All Entries Tagged With: "Brando"

Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard Puts An All-In-One PC Accessory In Your Hands

Do you really need another keyboard? Probably not. But who can say no to the Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard, a handheld input device that combines standard computing keys (including F1 to F8), a trackpad, game-friendly buttons and a laser pointer?
Yes, I guess you do need a handheld keyboard. Especially one that squeezes in a slew of all-in-one features that will let you control that multimedia PC you’ve hooked up to the HDTV while you’re lounging six feet away on your gold-upholstered beanbag. Plus, it should work wonders when you’re making that very important presentation at the office. Of course, you should cross your fingers and pray that Brando actually found a supplier whose hardware won’t conk out at the most inopportune time too, but I digress.

The Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard is a pocketable peripheral (151 x 59 x 13mm), with a 2.4GHz frequency USB [...]

Brando Skips The Dashboard, Puts An In-Car Bluetooth System On Your Steering Wheel

Arms too short to reach the media controls on the dashboard?   Not a problem with Brando’s new Steering Wheel Bluetooth MP3/FM Car Kit, which puts a bunch of in-dash features right where they’re easiest to access.
Of course, this is a severe compromise from what I really want: controls that I can change using only my thoughts.  Cue Twilight Zone music.  Now, that would be awesome.

The Steering Wheel Bluetooth MP3/FM Car Kit puts a bevy of features right in front of you while you’re driving, including a speakerphone, a built-in MP3 player, an FM transmitter, a detachable Bluetooth earpiece, a  keypad and an accompanying LCD screen.   It’s even got a built-in phonebook with space for up to 600 people, support for different SD card formats and a rechargeable battery (up to 13 hours runtime).   Brando further claims that it’s fitted with advanced DSP technology for both noise and echo cancellation.
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Brando USB Wrist Band Battery Puts A Dorky Charger On Your Arm, Keeps Your Gadgets Juiced

Don’t have space in your wallet for a carry-on battery charger?  Not a problem with Brando’s USB Wrist Band Battery, a wearable backup battery that can charge a plethora of mobile gadgets while you’re on the road.
Armed with charging tips for cellphones (LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Nokia), gaming consoles (DS Lite, DSi and PSP) and all manners of mini-USB devices, it’s a versatile emergency kit that will juice up your gadgets right when you need it.   Since it cuffs on your wrist, you’re guaranteed to never lose it too.  Genius.

Thick, bulky and fitted with a bunch of LED indicators, the 82-gram Wrist Band Battery (256 x 34 x 12 mm dimensions) is a one-way ticket to staying a virgin for at least one more day.  While it’s not a chastity belt, it should be dorky enough to make people want to keep their distance, lest be socially ruined.  For [...]

The Self-Stirring, Self-Heating USB Whirl Wind Warmer Coffee Cup

Love coffee, hate stirring? Now, you don’t have to. The USB Whirl Wind Warmer Cup not only keeps your caffeine toasty, it happily stirs it too. You never have to waste a perfectly clean utensil again.
I hate coffee spoons. You use them for 10 seconds and they’re done. Since they’re already dirty, you can’t exactly throw them back into your clean pile of cutlery either. With this self-stirring cup in tow, you can just leave them to gather dust through all of eternity.
Made by the purveyors of perpetually awesome USB gadgets, Brando, the USB Whirl Wind Warmer acts like regular heated cups, toasting your beverage at a constant 40-degree temperature. Looking to be even more useful, it also doubles as a mixer, spinning your drink like a whirlpool at the push of a button. Throw in your sugar, creamer, milk, sprinkles, pig’s guts [...]

Brando’s 12-Surface IQ Pentagon Claims Magic, Giant And A Few More Exaggerated Adjectives

We get it.  You’re smart.  No need to solve Rubik’s Cube for the 6,000th time to prove it.  I’d like to see you exercise that brain on Brando’s latest toy, however.  Called the….wait for it…. Magic GIANT 12-Surface IQ Pentagon – Fantastic Edition, it’s a lot of name for a lot of puzzle.
As the name suggests, the creation takes Rubik’s Cube and makes it ridiculously more complex.  Instead of six sides, you now get twelve different surfaces that require even more intricate maneuvering to properly solve.  Personally, I can’t understand how it’s supposed to work.  In fact, reading Brando’s wonderful website is likely to just leave you more confused.
Dimensions are approximately 10 x 10 x 10 cm, so it’s not as much of a GIANT as its name implies.  Effort required should be humongous, though.  Look at that thing – can anyone even really solve that without going through seven [...]

Haul Your Own Professional Flash Accessory Kit For $88

Want a complete set of flash accessories to work your photography skills with?  Check out this Professional Flash Accessory Kit from Brando, which includes pretty much everything you could want to stick into that barren Speedlite.
Most folks I know couldn’t be bothered investing in a set of flash equipment geared towards advanced photographers.   However, this professional kit is probably the most accessible around, retailing for less than half of what similar low-end set-ups are likely to net you.  It’s not the kind of rig casual camera users will probably need, but it wouldn’t be a bad set to pick up and learn some advanced skills with.
The outfit includes a soft diffuser with 6-color mask, a honey comb, a conical snoot, barndoor, a mini-reflector, a globe diffuser and your choice of one flash adapter.  You get seven options for the adapter, which you can pick out based on what kind of [...]

Make Your Own Rainbow With The Handheld Rainbow Projector

Ever wondered what’s at the end of a rainbow?  It’s this thing, the Handheld Rainbow Projector, a little clamshell box that projects a bow-shaped display of colors onto a wall (which, if you do it right, will look like it’s actually floating on air, like in the photo above).
While real rainbows are caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun’s rays through rain, this one needs neither the sun nor the sky.  Instead, all you have to do is crack it open, push a button and voila – an amalgam of colors right before you.  Now, all you need is a unicorn and all your fantasies as a five-year old can finally come true.
Essentially just a $25 flashlight of sorts, the device uses a baffle board to mess with the light it sends out of its frame, throws it at some sort of projection box on the upper flap [...]

Brando’s Hard Disk Dock Brings Multimedia Talents To Cheap PC Accessories

Need a hard disk dock for your PC?  Before you fork out the cash for any peripheral, make sure to check out the latest in Brando’s line of all-in-one docking solutions: the SATA HDD Multimedia Player Adapter, which combines attractive storage-docking features, along with a host of input slots, multimedia playback and an HDMI out.
While I’ve heard of all-in-one docks before, I doubt anything this full-featured ever came along.  As a hard disk dock, it can  perform typical 480Mbps data transfers with your PC, along with integrated backup and disk cloning options.  Not content with such nominal capabilities, it also offers input slots for microSDHC and USB storage.
Here’s the clincher, though – the box comes with built-in media playback capabilities, able to process 1080i video and 5.1-channel audio directly from the docked storage units.  Instead of streaming all that to your PC, though, it connects directly with your home entertainment [...]