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Casio G’zOne COMMANDO – Smart but Tough

Happy New Year to all gadget geeks! How was your New Year’s Eve Countdown? We do hope here at Geekie that we’ll all have a wonderful and techie 2012 ahead of us. So, what do we have for you today? Well, since it’s the start of the year, we’ll give you something smart but tough gadget. Yes, this product is built smart, so you can still do business even on the go, but tough so it can handle even physically demanding situations such as when you’re out for a long trip or doing extreme sports. So, let’s all take a look at the Casio G’zOne COMMANDO.

Casio knows that when you are outdoors or out on an extreme adventure or tough situations, you need an equally tough smartphone that will provide you with all smart solutions but won’t easily get damaged at the same time. And so, they added the G’zOne COMMANDO in their product line, a product that is not just a gadget but is actually “brain powered”, so it can intelligently support your life. Design-wise, it features large front speakers, bumper sandwich structure, tough look screw, tough glass, and a 5 megapixel camera. And when it comes to being tough, there’s no doubt you can rely on this as it is made to resist immersion, rain, drop, dust, vibration, salt fog, solar radiation, and high and low temperature. Now, what makes this more exciting is that it can easily be changed to a customizable compass, so when you’re out on a camping or hiking trip, this is sure the smart choice.

Want to get hold of this product? Check out the G’zOne Commando and other related Casio G’zOne products here.

Point and Shoot under the Sun or Rain with Ricoh PX


Picture perfect moments may arrive anytime and anywhere that is why it’s important to have a handy digicam that you can take and shoot with you at the spur of the moment. Enter the new Ricoh PX – an everyday workhorse digital camera. This dust-proof and lightly submersible camera is waterproof up to 3 meters or 10 feet and impact resistant up to 1.5 meters. It’s not exactly a deep sea diving camera but when there’s a need to take a picture in the rain or by the poolside, the Ricoh PX pretty much does the job without the owner having to worry about water damage. The PX digicam also comes with 5x zoom lens and 28-140mm equivalent focal lengths. It also has a 2.7-inch 230,000 dot display for previewing and navigating through contents.

Don’t let the familiar and seemingly innocent appearance of the Ricoh PX fool you. Under its colored silicone body jacket is an aluminum clad camera. This point and shoot camera is so compact that its lens doesn’t extend when it’s turned on, giving it a sleeker appearance. Instead of extending its lens, it uses a periscope-style lens win an image stabilizer sensor at one end. Although the PX is quite simple to use, more advance features are also available like adjustable upper limit of Auto ISO and a variety of scene modes.

Ricoh PX highlights:

•Image stabilized 16MP 1/2.3-inch CCD
•28-140mm equivalent internal zoom lens
•Waterproof to 3 meters and Shockproof p to 1.5 meters
•720p HD video
•ISO 100-3200
•Subject-tracking AF

Click here and start shooting your pictures on land, sea, and air.

Panasonic Toughbook S10 12″ PC – Portable, Lightweight, and Extremely Durable

Panasonic knows what the most demanding mobile users want – a laptop that does not only perform well but is also highly portable, lightweight, and extremely durable. And so they unveiled their newest product that will surely cater to gadget geeks who are always on the move – introducing the all-new Panasonic Toughbook S10 12″ PC!

What sets this Toughbook S10 from the other Panasonic products is its ability to withstand a highly mobile work environment, where drops, bumps, and spills can happen anytime and likely cause damage. Featuring a magnesium alloy case and shock-mounted flex-connect hard drive, this gadget can handle up to a 30” drop to the base of the unit while operating. Not only that, it also boasts a spill-resistant keyboard that can protect against spills up to six ounces. So whether you are off for a business trip or simply outdoors for some leisure activity, you’ll never have to worry about getting your notebook all bruised and scratched again.

Measuring only 11.1” x 8.3” x 0.9-1.5” and weighing 3.0 lbs (around 1.5 kgs), this toughbook will certainly make your best travel buddy ever. No more complaining about aching back and shoulders like you used to with your old notebook. With this portable and lightweight gadget, you can go places less the worries of added weight and bulk.

So if you are looking for a portable, lightweight, and extremely durable product, make the Toughbook S10 on top of your list. But if you want to see more options first, see related Panasonic Toughbook products here.

LaCie Rugged Mini Hard Disk – Smaller But Tougher Than Ever Before

Guess what’s back? Back again. Something’s back. Tell a friend. Guess what’s back, guess what’s back, guess what’s back… (*insert hums here). Are you curious? No it’s not some shady rapper, but the renowned LaCie Rugged external hard disk drive that’s back. The LaCie Rugged Hard Drive is now smaller than ever (dimension of mere 3.4 x 5.3 x 0.75 in.) and it’s back ready to take on rougher rumblin’ and stumblin’. Still sporting the Series’ original orange color and popular design, the new LaCie Rugged Mini comes with whole new features and options that turn this hard drive into a perfect mobile storage and backup solution.
Like its predecessors, the LaCie Rugged Mini Hard Disk is shock and drop-resistant thanks to its rubber sleeve; but it doesn’t end there. The new Mini is also tougher than ever, it is now rain-resistant and more importantly – it’s pressure-resistant to the point of surviving being run over by a 1 Ton truck! The LaCie Rugged Mini’s advanced ultra-tough exterior offers the hard drive inside the perfect protection against shocks, drops, rain water, and extreme pressures. Aside from external protection, the Rugged Mini portable HDD additionally comes with user-friendly applications like Private-Public secured access, Backup Assistant, Eco-Mode, and 10GB Wuala Secure Online Storage.

Unlike a lumbering knight in full armor, the LaCie Rugged Mini Hard Disk is amazingly fast and agile; courtesy of its backward compatible USB 3.0 interface. The USB 3.0 hard drive has a transfer rate of up to 5 GB/s and can relocate a 700 Megabyte movie file in less than 7 seconds, that’s about 3 times faster than regular USB 2.0 based hard drives. The included LaCie Mac USB 3.0 Driver can even enhance the transfer speeds of Mac computers up to 30 percent as compared to FireWire. The LaCie Rugged Mini portable HDD will be available in standard 500 GB, 7200rpm 500G, and 1TB models, all backed by a 2-year LaCie limited warranty.

Click here to find more varieties of LaCie Rugged external hard drives.

Who’s Your Tablet Daddy? – Panasonic Toughbook H2

There are tablet PCs and there are extreme tablet PCs that go where no other tablets even dare go. One such is the new Panasonic Toughbook H2 a fast, multipurpose, and tough tablet computer that makes other tablet PCs look wimpy. The Toughbook H2 runs on a 1.7GHz Intel Core i5-2557M vPro processor (2.7GHz with Turbo Boost Technology), and features 4-8GB RAM, and 320GB hard disk drive or 128GB solid state drive storage for some serious computing muscles. Despite of its desktop-grade specifications, the H2 merely weighs 3.5 lbs and provides up to 6.5 hours of battery life. To maximize use and increase productivity, the H2 uses fast-rechargeable (three hours on Panasonic’s advanced desktop cradle) and hot-swappable batteries that promise continuous power for the tablet.

The Panasonic Toughbook H2 sports a 10.1-inch dual-touch screen with both digitizer and touchscreen functionality. The screen additionally comes with Panasonic’s exclusive 6000-nit TransflectivePlus technology, circular polarizer, and anti-glare and anti-reflective coatings ensuring perfectly readable display even under direct sunlight. For connectivity, the H2 is outfitted with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optional 3G, and incoming 4G technologies.

Like its fully-rugged predecessor, the Toughbook H2 is MIL-STD-810G certified and has been tested to survive a six-foot fall. Its external design has been specially engineered to endure and operate on extreme weather as well as inside a running vehicle. Furthermore, the Panasonic Toughbook H2 is not limited to field use. It perfectly fits in a healthcare setting as well; it features an easy to disinfect and fan-less design to minimize the spread of infectious microorganisms, supports barcode medication administration and electronic medical record keeping, and comes with a Panasonic app that reminds users to clean the tablet at set schedule. Panasonic Toughbook H2 also includes a molded hand strap, carrying case, shoulder straps, power adapters, charging cradle, vehicle dock, and optional RFID, barcode and fingerprint reader.

If you want to see its previous sibling, the Panasonic Toughbook H1 atom, visit GeekieStore.