7 Cool gadgets for business
When it comes to conducting business, technology is a driving force behind productivity – with a plethora of gadgets available to facilitate the process.
BusinessTech highlights seven cool gadgets helping to create an edge – be it for efficiency, productivity, style or simply having a novel draw around the office that will get people talking.
J5 Create Wormhole Switch – $39.99 (R336.00)
Not quite as cool as creating an actual wormhole, the J5 Create Wormhole Switch is a pretty simple USB to USB cable that lets you copy and paste files from one computer to another.
This means that you can easily bypass having to go through time-consuming setup and security processes when you just quickly need to get files, photos or media from A to B.
The Wormhole also lets your keyboard and mouse input from one machine work on the other. The cable is applicable with Mac to Mac; Windows to Windows; Mac to Windows; and Mac to iPad.
Cobra Tag G5 – $60
Can’t find your keys? Well, the cobra tag will help you with that.
The small key-ring-set gadget pairs itself with your smarthpone and will set off an alert when you become separated from them.
If you’re the type of person who forgets your phone in places you don’t recall, the Cobra tag works the other way around too – pressing a button on the key-tag will activate an alert on your phone.
If the tag and the keys somehow get separated, you will also be able to see its last known position.
If you’ve lost your keys AND your phone – well, then it’s probably not of much use to you.
Little Printer – $259 (R2,173)
In a digital age, the need for hard-copy information sharing is becoming rather scarce – but the age of printing is far from over.
Berg’s Little Printer is a charming thermal printer which prints in black on white thermochromic paper. The gadget is connected wirelessly to the web through a “bridge” which connects to Berg’s cloud network.
Through subscribing to various compatible feeds, Little printer prints out personally-scheduled strips of information. This also includes messages sent to you from other people, schedules, and reminders.
Magic Feet – $149.90 (R1,260)
If you’re a Mac office, you’ve probably already cut the clutter of cords with Apple’s wireless peripherals. That also means that the issue of power has become a recurring theme.
Sticking with the wireless theme, though, Mobee’s Magic Feet wirelessly charges Apple’s Wireless Keyboard, Magic Trackpad and the Magic Mouse – at the same time.
The gadget will charge the Apple goods in 10 hours and will last about 10 days, and it has been designed to look like part of the Apple family. It also adds 4 USB slots to your Mac environment, which is also handy.
Samsung SyncMaster T27B750 – $550 (R4,622)
With a sleek asymmetrical chassis, Samsung’s Series 7 27-inch LED monitor is attractive on the eye. But this costly display is more than that.
The monitor sports an impressive spec list – with a 5000: 1 contrast ratio; 178-degree viewing angle; digital audio; DVB-T/C tuner; 2 HDMI ports; component video; and other features.
But it’s the ‘smart’ features – like wireless display (WiDi), HD content streaming and mobile device linking – that make this display an expensive, flexible, but undeniably cool piece of tech.
Google Nexus 7 tablet – $199 (R1,673)
Google’s entry into the 7-inch tablet market has been making waves.
Powered by a Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, Google it touting the tablet as a powerful multimedia gadget for games, browsing, entertainment and, of course, business.
It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and gives access to the Google Play store and its over 600,000 Apps.
It can push out over nine hours of HD video playback through its 7” 1280×800 display, and can go on for about 10 hours of web browsing or e-reading and up to 300 hours of stand-by time.
Apple iPhone 5 (TBA)
Okay, so Apple hasn’t exactly unveiled the next version of its popular smartphone yet – but rumours are flying about all over the Internet alleging what can be expected in the iPad maker’s “next big thing”.
Most of the rumoured features revolve around the iPhone 5’s design and form – pushing in the route of having a smaller dock connector, an elongated display, a centred front FaceTime camera, and a rear metal plate.
What lies beneath, however, is unknown. The device will likely operate on the incoming update of iOS (iOS 6), and improve on the iPhone 4S’s specs.
What will the iPhone 5 really be like? If speculation is to be believed, we will have to wait until Apple’s 21 September conference to find out.
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