Cool Gizmos – Gizmora

A couple of designers have created a sample plug called “Fused” to help the world see their extravagant ways when it comes to environment and money. The plug is capable of calculating the anticipated one-year cost of an appliance and it displays the amount through some sort of LCD or LED screen on the back.

With the invention of this device they are trying to show the people about how much money they are spending on electricity for their appliances. When people no longer use their appliances they should turn them off, this is what the designers are trying to say by introducing this device.

Sometimes you have to be a little careful with your favorite gadgets. If you love your laptop and wanna give that extra care, then go for the Zeroshock backpacks from Elecom. It keeps your gadget safely supported similar to the contents of a footballer’s jockstrap using the impact protection system.

You need not worry about the size of the bag as all the sizes are available either small or big. Built-in pockets have also been provided to keep a cellphone or DAP like the regular bags.

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.

It’s laptop mania this week, and NEC continues the trend with the announcement of two additions to its Versa line – the M360 and the M160. These laptops offer a pretty decent value, considering the starting $750 price tag. The laptops have a Centrino Duo, a 15.4-inch widescreen LCD and built-in Wi-Fi. The M360 also comes with a port replicator.

These laptops come with biometric finger scanner and it looks NEC lays more emphasis on security over performance. These laptops are now available in the market.

Asus has released a new A8Js core 2 Duo laptop. It has a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo T7200 processor, a 14.1-inch, 1,440 by 900 pixel widescreen LCD, a dual-layer DVD+-R/RW drive, 2GB of RAM, 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, a built-in webcam, 100GB hard drive, and a 512MB Nvidia GeForce Go 7700 video card. The battery life is quite short , around 2 hours and 36 minutes, but this weakness can be overlooked because of its muscular graphics card and powerful processor, saying that, “You’re not likely to find a lower-priced notebook with this much 3D-graphics power.”

Samsung’s rocking with its latest editions to the Core 2 Duo series – the Q35 sub-notebook and the R55 notebook.

Samsung has delighted with one of the very first sub notebooks powered with a Core 2 Duo, the Q35. It has a 12.1″ Screen and a T5600 Core 2 Duo CPU at 1.83GHz, 80GB of SATA HDD, 1GB of RAM with an Intel based video card.

The R55 has a 15.4″ screen, and it too has the same T5600 Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM, the same 80GB SATA hard disk, but a GeForce Go 7600 instead of the Intel integrated graphics.

There has been no word on pricing or availability yet.

Custom laptop designs are the hottest thing this season , with all the major players opting for unique designs and logos stamped on the laptops, to impress the consumers. From pink feather designs to fast car logos , we have seen it all. The latest into the market is Fujitsu Siemens’ series of soccer themed laptops which don the colors and crests of four different UK clubs : Celtic, Aston Villa, Everton, and Tottenham Hotspur. The laptops are Amilo 1536 models featuring 1280 x 800 15-inch displays powered by a 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics adapter, with a 1.83GHz Core Duo processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, and 120GB 5400RPM SATA drive.

The £1000 price tag and a three year warranty sounds really good to us. Fujitsu Siemens is promising other clubs will soon join the line-up to celebrate the recent start of the Premiership season.

With the recent world cup and all that football mania, we hope these laptops will be a huge hit among the youngsters. If you are a die-hard soccer fan, you can impress your friends with this striker.

The Qosmio series from Toshiba featuring G35-AV660, is probably the first laptop with an HD DVD drive paired up with a Core 2 Duo T7200 processor, Which is good, because you will need all that horsepower when you’re pumping 1080p content on that 17-inch 1920 x 1200 Ultimate TruBrite display. It also features a 256MB GeForce Go 7600 graphics adapter, 240GB SATA RAID, 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR, gigabit Ethernet, finger print reader, four USB 2.0 ports, ExpressCard, PC card, 1394, S-Video in and out and a 5-in-1 media adapter. It comes at a $3500 price tag.

Asus has now officially announced the R2H UMPC. It runs on a Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with Touch Pack software. It has a 7-inch screen, Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR, 802.11a/b/g, fingerprint reader, and drive options up to 60GB. The fingerprint authentication capability allows only you, the true owner, access to the R2H. It also has built-in high resolution Webcam and GPS, since globe-trotting UMPC users need to know their exact coordinates all the time.

It looks quite cool and stylish. Asus however, did not give the official release date or price.

The Toshiba Dynabook SS S30 may not be a very fast laptop, with a 1 GHz Core Solo processor, but it has great battery life. Toshiba claims it can run for 9 hours on the standard battery, or 13.5 hours on the extended battery. It is a lightweight portable laptop weighing only 2.7 pounds (1.2 kgs).

The Dynabook SS S30 packs a lot of features into a tiny body. It has an Intel Core Solo U1300 at 1.06GHz, 512MB of RAM(which can be extended), and a 30GB hard drive (which can be extended) . It has a built-in fingerprint sensor for added security. It has a 12.1-inch WGA widescreen.

The computer will be initially available in Japan from September. But the price is quite hefty at around $2300. Long battery life doesn’t come cheap !