Facebook app for Zune HD goes live
If there is one winner that Microsoft has rolled out in the handheld space, it’s the Zune HD. Going live against the iPod touch 3G last year, the Zune HD did do a fair enough job. The design & UI…
Working Vintage Computers courtesy Fujitsu Technology Hall (Video)
Thanks to the guys at Akihabara news to have brought this out to the public. Apparently Fujitsu’s Kawasaki Main Office houses the Fujitsu Technology Hall which is a host to the vintage computers all in working condition. Pictured above is a automatic relay computer from the stone…
C series goes official with Nokia C5
Nokia C series has finally gone official with Nokia showing the C5 officially. Leaked earlier, we already had a fair idea of what the C5 can offer and here is what Nokia says: We are introducing the new Nokia C5, an affordable smartphone…
Feel the $500 iPad is expensive? Try Haleron’s iLet Mini Hal
Featuring a 7″ touchscreen and a mere 600MHz processor running on Ocean Android the iLet Mini Hal serves the purpose at just $200. Now this wouldn’t put the iPad or the Asus Eee to shame when it comes to performance,…
Asus Eee PC T101MT tablet gets previewed before release
Asus made an impact in the industry with the Eee PC and they seem to be gearing up to ride the tablets wave we are seeing this year. The yet to be officially Eee PC T101MT (teaser video seen before) seems to have leaked out been and previewed early, and hands…
Microsoft considers Mac OS support Windows Phone 7
When Apple launched iPhone back in 2007, it certainly offered support for Windows based systems. Reason being simple that millions of Windows OS based users existed compared to the Mac OS X users. Now, Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 7 series…
Samsung 3DTV demo with new 3D glasses (Video)
The 3DTV industry is buzzing with activity this year, with Samsung launching its own at the CES in Jan this year. Samsung has already gone into mass production with its 3DTV. Below is a video from Which? which gives us…
LG to ship Windows Phone 7 in September
One of the biggest hit of the latest MWC in Barcelona and the Platinum Event Sponsor; the Windows Phone 7 paired with the LG is finally gearing up to be rolled out. As the reports flowing in from Engadget Chinese suggest…
The 3R-C: Honda’s Three Wheeled Electric Concept Vehicle
The Honda 3R-C is a three wheeled concept vehicle just announced before the Geneva Motor Show. The concept vehicle will be on display along with the EV-N concept which makes it European debut. The vehicle tries to give us a glimpse of ehat the future mode of transport for individuals might look like.…
Recognizr App brings Face Detection to Android
Yes! You are reading it right. An app which will not only identify the person in front of you but also give you their identification and social information at the same time. This concept app called ‘Recognizr‘, is developed by…
Mumbai Blogcamp! Bloggers Day Out
We all know how bloggers are and how their lifestyle is. These people usually meet new friends, talk to them and visit new places on the net. As such a blogger at the end of the day hardly goes out…
The Bloom Box: Green Energy for the Future! (Video)
One block of these can power 4 to 6 Indian homes or one home in the UK whereas you put the two together and its ready to power an American home. That’s the power of the Bloom box created by…
iPhone unlikely to get FLASH support ever?
Ever since the original iPhone in 2007 landed without flash support the rumors of Adobe Flash coming to the iPhone in a future release are regular. Adobe even made its desire to be compatible with the Jesus phone public, but…
Is original the new fake? Ghost shifts at work
We have heard it since long that components and spares for MNC products sold in India are sourced illegally (or perhaps a better term is “Jugaad”) from company manufacturing units itself. The vast manufacturing hubs that China houses are not…
Sony Ericsson Dot: Crowdsourcing Mobile Ideas
Sony Ericsson has gone live with a new initiative called ‘SE-dot’. SE dot is aimed at crowdsourcing and developing new ideas. As the company informs us, the idea behind SE-dot is to jump the focus from technology and come down…
A conversation with Mr Vic Hayes, father of WiFi
Mr Vic Hayes at IIT Techfest (also pictured Dr Alessandra) Special thanks to Aditya Sengupta [@sengupta (Blog)] for the interview on behalf of OnlyGizmos Before attending Lars Rasmussen’s lecture, we attended what turned out to be one of the more…
Giveaway: Forza 3 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro Unlock Code
We are giving away Downloadable 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro for Forza Motorsport 3 on Xbox 360. So if you are one of those waiting to get your hands on this one, well here is your opportunity to get…
Nokia looking to end platform confusion? Maemo + Moblin = MeeGo
Nokia has finally done something that makes us feel that they aren’t really heading towards the platform confusion mode as we have constantly been thinking. After juggling 3 different OS (Symbian, Maemo and oFono with Intel), Nokia has announced MeeGO…
Green Award winning Siemens SpeedMatic Dishwasher
This is the award winning Siemens speedMatic Dishwasher. It is 20% more efficient than any other in the highest energy-efficiency category. Its minimal water consumption of 10 instead of 14 litres per cycle is also a new record by the…
Leech Plug! You plug, it unplugs (Video)
At OG, we have always been a fan of power saving technologies. Hence here we have the Leech Plug. Whats so fascinating about this one? It is an outlet regulator which unplugs itself once the required energy is obtained, just…
Bharti Airtel trying to enter the African market again with Zain
Indian Telecom giant Sunil Mittal is making a third attempt to enter the African market. He has bid a price of about 10.7-billion-dollar to buy the African unit of Kuwait’s Zain Telecom. After two attempts to woo MTN, Airtel is…
Map Wars! The Mobile GPS evolution
GPS on the phone is now something very common and just one of the things the smartphone boom has brought to us. As much as these mobiles threat the digital camera market, portable GPS navigation devices have now become one…
Windows Phone 7 Series Brings No Flash love
Microsoft has finally announced and showed off their next mobile operating system with a bit different brand name – Windows Phone 7 Series. Apart from sleek and staid interface, there are several features integrated to the core level. But surprisingly…
Vodafone launches Voda 150 & 250: Worlds cheapest phones
With the slew, of smart phones being launched at the Mobile World Congress 2010. Vodafone has managed to pull the rabbit right out of the hat and surprise everyone by launching two ultra simple phones which is being billed as…
Samsung Bada OS, here to shake the Android, iPhone?
No, I ain’t speculating, but the fact remains that both android and iPhone comes from truly sophisticated Internet + software companies, I may be wrong, but I doubt if Samsung can deliver that level of a smartphone os. The touchwiz…
Buzz about Google Buzz
This is a guest post by Moksh Juneja, Social Media Catalyst and Founder of Avignyata. Follow him on twitter @mokshjuneja The choice of integration of Google Buzz with Gmail was a good choice rather than creating a whole new application…
Neon Green Soular backpack
While onlygizmos has been covering a lot of green technology of late. Here, is another one that has caught our attention. This one looks like a normal backpack (durable more importantly), but upon closer inspection, you might realise that it…
Think only the iPhone can do magical things? see the N900
For all the cheer that iPhone fans had all these years with all the geeky hacks on the Jesus phone, well here comes N900. Yes that’s a Nokia N900 running Windows 95! We know that the Maemo 5 that N900…
Solved: Tata Photon not working on Windows 7? (EpiValley SEC-8089 driver)
Got a Tata Photon+? Happy about the 3.1mbps connection? Well it sure works like a charm – and I would confess here that all videos we uploaded to youtube during the IIT Techfest coverage this year was using a Tata…
Segway making an official entry in India soon!
Though Segway’s aren’t extremely popular for automobile or technology enthusiasts, Neil Nitin Mukesh did manage to get some traction for the same in India it seems. Segway is a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle that promises to give you a non…
Do we need a 1280×1024 mobile?
I just came across this really sexy and sleek Qisda mobile that would launch sometime soon. On the specs front, this promises 1280×768 resolution on a 4? touchscreen. Thats even higher than the 854×480 we saw on the Motorola Droid. And…
Exhibitions at Technovanza 2010 @ VJTI
Technovanza 2010 at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) was bigger than ever before. Technovanza team had set out with the aim to take Technology to the society this year and the various initiatives we saw at the exhibitions left us…
Humminger 3.0 shows off its potential at Technovanza [Video]
Combining the stability of a Chopper and the efficiency of an aeroplane, the Humminger concept had won the Stage-I of DRDO Students Competition in 2008 ranking amongst top 10 of 272 teams across India. With constant improvements made to the…
Crazy Rubik’s Cube action @ Technovanza 2010
One of the many impressive views at the VJTI annual festival – Technovanza was the Rubik’s cube competition. Endorsed by the World Cube association the competition at Technovanza saw rubik’s enthusiasts from all over India going head to head. Having…
Nexus One proves how important carrier tie-ups are!
If there is anything that the poor sales of the Google Nexus One proves to me, its the control, the evil control rather – that the US carriers have over the mobile market. Long before Google unveiled the Nexus one,…
Classics iPhone app inspires iBooks on the iPad (AppStore Free)
Now for this app giving the name of Classics is very rhetorical, because the future of books is This, as this the core thing on iPad. Let me clarify myself here, Someone once said the future is very much reading…
International Exhibitions @ IIT Bombay Techfest 2010
If the internal IITB exhibitions rocked this year the international exhibitions were no less and pretty much upto the mark compared to the previous versions. There were many innovative and advanced technologies at display (read James Bond style technology if…
ATM haunted with BSOD – Picture of the month
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Open source Symbian: opportunity or challenge?
Last June Nokia announced its plans to go open source with the Symbian platform. Already handed over to the Symbian Foundation, the smartphone OS that currently powers over 300million handsets has been battling it out with the Apple iPhone, Android…
… in other news – 4/2/10
All that we aren’t taking about at OG, but there is a chatter in the tech town! OS 3.2 reveals details of next iPhone, 720p video recording? Higher res? HD? – read at Intomobile Aspen: The green business phone from…
