Archive for Electronic Gadgets – Page 30

Sirius XM Lynx is Almost Here!

Due to an accidental posting on Best Buy’s website, details of the upcoming Lynx radio receiver from Sirius XM have been revealed. Aside from specs, product images has also leaked and it is listed at $249.99. This unusual portable satellite radio receiver and it runs a greatly customized version of Android. You’ll also be surprise by some of its behavior that’s much like of a smartphone. As its controls, the Lynx SX1 features a multi-touch screen with extra Android keys. Users can also enjoy hours of entertainment since it offers Wi-Fi connection to SiriusXM Internet Radio. When connected to a SiriusXM LV1 vehicle kit, LH1 home kit or BB2 portable speaker dock (not included), you’ll also receive live satellite radio.

The SiriusXM Lynx SXi1 receiver allows you to pause, rewind and replay live content. Also, it features a microSDHC card slot so you are free to listen to your own playlist anytime. Its rechargeable battery provides 30 hours of operation on a single charge. Another feature you’ll love in the SiriusXM Lynx SXi1 is the Love button that you can use in recording your favorite songs so you can listen to them whenever you want. It is the My SiriusXM Channel that builds a playlist from your fave songs and artists and the My Radio Replays feature automatically records them to a library.

When you purchase the SiriusXM Lynx SXi1 satellite radio receiver, you’ll also get a rechargeable battery, a travel charger and cable, carry pouch, screen leaning cloth, and owner’s manual. The only thing that isn’t revealed yet is its release date. For now, you can click here and look through other Sirius XM products.

Motorola Finiti Bluetooth Headset – Hands-free Calling and Texting

As thinking of ways on how to make life even better is an infinite idea, Motorola continuously makes phone call management even easier and now with their another Elite Series edition, the Motorola Finiti. This Bluetooth headset redefines the meaning of wireless technology through its enhanced functionalities that are big leap from traditional Bluetooth headsets.


The Finiti comes with a combination of three microphones that allows you to stay on a conversation in any of your adventure. Whether you are in an extreme environment, the Finiti lets you hear and be heard. It uses Crystaltalk dual microphone technology that significantly cancels background noise and produces amazing audio on both sides of the call. During more extreme conditions, users can turn on the stealth mode to convert vocal vibrations into speech. Together with true bone conduction technology, the stealth mode microphone relays voice while reducing the most intense noise and wind up to 40 miles per hour providing a quality headset experience. Moreover, the Finiti can be synched with downloadable free app MotoSpeak for a hands-free texting. This lets you hear text messages immediately, dictate your reply, and hear who is calling from your contact list. The Finiti also supports voice commands by saying “answer” when you want to receive the call or saying “ignore” when you prefer to discard. There are also audible voice prompts to notify you when you’re connected, when stealth mode is activated, which mobile phone is ringing, and your current battery level.

Through Rapid Charge feature, talk time lasts up to 2.5 hours with just 15 minutes of charging. A battery meter can also be seen on select phones for easy tracking of your power level. With all of these features combined, the Motorola Finiti leaves your hands free to tackle so you can be productive while staying in touch.

Get your own Motorola Finiti headset here!

iHome iA17 – Wake or Sleep to your Own Music and Choice of Soothing or Energetic Light

Still using that old, boring alarm clock to wake you up in the morning? Or do you use your iPhone’s or iPod’s alarm feature for a change at least? If you do the latter, then maybe you want to wake or sleep to your own music and choice of soothing light together with any of these gadgets. I’m sure, you do, but maybe you’ll ask, “How?” The answer – by using the app-enhanced color changing stereo FM alarm clock radio for iPhone/iPod.

Isn’t it nice to start or end your day with your favorite sounds? If you prefer waking up with an upbeat music every morning, then you better use this universal docking station for your iPod or iPhone and set it to play your favorite dance or R&B music to jumpstart your day. Same is true if you simply can’t sleep without listening to your favorite tunes. Whether you like to end the day with classical music, love songs, and just mellow music, you can trust this gadget accessory to do that for you. Simply dock your iPod or iPhone on this accessory, and it will play your favorite tunes until you dozed off. And what’s even more amazing about this is that it charges your gadget too. So, you don’t need to stress yourself finding that charger to juice that gadget up.

Now, why don’t we combine that music with energetic or soothing lights? The iA17 changes color at the touch of a button. You can choose from five color change modes such as slow fade spectrum, favorite color, pulse to music, fast change spectrum, or no color. Now, isn’t that a more relaxing way to start or end your day – a combination of sounds and lights?

Get the iHome iA17 here.

Smell the Internet with Olly

Smell-o-vision might still be far from horizon but smell-o-internet is here. Now, you can take a whiff of the internet with the new Olly. Instead of relying on visual and audio cues, you can now also receive olfactory alerts with the help of this device. Olly, the web connected smelly robot delivers pings from the internet as a smell. It produces scent every time there is a tweet, a like on the Instagram and even when you are running late on your appointment. You can fill any smell you like in its removable part at the back allowing you to fill and assign corresponding scent to every Internet service. You can put essential oils, your favorite perfume, a drop of gin, a slice of fruit and anything you think suits the specific service. Olly is stackable thus it changes smell when you connect one to Twitter and another to your calendar event.

Not just delivering smell, Olly is also fully customizable so you can make the robot look the way you want to. You can change its form or alter the dot pattern in front. The 3D models are fully editable and are free, letting you print Olly out. In addition, all its parts, code and instructions are totally accessible and open.

Get to know more about Olly here.

Kindle Fire – From e-Book Reader to Next Generation Tablet

Bring on the heat! The new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet just redefined what it means to be the hottest new gadget around. This 7-inch e-book reader-slash-tablet is a far cry from the original Kindle. For starters, as compared to the previous Kindle’s monochromatic E Ink Pearl Display, Kindle Fire features a 1024 x 600 colored multi-touch screen sporting 16 million colors, anti-reflective coating, and In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology for a more vibrant display and wider viewing angle. Its screen is no Gorilla but it’s chemically hardened to be 20 times more rigid and 30 times harder than conventional plastic for added durability and scratch resistance. Furthermore, the latest Amazon Kindle is no longer just limited to reading e-books and other electronic fine prints. Like all modern tablets, it can also play video and audio files, run games and other applications, surf the web, process and port emails, and stream popular movies and TV shows.

Amazon Kindle Fire is a complete information and entertainment hub powered simply by touch. Its simple interface allows user to view, listen, and explore their favorite digital content with relative ease. From its home page, one can subscribe, buy, and access full-colored interactive magazines such as Vanity Fair, Wired, and GQ, over 100,000 movies and commercial-free TV shows, 17 million songs, and Kindle tested applications and games – all from a single store: Amazon. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg; Bibliophile would surely love Amazon Kindle’s selection of over 1 million e-books and more than 1000 fully illustrated children’s book for sale, and over 2 million more pre-1923 books for free. Kindle Fire also comes with other freebies like free cloud storage courtesy of Amazon Cloud, a month’s subscription of Amazon Prime, and Amazon’s new revolutionary cloud-accelerated browser – Amazon Silk. This exclusive browser, backed by Amazon Web Services and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, boasts powerful back end computing, persistent connection, page indexing, machine learning, and faster loading times.

The Amazon Kindle Fire is the third smallest Kindle; it’s bigger than Kindle and Kindle Touch and yet smaller than Kindle Keyboard and Kindle DX. It merely measures 7.5 x 4.7 inches – small enough to fit inside a purse or be held in one hand. This tablet is powered by a dual core processor and comes with 8GB internal storage, the largest among other models. A USB 2.0 port is included for connectivity, data transfers, and charging. Top mounted stereo speakers provide the audio but it can still be expanded via the 3.5 mm standard audio jack.
Kindle Fire loses out to the earlier Kindle models only in terms of battery life, the latter can last up to three weeks and even up to two months while the former, with its high resolution colored multi-touchscreen, can only sustain continuous reading for up to 8 hours and movie playback up to 7.5 hours. That aside, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is probably one of the most promising tablets out there that can easily stand on its own in a sea of branded eBooks readers, tablet PCs, and iPad wannabes.

Grab your own Kindle Fire here!