Gadgets and New Technologies

Adobe’s highly buzzed launch of Photoshop Express has been well-received, for the most part. However, some users have been appalled by a discovered clause in Adobe’s full terms of service for Photoshop Express, which reads: “8. Use of Your Content. Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.” The paragraph practically grants Adobe full rights to do whatever they wish with your photos (including monetary gain), which I admit, is quite ridiculous. (Read the full post about ‘Adobe’s Photoshop Express ‘terms of service’ sparks complaints’…)

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Gadget mavens Firebox has finally made available the Tengu USB desktop toy which is guaranteed to add a whole lot of excitement to your world. Perfect for folks who have very few or no friends at all, Tengu will be able to keep you company at the office by making different faces according to its mood. In addition, he isn’t as tone deaf as you might think despite the lack of biological ears - Tengu is smart enough (or at least he was programmed to be) to lip sync according to the music that is played, making it look as though he is singing his heart out with you as the only sad audience! (Read the full post about ‘Tengu lip syncs to tunes’…)

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I’ve never been much of a Star Trek fan, Star Wars was always more to my liking. I’ll admit that when I was younger I would watch reruns of the the original series when there was nothing on during Saturday afternoons. If you’re a bit more passionate about the show than I, you’ll love this new Tricorder replica. This Star trek Mark IX Science Tricorder Replica is the most authentic replica ever made. It is cast from the same pattern used to create the original props from the TV series and made from die-cast metal and plastic. You’ll need to be quick to jump on this one though, it’s limited to only 2,000 pieces. A deep wallet will help you too, as one will set you back $349.99. (Read the full post about ‘Get your hands on a limited edition Tricorder replica’…)

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LED Glow in the Duck The ducks that light up in the bath - now how great is that?! You can have this for ?6.99 (Read the full post about ‘LED Glow in the Duck’…)

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Belkin TuneCast II FM Transmitter Introducing the new Belkin TuneCast II FM transmitter ? a very neat little device that projects you digital tunes over your radio. With a brilliant Auto On/Off function, the TuneCast II frees you from having to manually toggle the On/Off switch by simply powering on when an audio signal is detected. If no signal is detected for a period of 60 seconds, the TuneCast II switches off. So the FM transmitter preserves battery life while making your portable audio experience simpler to enjoy. The TuneCast II features four programmable memory slots allowing you to save the clearest station wherever you go. Which means, for those of you in a rush, less time searching for available frequencies. (Read the full post about ‘Belkin TuneCast II FM Transmitter’…)

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Posted Mar 30th 2008 12:31PM by Ryan BlockFiled under: Laptops Sounds like we’ve finally got a price and a date for the XP powered Eee PC: $400, and April 9th. The hardware’s identical to current-gen Eee PCs, though, so if you’re happy with your little white lappy and are itching for XP you might try to pick up a license on eBay. Still, if all goes well for ASUS, they’ll be selling 4x what they did the first time around, innit?P.S. -If you are, for whatever reason, itching to read more about current hardware running the 7 year old OS, Laptop’s got a hands-on. (Read the full post about ‘Windows XP-powered Eee PC laptop: $400, April 9th’…)

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How long does it take you to earn $10,000? For Charlie Miller, of Independent Security Evaluators and former NSA employee, it takes him about two minutes. Last Thursday, Miller won the PWN 2 OWN competition at the 2008 CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, by successfully hacking a macbook air. In fact, Miller isn’t a newcomer. He is well-known as the first to successfully hack the iphone back a year ago. The PWN 2 OWN contest involved a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and a MacBook Air that were up for grabs to the first person able to hack into one of the machines and read the contents of a file. (Read the full post about ‘Gone in 2 Minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest’…)

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Binary Watch The watch that's so 'out of sight' cool, you'll never have the first clue what the time is. You can have this for ?49.95 (Read the full post about ‘Binary Watch’…)

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USB hubs are always welcome in my home, especially with the vast amount of USB gadgets in the market these days. Some USB hubs come with a poorly-designed exterior, where the ports are placed too close together that you can’t make use of all of them whenever you’re faced with USB products that have rather fat connectors. The USB Rotatable 4-Port Hub offers the convenience of utilizing all four USB ports available, since it can be rotated accordingly. No harm in dropping $12 for a gadget like this IMHO, as it will definitely come in handy on your travels. (Read the full post about ‘USB Rotatable 4-Port Hub’…)

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Posted Mar 30th 2008 5:46AM by Darren MurphFiled under: Handhelds, Laptops, Tablet PCsEver since Intel compared the criticality of its (still) forthcoming Silverthorne (which now goes by Atom, if you couldn’t guess) processor to the original Pentium last June, we’ve all wondered just how fantasmical our worlds would become when this thing finally dropped. Now, however, Tom’s Hardware has discovered that the release may actually do more for Intel than we geeks. (Read the full post about ‘Atom processor to cost Intel just $6 to $8?’…)

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