Nest Thermostat

Dec 22, 2011 No Comments by

The Nest Thermostat is a gorgeous piece of eco-friendly electronics. But like your mom always said, it’s what’s inside that counts. Well then, she’ll be pleasantly pleased to find out that the inside of the Nest is as equally beautiful as the sleek exterior. The $249 thermostat might be costly, but a teardown posted on [...]

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Sanwa Digital Toy Camera

Dec 13, 2011 No Comments by

Sanwa is back with its latest product in the form of the Sanwa Digital Toy Camera (400-CAM007). Measuring 51mm x 30mm x 20mm and weighing at only 14 grams, the camera features a 5-megapixel sensor with an optical viewfinder, a voice recorder and a microSD card slot(up to 8GB). The camera also records 1,280 × [...]

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Motorola Xyboard

Dec 12, 2011 No Comments by

It’s not every day that you have two – count ‘em – two Motorola Honeycomb tablets drop on your lap but today’s one of those days. I’ve just powered up the Xyboard 8.2 and 10.1 and am running them through their paces right now. The tablets are surprisingly thin and, in preliminary LTE tests, surprisingly [...]

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Galaxy Nexus

Dec 12, 2011 No Comments

No, we still don’t know when the Galaxy Nexus will launch in the U.S. But the global model of the phone is out there, and we finally got to try it out. It rocks. We’re going to wait until Verizon launches its LTE model of the Galaxy Nexus and post a full review of both [...]

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Apple iPhone 4S Improved camera and 1080p video recording

Dec 12, 2011 No Comments

Apple has enhanced the already very good rear camera of the iPhone 4. Apple says the iPhone 4S camera is faster and offers more pixel density using the same “backside illumination” sensor design that collects more light for “increased sensitivity and a shorter exposure time,” resulting in less blurry motion and better low light shots. [...]

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Digipower TC-55 charges all your camera batteries of the same brand

Dec 12, 2011 No Comments

Don’t you just hate how each camera you have needs a different charger in order to charge its batteries? It’s even worse when you go on vacations and have to remember to pack a charger for each one. Well, Mizsco International’s new series of chargers aim to turn those woes into problems of the past. [...]

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M.I.C. iPad 2 CF Card Camera Connection Kit

Nov 16, 2011 No Comments

I love my iPad 2, but getting photos from a camera onto it is more of a hassle than it should be. Apple sells a handy iPad Camera Connection Kit, but it only supports SD cards or USB devices, so folks that use CompactFlash cards are out of luck when it comes to official support [...]

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