Cool gadgets and new gizmos – news and reviews

Nowadays fashion returns to its roots, to simple, yet sophisticated design. You don't need annoying details anymore and I won't speak about usability.Any children can use one today. The battle is fought by producers in luxury and design department. For the first time function follows form, and Radia, a cellphone concept, manages to illustrate that greatly.Radia looks like it belongs to a woman purse First time you look at it you think ...

Why isn't a laptop the ultimate mobility device? It has the power and features but what's missing. Intel thinks it's the size, weight and the fact that you can't use it instantly. You have to boot it up and that takes some time. Even if you resume hibernate it's inconvenient to check your email every few minutes. That's where the Metro notebook concept enters arena.Metro is a low power notebook (I'm referring to consumption and CPU processin...

Either Nokia will launch several 8x00 series models really soon or designers just felt in love with those luxury phones and started drawing a lot of concepts, like the case with 8600 codenamed Luna, which we've presented last week.Today it's time for a new preview, this time the 8900 model, which should be even more high-end, than the 8600.On exterior, the 8900 doesn't look like very different than other 8x00 series models, maybe because ...

The Me Mo is just a concept now, but a very interesting one. Combining the capabilities of a mobile phone, digital photo camera, portable media player and GPS unit in one modular gadget, completed with some unique looks, might be a recipe for success, don't you think?The Me Mo has a Central Processing Unit that coordinates the activity of the entire device. You can connect to it some helping devices, to increase the performances and capabi...

In the modern world, people like to keep themselves clean, so they take showers everyday. Or at least they should. But what if we would replace the water showers with air ones? That would be cool, cause you would get rid of all the inconvenients, like getting wet, getting cold, etc.But no, ordinary showers won't be replaced, at least for now. Air powered showers do exist though. Take a look at this concept from Okamura Corp and Sanki Engine...

Why is it that many good products are only available in foreign counties and you have to get trough a lot of stress to get one? There are financial reasons, but let's not discuss them here, and concentrate on the latest Atree PMP, the UJ10. In fact what we have here is a mini PMP, one with a great design, that doesn't feel lost in front of iPod Video. Personally I think UJ10 looks a lot like a phone, but maybe I have see too much fashion products...

The old and stylish Nokia 8800 Sirocco mobile phone comes in a brand new official coating, starting from today, under the name Sirocco Gold. Encased in 18K white gold, the new luxury phone from Nokia is a new expression of elegance among the other mobile phones.Many of you might say that the Sirocco is way too overpriced for its technological capabilities. Cause, even with the 2 MPx camera, Bluetooth connectivity and 262K colours quality disp...

As you probably already know, Intel is keeping touch with its partners trough IDF Forums, the next one being planned for this week, in Beijing. Here Intel plans to announce its next generation UMPC, called MID (Mobile Internet Device).What makes it special is the new operation system used, which is Linux based. As the name suggests MID will try to offer end-users a complete Internet experience.This is how the user interface might look K...

Contrary to mobile phones, landline phones are not quite the thing these days. Philips tries to revive the old phone with its new ID9371 handset. How does it do that? By creating a fresh, clean and modern design, backed up by features that even some mobile phones don't have. The sleek gloss finish make it desirable for a Beverly Hills condo.Philips packed the ID9371 with modern technology, like XHD, that manages the sound quality, backlit di...

A couple of years ago, people used CRT TVs and they were so amazed when the plasma and the LCD TVs appeared. Nowadays, CRT demand has dropped drastically, being replaced by the newer generation gadgets. It is almost sure that the next generation TVs will use OLED technology.John wrote about the new OLED screen from Sony a couple of days ago. I am adding a nice clip about this product that i hope you'll enjoy. Check it out!Better screen qu...