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• Check out Handson Snapshots of HP Photosmart premium 309G Printer here

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Win a HP Photo Smart / Touch Smart Printer Giveaway @ Technospot by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on November 13, 2009, 4:00 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

My First Impression:

Printer is absolutely sleek and will not take much space on your table. The black model has an amazing look and the most eye-catching part of this printer is “Only One button” that you will see and that button is the power button. Welcome to age of Touch.

Printer Features:

• It is very easy to set up the printer. Almost like one click. All you need to do is install the software that comes along with it and then follow the instructions.
• It is a Photo Smart printer. You can print 4 X 6 inch border less photos in a minute. Before that the software helps you in removing red-eye, add colors, adjust brightness, remove dirt’s, to give you color rich lab quality print. It has even a separate tray for photo paper. Here is a sample of my son’s photograph.

• There are 5 ink cartridges 2 Black (One thick and one thin) along with Blue, yellow and pink ones.  This helps to print photos with enhanced detail using dual-drop-volume technology that delivers an extremely small drop size.

• Quick Forms: Print games, music form, Calendar, check list, notebook paper, graph paper using Quick Forms.  These are small utilities which are required many a times.
• It’s an Energy Star qualified printer. You can also set the sleep mode for the printer to save electricity more.
• Embedded Web Service which lets you control your printer from the browser. You can even scan start a scan, check printer status etc.

Printer Connectivity

• It can connect via USB, Bluetooth, WIFI and online photo service like Snapfish which give ability to print without connecting to your computer.
• From the Snapfish interface on the printer you can share your snapfish albums directly by emailing your contacts right from your printer.
• I connected this printer using WIFI. It was just one click. All you need is to scan the network, find the signal, give credentials and you are done.
• Direct Photo printing using Bluetooth, exiting pictures ( scanning ), iPhone, iPod touch, memory cards, USB mass storage device.
• Print Directly from PictBridge cameras i.e. if your Camera allows you to send print command directly from itself that’s what is PictBridge.
• My canon camera when connected to printer via USB enabled the Pictbridge mode and I can do all those small trimming, set number of copies and print it right from there. I also tried from my Blackberry by sending an image and it printed nicely ( Using Send to Bluetooth device )

• The way other devices can connect directly to this printer makes it a computer free printer which is ideal for seamless integration, the way the future gadgets will work.

Printer Software:

• Print Web Content like tickets, coupons, maps easily with its Smart Web Printing technology. Integrates with browsers with plugins and makes it lot easier to print from web by removing all the extra clutter.
• Desktop gadgets on Windows Vista, Windows 7 lets you select tray and just drag and drop images for direct printing.

• The HP Software that comes along with the printer is pretty awesome. The most useful part is the scanner section which is very unique. It locates all the photos separately if you are scanning multiple images together. You can edit each of them individually and save it directly to your computer or even email it.

• You can also scan documents directly to PDF and email them.

• The Eco Tips button in HP solution centre can help you learn various ways you can save printer ink, save more paper.

Touch Panel Details

• Touch Smart screen is bright, very responsive and it knows what you are clicking. Doesn’t mess up with other buttons especially when you are on the keyboard layout.

• The layout of the touch screen is 3.45 inch with menu buttons available on left and right. These buttons lighten up depending on what kind of options you have selected on the touch screen software display.
• The touch panel can be tilted back and forth to adjust according to the view.

So that’s  the in and out of the  of the printer. In my opinion this printer is going to take HP to next level where device connectivity will become seems less. You will not need to depend on a computer to print and you will not have to push to many buttons to do that.  They way this Smart Printer connects to devices is very unique. Checkout more images here.

Note : The contest will go live tomorrow. So make sure you get on here to find out anytime after 16:00 IST. Share it with your friends by emailing them. Do let us know your comments on this printer. Thanks.

HP Photo Smart / Touch Smart Printer – Whats Inside ? by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on November 12, 2009, 5:28 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

According to the product page –

“Relax and enjoy the party while the IPT-DS1 Party-shot personal photographer automatically takes your photos for you. Party-shot works with your TX1 or WX1 Cyber-shot® camera’s Face Detection and Smile Shutter™ technologies to automatically take photos at the event. Intelligent composition uses the rule of thirds to compose great shots and motion detection seeks out movement to take the photo at the right moment. It’s never been easier to see amazing results of those once in a lifetime candid moments.”

Features List –

• Snaps pictures at an event – automatically.
• Intelligent composition uses the rule of thirds to compose great shots.
• Power up your Party-shot with either two AA alkaline batteries, or with the AC adaptor (AC-LS5 or AC-S5K).
• Intelligently searches and tilts to follow subjects and take photos.
• Motion detection seeks out movement to take photos at the right moment.
• Smile Shutter technology automatically detects smiles and Face Detection technology recognizes faces to take photos at the right moment.
• With one touch of the Menu button, you can set the Rotation Angle, Shooting Frequency, and Flash.

Dimensions (Approx.) –

5 1/8 x 1 3/8 x 4 3/4in (128 x 34 x 118mm )

Weight (Approx.) –

6.2oz (175g)

Tilt Range –

+ 24 to -21 degrees

List of compatible cameras with Party-shot Automatic Photographer. I liked the concept, this looks like an amazing idea, I would love to get one for me as soon as possible. For more details Visit the Product Page

Via Wired

Your personal photographer: Party-shot Automatic Photographer by Manav Mishra originally appeared on Technospot.Net on August 11, 2009, 12:36 am. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Here is another image which clearly exhibits its incredibly small size.

Features of EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive -

• Nano Size USB Design
• Compact & trendy
• USB 2.0 High speed data transfer
• Compatiable with USB1.1 & 2.0
• Up to 15Mb/s Read; Up to 6Mb/s write
• Password protection (Optional download by user)
• Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OSX (10.2 or above)
• Dimension: 19 x 15 x 6mm (approx.)
• Weight: 3g

4GB and 8GB are the two available options for this USB Flash Drive.

Compact and beautiful looking these small USB Flash Drives seem to be quite perfect, so go ahead and grab one for yourself, also a nice gift idea, isn’t it ? Buy at Brando

Incredibly small USB Flash Drive by EagleTec by Manav Mishra originally appeared on Technospot.Net on June 5, 2009, 9:34 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Due Lets you write on screen

All you need to do is, put a screen on your Laptop, which captures the pen’s movement through infrared and ultrasonic technology.

As of now it’s available only for 15.4inch screen, if your laptop has 15.4inch display, you can try it now, or else you will have to wait for more versions of this to be released.

Specification of Duo -

• Receiver unit size: 77 × 58 × 8.5mm
  Pen Size: 16.5 × 130mm (Diameter x length)
  Weigh: 17.5g
  Resolution: 600 dpi
  Price 9980 Yen (€79)

You can read and see some more images of Duo here.  Source Engadget

Write directly on your Laptop Screen with Duo ( Like Tablet PC ) by Manav Mishra originally appeared on Technospot.Net on March 21, 2009, 11:33 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Bionic eye, called as Argus 2, works by using an array of electrodes which sits on the retina. The person can wear a pair of glasses ( mounted with camera and video processor )  sends signals received from outside world and focuses on the electrodes. Depending on the brightness and darkness combination the electrodes are lighted in similar way as normal eye works.

Electrodes placed on retina during operation

How bionic eye works

However the challenge still stays with the user to understand and interpret these images. It might take sometime but it shouldn’t be hard. It was tried on a 73 year old man Ron who lost his sight and with little practice can do some household works. You can watch what he says on the new eyes he has got.

Bionic Eye : Project in effort to make blind see by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on March 5, 2009, 11:54 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Wooden USB Flash Drive

These wooden USB flash Drives, machined from European Maple,  are available for several memory capacities (32Mb, 64Mb, 128Mb, 256Mb, 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb, 4Gb and 8Gb), with one color option (as shown above the), and can be customized for you with your company logo on it.

Definitely a nice concept, so go ahead and order some with your company logo on it to make branding and Environment friendliness get hand in hand. Prices for these can be made available upon request here.

Via Geek Alerts

An environment friendly USB Flash Drive by Manav Mishra originally appeared on Technospot.Net on February 12, 2009, 9:45 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Features :

• Removable USB card reader is embedded in each pendent
• Includes 1 Gigabyte micro SD card storage (free upgrade to 2 Gigabyte )
• Includes matching metallic chains and Austrian crystals
• Priced at 77$ at Amazon

Pink usb Drive with Austrian Diamond

Pink usb Drive with Austrian Diamond Open

Here is the list of this at Amazon which you can buy.

• MIMO USB Drive – Heart (Pink)
• MIMO USB Drive – Strawberry (Pink/silver)
• MIMO USB Drive – Strawberry (Gold/White)
  
• MIMO USB Drive – Strawberry (The Classic)

Heart shaped Necklace USB drive : Valentines gift for your Geeky girlfriend by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on February 3, 2009, 8:45 am. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Swiss Knife with altimeter

Product Details

• Large Blade,
• Small Blade,
• Bottle Opener with Large Screwdriver,
• Wire Stripper
• Corkscrew Can Opener with 8. Small Screwdriver,
• Reamer with Sewing Eye,
• Key Ring,
• Toothpick,
• Tweezers,
• Scissors,
• Hook,
• Digital Altimeter (-300 ft to +15,000 ft/-100 m to +5,000 m),
• and  Digital Thermometer (0 F to +110 F/-20 C to +40 C).

Via GeekAlerts

Buy Swiss Knife with Altimeter and Digital Thermometer Included by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on January 31, 2009, 1:09 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

However to view yourself in 3D you would need a red and cyan 3D glasses which comes free with this 3d webcam ( 5 pairs ). But if you dont have the glasses, Minoru is as good as any other normal web cam. It comes at a price of  89.95$

Minoru 3d webcam

In their own words

The Minoru 3D Webcam is a single piece with two cameras spaced roughly the same distance apart as human eyes, for the stereoscopic effect. This creates an anthropomorphic look that means users tend to look into the eyes of the camera as they light up. The Webcam has a multi-position stand that can sit or stand on a desk, or perch on a monitor

With the web camera software available, you can take a 3D images or even shoot 3D videos ( It acts like video recording software ) . You can upload these videos to youtube or any other video sharing site to show off!!!  Check out   Minoru 3D Webcam (Red/Chrome) at Amazon Stores and Home Page for Minoru

Minoru : 3D Webcam which takes 3d images and shoot 3D videos by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.Net on January 29, 2009, 11:14 pm. Please see our terms for use of feeds.