Gadgets

Sharp Papyrus PW-TC900 reviewed: A sinful electronic dictionary

The Japanese tend to make things complicated. Against all odds, they decided that electronic dictionaries are better than paper, and figured out ways to assert the belief. The electronic dicionary should be goodlooking, intelligent-looking, pocketable and very expensive. In fact, the Japanese spend more time with their handsome looking electronic dictionary-cum-translators than actually learning a language for real. Sharp even ...

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Look bossy with the small Brother MW-260 printer

Brother announced today (Christmas day) a follow up for their ultra thin ultra funk portable printers released years ago. Adding Bluetooth, Infrared and USB2.0 support, the Brother MPrint can now print pages up to A6 size, and keeping it’s thickness at 18.5mm. Apparently this is going to be uber useful when you need to print receipts on the go off ...

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Clean your clothes with this rude-looking ultrasound Whitey Pika at home

We’ve seen how funky gadgets can produce a steam jet to clear up stains, or how a UV cleaner can clean a suit in one day, how about ultrasound? Bearmax has migrated the technology that you’ve seen in lens cleaning machines at sunglasses shops to this pocketable gun-shaped Ultrasound Cleaner. By vibrating 50000 times per second, the sound wave is ...

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Kleer creates ultimate Stereo Wireless headphones

The guys at Kleer were sick of hearing companies like Creative come out with �wireless� headphones, when the headphones were connected to each other by a wire, so they decided to make a true pair of wireless headphones with their Stereo wireless headphones. These very sleek headphones were designed so no wire connected the left and right ear earpieces. The ...

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Record Cassettes and Vinyl to CD with Crosley Songwriter

Much like many geeks, we have stacks of Rush vinyl records and They Might Be Giants cassette tapes laying around that we’ve always wished we could easily transfer to CD without having to take hours to connect the proper equipment to our computer. The Crosley Songwriter gives us exactly that, without the need of a PC handy! And it isn’t ...

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ZVUE 250 fits your Christmas budget @ $100

Maybe it isn’t a piece of amazing design work, but it is certainly a great deal. The ZVUE 250 personal media player is priced at $99.95. That’s under a hundred dollars! If you were to just read the features you’d think that it would be at least $200. It has a 2.5-inch active matrix backlit screen; it plays WMA, WMV, ...

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Unboxing the 3.2MP Toshiba TX80 (811T) UMTS music phone

SmarTone-Vodafone Hong Kong announced the migration of Toshiba Softbank 811T (TX80) phone at ITU Telecom World just 2 weeks ago. Gearfuse managed to grab not one, but three of these to snap pictures for you. Coming up is an exclusive spot review of the TX80 phone, first in any non-Asian language site on the internet. In any case, prior to ...

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Apple Cinema Displays to have HDMI technology

This might only be a rumor as of yet, but we heard through the grapevine that the next generation of Apple Cinema Displays might have HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) capability. It might not sound like much, but what HDMI allows is pretty impressive. HDMI enables the transfer of totally uncompressed streams of media, while keeping the HD goodness. Apple freaks ...

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NetCafe frenziness will push up Asus sales by 50%

Asus currently takes up 1/3 of the world’s computer motherboard market, and they have been doing that by striving to expand the market themselves. At a press conference on Friday, Asus indicated that they would join forces with intel (not AMD), they even projected that their sales will increase by another 50% in 2007, if they manage to meet their ...

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