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In-car USB charger, powered via cigarette lighter socket

Most of our gadgets are chargeable via USB. While you’re in the car, you can now make use of a simple adapter to plug into your car’s cigarette lighter socket to provide more juice for your gadgets.

The Micro auto charger from Belkin is a handy one for those who always travel in a car to have their gadgets fully charged. Just hook up this Micro auto charger into the cigarette lighter socket, it can then allow you to charge those gadgets via USB. This in-car USB charger, costs only $15, has only one USB port, meaning you can only have one gadget charged at one time.

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Useful SATA HDD dock with one-touch backup

Here comes a useful SATA HDD dock that is equipped with a one-touch backup button. This hard drive dock lets you plug in 2.5-inch or 3.5 inch hard drives. And it’s hooked up to your computer via USB or eSATA.

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YI earphones : Tangle-free, just zip it up!

The most annoying part of earphones is the cords will easily get tangled up. The YI earphones are exceptional. But they’re just a concept, designed by Ji Woong. It’s the simplest method to control the cords that likely to tangle up.

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Solid state drives: CFD unveils Interceptor series SSDs

Japan’s CFD has announced new line of solid state drives, the Interceptor SSDs. This new line comes with various choices of storage capacity including 32, 64, 128 and 256GB. And each of them measures 2.5 inch and boasts a multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND flash memory.

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Redrock Hybrid Cinema Rigs let you hold your DSLR like a pro

Those who’ve got one of the latest DSLR models, will be able to use their DSLRs to shoot high-def videos. Shooting video using a DSLR camera, will need you to hold it up or leave the camera on your shoulder, but you will find it a bit awkward for doing so.

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Nokia 6216 classic, first handset supports NFC contactless payments

The Nokia 6216 classic is a handset that comes with Near Field communication support. We’ve seen NFC on the Nokia 6212 handset before, which allows it to pair and exchange contents (music, video, calendar data etc) by tapping it with another NFC-enabled device such as a NFC-enabled photo frame, cellphone, speaker etc. And now NFC has been extended to the classic 6216, to allow contactless payment via NFC.

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iVisit SeeScan lets those with weak eyes identify objects easily

iVisit is showing off their SeeScan, an application runs on mobile phones that lets users to point and identify objects in real time. The app is useful for those who’re short-sighted or visually impaired, which they can make use of their mobile phones to point to an object and let the SeeScan app read out what the object is.

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Pole-climbing serpentine robots used as inspection tools to reduce injuries at construction worksite

Construction workers need to be involved in dangerous climbing or jobs performed on scaffolding. And more injuries and death have been reported each year. There is a need for a solution for helping to reduce the number of injuries and death at construction sites.

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Texas Memory Systems announce biggest 5TB RamSan-620 SSD

Texas Memory Systems have announced their biggest flash SSD, RamSan-620, which has a 5TB storage capacity. As shown in the picture, this storage comes in a 2U rack-mounted form factor.

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Sharp Mebius netbook offers a 4-inch secondary display

We’ve seen a computer monitor that has a smaller screen on top, which may be useful for those who’re fond of working on multiple tasks at one time. But a netbook that comes with two screens might be little unusual. Sharp has introduced its new Mebius PC-NJ70A netbook, which comes with a 10-inch primary display and a secondary 4-inch LCD display.

Unfortunately, we do not have a picture that is big enough to let your eyes catch where the 4-inch LCD display of this Sharp netbook is. It’s actually the touchpad of this netbook which also serves as the 4-inch LCD display. The touchpad LCD boasts a resolution of 854 x 480 and is able to adjust brightness automatically. It can be used to browse files, run applications, and input handwriting into the netbook.

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