ratio 500,000:1, thanks to the LED smart lighting technology, that can switch individual LED back lights off.

Samsung F9 Series with 500,000:1 contrast ratio, then black color will look really black, and no more blurred multicolored colors. It has picture resolution of 1.920 x 1,080, makes it possible to illustrate details and small screen windows precisely and in a true-to-life manner.

Samsung F9 TV series also come with a bunch of connector, including USB 2.0, thus we can connect mobile phone, MP3 player, digital camera and USB stick directly to the TV. It has 3 HDMI connection for you to connect Blu-ray Player, latest gaming console, HD Camcorder and other high definition components.

Not just the superb picture, Samsung F9 TV series also come with first class sound. Equipped with the TruSurround XT Stereo system, two inserted sub-woofer (hidden neatly in the equipment), and supply a full sound over 2.2-Channel Stereo.

The design is very luxury, noble piano lacquer design that will blend perfectly into any living room. Rounded off corners and the platinum edge make this Design TVs an eye catcher in every house.

Samsung F9 Series, the LE52F96BD available starting from 31 August 2007, the LE70F96BD starting from 27 September 2007.

Suggested retail price:
LE52F96BD (52-inch): € 4,699
LE70F96BD (70-inch): € 39,999

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Watching iPods video gadget with 24-inch big screen TV that you can bring it everywhere? Sounds like a very good idea, right? Actually it’s already available in store

We all know that video iPods comes with a tiny miniscule screen. To watch a movie decently you need to hold it against your nose, definitely not a very comfortable position for our hands. Lucky for us, here comes iPod Video Goggles.

Video goggles plug directly into your video iPod and project a virtual 24 inch TV directly in front of you! No extra cables, no batteries needed – it use a very little power (you won’t notice it) directly from your iPod. For the fifth generation 30-Gigabyte iPod Video we can watch 2 hours of movie, for the 80 Gigabyte iPod Video, even more than 4 hours.

You can bring it everywhere. Very versatile gadget.

Specifications:
Display: 320 x 240, 24-bit color, 50–60 Hz frame rate
Optics: Dual color LCDs SolidOptex™ Optical System
Image size: equivalent to 24 inch TV at about 2 m.
Video input: auto sense NTSC/PAL

Caution: don’t use iPod Video Goggles while driving or while you’re doing any kind of work that need your full attention.

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