Belkin’s back with their spanking new Conserve Gateway router system which will work in tandem with your smart meter in order to deliver real-time insight about home energy use. How is this made possible? Well. you can check out what the Conserve Gateway reports through a simple and elegant web interface, which means you know what’s happening at home even though you’re thousands of miles away. Using their simple interface, it allows you to easily track and reduce energy use in your home, while picking up additional conservation tips that you can pass on to friends and family. Not only that, it enables utility companies with the ability to push information to Conserve Gateway with advice or calls to action, including “By using your dryer more efficiently, you can save up to $76 per year.” The protocol used here was informed by extensive ethnographic research which proved most people do not know what a kilowatt-hour (kWh) is and have even less of an idea about where power comes from. The whole idea of the Conserve Gateway router system would be to help you focus on the future, and in this case, energy conservation for the next generation. After all, this makes perfect sense since smart meter installations in homes have been growing over the years, and getting additional help to be able to pinpoint just which are the power guzzlers in your home helps as well. Among the features found on the Conserve Gateway include the ability to provision and manage a home area network (HAN) to enable the monitoring and control of in-home devices, appliances, and energy loads; a Smart Energy Profile (SEP 1.0) certified ZigBee network interface for communicating with smart meters deployed with utility advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). You will also love the Wi-Fi/Ethernet network interface that allows for communicating with cloud-based device management system through user’s home broadband router and provides an alternate channel for utilities to communicate with the gateway.
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If you happen to love your iPhone to bits, but still have problems getting used to the virtual keyboard, then perhaps, just perhaps, you might want to consider bringing home the TK 421 iPhone Case With Keyboard. This will certainly provide you with the best of both worlds, where the physical QWERTY keyboard would increase your productivity and make typing on the iPhone a whole lot easier, while offering some form of protection to your favorite smartphone simultaneously. Retailing for just under $50 a pop, you can choose from either iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 models, but unfortunately for those who have yet to place a pre-order, it is already out of stock at the moment. Well, if your boss gets you this for Christmas, you can be sure that he’s dropping a subtle hint for you to start replying emails the moment they are pushed to your inbox without complaining that you just don’t know how to use the virtual keyboard.
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab looks set to make a splash in the world of tablets that has so far been dominated by the Apple iPad, although there is a fair number of other brands around, but those did not really make the cultural as well as numerical impact that the iPad did. In fact, recent statistics has shown that the iPad actually cannibalized up to 50% of notebook sales for certain retailers in the US, which is a whole lot when you think about it. Whoever said that the tablet market was a niche one, and it was separate from the notebook/netbook demographic? Well, the Galaxy Tab on paper does look like a champion, and it is set to arrive Stateside via Verizon Wireless in the coming weeks. Make no mistake about it, the Samsung Galaxy Tab will come with a brilliant 7-inch touch screen display, running on a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Application processor to deliver users with a robust HTML Web browsing experience regardless of where they are (subject to battery life and Internet connectivity, of course). Not only that, since it will arrive via Verizon Wireless, it will also be accompanied by other exclusive applications such as V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video on Demand, V CAST Song ID, VZ Navigator – stuff that normally come with smartphones. Verizon knows that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, which is why they have also thrown in games such as “Let’s Golf” and “N.O.V.A.”. The Samsung Galaxy Tab
aims to make strong sales figures this holiday season, being marketed as the perfect traveling companion where one is able to download a book to the Kindle eReader, or tune in to Slacker Radio for a different kind of listening experience with more than 100 radio stations to choose from, or even view a movie thanks to its generous display which works much better than a regular smartphone display. The mobile multimedia experience is further enhanced thanks to full support for Adobe Flash 10.1. Apart from that, you get a 3-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front facing camera, where the latter is used for video chat purposes. 2GB of internal memory can be expanded via a microSD memory card slot, while Wi-Fi connectivity helps you stay connected to the Internet whenever there is no 3G signal. No word on pricing, but we hope the future weeks will shed more light on this.
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Having good quality audio is not on top of everyone’s agenda, although for some people it might be their top priority. Well, dB Logic intends to deliver the very best for both adults and little ones alike, merging superior sound, style and comfort without sacrificing on the health of your ears. dB Logic has just introduced the world’s first family of no-battery-required, ultra-low distortion sound pressure level limiting headphones and earphones. All of them will be powered by SPL2 technology that will do its bit to help protect users from long-term hearing damage – a good idea if your teen is one who loves toting around his or her iPod at full blast. Apart from that, little ones too can benefit from SPL2 in the form of “dB Logic for Kids” – the first type of high-sound-quality headphones specially designed for children. The high popularity of MP3 players as well as a plethora of other portable media players has done its fair share of damage in the acceleration of hearing damage among young people. A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that one in five teenagers today is already experiencing significant hearing loss. dB Logic’s proprietary sound pressure level (SPL) limiting technology, SPL2, will do its bit by limiting volume levels thanks to advanced circuitry, doing away with the need for bulky battery-powered processors. The dB Logic headphones and earphones for adults will arrive in the market from early November onwards, where it will retail for between $29.99 and $39.99, depending on the model you choose. If you want to splash more dough on your little ones, then the dB Logic for Kids products will start from $39.99 upwards. Since colors will do its bit to inject some zest into life, dB Logic’s headphones and earphones will also be available in a range of fashionable colors Passion (red), Envy (green), Salmon (pink), and Sky (blue), black, and silver shades.
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