Awesome Gadgets: Google Chromecast, Iogear Mediashair Hub and Livescribe Smartpens

Google Chromecast:

This is an interesting little device that that should be high on your gadget gifts list as it effectively connects your smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop PC to an HDMIenabled HDTV – without connecting wires, too. The Chromecast seamlessly lets you beam content from your handheld smart device onto your big-screen TV – watch YouTube videos, Hulu, Pandora, and Google Music and Google TV and Movies. When you’re doing this, your phone or tablet becomes the TV remote. Its beta screenmirroring feature – which lets you beam your Chrome browser session to a large screen – is still restrictive, but it’s only a matter of time before Google keeps adding more apps to the Chromecast party. This is a steal at $35 (`2,200).

Iogear Mediashair Hub:

This device is perfect for anyone who needs a small, matchbox-sized wireless hub that supports a variety of media devices – because that’s what the Iogear Mediashair Hub is. It can plug into any wired network with an RJ45 jack, it acts as a compact wireless router that can simultaneously connect up to seven gadgets (laptops, Android, iOS smartphones, tablets, etc) within its range. What’s more, with an SD Card reader and USB port, it can stream photos from a camera’s card or movies from a plugged in hard drive. That’s not it, the device also functions as a portable battery pack, with a 2600 mAh battery. At $100 (`6,000) they’re perfect for road trips. see more on http://go.iogear.com/lp/mediashair/

Livescribe Smartpens:

Record everything you write, hear or say. Replay your meetings or lectures simply by tapping on your notes.Transfer your notes and audio to your computer via USB cable and Livescribe Desktop will save everything for fast, easy access to what’s important. See more on http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/echo/