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Orbita Sparta Mini watchwinder - one for the ladies?

By Karen Sprey

01:09 April 27, 2009 PDT

The Orbita Sparta Mini is a compact single-watch winding device that is both affordable an...

As the name suggests, automatic or self-winding watches wind themselves using a moving weight mechanism inside the watch. All well and good if you are wearing your watch everyday, but if you happen to have a collection, you'll often find yourself faced with the fiddly task of manual winding and resetting features like perpetual calendars - a difficult job for large unwieldy fingers (men) and delicate fingernails (women) - which is where watchwinders come in. This one, the Sparta Mini from Orbita, is for the ladies. Read More

Bellperre adds extra-bling to custom made mobile phone collection

By Mick Webb

18:00 April 26, 2009 PDT

Nero Gold handset in mixed metal

The words “global economic downturn” are not are part of luxury phone maker Bellperre’s vocabulary, as evidenced by the release of its new high-end Nero Gold series. The Netherlands based company offers handcrafted tailor made handsets using “0% plastic”, and has now added even more precious metals and gemstones to the available mix. Read More

The KissPhone for remote kissing

By Mike Hanlon

04:23 April 24, 2009 PDT

The KissPhone

French freelance inventor Georges Koussouros was thinking outside the square when he came up with the KissPhone. Humans already interact synchronously with voice, text and video, and there's a whole science developing behind closed doors called Teledildonics, which is about remote sexual interplay. The KissPhone fits somewhere in between and has a mouth which you kiss - it subsequently measures the pressure, percussion speed, temperature, and sucking force of your mouth, transmits those same parameters to the remote user's Kissphone where it recreates your kiss for your teleparamour. Read More

Bluetooth 3.0 goes to 24 Mbps via 802.11

By Darren Quick

22:25 April 21, 2009 PDT

Not a wire in sight thanks to Bluetooth 3.0

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has officially launched the Bluetooth 3.0 + HS specification, which ups the transfer rate from a top speed of 3 Mbps for the current 2.0 + EDR standard to a rate of 24 Mbps. The SIG says latest iteration of the popular short-range wireless technology will enable the high-speed transmission of large amounts of data such as photos, music and even video between devices and has attracted interest from not only computer and mobile phone manufacturers, but also television manufacturers. The new Bluetooth 3.0 gets its speed from the 802.11 radio protocol with the inclusion of the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) providing increased throughput... Read More

Meccaniche Veloci teams with Brembo to create world's first carbon fiber wristwatch

By Mick Webb

16:24 April 16, 2009 PDT

Driving precision: the Meccaniche Veloci carbon fiber wristwatch

For many years now the Formula 1 industry has championed the use of carbon fiber as a superior material for creating a competitive edge. With the current buzz surrounding the Moto GP and the Ducati carbon-framed Desmosedici GP9, it seems only timely that two other Italian companies should unveil the world's first carbon fiber encased wristwatch, the Quattro Valvole CCM. Read More

Mobile telephone news from The Mobiler

By Tim Hanlon

05:59 April 15, 2009 PDT

iPhone Push Notification

Over at The Mobiler today we looked at push notifications on the iPhone being great for users (but not so great for small developers), more speculation about the release date of the Palm Pre, a preview build of the Android 1.5 "Cupcake" SDK, the release of the Nine Inch Nails iPhone app, the Samsung Propel Pro now available on AT&TSamsung Propel Pro arriving at AT&T, and the companies rumored to be supplying components of the next-generation iPhone. Read More

Bodelin Launches ProPrompter for iPhone

By Mike Hanlon

22:16 April 14, 2009 PDT

Bodelin Launches ProPrompter for iPhone

April 15, 2009 After being swamped with requests at NAB 2008 to use the ProPrompter Pocket PC with an iPhone or iPod touch, Bodelin has done just that. It features landscape mode, smooth scrolling, seven speed levels with on the fly adjustment, unlimited script capacity, a wide variety of fonts and font sizes, and background colors, excellent readability in bright sunlight, looping, recue, mirroring for use with the ProPrompter in-lens teleprompter and an extensive help menu. ProPrompter software is expected to be available as a free download in the Apple App Store by NAB on April 20, and the aluminum ProPrompter Wing Mount costs US$130 to attach the iPhone to the tripod mount of any camera. Read More

The CellScope: transforming the cell phone into a mobile microscope

By Karen Sprey

20:09 April 14, 2009 PDT

The CellScope turns a standard camera-enabled cell phone into a clinical quality microscop...

The CellScope is a revolutionary attachment that turns a standard camera-enabled cell phone into a clinical quality microscope, with magnification up to 50X. Health workers in developing countries, where expensive equipment, facilities and on-the-ground physicians are scarce, will be able to use the mobile microscope to quickly and easily capture images of blood cells, lesions and infections and transmit them via the cell phone network to remote experts for analysis and diagnosis. Read More

WildCharge expands wireless charging compatibility with new Universal Adapter

By Noel McKeegan

23:00 April 8, 2009 PDT

WildCharge Universal Adapter

Boosted by the buzz surrounding wire-free charging at CES earlier this year, solutions for powering up portable devices without the hassle of messy cords and multiple chargers are making the transition from curious concept to viable consumer product. One of the obvious problems with the early examples of this kind of technology was that each solution is tailored to a particular device, but now early mover WildCharge has released a Universal Adapter for Cell Phones which works with multiple devices across multiple brands. Read More

Today on The Mobiler

By Tim Hanlon

05:32 April 6, 2009 PDT

DemoGod for OS X

Over at The Mobiler today we've covered an OS X app called DemoGod, which displays a feed of your iPhone screen on your desktop, next-gen iPhone rumors regarding 802.11n support and a 3.2 megapixel camera, tentative HTC Touch Pro2 and Blade Sidekick release dates from a leaked T-Mobile roadmap, Deutsche Telekom trying to stop Skype for iPhone, code names and specs of three upcoming BlackBerry devices, T-Mobile planning several Android-based devices including a home phone, Vodafone Australia getting into a spin over their iPhone plans, and Cell Phone Recycling Week which kicks off today. Read More

Samsung launches first WiMAX-enabled mobile internet device

By Darren Quick

23:07 April 2, 2009 PDT

The Mondi's slide out keypad

One of the new releases attracting a lot of attention at CTIA is the Samsung SWD-M100 Mondi, a mobile WiMAX enabled handheld device that is designed for use with the Clear mobile WiMAX service from Clearwire. The touch screen Mondi includes a slide out lower lip QWERTY keypad and, according to Samsung, ‘many of the powerful features and uses of a laptop computer or netbook,’ in a unit that fits in your pocket. Read More

Gizmag launches new site: The Mobiler

By Tim Hanlon

03:46 April 2, 2009 PDT

The Mobiler

The Gizmag team has been slaving away over a hot keyboard to bring you a new sister site covering all things mobile, called The Mobiler. Today we've written about AT&T offering $49.99 netbooks if you sign up for a two-year data plan, HTC's Snap handset which promises to keep you from drowning in unimportant e-mail, Palm opening up the Mojo SDK for their upcoming Pre handset, Clearwire's Clear Spot personal WiMax hotspot, and plenty more. Point your browser at the-mobiler.com and let us know what you think! Read More

LG makes things clear with the transparent GD900 mobile phone

By Darren Quick

22:00 April 1, 2009 PDT

Transparent touchpad - LG-GD900

The LG-GD900 mobile phone will feature not only a 3-inch full touchscreen, but also a transparent touchpad that supports finger-writing recognition and vibrational haptic feedback. The stylish looking phone features a slider form factor with the translucent rear slider containing a touchpad that allows users to navigate through the phones features and 3D user interface. Further enhancing the phone’s style cred is the fact that the clear slider will be made from glass instead of plastic. Read More

Hyundai MB-910 Watch phone to launch in UK

By David Greig

18:46 March 18, 2009 PDT

Hyundai MB-910 watch phone

The idea has been with us for more than half a century and numerous examples have made it to market, so why aren't we all wearing watch phones? Maybe it's a question of usability, maybe the watch phone is just that bit too geeky or maybe it's simply that the right product hasn't yet emerged. Hyundai Mobile is throwing its hat into the ring by announcing of the imminent release of the Hyundai MB-910 watch phone in the UK. The MB-910 is already selling in mainland Europe and features a Bluetooth headset, email client, video playback, music player and touchscreen control. Read More

iPhone OS 3.0 unveiled

By Tim Hanlon

16:55 March 17, 2009 PDT

iPhone OS 3.0

Apple today unveiled OS 3.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch, which is set for release this summer (that's June-August for those of you south of the equator). It's far from the revolution some were expecting, and strikes us as more of a defensive play to bring the iPhone further in line with its hardware capabilities, users' desires, and the increasingly heated competition from Android, BlackBerry and Palm's imminent release of the Pre. Read on for the full details. Read More

iPhone OS 3.0 unveiling tomorrow, rumor round-up

By Darren Quick

02:15 March 17, 2009 PDT

iPhone 3.0 firmware update due March 17

Apple is set to preview the iPhone software version 3.0 at an invitation only event on March 17th and, as is traditional in the lead up to any Apple event, the rumormongers have been busy with predictions of what will and won’t be added to the device. So we thought it would be timely to do a bit of a rumor roundup in readiness for the imminent announcement. Read More

Kogan launches 10-inch Agora netbook series in Australia

By Tim Hanlon

23:32 March 16, 2009 PDT

Kogan Agora Netbook

Kogan Technologies today launched the Agora netbook series, featuring the Agora and the Agora Pro. The 1.6GHz Atom based netbooks are the cheapest available in Australia, starting at AUD$499. Both models come preloaded with the gOS operating system, a variant of Ubuntu Linux, but in an interesting move, Kogan's support team is offering to guide customers through the process of installing other supported operating systems including Windows XP and Windows 7. Read More

The Android handset war begins in 2009

By Loz Blain

15:45 March 16, 2009 PDT

Google's Android will be rolled out on handsets by a number of major manufacturers in 2009...

While Apple's iPhone has enjoyed enormous success using a highly controlled, locked-down handset, operating system and application store, Google's touchscreen smartphone platform takes the opposite approach. Android is a completely open-source operating system, meaning that developers can write whatever abilities they want into it - and Google doesn't make or recommend any particular handsets. The HTC Dream (AKA the T-Mobile G1) gave Android a start in the market - but several big-name competitors are working on Android smartphones to be released sometime this year. The battle for Android handset supremacy is about to begin - let's take a look at the challengers. Read More

Lenovo Pocket Yoga to take on the VAIO P

By Tim Hanlon

06:54 March 16, 2009 PDT

Pocket Yoga in tablet mode

Lenovo has posted a number of images of a new netbook they call Pocket Yoga on their photo feed, sans press release, tech specs, or...anything. What we can tell you is that it's a tiny, leather-bound touchscreen PC with an odd, ultra-wide aspect ratio that can be folded over to create a tablet. And it might just fit in your pocket. Read More

Wind-up cell phones are coming

By Darren Quick

00:27 March 13, 2009 PDT

The Ulysse Nardin Chairman

Swiss watchmakers Ulysee Nardin have teamed up with European company SCI Innovations to develop the world’s first mechanical mobile phone. The "Chairman" utilizes the kinetic energy provided by a highly specialized rotor to deliver power to the handset via an integrated battery. Read More

Forget your wallet? Pay with your mobile phone

By Paul Evans

18:07 March 11, 2009 PDT

Orange contactless payment rolls-out

With around four billion mobile phones in use world wide at the end of 2008 they now outnumber credit cards in circulation by a factor of 2:1, so the proliferation of payment systems based on the ubiquitous mobile phone seems almost a certainly. We've previously reported on Near Field Communication (NFC), a new generation of mobile phones able to make contactless payments and now UK mobile phone operator Orange is partnering with businesses to offer a complete range of contactless services. Read More

Tendril mobile energy management system

By David Greig

00:44 March 10, 2009 PDT

Tendril mobile energy management system

If you are looking to reduce your energy consumption, be it as a good green citizen or just to save those hard earned dollars, knowing how much energy you are using, where specifically it is being used and having the capability to monitor it is essential. To this end, Tendril, a Boulder Colorado based company that make hardware and software to monitor and control power usage of home electricity using devices, has unveiled Tendril Vantage Mobile. This is a mobile Web application designed to provide consumers with information on their home energy consumption. The application offers consumers a range of features including text message alerts, usage graphs and carbon footprint information and modeling. Read More

New Fully Rugged Getac GPS PDA PS535F with camera, altimeter and e-compass

By Mike Hanlon

23:09 March 2, 2009 PST

New Fully Rugged Getac GPS PDA PS535F with camera, altimeter and e-compass

Specialist rugged mobile computer manufacturer MiTAC has released details of the Getac PS535F, a next generation fully rugged GPS PDA featuring an auto focus camera, altimeter and E-compass. The PS535F is designed for GIS surveying applications and will find use in the utilities, oil and gas, forestry, geology and mineral resources sectors. These new features will enable field-based workers to capture field data on-site and transmit data back to headquarters in real-time, as well as provide pinpoint navigation support to improve location based productivity. Read More

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