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This time the gadgets I have chosen for you reveal mostly the secrets! Yes! that's right, they really REVEAL it.!! Just wait and seeeeeee!!!
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Zoom in on stuff - up to 200X Higher resolution microscope produces fantastic images! This 1.3 Megapixel Digital Microscope allows you to capture some higher resolution images and video and display them on your PC using a simple USB connection. View specimens collected around the house, backyard, your desk, or the fridge. Look at the micro-printing on a dollar bill or examine the traces on your motherboard. This microscope provides you an easy way to zoom in on a wide variety of objects to satisfy your curiosity of the world around you. Ever wondered what lint looks like or the mold growing on your week-old bagels? Now you can find out. Simple plug and play operation with included software that allows you to magnify objects and view them on your PC up to 200X and take snapshots and time-lapse movies. You can also manipulate images with drawing and painting tools. The microscope is detachable from the stand to allow you to get closer to large objects.   
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USB Digital Microscope
Zoom in on stuff - up to 200X
This USB Digital Microscope allows you to capture some incredibly high quality images and video and display them on your PC using a simple USB connection. View specimens collected around the house, backyard, your desk, or the fridge. Look at the micro-printing on a dollar bill or examine the traces on your motherboard. This microscope provides you an easy way to zoom in on a wide variety of objects to satisfy your curiosity of the world around you. Ever wondered what lint looks like or the mold growing on your week-old bagels? Now you can find out.
Simple plug and play operation with included software that allows you to magnify objects and view them on your PC up to 200X and take snapshots and time-lapse movies. You can also manipulate images with drawing and painting tools. The microscope is detachable from the stand to allow you to get closer to large objects.
- Great for industrial inspection, science education, forensics, printing, textile, printed circuit board (PCB) inspection, jewelers, hobbyists, tinkerers, crime scene investigation, medical, serial number identification, quality control, parts assembly
- Capture high quality images, video and time-lapsed video [sample images]
- Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels for image capture
- Magnification: 20x, 50x, 200x
- Built-in LEDs for illumination (8 LEDs)
- LED on/off controlled by software
- Interface: USB 2.0
- Frame rate: up to 30fps
- Dimension: 10cm (h) x 3.2cm (dia)
- Weight: 0.2 lb (90g)
- Includes: Microscope, Microscope stand, DinoCapture Software (Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP, Vista, Mac OS9, OSX)
- One year warranty
SHARP'S INTEL ATOM BASED DEVICE
Since Intel announced their new Atom CPU, it’s been only a matter of time before someone actually released a tiny PC powered by the chip. We’ve already seen a concept gadget from Asus, however, Sharp is the first company to announce the release of one to the public.
This tiny computer/phone has been dubbed the D4 and features a 1.33GHz Atom CPU, 40GB hard drive, 1GH memory and will run Windows Vista. You’ll also get a 5-inch 1024×600 screen, WiFi, Bluetooth and more.
There are a few setbacks, one of which is that it is currently only slated for release in Japan. Also, you’ll need to shell out some big bucks for this one, it will be sold for around $1275 with a 2-year service contract.
BOSE MUSIC MONITOR
Many of us want a decent sound system at work. For those who are lucky enough to progress from the open plan world to their own office its become possible to have a small HiFi. However while you can leave behind the wearing of ear buds or headphones now you have your own small box, you still have issues of size and volume levels.
One obvious choice if the iPod of MP3 speaker set, these are often a compromise between the iPod housing and controls and the actual sound quality. Also you may want to listen to an online radio station if your company's IT department allow you to or you may just use the CD / DVD drive on your laptop.
Either way a PC speaker set that could also take an aux input from an MP3 player or iPod would seem a better solution. When we first heard we'd be getting a PC speaker set we had thought of small and cheap boxes with a weedy tinny sounding output.
But hold on there these PC speakers were coming from Bose and we could therefore guarantee that they would not be cheap. In fact we had a small sweepstake in the office to see just how much Bose could charge for a simple PC speaker set, none of us got it right. In fact no one could envision £279 yes £279 for a set of speakers to plug into a pc or laptop.
The Bose Computer MusicMonitor measures 122mm x 65mm x 123mm and each unit tips the scale at 500 grams so they are fairly serious bits of kit and do not in any way feel cheap. Styled in cool size and emblazoned with the Bose name they do have a certain sense of class which helps make the price tag not seem insane but they would have to sound amazing to be worth more than £150.
Set-up is as simple as one could expect with the right speaker both plugging into the mains and housing the main audio inputs. We started with both and iPod and a PC input and used some familiar tracks ranging from classical to some deep funk. Volume control is via buttons located on the side of the speaker or via a rather pointless and frankly ugly remote.
Time to fire up the Bose Music Monitors and hear what £279 buys you. Now the small enclosures don't promise much but boy do they pack a punch. The first thing that arouses your ears is the rich warm bass note which could have visitors to your office looking around the room for the source as its hard to believe that the small Bose units are producing it. Then there is the separation between the mid and upper ranges which is again well beyond what one would expect from mere PC speakers.
volume levels would fail to fill a large room but they are more than enough for even a big office and there is a remarkable lack of distortion even near the upper limits of the MusicMonitors.
After a few days of solid testing its fair to say the team were impressed, Bose have managed to build a small stereo system that punches well above its size. The clarity of the sound and the richness of all genres of music is quite stunning when you consider its coming from just two small boxes attached to a PC.
The key question is are they worth £279, the short answer is no, while these may be the best PC speakers on the market they are over priced by at least £100 compared to offerings from Logitech and others. Even Bose own iPod docks are cheaper and they have an aux input into which you can plug a PC input. Perhaps over time the Bose MusicMonitors will drop in price and can gain the best buy status they truly deserve.
C1 TOURBILLON WATCH
We've shown you some beautiful retro-digital watches recently, but this timepiece takes the prize for integrating real old technology: a tourbillon escapement. Invented in 1795, this type of escapement actually rotates inside its frame and was designed to counteract lop-sided gravity effects caused by the vertical position gentlemen's pocket watches usually sat in. Concord's C1 mechanical watch has this movement mounted outside the case and dial, and presumably it adds to time accuracy. As well as making the watch look damn fine. Will it go on sale? We don't know, but we suspect a massive price.
MICROSOFT DANGER
It looks like Microsoft's acquisition of Sidekick-maker Danger is complete and official. Whether or not this is good news or bad news for fans of the Sidekick has yet to be seen, but we'll try to stay positive and keep an open mind. Hit the jump for the full press release.
Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Danger, Incorporates Company Into Premium Mobile Experiences Group New business group strengthens company focus on innovative mobile consumer experiences.REDMOND, Wash. — April 15, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of Danger, Inc., the company announced today. Danger's expertise in building great, intuitive client software for mobile handsets connected to powerful hosted back-end services fosters rich consumer experiences in communication, media sharing, entertainment and personalization. The combined force of Danger and Microsoft strengthens the company's ability to provide innovative mobile experiences to more consumers.
Danger will become a part of the new Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. The PMX team focuses on consumer-facing mobile projects and is led by Roz Ho, corporate vice president of Premium Mobile Experiences, reporting to Andy Lees, senior vice president of the MCB. Danger co-founders Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt will join the new organization, reporting directly to Ho.
"We imagine a mobile experience that embraces sharing and celebrating relationships and personal moments," Ho said. "Combining Danger and Microsoft talents together in the Premium Mobile Experiences team is how we're going to deliver cool, new, fun mobile experiences to consumers. We want people to smile every time they look at their phone."
The Danger mobile Internet platform, which connects people to their social circles and other rich content, is an integrated end-to-end solution that enables people to interact with their friends, social communities and content through the Internet and Internet services.
"At Danger, we created a fun and easy-to-use mobile experience for today's Internet-savvy consumer," Britt said.
Hershenson added, "As we combine our team and technologies with Microsoft, we see a clear path to evolving that experience and delivering it to an even broader group of consumers."
Danger employees will continue to work from their current offices. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
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