Here’s an interesting idea – rent a virtual desktop on the internet and use that instead of a PC. Nivio are selling exactly that – for under £10/month you get a Windows PC with MS Office. A range of other applications can be installed for a nominal monthly fee.
Flat-pack tableware – useful for camping, not so much for your everyday evening meal. If you do like the outdoor life though, the Orikaso range of self-assembly bowls, mugs and plates should be on your shopping list.
The idea is simple but well executed – using pre-folded and cut plastic sheets you can carry around a set of eating and drinking accessories for next to no weight and because they fold flat you can tuck them into a corner of your rucksack and forget about them.
No need to worry about fragile plastic hinges either – you get a 10 year guarantee against failure. Prices seem to vary, so look on Amazon to see what they’re currently doing.
Vodafone have announced the launch of a number of phones recently. Obviously the Apple iPhone 3GS has got the majority of the publicity but they’ve also announced; the Nokia N97 mini, the 360 Samsung H1 and the HTC Tattoo all for October/November 2009.
The Nokia N97 Mini has many of the features of the original N97 including the slide-out Qwerty keyboard, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and built in GPS navigation.
On the down side the internal memory has been slashed from 32GB to a paltry 8GB which seems pretty mean with the current cost of memory. You can add a further 16GB with a Micro SD card for a total of 24GB which still isn’t as much as an unexpanded N97.
Interestingly the mini is mere millimetres smaller than the original N97, has the same resolution resistive touch screen and is only £20 cheaper on the Nokia website.
Available free from Vodafone on pay monthly plans of £35 and over from the end of October.
Dutch company Lemnis Lighting have launched a light bulb based on LED technology. Available in screw or bayonet mounts, the E300 uses just 6 watts of power but has a comparable output to a conventional 60 watt bulb. It’s also dimmable, making it a perfect drop-in replacement for many lights around the home.
The good part is that Lemnis estimate a lifespan of around 25 years. The not so good part is the price, you’re looking at around £30 each (although hopefully that will come down in time)
You can get them now at Ryness.co.uk
[via Which news]
The LG 22” LU7000 released back in September has just arrived for review. We’ll take a good look at it and report back fully in a few weeks but in the meantime here are our first impressions of the TV.
The LG is quite a looker with a DVD player built into its sloping stand and a nifty pair of sliding doors for the DVD. This makes a nice change from the more conventional slot loading mechanism and gives the LG a very sleek and stylish look. Unfortunately it doesn’t share the gorgeous Borderless design of it’s larger siblings.
The LU7000 has a full set of inputs including a USB 2.0 port that can be used to display your digital camera pictures as well as play your MP3s.
Expect to pay around £300 for the 22” and a little less for the 19” version.
LU 7000:
Well known laptop bag manufacturer Skooba design have launched a novel new competition – they want to find the “Master of the digital universe”. In their words:
Skooba Design is searching for the person who exemplifies the gadget-crazy, wired-to-the-gills, power-hungry lifestyle.
The winner will get the chance to have Skooba create a personalised, one-of-a-kind laptop bag to their very own design.
Do you think you can compete with cool kids in Silicon Valley? Unusually for a US based company the competition is worldwide and open to all so if you can’t leave the house without your gadget belt then check out the competition homepage and get writing your story!
The e-reader market is starting to take off, with devices from Sony giving the Amazon Kindle a run for its money (not to mention a whole slew of more esoteric devices)
The QUE reader from Plastic Logic will be added to the mix in January at CES. It’s a slimline 8.5”x11” (US Letter) sized reader made from shatterproof plastic with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. Uniquely, it will support “business” file formats (Word, PowerPoint, PDF and Excel) and includes a touchscreen for interacting with them.
Price and full specifications are not yet available.
If you’re concerned about water use in the home, power showers are a good place to start looking for savings. The EcoCamel shower head restricts the flow of water from the shower to 7 litres/minute – around half the flow of a decent power shower – which should result in significant saving if you use the shower a lot.
Tag Heuer (famous for luxury fashion watches) have entered the luxury mobile phone market with the Meridiist, a £2600 chunk of unashamed electronic excess. The specs aren’t anything to write home about in these days of 8 megapixel, GPS enabled smartphones but somehow I don’t think that’s the point.
Unlike the B&O Serene, Tag have followed a fairly conventional design so this one looks like something I’d actually want to be seen using.
You can see some photos over at Stuff.TV – as you’d expect, the phone looks exceptional and has a wealth of timekeeping functions.
Tag are running a competition to win a personalised Meridiist of your very own at Meridiist-phone.com – enter your email, watch an aspirational video and wait for the draw on November 2nd.
The LG BL-40 Chocolate has caused quite a buzz with it’s sleek lines and widescreen form factor. I’ve been using one for a week now so it’s time to give some thoughts…
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