Archive for Tech Toys – Page 20

VINCI Tab – Android Table for Your Little Tots

Moms, make sure that your baby(ies) are ready for the future with the new VINCI tab. VINCI is a fully functional 7-inch touch screen tablet powered by a Google Android operating system and comes preloaded with a series of child-friendly animated games, story books and music videos. Included are Baby Haha’s Explorations, “The Ugly Duckling” animated story book with mini-games, and the first volume of Baby Haha’s Music Videos. Additional digital contents can be bought by visiting and downloading the online store. Designed by a mom herself, VINCI is a safe, interactive and fun, touch screen learning platform that will bring out the genius in future geeks by developing the cognitive, educational, emotional and social areas of a young toddler’s mind.

VINCI Tab mobile touch screen computer is engineered with your child’s safety as a primary concern. It has a protective soft-cornered handle made with non-toxic medical-grade Thermoplastic Elastomer Alloy. The housing is made of Housing Material Safety Standard compliant CYCOLAC, a type ABS. The screen cover on the other hand is made with tempered glass. VINCI was also intentionally designed with no WI-FI and 3G to minimize emissions and maximize safety.

As for the hardware specs, it’s powered by a 1 GHz Cortex AB processor and sports an 800×600 resolution multi-touch display, 512MB RAM, 3MP back mounted camera, and a 6400 mAH, 3.7V rechargeable lithium-polymer battery that’s good for up to 8 hours. The device measures 7.25(H) x 10(W) x 0.625(D) in. and weighs merely about 1.28 lb.

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Voice Control Helicopter – You’ll be Amazed!

If after years of playing, you now find old RC helicopter pretty boring, then you must start looking for a new and more interesting flying thingy. Is there something more fascinating than a voice-controlled helicopter? Yes, you read it right! The Voice Control Helicopter is now out in the market to amaze you and your kids as it responds to your commands. In fact, loaded in this toy are five commands and it is more than willing to obey almost all your aviation whims.

This is your heli-servant that you can ask to start its engine, fly higher or lower, hold something, and stop the moment it has landed. Along with your voice commands, there’s a remote control that you can use to turn the helicopter left and right. Its in-built forward motion ensures that it is going to the right direction. Moreover, there’s also a kind of ceiling sensor so your flying servant won’t hit the ceiling and fall off. What make this helicopter attractive are its cool LED lights. You can charge it up so easily via the handset.

If you have European friends and relatives, the Voice Control Helicopter proves to be a very cool gift because it also understands commands in French or Spanish. To give commands, all you need is to use the headset that comes with this toy. You won’t have any problem in setting it up because you’ll get detailed instruction manual upon purchase. Click here and get a Voice Control Helicopter now!

Electronic Pocket Sudoku – Grab One Now!

Are you a geek who also loves Sudoku aside from collecting various modern gadgets? Or do you know someone silly about this game? If you answered yes, then the Electronic Pocket Sudoku is just the perfect gadget for you or for that someone you know! This small touch screen wonder conceals over 800 Sudoku puzzles that range from simple to fiendish, making it ideal both for beginners and expert players.

This Pocket Sudoku measures only 75 x 100mm so you can slip it comfortably inside your bag or your pocket. Because of its size and portability, this pocket puzzler can be your best buddy when you’re travelling, waiting for someone, or even when you’re getting bored.

Along with its touch screen feature, the Einstein Pocket Sudoku comes with artfully concealed stylus. You can find this inside the bottom right side of the device. It derives its power from two AAA batteries and you can save up to three separate games in its internal memory. This means that if you’re game is interrupted, you can come back and finish off. Best is, this Pocket Sudoku features three difficulty levels – easy, medium, and hard. With this, you can select the puzzles you solve. You can start with easy puzzles and just move on to medium when you feel that your abilities to solve them are advancing.

True, this can be the best gift you can give to your loved ones who are crazy over this game. You can even give this to those who want to learn the art and techniques of this game. Click here and get an Einstein Electronic Pocket Sudoku now!

MSI GT663 Gaming Laptop – The Perfect Weapon

You wouldn’t go in the middle of a firefight with nothing more than spoon as you wouldn’t join a LAN party with a mediocre garden variety laptop. So save yourself the embarrassment and gear up for war with the new MSI GT663 gaming laptop. This latest addition to MSI’s G series is armed with a powerful nVidia GeForce GTX 460M high-end discrete graphics card that features 1.5 GB GDDR5 of display memory and DirectX 11. It delivers an amazingly detailed high resolution display that offers the clearest and sharpest view of the battlefield – miss a headshot and you have but your sorry aim to blame.

The GTX 460M also features NVIDIA’s PhysX technology that taps the processing power of the GPU to enhance in-game physics. To showcase the 460M’s power, the GT633 utilizes a 15.6-inch High Definition LED backlit display. MSI packed in so much powerful hardware inside this gaming laptop that some desktops would shrivel at its presence. Inside it has the latest Turbo Boost-enabled Intel Core i7 quad core CPU, three DDR3 memory slots that can accommodate up to 12GB of RAM and two hard drives that total 1 TB in capacity. To compliment to its killer graphics, MSI collaborated with Dynaudio to incorporate DTS Surround Sensation UltraPC technology to GT663 for that cinema quality sound.

If you really want to go all out with the MSI GT 663, just push Turbo hotkey and the double turbo drive (TDE+) technology will automatically overclock the CPU and the GPU for you. And if you’re beginning to feel the heat, just push the Cooler Booster button to actively lower the core temperature and gear up the fan speed.

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Play and Learn Chess with Einstein Electronic Chess Game

Chances are, aspiring Chess novices are going to get some royal butt kicking when they go against modern Chess programs like Rybka, Deep Frits or even the old timer Deep Blue. To challenge the steel-cold grand masters of chess, they have to start small – literally. The new compact Einstein Electronic Chess Game might just be perfect gadget for the game’s beginners because of its varying game modes and difficulties. There’s a “Teach mode” for novices, “Are you sure?” coach mode for intermediate players and a tournament level mode for the veterans and experts.
Once the basic movements of each piece are taught, Einstein Electronic Chess adds more lessons like the infamous “Mate in 5 moves”. To set an example of learning from opponent, this device also features a Threat warning indicator that explains why and where, and Info mode that will display what the computer is currently thinking. To maximize learning there’s a scrolling dot matrix display for dialogue messages and a limited chess voice vocabulary.

As players move up in skill, so does the difficulty levels, this electronic chess set has 136 levels, 120 made for play and 16 for analysis. As an added bonus, Einstein can rate your chess skills so that you can gauge how far have you improved. Those who like puzzles can also set-up and enjoy Chess newspaper problems. Einstein Electronic Chess Set is powered by 2 AA batteries and should be able to keep any Chess enthusiast’s brain busy anytime they need a mental diversion.