AH - New ELECTRONIC and GADGETS

HTC has tied up exclusively with Best Buy to launch its first tablet in the US this spring, it was announced on March 22 at CTIA Wireless 2011. The Wi-Fi only Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) device will feature a 7" 1024×600 multi-touch display, 1.5GHz Qualcomm processor, a rear facing 5 MP Color CMOS camera with auto focus, a front facing 1.3 MP camera for video chat, 16GB eMMC memory with microSD card slot, and 4,000 mAh battery. Respectable, if not top-end, specs An optional capacitive stylus will enable users to take synchronized notes and annotate content. The HTC Flyer, with a aluminum case, is claimed to be lighter than an average paperback book. According to Digitimes.com, the HTC Flyer is expected to ship to the US in low volumes in end March, or early April, with volume production kicking in by May 2011. A Digitime source indicated that HTC will launch an Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) version of the HTC Flyer in Summer 2011.

Samsung announced two new Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Galaxy Tabs, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 on March 22 at the International CTIA conference in Orlando, Florida. Just 8.5mm thick, they are claimed to be the world's thinnest mobile tablets. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 weighs 595 grams and the 8.9, 470 grams. They are powered by a 1GHz dual core application processor and feature 1280x800 screen resolution, 3.0 MP Rear camera with AF LED Flash, 2.0 MP Front camera, 1080p Full HD video playback @ 30fps and 720p HD Video recording. They feature Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Digital Compass and Ambient Light sensor. Tab 10.1 features a 6800 mAh battery and Tab 8.0 a 6000 mAh battery. They support HSPA+ network speeds of up to 21Mbps as well as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n connectivity. You can choose from 16G / 32G / 64G of internal memory expandable by 32 GB using a microSD card.

Oh those hairs springing up in most unwelcome places! It may be one long hard fight to get oneself perfectly smooth. If you find the task too laborious, seek outside help in the shape of No!No! Hair 8800 . It’s a handy hair removing gadget , renovated and updated. What makes No!No! Hair 8800 doubly advisable is that it uses no lasers. The beauty device is designed around a patented Thermicon technology which means that your skin is cleaned by heat. Moreover, heat waves deal with hairs underneath the skin. Consequently, a regular use of No!No! Hair is reported to guarantee your hair growing back sparser and more slowly. The hairs are supposed to become lighter too. All you have to do is roll the laser-free hair remover over the area you want clean and smooth. The new version is cordless and equipped with an LSD display that shows the information on battery charge and the state of the Thermicon tips that maу have to be replaced. The heat wave hair remover is efficient with...

As has just become known from the revealed official prices, among the latest bunch of Apple iPads 2 going for sums around £400-600 there is a real gem of an iPad shining with 53 individual precious stones – and carrying a price tag of a stunning £5 million! The luxurious gadget is a creation of the unstinting jeweler Stuart Hughes who used 24ct gold for the back with the Apple logo laid out in gems. But it is the front that really stands out, being not the customary black or white, but crafted from Ammolite, 75 million-year-old rock with the fierce tyrannosaurus’ thigh bone for the special touch of the pristine times. It is crowned with a diamond home button. Lesser iPad 2 joys include a £12,531-worth basic 8GB thing that is wi-fi only and a £7,587-worth 64GB 3G version. Other wi-fi items that will put you back much less are a 16GB iPad (£399.00), 32GB (£479.00) and 64GB (£559.00). If you wish 3G thrown in, your versions will be priced 16GB – £499.00, 32GB – £579.00, ...

Here's a super cool gadget for all those reckless headless people, who leave their keys on the table and keep searching for them everywhere, be it the keys, wallet, handbag, or anything that is little and precious, and you cannot afford to bear its loss, then you surely need The Cobra Tag . Cobra Tag is a new and different alarm and loss prevention system that utilizes a Smartphone application paired via Bluetooth to a small key fob type device. You only have to download the Cobra Tag app to your smartphone and then attach the Cobra Tag device to any item you wish to protect. The Cobra Tag monitors the distance between the phone and the tagged items and produces an audible alert if they become separated. The most amazing thing about this cute little Cobra Tag is that it can actually record the GPS location and the time of day the items became separated, and sends this information to you via email, text message, or even to a linked Facebook or Twitter account saying, ...

Asustek Computers reportedly plans to launch 10-inch net books powered by Chrome or Android 3.0 OS and priced at $200-250 in June. The Taiwan based computer manufacturer has entered into a tie up with Intel with an aim of shipping 6 million net books in 2011, reports DigiTimes, based on information sourced from Taiwanese component manufacturers. The competitively ASUS priced net books will target office workers and content creators whom tablet computers have very little to offer despite their growing popularity. Sans a key, tablet computers are honed for media consumption and are essentially entertainment devices. At $200-$250 the Asus net books will present a significant price advantage over tablet computers priced between $299 - $499, and could possibly lure many content consumers away from tablets. Tablet computer shipments are expected to rise exponentially, from 17 million in 2010 to 44 million in 2011. Asustek will also offer mid and high range net books priced a...

You think that your iphone is the coolest gadget that you have! Well, no doubt it is! But there is a long long list of gadgets that are specially designed for your dear old iphone to make it ultra cool! These accessories will transform your regular iphone into the most fun, funky gadget on the planet, so read on to know two of the most latest gadgets to make your iphone a complete fun experience! 6X Telescope with Crystal Case This ultra cool gadget can transform your iphone into a telescope! If you want to get closer to the perfect shot without scaring whoever you’re shooting away, then simply adjust this ‘bad boy’ on to your iphone and squint through the screen at your target! All in just $ 18.99 iDuck Floating Wireless Speaker If you want to enjoy your iphone’s song while relaxing in a tub of hot water, but don’t want to run the fear of electrocution or damage to your precious iphone, then worry not for this cute little ducky, which will only cost you $24.99, will play the music on ...

There are many fancy lamp designs for you to strike the “hey, what’s this?” note in your room, but do you really want a lamp that is wacky beyond words and draws too much attention with its garish nouveau art looks? Here’s a lamp that won’t look at odds with any style of surroundings, yet has loads of the surprising stuff.What it does is simply float in the air. No, it is not airborne, but French designer Godrik Van Deum made it look as if it were. Actually the floating lamp stands on the wire that is sturdy enough to bear the lamp’s weight without looking it. Here’s your quiet but nevertheless astonishing piece that will also serve well for $649. No flyer included.

While iPhone and Blackberry are busy dividing the cell phone market between them, some nice handsets slip through the cracks and make it to the front of the shelves. Here’s a new one called the Q8 Cell Phone for those who may opt for something out of the way.

An air guitar is a popular instrument. It really doesn’t require anything much to give the player full enjoyment, but that doesn’t mean we can’t throw in a gadget or two to carry it onto another level. If you’re a more committed air guitar performer, here’s a sophisticated T-shirt for you! You can use it as a stylish T-shirt with a nice guitar pic on the right place just to show that you’re into music and playing, but actually it’s an interactive piece of clothing that you can make sound at any time. The AiR Guitar carries a “barcode”-type symbol that in combination with a webcam and an augmented reality app allows you to play while the computer will reproduce the notes you take in the real-time mode. This T-shirt ready for strumming is the production of FauvelKhan , a design company set up by Swansea Metropolitan students. A South Wales band called The Last Republic is also partly responsible for its creation. While the Last Republic guitarist may be pondering over the...

With the coming of spring the atmosphere is getting warmer gradually, sending out signals that a time of total blooming is almost upon us. Some of the nature’s most impatient fellows have already started to shoot out, and industry followed suit. The company that has started growing spring harvest is SolidAlliance , and the place they want their goodies to grow up is our ears.In a less ecological language, SolidAlliance has launched a headphones series dubbed the Crazy Earphones – they clearly want fun to bloom with the increasing warmth too. Oddballs and everyone who doesn’t mind looking a bit funny are offered plants (and less pleasant things) cut in half with each half sticking out of your ear attached to an earphone piece. You will be hard put to it choosing among fungus growing out of your head, a banana or an arrow appearing to go right through your brain. Bolts have not been forgotten with Frankenstein Bolts. There are also Ikura Fish Eggs, Cat Paw and Ear, providin...

There’s always that little psychological problem with iPhones : although not at all intended for men exclusively, they’re originally men’s gadgets , serving to play up their businesslike, determined and efficacious appearance. Most of them look in the same vein: slick, deadly functional and rather austere. They may easily be regarded as a modern equivalent of a gun (complete with a holster). For an iPhone to be intrinsically ladyish is still not very common. But there are companies who try to come up with a phone that would look good only in a woman ’s hand. Gresso has done more than that with their new marvelous iPhone 4 – it is a luxurious thing, refined, elegant and subtly haunting through its reflection of a woman’s allurement. African Blackwood that is two centuries old brings up the hint of exotic, ancient passions, a mystery that dwells in each relationship, female goddesses to whom one must offer a sacrifice. 18 carat pink gold and platinum exude sheer beauty and ...

Doulex means to bring more light into our life, in every way possible. After providing us with a pocket light-cum-credit card they moved on to offer some extra romantic lightning on the desktop . Maybe it was an obvious idea – anyhow, their LED light looks very much like a computer mouse. The new desktop gadget (predictably dubbed Mouse Light ) can be connected either through a power adapter or a USB port. Its models emit white, yellow, orange, pink or green lights with three downshift capabilities. The Mouse Light, to be found at online stores, is 127 x 97 x 63 mm in size.

There’s a secret charm in tiny things, of which the Japanese are well aware. Moreover, there’s that added pleasure of nobody recognizing things for what they really are. The MAME-САМ is all that and more. It looks like some toy made to dangle from a handset. Meanwhile, it’s a full-bodied camera ready to handle your picture taking needs. The 2MP gadget saves your pictures to microSD cards any size up to 32GB – not a stunning quality, agreed, but quite a rival to a common-type mid-range mobile phone camera. Those who love tiny gadgets and are fond of catching their friends unawares by taking funny pics, this Japan toy costs $95.

Apple has made no official introduction of its second version of iPad yet, but it’s already in mass production – according to the information The Wall Street Journal received from a trusted source. Some of the specifications for iPad 2 have also been given out. Compared to the first model, it has more internal memory, an enhanced graphic system performance. It will have at least one in-built camera . The screen will show no alterations, but the case is going to be a whit thinner and lighter. Apple is expected to showcase the renewed iPad within the next two months. Some sources report that the release is scheduled for March 2, 2011.