Archive for February, 2011

We have seen a lot of smart products that are physical, moving joysticks to add touch-screen machines and make a lot easier to play games, but the Joystickers, as they are called, are about the easiest around. The nubbins stick directly on the screen and make your movements through capacitive rubber. They work as follows: [...]

If you are looking for more real estate on your desktop or laptop to work, but you do not want to invest in a bigger or additional monitor, why not use what you already have? If you have an Android smartphone or tablet, you’re in luck. The folks at Shape Services have come up with [...]

New Sneaker Speakers

In: News

28 Feb 2011

I have a crazy number of speakers over the years – even a few that looked like high heels. We even had a Nintendo NES crammed into a shoe. But I can officially say this is the first time we featured a pair of speakers built into sneakers here at Technabob. I just searched all [...]

Ledger-size products like Brother MFC-6890CDW multifunction color inkjet printer, you can skip the local print shop and print a wider (literally) set of documents in-house. But as with similar products we’ve tested (including the HP Officejet K8600 and OKI Printing Solutions C8800N), this MFP’s talent comes at a price. Moreover, it is a very slow [...]

Quirky Mantis LED Light

In: News

25 Feb 2011

I’m a fan of the supplier of oddities known as erratic. The company has some of the coolest and strangest things you never really need but want anyway. The latest offering from the company is the Mantis. The crowd Mantis designed a clip-on task light that can be plugged into your desktop PC or your [...]

Cool Blinking Eyes

In: News

25 Feb 2011

Ever experience times when you feel like a pair of eyes checking you out, only to turn around and see nothing? Well, maybe somebody put the blinking eyes behind your back. The name of this unique £ 24.99 now is pretty much for itself, if it starts to flash for an extra effect. Come in [...]

New Maglite XL100

In: News

25 Feb 2011

Maglite flashlights have always been known for their strength and durability whether you’re hiking in the woods at night or subjects of an offender with a little force. But I can not say I have ever seen their products with any kind of gadget lust, until I stumbled across their new model XL100. It is [...]

At first glance, the Brother MFC-7440N is a surprisingly well-specified MFD. It is a design monochrome laser printer with a fax and 10/100 Base Tx network, with the added bonus that the scanner works in color. Clearly it does not help if you use the Copy function, because the printer is not only black and [...]

Fijit Friends for Girls

In: News

24 Feb 2011

It is no surprise that the children flock toward interactive toys. I remember the closest thing I had my interactive toy was a doll Rock Flowers, she would attach to the top of a little yellow record that any doll, and she was on top of your record for as long as you spin left [...]

Who would have thought that AOC is the world’s largest manufacturer of LCD / LED monitor and HDTV? I myself would think more of other notable players, including Samsung and LG, but what the heck – facts speak for themselves. Well, having said that, AOC has just unveiled their brand new Black LED Aire, which [...]