We were contacted by XMI last week, and soon after that these arrived! XMI is a relatively new Singapore based company but their audio products have already been recognised internationally and won two prestigious awards for their reknown Capsule Speaker. They’ve sent us two of their latest speakers, the X-mini MAX II which is featured in the unboxing gallery below and also the X-mini II Capsule Speaker, a separate gallery will be out for the latter in about an hour.
Most sports fans like to keep up with their favorite sports and favorite teams in real time. And, there’s no better way to do this than by using mobile applications. The PalmPre is working to provide apps to their users similar to what Apple provides for the Iphone. Of course, the iPhone has been around longer and so not only has Apple had more time to get apps out there, but the third party developers have had more time, too.
Yes, another LG phone we’re testing at the moment! While we are in the middle of reviewing the LG GW520, we’ve also been kindly sent the new LG Chocolate BL40. We’ve talked about the BL40 quite abit in the past and it has been mentioned by a number of tech blogs due to the radical changes it has had compared to its predecessor.
As you will be able to recall during the London Freeze, the LG GW520 was the “phone of the event”. Its got a touchscreen but also sports a sliding QWERTY, giving it a combination of features which would suit those who love to text and stay in touch with friends on socialnetworking sites such as Facebook.
We’ve been kindly sent the LG GW520 for a review and you’ll be able to see what we thought of it very soon. Meanwhile, checkout the pics we took during unboxing.
An electric car known as the T.27 created by the McLaren F1 supercar road car designer Gordon Murray has been unveiled. Three prototypes of the T.27 model will be developed over the next 16 months.
The manufacturing process as well as the performance of the car will be aimed at being environment friendly. Called iStream (don’t know why everyone likes to put an i in front of everything these days!), its manufacturing process has received £9m of investment, half of which came from the government’s Technology Strategy Board.
Earlier last month Spring Design launched a cool new ebook reader gadget known as Alex. What’s special about this latest ebook reader is that it runs Google’s Android and has two displays. The top one as you can see is a conventional monochromic electronic paper display that’s six-inch in size while the bottom one is a colour touchscreen which allows you to use Android to browse the internet and blogs.
What’s unique about having dual display, is when you’re browsing the internet either via its built-in 3G modem or Wi-Fi, the Alex will let you visit a web site, select a story, and the device will reflow it to the EPD screen. This makes it feel like whatever it is you’re reading has been published as a newspaper article. Though one issue I think I would have with it is that it appears to be a very long device, this may make it less portable.
The colour screen can be switched off to save power. This makes browsing blogs and news sites much more feasible, since you don’t have to wait for the ebook to render individual pages before you get to your target content.
The capacitive LCD touchscreen running Android also supports UI customization, photo galleries, and full-color video playback. When you read an ebook, the interface lets you quickly skip around to any page, using an on-screen slide bar. An on-screen keyboard also makes text entry practical. With so many multimedia features, I would say the Alex is probably one of the best boredom fight gadgets to be launched in recent months 
For those who have been reading our gadget reviews for sometime, you will know that we’ve reviewed similar products to the Sony ICF-C8WM clock radio before, most notable is the Philips Wake-up Light. However the ICF-C8WM clock radio is quite different in terms of function and purpose. Its not a wake-up lamp as such but should be considered as more of a radio clock with additional bonus features such as support for your portable music players and Sony Ericsson Walkman phones.
We have had a quick look at it and some of its major features while it was here briefly and here’s what we thought of it…
