Instead of using the “small” keyboard on your smartphone, PDA, tablet, and other devices that fall in the same category, one of the solutions is to use an external bluetooth keyboard and the Stowaway Sierra keyboard made by Mobility Electronics…

There are a lot of interesting gadgets out there, and one of them certainly is the Invisio Q7 Bluetooth headset. Designed to operate in loud environments, this headset picks up vibrations from your jaw when you are talking. This means…

All of you know that the FCC is not just a place for great new mobiles, but other gadgets as well. And our latest find is D-Link’s upgraded USB Bluetooth adapter, the D-Link DBT-122. I use the older DBT-120 model…

This is one of the coolest mobile accessories as well, the one mobile torch bank note detector which can be used for checking he articles with fluorescence anti-fake symbol such as bank note, valuable papers, ID card, credit card, and…

Filed under: Displays, Portable Video

Having already wowed us twice with its wall-sized e-newspaper and RFID shielding material, Japan’s Toppan Printing Company has once again managed to impress with a large OLED display that could find its way into all of those portable devices that we love. At 5.5-inches and 400 x 234 pixels, the screen revealed at San Francisco’s Society for Information Display 2006 is one of the larger models of its type, and what’s more, sports active matrix technology to improve upon the passive matrix OLEDs of the past. Brighter, sharper displays realized through Toppan’s manufacturing process will begin showing up on portable DVD players and the like sometime next year.

[Via Akihabara News]

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Who doesn’t love a good freebie especially when the free gift means a brand new spanking PSP. Interested? Well then read on! Panda Software will give away a PSP everyday during the FIFA World Cup 2006. However as my granny…

Pepper Computer, Inc., and Hanbit Electronics Co., Ltd have launched an upgrade to its highly popular and innovative Pepper Pad Web player. The Pepper Pad 3 not only looks sleeker but also performs three times faster than its elder sibling….

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Some behind-the-"screens" work just completed by Samsung will soon enable many of the portable devices you enjoy to offer thinner and lighter touch panel displays. The Korean electronics giant has announced a new LCD technology called hTSP (Hybrid Touch Screen Panel) that will allow manufacturers to incorporate touch screen functionality directly into the TFT fabrication process, whereas most current touch-sensitive applications require a separate, sensor-laden printed circuit board (PCB) attached to the top of the display. So far the company is able to create LCDs as big as 3.5 inches using the new method, meaning that you can expect to see hTSP-sporting smartphones, PMPs, and nav devices on store shelves in the near future.

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Video

In what could turn into a preemptive strike against the further decline of DVD sales in the face of competition from digital downloads as well as Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs, major retailers may soon be installing kiosks in their stores that give customers access to on-demand, feature-length films on DVD or their portable devices. According to Reuters, the major movie studios are reportedly in talks with retail heavyweights like Wal-mart to theoretically offer their complete archives for downloading to in-store terminals with high-speed connections, where they would either be burned onto DVD or transferred to unspecified devices, a la that proposed DVD Station service we saw awhile back (which seemingly never materialized). While the prospect of having immediate access to almost every movie ever made is admittedly appealing, we’re not really sure that we want to drive all the way over to Best Buy just to stand around waiting uncomfortably with our fellow patrons as we all clutch our iPods, nervously tap our feet, and wish we’d all just stayed at home and settled for whatever was on Moviebeam.

[Via Slashdot]

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Sierra Wireless further expanded its critically acclaimed AirCard(R) product line by adding the new AirCard 875 wireless wide area network card for HSDPA networks. This latest offering by Sierra delivers greater data speeds and high-speed worldwide roaming thanks to the…

The guys over at the gadgeteer managed to get their hands on the Macally FM Cup - an iPod accessory that allows you to transmit songs over FM. Apparently, the FM cup is so called because it cleanly fits in…

Leica Camera AG, Solms, is now offering a special edition of its high-quality analog compact camera LEICA CM with exclusive colored leather finish. Besides the standard model in elegant black leather, the limited edition available from May 2006 onwards will…

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays, Portable Video

Researchers at Japan's Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices Corporation have just developed a series of small LCDs that, unlike most traditional displays, are almost perfectly viewable even at extreme 90-degree angles. Available in sizes ranging from 2.4-inches to 10.1-inches, the displays will be employed in any number of portable devices, from cellphones to PDAs to PMPs, although the best use we can think of is to put them on cameras, which should make it a lot easier to see what you're shooting when you need to take pictures over a crowd. As for the use of this so-called "Photo Fine Vistarich" technology in devices that we're viewing personal/secure information on, well, we're not necessarily sure we want to make it easier for everyone on the subway to peep our Treo screen. Sanyo Epson says production of these displays will begin this fall, which mean we should probably see corresponding products on the market before the end of the year.

Here’s a innovative and novel product its called CarryBike and as the name suggest it is a fold-able bicycle-cart. This extra cool product does what the name suggest and you can fold it up and carry it around anywhere! So…

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A bunch of venture capitalists have been poking around Philips' R&D labs lately, and it seems that they like what they see. New Venture Partners has joined with the Dutch electronics giant to spin off several companies based on technology first developed by Philips Research, with the first collaboration, Liquavista, being announced today. Based on a thin-display technology called Electrowetting, Liquavista will attempt to integrate its products into DAPs, cellphones, watches, and other portable devices where high brightness and rapid refresh rates are valued (which is like, all of them). Electrowetting supposedly provides better brightness and response time than competing reflective display technologies while using essentially the same manufacturing techniques, and according to a handy comparison chart on MobileRead, is just about the best thing ever. Skeptics will be able to peep the displays for themselves in early June, however, when Liquavista will present some prototypes at the Society for Information Display's 2006 exhibition in San Francisco. [Warning: PDF link]

[Via MobileRead]

Imation, today launched its new line of flash drives. One of the models announced today includes Imation’s Pivot Flash drive, which combines style security and stability in one package. It is a high performance flash drive with reinforced ring that…