Heading one step forward towards a gadget that does absolutely everything… well at least hopes to – is this 4 in 1 red laser pointer with WiFi. Tagged at a rather hefty $49.95, this latest gadget helps you by detecting WiFi networks near by. 802.11b/g wireless networks are supported and when they are detected, you’ll know that its approximately up to 150-feet away.
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It looks like all the waiting may finally be over. Its been leaked just over the weekend that BBC could be in the middle of developing an iPhone / iPod Touch application for their free UK online TV and radio catchup on-demand service – iPlayer. Leaked from the BBC’s latest monthly press pack, normally the monthly press pack is created to provide viewing figures and usage statistics for the iPlayer video on demand service in the UK. But this latest one also shows an image of an iPlayer application running on the iPhone.
We’re abit late in covering this, but its hard to resist, not to mention this is a new Asus Eee PC netbook. Asus officially announced last week, their new 12.1-inch Eee PC 1201N multimedia netbook that boasts an Intel Atom 330 dual core processor and NVIDIA’s ION graphics processor. The 1201N has exactly what we’ve always liked from Asus products, style and slick body.
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 
Leaked by Motorola themself in a webpage that was meant to be published at a later date are the specs of the Motorola Droid. We spoke about the Android Moto as a potential iPhone killer this week, now its specs have been confirmed.
The Droid will have a 3.7-inch, 16:9 touch screen with 480 x 854 resolution. A 5 megapixel camera with 4x zoom, autofocus, and dual LED flash. A 1400 mAh Li-ion battery for up to 385 minutes of usage time and 270 hours standby. The powerhouse of the phone will be a 550MHz processor. There will be a pre-installed 16GB microSD card. Connectivity wise, GPS, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g WiFi and a micro USB port as standard. Six ounces of weight spread out over a 2.4 x 4.6 x 0.5-inch body.
A couple weeks ago we mentioned about the launch of the Motorola Dext- Motorola’s first ever Android powered smartphone. To be available exclusively from Orange in the UK it has been confirmed that the new Android Moto phone will be on sale in Orange retail outlets from tomorrow as wellas in Phones 4U stores from the 8th October.
Rumormill currently has it that Sony Ericsson may be launching a new XPERIA X3 and that it will be running the popular mobile OS Google Android. There is also mention that it may arrive as soon as the coming January. If this is so then users may have the choice of choosing between the X2 and the X3 at the same time as the XPERIA X3 has been tipped to arrive immediately following the X2.
Despite skepticism, it has been said that the rumored XPERIA X3 will sport a 8.1 megapixel camera, a four inch touch screen display, bluetooth and Wifi.
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