Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Gadget Lab Notes: IPad Speaker Dock Streams Music, Netflix

Gadget Lab Notes is an heterogeneous roundup of device headlines briefs and appealing products that grasp the eye.

JBL OnBeat Speaker Dock Works With iPhone, iPod and iPad
The OnBeat is JBL's initial iPad orator dock, and it will be existing in April for $150. Touted as a loudspeaker advancing station, you can river Netflix, talk on Skype, or watch YouTube using the dock, or only detonate a few music. A concept connector supports iDevice advancing in landscape or mural orientation, and an IR remote lets you manage it from the soothe of the couch.

OnBeat [JBL around Engadget ]

iPod Batteries In Short Supply After Factory Closure
The assembly lines provision a specific polymer used to make the iPod's lithium-ion batteries was closed after Japan's Mar 11 earthquake, right away heading to parsimonious reserve of the eponymous MP3 player. The firm in assign of the factory, Kureha Corp., skeleton to pierce more of its factories overseas. Although the assembly lines itself wasn't overly damaged, the dock within reach has postulated separate damage, stopping the smoothness of vital chemicals.

Chemical Reaction: iPod is Short Key Material [WSJ]

Cosmonaut Stylus Feels Like You're Using a Dry Erase Marker
From the makers of the Glif comes the Cosmonaut, a stylus written to make essay on a inscription reduction awkward. The makers felt that using a coop on a inscription felt unnatural; it was similar to essay on a dehydrated erase board, not essay in a paper notebook. So, they created a inscription that grips similar to a dehydrated erase marker. You can present to their Kickstarter promotion now. The Cosmonaut is approaching to sell at $25.

The Cosmonaut [Kickstarter around Core77 ]

Nokia E6-00 Pics and Specs Leaked: Yep, It's a Nokia Phone
A antecedent Nokia E6-00 was found and has revealed all on a few Nokia forums. It's got a VGA fortitude capacitive touchscreen (small " beneath 3-inches) with a D-pad and a earthy QWERTY set of keys situated underneath. An 8-megapixel back camera supports 720p HD video recording. There's no HDMI port, but it does add a microUSB dock and 3.5mm headphone jack, together with a 2mm charging socket. It runs a new chronicle of Symbian^3 that's matching with the 4:3 aspect proportion display.

Nokia E6-00 Most Detailed Leak [My Nokia Blog around Slashgear ]

Quadrocopters Tossing and Catching a Ball to One Another
Those quadrotor drones never stop to amaze. In the ultimate video from the Flying Machine Arena, a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology investigate facility, a span of quadrocopters (and infrequently a human) plays grasp with one another. The video pretension says they are juggling, but they're not unequivocally juggling.

Quadrocopter Ball Juggling [Adafruit around Makezine ]


Remember Tamagotchis? They're Back (in Japan) With Color Displays
Maybe you longed for this trend, but back when we was in 5th or 6th grade, everybody had a Tamagotchi. It was a small palm sized, black and white screened device that you let you elevate and take caring of a practical pet. Bandai has right away expelled the Tamagotchi iD L, that is existing in 6 colors, with 32 practical characters. I'm not quite certain if today's smartphone toting, Internet-savvy pre-teens and tweens will puncture this small electronic fondle of yesteryear... Perhaps that's because they're releasing it to one side in Japan first.

Tamagotchi iD L [Japan Trend Shop around Chip Chick ]

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