Portable Devices

Time is not only created to be seen or read. Sounds controversial but it’s true. Successful people don’t follow the time and could do perfectly enough without wrist watches or any other timepieces but then what would they wear as an expensive or hi-tech accessories.

The answer for this question was created recently by Tokyoflash when they launched the Rogue SR2 Hybrid LCD/LED Watch. It’s a unique watch on which one can’t clearly see the time but only the bright colours of red, blue, orange or green and no numbers or pointers. 

Yes, that day finally came. Sony announced the PlayStation Portable of next generation. In fact, the console is codenamed NGP and it is based on four concepts: the revolutionary user interface, social interaction, entertainment, based on your location and use of technology of augmented reality in the games. The console is fully compatible with PlayStation Suite and has backward compatibility with downloadable games, PSP, as well as content from the Sony PlayStation Store.

In the cold season traditionally increases the offer (and probably) the demand for special gloves, allowing to work with a touchscreen phone like iPhone, not drawing off the gloves. That’s only such wardrobe items cost is relatively expensive and somehow foolish to overpay just ten conductive elements, pinned at their fingertips, in fact, conventional gloves. Options for the poor have come up with a cost-conscious companies Quirky.

In addition to the prices of special gloves to touch screens is still a drawback, as the waning appearance. Their developers are usually not geniuses of fashion, they don’t bother about the range of colors and shapes, even the size of another one at all times. Decision of Quirky solves these problems.

Korean designer Jin-Sun Park and Seon-keun Park proposed the concept of GPS-navigator combined with a Projector. Probably have already seen many magical Chinese lighter with a button, projecting an image of some mad aunt on any nearby surface . Our friends in Korea have stepped his imagination deeply in favor of night travellers.

Many of us like to travel and discover new places. On the other hand, very few people like to mess with paper maps, and track the location of various landmarks on a tiny smartphone screen is also not always convenient.

People who frequently visit new countries will be certainly be interested in such a device as Maptor. This portable device is a combination of GPS-navigator and a projector, thanks to which the user can project a full-scale map on any suitable surface, whether it is wall, floor, or another T-shirt.

With all the new devices produced, it seems nothing could surprise choosy consumers. However, something very different and unusual has been put on the market lately – it’s a sWaP Rebel watch phone. To tell the truth, Apple and Sony Ericsson producing wrist computers are really disappointed by the release of this gadget, combining both the function of watch and phone.

The UK manufacturer Swap created this quirky square device equipped with a color touch display of 1.46” (176×132 Pixels), a built-in camera and SD card slot with 2GB card (up to 8GB).  The sWaP Rebel has 128 mb internal memory but 32 of it is used for OS.

Yanko Design created a new concept of audio players. It allows ruling with playback of music not in usual way. You have to make an icon symbolizing playback, stop or rewinding. Origami-player got a simple name Play Mp3 Player.

If you want to playback the track you have to fold the square player into triangle. For rewinding you need to move apart triangle, so you have two triangles laying one on another. If you want to stop music you need only to unfold the triangle. The concept and design is very simple.