Use your digital camera or camera mobile to find if your remote control is working fine

June 2, 2009 2 comments

Here is the situation. You find that your TV or music system is not responding to your remote. You frantically try pressing this key and that key but to no avail. Ah…probably the batteries in the remote are out of juice. You replace the batteries with new ones and still its the same.

Zune – How to get the resume option working for any audio file

July 24, 2008 0 comments

It was only a few days back that I first laid my hands on a 8GB Microsoft Zune. This is my first post relating Zune. As I use it more, I may write more post on it. Ok, here we go.

Tryphone – preview cell phones virtually before buying

June 21, 2008 1 comment

With so many brands and models, people find it difficult to decide upon which mobile phone handset to buy. All the user reviews and the expert opinions available on various web sites can’t substitute for your own hands-on evaluation. But that would mean going from store to store to play with the different models. Tryphone.com [...]

Nokia Demos Cell Phones you can bend

February 26, 2008 0 comments

Nokia and the University of Cambridge are showing off a new stretchable and flexible mobile device of the future called Morph. The new concept phone is part of an online display presented in conjunction with the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition underway through May 12 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York [...]

Listen to your iPod through your Car stereo using FM transmitters

June 24, 2007 0 comments

You probably listen to your playlists just about everywhere, at work, when you exercise, on vacation, at the grocery store so, of course, you want to listen in your car, too. That’s why you need an FM transmitter. These devices let you wirelessly transmit your iPod’s music through your car stereo using empty FM frequencies. [...]

Stuff all your gadgets in these gadget-ready garments

June 24, 2007 0 comments

An iPod. A BlackBerry. A GPS device. A Palm Pilot. A digital camera. These are exciting times for techies, but how do we carry all these electronic gadgets while traveling? Not in a clunky fanny pack. Clothing manufacturers have come up with a line of gadget-ready garments with pockets, straps and holders for every conceivable [...]

Where do people carry their mobile phones?

May 8, 2007 1 comment

Nokia has been conducting street surveys between 2003 and 2006 on where people carry their mobile phones and why. Over the period more than 1500 people from over 10 cities have been interviewed. The main purpose of the survey was to find out the relationship between missing calls and where the phone is carried. The [...]

All Mobiles should have anti-theft software

February 19, 2007 3 comments

Recently my wife lost her mobile phone. We knew that the chances of getting it back were remote. Yet, there were a few formalities to be completed. So the whole day I kept calling up the lost phone’s number and as expected I got a “It is switched off” message. In the meantime I also [...]

Fujitsu develops first e-paper in colour

February 14, 2007 0 comments

Fujitsu is possibly on the way to launching the first e-paper in colour. The prototype was displayed in the Publishing Expo in London today. However, the e-paper is unlikely to be launched until late 2008. There are other e-paper technologies too but they are all in monochrome which according to Mike Nelson, GM of Fujitsu [...]

Tired of people snooping? Get Notebook Privacy Filter.

February 3, 2007 2 comments

Ever tried using a laptop while in a train or may be in a restaurant. You invariably find people trying to have a peek into your computer screen. Snooping is prevalent everywhere from offices to public places. So how to prevent people from snooping and looking at laptop screen. Here is where 3M’s Notebook Privacy [...]

Honey I shrunk the Printers.

January 30, 2007 0 comments

Zink, with help from Polaroid, has created a way to print photographs or documents without ink or an ink cartridge.Without the ink cartridge a printer can be reduced to the size of an iPod or smaller. The Zink system can be embedded in any device. It is also more environmental friendly, the company says. Ninety-five [...]

Seitz 6×17 Digital – 160 MP Camera

January 20, 2007 0 comments

Seitz has outdone every other Digital Camera with its mind-numbing 160-Megapixel 6×17 digital camera. You got that right – one hundred and sixty MP. Couple that with 48-bit colour depth, and you get images of definitions we can’t speak about. At the maximum resolution, an image is 900MB, and you can’t use flash to store [...]

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