Gadget Savvy

Toshiba has trumped the Apple iPad with a compact micro laptop that comes across as the mutant offspring of a netbook and a Nintendo DS.

Libretto W100, a clamshell mini machine sporting not one 7in, 1024 x 600 touchscreen but two, one where the keyboard usually goes.

The 840g gadget runs Windows 7 on a Pentium U5400, an ultra-low voltage dual-core part running at 1.2GHz. It has 2GB of 1066MHz DDR 3 memory and a 62GB SSD.

you can use the W100 as a netbook-style gadget - the lower touchscreen can present a range of virtual keyboards, including two different Qwerty layouts - one with big keys, one with small - numbers and a split-down-the-middle job for thumb typing.

As you all know, having an Adobe Flash on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is now a dream. Mr. Steve Jobs has already declined the Adobe Flash for Apple touchscreen products.

So how to Play Flash Games and watch Flash on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch? Welll here is a way you can do that.

Here is one iPhone app, CloudBrowse, that allows the Apple device users to browse full Flash-enabled websites via a shared web browser on a remote server.

After the launch of Google TV, Apple decided to move to the next big iDevice release, the new Apple TV. Engadget has reported that the next iteration of Apple TV will get complete revamp. It will come as a tiny device (almost like iPhone), will run on iPhone OS, and just to grab the market share, it will cost $99 only. Hmm, the competition is getting huge now.

Japan-based EzAir has a nifty kit which bridges your computer and display wirelessly minus the unsightly cables or a bulky media streamer. The EzAir EZR601AV comes with a USB dongle for connecting your desktop/notebook and a compact base station featuring an HDMI output for your display. 

Adidas has created a virtual 3-D world that can be accessed using an upcoming line of five men’s sneakers in an idea that ties into one of the technology trends of the year: augmented reality.

“The foundation of augmented reality lies in adding a layer to the real world,” says Chris Barbour, head of digital marketing for Adidas Originals. “That’s what we have done. We have taken a real world item and added a fantastic virtual world on top of that”

All users have to do is go to the Adidas site and hold up their sneaker, which has a code embedded in its tongue, in front of their computer webcam. A virtual world then pops out in front of them and they can navigate it using their sneaker as a controller.