Jay Garrett’s Gadget News

According to The Telegraph the HTC Dream Google Android handset will be arriving to this fair isle thanks to T-Mobile in November.
To my knowledge this is the first sign that we’ll be getting this much lauded handset in the UK.
The Telegraph has this to say:
 
Its arrival in Britain will mark the next phase of Google’s attempts to dominate new [...]

Say hello to the now officially titled Inspiron Mini 9 which is set to be Dell’s Eee PC botherer.
While we’ve seen various pics and specs before we now have prices to go with them along with an October release date.
The XP version starts at but £299 or you can save £30 by opting for the Ubuntu version which is [...]

There’s more than one player in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) game.
Here comes Project Inkwell, their colourful Spark PC and their goal to “increase the size and effectiveness of the K-12 education technology market by managing the synthesis of functional specifications for a ubiquitous computing platform”………..
 
Aimed at the under-12 market (and probably will be bought by [...]

Logitech have just announced a trio of new keyboards starting with its thinnest keyboard ever.
The 9.3-mm thin Illuminated Keyboard (pictured) is said to retail at $80 from October.
It features an adjustable backlight, soft-touch palm rest and dedicated multi-media keys for hot, one-handed night typing alone in the dark. No, that’s not a euphomism!!
They also [...]

The Samsung X360 is pretty impressive.
Its size and weight (very light and very thin) and is ready to taunt the MacBook Air.
It has a 13.3-inch, 1200 x 800 pixel screen and by all reports is also very good.
It’s also all ported up, more so than Apple’s notebook: direct HDMI out, three USB ports, Express Card [...]

Just check this out.
Take the idea of the iPhone-style touch navigation and then times that by two.
This totally cool dual-sided transparent touch display from Teraokaseiko is definitely on the right track.
Perhaps someday it will develop beyond wicked games of, Naughts and Crosses, Battleship and Connect 4.
At the moment it’s just a monochrome 256 x 120 [...]

Ooooo………sparkly!
Harman-Kardon have released these very fetching cut glass speakers that will sit nicely with the whisky glass that generally sits atop my leather bound bureau. Yup, that’s where I am working right now; in the library in the east wing of my manor house……..
Nuff dreaming!
In reality they have the standard 3.5mm mini-jack connection to pump out the choonz from puter or player.
They produce 56 [...]

Those people over at Phone Report have listed all the specs of the upcoming HTC Dream and even popped their own comments afterwards.
They also seem to have got artist Neo Carlo Magno, from Neoworxspace to work on a ‘perhaps this is what it will look like’ rendering - looks kinda tasty if you ask me [...]

TheElectricPig have a very cool article and listed their favourite 5 iPhone applications for all you Londoners.
Some I’ve already mentioned before but there’s some other great gems.
They cover all from helping you select a restaurant, GPS tagging your ride so that you can find it again through to weather reports (how very British).
TubeStatus (£free)
Urban Spoon [...]

First thing that has caught my eye is this tiny puter.
I do have a soft-spot for the little micros that you can hide away and still are usable if you’d prefer a desktop when at home.
This two-inch-square Space Cube computer has apparently been making the rounds in Japan for quite a while but PC Pro [...]

Just have a gander at Fujitsu’s latest lappy. 
To say it’s small……it makes the EeePC look like it could do with some exercise!
The Loox U/B50N has a 5.6in screen blasting out that 1,280×800 res and measures just 171×135×33mm when folded up.  Ahhhh - bless!
Also known as the Lifebook U820 in the Good ol’ US and U2010 everywhere else it is [...]

The Crystal Weather Station.
A gadget that will take this favourite subject of most Britains and make it into an aesthetic point of conversation.
This device will give you a weather forecast by illuminating a crystal-etched 3D icon.
As well as providing you with a stylish weather warning it will also show the time via the retro-styled, radio controlled clock.
An added [...]

Dell is pandering to those funky urbanites out there with their Special Art Edition designs for its Studio 15 and Studio 17 laptops.

Dell has teamed up with artist Mike Ming and produced five designs aiming to bring new life into the boardroom or your home.
Design names include “Red Swirl”, “Seaweed”, “Sunburst”, “Bunch O Surfers” and “Sea Sky”.

The Special [...]

I have a deep respect for Razer and am a big fan of their gaming mice and they’ve unveiled a new model at The Games Convention in Leipzig (home of my favourite goth festival) yesterday.  But it aint a mouse! 
Named the Razer Maelstrom Audio Engine, the company has turned away from the input peripheral and this time [...]

At last, you’ll be able to copy and paste on your iPhone between applications!
Apple still has it on the back-burner so it’s been left to MagicPad developer Zac White.
Grinning Cali Lewis, presenter over at GeekBrief, got first dibs on his new OpenClip open-source framework, which will enable any developer to implement copy and paste between [...]

There’s been word for a while that the big M would be launching a SideWinder-branded keyboard by Autumn this year and the Redmond-based folks are keeping the hype alive with an all new September-bound board and mouse 1-2.
The SideWinder X6 is hailed as the “first gaming keyboard created by Microsoft from the ground up, and the only gaming keyboard [...]

Kensington’s Wireless USB Docking Station is pretty neat and straightforward device - one of those that makes you think, “why hasn’t anyone else done this before?”.
Plug in up to five USB devices along with your external monitor in order to access all of those thingsswithout being tethered to your lappy.
The range maxes out at 15-feet, but [...]

This must rate as one of the oddest puter add-ons!
It’s only $29.99 (!!!) and you can get them from CrazyPC now!. 
It’s a toaster (no, really!) that fits in your spare drive bay.  Not sure about the crumbs rattling around your puter case but hey: Toasty-bready-goodness a-go-go!
THIS IS A MUST FOR GAMERS METHINKS!

Fits in a standard 5.25 [...]

There has been a rumbling about the specs of the rumoured USB 3.0 controllers.
Some have said that Intel have been dragging their feet to give themselves more time to design for it.
Today they have set the record straight saying the specs are now available and would be released for free, as planned.
As Intel’s ‘Fall Developer [...]

CBS is reporting on a fire that broke out in the middle of the night at the Apple R&D facility in Cupertino!
There was said to be up to 66 fighters at the scene to combat the fire.
Early assesment from Firefighter Deputy Rooney revealed that the fire started under an air conditioning unit.
No one was reported to be [...]