Monday, January 3, 2011

LG 42LE4900 review

The 42LE4900 is a slither of a screen . Taking advantage of LG’s diminutive spin on Edge LED backlighting, it stretches back less than 30mm. It’s also very affordable, retailing around £600 although this hasn’t dented the specification.

Given the budget nature of the TV, design is decidedly upmarket. We particularly like the central ‘Standby’ light above the pedestal. This glows red like a Cylon’s peeper, fidgeting when activated.

The LE4900 puts a friendly face forward. Once you’ve wrestled with the ironmongery that is the 20 degree swivel pedestal, you’re good to go. The screen has a well-thought out picture wizard, which allows you to quickly set correct black and white levels, sharpness and colour saturation.


Navigation is via LG’s simple tiled interface, and if that proves too unwieldy there’s a secondary Quick menu to scoot around. Both are equally intuitive, enlivened by clear, understandable graphics.

After months of neglect, LG’s Netcast online content offering has had a serious update. There’s now a healthy selection of free and PPV content to browse, including BBC iPlayer, YouTube, V Tuner internet radio, Acetrax, Facebook and Google maps.

Network media compatibility is also rather good. We had success streaming AVIs and MKVs, although one particular AVI test file was deemed ‘invalid’. File support from USB media is comparable.

Image quality, however, is unremarkable. Edge LED may enable the screen to achieve Cheryl Cole levels of slimness, but its execution is problematic. The backlight is clearly uneven, with bright peaks taunting you from each corner. The set’s inability to resolve fine motion detail also takes the shine off its Freeview HD channel performance - the LE4900 sorely misses the brand’s proprietary anti-blur TruMotion technology. Without it, there’s limited HD texture in faces and other moving objects. The set does have a Real Cinema anti-judder setting but this doesn’t resolve motion clarity. To avoid overscan, view HD sources in the Just Scan mode, available from the aspect ratio menu.

Audio is average, but that’s not through any lack of modes. There are Standard, Music, Cinema, Sport or Game presets, as well as LG’s proprietary Infinite Sound mode. This aspires to create a surround soundfield from the two downward firing speakers in the TV’s bezel. It doesn’t work, of course, but gets points for chutzpah.

Gorgeous to look at and surprisingly well equipped, but struggles to keep the Hi in Def

LG 42LE4900 release date: Out now, link LG
LG 42LE4900 price: £500-£600

Monday, July 12, 2010

iPod Dock Lamp

Sometimes it seems as if any gadget on the market is going to be finished off with a built-in iPod dock. Actually not just gadgets, but furniture as well. Now you can even pick yourself up a lamp that plays your iPod, which saves you on space since you don’t have to keep a gadget around solely dedicated to your iPod.

This will work with both your iPod as well as your iPhone (unless it’s the iPhone 3G). Just pop it into the dock located on the lamp’s base and it’ll charge things up as well as play your favorite music. You can

 also hook up any other type of MP3 player through the auxiliary input. It features 10 watt speakers and two standard power outlets on the rear of the base to power other devices. You can purchase this for $199.95 through Hammacher Schlemmer.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Gangster CD Stereo Sneakers

Yes folks, we live in a really really geeky world where people does not only think of a crazy gadget like this but also turn them into reality.
How many types of sneakers do you know or think of? But I can bet you that people would never have imagined to see some sneakers like these.


Amazing isn't it? You must be thinking who the heck had this idea when he could listen to music on his ipod or mobile phone! But yes, there are people in this world who just cannot give up.

The Gangster CD Stereo Sneaker is a sneaky way to play your favorite tracks. Resembling the looks of a shoe, the stereo sneaker can intake CDs and blast out music.

Although I would advise not using the shoe to walk in, if you like playing pranks, you can wear this sneaker and trick your friends with a few shoe tunes.

I wonder if this stereo sneaker comes in a pair?

Saturday, June 26, 2010

iPhone 4 (The Craze)

This new version of the iPhone has the black glass and a stainless steel rim, and just like this it also has a second front-facing camera for video conferencing. I know you people would like to have it in your first glance!

Don't think that these are the only latest upgrades but it also has increased its battery time, which is capable of " 7 talk hours over 3G, 6 browsing hours over 3G, 10 browsing hours over Wi-Fi, 10 hours with video, 40 hours of music, and 300 hours on standby". By now you must be craving to eat this incredible toy!

Another key feature which I would love to talk about is the Retina Display. Apparently, it has "four times as many pixels compared to the previous iPhone display with 326 pixels per inch resolution in the screen". This iPhone 4 also has a new accelerometer to make 6-axis sensing, and an extra microphone for cancelling out noise.

Well I am sure you people would like to go for amazing machine. Prices are set at $199 for 16 GB and $299 for 32 GB.
If you wanna know more about its features click here.

And please write some comments!

Friday, June 25, 2010

iPhone OS 4.0: New Features.

Behold, iPhone OS 4.0 comes into the market . The list of features is massive. There's multitasking (finally!), a refreshed interface, and literally hundreds of other changes, all coming this summer. Here's the rundown.
The new iPhone has just started to ship now.
Here are some new features contained the iPhone OS 4.0:

Multitasking: It's here, finally. It's handled with a simple task switcher: double click your home button, and you get a list of running apps. Select, switch, done. Multitasking is limited to audio streaming, VoIP and GPS apps, as well as a few other allowances: they can finish specific, important tasks in the background, for example. As far as non-music/nav/VoIP apps, those can be suspended in the background, but not left running. (See below.) Full details here. • Fast app switching: With iPhone 4's multitasking, most apps aren't actually running in the background—just certain functions of the app, like an audio stream or a GPS lock. But! All apps can now be frozen, in full, so that when you reopen them, they're restored to exactly the state they were in when they were closed.
Local notifications: Notifications can be sent between apps on the phone, not just from remote servers. In other words, if something important happens in an app you've opened and moved away from, a notification will pop up in whatever app you're using at the time, effectively saying "switch back to me!" It's a fairly clever way to keep track of multiple apps without the need for a start bar or dock-type interface. From Apple's dev guidelines:
The advantage of local notifications is that they are independent of your application. Once a notification is scheduled, the system manages the delivery of it. Your application does not even have to be running when the notification is delivered.
Apple's official line:
iPhone OS 4's new multitasking offers users a new way to quickly move between apps, and provides developers seven new multitasking services to easily add multitasking features to their apps. These services include background audio, so apps like Pandora can play music in the background, and VoIP, so VoIP apps can receive a VoIP call even when the iPhone is asleep or the user is running other apps. iPhone OS 4 provides multitasking to third party apps while preserving battery life and foreground app performance, which has until now proved elusive on mobile devices.
And some more technical details, again from Apple's developer guidelines:
An application can request a finite amount of time to complete some important task. An application can declare itself as supporting specific services that require regular background execution time. An application can use local notifications to generate user alerts at designated times, whether or not the application is running.

App folders: Now you can sort your apps into folders! That's homescreen clutter solved, just like that. Apple's description:
Folders help users better organize and quickly access their apps. Simply drag one app icon onto another, and a new folder is automatically created. The folder is automatically given a name based on the App Store category of that app, such as "Games," which the user can easily rename. Using folders, users can now organize and access over 2,000 apps on their iPhone.
2160, to be exact.

A new Mail app: Unified inboxes, multiple Exchange accounts, fast inbox switching, threaded messages: These new features are actually a huge deal, since the iPhone's mail client has barely changed since 2007, and Apple doesn't allow alternative mail apps. Apple's pitch:
iPhone OS 4 delivers the best mail experience on a mobile phone with its new Unified Inbox, allowing users to see messages from all their email accounts displayed together in a single inbox. With just a few taps, users can quickly switch between inboxes to see messages from any single account.
iBooks: Oh hey, that iBooks ebook reader app and accompanying ebook store we first met on the iPad has ambled on down to the iPhone. Nice, since you can now take your books with you wherever you go, as oppose to wherever you go with your iPad.
Custom backgrounds: Jailbreakers have them. Hell, the iPad has them. Now you can choose a persistent background for your iPhone—and not just for the lockscreen.
Game Center: Apple's going to roll out a centralized gaming service—a multiplayer network like PSN or Xbox Live—to help connect games to one another, by the end on the year. There are 3rd-party services that already do this, like OpenFeint. They will probably die. Full details here.

iAd advertising: It looks like Apple's finally making use of Quattro, that mobile ad company it gobbled up a few months ago, by rolling out its own advertising platform, a turnkey ad plugin for app developers called iAd. The theory here is that instead of relying on links to external websites, which pull users out of apps whenever they tap on an ad, developers can use Apple's new tools to keep people in the app while still showing them advertising—sort of like popover browser windows. You can watch videos, play games, and even buy apps from within these ads. This is in the iPhone OS 4 developer tools, but it's not explicitly a part of OS 4, so you won't see apps with iAds until later this year. Full details here.
5x digital zoom: Could this hint at a higher quality camera in the next hardware? 3.2 megapixels seems a bit low for 5x digital zoom.
Bluetooth keyboards: Another carryover from the iPad, Bluetooth keyboard support will finally come to iPhone 4.
• A bevy of other new developer features, including 1500 new APIs to play with: See here for more details.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

iPhone in Gold


After having won the Olympics Gold medal, Usain Bolt made it very clear that if there were anything that he could have his name written on, it has to be in gold! So, when he was asked to lend his signature to the new collection of iPod touch, he immediately grabbed it! Yes, all you Usain Bolt admirers will get to see his silhouette and signature on the 24ct gold casing of the lustrous iPod touch.

This limited edition iPod touch will surely be a collector’s item owing to its gleam and brilliance and the fact that only 500 units of this magnum opus will be produced. If you want to get a little bit of ‘ooh’ and a little bit of ‘ahh’ from your girlfriend then this is the perfect time for you.

You can ward off the fear of it getting scratched or the fading of the signature, as it comes with lifetime guarantee! So, if you flipped it in the air or tossed it from one point to another, it would cause no difference to the radiance of this phone, not because it is resistant to such activities, but because it can be replaced! Priced at £359.99, it is going to stay in the limelight for keeps!

Monday, June 21, 2010

Dell Studio One 19


Dell has a good reason to be excited with their recent unvieling of th Studio One 19. It is designed to look "functional" on any room of the house, and it is made up aluminium, glass, and fabric with an 18.5 inch display with 1,366  x 768 aspect ratio.

The specs look pretty good with CPU options that include Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad Core and either nVidia GeForce 9200 or 9400 GPU option. The hard drive can go up to 750GB with 4G of memory. It also has a 7-in-1 media card reader, and six USB ports. The user has the option of wireless capability and a 1.5 megapixel webcam, as well as Blu-ray and…(wait for it)…touchscreen!

That’s right, this Dell has a touchscreen, just in time for Windows 7. The touchscreen feature allows for “multi-touch photo editing, slideshow creation, playlist compilation, notes, and web browsing”. The touchscreen allows for easy recording and uploading videos on YouTube, as well as Flickr. As for entertainment, the user can have a blast with the multi-touch percussion center and the You Paint finger painting software.

The prices begin at $699, but that price is more with the addition of the touchscreen and Blu-Ray features. 

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