Hasta La Gadget!

The Keyport Slide is not a new product. In fact, we have been talking about this little key consolidating gadget for years. But as of today we are seeing details of the follow up, appropriately dubbed the Keyport Slide 2.0. Except instead of a regular launch being done on the Keyport website, the company has chosen to do this as a Kickstarter project. The project still has 29 days remaining and is showing an expected delivery date of May 2013.

Without getting into whether or not this project will ship as expected, we can say that as of today it has almost 700 backers with a total pledged of $36,177 towards a goal of $75,000. Before we get to the Keyport Slide 2.0, lets begin with this, the Keyport Slide is a little gadget that consolidates your keys and other gadgets. Some of the other items include a bottle opener, flash light and even USB flash drive with up to 32GB of storage. Each Keyport can hold up to six items in total. Aside from consolidating keys and other little gadgets, the Keyport Slide has a nice recovery program — just in case you ever lose it.

Moving forward the Keyport Slide 2.0 will also have an option to add a pen. More important though, the Keyport Slide 2.0 is said to have been redesigned to be lighter, stronger, more customizable and more affordable. The customization will deal with colors as well as logo plates. According to details coming from the Kickstarter page, the funds will be used to “accelerate the production of 2.0.”

The pledge levels vary depending on what you need and/or are looking for. Perhaps the one most appealing would be the Keyport Slide 2.0 Tech Bundle (for $89) which give a Slide 2.0 in black, white or red along with a button set, flash light, 8GB flash drive and 4 standard key blades. Basically, enough to get started. You can always purchase extras from the Keyport website. Alternatively, there is an option for current Keyport owners — a $33 pledge level that will give you a Slide 2.0 and set of buttons.

[via Kickstarter]

Keyport Slide 2.0 launches on Kickstarter is written by Robert Nelson & originally posted on SlashGear.
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British brand Dyson has sucked in the home and blown in public bathrooms, but now the design darling is teasing a mysterious new trio of products for launch in February. Official info on the new products is in very short supply, but according to a launch invite sent to Australian site Current, they’ll be the culmination of seven years of development on a new digital motor.

The motor is the handiwork of forty engineers, so the invite claims, and runs at sixteen bars of pressure and with six of Dyson’s own Helmholtz silencers. Judging by the exploded diagram it’s a reasonably compact assembly, too, all coming together into a donut of sorts, though it’s tough to judge scale.

Whispers to the Australian site claim the new products will be “primarily commercial” rather than domestic, in their focus, so think more along the lines of Airblade dryers than Dyson’s cyclonic vacuum cleaners. Dyson has already flirted with heating and cooling with its “bladeless” fans, but this new super-quiet motor might find its way into a more serious air conditioner, perhaps, or even a robotic vacuum cleaner.

Dyson’s Australian event is on February 19, though we’re guessing that it has nothing to do with HTC’s presumed M7 launch which is also scheduled for the same day. Still, the thought of a new HTC phone with a weather app that could not only tell your the forecast but forcibly blow the clouds out of the sky does have its appeal.

[via Guardian and via Develop3D]

Dyson teases new product trio with fancy new motor is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Back in December of 2012, we mentioned an interesting new automatic USB device designed to get all your favorite audio content into your vehicle called Automatica. At the time, the device was up for pre-order and if you were intrigued by the automatic USB gadget that automatically syncs all your favorite audio content to your car the device is now shipping. The gadget is available right now for $99.

Your 100 bucks will get you an interesting device that is approximately the size of a large flash drive. The gadget is designed to plug into your vehicle’s USB port allowing you to access all sorts of content including music, podcasts, and audio books. The device has built-in Wi-Fi and when you park in the driveway, it’s designed to automatically sync with cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and other services.

The device will sync with those accounts and automatically transfer any new audio content to its own internal storage. The device has 4 GB of internal flash memory but only 2 GB of that is available for storing audio content. The little gadget has 1 GB of RAM and a microSD card slot to expand storage when you need to. Inside the box is also an Arm Cortex A8 processor operating at up to 1 GHz.

Users can choose specific audio content they want to store on the device and the Automatica also has a web service that allows you to manage the audio files stored on the device. If your smartphone can act as a Wi-Fi hotspot, Automatica can add new content anywhere you can get a mobile signal. The device also has an available specific car power supply kit since most cars don’t provide power over USB port.

[via automatica]

Inrete Automatica in-vehicle smart USB device now shipping is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Hammacher Schlemmer has long and storied history of offering up the odd, expensive, and awesome for gadget fans to purchase. The latest product that the company has looks like something right out of a James Bond movie. The product is called The Pen Sized Scanner.

The device is actually a ballpoint pen but it also has an integrated camera that can scan documents. Inside the top of the pen is a high-precision autofocus lens and a five-megapixel sensor. Using the scanner camera you can scan letters, recipes, or any other document.

The scanning is actually more like simply taking a picture of a document in 2048 x 1536 resolution. When the shutter button is pressed halfway down, the pen will throw the red outline around what you’re trying to take an image of that you see in the photograph above. That allows you to be sure that you are getting the entire document you want to scan.

The pen has 1 GB of storage promising to hold up to 1000 scanned pictures in JPEG format. The pen can also be used to capture one-minute voice memos using an integrated microphone. Power for the internal camera comes from a USB cable and the pen can capture up to 300 images after one hour of charging. The Pen Sized Scanner is available now for $124.95.

[via Hammacher]

Pen Sized Scanner lets you play James Bond is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Ever want to sneak up on your cat and take a cute picture from close up before she runs away? Want to take pictures close to ground level, or have a way to smoothly roll your camera into position?
We’ve found a very interesting camera mount that gives your camera a set of wheels. There are several ways that this stand is adjustable, so that users can get just the right angle and steer their camera-buggy whichever way they choose.
At only 2,999 yen, we think this is an interesting and …