Gadgets to keep you entertained

This christmas season , click team have tested some of the coolest gadgets around,



Sonos music system
Flip mino
Vuzix OLED video glasses


Sonos Music System

Once you have downloaded music onto your MP3 player,
you will find it hard to play it around the house,
but now Sonos music system will allow you to play it in several rooms,
just place a white box in each room and you can stream tracks wirelessly to
different rooms.

The wireless controller features a good-size colour screen and gives you access to all your music, and it is one of the few non-Apple things to feature a scroll wheel.

Flip Mino

Its a clever budget cam with 60 minutes of recording time.
While this is not the highest-spec camcorder around, it works well in low light and is certainly great for capturing short clips for sites such as YouTube.
it makes sense that the resolution is only 640 by 480, and the internal memory is 2GB.

Video Glasses

The Vuzix OLED Video glasses, plugging the glasses into a iPod and making yourself comfortable you will be pleasantly surprised by the quality of the image.
These are first video glasses to make use of OLED which is reflected in the superior quality of image they pump out (pretty good contrast ratio, which makes all the difference).
The only draw back is, well, you could not call these glasses stylish.

A bright future on display

Marc Cieslak the click reporter looks at the latest developments in display technology ,
Hes quest was to discover a better brighter and higher resolution display.
LCD and plasma screens quickly replacing CRT, many of the old televisions are going to the dump.
Organis light- emitting diodes (OLED) which have better pictures,lighter screens and lower power consumption

Sony is now launching the first commercial OLED screen, in december in japan and worldwide 2009.
OLED tv seen by click has a screen which is only 3mm thick, it doesnt need a backlight like a plasma and LCD which makes it energy effiecient.

Virtual world with real purposes

There is a new creation, 'virtual berlin' which allows a person to be in two places at the same time, as 20km of the city has been replicated into an online world.
At the end of 2008, 50'000 buildings in the german capital are expected to have been copied into the virtual world.This may be a rather strange idea especially for people who are so used to have their feet on the ground.

"While Second Life and others worlds offer some stylised versions of cities - Twinity uses the 3D mapping data currently used for things like satnav and Google Earth," said Jochen Hummel, the chief executive of Metaversum - owner of Twinity

The closest thing to wandering around the globe is through 3D mapping applications such as google earth that give a snapshot of places.