Does car racing make you go crazy, and car racing games more so? I am sure Thrustmaster’s latest car racing wheel, Ferrari Wireless GT Cockpit 430 Scuderia Edition, will elevate you to the seventh cloud from where you will simply indulge in wheeling around the sky!
Thrustmaster’s gaming accessory is a wireless cockpit ensemble designed for PlayStation 3 and PC gamers featuring more than 10 meters of range, and 50 hours of battery life.
You can adjust the cockpit according to your height. The position once selected can be even locked in place. The adjustable cockpit enables children and adults alike to enjoy racing and feel as if they are in a simulated environment.
Weighing 10.5Kg, this console accessory has a stable, solid and streamlined built with metallic structure.
The foldable Thrustmaster’s racing wheel can be detached with ease, and the body can be conveniently folded to store comfortably.
The Ferrari Wireless GT Cockpit 430 Scuderia Edition has an 11inch (in diameter) built-in wheel which is nearly 70% replica of the actual Ferrari wheel. Not just in size, but down to the minutest details Thrustmaster’s wheel is similar to the real one.
Thrustmaster’s innovating wireless cockpit ensemble may seem costly especially compared to a console, but it is worth exploring the world of car racing games. It may occupy some bit of space in your house or studio flat, but it provides with that ultimate racing experience, and that too from the comfort of your living room. Zoom and vroom on the Ferrari Wireless GT Cockpit 430 Scuderia Edition as car races are just waiting for lots of fun, and a new winner.
Now, you can’t blame Amazon or Toshiba for your laziness! Amazon says clearly that the device has been sold out. Are there some out there who are wondering what gibberish is this all about? Let me clear that I am talking about Toshiba’s ‘Concept PC’ Libretto W100. It is the latest feather in Tosh’s cap of innovation to have introduced a dual-screen ultra-mobile laptop.
Surprised? Well, well it is a cute little gadget and really hot (it gets pretty hot!) which being a concept was brought out in limited numbers for the ‘early adopters’ of this technology.
It is truly amazing to work on a laptop with two 7inch multi-touch capacitive touch-screens. Appearing like a Nintendo DS with a horde of functionalities, this flamboyant gadget offers you the flexibility of opening it up-to 180 degrees.
Both the screens can be made to work together or independently, as you choose. You can expand one window to appear on both the screens. You can use one window to play a game and the other to keep your social network updated. Alternatively, one screen can be used to work on a document and simultaneously, the other can be used to check e-mails. Moreover, you can use the bottom screen as a keyboard to your convenience
What more, the in-built 3D accelerometer enables Toshiba Libretto W100 to rotate the screen and make your laptop behave as an e-reader.
The next-gen ultra-portable PC facilitates you with an array of keyboard modes option with haptic response along with a virtual touch-pad. Split thumb mode is most comfortable to use from amongst the rest – full, simple and numeric 10-key. It is easy and faster to type on this device.
Even if you have missed the chance of owning this next-gen twin screen laptop, Toshiba Libretto W100 has helped you to keep your eyes wide open for similar products which may flood the market pretty soon with improved technology and enhanced features.
Everybody has different priorities when carrying gadgets while travelling. If your preference is to keep your data secure with a portable external storage device then LaCie’s Rugged Safe is the best choice available in the market. As the pithy name itself suggests, this external HDD is indeed rugged and safe.
Those of you who prefer light weight and compact gadgets, this product will be a little bulky to carry around. Nevertheless, read ahead to note its key features that may make you change your view for a change.
Your data is provided with a three-tier protection to keep it safe inside the LaCie’s hard disk drive.
You can protect your sensitive data from prying eyes, and at the same time share it with only those people with whom you want to.
This drop-proof LaCie’s Rugged Safe needs just a finger swipe to access it on any system. It requires no complex software installations. You can use it on any computer as it is plug-n-play bus powered drive, and compatible with both, PC and MAC.
You can share files with up-to 10 registered users who can be added on the drive and the data can be conveniently accessed through USB or FireWire.
LaCie’s HDD is available as 500GB and 1TB model with a limited period of 3 years warranty.
The price may seem a little high, but with the added security features including the biometric authentication you won’t mind paying a little extra for your precious data especially when you are on the go.
LaCie’s Rugged Safe is the safest mobile hard drive available in the market. LaCie ensures that it provides you with maximum reliability along with multi-level data protection.
Do you think keyboard as an input device is passé, and an object of bygone era? Well, Microsoft’s Arch Touch mouse and Apple’s Magic Trackpad have proved that there is still much scope left for innovation in these computer peripherals too. With touch-screens and virtual keyboards in vogue, products like the Logitech Wireless Illuminated K800 Keyboard piece-in every bit of technology to make this input device still desirable. If you are a late night game player or searching for a comfortable input option then read on to know more about this device.
Logitech’s new keyboard functions very much like an ordinary keyboard, but its functionality is enhanced by implementing some interesting techniques.
Each key emits a soothing blue light as the illuminated keyboard has laser-etched backlit keys.
The illumination can be well controlled as this device features ambient light to adjust to the light in its surroundings.
The proximity sensor senses your fingers proximity to the keyboard and accordingly brightens or dims the keys’ light.
Logitech Wireless Illuminated K800 Keyboard is bundled together with a micro-USB cable to recharge it within 3-6 hours. On a single recharge the battery gives you straight 10 days of juice!
Now, the best part is that the above mentioned controls and sensor help in saving you the battery life immensely. You can even turn off the illumination completely at your own wish.
The rechargeable Logitech keyboard offers PerfectStroke key system for “comfortable, fluid and whisper-quiet” keystrokes.
The keys are shaped for the best of tactile experience with incurve design. You are provided with concave keys having rounded edges enabling your fingers to fit in comfortably. The 3.2mm of distance between each key allows your fingers to smoothly glide from one key to the other for hours together.
The markings on the keys are durable enough to last long without performing a disappearing act after a few months’ usage.
Not just your fingers, but your wrist is also thought about by providing a rubberized wrist pad below the keys to rest your wrist.
With a very professional and thin – 9.3mm – design Logitech Wireless Illuminated K800 Keyboard is an easy and comfortable to use plug-n-play device. It requires no drivers to be installed. You may need Logitech’s SetPoint 4.6KB software in-case you wish to customize the available 12 shortcut keys. Overall this black beauty is an admirable gadget worth using.
Any device that comes with an “i” at the beginning of its name gets people crazy. More often the craze is justified, if not wise, to get crazy about products with “i” at the beginning, but occasionally it is not that good an idea.
We have to accept that not every Apple product is worth its salt, Apple iPad is one such product, especially as an e-book reader. Before I proceed further, I must tell you I do not belong to any of the “I hate Apple products” groups, and I am a proud owner of couple of their products, but iPad is not one of them.
Reading books on an iPad defeats the whole purpose of buying an altogether different device for reading books, as the backlit display of iPad puts the reader’s eyes into danger – the very thing for which an e-book reader was designed, in the first place.
Unlike Kindle, Nook, and several other e-book readers, which use EDP (electronic paper display) technology E-Ink, Apple iPad has a backlit display that emits harmful radiations. Looking on any backlit screen for a long time could result in undesirable short-term effects like eye strains, watery eyes, and headache. In the long run, continuous use of such a display could also put you at risk of impaired vision and glaucoma. Along with mobility, this is the reason why people stopped reading on their computer screens, and started to use e-book readers that came fitted with displays which mimicked contrast-level of real paper.
E-book reader also scores a point over Apple iPad on its readability in the broad daylight. Unlike devices with backlit displays, dedicated e-book readers produce better result in broad daylight. An e-book reader soaks in the sunlight and uses it to reproduce the texts on the screen, which has a contrast ratio comparable to that of paper. And the brighter the light source the clearer will be the texts on the screen. As said earlier, the radiation emitted by an e-book reader is absolute zero.
As an e-book reader, the only advantage that Apple iPad has over a dedicated e-book reader is the support for various file types. Contrary to what many people want to believe, a color screen does not translate into real benefit for e-book readers because hardly anyone wants to read text in any color other than black.
In a book reading device, a color screen is a good to have feature, but it is not a must have feature. It, indeed, could help you read digital version of coffee table books or books with lots of photograph, but if you are an avid book reader who has well-passed the stage of reading picture books then iPad is not the device you should invest in. For you, it is stupid to buy an Apple ipad.
Seeing the long battery life (more than ten hours), Apple iPad could have been pitched as a device suitable for multimedia consumption while travelling, with a possible side benefit of its suitability to be used as a net surfing and web consumption device, and maybe as a device that could be occasionally used to read digital documents.
Apple has missed this opportunity. Pitching it as a replacement for e-book reader was never a good idea.
