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Ok, take a deep breath and face the truth: you’re a music addict and you need professional help. Listening to music everywhere you go, no matter the circumstances, no matter the people you meet, it’s not the main issue here. The problem is that you got to that critical point where you brag about how you ride your bike with no handlebars while you switch from one song to another. This ain’t funny, so that you know! It’s enough you wear those earbuds that keep you from hearing a regular car coming around the bend.



In other words, riding a bike could become a dangerous thing to do in your spare time, unless you’re keen on adventures. Therefore, if someone tried to come up with a solution, it wouldn’t come as a surprise.

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“Music makes biking more fun. It enhances the experience and motivates you to push harder”, says Jeff Lotman, a Los Angeles entrepreneur and an avid cyclist who invented the CyFi, the world’s first wireless sports speaker for biking, boating, camping or any activity enhanced with a portable speaker. The device is available in two models which are compatible to almost any music-carrying system: one is the ultimate iPod accessory and the other supports Bluetooth-A2DP enabled cell phones, PDAs and MP3 players. Now, all of you, cycling enthusiasts or weekend campers, can enjoy a unique listening experience.



The CyFi is about the size of a deck of cards and weights less than 4 ounces. It isn’t impressive enough? Well, the revolutionary design and portability which make it easy to be mounted on the handlebars of a bike, on a backpack or any other place you prefer. The iPod version it’s based on the Kleer technology (this technology is optimized for high quality wireless audio transmission between portable audio devices) and allows you to listen to your music in a stunning sound quality, even longer, thanks to the long battery life. In addition, it’s provided with a handy desktop charging stand.



As far as the Bluetooth version is concerned, it allows you to listen to music on any device that supports A2DP, which is the latest stereo wireless standard. The CyFi can also be used to receive phone calls while you listen to music, as it’s also a hands-free speaker. And if your phone supports voice recognition, then you can make speed dialing calls.
Starting September 22, the device will be available on the company’s online store, with a retail price of $179,95 for the Bluetooth version and $199,5 for the iPod version.

(Source Gizmag)

Whenever a new device is brought to light, the logical and perfectly understandable tendency is to create a system to make the use of the device at least bearable, if not a whole lot easier. That’s what also happened when we all started texting on numerical pads and the revolutionary T9 texting, a system of predictive text, facilitated the new task.

Cliff Kushler, one of the guys who developed the T9 technology, set his mind on lightening and taking writing on a touchscreen keyboard to the next level. He, therefore, developed Swype, an amazing new system which is said to be a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. This technology allows you to input words more quickly than other data input methods (you can write at up to 50 words per minute) with one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard. You can use the application on a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more. The only thing you should do is to simply trace a path through the word. If you do that, the system will recognize the word you want to write down, even if you are not very accurate.

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Swype has three major components: an input path analyzer, a search engine which matches words with accompanying word database and an user interface which is customizable by OEM’s. The system runs in real-time and can be used on relatively low-powered portable devices. Concerning the software, it is very tightly written and has a total memory footprint of under 1MB: the application requires from 50K to 90K (it depends on options, when complied for the Windows Mobile platform) meanwhile the 65.000-word language database has an average size of approximately 250K.



The Swype system is very easy to learn, as the keyboard layout is QWERTY. Therefore, there is virtually no learning curve if you’re already familiar with a regular keyboard. On the other hand, Swype seems to do all the work by itself: it automatically enters spaces for you and it corrects misspelled words. So, if you, for example, trace out “hlep”, Swype will automatically generate “help”. The Swype dictionary has 65.000 words and it covers to a great extent the vocabulary, but if the word you are typing isn’t already in the dictionary, once you tap it out followed by a space, Swype will remember it the next time you’ll need it. You don’t even need to worry about accented characters (words which have in their structure “diacritics”), as Swype will display the correct spelling immediately after you trace the word.



Maybe it’s a little difficult to understand how this new system works, but when the technology will apply to Windows Mobile (smartphones), to the tablet version of XP and Vista, or, why not, to the iPhone, I’m sure that Swype will undoubtedly replace the famous T9.

(Source Dvice)

Soon you’ll be able to playback the music on your cell phone for a longer time, thanks to a new technology used in the headphone amplifier LSI called ML2650. It will be provided by Oki Electric Industry, a top telecommunication solutions manufacturer from Japan.



This new module measuring 2.54 x 2.70 mm will start shipping next month bringing a D-class amplifier with 64KB SRAM for saving music temporary, enabling lower power consumption, which leads to longer battery life. The Static Random Access Memory is opposed to the Dynamic Random Access Memory, and doesn’t need to be refreshed from time to time, but is lost when not powered.

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Not only cell phones will benefit from its capabilities, but also the other portable digital devices using music playback. As all these need higher and higher central processing unit performance, Oki came up with the easiest solution – moving processed music data onto the Random Access Memory, releasing the processor from this demanding task.

Hiroshi Enomoto, President of Silicon Solutions Company at OKI explains: “OKI developed the ML2650, which includes a D-class headphone amplifier to connect with the external CPU, a 64KB SRAM, and a 16 bit stereo DA converter, all on a single chip that will help to reduce load from the CPU. This LSI will enable mobile device/phone manufacturers to easily extend the music playback time. In addition, with the ultra small package size at 2.54 mm x 2.70 mm, it will contribute in smaller devices as it significantly reduces the packaging space.”

Just when the cell phone dies in the middle of a crucial discussion we realize how much we need a mobile charger. Without this device, the mobile phone becomes useless and causes its owner the most unbelievable frustration of not being able to communicate.



Cell phones come in packages with mobile chargers, which are small devices provided with batteries that you can plug a dying phone into. They serve one purpose and one purpose only and this is the reason why they’re not so very popular among cell phones’ users. Moreover, they become something like an indispensable object that must never be forgotten in order to have it on hand whenever you need to have your battery quickly charged.

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The One Battery Mobile Charger Pen is a new charger designed and released by the Gadget4all website to solve this annoying problem and it’s different from other similar devices because it has the shape of a pen which does work. This new charger holds a single AA alkaline battery or NI-MH rechargeable battery which can charge the cellphone for 100 minutes (more than enough, in case of emergency). You don’t need to recharge pen. All you have to do is to replace the battery. The device can be plugged into a mobile phone when you are on move and that way you can recharge the handset while you wait.



The charger is provided with five different adapters for five of the most popular mobiles such as Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.



The 100 minutes of charge time means that a typical phone’s power will be increased by around two hours of talk time and around 20 hours of standby time. The dimensions of the pen are 146x20 mm and it weights 45 g.

The One Battery Mobile Charger is available now on Gadget4all website for $19, but it comes without the battery.

(Source Dvice)

If you have ever wanted to try and learn to read Japanese, which a very complex language, but it would help you in case you play to stay for a while in this country, now you have to chance to do it in a smart way directly on your iPhone or iPod.
ThinkMac Software is a company from the United Kingdom, an independent software developer that designs innovative applications for the iPhone platform.

By installing the iKana touch 1.0, you would enable Japanese hiragana and katakana learning on the iPhone or iPod touch, by using flash cards with cool animations, spoken sound clips and many language examples.

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In order to improve your beginner skills and learn to read Japanese, you can perform recognition tests and writing tests to memorize things easier.
Hiragana and katakana are components of the Japanese writing system, representing phonetic scripts.



The speed test provided by the application you have to identify characters before time expires, while the writing test provokes you to trace each stroke in a character correctly.
iKana touch 1.0 is available at the App Store and iTunes for the iPhone and iPod touch, while the company provides also the version for the Mac OS X. We don't know how it works and if there are issues taking into consideration the latest rumors about iPhone 3G problems, but the interface is pretty nice.



For the handsets it has a price of $7.99 USD in the United States, £4.99 in the United Kingdom, and 5.99 Euro in the European Union.
The target of this application is to teach you to speak, read and write both hiragana and katakana phonetic alphabets, in a fun and easy way.