Hasta La Gadget!

Camping outside a store for weeks on end has been done to death now, so what can you do to score some early adopter cred? How about buying a device to use on a service that doesn’t exist… yet? That’s Vodafone’s thinking behind launching its first 4G wireless hotspot, two months before its LTE service begins rolling out. The Vodafone R212 will connect up to 10 devices simultaneously, comes with a 32GB SD card reader, a 2,800mAh battery and will, thankfully, connect to the company’s 3G network as well. It’ll set you back £39 up-front if you sign up for a plan offering you 1GB of monthly data for £10 a month.

Filed under: Peripherals, Wireless, Mobile

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Via: Pocket-lint

Source: Vodafone

Port space is very limited on laptops, but Apple has just received a patent that could solve that problem in the simplest way possible: cramming two ports into one. Expanding on what we’ve seen with some multi-format card readers, Apple has designed a layered port whose staggered electrical contacts and overall shape let it accept two different connectors. While the company uses the combination of a USB port and SD card reader as its example, the patent could theoretically apply to any two technologies that make sense together. The real question is whether or not Apple will use its invention at all. The Mac maker has a few slim portables that could use some expansion, but there’s no evidence that the company will tweak its computer designs in the near future.

Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals, Apple

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Source: USPTO

There’s a whole plethora of places to keep your data online, but without getting too political, there’s no place like home, right? TonidoPlug is a tiny personal server that lets you access your images, photos and personal files wherever you are, without having to hand them over to someone else to look after. Not only is there software to mount it as a local drive — à la dropbox — but it serves as a NAS device on your home network too. With the option to plug in USB drives, or add an internal SATA HDD, you won’t need to pay a subscription, either. Best of all, we’ve got five to give away to some lucky UK readers. Please read the terms and conditions after the break to make sure you qualify. But if you do, be sure to enter — and good luck!

Filed under: Peripherals, Internet, HD, Mobile, Alt

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Source: Tonido

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Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, Peripherals, Portable Audio/Video

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Microsoft’s new version of Kinect for Xbox One is also headed to the world of PCs, like its previous incarnation. The new Kinect for Windows sensor won’t be available publicly until some point in 2014, but developers can apply for an early, $400 development kit starting right now (due before July 31st at 9AM PT), Microsoft announced today. In that $400, developers (if accepted) will get early SDK access, a pre-release “alpha” version of the device, a final retail version (at launch), and private access to both APIs and the Kinect for Windows engineering team (in private forums and webcasts). Should you get in, you’ll find out more come this August.

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals, Software, HD, Microsoft

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Source: Microsoft