Gadget Mecca.
Coming at you like a crazy technology-hungry magpie, today we're reporting live from the gadget world's annual get-together, The Gadget show Live. Taking place at the NEC in Birmingham until the weekend, the convention is a great chance to see the very latest in consumer technology, gadgets, toys, and novelties. Today we met a lot of lovely people and played with a lot of lovely gizmos, but here we wanted to highlight a few that really caught our eye.
Coming at you like a crazy technology-hungry magpie, today we're reporting live from the gadget world's annual get-together, The Gadget show Live. Taking place at the NEC in Birmingham until the weekend, the convention is a great chance to see the very latest in consumer technology, gadgets, toys, and novelties. Today we met a lot of lovely people and played with a lot of lovely gizmos, but here we wanted to highlight a few that really caught our eye.
Haibike
This range of electric
bicycles really stood out for not appearing how you'd expect a
battery-powered bike to look. The range features road bikes, rugged
mountain bikes and hybrid bikes to cater for all kinds of cyclists.
Visit www.haibike.co.uk
Mycrocam
This tiny thing is the
smallest and, most importantly, lightest action camera we've ever
seen. Seriously, you have to hold this thing to believe it. When
given a demonstration we assumed we were holding a hollow prototype,
not the actual thing. Recently introduced from Germany, the Mycrocam
features 720p HD video and weighs in at just 17 grams! You could
smoother a quadcopter in these things and still fly.
Visit
www.organisemycar.com
Eyejusters
One to interest those
who wear glasses, the Eyejusters are reading glasses that feature
leness that you can adjust yourself to match your prescription. The
glasses themselves are still in a prototype stage, but early versions
we saw were pretty amazing, utilising two thin plastic lens which
slide across each other to change the focal point. This company has
big plans both here and in the developing world and we're looking
forward to getting our short-sighted peepers on a pair.
Visit
www.eyejusters.com
iStick
This USB flash drive
will change the lives of iPhone owners... probably. As you can't
expand the storage on Apple's flagship headset, when you run out of
space you either have to copy off onto your laptop, or upload to the
cloud – pretty tricky if you're stuck in the middle of nowhere
without reception. Enter the iStick, a flash drive featuring both
full-sized USB and Lightning connectors. With storage available up to
128 GB, we're looking forward to getting our hands on one.
Visit
www.myistick.co.uk
D-Link AC3200 Ultra
WiFi Router
No, this isn't the
latest radio controlled drone, this is an actual wireless router. The
six-antennas make the AC3200 pretty noteworthy and we can imagine
this would be quite the conversation piece. The reason for so many
sticky-out bits? This features two separate 5gHz channels, allowing
quicker WiFi connection for even more devices.
Visit www.dlink.com/uk
TurnsPro
This is a mount for any
camera, action cam or smartphone that allows the user to take
stunning time lapse videos. By slowly and steadily rotating the
device (which would be set to time-lapse capture mode) the footage
that can be captured isn't shaky and interrupted. Check out their
site for some great examples.
Visit www.turnspro.com
The Centre for
Computing History
Not a gadget, but
something we absolutely loved. The Centre, which is based in
Cambridge, is a repository of computers and gaming consoles from
history. If it was released and ran software and games, it'll be
there, and we felt particular joy to see the Commodore Amiga
represented at their stand at the show. And it was even running
Lemmings!
See even more awesome stuff for yourself. Visit www.gadgetshowlive.net