V-Screen
RealView Innovations’ V-Screen, compatible with the Sony PSP only, provides gamers with greater depth and richer environments than standard 2D images. The product is ready-to-use and is compatible with all existing PSP titles.
Where magnifiers can distort visuals and hinder visual quality, V-Screen adds depth while maintaining a smooth, clear picture and scaling the viewing area accurately. This means gamers can achieve a multi-dimensional experience for PSP games old and new.
Price: €19.99
Iomega TV with Boxee
Iomega TV is a media center combining Boxee software which gives users access to their personal digital collection, favourite TV shows and movies from the Internet. It also provides any Internet-based content that can be reached through a browser with Iomega advanced network storage functionality with 1Tb or 2Tb disk capacity to manage, share and store all personal digital collection of movies, photos, music and files.
It is easy to browse, search and filter thousands of movies from YouTube, OpenFilm, Mubi and local VOD partners and content providers which are joining the Boxee platform every month. Iomega TV allows sharing with friends on FaceBook or Twitter, Flickr and many other social media sites. It can also automatically deliver recommendations from friends directly to the TV and allows you to share your favourites with them too.
A non-storage version is also available.
Price: €399.90 (2Tb), €359.90 (1Tb), €249.90 (non-storage)
HP Photosmart 7510
HP’s current range of wireless all-in-one inkjet printers includes iOS compatibility straight off the bat with Airprint and has its own range of apps for Facebook, Bing and Flickr, basically removing the PC from the print equation.
The 7510 is energy Star qualified and prints images up to 600dpi in black and white and 9600×2400 in colour at a rate of 13.5 and nine pages per minute respectively. Measuring 455x450x220mm and weighing 8.4kg it has a surprisingly small footprint given its range of functions.
Price: €159
HTC Sensation XL
This smartphone has unrivalled sight and sound quality, it offers a comprehensive and exciting media experience. You can also record amazing HD quality video to complement your audio experience with this incredible super phone.
Features: Android smartphone, 8MP camera with autofocus and dual LED flash, 4.7" touchscreen, 720p HD video recording, Beats Audio headset and Active noise cancellation with dedicated microphone.
From €79 on eMobile
Panasonic LUMIX TZ20
Panasonic’s TZ20 uses a 24mm ultra wide angle and powerful 16x optical zoom in a compact body with built-in GPS, 3" touch screen and Full HD AVCHD movie recording.
A Nano Surface Coating boasts an extremely low reflectance ratio compared with the conventional multi coating to suppress image ghosting.
Auto focus (AF) and can be immediately set to focus on the subject by simply touching it on the large LCD and then followed by releasing the shutter again using the touch screen.
The Intelligent Scene Selector in iA mode automatically switches the camera to the appropriate mode according to the subject selected on-screen from portraits to scenery to handheld night shots.
Images or videos can be shared instantly through Facebook or YouTube with any PC and a 3D Photo mode produces a realistic, low-distortion 3D images from up to 20 consecutive images shot whilst panning.
Price: €408
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
The best tablet on the market that isn’t an iPad? The Kindle Fire might have something to say about that, but for the Irish market this Christmas that accolade probably goes to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Running Android 3.1 Honeycomb, this tablet comes with a 10.1" screen capable of 1080p at 30 fps HD playback (recording in 720p), has a muscular 1GHz dual core processor 3- and 2MP cameras front and rear respectively. Connectivity comes via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a USB port. More fun stuff includes a gyroscope, accelerometer, digital compass, and an ambient light sensor. That it comes with native Flash support is still plus.
It comes in 16-, 32- and 64Gb versions with or without 3G.
Price: €499 (Wi-Fi). Price varies by operator for 3G
Canon Legria FS406
Compact digital cameras may now all come with HD video capture as standard but camcorders haven’t entirely gone away, as evidenced by the Legria FS406. Recording to SDXC or Eye-Fi cards, it delivers 41x optical zoom and shoots in 16:9 aspect ratio. It has a battery life of 3.7 hours and only takes 20 minutes to charge. A handy pre-record function adds three seconds to the start and end of your clips, just in case you miss a crucial moment, while the bundled Pixela software provides an easy way to share and edit your footage.
Price: €250
Toshiba Portege Z830
Toshiba’s entry into the fledgling ‘ultrabook’ space has a 13.3" screen non-glare screen with LED backlighting and 6Gb of DDR3 RAM, 128Gb SSD, and a choice of Intel Core i3 or i5 processors. Weighing only 1.12kg and eight hours battery life should be enough to convince PC users this is a viable alternative to the Macbook Air.
Price (from Dabs.ie): €1,161 (Core i3), €1,317 (Core i5)
iPhone 4S
Close call on whether to recommend the iPad 2 or the iPhone 4S but on recency alone we’ll go with the world’s favourite smartphone. Key selling point this time around is Siri, Apple’s authorative voice assistant.
Don’t forget the iPhone 3GS will be staying on the market as a budget option from €349 (SIM free).
Price: From €499 (SIM free)
Agloves
You might be laughing now but there’s more than a little appeal in having a set of gloves you can use on a capacitive touch screen. And these are them.
Price: €19.99
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