Archives for April 2007
Rose Petal Cannon
Juniper Foo | Apr 06, 2007
Now you know how they did it in American Beauty where Mena Suvari is strategically covered in rose petals. With the Rose Petal Cannon, you can set the stage for a romantic rendezvous with your significant other. Or surprise your party guests with the sweet scent of success. This handheld popper has a killer distance of 10m and operates by twisting the ring at the base. Flower power, indeed.
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Via Gizmodiva
Price: US$41
Availability: At Bim Bam Banana
Device: Party gizmo
Specs: N.A.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G1: Wireless penpals
Edvarcl Heng | Apr 06, 2007
The G1 tries to make the most of its Wi-Fi abilities. Here's our hands-on experience trying out this unwired camera.
The collaboration shot feature on the G1 is essentially Friendster on camera. You link up your G1 with your friends' (up to three more), shoot a picture of that hot young thing and the same illicit image will be automatically sent to your buddies' cameras, too. In practise, we found connecting G1s to be slow-going. First, we had to set up nicknames for each G1s before initiating the proper start-up screen, press both WLAN buttons simultaneously (we tried, even a lag of 1 second is not permitted) and wait for the cameras to shake hands before collaboration shooting was a go.
Sony claimed a connectivity range of 10-30m. But do take note that if you want to sync up while one G1 is a fair distance from the other (in our case, it was 10m), you would need to work out a signal to allow both of you to sync the cameras at the same time (we tried shouting). If you are looking to link up three cameras, you need to run through the same procedure twice; once to hook up two and the second time to sync all three together.
Once everything was up and running, we found the collaboration shot feature to be rather fun. A 10m range is a lot to play with when we start shooting from different parts of the office. It is akin to having a periscope to look over the wall at the other side of the fence.
When we took a picture on one G1, there was a one second lag before the image is transmitted to the other G1, though the transfer speed can also depend on the resolution you are shooting at. That's cool by us. But the lag time increased to 4 seconds when both G1s shot a picture at the same time. So if you and the buddy are liable to be shuttle-happy, be forewarned that the cross-update of pictures between two cameras is not exactly real time.
The second Wi-Fi feature is the picture gift. As the name suggests, it allows the user to select pictures from one G1 and transmit them over to another G1. It's easy, but there are quite a bit of permissions involved. After the G1s are linked, you would need to specify which G1 is the receiver and which is the sender. Next, you would need to select the pictures and each highlighted picture will be notated with an arrow pointing upwards, after which, small thumbnails of the pictures you have selected will appear in your pal's G1. He will select the ones he will accept from you and the download will start automatically. We felt the transfer speed was not too shabby at 0.34MB per second.
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Warner Music serenades Nokia with Paris Hilton
Damian Koh | Apr 05, 2007
What's better than to have Paris Hilton wake us up every morning? At least, that's what we think might happen when the Finnish company partners Warner Music using the 5700 XpressMusic as a platform.
"This close partnership with Warner Music is allowing us to further improve the out-of-box experience for consumers in Singapore," said Chris Carr, general manager for Nokia Singapore in a press release statement. This will see three sets of video ringtones, soundtracks and wallpapers from artists such as Paris Hilton, P. Biddy (previously known as Puff Daddy) and Cassie preloaded into the music phone.
According to a Nokia spokesperson, the partnership with Warner Music is only for the Singapore audience, so if you're in the Philippines, for instance, you could be getting a different set of content. The new 5700 XpressMusic, which sports a dedicated audio chip for clearer audio playback, will be a benchmark for the XpressMusic line and is expected to be available this month.
Nokia's 5700 XpressMusic gets on the music highwayCitizen i:Vert
Juniper Foo | Apr 05, 2007
Ever since Dick Tracy left an indelible image of cool talking into his wrist watch communicator, it's been something geeks secretly aspired to. So not surprisingly, Citizen has joined the league of extraordinary watches with its version that's a bit of a tongue wrapper. The i:Vert, attempting to sound as techno chunky as it looks, could have been sleeker. But if you reckon it's hip to be square, this one comes with Bluetooth, makes calls, shows Caller ID, comes with an organic EL with luminescent blue diodes, and hey, tells time. An edition for the gentler sex is due out soon, though word to Citizen: Adding color to the same chunky design doesn't a lady's version make.
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Via Japan Today
Price: 27,000 yen
Availability: At Amazon Japan
Device: Bluetooth watch phone
Specs: N.A.
Dopod C500 to arrive in May
John Chan | Apr 05, 2007
We first reported on the HTC Vox in our top 5 picks from 3GSM '07. This same smart phone will be branded the Dopod C500 in this region and come with Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard. This means the OS won't support touchscreen input, so it'll just have a regular 2.4-inch display. The good news is it has two input options--a numeric keypad under the display in portrait mode and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard when using the phone in landscape orientation. It also comes with Wi-Fi, though the lack of 3G is slightly disappointing.
The C500 will be available in Singapore and Malaysia from May. Pricing information is still unavailable. Read more here
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