DROID 2 by Motorola Pre-Sale Starting Tomorrow at verizonwireless.com

Starting tomorrow (August 11, 2010) the new Droid 2 by Motorola is available pre-sale  at www.verizonwireless.com and starting 12 August 2010 you can buy it at Verizon Wireless stores for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. The previous version of Droid was Droid X.

The Droid 2 has the following features:

• It runs on a new fresh Android 2.2 (or Froyo)
• 1 GHz TI OMAP 3620 - 1000 Processor
• Sliding QWERTY Keyboard (same as Droid X)
• 3.7-inch display (Same as Droid X)
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1
• 3G Mobile HotSpot and the ability to connect up to five compatible Wi-Fi® devices
• 5-megapixel camera with flash
• Customers can also download favorite apps from Android Market™, which has more than 70,000 applications
• 8GB on-board memory and the 8 GB microSD™ card (can be upgraded to a 32 GB SD card)

Apple Files Patent for Smart Bike

Apple so far has only produced electronic gadgets such as computers, tablet, mp3 players and smartphone. Recently Apple filed a patent application for futuristic bicycle as published by the US Patent & Trademark Office on August 5, 2010. This newly advance Smart Bicycle System is designed for both individual cycling as well as team. The system monitors speed, distance, time, altitude, elevation, incline, decline, heart rate, power, derailleur setting, cadence, wind speed, path completed, expected future path, power and pace.

The bike has a docking station on the handlebars where an iPad or iPhone slots in and connects up to the machinery and sensors to give real-time information to the rider on the screen. The sensors, the display and electronic device could communicate via communications network 150 – which covers GPRS, CDMA, EV-DO, EDGE, 3GSM, DECT, IS-136/TDMA, iDen, LTE and/or others.

I am just wondering how much it will cost, if I have one I will absolutely bring it inside the store every time I do my grocery shopping... I won't leave my Apple bike in the parking lot as I may lose the docking station or the sensors.

[Via patentlyapple]

Three New Wireless Headphones from Sennheiser

The Sennheiser RS 180 headphones with their transmitter/charging cradle

Today Sennheiser announced their 3 new headphones; RS 160, RS 170 and RS 180. They said that these new headphones deliver high-resolution, movie-theater-quality audio via uncompressed wireless transmission from Kleer and they are equipped with dynamic transducers too. The users can enjoy cable-free music at a radius of up to 328 feet (RS 160 up to 65 feet, RS 170 up to 262 feet and RS 180 up to 328 feet; optimum line-of-sight). The dynamic transducers with powerful neodymium magnets and a distortion of only 0.5 percent reproduce even the subtlest musical nuances. The frequency response reaches from 18 to 21,000 Hertz. With a sound pressure level of up to 110 decibels.

RS 160 – Street price: $199.95 (MSRP: $259.95)  
RS 170 – Street price: $249.95 (MSRP: $329.95)  
RS 180 – Street price: $299.95 (MSRP: $389.95)

[Source]

Quad Port Drop-in USB Charging Dock for PlayStation3 - $8

Don't let your gaming session interrupted! If you have 4 pieces of PlayStation3 controllers and need to charge them at once, here you'll find something interesting. There is a good deal for 4 port USB charging station for PlayStation3 controllers. The price used to be $49.00, and now Buy.com drop it into $8 with free shipping!

This thing may not last long though. It remind me of a price drop of PSP 3000 Core Pack System that was on sale for $139.99 when I arrived at the store there was none left and now they still sell it at $169.99.

[getUSB.info]

Sony Ericsson Xperia 10 Available at AT&T Starting August 15

Today AT&T (US) with Sony-Ericsson announced their new smartphone, the Sony-Ericsson Experia X10. This X10  has Android version 1.6 OS (not version 2.1!), 4-inch touchscreen, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8.1 megapixel camera with LED flash, inbuilt GPS, 8GB of onboard memory and a 2GB flash card ( expandable memory up to 32 GB) and a few Sony Ericsson's own apps plus Android build (Mediascape that gathers music, photos, videos and content from your phone’s memory card and online, letting you browse, search, listen and share your media from one unified view. For example, view photos taken on the device as well as your Facebook® and Picasa™ web albums and Timescape which is a unique communication application that automatically organizes social interactions in chronological order, leaving users free to concentrate on keeping in touch on-the-go. From Facebook® and Twitter® updates to photos, emails and text messages, a scrolling menu offers easy viewing and organization of all communications).

The Xperia X10 smartphone will be available in black at AT&T stores, authorized retailers and www.wireless.att.com on August 15 for $149.99 after a two-year service agreement and minimum smartphone data plan.

Via gadgetell

Konnet iCrado, a "Seat" for Your iPhone and iPod

This iPhone and iPod accessories looks like a tiny chair. It is a little docking station called the iCrado which sync and charge your iPhone and iPod. It comes in various interesting colors. Product features are as follows:

• Compatible with: iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPhone, iPod Touch 2G, iPod Touch, iPod Nano 5G, iPod Nano 4G, iPod Nano 3G, iPod Classic

• Advanced Reflex Design to enhance the speaker quality and mic reception while using iPhone
• 30pin to USB charge and Sync cable included;made for iPod and iPhone
• Plastic holder to lock the original iPod USB cable on iCrado

Price: US$ 29.99  

[konnetonline]

Thanko's "USB Necktie Cooler 3"

To stay cool at all time especially this summer, Thanko - okyo-based USB gadget maker - has released its"USB Necktie Cooler 3". They had USB Necktie Cooler 3 released back in June 2008.

It’s basically a silk necktie with a plastic fan built into the tie’s knot. Just plug the thing into a USB port (the cable is 135cm long) and use the switch to turn the fan on and feel cooler instantly. If you want to use the tie on the go, get the optional battery pack holding four AAA batteries.

[CrunchGear]

As we can see it only cool the front neck, maybe the next version should have another fan at the back of your neck and on the bottom tip of the tie and of course they will call it USB Necktie Cooler 4. Let's wait.

Samsung Craft, The First LTE Handset of Metro PCS

Regional (US), no-contract carrier MetroPCS  offered a few more details on its planned LTE rollout, currently scheduled for later this year, including initial launch markets, planned content offerings and handset pricing expectations.

MetroPCS chief Roger Linquist said the carrier's planned LTE handset from Samsung, which will be called the "Craft", will sell at a price comparable with the carrier's current smartphone offerings. MetroPCS currently sells the BlackBerry Curve for $279. Linquist also promised LTE netbooks and tablets at some point in the future, but said the carrier will start first with handsets.

Verizon Wireless, which also is planning an LTE launch this year, has said it won't offer LTE handsets until the middle part of next year.

[Source]

Augen GenTouch78 Android Tablet

GenTouch78 WiFi-only tablet from Augen is a bargain tablet. At $149 sold by Kmart, it costs 1/3 of an iPad but does it work very well? According to Laptop Mag  the Market app on the GenTouch78 actually doesn’t work, it can only search for, but not successfully download. If Google did allow it, why didn’t it work? And indeed according to Google Augen included proprietary Google software in their product via an unauthorized vendor. Maybe that is the reason why it is so cheap. For reading news on the go where there are WiFi hot spots it is a cheap nice gadget.

Features:

• 800x480 color TFT touch panel screen
• CPU: 800 Mhz
• Ram: DDR2 256mb
• Internal Memory: 2GB
• Expansion Slots: SD/MMC card slot up to 16GB
• Wi-Fi Connectivity with Full Web Browsing Capability
• Supports Ebook Formats: Text, PDF, E-PUB, HTML
• Supports Media Formats: MP3, WMA, FLAC, AAC
• Supports most popular E-Book formats
• Picture viewer in JPEG, BMP
• Video Player
• Rechargeable Lithium Battery
• Carrying case included

[Laptop Mag]

Silly Spill is a Mock Mess

Have you ever travel by bus, train or subway where there are all kind of people, some smell sweat some other simply look like a killer. We are not talking about cute girls or guys who most people don't mind to sit with here. In addition, I guess basically most people prefer to sit by him/herself.

Now you don't need to worry because at Jeremy's Place you can get a mock drink spill to put on a empty seat next to you. They are various choices; coffee, ice cream, baby food, paint, etc. This is not really a gadget but it's good to have one in your gadget bag...

[PonyPonyShow]

iSpot™ from Clear - Your Very Own 4G Hotspot

For the iPad, iPod and iPhone owners in United States if you are always on the go, now you can have your very own Super Fast Mobile Internet™ on the go anywhere Clear has coverage. The bad news is that it is not free. To enjoy the service you have to buy the iSpot On-the-Go Service Plan. For unlimited data usage and 4G (WiMax) speed, it is priced $25/month. The manufacturer's website doesn't say if iSpot can work with MacBook or MacBook Pro or PC and Android based Tablet. The download speed is up to 6.0 Mbps and upload speed is up to 1.00 Mbps.

For 4G coverage in the city and nationwide 3G service they have Clear Spot 4G+.

If you have an iPhone I am wondering if it's practical buying separate data plan from other company, outside your phone vendor such as AT&T. Why don't just buy data plan from your phone carrier? Yes, I know it is 4G right?

[clear.com]