Category Archives: Gadgets

MXL Tempo Microphone Connects to iPad, Computer



MXL
MXL

MXL was at our booth talking about their newest Mic, the MXL Tempo. This is a microphone that connect to an iPad.

The challenge of connecting a condenser mic to an iPad is the power. The iPad sends a lower power signal, so you need to adjust at the microphone.

MXL Tempo uses the camera adapter to send the audio signal to the iPad.

Tempo is available now for $79.95

Interview by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine and Steve Lee of Waves of Tech

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Panashiba All In One iPhone, iPad Dock with HDMI Splitter



International company Panashiba showed off the Panashiba AIO-101 – an all in one iPad, iPhone dock for your night stand. Additionally, this is a 4-port HDMI splitter.

You can have a DVD or Blu-Ray player close to your night stand, and switch to your TV at the foot of the bed. With an app (available soon), you will be able to watch from the TV, or turn to your side and watch a movie right from the iPad.

The AIO-101 is expected to be in the US shortly, and is expected to be $169.99.

Interview by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine

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Motorola MOTOACTV Fitness Watch, MP3 Player



Motorola Motoactv
Motorola MOTOACTV

Motorola showed off the MOTOACTV fitness watch at CES. This is the world’s first GPS fitness tracker and smart music player.

Wear MOTOACTV on your wrist, or connect to a bike. It will keep track of the calories, steps, and more. If you have a Bluetooth heart rate monitor, connect it to the MOTOACTV, and it will track your results.

You can download your information to the computer and put up on the Motorola MOTOACTV website. Share with your friends, and have little healthy competitions.

The built-in MP3 player also can determine which songs affect your exercise. The performance playlist will help you power through. You can also set a “Fit song”, which could help you when you need that extra boost.

MOTOACTV is available in 8 GB ($249) and 16 GB ($299) models.

Interview by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine

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Feedair: Information Notification from a Smartphone App



It’s a new way to stay in touch.

Feedair provides a non-intrusive alphanumeric display, and apps that can pull in your unread gmail,Google weather, CNN News, or other messages. You program the feed by selecting one of the visual widgets in the iOS or Android apps. It aggregates your social feeds from services including Twitter and Facebook, and displays them all in one place.

 

The product was announced at CES, and is scheduled to ship in March, 2012.

Interview by Andy McCaskey of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.

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ClarityOne: Fighting EM Fields Deliver Great Sound



Six Patents -12 Years of R&D

In any speaker system, the last thing that you need is something that introduces distortion into the system at just the instant that you want the purest sound into your ears. Traditional systems attempt to compensate for poor match between amplifier and speaker with crossover networks or active processing. ClarityOne Audio’s new system insures that the harmonics that give music its richness come through the system The net result is a set of earbuds that produce pure, clean,undistorted sound from your phone, mp3, iPod and audio book so you hear everything other earphones leave behind.

Interview by Andy McCaskey and Courtney Wallin of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.

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Breffo: Spidey’s Mobile Secret



The “AnyWhere” Mounting System

Breffo returns with a new improved version of the 2011 CES Innovation Award winning “SpiderPodium” mounting system for mobile devices that looks like a nightmare sized spider. In real life, it’s a practical and novel way to attached tablet or smartphone to almost any structure – vertical, horizontal or in between.

With a one year warranty, tested to 100 flex cycles or more, the Breffo offers the flexibility to attach your device to bike handlebars, treadmills, camera tripods, tree branches or anything the spider limbs can wind around.

Interview by Andy McCaskey and Courtney Wallin of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.

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GreenSmart: Green Bags for Business Travel, Students and Home



    Avoid the “new car smell” around your laptop, backpack, ..  or wine.

Tom Larsen of Greensmart talks about products that use consumer waste as replacement for Neoprene in all sorts of products. Greensmart’s primary mission is to use recycled materials to make computer and travel bags for all sorts of applications. That means that in addition to being the responsible thing to do recycle-wise, you can avoid the unpleasant effects of “out-gassing” that occur with all new plastic products.

Interview by Courtney Wallin and Andy McCaskey of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.

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iDevices – The iShower



iDevices – Getting Clean With Music

The iShower from iDevices is a small but clear speaker that receives music transmitted from your mobile device from up to two hundred feet away. It work with any blue tooth enabled device and while the stand can be attached onto you shower wall the speaker can be detached and travel with you to the beach or the garage. The iShower can be paired with up to five devices so that you do not have to connect your phone with the device every time you want to listen to music.

 

Interview by Andy McCaskey of SDRNews for the TechPodcast Network.

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Burg Watch Phone



Burg WatchesOne time there was a very popular comic strip in the 1930 of a detective known as Dick Tracy, one of the coolest gadgets that Dick Tracy had was a watch that was also a phone. Now over eighty years later the Dick Tracy watch has become a reality in the Burg line of watches.

The Burg Watches come in a sports and a children models. The basic Burg Watch will just make phone calls and do SMS messages. With the high end models you can make phone calls, send SMS messages, play music, take pictures and organize your data. It has 3.2 mb of memory and a USB connection. You can also record calls, and view images. The background can be changed to any photo you have on file on the watch. They do not connect to social networks, such as Twitter or Facebook at this time, but the company hopes the new models coming out in April will. You change from a regular watch to a phone by turning the dial. To access the menu on the higher end watches you simply push a button on the side of the watch. To get access to a specific section of a menu you simply tap on that section. These are stand alone phones and can be used with a Bluetooth headset.

I didn’t see any price I the Web site but there was one model available on Amazon for a little over $60.00. These would be great for a someone like a child who needs to have a phone with them, but is constantly losing theirs. The watches also have GPS in them so you can keep track of them easily.

Interviewed by Allante Sparks Host of F5 Live

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Turtle Beach – The Sound of Winning



Turtle BeachTurtle Beach has long been synonymous with gaming audio, and this year they have decided to make high-quality gaming headsets available to everyone, everywhere. They have added new headsets to their high-end wireless line, allowing people on any budget to afford a high-quality Turtle Beach wireless gaming headset.

They have even branched out and created a new line of mobile gaming headsets for your iPad, iPhone, Android-based phone or tablet, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP or any other mobile device you are currently gaming on. Now, no matter where you are or how you’re gaming, you can always experience the sound the way it was made to be heard.

Interview by Scott Ertz of F5 Live for the TechPodcast Network.

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