Laptop, camera, PDA, GPS

HP Vivienne Tam Special Edition notebook

2008-09-27T07:09:00.000-07:00

It’s the first time that HP is working together with a globally renowned fashion designer to create their upcoming notebooks. We’ll get to see the next highly stylish and powerful notebooks to come out of the hands of the Vivienne Tam and the HP engineers. Besides, Tam also worked with HP to create some accessories and packaging for HP notebooks.

Tam claims that she already figured out in her mind, how the design of the new HP notebooks would look like, when she was first approached by HP about to create a special notebook.

“The top of the notebook is gleaming red and bursting with peony flowers. The peony design is meticulously carried inside the notebook, under the keypad. The notebook also features a complementary embroidered storage sleeve that helps keep the exterior protected while being carried as a clutch.”

“The peony design features a unique blend of Asian and Western cultures, antiquity and modern style, technology and fashion. It was inspired by Tam’s “China Chic” style, which is recognized from the runways in Milan to the Olympics in Beijing and represents her personal mantra to live well and be beautiful.”

Her design is definitely to blend fashion well with technology, and it’s definitely a need for today’s modern women, who’re always associated with fashion and high-tech stuff - the HP notebook. The HP Vivienne Tam Special Edition notebook is expected to hit the market around early next year.

Other than that, HP also launched a fully integrated virtual experience to help fashionistas around the globe find design inspiration online. A virtual catwalk has been created, a designer tour hosted by Tam, which features a “design bot” gadget that inspired users to dress up their computer with Tam-designed icons, wallpapers and screensavers.

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AvMap sat-nav Geosat 6

2008-09-27T07:01:00.000-07:00

AvMap has got a new sat nav device, Geosat 6, which has put some emphasis on safety driving. The device is equipped with “Drive Safe” alcohol sensor, which works similar to the robotic teddy bear, warns you when you’ve got too drunk to drive home.

The device’s alcohol sensor needs you to blow on it, and it’ll then tell you whether you’re too drunk and aren’t safe to drive to your destination. Of course, when you’ve got too drunk and you’re alone, you won’t realize that you’ll have to blow on the sensor in order to test if you’re fit to drive.

The device has a 4.8 inch wide-aspect touchscreen which allows easy operation by various touches of your fingers. Besides, the device is best used in car as well, as it allows you to use it as a mobile phone hands free via its Bluetooth connectivity.

AvMap The Geosat 6 Drive Safe was initially available as part of a Peugeot promotion in Italy, but now has been made available for general sale all over Europe. The device is also equipped with a “smart magnetic mount”, which allows easy mounting as well as smart enough to adjust its display automatically from portrait to landscape (or vice versa), when it gets rotated.

AvMap The Geosat 6 also equipped with an SD card slot which is for extra mapping and easy loading of data. The device measures 133.6 x 83.4 x 21mm, weighs 270g, uses TeleAtlas for mapping data. It’ll ask for a price of $702 and be available later this month.

Olympus’ Micro four thirds camera at PhotoKina 2008

2008-09-27T06:50:00.000-07:00

Olympus has just announced that they’ve started their development of their digital camera based on the Micro Four Thirds System. As mentioned this kind of camera will have a much smaller size than the SLR cameras but it maintains the same ability of allowing the users to interchange it lenses.

Besides, the Micro Four Thirds System enables hiendgadget to enjoy the same high image quality of the Four Thirds system’s 4/3-type image sensor but with much smaller body size. And it takes full advantage of the significantly more compact lenses, especially in the wide-angle and high-power zoom range.

From Sept 23 through 28, Olympus will be present at the PhotoKina 2008, (the world’s biggest fair for the the photographic and imaging industries held at Köln Messe, Cologne, Germany), to start presenting you the first mock-up of their Micro four thirds cameras.

Samsung Emporio Armani M75500 Fashion Phone

2008-09-23T21:38:00.001-07:00

The M75500 is the first cellphone by Samsung that carries the Emporio Armani branding. The phone comes with a 2.2 inch AMOLED display. Equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera, 120MB internal memory, microSD card slot. The phone is also equipped with high-speed 3G/HSDPA connectivity and supports the GSM network.

The hi end gadget phone is scheduled to be released in Europe in November this year which is likely to cost 300 Euro. The company seems to have not planned the release dates for other regions. The M75500 has a nick called Night Effect is mostly due to it’s got some glowing lights at the sides which make it the most outstanding object when bringing it out at night. A video is included below which shows the phone in action.

Holux To Release GPSmile 55 PND

2008-09-12T02:13:00.000-07:00

Holux is going to release its “GPSmile 55″ PND (Portable Navigation Device) in US market. Measures 121.4 x 80.5 x 18 ~ 25mm and weighs 200 grams, it features a 4.3-inch wide touchscreen display, SD media card slot, and built-in TMC (Traffic Media Channel) receiver for real-time traffic information. For your convenient, the GPS supports bluetooth handsfree, making it easy for you to accept phone call while driving. Moreover, its 2600mAh battery provides up to 10 hours of usage, while its 400Mhz Samsung S3C2440A processor and Windows CE 5.0 Core OS promise a good perfomance. for more information visit hiendgadget.com