Gadgets

Portable charging stations don't come cheap. They also tend to limit he number of ports you have, take up a lot of space, and require an outlet to charge at all times. By making your own—which doesn't require much more than combining a few existing products—you can overcome every one of these issues. In this post, we'll put together a portable charger that can handle seven gadgets, adapt to a variety of plugs, and offer hours of backup battery power. Advertisement What You'll Need To get started, you're going to need a few items: A gadget travel organizer: They don't make my favorite anymore, but there are plenty of alternatives like the Skooba Cable Stable (or the larger version), GRID-IT, or GRID-IT with Wrap. D-Link 7-Port USB Hub: Two of the ports are fast-charging ports that provide the extra power needed to charge tablets (2.1A), and the other ports provide the standard amount of power (1A). IOGear GearPower 11,000mAh Portable Battery: Because you're dealing … [Read more...] about Make a Cable Managed, Battery Powered, Multi-Gadget Charger

Expanding its range of Alpha lens cameras in India, electronics brand Sony has launched Alpha A9 II. The new device comes with a price tag of Rs 3,99,990. It is already up for sale at Sony centres and major electronic stores across the country. Sony Alpha A9 II is claimed to offer a continuous shooting speed of up to 20 frames per second (10 frames per second using mechanical shutter and 20 frames per second using electronic shutter) with AutoFocus and Auto Exposure tracking. It features 60 times per second AF/AE calculations. The new Alpha 9 II is comprised of 693 focal-plane phase-detection AF points which the company says covers approximately 93% of the image area. It has 425 contrast AF Points with Fast Hybrid AutoFocus system. The camera comes with an in-built 1000BASE-T Ethernet terminal that is said to allow high-speed data transfers. Additionally, it is claimed to support File Transfer over SSL or TLS encryption for increased data security and PC remote (tether) shooting … [Read more...] about Sony launches Alpha A9 II camera at Rs 3,99,990

South Korean tech giant Samsung has launched its most-expensive LED display in India called ‘The Wall.” The company has priced this display between Rs 3.5 crore to Rs 12 crore. The price varies on the basis of screen size that ranges from 146-inch, 219-inch and 292-inch. The 146-inch (370.8 cm) display offers 4K resolution, the 219-inch (556.3 cm) display offers 6K definition and the 292-inch (741.7 cm) display in 8K definition. Interested buyers can book a private viewing of The Wall starting today at the Samsung Executive Briefing Centre in Gurgaon. Touted for the customers “who constantly seek exceptional luxury experiences” The Wall from Samsung boasts of 0.8mm pixel pitch technology. With less than 30mm thickness, the micro LED display has a slim and bezel-less design frame with customisation options. The Wall lineup from Samsung consists of two product categories — The Wall Luxury and The Wall Pro. The former is aimed at those who want to use it … [Read more...] about This Samsung micro LED display costs Rs 12 crore

It’s 2025, and there’s a strange machine sitting on your kitchen counter next to your toaster. Every morning, it pops out your daily prescription. advertisement advertisement A new prototype shows exactly how future countertop drug manufacturing could work: A glowing cylinder brews blue-green algae, genetically engineered to produce pharmaceuticals. Then it measures, filters, and dries it into a powder that can fill a pill. It’s only a concept at the moment, but the artist who created it thinks that it could be technically feasible in five or ten years. “Part of my goal of the project is to demonstrate how easy it is to build an at-home system that could ferment microbes,” says Will Patrick, who designed the Farma gadget during a residency at Autodesk. It’s already possible to brew opiates in a lab. The anti-malarial drug Artemisinin is also mostly made using genetically engineered yeast. It’s not inconceivable to think that synthetic … [Read more...] about This Gadget Lets You Brew Your Own Drugs In Your Kitchen

If you’re lucky enough to get to travel abroad, you know it’s getting easier and easier to use our phones and other gadgets to translate for us. So why not do so in a way that makes sense to you? This little gadget seeking funds on Kickstarter looks right up my alley, offering quick transcription and recording — plus music playback, like an iPod Shuffle with superpowers. The ONE Mini is really not that complex of a device — a couple of microphones and a wireless board in tasteful packaging — but that combination allows for a lot of useful stuff to happen both offline and with its companion app. You activate the device, and it starts recording and both translating and transcribing the audio via a cloud service as it goes (or later, if you choose). That right there is already super useful for a reporter like me — although you can always put your phone on the table during an interview, this is more discreet, and of course a short-turnaround translation … [Read more...] about This little translator gadget could be a traveling reporter’s best friend