Every year when the weather starts getting warm in most places around the country, we begin seeing lots of portable speakers hit the market. Gadget makers know that when the weather gets nice people start getting outside and many want to be able to take their music with them wherever they go. If you’re in [...]
Archive for the ‘Bluetooth Gadgets’ Category
Genius Ring Presenter for your PowerPoint Presentations
September 4th, 2012
mrinal Some of you may have used those Air Mice in order to do a PowerPoint presentation, and this is another way to control your slides in a less discreet way. The Genius Ring Presenter allows the user access to Play/Exit and Last/Next Page on the PowerPoint Presentation. This allows for controlling the cursor movement, and [...]
Scosche launches boomStream Bluetooth speaker
August 10th, 2012
mrinal Scosche has announced a new Bluetooth speaker that is now shipping. The boomStream is designed to allow the user to stream music from their Bluetooth smartphone or MP3 player directly to the portable speaker for on the go listening with no wires. Scosche promises that the speaker has high-quality audio. The device uses dual 40 [...]
The wooden, portable Bluetooth speaker gets Kickstarted
August 9th, 2012
mrinal If you’re in the market for a battery-powered speaker and are willing to splurge a bit, then you’d be wise to check out the 1Q from Vers. The diminutive, 3-inch cube-shaped music system is said to provide some impressive tunes all by its lonesome, but it can also be paired with another 1Q to provide [...]
Antec SP1 portable Bluetooth speaker
August 9th, 2012
mrinal The last Antec product that blipped on our radar was many moons ago, but it looks as though the company is having a second stab at audio hardware in its latest filing with the FCC. The documents reveal a new Bluetooth speaker going by the handle SP1 and assuming more of a Braven form factor, [...]
Bluetooth dock adapter Pear disappears from Kickstarter
August 6th, 2012
mrinal You might remember Pear, a recent Insert Coin debutant that connects your favorite iDevice dock to (almost) any Bluetooth-connected smartphone. However, you probably didn’t notice its swift disappearance from Kickstarter just before the weekend. The people behind the project have contacted us, explaining that the crowdfunding site was hit with a cease and desist order [...]
Smartphone Toothbrush?
August 1st, 2012
mrinal There are just certain things that I feel need to remain “old school” my bathroom habits are but a few of them, I mean, I really don’t care what new fangled way they come up with… to do, well, whatever it is we do in there. I’m not having it. I don’t want to try [...]
Jabra Supreme UC bluetooth
July 19th, 2012
mrinal It’s time to take a look at Jabra‘s newest effort with the Supreme UC, a bluetooth headset that’s made not just for your home computer, not just your smartphone and tablet, but both! This device is priced at a premium $149.99 and is crafted to make you love that you’ve just exchanged such a [...]
Plantronics M55 and M25 bluetooth headsets ears-on
May 9th, 2012
mrinal Plantronics has launched two headsets at this year’s CTIA: the M55 and M25. Sure, we’d bet dollars to donuts that piles of companies offer more bells and whistles but the M55′s $49 and the M25′s $39 price tag will likely garner some fans. The M55 features voice activated answering, 11 hour talk time, 16-day standby, [...]
Insert Coin: Rowdy Robot creates Bluetooth 4.0 beacons that activate automatic alerts
May 1st, 2012
mrinal It’s no secret that Bluetooth 4.0 is energy efficient, but now a startup called Rowdy Robot wants to use it for something rather less predictable than monitoring heart palpitations during your Tour de France training. A network of little beacons (“tōds”) interacts with your iPhone or iPad and lets you receive movement-triggered alerts: like when [...]




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