Archive for the ‘New Products’ category

Halloween Strikes Anew!

September 29th, 2011

Halloween often comes up whenever people talk about their favorite holiday, in fact, it consistently ranks within the top 3 holidays in the United States. This comes with little surprise because, especially amongst kids, who can resist the temptation of free candy – even if the entire concept of getting the free candy revolves around what would otherwise be a scary event. Halloween also marks the start of a series of much anticipated holidays, hence the term “Holiday Season”, that occur within a month of each other, namely Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas (or Hanukkah, if you’re Jewish), and New Year’s Day.

What really sets Halloween apart from most other holidays is the chance to be creative – to dress up in different costumes and to decorate the house to make it look haunted and scary. It is a practice that many participate wholeheartedly in, taking the time to find or design the best costumes for themselves. Homeowners setup different Halloween props to give their houses an eerie and creepy feel to excite trick-or-treaters or guests who come over for a Halloween masquerade party.

A lot of people choose to spend a lot of money to look scarily amazing or decorate their houses to be frighteningly astounding, but that’s not always the case for everyone, especially with the anticipation of more expenses for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Buying Halloween costumes, masks, and props from a Chinese online wholesale shop is one of the best ways to save money on Halloween, and still manage to look scarily amazing or decorate frighteningly astounding.

There are a host of online wholesalers who carry items especially for Halloween, like the standard witch hat or ghoul mask, for cheaper than they are available for from retailers. They are also a great place to look if you’re looking for something different this Halloween. Among some of the more exotic items they offer are Osama bin Laden masks and plastic and silicon analogs of severed limbs. If you’re looking for something more classic, then there’s the ever popular Scream or Frankenstein mask and pirate’s hat or headdress. And for those who like to mix sexy with scary on Halloween, there are some sexy Halloween costumes as well.

People who are planning a Halloween party will find a lot of items that will go well with their themes. If you’re serving ghoulish green lime punch in a witch’s cauldron, dropping in a few water-activated flashing green ice cubes will make the eeky concoction seem like a real glowing witch’s potion. The eerie look of a dimly lit room can be accentuated by using some black light to make skeleton shaped paper garlands glow or by hanging up some skull-shaped Halloween lanterns. And for that dark Gothic look, placing some electronic braziers around the room can make it somewhat more castle-like.

So whether you’re looking for that perfect addition to your costume or a decorative accent that will really make your house look spooky, go ahead and check out the selection at a Chinese online wholesale shop and you might be surprised at the variety of different costumes, masks, and props, and how affordable all these items are from them.

A Revolution in Media Players: Dual-booting MP5 Players From Ramos and Benss

September 15th, 2011

If you’ve ever thought that the large touchscreens that come with MP5 players should be used for much more than just touch playback of movies and music, and for turning the pages of an occasional e-book, then you’ll be glad to know that the future of MP5 players is quickly catching up to you. There is a revolution brewing in the media player world that is merging the MP5 player and Android tablet markets closer together. This revolution is the inclusion of two operating systems in one MP5 player device, allowing users to chose to boot either to the standard OS of a high-definition media player or into a version of Google’s Android OS.

Two leading MP5 manufacturers have been on the forefront of this new generation of MP5 players with dual boot capabilites: Ramos and Benss. Both companies have had extensive experience in the design and development of media players and are two of the most well-established media player manufacturers in the Asia-Pacific region, with avid followers within the region and around the world.

While the development of MP5 players in this direction comes with little surprise, the quality of these first generation of dual-booting MP5 players is really a thing to behold. Between the two manufacturers, 5 new dual-booting MP5 players are currently out on the market.

Ramos is the clear winner when it comes to the number of models it has released that are capable of dual-booting between the HD media player operating system and Android OS 2.1 Eclair. Ramos’ selection of dual-booting MP5 players includes the T8Pro, the T11Pro, the V70Pro, and the T20. The Ramos line feature MP5 players of varying specifications and prices. When purchasing the dual-booting Mp5 players from online wholesalers, Ramos starts with the 4.3-inch T8Pro pricing in at $65.65 at the lowest end of the line and finishes off at $130.09 for the 7-inch T20 at the highest end of the food chain.

Benss has decided to take a more conservative path by releasing only one dual-booting MP5 player, however, it has shown its desire to be competitive in this new area by releasing its modestly priced $49.25 B3 with Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread instead.

All 5 Mp5 players share several things in common. First, instead of having the Android OS installed directly onto the hardware, booting into the Android operating system is instead accomplished by inserting an SD card loaded with Android into the SD card slot and selecting the OS of choice at the start-up screen.

Second, although capable of booting into Android OS, none of the 5 MP5 players are tablets in the true sense of the term. All 5 dual-booting MP5 players do not have WiFi capabilities, so installing any software is once again done via the SD card slot and some basic rooting. All 5 MP5 players also do not have the sensors that come standard with almost any tablet at the moment, like an accelerometer or G-sensor, so games and applications requiring this won’t work as expected.

Ramos had released a more advanced version of the T11, called the T11AD, with WiFi capabilities, an accelerometer, G-sensor, compass, and other more tablet-like hardware specifications, however, this is dual-booting MP5 player is more correctly classified as a tablet rather than a true MP5 player by both users, critics, and Ramos themselves alike.