For this week I present a gadget review. Musical mouse pad

The mouse pad can play music from virtually any audio device in your house. You would say that many gadgets can do that but this one is able to do it wirelessly.

Your mouse pad gadget will playing your favorite song that is on TV now. This gadget can reproduce audio signals from your TV, any audio player, CD player, iPod, any other MP3 player. You will have pleasure listening to all this right at your computer desk.

The sound quality is not very good. The musical mouse pad gadget has only the ability to play just  mono sound.It has only one speaker and it is not even big.

The only advantage for this new gadget   is its mobility and ability to let you listen to the music wirelessly. The other feature that it has is the built in FM tuner so you will be able to listen to the radio at your workplace or your garage. The radio works without the transmitter so you can listen to it anywhere you want.

As a mouse pad is good and very cool, but not so great for listening music.

Because it is wireless it needs batteries to run.It needs three AAA batteries to work.

Mouse pad specification:
1) 4-port USB hub a) Fully compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification version 2.0 b) Single chip integrated USB hub controller with embedded proprietary processor c) Supports four bus-powered d) Driverless, hot plug and play e) USB 4 Port for varieties of external USB devices connection f) SD card can be inserted g) Driverless (P&P) for Windows XP, 2000, 98SE, Linux2.4 and Mac OS 8.5 version

2) Stereo speaker: a) USB Stereo Speaker Powered by USB or External Power supply b) Internal stereo drive and microphone built for internal charting c) Internet radio channel using d) Ear Phone, microphone output connection capability e) Suitable for CD player, MP3 and MP4

3) Mouse pad a) Black compact panel and smooth movement which suitable for all kinds of mechanical mouse and optical mouse use b) Flash blue light or seven colors light around the pad c) Cable length 1.5m for USB and Audio d) Dimensions (W x D x H): 248 x 213 x 18mm e) Allows matching outside power of DC5V/2,000mA 4) Positive logos: customized based on customs requirements

5) Side logos: item

6) Color: customized based.

This new gadget can be found at Sz-wholesale.com.

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A new gadget is now on the market iLuv USB TV tuner for Mac (Windows version was available for some time).

It looks like an extended Flash drive and connects via USB 2.0.

Once connected you can view and record TV.

It also supports EPG (Electronic Programming Guide) so you can program your Mac to record your favourite TV shows, it will start and stop recording at the stipulated time.

You can sit back and relax as you can change the channels using the Apple Remote. The only disadvantage is the 17cms long antenna.

The unit measures 23×94.2×9.8mm and weighs 22 grams. It is compatible with Mac OS X v10.4 and above.  

iLuv USB TV Tuner for Mac gagdet will be available in Japan from Feb end for 14,800 Yen ($ 122).

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iPhone has a powerful gadget competitor Samsung Ultra Smart F700

This new gadget wants to be the iPhone killer.

The Ultra Smart F700 is a triband GSM (900/1800/1900) slider phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. It has a 2.78 inch touchscreen display supporting 262k colors and a resolution of 240×440 pixels.

The smartphone has a proprietary Samsung OS with a unique drag and drop system for menu navigation and media playback.

It supports all the major media formats from MP3 to Real to MPEG4.

The F700 has a brilliant 5 Megapixel camera with autofocus and a secondary VGA cam for video conferencing.

The 3G phone supports EDGE, GPRS, UMTS and HSDPA with lightning download speeds of 7.2 Mbps. Specs include Bluetooth, Micro SD card for memory expansion, USB and HTML browser.

An interesting feature is VibeTonz which enables the handset to produce a huge range of ‘vibro-tactile’ sensations so you can hear the ringtone and hear it as well. It will provide an immersive gaming experience as gamers can experience the recoil of a gunshot or the jolt of a punch.

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Japanese Tobacco vending machine with adult identification function gadget.

This cigarette vending machine is the newest gadget.

Cigarettes can be bought easily from the 62000 vending machines across Japan.

In an attempt to reduce the number of minors that purchase cigarettes through vending machines that are available unrestricted across Japan, the Japanese tobacco association is going to install dispensers with adult identification function all over Japan.

From March 2008 Japanese will be able to buy cigar from vending machines with a taspo card only. Taspo, the Tobacco Card is a smart card being developed by the Tobacco Institute of Japan (TIOJ), the nationwide association of tobacco retailers and the Japan Vending Machine Manufacturers Association for introduction in 2008. Following its introduction, the card will be necessary in order to purchase cigarettes from vending machines in Japan

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by: Tom Takihi

Almost every week, we have news about the latest technological gadgets being invented and made available in the market. We usually think of gadgets as something portable and handy and that which can make our work faster and easier. Remember the robot or perhaps, Gadget Boy?

Gadgets for all aspects of our daily life are everywhere and admit or not, they are very useful. The young professionals or yuppies as well as the “techies” (technology buffs) are normally the first people to take advantage of the latest gadgets in town. Let’s see what they have been using so far, particularly the handheld devices.

Most patronized

The mobile or cell phone is, perhaps, consistent for being the most popoular and useful tool for people on the go. With this handheld gadget, people can be reached anywhere they are and you can call home too from any location. Cell phones can do so many things these days - browse the Internet, play video and music, provide directions, take videos and photos and more. Its usefulness is definitely proven. In fact, there have been so many enhancements to this gadget from being just a plain mobile phone used for voice messages to being a camera and video phone with voice recorder to boot to being an FM radio and a mini-laptop. And now comes the world’s first mobile GSM watch phone created by an Australian firm SMS Developments Ltd. It looks like a sports watch but with full voice and SMS capabilities. Pets, too, have their own cell phones now. The PetsCell is a waterproof mobile phone that you can attach to your dog’s collar. Your dog then is assigned his own number so if ever he gets lost, you can call him too.

The Palm Pilot, since its invention ten years ago, has also been among the most used gadgets. The Palm Pilot itself has undergone many changes to being today’s Treo 650 and 700. The Palm company says it has sold more than 34 million devices including 3 million smartphones since 1996. Reports say the Palm products have indeed changed society’s ability to communicate and access knowledge.

For the music buffs, first we had the Walkman that allowed us to listen to the radio and our favorite music in cassette tapes while on the move either walking, jogging or driving or even shopping. Then came the Discman, an improved version that used compact discs. The latest, as we all know, is the very thin and handy iPod. This small device has, in fact, several new models already available in the market. This time, the iPod stores MP3 music straight from computers.

Just last September 12, Apple introduced the 2G iPod nano and an updated 5G iPod. The second-generation iPod nano is said to have more storage capacity and comes in multiple colors.

Where is it going?

But what’s this IDC (a leading company that offers technological media solutions) report confirming a decline in worldwide shipments of handheld devices in early 2006? Based on IDC’s Worldwide Handheld Overview, the worldwide market for handheld devices began 2006 with its 9th consecutive quarter of year-over-year decline, down 22.3% from the same quarter a year ago. This, despite the incorporation of features like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, expandable memory and GPS solutions. Manufacturers and vendors, however, continue to look for ways to keep their products saleable by appealing to first-time and core users. A research analyst with IDC’s Mobile Markets team said many people are wondering if this trend will go on and for how long or will a reverse be possible. But one thing’s for sure, he adds, the market will eventually hit a size where the rate of decline will slow to a sustainable level. That size has yet to be determined but will be sustained by the core users of handheld devices as well as the enhancements found on these gadgets.

A book entitled Our Own Devices confirms that users are actually great innovators as they find purposes for devices that their creators never imagined.

Author Edward Tenner said that as technologies advance, demand for new ones go up as well. He pointed out that it’s the interplay between technologies and technique, skills and uses that determine the life of a device in the real world.

So for sure, there’s really no stopping these advancements in technology. As long as there are innovative minds existing in this world, more devices will be invented.

About The Author

Tom Takihi is the owner of the Discover Gadgets portal. To gain more information, please visit http://www.discovergadgets.info.