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The smart-one that charges you gadgets

September 30, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Gadgetaustralia.com was lucky enough to trail the “new portable charging device” produced by Smartone.

Charge all your devices with back up battery

The little gadget know as “smartercharger” may be something you may browse past when looking at mobile accessories but after having one of these in just a few days the little pocket rocket can really make an impact; proving very useful and a great little lifesaver is certain situations.

Smartone is an all Australian company based in Adelaide, South Australia.

The smartcharger is a small USB based fuel source for multiple modern day devices. The smartcharger is only 90mm x 20mm and can be very versatile in its use as well as easily and discretely stored in your luggage, handbag or a great tool to keep in your car.

The smartcharger is easily charged via a USB port, this can be on your home/work pc/laptop or even via a 5v “USB wall charger” or even in your car.

The smart little device can hold a full charge for approximately 100 days.

Specifications
Output	5V/1000mA (Max)
Input	5V/600mA
Capacity	2600mAh
Size	90*20mm
Working Temperature
Charging Time	3 Hours
Weight	68 grams
Cell Type	Li-Polymer Battery

First of all when looking at the product its definitely well built, and for the price retailing at $29.95AU it’s a fair investment of your hard earned dollars.

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We trailed the white version of the product and it looks and feel quite classy, the product is also available in a total of seven different colours, so it’s really take your pick.

The power adapter cord is quite versatile in its use; covering a range of new products including the latest apple attachment.

Within having the product just for a few days it really did come in handy and quite the saviour.

While being on the trip home from the office sitting on the train with my addiction to candy crush at max resolution and brightness and forgetting to charge up, smartcharger came to its first use.

The smart charger supported carry on use of the handset while continuing to give a steady charge to the device.

Overall the smartcharger does the job its designed to do while offering consumers great value for money.

Get your own smartcharger at www.smartcharger.com.au and visit www.gadgetaustralia.com for more gadget news and releases

The best bot for creating mixtapes and personalised gifts

April 26, 2013 by admin 5 Comments

MAKERBOT MIXTAPE – The MakerBot Mixtape is obviously designed for, well, makers of mixtapes or music , but they’ve got an option for everyone, uou dont need to be a DJ.

Gifts and makerbot mixtape

First there were many other options for a mixtape but nothing dedicated like this, before Pandora or RDIO or even ancient technologies like iTunes, there was the mixtape — a carefully selected group of songs, organized into a playlist and recorded onto a cassette

Now mixtape gives you two options: If you own a MakerBot, the company will ship you a $25 kit so you can put your MakerBot into action and have it create a colorful cassette-shaped case that snaps together around the tiny included MP3 player.

Contrary to what you might think, the days of making a mix*tape* for your crush are
not over. MakerBot, a 3D printing company, snaps together this retro mlxtapa In Its
Brooklyn workshop and ships It to paramours everywhere. Simply hook It up to a
computer using tha included USB cable to drag and drop up to 2GB of heartfelt
songs.

No Walkman Is needed to llsten to the mlxtape as its a MP3 player as well.

summary:The MakerBot Mixtape is a Flash based MP3 player that costs $39, which is $12 lower than the average for all 2 GB MP3 Players. It supports MP3 audio files.

Those with a MakarBot Replicator can buy a Mlxtap* Kit for $25 and print out their own
mlxtape at home. Gadget Review written by babyhifi for gadgetaustralia.com

10 Alternatives to Google RSS News reader

March 14, 2013 by admin 3 Comments

Everyone’s favourite Free RSS Google reader “Google reader” is set to retire on 1 July. Google reader is a free RSS aggregator service where you can add rss feeds from different websites and track all the different feeds data from those websites in one place

In a Google blogpost google’ senior vice-president of technical infrastructure, Urs Hölzle, said google Reader launched in 2005 will be retired as part of a Google spring clean.

The best RSS reader options after Google reader

There are different types of rss readers , some of them are “Desktop RSS readers” , “Standalone RSS reader” software” , RSS reader apps and also plugins that attaché to your favourite browser

Well luckily Google is not the only provider that provides a free rss reader service , so here are some alternatives that do a excellent job of aggregating all the news you interested in in one place

Feedly News reader

Feedly is a news aggregator or RSS feed reader application for various Web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others Connect here at feedly

FeedDemon Lite or pro

Feed demon is a RSS and Atom feed readers. FeedDemon has a clean interface,is excellent for managing hundreds of feeds (or more); lets you set up watch lists; offers an online edition; syncs podcasts with iPods and other handheld media players.

Its Flexible, easy to read and organize news and articles from different websites. This used to be free but now they have a FeedDemon Pro or FeedDemon Lite. Download here

Fuzzy Duck RSS Reader 1.6.0.0 ( FREE)

Fuzzy Duck RSS Reader was designed to be a freeware RSS, ATOM and RDF news reader. Simple, fast and extremly small, this reader is designed to sit on your desktop and give you the latest headlines and descriptions from all of your news feeds DOWNLOAD HERE

Bloglines Web-based newsreader

The Bloglines Web-based newsreader runs inside your browser; no software to install; it’s free. It requires no software installation, so you can access your newsfeeds from any Internet-enabled computer.

Download here

Feedreader ( FREE windows application)

Feedreader is a free RSS and Atom aggregator for Windows. It has a stripped down, though configurable, three-pane interface similar toNetNewsWire on Mac OS X. Recent beta versions use MySQL as database back-end.

Website – www.feedreader.com

Feedreader is a FREE RSS news aggregation solution. There is also a online version ( Feedreader Online )allows you to view your feeds from any web browser, on any device, without installing any software

NEWSGATOR FOR OUTLOOK

If you already rely heavily on your Microsoft Outlook, this newsreader is for you. NewsGator 2.6 is a unique newsreader, in that it integrates with Microsoft Outlook, thereby allowing Outlook users to browse newsfeeds from within the same program that delivers daily e-mail.

Go to thier website

RSS Bandit

RSS Bandit is a nice, simple feed reader that lets you browse news in an organized fashion and has a Microsoft outlook type interface. With this software you can organize feeds in folders, RSS Bandit also detects relations between individual posts and threads them logically

RSS Bandit is a RSS desktop feed aggregator.Check screenshots and download here

RSSOwl

RSSOwl is a free and powerful news feed reader. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize and search news in a convenient, easy to use interface with endless flexibility.

Download RSSOwl 2.1.6
Release Notes | Other Systems & Languages

Many people saddened by the announcement of this demise of Google reader have taken to Twitter using the #SaveGoogleReader hashtag, determined to keep the site alive by creating a online petition, you might wanna join the cause if you still like Google reader

Gadgets for girls

November 3, 2012 by admin 2 Comments

Research by top agencies reveals that there is a growing trend of girls buying gadgets and getting more into technology. Facebook itself has more women subscribers than men , when it comes to social media.

Here is a collection of gadgets that are suitable for girls

Top girly gadgets

· LG Prada

Smartphone designed to suit ladies. You get a designer phone and a unique gadget meant for girls.

· Nintendo Wii Fit

This gadget gets you in shape while having fun with simple physical exercises. It can record data such as body mass index, length of exercise, weight and so on..

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· Acer Aspire One

Mini pocket laptop with sleek designs and easy to carry around with nice girly colors such as pink, blue and others.

· Nintendo DS Lite

Gaming gadget for ladies and easy to fit in your handbags or shoulder bags.

· iPod Nano

This gadge is very sexy and sleek looking and you can download music files, photos and other even videos.

· Lips Xbot 360

Gadget for gaming purposes with 2 wireless microphones which will make you go karaoke crazy..

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Best home pc to tv gadget wifi USB media drives

August 27, 2012 by admin 5 Comments

This post was originally written in 2010 but a lot has happened since then, tv’s have become smarter and so a lot of these gadgets reviewed below have become obsolete now in 2018 and beyond. The eye-fi pro still stands out as a gadget that can stand the test of time for its unique capabilities. Do check out our latest Google home gadget & tech reviews too.

Share Your PC media to your TV wirelessly

The IUM has built in WiFi and pairs to the WiFi Interface of your laptop.The IUM is paired with one Host PC/Laptop then can be used in any USB Equipped Device that accepts USB Flash Drives

3 Great wireless USB Memory Media sharing drives

Infinite IUM USB Media drive

~~Open for orders from 01 august 2010~~

The device has built-in wireless and uses the wireless interface of your laptop on the end. The connection is point to point and not via other access point or internet.

PC to PC works fine. The shared files are visible on the IUM like a normal flash drive so the PC will read them as if they are actually on the device.

It’s very nice and handy, but as you said, $129 is a bit much for something like this.

“instead of storing data inside the stick it uses any thing that has a USB port as the storage space, enabling “infinite” data sharing ( videos, photos, doc..etc) using WIFI network meaning the device act as wireless connector between a personal computer and anything that is USB-enabled.”

More features for this drive at the vendor website at http://www.infinitec.com/ium_drive/features.php

HSTI Wireless Media Stick™ @ $99 Only

THE Option similar to this which is already available in the market is the “HSTI Wireless Media Stick™”.

Simply share your files from any computer within your home/work wireless network, plug the Wireless Media Stick™ into the USB port of your playback device and stream your media instantly. The Wireless Media Stick™ references shared media files from any networked computers and NAS devices and presents them to the playback device it’s mounted to as if the files were stored locally.

Once a file is selected for playback, the Wireless Media Stick™ then streams the file via a wireless router from any PC, Laptop and NAS device.

MSRP: $99.99 – Introductory Price!

The Wireless Media Stick™ is a patented technology (Patent Pending and World P.C.T) that streams media files from any computer connected to a home/office wireless network to any USB enabled media playback device.

Files are not copied or moved from the original location. The capacity of the stick varies according to how many files are shared and can grow in relation to the file systems that are shared. – Ref ( More info @ HSTI Media Stick )

Features of the HSTI Media stick

Wireless USB Dongle
Wireless Media Streaming
720p Resolution Limit
Windows Compatibility
2.4GHz Wireless Technology
Preloaded Software

SPECS

Wireless: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (2.4GHz)
Host Interface: USB 2.0
Frequency Range: 2.412 ~ 2.4835GHz
Security: WEP 64/128, WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES
Data Range (802.11a/g): Up to 54Mbps
Data Range (802.11b): Up to 11Mbps
Data Range (802.11n): Up to 300Mbps

“Eye-Fi Pro” Wireless memory card

The cost for this convenience is $129, which seems rather steep to me, although (for what it’s worth) it’s generally equivalent to the Eye-Fi Pro, which offers the same kind of wireless ad-hoc network functionality.

Also released recently “Eye-Fi card”, the “Eye-Fi Pro”. It costs $150, and is able to handle RAW files, as well as connect to a computer via an ad-hoc wireless network, i.e. no router necessary. These are certainly nice features, although RAW support at least seems more like a firmware upgrade, and it would be cool if Eye-Fi would push that option out to their other cards

Get your eye-fi pro from amazon here –> Eye-Fi Pro X2 8 GB Class 6 SDHC Wireless Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-8PC

Overview:

The Eye-Fi Pro X2 Features:

Fast wireless transfers of photos and videos from your camera to computer or favourite online site.
Instant photo and video sharing while on the go.
Loads of storage space with 8GB of high performance Class 6 memory capacity.
Location information that is captured and stored in each photo.
RAW file wireless uploads so you can edit photos like a pro.
Wirelessly uploads your photos (RAW and JPEG) and videos via Wi-Fi or via an ad hoc connection
Wirelessly uploads only the photos and videos you select to your computer

ELEV-8 robotic quadcopter,

August 13, 2012 by admin 1 Comment

The ELEV-8 robotic quadcopter is soon to be expandable to six rotors.

The hexcopter robot kit adds more lifting power to the ELEV-8 quadcopter, doubling the payload and carrying capacity thanks to an extra battery along with the extra rotors.

Hexcopter Robot with Kit

ELEV-8 quadcopter

It can now hold most cameras, for remote robotic air surveillance and it is also said to make the ELEV-8 more stable in flight.

The hexacopter was a favourite gadget at the recent defcon hacker conference

The ELEV-8 quadcopter is a flying robotic platform that is lifted and propelled by four fixed rotors. The quadcopter uses a HoverFly board with a Propeller multicore microprocessor to electronically control stabilization of the aircraft.

ELEV-8 quadcopter runs at $599.00

You can also get a ELEV-8 Quadcopter Kit from here

Info : This kit is not for beginners, it takes a moderate amount of mechanical skill, for building and flying. The ELEV-8 quadcopter kit requires an average of 8 hours to assemble; RC experience is highly recommended.