Polaroid has unveiled Polaroid Grey Label, an original line of products co-designed with the company’s new creative director, Lady Gaga. The inaugural Polaroid Grey Label line includes the GL10 Instant Mobile Printer, GL30 Instant Digital Camera and the GL20 Camera Glasses, which Polaroid claims are a ”unique new look at how to turn images into a fashion statement.” The GL10 Instant Mobile Printer uses patented ZINK Paper which is manufactured with dye crystals embedded inside. The printer relies on heat to activate and colorize these crystals and reproduce the desired image. On the plus side, ZINK technology doesn’t require messy toner or inkjet cartridges. The limitation though is that the printer only creates 3x4 inch prints. The GL30 Instant Digital Camera also uses Zink technology to combine the benefits of a digital camera with the ability to print instant photos. The GL20 Camera Glasses merge fashion with photography. Using the glasses, users can instantly capture or upload photos with the built-in camera and then display the images on the glasses’ LCD screens for others to see as a digital fashion statement.
The Enviroplug is an energy saving adapter for mobile phones. With the Enviroplug, leave the mobile phone plugged in, safe in the knowledge that once the phone’s battery has been fully charged, the plug will stop any further drain of electricity. Many people leave their phones to charge overnight even though phones are often charged within two hours. Each hour the phone is plugged in after full charge has been achieved, the charger would usually draw 2 watts, whereas the Enviroplug will only draw 0.35 watts an hour. For those that leave the charger constantly plugged in, the amount of energy saved is substantially greater as a charger left plugged in but not connected to a mobile still uses about 24 watts over a 16 hour period. With the Enviroplug this amount is reduced to 0.8 watts in 16 hours.
Mufin player’s app for Android makes it possible to stream music directly from the cloud onto a mobile phone or tablet, classifying the music by sound similarities. With the free mufin player 2.0 for your PC and its integrated online mufin.drive — a cloud storage space for your music — you can store your music collection online with just one click. Then play your music anytime, anywhere with the Android app. After having analyzed the sound using mufin player 2.0, the app uploads your music collection and visualizes it in a sound map on your mobile phone or tablet. Each track is displayed as a circle and its respective cover and the tracks are arranged according to their mood. Users can move freely from mood to mood, play tracks, pause, skip, create automatic playlists and much more.
Clickfree creates effortless backups without the need to download, install or configure software. To create the backup, there’s no need to know anything about the wireless setup or configuration of a network. By simply plugging the Clickfree Wireless device into each networked computer and performing an initial backup, all settings will be configured. Then, plug Clickfree into any electric socket in the house and backups will be done automatically using 802.11n wireless technology. The device can be placed anywhere in the home, and does not need to be plugged into any of the computers again for it to continue backing up and safeguarding the digital data on either PCs or MACs. Clickfree allows the archiving of important files to DVDs/CDs for additional security and features an easy-to-use totally automatic restore process.
