Techiesmo (Tech+Gizmo)

Zeal Optics has ventured into the outdoor adventure sports arena with a series of accessory gadgets. The popular among the crowd is one Goggle named iON goggles that come with the ability to shoot HD videos and to capture images with infinity focus. The gadget is aimed at outdoor adventure enthusiasts; especially the ones interested in mountaineering, ice skating, and rock climbing. The iOn Goggles offers multiple benefits, where it acts as a protection gear for your eyes as well as a video recording and image capturing device for collecting your precious memories and experiences.

Turning into the technicalities of the device, Zeal has done a great work by putting forward a device that is so much technically advanced. The video camera is a 1080p true HD one, whereas the images can be shot at 8 mega pixels. Photos can be taken at a wide periphery with the help of a lens that is at a wide angle of 170 degree. Infinity focus and auto adjustment to the varying lighting conditions are add on benefits. The in-Goggle view finder and on- camera controls is what that makes iON stand one step ahead of such devices in the market. The whole gadget is powered by a lithium ion battery that boasts of a battery life of 6 hours, which again depends on the usage of the recording and snap shots. The storage space is linked to a micro SD card from which you can transfer your images and videos to other devices, hassle free.

As with the non technicalities of iON Goggles, Zeal optics has taken into consideration of the user’s ease in controlling the device as a major concern. While users wear thick gloves where the external control of small keys seems troubling, Zeal has made it to a point that iON’s control keys are larger and is placed on the sides of the gear, which can be easily controlled without even removing the gloves. The iON is of thick black color and is weightless

The iON Goggle is truly a ‘smart assist’ to any adventure enthusiasts. The retail price is fixed around USD 399.99! Zeal Optics has a set up a great deal of online community that loves to share their adventure and sports experiences and users can get membership access to share theirs too! So, if you love to be a part of this tech-revolution, you need to get a revolutionary gadget as well – which is all what iON Goggles has to offer too!

Most of us have might gone through the difficulty of dealing with a flat tire at least few times after getting a driving license! Imagine yourself being stuck in a deserted area, having two tires go flat at the same time, that too with no one around you lending a helping hand! Oh, there can’t be anything worse, at least at that moment. It’s here that you will wish to have a hassle free solution and the Instant flat tire sealer and inflator gets the role.

Right from lifting your car, getting the replacement tire from the boot, unscrewing the nuts bolts, replacing the tire all seems tedious especially when you are having a solo performance! The instant flat tire sealer and inflator is a small device that can assist you in inflating your flat tires and patching any holes on the surface. The device comes with a sealant which is a patented water based one made of nano fiber. The sealant can fill in patches of ¼ inches in size. The built in compressor kit helps in inflating your car tire within less than 10 minutes. There is a pressure gauge that is also inbuilt and can be located at the side of the device, where you can set out tire’s optimal pressure.

The working of the device is quite simple. All you need to do is to fix in the attached tube to the tire’s air valve. The sealant and the air will pass through the same valve and within 10 minutes time your tire will be patched and air filled. The device can be plugged into the DC outlet of the car with a chord of 11 inches long. Though the solution is not a permanent one, you can easily drive on some 120 plus miles before you get better replacement done. The instant device comes handy and thus addresses the concerned portability and storage space issues. Sealant attachments for bicycle tires and sports balls are also available with the purchase. As with the price, it’s worth an addition to your tool kits as it comes with an affordable figure of $59.99!

If you are a bit lazy to get yourself in some mess or if your physical conditions don’t allow you for taking those hardships of troubleshooting in the deserted land, the instant air tire sealer and inflator will be of great help to you. After all, you get to save a lot of time and energy on a busy day trip with a lunch box size gadget!

The Samsung SP-A900B – project with style is a DLP category projector with an outstanding high end front projection designed by Joe Kane, the video guru. It has a resolution of 1080 pixels and is a one chip DLP projector but still has the capability of competing the Dark Chip 4 chip projector from Texas. Its features are very similar to the SP-A800B projectors. The new chip in it gives superior black levels which helps in increasing the contrast ratio. It has the same superb color quality and stellar image quality characteristics and as SP-A800B and prices up to $12,999. It is a pricey one but it also pays back an efficient quality in return.

The Design of the SP A900B is considered as very elegant as in the front it has rounded lines with a lens centered on the chassis with a glossy black finish. It is not very large in size and weighs only less than 22 pounds. It has a remote control which matches the look of the projector and has smooth lines with glossy black finish and has a fully backlit at the touch of a button. The keys give the facility of direct access for the functions like input selection, aspect ratio and picture mode. The menu is same as that of SP A800B.

The Samsung SP A900B is away from the best ratings in performance because of not being able to deliver the superior black level performance which is done by the best LCS and LCD projectors.

Features:

It has a total of Seven Picture modes that includes the Dynamic, Standard, Movie 1, Movie 2, and user 1, 2 and 3 and the movie is proved best for both out of the box and post calibrated use.

It has a very unusual feature that the color pattern feature only modes on the Samsung TV’s allows you to isolate blue to set the color and tint in a proper way. For confirming the excellent color decoding on the projector it enables to isolate red and green.

There is an overscan function which removes the compression artifacts caused by the cable or satellite sources but the overscan can also bring the quality of the image down.

The Samsung SP A900B throws a great influence on the style of projection and makes the projecting experience a better one. But you need to pay a good price for experiencing it.

The Bose Quiet Comfort 3 can be defined as a high performing noise reduction with a clear lifelike sound that is comfortable and lightweight on ear fit. It can be used for travel purposes, work or home and enables enjoyment in music and movies with an awesome sound experience.

It has a rechargeable lithium ion battery, fold-flat earcups and is easy to store in a slim carrying case. In brief, the Bose Quiet Comfort 3 combines the three qualities like noise reduction, audio performance and comfortable fit in a single gadget.

The Quiet Comfort 3 gives an experience that delivers the best out of the music leaving any kind of other noise behind. These noise cancelling headphones are rated among the ALL-TIME 100 Gadgets. The Quiet Comfort 3 comes with an optional kit with which these headphones can also be accessed in some of the most popular mobile phones apart from music systems or other audio systems. Using it at work or home or even at fights can help in knowing the noise elimination system which is only provided by the Quiet Comfort 3 and makes any listening experience, most rewarding.

The Quiet Comfort 3 headphones can perform in such a way that it can electronically identify and dramatically reduce the noise around you and at the same time preserve the audio desired by you. Its features like proprietary signal processing and audio reproduction technology can also give a lifelike experience to the audio ranging from the deep low tones to the loudest ones. These headphones can make you notice the smallest notes of the tracks which would have been never noticed before.

The quiet comfort 3 not only gives the sound experiences so well but also comes with a lithium ion battery and a convenient wall charger which can give the earphones a 25 hours back up from a fully charged battery and around 500 charging cycles. It also includes the Airline Adapter plug and a protective carrying case. The Earcups can be folded flat for the storage in its slim case.

The Quiet Comfort 3 is designed in a beautiful shape and is a comfortable ear fit gadget becoming very popular among the gadget lovers. It consists of all hard to find features which make it complete on its own. Its ability to deliver a powerful sound experience and noise cancelling technology makes it perfect to be liked by any music lovers.

Nowadays, it is clear that cyber security need to buck up with the rapid changes and advances happening in the technology field. While technology is changing for the better, the threat that comes with it also grows at almost the same figure. However, there are still no real advances in the technological security field where it still needs the human factor to be careful on what websites they go to in the Internet. One of the most rapidly growing threats in the internet is the emergence of doppelganger sites.

Doppelganger sites are websites that is spelt the same as an original site but however, it will be missing a full stop, hyphen or slashes in the web address. One of the easiest examples to better explains on doppelganger sites are www.google.com.my and www.googlecom.my. From these two website names, we can see that the later one is missing a dot but it can still operate as a normal website. The examples may seem harmless but imagine what can doppelganger sites do if it copy exactly the layouts and functions of e-commerce websites and mobile banking sites. This will leads to lots of losses to everyone.

By faking the eyes of the internet users by having the same interface and layout of the original websites, doppelganger sites can easily be used for web-based attacks. In fact, the numbers are so disturbing that it is currently one of the most frequent threats being reported in the Asia Pacific region. Once a user have been fooled, it would be relatively easy for a website to steal the users’ personal and confidential information and. Not only the users will be at loss, even the owner of the original sites will be affected. This is because once a user knows that he or she almost or has been tricked, they will avoid the website and most probably warm the doppelganger sites to his or her friends. This will leads to reduction of potential customers and lack of trust between the user and the company.

In a nutshell, it is still up to the users of the internet to be really careful on where they go while surfing the internet. Always check the website names for anything suspicious if you are needed to provide personal information. You can also put great firewall softwares that provide alert messages if a website has been flagged as a doppelganger site.

Yes you heard it right. Personal computers and laptops users, especially those who use Windows as its operating system must take extra caution while browsing the internet. This is because Zeus, a malicious software that can rob all your banking account details from your internet browsing history and cache is around, lurking at the dark corners of the Internet. Despite the quick move by Microsoft to update their software removal tool, where it will stop this wrongdoings by cleanly deleting Zeus from the device, there are still more and more Windows users are being affected day by day.

Zeus is not really a new malicious software in the world, it has been around for years and it was first detected in the year 2007. Zeus is a toolkit used by hackers who lacks skills to do their dirty work from scratch. At first, Zeus is a premium toolkit that costs thousands of dollars to use but after some time, free versions are being spread around the World Wide Web. It works by capturing all the information entered on online banking sites like passwords and username. If the hacker knows how to tweak Zeus, it can be a powerful toolkit that can catch any private information that the hacker want easily.

From March to August 2011, it has been analysed that more than 400,000 Windows users has been infected with Zeus. This is quite a big number considering that Zeus has been around since a long time ago. This is because Zeus is not a normal malicious software that can be easily removed from the electronic devices. Zeus is being constantly updated and improved by the black hat hackers and this cause major problem to Microsoft to counter all of the improvements and countermeasure made. Most malicious software is not updated frequently and it died out after some time when Windows and anti-virus developers find a solution to delete the software.

To make sure that you will not become one of Zeus’ victims, make sure that you always update your Windows. This is because Windows is constantly finding a solution to Zeus and for every update, a new countermeasure is provided by the developers to prevent Zeus from using your private information.  You must also make sure that you anti-virus software is always up-to-date and make sure that you enable your firewall that is a basic necessity to prevent malicious softwares going inside your computers.

With the digital world moving in fast pace along with the increasing size of digital media files (be it video, music or images), it is make sense to invest in an external hard drive to use as a backup and storage solution for your personal computer. Try to imagine what would happen if the fixed hard drive suddenly crashed and lost all your holiday photos as well as home movies.

If you are one among those looking for a terabytes-capacity external hard drive, you may want to check out the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk from Seagate. Let’s have a glimpse at this external drive to find out if this is the one for you.

Capacities and Compatibility

In marketplace, the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external drive is available in 3 different capacities of 1TB, 2TB, and 3TB, and comes with USB2.0 interface. This Seagate’s external hard drive is also compatible with both PC and Mac computers and has a built-in driver for the Mac OS to support NTFS file system.

Safe, Secure and Ease of Use

GoFlex Desk is pre-loaded with easy-to-use and powerful backup and encryption software to ensure the files stored in the external drive are safe and secure. It also offers both vertical and horizontal drive orientation options to complement any of your desktop environment needs.

Improved Performance

One thing I like about GoFlex Desk is that it allows you to increase the data transfer speed performance by upgrading from USB 2.0 to USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 connection via snap-in adapters which you will have to fork out extra bucks.

For Buying External Hard Drives, reviews on Best Portable Drives I recommend externalharddrives.org.uk.

Have you ever thought of storing the physical copy of your documents in a digital format? If your answer is yes, then you can say good bye to the old techniques of taking photos of the documents and converting them into documents by typing.

The Copycat portable scanner allows you to scan and store the copy of a page or document. The copycat portable scanner is a hand held small device that can be carried easily in your pockets. The scanner is battery operated which uses the normal AA batteries which help you to operate the device even when you are at emergency situations where you don’t have a recharging option. If you have more pages to scan you can use a rechargeable battery.

Copycat portable scanner can scan in colour at 600 dpi. The device uses the nifty OCR software to covert the text images to text in word format. Once the conversion is done you can use the portable scanner to store the document which can be used or edited in future. The document can also be converted into clipboard and excel files. This allows you to scan your books, photos, magazines and such texts and images in a matter of few seconds. All you need to do is to simply sweep the device across the required pages or images.

The scanner comes with a SD card slot that can support a memory card of 2 GB. The copycat portable scanner comes at a reasonable price of $123. Copycat portable scanner can be your best companion to capture your valuable documents or images within few seconds!