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Teufel Smart Speaker: first audio streaming system for Android world

Teufel Smart Speaker – Now Android at the largest platforms in the world hears, it is still very strange that so few accessories are specially designed for the Android system. This is of course also by the great variety of brands and appliances, but there could be something more supply may be. Teufel is a German company from Berlin which started in 1988 with DIY speakers and speaker systems were also built its own offer. The speakers from Teufel are high quality and reliability, given the 12-year warranty you get on the speakers themselves. Especially for Android is now the Smart Teufel Speakers designed and manufactured.

Teufel Smart Speaker

The Teufel Smart Speaker is a very compact AudioBox style and tastefully designed, Jan des Bouvrie is fixed proudly on this beautiful rectangular white box. But in this case it is very beautiful technique, the Smart Speaker is capable of WLAN audio from Android Phones Mart and tablets to stream and display. This makes Teufel use of the Open Source UPnP / DLNA technology.

WikiPad: The tablet for gaming is becoming more interesting

Do not be fooled by the prefix wiki, encyclopedias do not sell here, but a tablet / console WikiPad already announced a few months ago, and characterized dall’avveniristico accessory that you can see above, or a game pad-dock, in spite of the increasingly keyboard-dock vogue.

We still do not know when it WikiPad goes on sale, or whether we’ll find it easily here as well, but that does not stop us from dreaming a bit ‘, especially now that its already excellent qualities has officially added support for cloud-gaming platform Gaikai (previously it was only a hypothesis is not confirmed).

But this WikiPad is not the only innovation: the 8″ display becomes fact, from 10 (should be left unchanged the resolution of 1280 x 800), while his body is lighter and has an unknown processor quad-core and also of ‘option for the 3G mobile network.

The storage space for games with only 8 GB, but with support for microSD it should not worry us, while the photographic point of view also purchased two cameras, one front and one behind, the latter of which could record video in full HD.

KegDroid: Android shaped beer on Android

KegDroid – Google employee Paul Carff makes its own beer since 1991. According to him, was drinking beer but “boring” and he found it hard time to put some life into the brewery to bring. He therefore KegDroid, a beer tap in the form of the Android mascot, indeed, running on Android. The device operates using a Motorola Xoom and use include NFC chip (Near Field Communication).

His creation is a great way to developers and manufacturers to demonstrate how Android can be used in applications where you might not initially think of.

Android and USB applications on KegDroid

The KegDroid of Paul Carff called Betsy and works as follows: when you have a badge on the reader of the device does is automatically the Google +-ID badge that achieved. Google your name + is removed and this is displayed on the screen. You can then choose one of the two beers that are currently connected to the tap.

The drive of the KegDroid goes through a Arduino-board. This is a USB-board that can be used for the production of accessories Android. In July last year announced a special kit for Arduino development of USB accessories. This made the company after Google announced the Open Project Accessory. With this project it is possible for various Android USB apparel.

JXD S5110: Ice Cream sandwich on handheld

JXD S5110 – Once again the Chinese manufacturer JXD says his idea of mobile gaming: just like the predecessor S7100, the company relies on Android to move your console, but going from version 2.2 to 4.0 and reducing the screen diagonal of 2 “.

Again partnering with companies like Sony and Nintendo while shielding the eastern group of repercussions on the design of their platform or securities which you can play: In addition to games for PSOne (which also receives the certification PlayStation?) Nintendo64 and again, you can use (in emulation) for GameBoy Advance videogame products and Sega MegaDrive, but, thanks to Game Center you can download several others (of course including those for the green robot) and enjoy them immediately with this cloud gaming service (like OnLive, in few words).

Z1 Smart Android 2.2 Watch: Android watch by Chinese company

Z1 Smart Android 2.2 Watch – The Chinese online store Ibuygou has launched its own Android-watch, which, among others can be called. The Z1 Smart Android 2.2 Watch runs on the outdated Android 2.2 (Froyo) and is powered by a 460MHz processor. The device supports all major GSM networks and can handle mobile internet, but not at 3G speed.

The watch phone Z1 Smart Android 2.2 Watch also supports WiFi, though the manufacturer that the range is worse than regular smartphones. Also, the device has GPS on board and is equipped with a 2-megapixel camera. It is operated largely through a 2-inch touchscreen has a resolution of 320 by 240 pixels.

After the phones and tablets, it seems now might be time for Android that made its foray into the media player; as we previously tested Tvix A1, we were very disappointed and our expectations were not particularly high on the A.C. Ryan Veolo. In the end, succeeded in this small box to surprise us positively.

A.C. Ryan Veolo as Media Player or what?

A.C. Ryan has chosen to call this little player for a ” Smart Android Hub” instead of Media Player. That in itself suggests that this is more than a simple media player which is pretty quickly reveals itself when we start using the device.

One of the major differences between this and Tvix A1 is that while Tvix using a Sigma control circuit and is based MIPS to use AC Ryan Veolo instead of a “regular” 1-GHz Cortex A9 processor. This means for example that we can safely run the majority of the apps that are on Google Play Store. The graphics is handled by a GC800 Vivante GPU 3D Graphics Hardware Acceleration Engine with OpenGL ES support, and we get 512MB DDR3 RAM, and 4GB of NAND Flash memory for OS’et and apps. As it is a card reader on the player so we can expand the memory for apps via a standard memory card.

Clarion Mirage, first car radio with Android on a 6.5-inch screen

Your car will also be able to taste the green man with the Clarion Mirage. Parrot offers Asteroid, car radios Android. Clarion just answer him with the Clarion Mirage. This “smart car stereo” has a touch screen and impressive 6.5-inch runs Android 2.2 (FroYo) with an optimized interface. Among the embedded applications, including Facebook and there are Angry Birds, who have a genuine interest in leading A priori… the Play Store would be included to allow other applications to download.

Its format is as impressive is a double DIN, which looks like two overlapping classic car radios. Only new cars with such a space can therefore use (or else be one of extreme Jacky). It has an SD card reader, USB and Bluetooth connectivity. Missing a CD player, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. For users of iDevice cabbage, know that it is always possible to connect via USB or Bluetooth.

Sony SmartWatch begins his arrival on the market

Good news, the Sony SmartWatch begins to land on the market. So what is a watch that will allow you to easily access a list of interesting features of your smartphone. The watch in question houses within a Bluetooth chip that can transfer information between it and your mobile device: messages, emails, status updates and much more.

Offering a small screen multitouch OLED of 1.3 inches and compatibility from Android 2.0 Eclair, the SmartWatch is only 8mm thick to a feather weight of 15.5 grams. Below the display, it contains a class 3.0 Bluetooth chip and a battery capable of providing up to 4 days autonomy.

On the software part, it provides support in 14 languages, and a list of applications developed by Sony homes. Also, be aware that third-party applications developed by the communities are also available for download. All this on the Google Play Store.

Ekoore updates the autoradio Android Elija S version

Elija S – The Italian Ekoore has long been active in the development of Android devices, the tablet Pike at radio with the first version of Elija released last November. As part of an ongoing renovation aimed to restore the best user experience to customers, Ekoore has announced the release after a few months of the Elija S, a model that maintains the same specifications but gets a more careful optimization of software with a Gingerbread curious downgrade from 2.3 to 2.2 Froyo.

The Elijah S is already for sale on the official website at a price ranging from € 749 of the universal model, compatible with all cars with double din system, the € 829 model dedicated to Volkswagen, Seat, Ford and Toyota.

We recall the technical characteristics of Elija S:

     * 6.2-inch touchscreen display

     * DVD player

TizzBird N1 running Ice Cream Sandwich and want to make your BOOB-TUBE smart

TizzBird N1 – Last fall, we heard of Cotton Candy – a regular little contraption that looks like a USB flash drive and can turn almost any screen to a androidenhet. Now, a similar solution to the time in Sweden that is specifically designed for TV sets.

TizzBird N1 has the same format as a flash memory but has been fitted with an HDMI connector instead of USB. By connecting TizzBird N1 directly to a standard TV’s HDMI input is thought to be able to make their BOOB-TUBE smart.

It can handle streaming media SVT Play, Voddler and Spotify and since the device is running Android is said to be compatible with most apps in the Play Store. TizzBird N1 has its own Web browser with support for Flash and its user interface is built with OpenGL.