Sunday, May 25, 2008

MBW-150 watch from Sony Ericsson (Music Edition)

This James Bond-like, water-resistant gadget works in conjunction with your handset by vibrating each time you receive a new call or text message and letting you control your mobile music. The one downside: The watch only works with select Bluetooth-enabled phones made by Sony Ericsson.

Samsung wrist watch phone later this year

Once again proving its technical prowess, Samsung will ship the world's first wrist watch style mobile phone, boasting GSM/GPRS, an 8-bit colour display and more in Q4.

Having earned itself a reputation as a mobile phone manufacturer that dares to go new ways, Samsung is once again showing off its technical prowess. Announced at the recent CeBIT fair, Samsung's new wrist watch phone will hit shelves in Europe some time during the fourth quarter this year, boasting advanced connectivity features and a colour display.

Despite being a first-generation watch phone, Samsung's new Dick Tracy-style watch offers a range of advanced features
As cliché as a comparison with famous cartoon character Dick Tracy's wrist watch would be, it still is a just one as Samsung's new wrist watch phone will offers its users two-way communication using the world's most popular cellular standard; GSM. And with an advanced feature set that does in no way stand back to that of the average mobile phone today, the wrist watch phone even trumps Dick Tracy in a few areas.

Dubbed a 'watch phone', the dual-band GSM 900/1800 MHz device will offer one and a half hours of continuous talk time and 80 hours of stand-by time at the flick of a wrist. The handset also supports voice activated dialling and includes a built-in phone book and 40 different polyphonic ring tones, and weighs in at under 80 grams.

Measuring a minute 37.8 x 64 x 17.7 mm, the watch phone also offers support for GPRS Class 10, which should provide users with more than comfortable speed when using its WAP 1.2 browser and e-mail client. In addition, the watch phone also supports SMS and MMS, as well as Bluetooth and speakerphone capabilities. Whether the Bluetooth support also includes a DUN Profile is unknown, but it would be fair to assume that if it did, the watch phone would quickly become a hot item amongst owners of Bluetooth-enabled PDAs seeking GSM/GPRS connectivity.

Users will interface with the watch phone through its 8-bit (256 colours) OLED display, sporting a resolution of 96 x 64 pixels which can be personalized by means of wallpapers. Also, as befits a watch phone, the display shows the time when the user is not engaged in other activities.

Additional hi-res pictures of Samsung's Wrist Watch Phone are available on the following pages.

Cool watch Oberon from TokyoFlash Japan



Thanks to companies like Tokyo Flash (and Nooka, among others), I'm starting to care about watches again. The rise of cellphones many years ago made me see watches as pointless and boring, as they were all Rolex clones, or wanted to include a million pointless meters on the face. But watches like the Oberon get a second glance from me. Minimal, attractive and creative, the contrast between the watch and its display makes me want to stare at it forever. And in case you're wondering, dots on the outer ring are hours, dots on the second ring are single minutes and dots on the inner ring are blocks of 10 minutes. It's 14,900 Yen at Tokyo Flash.

Coolest T-Shirt EVER - The Animated Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

Previously on Coolest Gadgets we’ve reported on a few geeky and/or animated t-shirts but this latest one is the best by far. As well as being a gloriously geeky animated shirt it also serves a useful function, Wi-Fi detection.

Features include:

  • Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength.
  • Shows signal strength for 802.11b or 802.11g
  • Black 100% Cotton T-Shirt
  • Animated Decal is Removable (with hook and loop fasteners) for Easy Washing
  • Battery Pack is Concealed in a Small Pocket Sewn Inside the Shirt
  • Runs for hours off three AAA Batteries (not included)

Samsung Intouch mobile phone concept

Concept mobile phone Samsung Intouch, developed by the designer Christina Drojra (Christina Droira) and pair its colleagues from university Tsinitsinnati, and the sponsor has acted company Samsung. Concept uses the so-called sub-vocal voice technology developed by agency NASA for communication of astronauts in space. In a basis of technology the set of the gauges fixed on a throat of the person lays and allowing with ease to carry out voice communication.

All this, certainly, allows to approve, that concept Intouch there is something greater, rather than easier phone. It consists of three details: actually telephone tube and Bluetooth ear cuff and the neck piece with adjustable magnetic enclosure.


And, if to be fenced off from scientific terms and explanations, phone Intouch is equipped by large enough touch LCD-display, the scanner of prints of fingers, and also the small screen at the top end face

Turn Your Mobile Phone Into A Portable WiFi Hotspot



Now this is the type of new gadget that gets us all starry-eyed and drooling. The CradlePoint PHS300 will allow you to turn your Blackjack, Blackberry, RAZR or other cellular or USB modem into your own personal 802.11b/g wireless hotspot. Simply plug the USB cable from your supported cell phone into the PHS300 and your're ready to go with all the bells and whistles you'd expect from a wireless router like NAT, Firewall, access control, UPnP, and 64/128-bit WEP (11b/g), WPA/WPA2, and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK.

Playstation3 Darklite Bluetooth Headset For PS3


While looking for a Blue tooth headset that doesn't look like all the others on the market, we stumbled upon the EX-01 made by Messiah Entertainment that offers 4-6 hours of continuous talk time and charges via USB. We're taking bets that this headset will show up in a low-budget science fiction "made-for-TV-movie" within months after it is released in May.