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Guys from TkinkGeek again have a little surprise for all us Sci-Fi & gadget fans: Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 webcam. The webcam represent the original Star Trek series Enterprise NCC-1701 and even has 2 LED on the engines and flexible gooseneck mount.

Gadgething’s cold hard facts:

• Really cool device to have it on your desk.
• I would rather have U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E or NCC-1701-D model, but what a heck.
• $22.99 is nothing for real Star Trek fan
• Works for Skype, AIM, MSN, iChat, etc
• 4 feet of USB extension cable and compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and Mac
• 300k pixel camera: 30 frames/secon, that means 640×480px resolution, not bad

Conclusion: All I wanna say about Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 webcam is: I want to have it.

» If you wanna make your own opinion check out Thinkgeek info at Thinkgeek

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Ambient Devices has launched one new interesting gadget called: Ambient Umbrella . What is exactly Ambient Umbrella? It is a normal umbrella but with handle which glows to indicate when rain or snow is forecast, so you remember to take it with you. It receives automatically local weather data from AccuWeather.com by Ambient’s wireless data-radio embedded in the handle.

Gadgething’s cold hard facts:

• Looks modern and sleek but nothing extraordinary, it is an umbrella, not a space ship.
• Price: $129.99 too much, way too much.
• Nothing else special about it about.

Conclusion: No way in the world I’ll give $129.99 for an umbrella, even for the Ambient Umbrella. Yes, it is a gadget, but totally wasted resources to produce a product like this just to remind you to take an umbrella when leaving a house.  Maybe I am wrong, let me know your response.

» If you wanna make your own opinion check out Ambient Umbrella at Ambient Devices

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USB docking stations are some time already available on the market, but finally some USB 3.0 docking station has launched. As we know new USB 3.0 specification provides transfer mode at 4.8 Gbit/s and the specification considers it reasonable to achieve 3.2 Gbit/s. So here it is: Brando’s USB 3.0 SATA HDD Docking Station Y-1071.

Gadgething’s cold hard facts:

A little too big in comparison to Sharkoon.
$58.00 is not bad at all
Support 2.5″ and 3.5″ HDD and and 2TB over HDD
Supports ATA / ATAPI device

Conclusion: Not bad for the first UDB 3.0 docking station at that price. Most of us will need of course extra USB 3.0 PCI Express card. All you happy owners of new motherboards which support already USB 3.0 PCI card will no tbe  needed.

Check out Brando’s USB 3.0 docking station photo gallery.

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We never heard of this Chinese company called Itoos, but their new PMP (personal media player) Itoos M6HD is an unlivable interesting peace of hardware. Why? Because of top specs and a great price.

Gadgething’s cold hard facts:

Very sleek and modern touch with 4.3″ display
Fantastic price of only $58.50
8Gb internal memory + support for MicroSD card
Compatibility with following formats: MKV, MP3, WMA,AVI,RM/RMVB,FLAC
HDMI output
No info about subtitles support.

Conclusion: For $58.50 and been able to drive HD 1080i video, I can’t think of any reason whatsoever why not to buy it. It is a bargain. One thing to look-up : will it support subtitles (SRT or any other format)?

Update: I’ve just saw SRT, SUB text on the product photo. So one more big plus for this PMP from Itoos.

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We know ZAGG from invisibleSHIELD™  for iPhones, iPods, but now they made something totally different: a portable battery power for all USB powered devices.

Gadgething’s cold hard facts:

Design: it looks cool.
Price: $129.99 too much, even so on their web page is stated $69.99
Small size 3.5 x 3.5 x 1 inches, weight .54 lbs
6,000 mAh battery power, approximately 4x iPhone full charges
Dual USB outlets
Only USB, what about our camcorders

Conclusion: For $69.99 looks very promising. On other way $129.99 is really too much. One another downside is only USB charging, they should have provided some kind of adapter for non USB devices.

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» If you wanna make your own opinion check out ZAGGsparq info at ZAGG

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Asustek Computer known as Asus has launches robotic vacuum cleaner eCleaner. Asus is known as a computer peripherals manufacturer and netbooks manufacturer, not as manufacturer of a household gadgets. Let’s see what do we think about the Asus first step in the robotic vacuum business.

Gadgething’s cold hard facts:

Design: it looks retro and like a toy, ugly red and yellow plastic
Bumping in the objects; what if we have a precious furniture? No way I am going to let him do that in my house
Auto charging at the base station
Antibacterial ultra violet beam
Price $155. For that price I’ll give it a go as a test run as a gift to my in-laws
Too tall, it can’t go under a sofa

Conclusion: I would wait for a better designed and really “clever” vacuum cleaner, I’ve even taught my dog to take care of my furniture, why a $155 ‘clever’ robotic vacuum cleaner can’t do that?!

» If you wanna make your own opinion read full article at Robot Stock News

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New record for the world’s thinnest LCD display has a new home in LG headquarters in Seoul, Korea. The new LCD is only 2.6 mm (0.1 inch) thin and it has full HD capability (1920×1080px – 1080p) which makes it world’s thinnest LCD made so far. This 42″ beauty weights only 4 kg (8.8 pounds), with refresh rate of 120Hz and of course with LED backlight technology. Oh boy, with 8.8 pounds that is a perfect display for a second TV mount, just over the existing main TV in a living room. As LG announced today the new TV you can see in live with your own eyes during the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010 in Las Vegas. There is no info about contrast, brightness,  number of HDMI inputs, so no tech specs at all. Anyway, it looks very promising, we can’t wait to put one on the test here at Gadgething.com

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If you haven’t been in the theaters lately for any reason possible, it is a time to change that for sure. Why? I’ll try to explain it.

I’ve been quite a few times, watching few blockbusters pre-premieres, like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and James Bond Quantum Of Solace and every time I got home disappointed, not because of a bad movie, on the contrary, the movies were great but cinematic experience was just not ’something’. The picture quality is just awful in comparison with my HD plasma. It looks like washed out, dark, dull picture, even the screen is enormous. I watched the same movies few months later on my Pioneer 50″ Kuro plasma in HD and I’ve definitely enjoyed it much more than in the theater.

I had a chance to watch pre-premiere of Avatar few days ago, and I was really all skeptical about all that IMAX 3D stuff, I really was, but it was unbelievable experience watching Avatar in IMAX 3D format. As we all from Gadgething team agreed, lack of brightness and a little sharpness is clearly noticeable. Even so, 3D effect are groundbreaking, every time Neytiri has shoot an arrow, you would feel the arrow’s head so close to you, it would be hard to resist the temptation to stretch out a hand to try to touch it and feel it with fingertips. Another great example is when a smoke grenade enters in The Hometree (Kelutrel) you would probably (like me) duck because the grenade enters directly in you. But especially fascinating to me is The secret tree’s neurons which hangs out and every time a character enters inside the secret tree you’ll feel that mean 3D format, you’ll feel like you are there. The same effect you’ll feel every time a character walks in the jungle, every leaf, every branch, feels like it is all around you, it feels like you are there, on Pandora.

So, despite the lack of brightness and ‘funny looking’ plastic 3D glasses on your nose, the whole experience is breathtaking, from the first to the last scene everything it just WOW. In addition on all that IMAX 3D effect James Cameron’s Avatar is a one special movie for itself, so when you combine those things together the result is what I said before: the super movie + IMAX 3D is a reason to enjoy watching movies in the theaters once again like before home cinema equipment moved in our homes.

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Vue personal video network

It was never so cool and easy to have your personal video network with wireless cameras all over you home, but Vue has made it really simple like that. You can have video surveillance all over you home and watch it on you laptop or any computer from anywhere in the world. How does it work? Create you basic private network with the included 2 wireless cameras (up to 50 are maximum you can add in tour system) and 4 peel & stick magnetic camera mounts in Vue’s starting kit. After that you just need to connect Vue gateway in the your router, and you are with the first step. All the videos will stream automatically directly to your personal my.VueZone.com account page. The price for the basic setup kit is $299.99 and each extra camera is $99.95, but you need to keep in mind that the first year for your hosting of you videos is free and after the first year the hosting would cost you $19.99 for one year. Also it is not clear how much space you’ll need for a regular video uploading since this current generation of Vue cameras does not activate recording or snapshots based on motion detection.

Specs:

• Video resolution
  VGA (640 x 480 pixels)
  QVGA (320 x 240 pixels)
  QQVGA (160 x 120 pixels)
• Video format:FLV (Flash Live Video)
• Snapshot format:JPEG
• Battery:Lithium Ion CR123 Photo
• Battery life:1 year under normal use
• Base online storage per account:2GB – upgradable

Also check here full specs and detailed info about Vue’s personal video network.

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