It looks like Brando is creating more of their retro USB microphones. We covered one last month that was a cool design. Well, if you have a thing for retro, here is yet another retro microphone to make you salivate. This one is quite a bit more radio inspired with its well lit “ON THE AIR” sign just above the mic. I also greatly like that this new version looks a lot less like a bunch of cheap plastic. It may very well be made out of the same materials, it just doesn’t look as cheap.
A month ago EarthDrive’s eco-friendly usb drive claimed to be the world’s first completely green drive. Well looks like it’s about to get a little competition with this new USB drive. The new drive is made out of recycled newspapers. Yes it is excessively bland looking and if you lay it on a wood desk with similar coloring it will blend in easily with its surroundings making it harder to spot. There’s just not a whole lot about the drive that makes it stand out. Yet, it is made out of recycled materials which will likely draw in the more environmentally conscious.
iPhone owners might looks pretty smug with their snazzy handsets, but there would be some who grew up in the first half of the last century who sometimes wish that they could relive the good old days of rotary dials? Well, MildMannered Industries has just the tonic for such people with the Bakelite - a rotary phone style dialer for the iPhone. Definitely meant for novel purposes only, as I don’t think you’d want to spend a full minute dialing a number. Don’t expect too much from this though since it is a free software.
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I remember back in the days where Wi-Fi connectivity was something coveted, and you could have that smug look while sitting at Starbucks reading your favorite news online whereas everybody else had to settle for yesterday’s headlines with the newspaper. Since those early days, Wi-Fi hotspots have grown by leaps and bounds, and it can be quite a hassle to whip out your notebook just to find whether there is a hotspot within the vicinity for you to connect to. With the Wi-Fi watch, you don’t have to do that any more since it can search for the nearest Wi-Fi networks at the touch of a button within a 100 meter radius. Other features include a Chronograph, Countdown, Alarm, Hourly Chime, Dual Time and Lap Memory. This shockproof and water resistant (up to 100 meters) Wi-Fi watch will retail for £24.99.
Every once in a while, you want some space on your desk and you wish your desktop PC was smaller. The Fit-PC Slim may be the smallest computer of all, as it measures 4.3 x 3.9 x 1.2 inches.
Not only is it the smallest, but it might be the most energy efficient yet as it uses only 6 watts of power. It weighs in at a light 13 ounces.
So what is inside it? It has processor of an AMD Geode LX800 500MHz, 512MB RAM, plus the option of a 2.5″ hard drive. The Fit-PC is set up for Ethernet and Wi-Fi connectivity, and for VGA output.
Christmas is still a long, long way off - but that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to meet the oncoming holiday season, right? Brando has the USB Key-pressed X’mas Tree that is pretty self-explanatory - the faster you type, the more bulbs on this thing lights up. Sorry, there are no Easter eggs available in this USB gadget, so breaking the world’s speed typing record won’t result in a special lighting arrangement or anything of that sort. Each USB Key-pressed X’mas Tree comes with 25 LEDs and will retail for $19. I guess bosses who get this for their employees might secretly want to check on whether they’re typing their reports like good peons do, or are they busy surfing using Google’s incognito window.
Western Digital has decided to make available larger capacities for the My Passport line of portable USB drives, hitting the 500GB mark for folks who have plenty of data to tote about without being weighed down by size and weight. Available on My Passport Elite and My Passport Essential portable drive models, both of them will tip the scales at under 7 ounces and were specially designed to hold out on their own against the rigors of everyday use. Judging by their weight alone, you can tell that they’re small enough to slip into your pocket or backpack comfortably, and since it is bus-powered, you don’t have to worry about toting an additional power supply although you might have to rethink how you’re going to reorganize the use of your USB ports on the computer.
USB gadgets are always taking gadgets to a whole new level of bizarre, well this little sheep is no exception. The USB Seamour Sheep lamp is created after the Seamour Sheep online comic series. Although if you do pick one up, all anyone is likely going to notice is that you actually paid money to have a green glowing radioactive sheep. Which puts you on a whole different level of geekdom.
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