Cool gadgets and new gizmos – news and reviews

The Call of Duty series of games needs no further presentation. Even those who are not into gaming probably know the fundamental elements of what is one of the most popular FPS in the world.In this context it does not come as a surprise that Activision launches new games in this series each year. On its complete name Call of Duty: Black Ops, the new game is available in shops starting November and it is the 7th in the series and the 4th devel...

Once Asus announced the Eee PC series, all the other producers lost no time and launched their own netbook versions. This is how Acer became well known for the Aspire One model, Lenovo for the IdeaPad, Dell fir the Inspiron Mini, while Sony (Vaio), HP (Mini), Toshiba and Samsung came on to the market a bit later. Although it is not the most famous portable device creator MSI managed to launch a series of extremely attractive notebooks. In a recen...

Huawei is a Chinese company which is less well known in Europe and the US in the domain of electronic gadgets, especially because it starting building such gadgets only from the last year. One of the gadgets was the S7 tablet which has recently received a successor in February at the Mobile World Congress: the S7 Slim.Even if we are talking about a 100% Made in China product we should not forget that most electronic gadgets are made in China,...

I do not think I would be mistaken if I were to say that any user of a mobile phone that belongs to anything over the medium category has used Bluetooth technology at least once in his life for the transfer of files to another mobile or a PC. This technology is a standard for almost any type of phone that is not low cost, and has successfully replaced the famous infrared port which has almost completely disappeared from the market.More than a...

The fashion for convertible tablets that can be turned into netbooks because they have a full QWERTY keyboard attached is on the rise. After Asus launched the Eee Pad Transformer at the beginning of January Acer is also releasing a new similar tablet, the Iconia Tab W500.The advantage of Acer seems to be the Windows 7 operating system, certainly an asset for users of this type of hybrid even if Google Android has become more and more used. ...

I’m really not the type of person that falls for companies’ statements about best, thinnest, smallest and all that jazz, but I have to admit that Dell might be right for starters, talking about their new XPS 15z 15” laptop. The above mention laptop is the first in the company’s new series of ultra-thin portables.Just because this is thin, and light as well, doesn’t mean it’s not powerful. Dell thought of making the XPS 15z appeali...

One of the most popular mobile browsers in the world is Opera Mini, the perfect little third party software that plays well with most devices on market. Since today you can add three more devices to that list: the iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch, as Opera Mini 6 just appeared in the Apple App store.I have to tell you that this is not the first version compatible with the iPad, but the first one to support iPad's screen resolution natively (and ...

The MacBook Air has long been one of the best looking ultraportables around. Its almost unnatural thinness, the light silvery color and the pristine finishing have made the Air one of the coolest gadgets around. While not as powerful as the MacBook Pro, nor as complete as a system, the Air is the epitome of the shiny, sleek and almost invisible computing technology.As time passes, though, competitors are building up momentum to provide a viab...

The Blackberry Bold 9900 was launched earlier this month, alongside the new installment of Research In Motions’ Operating System, BlackBerry OS 7.The Bold 9900 has a steel frame and a soft-touch plastic back, which looks less impressive than the old Bolds’, which was faux-leather.However, the phone is considerably thinner, at 10.1 mm, so the overall look, enhanced by the wide curvy qwerty keyboard, makes it look very professional....

After yesterday's amazing announcements from Google it's hard to top them out the second day, but that might just have happened, as the second day at Google IO conference was the day of Chrome OS.Today Google announced the availability of Chrome OS, their version of lightweight operating system that relies heavily on Web apps, that's going to ship preloaded on netbooks from Google's partners Samsung and Acer starting June 15.Currently the...