Among our twenty-five Last Gadget Standing semi-finalists are two Bluetooth-enabled phone accessories which–whatever you think of them–aren’t the same ol’ same ol’.
Sony Ericsson’s $85 LiveView is a tiny screen that shows incoming calls, Facebook updates, song titles, and other information, so you can see what’s up without taking your phone out of your pocket. And the $29.95 Bringrr is a little dongle for your cigarette lighter that has one purpose: It sounds an alarm and flashes a light if you get in your car and don’t have your phone with you.
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March 14th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Hi I have an Advent Laptop which worked perfectly fine for 12 months then suddenly the screen froze with stripes on it so I turned it off and since then it doesn’t load up, the LED light’s come on and the fan sounds but the screen is blank as if it can’t load up. Every so often I have tried to turn it on and it works and is fully functional but then usually freezes after an hour or so. Any ideas what it could be? A friend said it could be the motherboard or a fault in the memory. I would like to get it fixed cheap as possible. Thanks!
March 14th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Hi I have an Advent Laptop which worked perfectly fine for 12 months then suddenly the screen froze with stripes on it so I turned it off and since then it doesn’t load up, the LED light’s come on and the fan sounds but the screen is blank as if it can’t load up. Every so often I have tried to turn it on and it works and is fully functional but then usually freezes after an hour or so. Any ideas what it could be? A friend said it could be the motherboard or a fault in the memory. I would like to get it fixed cheap as possible. Thanks!