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Careless laptop users emitting Wi-Fi and alerting thieves

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Careless laptop users emitting Wi-Fi and alerting thieves

One of the latest warning issued by a security specialist is that of turning off your Wi-Fi connection before hibernating your notebook PC. According to Credant Technologies, some users are unwittingly advertising the location of their laptop to anyone with a cheap off-the-shelf handheld wireless signal detector. Apparently one of the global hotspots for this kind of theft is Jamaica, but the crime could easily be committed anywhere else. Something I wasn’t aware of (and is rather worrying in its own right) is that some notebook PCs can stay awake for up to 30 minutes even after the lid is shut. Quite why this is necessary (unless it’s deliberately set Read more »

Wi-Fi Body Scale transmits your weight to web and iPhone

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Wi-Fi Body Scale transmits your weight to web and iPhone

Wirelessly connected medial and health devices aren’t brand new, but French tech company Withings claims to have created the world’s first Wi-Fi enabled body scale. No longer do you have to put up with those boring bathroom scales that simply tell you on a dial or LED readout what your weight is. Now you can tell a website whether your latest diet, weight loss (or weight gain) programme is working out… or not. The scale is pretty smart as it goes. It uses bioelectric impedance analysis to calculate body fat composition, displaying it as a weight instead of percentage, and shows BMI. It can also recognise up to eight different Read more »

PC gaming on the big screen with the IGUGU Gamecore

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PC gaming on the big screen with the IGUGU Gamecore

Though it’s not really that difficult to get your PC to display on a big TV, it’s possibly beyond casual users. Add to this the fact that you could still be shackled to keyboard and mouse and you have a bit of a problem if you want the freedom to play games like your mates with consoles. Enter IGUGU’s Gamecore, a wireless controller featuring a trackball, direction pad, joystick, programmable action buttons, a full QWERTY keyboard and six accelerometers that accurately detect your movements. Not only does this open up a wealth of game-controlling possibilities, but because the system is PC based it can run 99% of all PC games Read more »

Update your laptop to latest wireless standard with D-Link

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Update your laptop to latest wireless standard with D-Link

Go back a few years and it wasn’t uncommon to get hold of a laptop without built-in Wi-Fi capability. Those days have all but gone, though there are still a lot of laptops that only have the 802.11g wireless standard. Not a pushover when it comes to speed, but not as fast as the latest 802.11n standard. Enter D-Link, offering what they claim is the smallest 802.11n USB stick currently available. The DWA-131 Wireless N Nano USB Adapter offers a one-click secure connection to a WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) access point using WPA2 encryption. It won’t break the bank, either, coming in at £34.99 in the UK — that’s about Read more »

Asus Wireless eee Keyboard PC Video available

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We have reported before on the Asus eee Keyboard PC, with wireless HDMI and touchpad. The guys from UMPC Portal have now released a video. The video reinforces first impression and this could very well be the first of the computer of the future. Control everything multimedia in your house via your wireless keyboard PC. Read more »

ASUS goes wireless with the Eee Keyboard PC

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ASUS goes wireless with the Eee Keyboard PC

The Eee Keyboard PC reminds me of the days when all the computer components were built in underneath the keyboard and you hooked it up to a TV – well, except that this version is a lot slimmer and faster, you can connect it to a high definition TV, it can work wirelessly, and it has a touch panel display. Detailed specs aren’t easily available yet, though Slashgear suggests it will sport a 1.6Ghz Intel Atom processor and come with a gigabyte of DDR2 memory and either 16GB or 32GB of SSD storage. Read more »

Samsung's wireless printers

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Samsung's wireless printers

Oh no… I hope my uncle’s not reading this today because I’m sure he’d head on over to the nearest Office Depot to get this wireless printer! I’m not too sure what’s he got with printers that he always need to get the latest ones. I’ve been helping him out all week last week to install 2 fax/printer/copy/scanners by Canon. The first one on a wireless printer server via Net Gear and the other one taking an ethernet cable to his Dell True Mobile router. He’s still to ask me to connect 2 laser printers for him next week, now this new printer comes out. I’m very sure once he Read more »