ESCORT Announces PASSPORT iQ™ - The World's First Fully Integrated Driving Accessory Featuring Radar Detector, GPS Navigation

ESCORT Inc., manufacturer of automotive electronic accessories announced the release of the PASSPORT iQ™ which sets the standard for protecting consumers from unwanted tickets and guiding them safely to their destination.

The PASSPORT iQ™ is a driving accessory that integrates radar/laser detection and GPS navigation, and also provides important driving information, such as speed traps and speed limit data, in a single compact device.

"We are excited about providing the first convergence of state-of-the art radar and laser detection, 3D GPS navigation, red light and speed camera notifications, speed limit information, and much more," said John Larson, ESCORT president and CEO. "The PASSPORT iQ™ is your ultimate driving companion."

Assuming the form of contemporary GPS personal navigation devices, the new PASSPORT iQ™ is framed in landscape profile with a large 5-inch full-color touchscreen.

The PASSPORT iQ™ includes a free 90-day subscription to ESCORT’s Defender™ Database and comes with a 30-day, worry-free test drive standard with all ESCORT products.

[Via prwebs]

Walgreens Sells Maylong M-150 Android Tablet For $99

It is getting more and more difficult to choose tablet now as there are more and more tablets coming, some of them are from companies that we have never heard before. 

Now we have Maylong M-150 Android tablet which only costs $99 at Walgreens. The device features a 7-inch resistive touchscreen display and is powered by the older Android 1.6 which apparently can't be upgraded, though at that price, you really can't complain too much. You can check out specifications of the Maylong M-150 Android tablet in the extended post.

The specifications of Maylong M-150:

• Runs Android 1.6
• 7-inch resistive 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen display
• ARM9 CPU
• 256MB DDR memory
• Wi-Fi b/g
• Built-in speakers
• SD card slot

[Via crunchgear]

Barnes & Noble Introduces Nook Color

Barnes & Noble introduce Android powered second-gen Nook. It has a 7-inch color LCD for displaying the content. Since Android is inside, it’s slightly more than an ebook reader and slightly less than a tablet. There are social networking apps like Facebook and Twitter, along with the ability to display videos as well as the standard ebook content.

The Nook Color has an array of apps including Pandora, games, access to Google and Wikipedia, a contact manager and more. There’s even a full-featured magazine reader that will probably be highly advertised. There’s no Android Marketplace.

As for the hardware, the Nook Color is void of any phyiscal buttons. Instead there’s a 1024×600 7-inch screen, laminated to reduce glare traditionally associated with LCDs. There’s a MicroSD card slot as well as WiFi. The entire thing weighs in at 15.6 oz with a thickness of .48-inches — that’s just 5.4 oz heavier and .12-inches thicker than the new Kindle.

The price is $249.99. That places it at half the price of the iPad, but over $100 more than the WiFi-only Kindle.

[Via crunchgear]

Dual SIM 3D Phone from Spice Mobile - India

India’s Spice Mobile has just launched the M-67 3D, which is a phone that has an auto-stereoscopic 3D display. What that means is that, you guessed right, you won’t need any glasses here either. Videos, images, and even the phone’s UI, all support 3D.

Other than the 3D display, the two other interesting features of the M-67 are the fact that it’s dual SIM and it has remote wipe capability.

This phone has only 2.4 inches 3D display diagonally (small) and has a resolution of only 240×320. The camera is 2 MP, there’s Bluetooth, but no Wi-Fi or 3G (for either SIM slot). The phone supports microSD cards up to 16 GB, has a dedicated key that will switch the display from 2D mode to 3D, an FM radio, 3.5 mm headset jack and MP3 player. M-67's price is Rupees 4,299 or approximately $97.

[Via unwiredview]

Samsung Introduce The First Phone with 3D Display

Samsung presents W960 AMOLED 3D, the first phone with 3D display. This phone doesn’t require glasses for proper 3D visualization. There is a dedicated 3D shortcut key on the phone for switching on/off the 3D mode any time you want. It is availabile to the South Korean market only for now.

The Samsung W960 AMOLED 3D is a CDMA mobile. It has 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touch display with WQVGA resolution, 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, 3G support with HSPA, DMB-T TV tuner, Bluetooth and microSD card slot. It’s powered by the proprietary Samsung TouchWiz 2.0.

[Via GSMArena]

Daiwa House’ New Crawlspace Robot

Riding on the wave of robotic devices replacing human workers in high-stress or high-danger locations, Daiwa House Industry, a famous Japanese homebuilding company, announced a new crawlspace inspection robot to be pressed into service in April, 2011. The robot is called moogle (rhymes with goggle or mogul, not Google), weighs 13 kg (28.7 lbs) and measures 50x30x24 cm and is equipped with two cameras (a wide-angle CMOS camera for driving and a CCD camera for inspections), LED inspection lights in three levels of brightness, and four continuous-track crawlers – all of which can be controlled via wifi from a laptop placed in a less claustrophobic location. The third iteration of a joint project between the Chiba Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, and Mitsubishi Electric Tokki Systems that began in 2006, the moogle can clear obstacles under 15 cm high and crawl through spaces as small as 50cm wide and 30cm tall.

[Via Akihabaranews]

Chinese Vending Machine Sells Live Crabs

We have covered the one or the other obscure vending machine in the past, but this one’s a first: a vending machine that sells live crabs. This model is located in a subway station in Nanjing, China, and keeps the crabs at 5°C at all times. In other words, the crabs inside are alive, “hibernating” in a frozen state.

A sign in front of the machine promises 100% customer satisfaction: if buyers get a dead crab, the maker (a Chinese company based in Nanjing whose name I couldn’t decipher) promises they’ll get three crabs for free.

Each crab costs between $1.50 and $7.50, depending on the size. The machine’s producer says they currently sell around 100 crabs daily, resulting in about $500 sales.

[Via Crunchgear]

Apple 11.6-inch MacBook Air, Available for $999

Here are the specs. of the 2 new MacBook Air from their press release:

Faster-solid state flash storage is up to twice as fast as hard drive storage, more reliable-hard drive crashes are eliminated, lighter and smaller-solid state flash storage is up to 90 percent smaller and lighter than hard drives.

Available in 11-inch and 13-inch models and weighing as little as 2.3 pounds, the new MacBook Air is Apple's lightest and most portable notebook ever. MacBook Air uses the same solid state storage technology as iPad™ to deliver instant-on responsiveness, up to seven hours of battery life and up to 30 days of standby time. Starting at $999, the affordable MacBook Air defines the next generation of MacBooks.

HP Slate 500 Officially Launched

Hewlett-Packard officially launched its Windows 7-based tablet PC, HP Slate 500. This tablet comes with a 8.9-inch, 1024×600 resolution screen, a 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor, a Crystal HD accelerator that should ensure smooth playback for HD (1080p) videos, two gigabytes of RAM (recent rumors predicted 1 GB), and a 64GB SSD.

It has a USB port and two cameras: a 3-megapixel one on the back, and a VGA camera on the front for making video calls. It also has Wi-Fi but, quite disappointingly, no 3G connectivity.

These specifications make the Slate one of the most powerful tablets on the market, but its $799 price tag also makes it more expensive than its chief rival, the iPad. However, HP has envisioned the Slate as a device aimed at business customers.

[Via mashable]

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EDGE Tech Serves Up USB 3.0-equipped DiskGO External HDDs

Edge Tech Corp. has finally adopted USB 3.0 and launched no less than four products that support the standard, two adapters (one PCIe, one ExpressCard) and two DiskGO hard drives - portable and external.

The portable DiskGO USB 3.0 drive measures 4.90" x 3.10" x 0.90", has a working speed of 5400 RPM, is bundled with the Dmailer Backup software and comes in 250GB ($84.95), 320GB ($89.95), 500GB ($104.95) and 750GB ($174.95) capacities.

The 500GB ($94.95), 1TB ($124.95), 1.5TB ($149.95) and 2TB ($199.95) external DiskGO SuperSpeed USB HDDs are 7.60 by 4.45 by 1.45 inches, works at 7200 RPM and also comes with the Dmailer Backup software. All DiskGO USB 3.0 drives are backed by a three-year warranty.

[Via tcmagazine]

M-Edge’s New Accessories for Kindle 3

M-Edge  offers accessories of more than 20 jackets, sleeves, stands, and lights for the new Kindle. Those include Cambridge Jacket, Classic Jacket, New Yorker Jacket, GO! Jacket, Executive Jacket, Platform Jacket, Capital Jacket, Latitude Jacket with TheaterStand, and many more.

[Amazon]