Devices on TFTS - Page 7

Motion-capture is popping up everywhere. The Wii brought it home with its WiiMote and the iPod found a way to integrate motion-sensing into a portable communications device. The main problem with most of these motion-capture gizmos is that they aren’t very refined. By this I mean they are good at …

Keeping your laptop cool is a good thing. With today’s systems coming stuffed to the gills with oodles of high-tech high-temp components, it’s more important than ever to help our technology keeps its cool. Most laptop cooling systems are basically high-powered fans that you connect to an open USB port. …

Wishing there was some way to combine your love of advanced optical technology-based pointing devices with your love of undersea life? I know I am and thanks to the innovators at Lantian Industrial, we can. The Aquarium Mouse by Lantian Industrial is basically your run-of-the-mill 3-button mouse sporting optical technology. …

Even when you’re not using your electronics devices they are consuming power because most devices don’t really “turn off”. Electronics are known for going into stand-by or sleep mode when not in use and this can waste hundreds of dollars a year in electricity without you even knowing it. TrickleStar, …

For those of you that have had to deal with the less-than-stellar technologies for controlling a mouse during on-screen projections you know how hit and miss they can be. Often they cause your pointer to move agonizingly slow or create irritating jumpy movements that can have you ready to smash …

Sony have introduced their next generation multi-function DVDirect DVD recorder/burner, the Sony DVDirect VDR-MC6, which offers standalone functionality allowing end users to burn films (inclusive of 1080i HD video footage) and digital photos directly to DVDs from cameras and camcorders without the need to fire up their PC.

The world of high-end graphics cards is wracked with obsolescence. What’s hot today is ice-cold tomorrow and the race to win the hearts (and dollars) of those in the need for graphics speed is fast and furious. The digital demons at Sapphire Technologies, a well-known partner to the folks at …

It used to be that if you wanted to back up large amounts of data you had to either burn it to CD or DVD or, worse yet, use some kind of tape-based device that was almost certain to become corrupted just as fast as you could get your data …

I know you simply can’t get enough of the wonderfully creative USB hubs that are flooding the market and that’s why I am here to bring yet another one to your attention. This baby not only has the technology that you’d expect from a 4-port USB hub, but it comes …

As regular readers will know, we always like to end the working week on a high (or is that a low – depends on your perspective I suppose) and for this week’s whimsical gadget we turn our attention to this USB Construction Site that, personally, I’ve completely fallen for (must …

I know that you have nothing on your hard drive that you are concerned about. Everywhere that you visit on the web is strictly above board, right? Yeah, that’s what I thought. We all have little skeletons in our virtual closets that we would rather keep to ourselves. But what …