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About Charlie Sorrel
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via @mistercharlieemail hidden; JavaScript is required
Locking Box Stops You Using Your Phone Whilst Driving
This is a great idea: It’s a gadget that bolts onto your car’s dashboard and won’t let the engine start unless your phone is in it’s slot. The device is called the Origosafe, and it is designed to stop your teen from driving whilst texting, or whatever. And it will. As long as your teen has a Galaxy S3.
NEC’s Funky Cold Medias: A Dual-Screen Phone [Mobile World Congress 2013]
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BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS – Quick: What’s better than one screen? Two screens, of course. Or so says NEC with its funky new Android 4.1-powered Medias Tab.
Golf-Cart Mount For Your Smartphone Signals End Of Human Civilization
You know what the world really needs? Yet another golfers gadget. And what could be more essential to the world than a Universal Golf GPS and Smartphone Mount for your golf cart? Yes, I’m serious.
This Is How We Used To Focus Our Photos Before Our Cameras Did It For Us [Video]
This old video, bubbled up via Reddit, is a perfect look back at the all-manual past of photography as we head into yet another amazing year of easy iPhoneography.
It shows the most common method for focussing SLR cameras, using a split screen and microprism etched into the focussing screen that lays horizontally at the bottom of the camera’s pentaprism (the top-mounted turret that houses the viewfinder assembly).
Printicular App Prints Your Instagrams At Walgreens, In Just One Hour
Remember when you used to take the film out of your camera, head to the nearest drugstore and drop it off, do a little shopping or grab a coffee, and then return one hour later to pick up your printed photographs?
This process was fraught with possible problems – you might end up paying to process a blank film, or for prints of out-of-focus, unusable photos – but it was also pretty exciting.
With Printicular, you can now experience all the good parts and none of the bad. The app lets you print your photos at the local Walgreens, and the latest update has added support for Instagram.
Learn How You Phonecam’s Exposure System Works With This Great Infographic
New Year’s Eve, the night when alcohol-fueled confusion reigns. But unlike this self-inflicted bamboozlement, which can only be cured with time and a hearty breakfast, the confusion you feel when you start thinking about camera exposure can be fixed right now, using this excellent resource from Exposure Guide.
POC Helmet With ‘Beats By Dre’ Sound System
POC, maker of protective headgear for snowboarders, cyclists and other smart people who eschew personal motor transport, has added headphones to one of its helmets. This is both good and bad.
This Android-Powered Polaroid Camera Looks Curiously Familiar…
If the current custodians of the much-abused Polaroid brand have any sense, they’ll call this upcoming camera the Polaroid Android, and they’ll license the Radiohead song of (almost) the same name to promote it.
Or they could just rip off the song, just like they appear to have ripped of the design: If the 18.1 Megapixel IM1836 looks familiar, that’s because it’s almost identical to Nikon’s J-series cameras.
Blipcare Wi-Fi Blood-Pressure Monitor Is Easy Enough For Your Parents
I have such low blood pressure that I over-salt my french fries just to give it a little boost. Or I would, if I ever ate fries. And how do I know this? Because I have a Withings blood-pressure monitor in my home, letting me keep track of the meanderings of my heart.
But if searching for your iPhone, and then your Lightning-to-dock adapter, and then looking for the monitor itself are too much for your fragile ticker, then consider the Blipcare monitor. It still comes with an iOS or Android app, but instead of a direct connection it uploads its data direct to the cloud via Wi-Fi.
Battery-Powered SD Card Reader Shares Wirelessly With Your Phone
What if I told you that you could combine the inconvenience and slow wireless transfer of the Eye-Fi card with the need to actually remove the SD card from your camera and plug it into a slot? You’d get totally excited right? Right? Aw, c’mon…
