I’m not 100% sure what time zone Skooba is referring to, but wth, get your order in before 9pm tomorrow if you’re on the Left Coast just to be sure. Checkpoint-friendly designs, and half off of even sale prices. I’ve been using a Tablet PC team bag for years now, and it’s getting a little [...]
Here’s a new one: The North Face has released a new pair of gloves that play nice with your touch-enabled mobile gadgets. The gloves feature special pads of X-Static material on the index finger and thumbs. No matter how cold it gets, you’ll still be able to answer your phone or browse your [...]
So I really can’t tell you much about this showroom as it’s in French and I can’t hear any sound in the video, but boy is there some cool stuff in the showroom! Lots of touch and pen interaction going on!! Check it out, it’s worth it even without the sound or being able to [...]
Mobile Edge has announced a line of new briefcases designed by women for women. The Elements line of bags look like a great option for women who need a more professional look than the adorable CuteBug Sheba I reviewed last May. The new Elements briefbags are available in green,brown, and pink, all with brown leather-like [...]
Lifehacker is featuring an excellent how-to that demonstrates the steps necessary to secure and protect your laptop. Their tips are broken down into the following phases: Phase One: Lock and Key This phase discusses ways to physically protect your machine from being stolen. Phase Two: Alarms and Security Cameras How to keep an eye on [...]
As an educator in the United States public school system, I am noticing that students are using technology to socialize more than ever. Text messaging, e-mailing, MySpace, Facebook and cell phones are a few high-tech ways that students stay on top of gossip and often find their way to the principal’s office. Mosquito ringtones, also [...]
Sharing files among computers and your friends continues to progress into an easier and faster process. Drag and Drop.io is a new Firefox extension that allows you to literally drag and drop files into Firefox so that they are available to others. According to the Drop.io web site, a drop is a chunk of space [...]
With all of the netbooks flooding the market, many users are being introduced to Linux for the first time. Although Linux has the potential to be a little more complicated, many argue that it offers greater flexibility and customization. TechThrob.com has a great post about Preload, a Linux daemon that runs as a background process [...]
If you haven’t checked out the eyeOS web desktop lately, you might want to give it another look. The cloud-based service recently celebrated its third birthday. According to their web site, the open source eyeOS is a new kind of operating system that resides in a web browser. eyeOS gives you the ability to log [...]
CECT, well known for their iPhone clones, surprises us with a relatively innovative product with the YAMI II. Of course it’s not the first watch to offer telephony functionality, nor is it the first to offer mp3 playback. CECT has, however, managed to stuff into this 30gram device a phone, a media player with mp3, [...]
I really like Lifehacker, they are always putting up some nice tips. This one today will help everyone save a few clicks, battery life or gain some performance! Right click your Aero on and off with this quick little tip they found over on Windows Vista Magazine. It will require a Registry edit, so be [...]
This is an amazing video – and I would pay the money to get this done to any of my phones/computers. Imagine the feeling of not having to worry about getting water or anything else on your device. Watch the video and be amazed (at least I was…). Golden Shellback Waterproof Coating from gCaptain.com on [...]
This looks like an interesting development. Like many mobile workers the thought of losing my Mobile PC is incomprehensible. But it does happen – rather more than you might think. According to one article over 10,000 laptops are lost in the 36 biggest US airports every week! But if the unthinkable should happen you may [...]
A recent trip to an Applebee’s Restaurant in Ft. Wayne, Indiana yielded a great 100% Angus burger and a new mobile technology experience. Applebee’s has implemented a pager system for their patrons to improve the overall quality of the dining experience. The system, developed by ESP Systems, requires the use a small pager at every [...]
As I have mentioned before, I like to watch NASCAR. Tonight I was tuning in to watch the qualifying – it was rained out BTW – and caught the tail end of the recorded practice session. During that recording I noticed the team of Brian Vickers using some Tablet PC’s. Brian actually has one in [...]
Being mobile means you have the ability to be connected yet free enough not to be dependent on external power. The fine folks at mysoldius have agreed to let me test and review their Soldius1 Universal Charger. They describe the Soldius1 by saying that the unit is light, can fit in your pocket, and has [...]
What a great story that Mickey Segal found and put in the forums. It’s an article in the LA Times featuring a guy, Ed Velandria, who uses his Motion Computing Tablet PC to effectively use time on his subway commute. Each time picking a different person and trying to catch their ‘soul’. There are tons [...]
The BBC has an interesting and insightful video showing how mobile technology might play a large role in shaping how we complete tasks such as going to the grocery store. Basically, consumers will be responsible for scanning their own merchandise with their cell phone. This German grocery store relies on interactive advertising and RFID tags [...]
(Hint: Mother’s Day is coming…) I love bags. All shapes, all sizes, but especially the funky bags and especially anything retro and girly. When I was at CES, I came across the new line of women’s bags from Mobile Edge designed by Maddie Powers. These bags are definitely not your average black computer bags! Mobile [...]
It’s not often that a chance comes around to see something of this kind of exciting magnitude. Today HP issued a press release announcing the proof of existence of memristors. HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs, the company’s central research facility, have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as [...]
Everyone has something – that old whachamadoojit sitting in the corner collecting dust that you haven’t turned on in over a year. Personally, I have, um, lots of those. Until now, getting those things to a qualified recycler was some combination of difficult and expensive. Not very enticing. Celebrating Earth Day this year, I found [...]
A few weeks ago Warner got excited about pico-projectors, those ultra-small projectors designed to be integrated into small devices. Although many of these pico-projectors have been demo’d at events like CES, there has been little news about productization. Today, Display Daily reports from the Hong Kong Electronics Fair that “Sunlink International Holdings and iView Limited [...]
Are you a Twitter user?? If so, now you can follow us here on GottaBeMobile.com on our new Twitter account! We will be using this account to provide our readers the following: There will be a Twit every time we post to the home page, it will also include a link to the new post [...]
If folks from Duke University, Lawrence University, and Norconnect, Inc have anything to say about it, you could be writing your next set of notes using a unique glove that translates the electrical signals from your hand into digital text. Using this glove, you’ll be able to write on any surface using any paper, pen, [...]
Sharp viewers watching MTV’s Rock The Cradle noticed that the judges were sporting MobileDemands xTablet T8700. Notice the tablets sitting on a table next to Belinda Carlisle of The Go-Go’s. MTV rented the tablets for use during this season, so I suspect we’ll get to see some more of them in action. Watch last night’s [...]
Want to watch a movie while in ‘slate mode’ – or flip it backwards and set it on your desk while you are supposed to be working on your graduate research project – or while sitting at your local coffee shop? As long as you have an internet connection, you can – Enter Hulu (public [...]
This probably voided his warranty, but an enterprising hacker by the name of ‘guryhwa’ has posted details of how he replaced his Eee PC’s Celeron processor with a Pentium-M. Note, this technique is not for the faint of heart…
Not that I’m trying to one-up Warner or anything, but I just received a sample of an iRex iLiad e-book reader with an integrated Wacom digitizer. Although the iRex iLiad is not a new product, given the recent reviews of the Amazon Kindle and the video we did with the Kindle and the Sony Reader [...]
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says he wants to “equip a new generation of technology leaders with the knowledge and tools they need to harness the magic of software.” So, he’s giving away software development software to current high school and college students.
Take a standard candy bar cell phone, not too big, not too small. Add a fold-out display and voila – an e-book reader! The Readius was just announced by Polymer Vision, a long time leader in rollable displays. While the Readius is an interesting product, I want that display married to a more fully featured [...]
Every once in a while I’m really surprised the response to a particular article. In this case, I quoted Dean Weber, President and CEO of One Voice Technologies, on the prediction of 90 million MIDs in 2012 (based on research from ABI Research). And I got an email the next day from Mr. Weber himself. [...]
One of the things people struggle with when moving to a pen-based system is the lack of buttons on the pen for Ctrl, Alt, etc. Well, Ken Hinckley has come up with an interesting, and quite amusing, solution, something he calls the IntelliScroller. The more I think about it, he might be on to something, [...]
Johnny Lee has got it going on for sure. Check out this video of a 3D head tracking system he’s put together using a Wii system. Also – notice the Tablet PC underneath the tv. > via FakeSteveJobs
One of the best things I’ve purchased in quite some time was an e-book reader, namely the Amazon Kindle. Being new to the electronic book area, I have found the experience to be quite enjoyable. Sierra, on the other hand, has been using an e-book reader for a long time, namely the Sony Reader [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
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Autumn Dynasty Review: A Great RTS for the iPad
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Griffin GuitarConnect Pro Review: Record Your Jams with Ease
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
