Here we have another affordable portable battery charger from Yoobao, the YB-620. Designed specially for cell phones, this travel-friendly device is equipped with a 5 stage charge status light (each for 20%), a micro-USB port, an Apple to micro port, a V8 to micro port and a high-capacity 3400mAh battery. The YB-620 can be yours for just $35.99. [Product Page]
Luxury Swiss watch maker Urwerk is among the few top watch brands that can excite both gadget lover and traditional watch enthusiast alike. Their secret is consistently pushing forward in terms of modern design as well as technical innovation. Their new UR-210 timepiece might look like a spaceship, but is really just a gadget to tell you that it is time to get off your butt and exercise. It is nevertheless beautiful, and precision-made.
Automatic mechanical watches are wound by the rotation of a weighted rotor which is meant to move with the motion of your wrist. This motion is used to wind a mainspring. Watches with power reserve indicators like the UR-210 tell you how much power is left in the movement. Urwerk added a novel feature connected to the power reserve indicator called a winding efficiency indicator. Purely mechanical, this tool measures the amount of power you’ve generated for the watch over the last two hours. If you aren’t moving around enough (and thus not generating power), the winding efficiencyindicator goes into the red zone. If you are shaking fists all daylong you’ll be in the green zone.
Urwerk considers this new function to be a novel way for the owner to connect with their watch. Like most Urwerk timepieces, the time is told via a special satellite arm system which looks incredibly cool. It is a fantastically elaborate new timepiece with a complication you might grow to love or hate.
You can read a bit more on the watch here.
Getting yourself a new Android 4.1 tablet? Why don’t you take a look at this Momo11 Speed from Ployer. Priced at $214.99, the device comes with a 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 IPS capacitive multi-touch display, a 1.6GHz Rockchip RK3066 Cortex-A9 dual-core processor, a Mali-400 GPU, a 1GB DDR3 RAM, a 16GB of flash storage, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), dual cameras (0.3MP front & 2.0MP back), 1080p Full HD video playback support, 3G external support, WiFi, Bluetooth, a mini HDMI port, a built-in 7800mAh li-ion battery and runs on Android 4.1 OS. [Product Page]
Chinavasion is bringing you their latest 10.1-inch LCD touchscreen monitor, the CVFQ-E222. This widescreen LED-backlight monitor provides 1024 x 600 native resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio, 500:1 contrast ratio and 250 cd/m2 brightness, and features Component, Composite, HDMI and VGA connectors. The CVFQ-E222 will set you back $199.33 (remote control + stylus pen included). [Product Page]
ASK Inc. Japan has released another ATX motherboard from MSI namely the Z77A-G45 Thunderbolt. Based on Intel Z77 Express Chipset, the board supports for Intel LGA1155 processors and is equipped with four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 32GB RAM), three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots and four PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots. In terms of connectivity-ports, it has two SATA 6.0 Gbps, four SATA 3.0 Gbps, Thunderbolt, four USB 3.0, ten USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. The Z77A-G45 Thunderbolt retails for 16,000 Yen (about $200). [Product Page]
GoPros are well-known for being robust. I mean, we’ve seen one fall out of a plane and land intact. This GoPro was keen on going on its own adventure as well, except in the water instead of the air. More »
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!
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