Raw Ink January 2014 | Page 33

Upcoming Gadgets Which will Blow Your Mind! The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 just wrapped up in Las Vegas which showed some upand-coming technologies that consumers can expect to buy in the near future. Here are some which surely will blow your mind! 1. Asus PadFone Mini Unsure whether to buy a slick new smartphone or a powerful tablet? Ever wished your smartphone had a bigger screen but doesn’t lose its mobility? Asus apparently has a solution to this problem. Enter PadFone Mini. This device has two parts, a detachable 4-inch smartphone like your normal phones, and a 7-inch tablet with a smartphone dock on its back. Just when you are bored of that small screen, attach the phone to tablet’s back and your phone becomes a tablet! The device features an 8 MP rear-facing camera, quad-core processor and Android 4.4 operating system. 2. TrewGrip Voted the weirdest product of the CES, TrewGrip aims to change the way you use keyboard. It is a keyboard device which you grip and hold out in front of you, with a touch enabled phone or tablet kept in the middle, and you tap the keys which are at the back of the device to type in your smartphone or tablet! The front of the keyboard displays the TrewGrip’s button layout, and each icon lights up when you hit the corresponding key at the back. It also has an accelerometer that can be used to move around a mouse cursor on a PC. I don’t know what the designers are trying to accomplish with this, but it sure seems interesting! 3. Intel Smart Earbuds On first look, these will seem like normal pair of earphones that you use daily to get your musical fix, but there seems to be a lot going on under-the-hood in these. 31