Cute & Adorable Gadgets!

Meizu’s MiniOne M8 (a possible iPhone rival) will have a release date of early 2008. At an anorexic 58 x 105 x 11.8-mm, the MiniOne has a 667MHz ARM11 processor (with Windows CE 6.0), a 3.3 inch, 720 x 480 pixel touchscreen, GSM with EDGE, WCDMA/HSDPA/GSM/EDGE, Bluetooth, WiFi, and a 3 megapixel camera. When the Meizu MiniOne goes on sale, you can choose between 4, 8, and 16 GB of flash memory. The current estimated price is $988.50 for the 16 GB version, and the rumoured launch date is December 7th, 2007.

Update: Look! A new press release photo!

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing a menagerie of items from Cable Organizer. Unsurprisingly, these gadgets all had to do with.. uh… organizing cables of some sort or another. Below is a shot of all the cable gizmos, including the Cable Turtles, Power Squid, PowerStation Traveller, and USB FireWire 5 in 1 QuickConnect.

The Cable Turtles were probably the cutest of all the gadgets. Their purpose is simple- to hide clutter by coiling up long cables within their “shells”, and thus make a computer station much more organized. I used these next to my desktop, and the mess greatly decreased because of them. However, because the mess of coils was mostly behind the desktop, it didn’t make that much of an impact on a day to day basis. Overall, these Cable Turtles are perfect for a neat geek, and are quite affordable too! Rating: 9.0/10

Below is the PowerStation Traveller [sic], which enables the user to charge up to three gadgets in the car via DC power.

You can adjust the sliders so that your gadgets won’t shift around while you’re traveling. After placing your gadgets in the PowerStation, you merely need to plug the gadgets into three hidden DC power connectors, and then plug the outside connector into the DC car jack. You can also use AC/DC power if you buy an adapter (for $17 more). Overall, I would use this product heavily during road trips, and for more effective charging. However, it is a bit expensive (more so if you include the AC/DC adapter), especially considering I could just charge the gadgets separately. Rating: 7.5/10.

Pictured below is the PowerSquid: a power multiplier that multiplies power to five different grounded outlets.

The PowerSquid is more aesthetically pleasing than other power multipliers that I’ve seen. Additionally, its flexible branches allow for easier connection. Overall the PowerSquid is a lovely product, and I would highly recommend it in place of a normal power multiplier. The only gripe I had was that it was sometimes difficult to plug in electronic devices. Rating: 9.5/10.

The last product that Cable Organizer sent me to review was the USB FireWire 5 in 1 QuickConnect Cable. The QuickConnect USB Cable is a multi-purpose cable connector that comes with five different USB configurations (USB A Male, USB B Male, Mini USB A Male, Mini USB B Male, USB A Female). This facilitates easy installation of USB software and products (scanners, cameras, external hard drives, etc).

Below you can see the USB FireWire QuickConnect Cable with two of the configurations attached. While the QuickConnect is a useful gadget to have around in case you lose a USB cord, or you buy a gadget that doesn’t come with a USB adapter, I personally have never had need of such a gadget. Nevertheless, this is a quality product that will work flawlessly if you need a five in one USB Cable. Rating: 7.0/10.

I enjoyed using the efficient products from Cable Organizer.  So if you ever need to organize your cables, check it out!

Sony has a whole new line of Vaio Laptops- the VGN-FZ70B and the VGN-FZ50B. Both of these Vaios have an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM (customizable up to 2 GB), and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT GPU. The Sony Vaio VGN-FZ70B has a 160 GB Hard Drive, and a Blue-Ray burner, while the Sony Vaio VGN-FZ50B has a DVD multi-burner and a 120 GB Hard Drive. Both laptops come with WiFi 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth, a low resolution camera (0.3 megapixels) and memory stick slots (SD/MMC).

Also in the FZ series of Sony Vaios are the FZ90NS, FZ90S and FZ90HS laptops, which have a faster CPU and much more RAM. All in all, the FZ series is an attractive set of laptops set out by Sony, and will most likely be a top seller!

In case you were unaware, Apple launched a new product today. It’s called something like the iPhone. Yeah, the media hasn’t been covering it much, but all the same the Cute and Adorable Gadgets blog lives to enlighten its readers with obscure stories. You can view more unboxing pics here, here, and here.

It looks like T-Mobile will launch the BlackBerry 8320 in September 2007. The T-Mobile BlackBerry 8320 will also have WiFi.  Other features include a 3.2 megapixel camera with 6x digital zoom and flash improvement, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, a microSD slot, 64 mb of internal memory, streaming media support, 4.5 hours of talk time or 17 days of standby, Bluetooth, and an improved build quality.