Oris pays tribute with its own clock to Oscar Peterson, considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. With this initiative, the manufacturing Confederation celebrates the end of the year in music, in the name of an artist who, with his career and his instrument, has inspired the design of the new special timepiece in a limited edition of 1925 pieces.

The dial is reminiscent of a long-playing, while the indices, finely applied, have the shape of the keys of a piano: a way to highlight the hundreds of recordings made by Canadian musician during the long career. Among the Roman numerals of the hours, loved by Peterson, is that of the eighth plated in gold, as a tribute to his eight Grammy Awards. The price is 1,350 euros, inf from Chrono24.

Belkin has a product line called “Live Action” and designed specifically for the iPhone possibilities of the camera 4S.

The first is the Double Grip, not so different from an independent designer had the idea about a month ago, the Air Clip. This is a small device that makes the iPhone easier to use with one hand, turning it into a more convenient compact camera. The grip also adds a button to the shutter ergonomic for photos. The iPhone is stuck inside in the 30-pin socket.

The second accessory is a remote room, remote control to use the iPhone from a distance via Bluetooth, perfect for those family shots or to shoot themselves. With it also includes a handy stand to guide us toward the goal of the iPhone camera. 4 Works with iPhone, iPod Touch, and 4s. Of course, not a stroke of genius as Swivl, but remain functional.

The third is the Mic, the directional microphone to improve appreciably the audio quality of our movies, also equipped with Super Directional Mode to capture every word we say (or said a university professor in a cavernous hall). It attaches to the audio jack of the iPhone and keeps it in an upright position.

All three accessories should be available now or in the home stretch before Christmas.

If you’re one of those people who has collected several living room-based electrical devices over the years, you’ll know just how cluttered things can get with so many remote controls vying for space on the coffee table. With separate controllers for each appliance, things can quickly get overbearing – and how many times have you been able to find every single remote except the specific one you’re looking for? It’s frustrating to say the least.

One solution is to look into the possibility of picking up a universal remote control to streamline the way you control your appliances. These devices can be programmed to control each of your individual entertainment systems, meaning that you can safely pack away all of your existing remotes and rely on just one piece of kit.

Universal remotes are compatible with all sorts of appliances such as your plasma or LCD TV, hi-fi system, DVD or Blu-ray player, hard drive recorder and so on. Some will even be able to control mp3 players plugged into a special dock, so if you like to use your IPod nano , for instance, as your main music centre then your new remote can cover that too. On the downside, cost can be an issue. If you tend to buy all of your electrical appliances from within the same brand than a low-end universal remote should be able to do the job for you but if your goods sport several different brands then you may be better off with a more advanced model – and that can come at a cost. As with any relatively expensive purchase, be sure to read up on the specific model you’re looking at so that you’re 100% sure it will work with everything you need it to – generally the more top-end devices will be fine with anything you throw at it but it’s always good to check just in case.

Universal remotes are a wonderful invention but they do require you to be mildly tech-savvy as they do require some initial programming from the user in order to set them up to interact with the different machines. Not ideal if you’re something of a technophobe. If you’d rather just be able to pick up your remote, point it at the screen and go – straight out of the box – then perhaps this isn’t for you. That said, the best universal remotes come with simple instructions that should guide you through the process without any issues. It’s perhaps best to look online for customer reviews to see how ‘real people’ have got on with their new remote, rather than trusting the marketing blurb on the box.

If you’re a gadget freak and like the idea of a universal remote, you may even want to up your budget and look into all-singing, all-dancing touch screen versions, which, although expensive, offer great functionality. Alternatively, if you already own a smartphone or a tablet computer like an iPad then take a look at the available solutions for those devices – downloadable apps or dongle-based systems can turn your existing touch-screen device into a highly customisable universal remote control. The best thing about going down that route is that you’re already completely familiar with how to work your phone or tablet, so there’ll be no need for that ‘bedding in’ period normally needed with a new remote to allow your muscle memory to develop.

Jaybird’s been pretty quiet about its latest Bluetooth offering. In fact, the company actually sneaked a few of its JF3 Freedom sports headphones into some stores back in April, but they quickly ran out of stock — we imagine it was either a test run or the product needed some tweaking. Regardless, we’ve just been informed that the JF3 will finally be available to all starting next week, with Jaybird’s online store currently taking pre-orders for $99 a pop (including free delivery), followed by wider availability at retail stores in late July. What’s more, these sweat-proof stereo buds are now enhanced with new blade-like silicon ear cushions — head past the break to watch Jaybird founder Judd Armstrong ecstatically shake his head to show off the secure fit.

In the aftermath of Apple’s iphone surge in the market, when I heard BlackBerry would launch a new phone, I was quite sceptical whether the new blackberry torch can stand against the might of Apple’s iphone. I was wrong. I had to admit that the Canadian giant went a step ahead than what I had imagined. BlackBerry Torch was indeed a new Smartphone and it stamped its authority from the time it came into the market.

The phone is a slider, and it had two colours. You can choose either black or a white. Though, I thought, white BlackBerry Torch looked much better than the black one. What I really liked about the phone was its appearance. It was quite thin, and therefore, much easier to hold. You can probably hold with a better grip, and that was something I am sure, everyone will take note of.
Again, the torch had a QWERTY keyboard that slides. Since the phone had a new operating system Blackberry OS version 6, there was some doubt, but the phone was stable and got rated very highly in performance. The new BlackBerry Torch offers you a 4GB internal memory, which can be expanded 8 fold using a micro SD.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has announced the availability of two new drives under CinemaStar family. Known as the CinemaStar C5K750 and 5K2000, both hard disk drives are optimized for the growing digital video recorder (DVR), IPTV set-top-box (STB), video surveillance and emerging hard drive-embedded TV markets. The 2.5-inch CinemaStar C5K750 is Hitachi’s first CE drives in the market with Advanced Format, which increases the physical sector size on hard drives from 512 bytes to 4096 (4K) bytes. It is currently available in 750GB, 640GB and 500GB of storage spaces.

Available in 1.5TB and 2TB of storage capacities, the 3.5-inch CinemaStar 5K2000 family comes equipped with the CoolSpin technology to deliver a greater level of power efficiency and quiet operation for energy-conscious, environmentally-friendly computers. The CinemaStar C5K750 and 5K2000 families are now shipping to customers worldwide