The innovative guys over at the French company Atypyk has come with this cool idea.

The Wi-Fi Fan won’t work as an indicator for wireless internet connections, like the Wi-Fi Finding Laptop Bags or the Wi-Fi Detector T-shirt, but it sure looks great and it will help you to keep cool during the hot summer days.

Head over to atypyk.com for more info about the Wi-Fi fan (no word on pricing).

(Gizmodo via Uberreview)

This 8-inch WiFi digital photo frame from eStarling has just been updated with a new cool feature. You can now link it to your Facebook account to view your and your friends uploaded pictures right on the digital frame.

Techy stuff
Once configured, the frame can be left to operate in a completely stand alone mode. It supports WEP or WPA encryption and has fully featured TCP/IP setup supporting DCHP and manual IP. (By the way, if you don’t know what this stuff means, don’t worry, it’s all easy to sort out and set up.)

E-Mail
Once the photo frame is online, it gets its own dedicated email address that anyone you share it with can send photos to. You can secure this by only allowing pictures from specific email addresses to be displayed. So don’t worry – your Wi-Fi picture frame isn’t going to try to sell you Viagra!

Displaying Photos
Simply email any photo to the frame. It checks for new email every few minutes and puts any pictures it receives into rotation in a slideshow. It functions in the same way when receiving photos via a Flickr or Photobucket feed. You can also add or delete photos directly via the web-based control panel.

Specifications

• eStarling 8″ Widescreen features widescreen aspect ratio (800×600 resolution)
• Innoloux panel used to ensure highest level of clarity
• Black Piano Finish
• Memory Size: On-board FLASH memory 128M
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g with Support for WEP encryption
• MMC/SD/MS/CF 4in1 card slot
• Views JPEG files
• External 120V/240V AC Adapter

The Thumbs Up website has the WiFi Photo Frame with Facebook Support listed with a suggested retail price of £230 (about $449 USD).

The Falcon MVIX uses Ethernet or WiFi to transfer the media files from a computer and bring them wirelessly to a TV anywhere in your home.

Featuring full and seamless compatibility with all major computer platforms, including Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, the MVIX is firstly a drive enclosure, so that you can add your own IDE or SATA hard drive and use it to store your media files.

Secondly, it connects to your home network either via Ethernet or a 802.11b/g/pre-n WiFi network to share and stream content.

And thirdly, it’s actually a media player itself, which can connect to TVs (including HDTVs) via composite, component, S-Video or DVI with a maximum supported resolution of 1920×1080 Progressive Scan (1080p) video output for crisp, clear picture quality. The MVIX benefits from an HDMI port so that you can attach it to an HDTV to ensure the highest quality transfer possible.

The MVIX supports all commonly used media formats, and virtually all of the more specialised ones too. It has no problem with MPEG-1/2/4, VOB, WMV 9, DivX and Xvid video files and will also happily play MP3s, WMAs, AAC, Ogg or WAV and AC3 music files. And what’s more, you can display your photo-library as a slideshow whilst listening to music too.

It does all this all from an internal hard drive, an external USB drive or it can stream from any computer on your network. If you add your own hard disk – and these are now available at up to a terrabyte in size – you can turn the MVIX into a home server too. It’s the ideal solution for storing or backing up absolutely all of your software, images, music, films or documents.

The Falcon MVIX Media Centre will be available from Thumbs Up starting April 10, 2008. The suggested retail price is set to £199.99 (about $395 UDD).

The stylish Blik radio from Revo is capable of accessing and automatically updating the latest station listings for thousands (8000 and counting) of internet radio stations via your existing Wi-Fi network.

You can search for your favourites by country or genre. If you get tired of listening to the radio, the Blik can stream music from your computer or iPod.

Throw in a large LCD screen, station presets, various snooze functions and a smart remote control and you’re looking at a radio that’s liable to render you housebound – but in a good way.

Of course all of the above would be useless if the Blik didn’t cut the mustard in the sound department. Thankfully this award-winning gizmo emits crisp audio dynamite that will have rival machines scurrying for cover in shame.

The Blik Wi-Fi Radio is available is available in black or white and you can get it from Firebox or Amazon UK for £99.95 (about $196 USD).

“Soyntec Wiffinder” is a line of smart laptop bags that allows you know the Wi-Fi level signal without having to take your laptop out of the case.

The Spanish Soyntec company is currently offering four different Wi-Fi finding laptop cases to choose from. The prices go from €43 (about $62 USD) for a backpack or shoulder strap bag, up to €69 (about $101 USD) for a trolley suitcase. All bags have a 36 months guarantee.

(Via le Journal du Geek)

Rovio is the first robot from the WowWee company to use the breakthrough Northstar technology for pinpoint navigation of your home or office.

Rovio acts as a Wi-Fi enabled spy robot with full audio and video streaming capabilities, accessible from anywhere in the world you have a Web connection and a Web enabled device like a PC, video game console, or cell phone.

Northstar technology is used in conjunction with software that makes designing navigation way points easy; a crucial feature for properly monitoring a home or office.

The Rovio robot is estimated to be released some time during early fall of 2008, with a suggestetd retail price of $299.

(Thanks to Robert Oschler of Robots Rule)

The Cambridge Consultants has come up with the Iona Cube concept, a Wi-Fi enabled internet radio with a simple and intuitive new design.

By simply turning the Cube onto one of its four available sides, it will change to the desired radio station. A fifth side is dedicated to the speaker and the final remaining side is dedicated to switching the radio to the ‘off’ position. The Cube can be quickly and easily customised to play a listener’s top four stations.

The designers involved in this new concept wanted to keep simplicity to the maximum. Accordingly, even the volume button has been removed. Instead, the listener just twists the Cube to the right to increase the volume and twists to the left to decrease it.

Check out the press release for more information about the Iona Cube.

(Via SlashGear)

Maybe you remember this WiFi Digital Photo Frame that we covered back in August. Now eStarling has released a model that supports RSS.

It can automatically link to photo sharing sites. but also has a bonus feature that lets you and your friends send pictures directly to the frame.

Via www.seeframe.com you can manage all your uploaded photos, emailed piccies and RSS feeds, and you can even post messages to your frame which it will then display: ‘Oi, look at your ugly mug in this one!’ You get the idea. This user-friendly site also lets you choose e-mail address to accept photos from – a sound idea if the vicar’s coming round for tea.

Specifications:

• eStarling 7" Widescreen features widescreen aspect ratio (480 x 270 resolution)
• eStarling 8" Hi-Res 4:3 features standard photo aspect ratio and (800 x 600 resolution)
• Views JPEG files
• Black Piano Finish
• Communications: Internal 802.11b/g (WEP64, WEP128, WPA1, WPA2)
• Interface: MMC/SD/CF/MS card slot; USB 2.0 host and client port
• Memory Size: On-board FLASH memory 128M
• Power Source: External AC Adapter
• Setup Utility: Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista & MAC OS X
• Weight: 2.4 Lbs

The eStarling WiFi Digital Photo Frame is available for $413 at Firebox.

hField Technologies has just launched a Windows Vista compatible version of the Wi-Fire, a compact high-performance long-range USB WiFi Adapter.

With its integrated high gain directional antenna and extremely strong receive sensitivity, this all new Wi-Fire now gives Vista users the freedom to connect to WiFi networks when they want, where they want.

Users benefit from the increased mobility and greater range with faster speeds in comparison to other standard WiFi adapters.

Wi-Fire provides interoperability with any 802.11 b/g access point and multiplies the effectiveness of wireless networks by allowing users to connect to a WiFi network from up to 1,000 feet—more than three times the range of other 802.11 adapters—often at significantly higher speeds, and even in locations where no wireless signal could be detected previously.

It’s only 3 by 4 inches and a sleek 3/8-inch thick, is small, easy-to-use, and folds up with its mounting device and USB cable for portability.

Retail price for the Wi-Fire USB WiFi Adapter is $79.00 and it is available now at the hField Technologies webite and from participating retailers.

According to Firebox.com, this is the “world’s 1st portable WiFi radio”.

The wireless Revo Pico WiFi Radio ($297) automatically links to any broadband WiFi connection to stream both live and ‘Listen Again’ internet broadcasts.

There’s also a built-in FM receiver, in case you happen to be at a place where there’s no WiFi connection available – scary thought, don’t you think?

The rechargeable battery will give you up to 8 hours of power on one charge.

With no software to load the Pico is truly idiot-proof. Stations are listed alphabetically by country or music type, so you can listen to funk from Finland, rap from Rhode Island and Motown from, erm…Morecambe. It even downloads the latest station list every time you power up.

The Pico will also play the music files stored on any WiFi enabled PC or Mac. What’s more, this incredible box of tricks doubles up as a loudspeaker for your MP3 player. Simply plug in using the supplied cable. Throw in a smart remote control and you’re looking at the greatest thing to happen to radio since Marconi put on his thinking cap.

Features:

• Internal, rechargeable NiMH battery (8 hrs)
• 6 Watt Amplifier, 2” Neodymium driver
• High contrast white on black LCD
• 3.5mm stereo headphone socket
• 3.5mm stereo line-out connector
• M-Port™ (Aux In) connector
• Dimensions: 9.7cm (W) x 17cm (H) x 10.2cm (D)

We’re seeing more and more digital photo frames popping up. The latest one is called WiFi Digital Photo Frame ($611) and communicates via WiFi with Flickr, Windows Live, and other photo sharing site. This allows you to automatically have freshly uploaded photos displayed on the 800×600 hi-res screen.

The 10.4 inch large digital photo frame also features multi-format card reader, built-in stereo speakers, on-screen menu and a smart remote control.

Features:

• Generous 256MB internal memory
• Built-in multi format card reader
• Embedded 802.11b/g wireless connectivity
• Share pictures with Windows VistaTM or XP
• Web enabled for photo sharing
• Plays MP3, WMA audio files
• Plays WMV video files
• Automatic slideshow
• Audio slideshow
• Built-in stereo speakers
• USB to PC
• USB to thumb drive, camera, etc.
• Onscreen menu system; customise to your style
• Remote control
• Landscape or portrait orientation
• Desk top or wall mount
• Removable desktop stand

Specifications:

• Screen:TFT LCD
• Screen Resolution: 800×600
• Card Reader: CF/SD/MMC (MS, XD and MSP with USB card reader supplied)
• Internal Storage: 256MB
• Photo File Format: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP
• Audio File Format: MP3, WMA, WAV
• Video File Format: WMV
• PC Interface: USB 2
• Peripheral Interface: USB 2
• Communication Interface: 802.11, USB Host, USB Device
• Audio Out : Stereo audio 3.5 mm
• AC Adapter: 110-240V AC, 50/60 Hz, 5V DC@ 3.0A