The Sinch Stores Your Ear Buds Through Elastic and Magnets

12:12 PM in technology

Storing your ear buds can be a hassle if you are not using your smartphone or media player. You can unplug it and tie it around, but untying it wastes precious time. The solution? It’s easy as a Sinch!

The Sinch is a thin, rectangular piece of rubber that features a small hole and several magnets. Simply slip the plug end through the hole, plug the buds into the audio jack of the media device, and let the elastic dangle at the backside of the device. If you are done with your audio tripping, you can wrap the cord of the ear buds around the device and the rubber band. Then, fold the elastic around the ear buds so that the two magnets line up and keep the cord secured until your next use.

The Sinch is available through its online store for only $16.

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Sony Z1000 Android Walkman

12:09 PM in technology

Sony is trying to further improve its Walkman brand of devices. It has recently introduced the Sony Z1000 Android Walkman. It is said to be Sony’s answer to the iPod Touch, although it took this long for Sony to come up with such.

The Sony Z1000 Android Walkman features a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor with 512MB RAM. It also comes with a 4.3 large WVGA touchscreen display. It comes featured with Sony’s proprietary S-Master X full digital amplifier to provide the high quality sound for audio as well as video. It also supports Bluetooth as well as WiFi connectivity. The Sony Z1000 Android Walkman is expected to be available initially in the Japanese market sometime in December.

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HTC Sensation XE Now With Beats Audio

12:05 PM in technology

HTC has been recently reported to have acquired Beats Audio, the company known to have introduced the wildly popular high end headphone, Beats by Dr. Dre. And now this partnership has come up with its first ever product employing the strengths in features from both companies. That product is the new HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio.

The HTC Sensation smartphone was recently upgraded with better specs and with Beat Audio. The smartphone comes powered by a 1.5GHz dual core processor and runs on the Android OS. It has a 4.3 inch touchscreen with qHD resolution.

What makes this version of the HTC Sensation unique is that it comes with a special pair of Beats by Dr. Dre headphones that come with an in-wire remote control that users can use to go through tracks or to take calls from the smartphone. A Beats optimized sound profile provides a broader range of sound quality that Beats Audio is known for. The HTC Sensation XE is slated to be available in the market sometime this month. There’s no news yet on its pricing details.

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Seagate Introduces 4TB GoFlex Desk External Drive

1:53 PM in technology

With computing technologies advancing at a fast pace, it seems that the need for larger storage space also increases in proportion. Whereas hard disks have been made in the Gigabyte territory, it seems that there is a bigger need for more and more storage space. Now hard disks are slowly entering into the Terabyte territory.

Seagate has been one of those makers who have gone into making their hard disks go into the Terabyte capacities. It has recently introduced a 4TB GoFlex Desk External Drive to address the need for larger hard disk capacity. It is considered to be the highest capacity hard drive in the industry today. It comes with USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 support for faster and upgraded transfer speeds. It also comes with an integrated file encryption software to protect backed up files and making it more secure. It also supports both OS X and Windows platforms. The Seagate GoFlex Desk 4TB External Drive is now available at Seagate for US$250.

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Asus WAVI Xtion Comes in October

1:49 PM in technology

It looks like Asus is channeling some Kinect with its WAVI Xtion motion controller, which is expected to be marketed by October this year. This device was created in partnership with PrimeSense, the same company that partnered with Microsoft to develop Kinect, which is why the similarities and capabilities between the two are uncanny.

According to Asus, the WAVI Xtion would bring the “fun and function” of the Kinect to the PC. The company even hopes that the device would take desktop PCs to a whole new level of interactivity, just like what the Kinect did to the Xbox 360.

This is not the first time Asus looked to the gaming industry for inspiration. It launched the Eee Stick several years after the Wii, targetting buyers of its popular Eee netbooks. The Eee Stick functions like Nintendo’s Wii Remotes for netbooks, but consumers apparently were not buying it.

Digitimes reports that the Asus WAVI Xtion would be priced between $250 and $300, which is more expensive than Kinect’s $150 price tag. The device will reportedly be available first in China, where the Xbox 360 is banned. The exact release date, meanwhile, remains unclear.

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