Jay Garrett’s Gadget News

USB memory sticks are all much of a muchness really.
Apart from the amount of GBs they can store it’s all down to how much they cost.
This one, however, has an extra GB and it’s a classic!
The GB in question is the fantastic flick Ghostbusters (also the theme tune was one of the 1st 7″ singles [...]

O2’s just revealed the results of its first NFC trial.
This is the jobby that allows you to pay for things using the wireless power of your mobile blower.
The next phase is to whack this tech into the SIM cards themselves so that more phones can be used as a mobile wallet.
Declaring the trial a [...]

TrekStor have actually come up with a novelty USB drive that is really useful!
Even more-so if you like to glug back a brewski whilst you’re waiting for your files to transfer as the cunning Germans have plonked a bottle opener on a USB stick.
Looking rather swish in brushed aluminium the 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16GB [...]

It seems to be a day of reminders of the various stages of my youth.
This time dredging up my days of 80s/early 90s metal - tight jeans (slashed), fringed leather jacket, cowboy boots and a bullet belt were my ‘fashion’ staples.
So, this machine gun bullet USB flash drive would’ve been just the thing (if USBs had [...]

If, like me, you still think that the iPhone is a work of art and that the standard Apple dock is a tad perfunctionary then have I got news for you.
ASD have a real neat looking docking station that makes the 3Gesus phone look more like an art piece on a display stand - Click [...]

LG KC910 have now added an 8-meg camera phone to their stable.
The octo-meg camera is aided by a Xenon flash and your handiwork can be viewed upon its 3″ screen and the blower is a mere 14mm thick.
Memory is aided by a MicroSD slot that gobble up any size upto an 8 Gig card.
No pricing info [...]

Freecom has unleashed their latest portable memory solution.
The Mobile Drive XXS; said to be the smallest and lightest 2.5-inch USB drive on the market.
What Freecom have done is taken a Samsung 2.5-inch laptop hard drive, swapped the SATA connector for a mini USB connector, and placed it inside an injection-moulded rubber sleeve.
The Mobile Drive XXS is available [...]

iPhone users and those that have an iPod Touch can now stream music from their puter officially thanks to a new app just launched on the Apple App Store!
Called Simplify Media, the new application allows you to navigate artists, ablums and genre and works over Wi-Fi, EDGE and 3G.
You’ll need to download a secondary application on your PC/Mac [...]

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 [...]

Looking around at the new iPhone apps available this one certainly caught my eye and was only released today! 
It costs $6.99 and turns your iPhone into an easy-to-use wireless storage device that can be accessed by any other device on your wireless network.
A one way drop box can be added to a normal machine to sling files onto your Jesus [...]

Freecom is launching the new Slimline Mobile DVD RW Recorder LS Pro.
As the name suggests it is pretty skinny and the banter says that it’s “the ideal companion for both PC and MAC notebook users on the move”.
The dimensions of the sleek aluminium case are 1.7 x 14.4 x 14 cm and weighs 600g including the [...]

Ah, I remember back in the day.
Attempting to work out what Vai, Satriani, Sheehan, Lee, Entwistle, etc were doing invovled a-not-so-cheap bit of kit that reduced the speed of the tape to make the parts a little easier to follow.
After that, those that had the cash, could go and buy small sampling devices that allowed [...]

Philips has just launched the MCi500H Streamium Wireless Micro Hi-Fi System.
I was interested in the last one but on testing there were a few issues including sluggish ripping and not the best audio - I wasn’t too sure about its styling either.
This spanky new one looks rather nice and has a 100W Class “D” digital amplifier and two-way [...]

Kingston have just released their DataTraveler Mini Slim USB flash drives.
The super wafer thin drives are a mere 1.529 x 0.645 x 0.253-inches!
They come in 2 and 4GB flavours and cost $11 and $19, respectively.
Nice.

Now, the ledgend reads that the artisans of Brazil’s Meninos design studio first started out making these custom pop art hard drive cases for their friends but they became so popular they’ve gone pro.
These custom acrylic cases come complete with dual cooling fans are covered with a “precisely applied vinyl wrapper”.
There is choice aplenty from the myriad of in-house designs or you [...]

Somehow this little thing passed me by but I am here to make ammends.
It looks just like a pen………but a very clever pen indeedy!
The Livescribe Pulse Digital Smartpen records your notes in two ways.
It creates digital copies of everything you write by hand while recording audio at the same time :0.
It also goes that extra [...]

Most of have seen those solar-messenger bags that charge your gadgets from the power of the sun - and most are pretty bland looking if we’re perfectly honest.
Well this line of bags from Sakku uses old sails for the material of the bag itself so it’s doubly good for the environment so green points for [...]

It’s time to outgeek those that think a GPS/DVD/CD/Mp3 player in the car is the height of in-car tech.
Check out the KNGT icom MK1 which gives you on-the-road multi-media web browsing a-go-go!
Granted, it will work better in its native home of Korea as they must have better wireless coverage than in the average British town [...]

This has just been mailed to me and I felt that I should really share this brilliant classic coin-op clone.
As you can tell by the screen-shot and the title it is of course, Defender!
It’s got everything going for it - it’s free, online and classic!!!
Go to Stupey.com and have some retro fun!
Thanks Dean buddy!
Righty - [...]