You cannot say you're a techno-geek unless you love gadgets!
Here you can find especially impressive smart phones, gaming devices and tools, new ways of interacting with and accessing technology, some cool software and conceptual gadgets. You might also find some weird things here - toys that might not be toys at all, wearable tech and even gadgets that might change the world we are interacting with. There are also these 26 odd archived gadgets here. |
ASUS Rog Phone 2 - Laptop Replacement (30th July 2019)
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So now it is happening - the Smart Phone ASUS Rog Phone 2 is powerful enough to replace a laptop as a gaming device. It has 8GB RAM, and a separate graphics card, 128GB storage and 8-core 3Ghz specs.
It has a docking station that has lots of ports; 5 USB, USB-C, HDMI, AUX and others so you can plug in mouse, keyboard, monitor, speakers etc on it. It runs on Android 9 Pie so you can run Office tools and whole lot of other business software plus web browser of course on it. So in other words you could run your office needs on it - no need for a laptop/desktop anymore! |
Megacity 2-Seater on Ground and Air (28th July 2019)
This is a conceptual passenger transportation module for future Megacities. It consists of 3 separate modules;
What a fabulous concept, here is the original article. |
What happened to Smart Glasses? (27th July 2019)
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Back in 2012 I wrote several articles on Smart Glasses; Google was on them, Microsoft was just about starting with HoloLens and MagicLeap popped up from nowhere.
But now 7 years later, we are still not strictly speaking inundated with this visual hardware, and you rarely read or here about it nowadays. Well it is still around, but mainly in use with developers as an expensive DEV environment. However there are some consumer targeting tech popping up now, so we could be seeing a resurgence of this tech in the near future. |
Toyota's Window to the World (11th January 2019)
"Are we there yet" is the most used sentence when you are traveling with your kids by car. What if you could provide them some endless fun on those trips instead? To use their endless energy on something that stimulates their minds (as well as keeps them quiet).
Moving in Motion is concept that has been around a while and has been harnessed as real working prototypes that have already been showcased to live audiences. Here is the article telling you a bit more of it. |
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Google's Project Soli (20th July 2016)
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Everything is getting smaller - including your computer. The computer has already moved into your Smart Phone, and is on it's way to your watch. Next will be your your clothes, your glasses and your body. However one problem with these smaller computers is that a touch screen is no longer a viable option.
So here comes Project Soli - basically Google embedded a radar into the chips used in smart watches and voila - gesture recognition capability is here. Enjoy the entertaining video, also the Google site here. |
SpaceBook Satellite Viewer (20th December 2015)
This is not a hardware gadget, even though so far I have always included only "real" things here. And why not as I'm an old man now (heh, still -50). So gadgets to me have always been hardware, but is this still a fact?
I believe the world has changed so much that more often than not (and further into the future) the gadgets will be soft- rather than hard-ware. In other words the gadgets you play with won't be physical things you can touch, but just new stuff on your "embedded" (body?) devices. After all we have 4 senses to play with (left out the 5th as this does not really work with smell, or does it?). So is this really a gadget - well, it does not feed any weird sensations to your bodily sensors yet, but it does something different - it gives us a glimpse to the "sensors" that will be part of providing the additional info to our future gadgets. So a great way to introduce some soft things to this section :) |
Access the "gadget" above here.
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Cheap High-End Smart Phones are Here! (25th August 2014)
The device on left is sold in India for $NZD 150. It is comparable (specs-wise) to Samsung Galaxy 4S that you can buy in New Zealand for around $600.
Specifications: Android-based Karbonn Opium N9 smartphone with 5.00-inch 720x1280 display powered by 1.3GHz quad-core processor alongside 1GB RAM, 16GB storage and 8-megapixel rear camera. These devices will be available in New Zealand soon and priced accordingly, which should push the current ridiculously expensive NZ pricing to be comparable with other western countries. |
You can see 26 archived gadgets here.