Generic Mobile Phone Telescope

In many occasions, the stage is set for the perfect picture, and you have nothing but your less-than-perfect mobile phone camera to capture it, One of the main issues with mobile phone cameras is the fact that subjects appear further than they actually are, and that affects the photo focus. Brando's generic mobile phone telescope is a device that lets you focus far-away objects using a mobile phone camera, thus, bringing you closer to the action. It includes an adapter that has to be adjusted to the length of the mobile phone. Then, you must align the telescope base with the camera lens and screw the telescope to the base. The telescope has a 7x18-resolution lens that can be rotated to zoom in for image clarity, allowing you to capture enhanced quality photographs. The telescope is compatible with popular mobile phone brands like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, BlackBerry amongst many others. For further details on model compatibility, you can view the website. The device, however, doesn't work very effectively on clamshell or slider phones. Brand-specific mobile phone telescopes are also available -courtesy of Brando - but the generic telescope is our pick for its sheer adaptability. It is one of the smartest ways of turning your mobile phone camera into a digital camera and is available for approximately 22 US dollars

HP Pavilion Tx1020 TouchSmart

This tablet PC caters to the high-end user base and has been released as a complete alternative to conventional-form PCs. It comes with Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, which though may be slightly heavy for many computers, is handled quite well by its 2.2GHz AMD Turion dual core mobile processor. With a 320GB hard drive capacity, this tablet PC is well-equipped to store heavy files (movies, presentations etcetera) quite efficiently. The 12.1-inch touch screen display of the tx2-1020 can be swiveled around 180 degrees to look like a handheld tablet. The tx2-1020 can easily be used as a normal PC (utilising the keyboard) or a 44 handheld tablet. With 4GB memory,(which can be increased to 8GB) and a high-end ATI Radeon HD 3200 video card, this tablet can also be quite useful for professional designers and Illustrators. The connectivity options include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Other features include fingerprint reader, Kensington MicroSaver lock slot, and Altec Lansing speakers. This feature-packed tablet appears to be an ideal device for multimedia mavens on the go.

Google Wave R.I.P

Last month, Google officially pulled the plug on its brainchild, Google Wave -the real-time collaboration tool that was meant to revolutionise online communication. The reason cited by Urs Holzle, Senior Vice President, was that It had "not seen the user adoption" that Google anticipated.
Google Wave is not the only Google product to die young; Google stopped direct sales of its "superphone", the Nexus One, not too long ago.