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Meridiist - Tag Heuer's luxurious mobile phone

April 21st 2008 23:33

Luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer's Meridiist will be the name of choice for their first foray into the world of mobile telecommunication devices.

Made of corrosion-resistant, watch-making 316L steel, unscratchable 60.5 carat sapphire crystal displays plus your choice of crocodile, leather or rubber backing, the Meridiist features a 1.9-inch QVGA main display, monochrome OLED screen on top, a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, MP3/AAC/MPEG-4 playback, and a 7-hour talk time.

The mobile looks superb and supremely crafted and would surely give a Vertu a run for its money, but the specs are absolutely nothing to write home about and quite ordinary compared to some of the mid-to-high end specced phones on the market right now.

Anyway, the fashionistas out there won't care and will be pleased to know that the Tag Heuer Meridiist will go on sale in Tag Heuer boutiques and selected jewellery stores in September 2008 priced from US$5000 and up.
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Posted By: Arnold - Category: Cellphones

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The World's Slimmest Waterproof Mobile Phone

April 15th 2008 00:18

The Fujitsu 705i G3 Mobile

The Fujitsu 705i in dry dock

How many times have you been sitting and soaking in a bubble bath, your all lathered up and then the mobile rings. You answer it but because of the soap hands it drops in the tub. Or, your sailing and as the boat lists over the mobile ends up sliding into the drink?

Evidently a lot of phones are destroyed every year from water damage. Now the inventive people at Fujitsu have solved the problem, introducing the F705i G3 Mobile Phone, the latest in waterproof communication technology.

Going down without a scuba tank

Super slim at 1.37cm thick, this handset can be dunked in a metre of water for up to 30 minutes without self destructing. Featuring super clear voice and mike abilities this nifty new mobile automatically adjusts its inbound and outbound volume to allow for your voice level and ambient noise.

Armed with a 1.3 megapixel camera and 8 times quick zoom, you can shrink or enlarge text with the touch of button. The battery at full charge facilitates 170 minute of talk time and allows for up to 100 minutes of video calls.

Now for the bad news, the Fujitsu F705i is only available in Japan at the moment. Don’t hold your breath, searching the net there is no scheduled release for Australia or the U.S at present. One would hope though that such a practical invention will eventually come to the shores of the western world.

A Japanese ad for the waterproof mobile

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Posted By: Dexter - Category: Cellphones, Gadgets

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HYmini Wind Charger

April 7th 2008 03:38

The power in the air

Available in a variety of colours

A few weeks ago I did a post on the freeloader 8.0 a solar charger for portable devices that uses the power of the sun to fuel your hand held gadgets. Now the people at Hymini have developed an affordable, environmentally minded alternative that is equally adaptable.

The HYmini wind-charger takes windmill technology that has existed for eons and has refined it to store electricity for your iPod, mobile phones, PDA, mp3 and digital camera.
The minimum gust that can get things happening is 9mph and a maximum velocity of 40mph is optimal for charging power.

The palm of power

According to the HYmini website:
"A Lithium Ion polymer rechargeable battery has around 500 complete charge cycles. If the battery is fully charged every time, it should have at least of 1000mAh of stored capacity for you to transfer this power to other 5V devices up to 500 times. A conventional mobile phone has around 0.4Ah to 0.7 Ah of battery capacity."

As for charge time the site says:
“With conventional 110-220 wall plug, HYmini takes at least 4 hours to fully charge. It depends on the environmental condition and the number of solar battery you have, Solar batteries can potentially fully charge HYmini’s internal battery.
Note: Wind generator is designed as a supplemental source, hence can not fully charge HYmini”

Though it seems that the charger still needs to some help from the traditional power socket this kind of development still seems like a step on the right direction for the greener gadgets revolution that has been growing in the last few years. I wonder what we will see come on the market in the next few years…maybe someday a bit of methane from a fart could end up being all we need to listen to our favourite tunes?

To find more about the HYmini charger please visit hymini.com

Here are some Specifications from HYmini

Here is some video footage discussing the HYmini wind charger

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Posted By: Dexter - Category: Audio, Cameras, Cellphones, Gadgets

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Freeloader 8.0 – iPod Solar Battery Charger

March 14th 2008 01:41

Freeloader - The solar powered Charger

Freeloader solar charger available to buy

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Posted By: Dexter - Category: Audio, Cellphones, Gadgets, PDA

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LG WatchPhone Beaming Soon

March 10th 2008 02:26

LG WatchPhone Beaming Soon

The LG Watchphone - Image courtesy of Aving.net

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Posted By: Dexter - Category: Cellphones, Gadgets

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Introducing the Gravity Light

February 20th 2008 00:05

Greener Gadgets Conference

The Bamboo Kinetic Phone - Crazy but interesting

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Posted By: Dexter - Category: Cellphones, Gadgets, Home, Video

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James Bond Gadgets for You

February 15th 2008 01:47

Finally we all get 007 Gizmos.

007 soars to new heights

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Posted By: Dexter - Category: Cameras, Cellphones, Gadgets, Toys

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Review: LG Viewty (KU990) 5.1-megapixel camera phone

February 13th 2008 22:15

After spending a week with the LG Viewty touchscreen 5-megapixel camera phone, I've come to the conclusion that despite having some minor flaws (more on that later), this is without doubt one of the best LG phones in a very long time and quite possibly one of the best LG phones ever

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Posted By: Arnold - Category: Cellphones

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Apple iPhone 16GB & iPod Touch 32GB

February 6th 2008 08:30

When the Apple iPhone officially arrives down under sometime this year - or so we're told - it will be available with 16GB of memory along with the original 8GB version

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Posted By: Arnold - Category: Audio, Cellphones

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