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June 30, 2008

Spinmaster Havoc Heli

Category: Other Gadgets — edgar @ 11:50 am

Spinmaster Havoc Heli

Spinmaster Havoc Heli Introduction
Manufactured by Hong Kong based Silverlit Toys and widely distributed by SpinMaster, this miniature remote controlled helicopter is the current holder of the Guinness World Record for the smallest remote controlled helicopter ever built. It is known as the “Havoc Heli,” “Picoo Z,” and the “Honey Bee.”

Spinmaster Havoc Heli Design
Made from a flexible, high impact composite, the Havoc Heli is 100% safe and tough chopper. The body is constructed from durable EPP foam. It comes in Red, Yellow, or Blue. It also features a flashing blue LED. It weighs 10 grams and the length measures 170mm (6.5″). The main rotor has a span of 130mm (5.25″).

Spinmaster Havoc Heli Features
It is Charged using the Transmitter/Charger supplied with LED indicator/Auto shut off. Requires 20-30 minutes for full charge, which gives you up to 10 minutes of flight time. Uses an infra red control system. Comes with 3 bands A, B, & C, which allows up to 3 models to fly together.

Spinmaster Havoc Heli Performance
Extraordinarily lightweight, the helicopter is built for crash resistance and maneuverability, and it fits in the palm of your hand. This flying machine is very stable and easy to fly in the smallest of spaces. It incorporates an auto stability system to make this heli easy to operate both indoors and outside in calm conditions.

What’s included in the package
Remote-Controlled Helicopter, Remote Control, and Instructional Manual.

Conclusion
Packs a lot of fun into an amazingly small package. It is easy to fly. Vertical flight and hovering are easy. Directional flying takes some practice. Subtle movements are the key to successful flying.


June 14, 2008

Sharper Image Heater

Category: Other Gadgets — edgar @ 12:13 pm

Sharper Image Heater

Sharper Image Heater Introduction
The benefits of space heaters is that they can provide focused heat. They are used to bring additional warmth when and where required. This space heater is very easily portable.

Sharper Image Heater Design
The compact 150-watt personal space heater barely takes up any space. It is available in white or black. Measures 4.75” x 3.75” x 3.5” and weighs 1 lb.

Sharper Image Heater Features
It features a tip-over safety switch. The blue LED indicator ring lights up when the heat is on. Comes with a fan-only option. Plugs into a standard outlet. 90-day warranty.

Sharper Image Heater Performance
This heater is designed to provide you with convenient and comfortable warmth anywhere you go. A quiet fan is used to blow air that has been warmed by the heating element. The forced-air heater is appropriate for quickly heating up a small space.

What’s included in the package
VX351 World’s Smallest Big Heater, Documentation.

Conclusion
A space heater is the term used to describe a heating device that heats a smaller space. The benefit of the extra warmth provided by the space heater is that the warmth is focused where needed only, without the need to increase the heating of the whole house. This saves energy and money.


April 17, 2008

Omron HBF-400 Scale

Category: Other Gadgets — edgar @ 12:19 pm

Omron HBF-400 Scale

Omron HBF-400 Scale Introduction
Scales have evolved over the years and most are now built as digital scales. Omron’s Fat Monitor and Scale measures your progress in achieving a healthier lifestyle.

Omron HBF-400 Scale Design
Simple controls and a large, easy-to-read display make fat and weight monitoring a snap. The HBF-400 Fat loss Monitor with scale is designed to help you lose weight AND maintain that loss! Its easy-to-read display shows you your weight, body fat percentage, and BMI index.
measures 12.2 x 11.8 x 2.1 inches (L x W x H).
weighs 4.7 pounds.

Omron HBF-400 Scale Features
Omron’s Fat Loss Monitor with Scale (Model HBF-400) helps users monitor their overall weight while determining body-fat percentage, and body mass index (BMI). Body-fat percentage is a true measure of weight loss; It is a loss of fat, not muscle loss. The HBF-400 is a fast and accurate tool that provides critical health indicators. Unit provides measurements for people of nearly all heights (3′4″ to 6′ 6-3/4″), weight up to 330 pounds, and ages from 10 to 79 years.

Omron HBF-400 Scale Performance
Measurement of body fat composition is the key to long-term exercise success. The Omron Monitor is an easy way to measure body fat in the privacy of your own home. After inputting your basic data, a measurement is taken. Omron’s Weight Management products help you monitor progress in achieving a healthier, more active lifestyle. Whether your goal is to maintain or lose weight, or have more energy in your daily life, physical activity is essential to staying healthy.

What’s included in the package
HBF-400 unit, 4 AA batteries, and instruction manual.

Conclusion
Simple controls and a large, easy-to-read display make fat and weight monitoring a snap. The HBF-400 Fat loss Monitor with scale is designed to help lose weigh AND maintain that loss! Its easy-to-read display shows you your weight, body fat percentage, and BMI index.


December 28, 2007

Philips Portable DVD

Category: Other Gadgets — edgar @ 10:20 am

Philips Portable DVD

Philips Portable DVD Introduction
Sit back, relax and immerse in movies on the go with the ultra cool and compact PET710 with 7-inch TFT LCD display. Enjoy your favorite DVD movies, savor your MP3-CD and CD music or playback your JPEG photos anytime, anyplace.

Philips Portable DVD Design
Keep yourself or your kids entertained on long flights or road trips with the Philips PET710/37 portable DVD player with a widescreen 7-inch screen, enabling you to enjoy DVD movies in their original 16:9 aspect ratio format. This compact unit weighs less than 2 pounds (excluding battery) and is powered by a rechargeable NiMH battery, AC adapter, and car power adapter (all included).

Philips Portable DVD Features
The PET710/37’s LCD screen has a 480 x 234-pixel resolution, 30 ms (millisecond) response time, a brightness rating of 400 cd/m2 (candela per square meter), and 250:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a screen’s ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.) It’s compatible with a wide variety of disc and file formats, including DVD movie, CD audio, DVD+R/RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R/RW, MP3, and JPEG (Picture CD). It features anti-skip buffers for different formats, including 2 seconds for DVDs, 5 seconds for VCD, and 10 seconds for standard audio CDs and CDs burned with MP3 files.

Disc playback modes include A-B repeat, multi-angle selection, disc menu, fast backward/forward, repeat, shuffle play, slow backward/forward, and zoom. Other features include PAL/NTSC video output, parental controls, and aspect ratio conversion. The rechargeable battery has a battery life of up to 2.5 hours and a recharge time of 3 hours. It offers the following connections: headphone, line-out, composite video, and digital coaxial audio for Dolby DTS surround sound.

Philips Portable DVD Performance
The DVD player is very nice overall. It is small, but very sturdy. It has a great picture, decent sound, and will play any media you give it. The battery life is decent and it comes with various chargers.

Whats included in the package
Portable DVD player, battery, AC adapter, car power adapter, video cable, audio cable (RCA to mini), remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions

Conclusion
The Philips PET710 is a compact portable DVD player that should appeal to people who travel frequently.

October 10, 2007

Delphi XM Roady XT

Category: Other Gadgets — edgar @ 11:56 am

Delphi XM Roady XT

Delphi XM Roady XT Introduction
Delphi Roady XT is one the smallest and lightest XM Radio receiver available today. XM Roady XT offers a true “Plug & Play” design with simple docking and connection.

Delphi XM Roady XT Design
Easily transportable from the car to your home or office. The Delphi RoadyXT XM satellite receiver features a sleek, innovative, and compact design that delivers top sound quality. You can choose from seven dazzling backlit colors for the large display that dominates the front panel. The front panel squeezes in useful controls, including 10 buttons for direct access to XM’s channels; you can store up to 30 presets.
Dimensions: 2.25″ H x 3.7″ W x .07″ D; Weight: 2.6 oz.

Delphi XM Roady XT Features
Plug-and-play design for installation in any vehicle. Built-in wireless FM transmitter with all frequencies available makes any FM radio an XM radio. TuneSelect feature alerts you when 20 of your favorite songs or artists are playing on any XM channel. Info Extra keeps track of sports scores and stocks; customizable sports ticker. Seven custom screen colors and backlit control buttons.

Delphi XM Roady XT Performance
Once installed, listeners will have access to the full XM menu of music, sports, talk, news, children’s, and entertainment programming, all without having to listen to a single commercial. The Roady XT also offers 21 advanced traffic and weather channels

Whats included in the package
Roady XT satellite receiver, car dock, user’s manual.

Conclusion
The Delphi Roady XT is a compact XM satellite radio. The important note is that it has a plug-and-play design, and so, it must be used with an XM boombox or a car- or home-docking station.

May 10, 2007

Canon Photo Printer

Category: Other Gadgets — edgar @ 11:26 am

Canon Photo Printer

Canon Photo Printer Introduction
The SELPHY DS810 Compact Photo Printer changes everything about how and where to print them. It’s much smaller than typical printers and it doesn’t have to be connected to your computer, so you can keep it in almost any room and print beautiful photos from there.

Canon Photo Printer Design
It has a 2.5” color LCD screen that comes in handy when you print directly from a flash memory card. Its top surface is dotted with 12 well-labeled buttons and switches, plus a four-way directional pad used to navigate menus and select print quantities via the flip-up LCD screen. The memory card slots are located on the front just above the photo paper tray. It’s only about 9″ x 9″ x 4,” and weighs 4.2-pounds.

Canon Photo Printer Features
It is compatible with SmartMedia, Memory Stick, Secure Digital (SD), Multimedia Card, xD Picture Card, MicroDrive, MiniSD, Memory Stick Pro, and Memory Stick DUO. There is a USB 1.1 port on the left of the photo paper tray. There is a USB 1.1 port on the left of the photo paper tray. You can even print photos from an infrared-enabled mobile phone: just shoot, point your phone and print! And for Bluetooth equipped mobile phones, PCs and PDAs, this versatile printer is Bluetooth compatible with the optional Bluetooth adapter (sold separately).

Canon Photo Printer Performance
It features Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE), which uses an innovative print head with nozzles that eject consistent, precise ink droplets as small as two picoliters. This patented technology produces an outstanding resolution of up to 4,800 x 1,200 dpi, for exceptional detail and photo realism. You won’t have to wait long; it can print a beautiful photo lab quality 4″ x 6″ photograph in about 63 seconds–directly from your PictBridge enabled camera.

Whats included in the package
SELPHY DS810 Compact Photo Printer, FINE cartridges: BCI-16CL color, power cord, document kit.

Conclusion
Digital cameras and mobile phones have changed the rules about taking photos. Now, the SELPHY DS810 Compact Photo Printer changes everything about how and where to print them. It has a USB port to connect to your computer, a PictBridge USB port for connecting a compatible digital camera, and card slots that fit many types of digital camera memory cards. The buttons and menus on the front are easy to follow and use. Quickly and easily print pictures. Its screen makes it easy to adjust how the printer prints your images.

February 8, 2007

Creative Zen Vision W

Category: Other Gadgets — edgar @ 10:15 am

Creative Zen Vision W Introduction
The ZEN Vision W is in a league of its own with powerful multimedia features to support popular formats of movies, music, photos and includes FM radio.

Creative Zen Vision W Design
The W stands for widescreen, the 4.3″ color LCD screen has a 16:9 aspect ratio (thus the widescreen designation). The large screen is the focus of the Zen Vision W’s silver and black plastic body. Most of the Zen’s simple, straightforward, and tactile controls are grouped to the right of the screen. The volume controls and power/hold switch are along the top edge. A spring-loaded door protects the CompactFlash slot on the left side of the unit. The power and A/V-out ports are on the right side. The battery is in the back of the unit. Measures 0.9 x 5.4 x 2.9 inches and weighs 9.7 ounces.

Creative Zen Vision W Features
The 30GB hard drive stores up to 15,000 songs or 240 hours of video. It is equipped with a microphone, FM radio, calendar and organizer. It also includes a compact flash memory card reader, which can copy your photos onto the device and an adapter that fits most memory cards that are available.

Creative Zen Vision W Performance
You’ll see crisp, clear details in every movie. View precious photos, tens of thousands of them, in 262,144 vivid colors in actual resolutions. Complete with a thumbnail gallery. Listen to 15,000 songs, the Zen Vision W has 5-band custom EQ or 8 preset EQ settings. Or simply connect the ZEN Vision W to a projector or TV with the bundled AV cable, and delight everyone with big screen magic, delivered in true resolution.

Whats included in the package
Creative Zen Vision W, earphones, power adapter, USB cable, AV cable, pouch, installation CD, and quick start guide.

Conclusion
Perfect for taking with you. All your media fit in your pocket and are easy to share. It plays MP3, DRM WMA, and WAV audio files; JPEG photos; and AVI, DivX, MPEG, Motion-JPEG, and WMV video files. It also plays and records FM radio; records voice notes via a built-in microphone; and supports PlaysForSure audio and video.

January 29, 2007

HP Photosmart C3180

Category: Other Gadgets — edgar @ 12:07 pm

HP Photosmart C3180

HP Photosmart C3180 Introduction
The HP Photosmart C3180 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier series is designed for users who want a reliable and easy-to-use unit that will enable them to print and copy brilliant photos and documents – and scan too – all with the minimum fuss.

HP Photosmart C3180 Design
With the HP Photosmart C3180 All in One, you can print, scan, and copy with fast, reliable speeds. Enjoy your photos in true to life color, laser quality, and professional grade scans. Effortlessly share, save, and print your photos with HP Photosmart Express and memory cards. This compacy multifunction comes with a fold up paper tray to integrate seamlessly into your desk top space. In as fast as 25 pages per minute you can print crisp, clean, clear documents with ease on a variety of paper sizes, shapes, and weights. In addition to its printing capabilities, the Photosmart C3180 is an excellent copy machine, make color or black and white copies without a PC, and enlarge and zoom with user friendly, easy one touch buttons.

HP Photosmart C3180 Features
The HP Photosmart C3180 All in One Printer, Scanner, and Copier features high-quality scans of photos & documents with 1200 x 2400 dpi optical resolution, 48-bit color depth. Automatically remove red eye, enhance detail in dark areas of photos, Photos resist fading for generations and laser-quality text documents retain clarity for decades, Memory card slots support Secure Digital/MultiMedia Card, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, xD-Picture Card using brochure and photo papers for borderless printing 36-ink 6-printing available with purchase of HP 99 photo inkjet cartridge; not included, Print borderless photos up to 8.5 x 24 panorama size with included HP Photosmart Essential Software. Use your all-in-one’s scanner to repair older, damaged photos with HP Real Life technologies.

HP Photosmart C3180 Performance
* Compact and reliable printer, scanner and copier with fold up paper tray that fits almost anywhere.
* Fast speeds with photos as fast as 25 seconds and documents up to 22 ppm black and 20 ppm color.
* HP auto paper-type sensor optimizes print and copy quality for various papers.
* HP inkjet cartridges designed for efficient ink usage so you can save ink and money.

Whats included in the package
HP Photosmart C3180 All-in-One, HP 92 Black Inkjet Print Cartridge (5 ml), HP 93 Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge (5 ml), HP Photosmart Essential Software on CD-ROM, Setup Guide, Basics Guide, Power supply, Power cord.

Conclusion
With so many features, its no wonder the HP Photosmart C3180 is a superb all in one multifunction that was designed with the power and reliability of HP and created just for you!

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