Three cool gadgets to liven up your life
As a dizzying array of tech products and updates hit the market each product cycle, consumers find it overwhelming to keep current with the newer features and functions of the latest gadgets. The Business Standard has made it easy for you with three hot products in the tech world now. Current with the newer features and functions of the latest gadgets. The Business Standard has made it easy for you with three hot products in the tech world now.
BOSE NOISE CANCELLING HEADPHONES 700
Price: Tk34,990
Whereabouts: Gadget & Gear, Custom Mac BD, Bangladesh desert cart
Specifications:
Microphones: 8 microphones – 6 microphones for Active Noise Cancelling (ANC), 4 microphones for Voice Pickup (2 are shared with ANC)
Battery life: Up to 20 hours
Battery charging time: Up to 2.5 hours
Touch: Volume, skip track, phone calls, customizable shortcut
Buttons: VPA (Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa), Bluetooth, Controllable Noise Cancelling
Controls: Amazon Alexa, Siri, Bose Music app
The purpose of using a headphone is to enjoy music or to watch movies without disturbing anyone and being disturbed by the people around. With ordinary headphones, it is not always possible to have uninterrupted experience. To solve this issue, there is Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, which costs TK34,990.
Using the headphone, one can enjoy music without any disruption as it has patented active noise cancelling technology – both inside and outside the earcups. It helps to monitor the sounds around and produces an opposite signal to cancel them out.
It is also a good choice for virtual meetings. With its four-microphone system, it picks up and isolates voices while cancelling the noises. Hence, it helps to hear and be heard clearly, even in noisy environments. It has the option to personalise environment with 11 levels of noise cancellation. It means users can incrementally minimise the distractions or decrease it to hear the world.
On its right earcup, there are touch sensors to directly manage volume, calls and music. It has the capacity to play music for long 20 hours on a single charge. And, a quick 15-minute charge supports up to 3.5 hours. It is wireless and has a Bluetooth range up to 30 feet. It can pair with two devices at once. So, users can listen to music and also attend conference calls on another device.
HUAWEI WATCH GT 2
Price: Tk19,000
Whereabouts: Huawei outlets, Gadget & Gear, Daraz, Startech
Specifications:
Supports: GPS
Connectivity: Bluetooth: BT5.1, BLE / BR / EDR
Sensors: Accelerometer sensor, Gyroscope sensor, Geomagnetic sensor, Optical heart rate sensor, Ambient light sensor, Air pressure sensor, Capacitive sensor
System requirements: Android 4.4 or later or iOS 9.0 or later
Water resistance: Waterproof
This watch has a minimalistic design along with a long-lasting battery and many more modern features. Currently, its market price is Tk19,000.
Due to its self-developed wearable chip Kirin A1, its long-lasting battery serves a minimum two weeks – day and night. Usually, this duration depends on the usage of other features. It can track workout sessions and monitor heart rate with the accurate TruSeen™ 3.5, even when one is sleeping. You can rely on it as your professional companion for indoor and outdoor activities.
It counts the distance you have made while tracking, calories you have burned and your speed per hour. As it supports GPS and GLONASS satellite positioning systems, you will get an accurate and faster positioning service. Based on this information you can make your own diet chart and workout sessions accordingly.
Using its life assistance feature, you can also enjoy music as it can store up to 500 songs. It monitors your sleep with HUAWEI TruSleep™ 2.0 and suggests for better rest, if there is any issue. Even you can start breathing training to release stress, using HUAWEI TruRelax™.
Last but not the least, it keeps sending notification from SMS messages, email, calendar, and other social media apps. There are also other features like the weather, alarm, timer, stopwatch, flashlight and Find My Phone.
FUJIFILM INSTAX SQUARE SQ6 INSTANT PHOTO CAMERA
Price: Tk23,990
Whereabouts: Daraz
Specifications:
Picture Size: 62 mm x 62 mm/2.4 in.x 2.4 in.
Lens: Retractable lens, 2 components, 2 elements, f = 65.75 mm, 1:12.6
Viewfinder: Inverted Galilean finder, 0.4 x, with target spot
Focusing: Motor-driven 3-range switching (0.3 m - 0.5 m/1 ft. - 1.6 ft., 0.5 m - 2 m/ 1.6 ft - 6.6 ft., 2 m/6.6 ft. and beyond), Macro Mode (0.3 m - 0.5 m/1 ft. - 1.6 ft.), Normal Mode (0.5 m - 2 m/1.6 ft - 6.6 ft.), Landscape Mode (2 m/6.6 ft and beyond)
Shutter Release: Programmed electronic shutter release, 1.6 sec - 1/400 sec.
Exposure Control: Automatic, Interlocking range (ISO 800): LV 5 - LV 15.5, Exposure compensation: ±2/3 EV
To instantly capture your beautiful moments in a 1:1 square paper, there is Fujifilm Instax Square Sq6 Instant Photo Camera. It can be purchased at Tk23,990.
There are two square frames to set your scene and both of them nicely fit with the moment. It has an automatic exposure control feature that brightens the background as well as the subject. At the same time, it captures the pictures at dark room or night times.
Using its selfie mode and mirror, selfies can be clicked. While clicking the picture, one can check the posture or capture area in a mirror next to the lens. It automatically adjusts brightness and focal length to the ideal level of the subject for capturing selfies in different modes. It can click pictures on both macro and landscape mode.
Interestingly, it has an option titled double exposure mode that allows to capture artistic shots with two images in the same print. It also has different filters by which users can use as per the setting.