Month: September 2017

#SmartHalo brings innovative technology to #cyclists for safer and healthier urban mobility .

With its circular, award-winning minimalist interface, SmartHalo shows the quickest and safest paths to destinations, lights the way at night and keeps the bike safe against thieves with its integrated alarm system. It’s the smart biking system cyclists have been waiting for.

SmartHalo Technologies Inc., the urban mobility technology innovator, announced today that SmartHalo, its smart device for urban cyclists, is now available for $149 in the US and Canada online at smarthalo.bike.

With its circular, award-winning minimalist interface, SmartHalo shows the quickest and safest paths to destinations, lights the way at night and keeps the bike safe against thieves with its integrated alarm system. It’s the smart biking system cyclists have been waiting for.

SmartHalo addresses the current challenges of today’s urban mobility and contributes to greener, more human cities. With its sleek design, SmartHalo attaches to any type of bike handlebar and pairs by Bluetooth with the SmartHalo app. While cycling, the phone stays in the pocket or the purse – all the information is shown using the tactile circular interface and contextual sounds.

Precise and intuitive navigation designed to take the safest and fastest routes, while keeping the eyes on the road.

 

A powerful front light that makes night rides journeys safer and more enjoyable that automatically turn on and off depending on the time of the day.  An alarm designed to trigger a loud sound when the bike is tampered with, to prevent bike theft.A series of enhanced fitness features that automatically track and analyze fitness metrics without having to press start or stop.

Smarthalo’s personal assistant notifies you of incoming calls with a simple blue dot at the center of the interface. SmartHalo took the cycling world by storm with its Kickstarter and pre-sale campaign with 10,000 units sold and delivered.  

#DiskShred returning in excess of €250,000 to clients in next 12 months #DiskShred #IT

The service will see DiskShred return in excess of €250,000 to clients in the next 12 months. In many cases, the value that companies stand to recover from the service can render DiskShred’s services cost-neutral, allowing businesses to avail of its hard drive shredding and data destruction services free of charge.

DiskShred, Ireland’s leading on-site hard drive and media shredding provider, today announces the launch of a new service to help companies recover the value of their retired IT equipment. The company expects to return in excess of €250,000 to clients in the next 12 months.

DiskShred specialises in providing secure on-site shredding services to the most security conscious companies, including financial services, data centres and public bodies. While DiskShred previously focused solely on providing on-site data destruction services, the launch of the new service is a direct response to customer demand.

Jeremy Bryan, brand manager, DiskShred, said: “We approached a number of our customers to discuss their other equipment disposal requirements as well as hard drive shredding.  Our clients have responded well to the opportunity to recover the value of their old IT assets.  We have been able to help them to get cash back from their end-of-life assets, which often enables them to avail of our leading data destruction and shredding services free of charge.”

Used IT equipment can retain a considerable amount of its value, and this is often true for used equipment from data centres.  Even without hard drives, servers and their parts can have value which Diskshred can help its customers to recover.

To establish where value can be returned, DiskShred’s knowledgeable team can conduct an audit of clients’ facilities and advise on equipment where residual value is recoverable. Where there is value, IT assets are transported to DiskShred’s secure facility in the provider’s purpose-built vehicles. DiskShred then assesses the equipment’s market value to find the channel that will capture the highest possible return, with the value passed back to customers.

Jeremy Bryan said: “The addition of this new service to our portfolio will make it even easier for companies to avail of DiskShred’s services and guarantee the lowest risk of a data breach. We provide a return on equipment that can be put towards shredding data bearing equipment. Having worked with companies throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe for the last number of years, we have found that companies are often not aware of the value of their old equipment. This service will help us to find the return on equipment for customers, enabling them to reinvest the value recovered or benefit from our secure shredding service at no cost.”

First look and Unboxing of the Nokia Body BMI Wi-Fi Scales #Health #NokiaHealth

Formerly Withings we have just got our Nokia Body Wi-Fi scales, Today will be a quick unboxing and over the coming weeks we will check it out and all its features. If you have any questions in the meantime feel free to ask as we offer support on all out product reviews.

Nokia Body offers a complete weight tracking experience tailored to individuals seeking easy, effective weight management. Weighing in is just the first step. Each session also provides instant feedback via weight trend and BMI screens, plus automatic sync to a free app on your smartphone, so you can track progress any time, anywhere.

BUY HERE

 

Unboxing and first look. – #Sonoff smart bulb and luxury touch switch. #smarthome

Sonoff is a company whom provides smarthome products and more and they have kindly sent us over some products to checkout and we will be feature more in the coming months.  First up is a smart bulb which is now quite common and this provides many features which look really good and cool.. So we will review these in the coming weeks and any questions fire away in the interim.

Sonoff B1: Dimmable E27 LED Lamp RGB Color Light Bulb

  • No Hub Required – Connect the bulb directly to your Wi-Fi at home
  • Manage Remotely – Control your lights from anywhere with your tablet or smartphone the free eWeLink app (iOS, Android)
  • Color Changing Hue – Fine-tune colors for every occasion and adjust brightness as well as light appearance from soft white (2800k) to daylight (6500k)
  • Voice Control – Pair to Amazon Alexa and to enable voice control
  • Circadian Mode – Dynamically adjust light intensity and temperature to mimic natural light patterns
  • Save Energy – Reduce energy use up to 80% without brightness or quality loss compared to a 60W incandescent bulb
  • Compatibility – Compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Home

BUY HERE 

Sonoff Touch – Luxury Glass Panel Touch LED Light Switch

  • Touch ON/OFF
  • Remote ON/OFF–Turn lights on/off from anywhere
  • App Support –Free iOS and Android mobile App eWeLink
  • Sync Status–Real-time device status provided to App
  • Timing–Set scheduled/countdown timers to turn on/off at specified time
  • Share Control– Control your smart home together with your family
  • Scene–Turn on/off a gang of devices with one tap
  • Smart Scene–Triggered on/off by temperature, humidity or other environmental conditions
  • Voice Control –Works perfectly with Amazon Alexa, Google Home

BUY HERE 

UNBOXING SONOS SMARTBULB AND SWITCH

Protect your child or loved one with #LibertyWatch – Now just €19.99 #tech #safety #kids

With the dark evenings and mornings now here safety is imperitive when it comes to our kids as some have a fair trek to school especially in rural areas. Not only that we have friends and family that live alone too and this is an ideal way to keep tabs on them.

Liberty Watch is now having a sale on their first model which we reviewed back in 2016  and since then they launched a new version called the Assure which also has been reviewed recently….

Liberty Watch by Irish company Watchovers is a watch designed to keep track of your loved ones whereabouts,the watch is not a smartwatch in technical terms but is by how it works. The watch comes with Wi-Fi,Telephone and a speaker. The watch comes with a sim card built in allowing the parents/guardian to tell you exactly where the user is and also check the history and you can also call the user and vice versa… Note.. You can buy a sim direct from the company or get your own either is at an additonal cost to the owner.

Drop them an email at support@watchovers.com to get this great deal and check them out on Facebook and Twitter

New MAGIX Release – Movie Edit Pro – 5 x faster editing. #MAGIX #MovieEditPro

With the release of the new Movie Edit Pro, MAGIX brings a software to the market that has been designed completely to customer feedback. New features include up to 5X faster video editing, smoother display for up to 4K resolution and a comprehensive range of effects.

 

The brand new version of Movie Edit Pro is the result of close cooperation between MAGIX developers and Movie Edit Pro customers. Listening to customer feedback, the most sought-after requests including faster speed and smoother previews, even for high-resolution  4K videos, has been incorporated. The effects area is now also perfectly synced to the user’s workflow and can be customized using the new, integrated Store. Ongoing collaboration with customers will continue to be reflected in forthcoming updates, which are included for free to customers who have bought the new version, thanks to the MAGIX Update Service.

 

NEW FEATURES
Video editing: Smoother & up to 5X faster

INTEL GPU hardware acceleration has been activated in Movie Edit Pro. As a result, editing video material can now be completed 5X faster than in the previous version. Even hi-res material up to 4K now plays smoothly on your preview monitor! The most sought-after customer request for smoother, more stable video editing has now been made possible thanks to cooperation between MAGIX and Intel.

 

Up to 1,500 effects in an expandable collection

Intros/outros, transitions, film templates and now soundtracks are available to users in a quantity and quality that’s never been seen before. In the new Movie Edit Pro Store, users can expand  their selection of effects already available in the program. The effects areas itself has been redesigned in an aesthetically pleasing, clearly laid-out tile format. All effects can be accessed with a single click, making video editing even easier and faster than ever before. A coupon worth up to € 49,95 / $49.95 / £39.95 in value for five effects is included in Plus and Premium program versions.

4 brand new premium plug-ins

Users can now work with 4 of the most-requested plug-ins: NewBlue ColorFast 2, NewBlue Elements Overlay, iZotope RX Elements & HitFilm Movie Essentials. The latest effect plug-ins are included in the Premium version and are available in the two other versions at a special price. Also included are picture-in-picture effects, split screens, high-quality sound optimization and original film effects.

The all-round solution for 360°

Movie Edit Pro also provides a unique and complete solution for optimizing 360° recordings. The latest features such as 360° stitching and 360° perspective rotation complete the comprehensive set of 360° features with 360° effects and 360° to 2D cutout animation.

Preview: Future updates

With the purchase of the latest Movie Edit Pro version, users will also receive forthcoming feature updates for free. New features available in November: Discover total freedom in the Timeline! Tracks can be customized to the user’s needs at any time, enabling a simpler, more flexible video editing workflow. Another feature to be released in November designed in line with customer feedback is the chroma keying feature, which is now significantly more user-friendly.

 

The new version of Movie Edit Pro is now available online and in stores worldwide.

Movie Edit Pro – £59.99

Movie Edit Pro Plus – £79.99

Movie Edit Pro Premium –£99.99

Anya Hindmarch captures London Fashion Week from all angles exclusively on the Nokia 8. 

Using the Nokia 8 Dual-Sight camera technology, Anya Hindmarch will capture exclusive Bothies from LFW, showcasing the lead up to and during her AW17 fashion show.

HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, has partnered with British fashion designer Anya Hindmarch to give fashion fans access to London Fashion Week from backstage to front row, all captured on the new Nokia 8.

The Nokia 8 has a Dual-Sight technology that simultaneously harnesses the front and rear cameras in a split-screen visual. The Nokia 8 introduces a world-first in enabling Dual-Sight video to be livestreamed directly from the camera app to social media channels, Facebook and YouTube. With photos and videos now showing more than one side of the story, guests at Anya’s show will be able to reveal their reactions to the catwalk as the collection unfolds.

Talking about the partnership, Sarka Baron, Marketing Director Western Europe at HMD Global said, “Anya is renowned for her creativity. We can’t think of a better way for the industry to capture the thrilling moments of her show than with the Nokia 8. Now they can share Anya’s incredible collection alongside their real-timereactions thanks to our Dual-Sight technology. We’re also really excited that, for the first time ever, Anya will use the Nokia 8 to capture her preparation for the show, giving fashion fans around the world a designer’s perspective on the lead up to London Fashion Week.”

Talking about the partnership, Anya Hindmarch said “The Bothie is really fun creative communication tool. I record all the build up for the shows from the set build to the behind the scenes preparation which is always an exciting time so I am looking forward to exploring this with the Bothie on my new Nokia 8”

See our coverage of the Nokia 8 launch event in London

Review – Cubetto,Coding for kids without screens with a wooden robot. #Cubetto #Coding

Cubetto is a friendly wooden robot designed to teach kids from the age of 3 to code and its quite simple even for a novice or a newcomer to coding something which I wish I took up but hey things happen, As of now we have many kids coding getting younger each year and this toy robot could be the begining for your child..

UNBOXING CUBETTO

Cubetto is simple and it comes packed equally the same as seen above there is nothing much technical to it apart from having to insert some batteries which are AAA. Cubetto comes with 4 main parts, A map which you lay down on your floor,you will need space because its big,A board which is your control panel so to speak,Blocks which are your codes which in turn talk to the final piece which is the wodden robot which is simplistic and friendly looking. Presentation of the package is also worth noting as seen in the unboxing above.

Cubetto is the friendly wooden robot that will teach your child the basics of computer programming through adventure and hands on play. Montessori approved, LOGO Turtle inspired.

To make the robot move you need to pair up both first which is simple you will require 6 AAA batteries 3 for the robot and 3 for the control board, As you place in the pieces of code you will then see a code form and there will be a blue light indicator on each block and this is how it works througout. I would first suggest iron the creases out of the maps as they are heavy material and the robot can get suck or confused on the folds.

On the control panel you have a queue a function line and a big Blue button which is simply GO. This is the button which talks to the robot.There is 4 coloured blocks Green,Red,Yellow and Blue. Green moves the robot forward,Red is right Yellow is left and Blue is a fucnction excecution.

Cubetto is a great toy and educational and it also gives you valauble time with your kids to sit down and have some fun and there is many maps to discover and you can download them too,personally I am not into coding but I actually enjoyed trying this out and I myslef learned something new and had fun and it was good to see how quick it was for my child to pick up and demo what the robot can do, Like I said there is many more maps to discover,This however came short of some codes which where sent out if you backed this on kickstarter which could add some more fun to the game and it limits the fucntionality of movement even my child asked why cant it move some directions,perhaps they might include these later on but its not really an issue but something I need to point out.

 

If you are worried about this being a challenge fear not,there is great instructions and Cubetto have great tutorial videos online too so you can check them out should you run into difficulty. After that just sit back learn and enjoy the journey the friendly little robot will take you on with your kids. As much as I like my tech but not one to code this for me was great personally to learn something new be it small and it was good to watch my child learn and then being able to show me a thing or two.

See more over at – https://www.primotoys.com/

 

 

Belkin introduces new wireless charging pad for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X

Belkin yesterday introduced its new wireless charging pad for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X on stage at the Steve Jobs Theater. The Belkin Boost↑Up Wireless Charging Pad brings wireless charging to millions of new iPhone users around the world. The Boost↑Up Wireless Charging Pad provides an effortless wireless charging experience for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. It is fine-tuned with Qi technology under the hood, and is also able to charge at levels up to 7.5W for compatible devices.

Belkin general manager and vice president Steve Malony says: “Customers around the world love iPhone and we believe wireless charging is the future. We are excited to continue expanding Belkin’s growing portfolio of wireless charging solutions with the new Boost↑Up Wireless Charging Pad for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X, holding to our mission of helping consumers realize the power of new technology. Today we deliver the best cable-free and convenient charging solution for new iPhone users.”

 

 

Boost↑Up Wireless Charging Pad Features

—    Cable-free convenience

—    Charges iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X on contact while maintaining full functionality of device including ability to receive calls

—    Charging levels optimised up to 7.5W for compatible devices

—    Ability to charge through cases up to 3mm thick

—    The latest Qi wireless charging standard

—    Connected equipment warranty up to £2,500 + bonus warranty

Availability – Belkin’s Boost↑Up Wireless Charging Pad is available for purchase Sept. 15 for an MSRP of £59.99 at belkin.com and £54.95 at apple.com Coming soon to Apple stores worldwide. For more information, please visit Belkin.com/BoostUpWireless.