Remember the Philips Fidelio Android speaker docks we caught back at IFA in September? The trio of Google phone speakers is now on sale in the UK, bringing the Android eco-system a much needed accessory iPhone users have been accustomed to for years.
We’re live at Philips‘ press conference at IFA in Berlin, where the Dutch giant has unveiled three new docks for your smartphone. But – for once – they’re not for your iPhone: instead, they’re designed to work with each and every Android phone on the market today. That’s a noble plan, but there is however, one teensy weeny problem.
Straight from the file marked “Barking Mad Plans” comes this tale of Sony considering a PlayStation Move dock for the PSP. A recently uncovered patent, filed back in November 2009, shows a peripheral for the PSP with a built-in camera to use PlayStation Move controllers with the docked device. Do these plans still have any life in them?
The Satarii Star is a cool little project asking for cash on the IndieGoGo fund-raising site. It’s a motion-tracking dock for your iPhone (and other cameras you fancy plonking in it). It comes with a remote sensor which you can attach to the object, animal or human you want to track and the base station will rotate to follow the motion up to 180 degrees. While the picture above is a prototype of the Satarii Star iPhone dock, you can see that it works and well in the video after the break. We’ve seen similar tech before in the Sony Party-Shot.
Pizza Express are opening a snazzy new restaurant in Richmond, London, where diners will be seated in futuristic booths that come complete with iPod dock and directional sound system, so that you only get your music piped in, and so you only hear, (or block out, if you’re more on the antisocial side), the conversations on your own table. This is bad news for eavesdroppers, as there’ll be no more listening in on the snipey conversation of the couple on the next table, but it does mean that there’ll be no mediocre chart tat simmering you into a rage before the garlic bread has even arrived.
Griffin has outed its PartyDock iPhone 4 and iPad console/dock hybrid early after leaks in the last week. The accessory for iPad and iPhone 4 is a dock with four simple wireless controllers. It hooks into a big screen too, so you won’t have to jostle for space infront of the iPhone 4. Take note though, it isn’t compatible with the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS, only the iPhone 4.
Google’s revealed the first in a series of videos on the creation of the Google Nexus One. It focuses on the story behind the Google Android smartie’s design but also gives a glimpse of as-yet-unannounced Google Nexus One docks.
iPhone owners feeling the pinch after their purchase (and discovering there’s no dock included with the 3G version), take heart! A band of gadget-mad origami fans have created a fold-your-own dock for Apple’s handset. Instructions after the jump!
