Asad Maqsood

$600 • www.olympusamerica.comOlympus has announced a new version of its slick-looking PEN Micro Four Thirds camera that is aimed at everyday users with intuitive features and a lower price.The new PEN E-PL1 will include a built-in flash, faster autofocus and graphical interface that will enable casual photographers to easily achieve more sophisticated results.It is a follow-up to last year's E-P1 and E-P2 models, which were beautifully engineered but suffered from flaws, including a lack of a built-in flash, slow autofocus and a price tag that started at $800.The new model is a bit blockier

Microsoft has launched a child-friendly version of the Internet Explorer 8 browser that will let youngsters report unsafe sites and cyberbullying with a single mouse click. Known as Internet Explorer 8 Click Clever, Click Safe, it's been developed in association with Ceop.The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. It's being launched to celebrate Safer Internet Day, and is part of Ceop's wider Click Clever, Click Safe campaign that's intended to educate children about the dangers...

For years, Lexon has designed a broad range of home goods and leisure accessories. Lately, the company has turned eco-friendly. Lexon has recently released a line of home goods that are good for the environment.The new Eco friendly Lexon Collection is called the Safe Collection. The entire collection is made of bamboo, bits and pieces of PLA plastic, and some of the gadgets harness the power of solar energy.The collection includes a solar-powered calculator, LED flashlight, and an alarm...

Yesterday, I was trying to find tech news that didn’t relate in some way to Apple iPad and, to be honest, struggling. So instead, let’s take a look at an alternative reality.Let The Next Web take you to a world where we’ve been using iPads for years and now Apple’s just gone and announced a pocket-sized version with a camera and phone built in. They’ve only gone and called it the iPhone…I began to reflect on the whole build up to last Wednesday’s Apple iPad announcement.The months of...

After reading through CNN’s article about 10 things missing from the iPad, I was totally disappointed but not surprised. After all, it is Apple’s way of bamboozling consumers for more money by restricting standard features in gadgets and forcing people to buy some of them as extra accessories.The iPad does not have any USB port. That sucks. Now how can we transfer files to and fro?No video camera, no stills camera, and no webcam. The first two will likely never make it into a future iPad, but the lack of a webcam is just plain weird.Flash is not supported. Apple probably hates it so much that

Nokia is still the world largest phone maker, even if other devices like the iPhone and Android phones are grabbing most of the headlines. The company unveiled the 32GB X6 music phone with the comes with music service late last year, but the handset was more expensive than many users could afford. Nokia has now announced a smaller version of the X6 with 16GB of storage and no comes with music service included. The handset has a 3.2-inch screen and will come in black, white, white with pink,...

It is time for this weeks Geeky Gadgets giveaway, where one lucky reader will win a brand new 8GB iPod Nano. The contest is completely free to enter and open to readers from anywhere in the world, you can even choose which color iPod Nano you would like to win, to enter just follow the instructions below.How to Enter If you want to win an iPod Nano 8GB, all you have to do is subscribe to our RSS feed, and leave a comment below, please state which color iPod Nano you would like in your...

While everyone these days is wondering what Steve Jobs has up its sleeves to show the world next Wednesday, Frog Design has unearthed some early prototypes from their archives that designers of this company had created for a young Steve Jobs back in the early 80s. It is extremely interesting to compare “Bashful”, the Tablet of yesterdays with the Apple Tablet of Tomorrow. See for yourself whether Steve Jobs mindset has been influenced with the transformation of technology over the last 27...

A lot of activity around e-book readers at CES keeps going on after the end of the show. Announced readers, most of those at least, are coming out this winter. The new Amazon Kindle DX will be released tomorrow and Spring Design's Alex no sooner then February. In the meantime ASUS has spiced the dish a bit with an info leak about a mysterious DR-570. Well, maybe not so mysterious - it is also an e-book reader but unlike all the others we have, RD-570 has an OLED screen which is a thing you'd...

I am finally out of hibernation - well, I was on a trip for a few weeks with my family and returned only a week back. Let's get on to technology. 2010 is pegged as a year where gadgets are gonna get more powerful and incorporate everything touch / gesture based and also incorporate a wide range of social tools to your aid - like it or not. So, here's a low down on the top 5 gadgets to watch out for in 2010.Apple TabletApple started off with the Mac and took off to a new high with iPods and iPhone. The next wave from the Apple camp is gonna be a “tablet”. The Apple Tablet is expected to be much

The iPhone and Google's Android may be sucking up all the oxygen of late, but HTC today placed a big bet on Windows Mobile 6.5 with the launch of its HD2 touchscreen phone.The most noticable feature of the HD2 is its 4.3-inch, high resolution screen. It's one of the biggest on a smart phone so far. It's also the first Windows-based phone that features a capacitive touch display, enabling users to zoom and resize websites, files, PDF documents and pictures by "pinching" the screen - just like...

Many people consider the iPhone the ultimate “smart” phone. Now Google wants you to think of its new Nexus One device as a “super” phone.The Nexus One offers a sleek handset, the latest version of Google Inc.'s easy-to-use Android operating software and compelling features such as voice recognition technology for speaking e-mails and tweets. Yet, it's not as super duper as it could be. Google is selling the Nexus One directly to consumers for $529. The phone's unlocked to support multiple...

Another day of CES 2010 and another groundbreaking announcement. This time AMD has turned all the heads to its lot with the latest ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphic cards range manufactured using 40nm fabrication process. This is the second generation of AMD's GPUs that have full support for Microsoft DirectX 11 technology and the very first one designed for notebooks. Which, of course, will require Windows 7 installed. The lineup offers a surprisingly wide choice of different...

People have been pushing for wireless charging technology for a long time, and a few prototypes have shown some promise.But at CES 2010 in Las Vegas last week, RCA revealed what could be the world’s very first practical wireless charger — the RCA Airnergy charger. The Airnergy charger connects to devices via a mini-USB port, and gets its energy from Wi-Fi signals, of all things.That means you can charge your devices whenever you’re in a hotspot, without ever having to plug into AC power.The...

Ladies, we’ve been outsourced. Behold Roxxxy, the world’s first erotic robot, introduced this weekend at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. Clad (barely) in a lace bra, thong and thigh-highs, Roxxxy is one can-do sex toy. Not only is she a sure thing. She can talk about sports and cars and responds to touch - not by rolling her eyes and sneering, “Are you serious?” - but with a saucy “I know where you can put that hand.” Sex dolls are nothing new, but Roxxxy is different because she’s...