I think the OpenX knife is one of the best utility knives I have in my office drawer. Whether it is opening a shrink-wrapped hard plastic box, or simply removing the seal of a medical pill container, to opening detergent packets or snack pouches and shrink wrapped drink packs, this single tool does it easily. And the neat way it opens packaging means you can save the packaging to keep things stored the way they were shipped. The retractable blade, and the blade hidden in the mouth make it safe around people, though I would still want to keep it away from children.
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19 September 2009
iPod Rerun
The iPod Nano can do things that no other portable media player (unless you think your cellphone is one) can. It’s time to bite the Apple.
video kick
The new iPod Nano brings video to your music with its built-in video camera. Moreover, for that extra kick it comes with a larger screen and polished aluminium finish in nine brilliant colours. If you were looking for a slim video camera that could shoot good quality video, and you thought your slimmest digital camera was still a tad big, then this Nano is a perfect fit. Small enough to fit into your shirt pocket, this Nano shoots video at an instant (though there is no short cut key, and you have to go through the menu). It can record video both in portrait mode and in landscape mode. The video shots are optimised for Facebook, YouTube and Mobile Me (Apple’s platform).
Fifteen fun effects allow you to record your video as if you were a Hollywood director. From Motion Blur, Sepia Tone, Mirror Image, Cyborg to Thermal, they are all there. The polished anodised aluminium finish in nine electrifying colours and a large 2.2” display score high in the envy quotient.
This iPod also supports FM playback, so you can tune into your favourite station. If you need a quick break, you can live pause the FM radio and resume from where you were after the break. The live pause is not the only great thing, this Nano allows you to rewind 15 minutes of listening time, so that you can listen to that song again. You can also tag songs that you are listening on the radio, and back home when you hook it up to your computer, it will bring up all the tagged songs so that you can buy them from the iTunes store (the feature works only in the US for now). The new iPod Nano has a voice recorder too.
To cap it, this iPod is also your personal trainer. Connect it to any Nike + iPod compatible cardio equipment, and it records your workout and charges your iPod while your music and video keep you pumping.
Apple iPod Nano is expected in the Indian market soon.
Sapra is The Big Geek at System3. He also blogs at TheBigGeek.com
Gadget Buzz
19 Sep 2009 - 25 Sep 2009
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Rs 31,990Sporting a new customised user interface called HTC Sense, Airtel has launched the HTC Hero in India. With its 3.2-inch HVGA display, the HTC Hero is optimised for Web, multimedia and other content. Its broad features include a GPS, gravity-sensor, a 5 mega-pixel autofocus camera, expandable MicroSD memory, and dedicated search button. There are standard widgets for weather, a standard clock (very pretty), a Twitter client and others. The camera lets you geo-tag images, so you know where you took them.
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Rs 9,990The Xtreamer launched recently in India at a cool price of Rs 9,990 is a versatile media streamer. Its features include a 500 GB hard disk, external hard disk port, 2 USB ports and both wired and wireless LAN. It supports HDMI, Optical and Composite outputs to hook it up to your television easily. It supports DTS audio, MPEG 1/2/4, FLV, and DivX. On the picture front, it supports JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and HD JPEG, OGG, WMA, MP1/2/3, WMA Pro, and FLAC formats.The only downside of this media player and streamer is that it uses an external power adapter and not a direct 220 volt supply.
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