The recently concluded San Diego Comic Con saw the launch of the Bossy Bear Mimobot – Mimoco’s latest addition to its artist USB flash drive line. The company collaborated with toy and storybook artist David Horvath to turn his blue book character, Bossy Bear, into a storage device.
Joby, the company behind the flexible “mount-your-camera-wherever-you want” camera tripods called the Gorillapod, has now branched out into mobiles with the Gorillamobile. It’s basically the same thing—a tripod built with flexible legs that allows you to set your mobile phone/device anywhere–but smaller for clipping onto mobile devices such as phones, media players, digicams, and handheld gaming devices.
Rubberized feet and rings around the three “arms” allow devices to be fixed or wrapped onto just about anything, to work as a desktop stand, as a platform on an uneven sand dune, or wrapped onto a bike’s handlebars. The Gorillamobile is now available for $29.95.
T-Mobile in the UK has just released the Android-powered G2 Touch for a minimum £35 per month, 18-month contract. Touted as T-Mobile’s follow-up to the G1/ HTC Dream–the world’s first android-powered phone–the G2 Touch/Hero is flush with built-in tech that could make it the best Android-powered phone right now (or at least until the XPERIA X3 gets officially released).
After coming out with a line of portable external drives, Toshiba has announced that they’ve released a new line of full-sized external desktop drives that run 3.5-inch HDDs inside the frame to match up with other drives such as WD’s MyBook and Seagate’s FreeAgent. The drives will run on 5400rpm drives and will be powered with a separate power connection. Connectivity includes standard USB and eSATA for faster transfers on newer systems. The drives are already available, in 640GB (for $130) and 1TB ($160) capacities.
The new iPod shuffle is certainly a wonder of design, as well as a nice demonstration of just how much simplified tech you can pack into a sliver of space. It did away with everything, including all the buttons and controls, to leave us with what looks like a silver bubble gum packet with a switch and a 3.5mm hole on top. Problem is, when Apple placed the controls along the earphone’s cable, people have been complaining about being stuck with the proprietary earbuds that were packed with the shuffle. Accessory makers Belkin and iLuv have both come out with a simple workaround by coming out with shuffle adapters.
