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IKEA's new outdoor LED lamp is also a Spotify-enabled Bluetooth speaker
IKEA has unveiled the Vappeby Bluetooth speaker with a Spotify Tap button that doubles as an outdoor lamp, confirming an FCC filing we saw last year.
Mophie's ruggedized 6,000 mAh Juice Pack Powerstation Pro: it's for argonauts
Did Mophie's 4,000mAh Juice Pack Powerstation not hold enough extra battery power for you, warrior of the road? Well, today you're in luck. The company has just introduced its new Pro variant, packing a massive 6,000mAh of total juice. Like its older brethren, it'll charge mostly any device over USB (even supplying pass-through power when you need to plug it in), and switches between 500 mAh, 1A and 2.1A to preserve its total capacity. The real kicker, however, is its "impact-restistant" casing, made of steel, aluminum and rubber, along with its "water-tight" USB ports. Notably, the Pro is also IP65-certified -- effectively ensuring a venerable level of protection from liquid, shock and dust. No word on pricing or availability just yet, but we're sure many a journeying LTE user will want one to store in their backpack ASAP. %Gallery-142401%
Panasonic's Toughbook H1 Field makes pansies of those other tablets
Yeah, 2010 may be the (second) year of the tablet, but we're guessing that Sir Destiny didn't exactly see this coming down the pike. Panasonic just introduced its newest Toughbook in the H1 Field, and we're in no position to argue the "world's most rugged handheld tablet computer" claim. Classified as an "ultramobile rugged" device, this one's designed with outdoor use in mind, weighing just 3.4 pounds but able to meet IP65 and MIL-STD-810 standards. In layman's terms, it can shrug off a six foot drop, and the twin hot-swappable batteries ensure that it'll keep going and going (and going). Internally, you're looking at a 1.86GHz Atom Z540 CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 64GB reinforced SSD, 10.4-inch sunlight-viewable XGA touch panel, an optional Gobi 2000 (EV-DO / HSPA) WWAN module, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, GPS, a 2 megapixel camera and an RFID reader. Head on past the break for the full release, but don't get too excited just yet -- it'll set you back at least $3,379 when it crashes down (and survives) next month. %Gallery-85105%
The Nautiz X5 is the smartphone for your rough and tumble user on the go
Ever drop a phone and spend a few unpleasant moments cringing with anticipation of the flimsy shattering noise it will make when it ends its journey on the ground, battery asunder and various pieces scattered to the winds? We've all been there, which makes a rugged smartphone like the Nautiz X5 a little more appealing than it would otherwise be based purely on aesthetics alone. It's been rated IP65 (two marks higher than Sony's recent semi-rugged GXD-L64H1 LCD), meaning it's completely dust-proof and can stand up to a heavy shower, but also sports modern conveniences like a 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, a barcode scanner, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g, and a 3.5-inch VGA LCD through which you can get your Windows Mobile 6.1 on. All that is powered by an 806MHz Marvell CPU with 256MB of RAM, meaning it's not only beefy on the outside. No word on price or availability, but don't expect all that heft to come cheap.[Via Handheld Europe]
