Posts from 'Multimedia' category

Almost everyone has heard of an iPod. What is an iPod? Well, it’s a portable media player, it was designed by the company named Apple and its launch date was in the year 2001 on the 23rd of October. The line of products is a large one. It includes the hard-drive based iPod Classic, iPod Touch which has a touch screen, iPod Nano which can also play videos and the compact iPod Shuffle. The iPhone can also be used as an iPod but it’s u...

Sony launched a couple of Bluetooth compatible headsets, not the smallest bluetooth headset, but they are specially designed for mobile phones usage, but which can also be paired with other gadgets, like PMPs or music players.Wireless technology is the future, that's a fact. And this headphones are a proof of this, if one needed. Sony brings first the mid level model, DR-BT21G, a headset that supports A2DP, AVRCP, HFP and HSP protocols for...

Are you a family guy or want to buy a nice gift for your friends moving to a new house? Maybe you should consider a digital picture frame, which you can fill with nice pictures took together on various occasions. I'm not going to go on and on about what a digital picture frame is but I thought I should mention how it works: you transfer/upload pictures to the digital frame and then you set up how you want to see them, one at a time till you choos...

Portable games consoles are a big hit of the past years, as teenagers are attracted to the idea of not having dead times while traveling from point A to point B. You might think that those consoles are not very advanced, but you'll be very wrong, as both Sony and Nintendo have already released several versions which improve one upon the other.One such portable games console is the Nintendo DS Lite, a 20% lighter version of the Nintendo DS. It...

E-Book readers seem to be a thing of the future as Kindle, the first e-B00k reader from Amazon was out of stock in their website for many days. Now with the imminent release of the Kindle 2 (it's said that Kindle 2 will announced today, with a special Stephen King story), there's hi-res pictures on Internet, which will only make you drawl thinking of the device.From what we've gathered it seems the Kindle Reader 2 will be slimmer than the fir...

Sony's warm up for the PMA photo exhibition, which will took place in Las Vegas (31 Jan - 2 Feb), includes eight new digital cameras along with the already seen catchy Sony Alpha DSLR-A200. However, today is the lucky day for amateurs, because the "jap" company announced only compact cameras (DSC-S780, DSC-S750, DSC-W120, DSC-DSC-W130, DSC-W150, DSC-W170, DSC-T300) and the big lazy fish in DLSR-Like range, DSC-H10.If you're a begginer, you ma...

How many speakers does a gaming headset need to accurately reveal the position of your enemies when they are sneaking behind you? Turtle Beach thinks you need ten speakers and produced the Ear Force AK-R8 Gaming Headset.For me it seems too much plus the fact that your ears have to be placed at some distance from the sound source in order to give you the surround feeling you get from regular 5.1 systems. To make things more attractive for the ...

I've been planning in introducing a couple of contests here on GadgetRoad for a while. There's no big deal, just tiny questions and stuff. The most important thing is that I wanted to give some prizes too, as there are too few out there thinking to participate in a contest for free, no?For today, I'm just posting a photo, and i will gently ask you to leave a comment with what you think it might represent.The one who guesses will receive ...

We all know what a multimedia receiver really is, as we probably have one in our homes and use it daily while watching TV, some movies or just listening to our favourite tracks. But, except the Apple TV and maybe a couple of other models that you can count on your fingers, most of these gadgets are dull looking, without any eye catching elements.I agree, what's inside is the important part, but the aesthetics shouldn't be neglected either. ...

Crysis is definitely one of the most awaited games this year, as it is supposed to take advantage of advanced DX10 features thanks to CryENGINE 2 technology.Today a new developer walkthrough for a pre-alpha version hit the web. It's 17 minutes long but it's worth seeing it. [via TechBlog]I can only hope that Crysis will not require a high end PC, like quad SLI, quad core and other amazing but expensive components....