Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

Transfer data at a whooping speed of 614MBps with USB 3.0

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

usb-3.0 Intel has unveiled the new USB technology called USB 3.0. It is far superior than the current USB 2.0. USB 3.0 has 10 times the bandwidth of existing USB 2.0 connections. It is expected to hit the markets in 2009 or 2010. The transfer speed of USB 3.0 is really jaw dropping, which is about 4.8Gbit/s that is 614MByte/s. The time required for data transfers will be reduced dramatically, for example transferring a movie of 30 GB will take around 74 seconds( 1 min 14 sec) in USB 3.0 whereas it will take around 17 to 18 minutes with USB 2.0.

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Rs 31 - 37K is iPhone 3G Price in India

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

The Indian telecom players Airtel and Vodafone have released everything about launching of iPhone in India this month but none has revealed the price it would be sold at.

But today, the Television 18 Network has claimed on its technology website tech2.com that they have recieved the official pricing for iPhone 3G in India and according to them the price of 8GB iPhone 3G will be Rs. 31000 and 16 GB would set you back by Rs. 36-37000. These prices are not inclusive of the plan charges.

Is being a left hander multiplying your surfing pains?

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

left-hand

Isn’t it something like the right handers are always at an unfair advantage over the left handers?? It has been observed that almost all the gadgets and PC peripherals are designed to suit a right hander. All the new gadgets, including the most commonly used peripheral devices like keyboard and mouse, are designed to suit right handers. This post is all about bettering the Windows’ experience for the left handers. Learn how to tweak windows to suit you better( if you are a left hander).

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2 ways to Disinfect your Infected Pen Drive

Friday, August 8th, 2008

As Pen Drives viruses are quite popular these days, it sometimes happens that neither the virus in the pen drive gets deleted even after showing hidden files in Windows Explorer nor it lets format the pen drive using normal Format Pen Drive option inĀ  Windows Explorer.

Usually the virus sits in pen drive and runs automatically when you attach the pen drive and will prevent anything from running which may remove it.

But there are two ways which i found to get rid of this problem. Forget about Antivirus, most pen drive viruses are not caught by Anti Virus softwares.

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Just move your eyes to control music players

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

eye control music

In the world of ipods and iphones where multitouch technology rules, here comes a technology that really gives a new meaning to “Look and Feel”. This time also like many times before the technology is invented by a Japanese researcher. This might look a bit weird here in the picture above, but it will be totally different when it hit the markets in the coming years. The technology is very simple from the users point of view that is you just have to (more…)

Do you want to be Invisible????

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

see-through-coat Back in 2003 a Japnese scientist named Susumu Tachi at Tokyo University developed a coat which makes those who wear it appear invisible. It was predicted that it will be available comercially around 2008 but now it will take a couple of years to hit the markets. The technique behind this is simple but very complex. As you can see in the image above, the demonstrator is wearing this special coat and in the image below

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Pre-register iPhone 3G with Vodafone India

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Pre register iPhone 3G with Vodafone India

Here is some good news for Indian iPhone lovers who have been longing for official release of iPhone and iPhone 3G for a long time. One of the major mobile telecom operator Vodafone has started pre registration for iPhone 3G.

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Storage limit increased manifolds for EHDDs

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

500 BG EHDD

Imation Corp., a global enterprise in removable data storage media recently unveiled its latest product in line of external hard disk drives (EHDD). Bundled with features like ultra-slim sleek design, high capacity, latest technology, USB-powered Apollo Pro will be available in last quarter of 2008.

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Pogo - The Pocket Size Printer

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Pogo - The Pocket Size Printer

Polaroid- a digital cameras and gadgets company is set to roll out a pocket sized printing device called Pogo on July 6 this year. Pogo is a portable inkless(yup!! inkless) printer that can print wallet-sized pictures.

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iPhone 3G to be available in July

Monday, June 9th, 2008

iphone 3G

There has been a lot of hype in tech blogosphere about 3G iPhone over past few months and now Apple has officially announced to release iPhone 3G on July 11th this year. Steve Jobs made this announcement this morning while inagurating Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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