Cool Gizmos – Gizmora

Synchronica has come up with the Mobile Manager software, which when installed on your phone, can remotely lock or delete data from your phone to ensure that cell phone thieves don’t have access to sensitive information on your device. And when remotely activated, the software can make the phone play a female scream designed to alert people that the phone’s been stolen.

And the only way to disable the scream is to reflash the internal memory of the phone. Otherwise, removing the battery or shutting off the phone will disable the scream, but render the phone useless. Sounds good…

Pelham Sloane has introduced the PSynergy 1700. It is an all-in-one computing solution. It may look like a simple display, but it is an entire, powerful computer with a touch-screen display. The machine runs Windows Media Center and is powered by Pentium M processor. It has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Z-Wave automation, Biomentric fingerprint reader, PCMCIA, USB, PCI, TV Tuner, 7.1 audio, component outputs, two Ethernet ports and more. The panel around the display has touch controls that can change the volume and brightness, similar to the iPod.

It is the perfect kind of machine to keep anywhere around the house. It is priced around $3,000.

The Pentax K10D, has a 10.2 Megapixel sensor, 2.5-inch LCD and vibrating CCD dust removal system. The stats sound familiar to Canon ’s Digital Rebel XTi. But the K10D has a few other things that put it ahead of the Canon – its image stabilization system that shifts the CCD in X, Y, and rotational directions, even without dedicated lenses.

It also has 72-seals that guard against dust/moisture, and an 11-point autofocus system, compared t0 9 in Canon. But both have ISO light sensitivity ratings of 1600.

The Pentax costs $799, compared to Canon’s price of $899. It will be out in the market by Mid October.

Sprint has announced a new Windows Mobile 5.2 Pocket PC Edition phone. It has a PXA272 520 MHz Intel Processor, EVDO, GSM, GPRS, 64MB internal memory, a QWERTY keypad, and tethering capabilities. The keypad slides vertically, and comes in a silver and blue finish. This looks pretty good, but there has been no word on price or availability yet.

HP has announced a new widescreen iPAQ. The spec sheet of HP’s new iPAQ rx4000 Mobile Media Companion shows that it is a new thing entirely for the iPAQ line. HP has fixed the price as $300 and it has a cute PMP-inspired design. It features a 2.8-inch screen which runs in landscape or portrait mode, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and is naturally a full-fledged Pocket PC with support for VoIP software and Microsoft Office apps. HP has so far only announced an October launch in Asia, and there’s no news when this device will hit the European or American market. There’s also no word on internal storage or flash memory.

Sanyo is all geared up to release a followup to its PLV-Z4 projector soon, with the new PLV-Z5 projector with better specs than the previous one. It has a resolution of 1280×720, a contrast ratio of 7,500:1, 1,100 lumens brightness, and a second HDMI input in addition to s-video, and VGA. It will be available later this month in both black and silver variations for a price of €1,799, that is about $2,300.

If you have got money to splurge, check out the $130,000 YALOS Diamond LCD TV from Keymat. When you indulge so much for the beauty of it, you must forget all other features of a good LCD panel, like resolution, brightness, contrast ratio, response and so on. These LCDs are for the rich Paris Hilton types, who are more concerned about the number of diamonds used in the LCD. It sports a white gold plating and at least 160 diamonds totaling to a minimum of 20 carats.

With everybody competing for releasing more and more Core 2 Duo Laptops, Acer has come up with 13 new laptops, including six TravelMates and seven Aspires, and they’ve even managed to get Blu-ray or HD DVD drives into a few of them. The headliner of the lot is the new TravelMate 8210, which runs the full range of Core 2 Duo chips, comes with Windows x64 OS, and tops it all off with a Blu-ray drive. You can upgrade the RAM to a maximum of 4GB, and there are plenty of other perks like 802.11a/b/g WiFi, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB of VRAM, a built-in 1.3 megapixel camera, and even an option for a Bluetooth VoIP phone.

The Aspires include three HD DVD capable laptops – the 9120, 9520 and 9810. The bottom of the barrel is the 14.1-inch 5590, followed by the 15.4-inch 5630, 5680 and 9120. Finally there’s the 17-inch 9420 and 9520, along with a 20.1-incher – the 9810. But there is no word on prices or release dates till now, but we expect to be seeing most of these laptops before long.

Harman Kardon has announced the launch of a new portable iPod speaker system at IFA 2006 in Berlin, Germany. It is called the Harman Kardon Go and Play. The portable iPod sound station has been designed to allow the iPod to lie flat, keeping it safe and secure.

It sports a stainless-steel handle, touch volume and mute controls, RF remote, d-cell or AC power playback, and S-Video out. The remote controls volume, track selection and iPod menu controls at a range of up to 30 feet, even through walls.

The device is powered by eight D cell batteries for up to 18 hours of continuous playback. Alternatively users can opt to use the AC power adapter included in the box. And the Play provides an S-video connection, allowing users to connect to a TV or monitor to watch video from an iPod.

It is available in black color only. It is expected to cost €349, that is around, $450, and will start retailing from November onwards.

JVC is showing off their latest Everio camcorder at IFA. This recorder records in 1080 high definition. There is no information on its price or release date yet, but we hope it will be released in the first half of 2007.