Worlds first digital underwater goggles

“Hammacher Schlemmer’s Digital Camera Swim Mask integrates an underwater digital camera into a swim mask” This according to Gizmodo.com

The 5-megapixel camera can easily be taken to a depth of 15 feet and can take about 30 pictures in its 16MB memory.  The great thing is that the memory can be expanded using a microSD card and will then allow for hundreds of pictures.

The camera supports both stills and video’s and has a inbuilt LED inside the goggles which indicates in which mode your camera is. Coming in at only $99.00 this sure is one of the cheapest non recyclable 5-megapixel underwater cameras around.

Hammacher Schlemmer’s Digital Camera Swim Mask, delivers true underwater freedom for divers and swimmers alike and looks and sounds like a great new techno gadget for fringsters who enjoy the great outdoors. Currently this item is not available in South Africa, but watch this space for progress

New digital camera forces users to recycle

Gizmodo.com is reporting that a new digital camera is now available in Japan that forces users to recycle.

The 3-megapixel digital camera can take about 50 images before it needs to be handed in for development, the pictures are then available on a CD and the camera is shipped back to the manufacturer for recycling.

Now although I cannot fully understand the point of a disposable digital camera, I can see it being hugely popular because it has the ability to take pictures underwater and costing a mere $12.00 in Japan.

There is currently no word on availability in South Africa, however given time I am sure it will arrive at a holiday destination near you.

fring for Symbian 9.3 is now available

It’s been a busy week here at the fring HQ. Last week we brought you 2 new fring ready devices and today we’re happy to add 5 more devices to the fring family. The devices are: Nokia N78, 6550, 6210, 6220 and 5320 - all of which are Symbian 9.3 devices.
To get this new version - simply go to the download page, enter your details and click ‘Join’.

As you can imagine, developing the fring client is not an easy task and I’d like to take a minute to thank all the fring team for working day and night to bring you this new fring client. So: Thank you!

To those of you who are waiting for the Sony Ericsson G900 version, we know you’ve been waiting for some time now, we haven’t forgotten about you. Stay tuned for more updates soon.

fring for E66 now available

We reckon Nokia’s new E66 is very cool, and in response to popular demand, we’ve just released a version of fring for this great device (that’s another device added to around 1,000 already supported..and more on their way!)

Check it out and as always let us know what you think.

fring team

NBC’s Crusoe: Behind the scenes in the makeup trailer

So as mentioned before, this past week your local fring blogger got the chance of a lifetime, I went behind the scenes on the set of NBC’s Crusoe and even got to get down and dirty on set, playing a no good mutineer.

Playing an extra is no easy work and I soon learned just how long and hard extras have to work for a very small wage. However on the bright side I can report that it’s one of the best experiences that I have had in my short lifetime.

For this post I thought I would give you guys an exclusive behind the scenes sneak peak of the makeup trailer and how they take a perfectly good looking fringster and turn him into a sort of evil looking mutineer

I also attach a picture taken at the end of day another long day of filming. In the picture is your fring blogger (me) and the main actor who plays the role of Crusoe, Philip Winchester. Thanks for posing for a picture Philip, much appreciated

E71 is now fring supported

So you had some time to see what your new and shiny E71 can do. To be honest with you, we think it’s a wonderful handset too. But, don’t you think it’s time to get it fringing and not just ringing?Yup, we think so too, so we’re glad to announce that we’ve just released a brand spanking new version for the E71. To get it, simply go to our download page, choose your handset, get an sms, click on it and you’re ready to go.

As always, we’d love to hear your feedback.

Enjoy,
The fring team

Gmail outage felt in South Africa

Google’s Gmail which servers as an email client for more than 100million people has suddenly stopped working.

According to Techcrunch, the service is down in “multiple countries” and having just tried to access my account locally, I see it’s also down in South Africa.

fringsters subscribing to Gmail notifier via fring, will therefore not be able to receive notifications until Google’s servers are up and running again. I bet the guys over at Google are working around the clock to get this problem sorted and hopefully they will soon have it up and running again.

For more info see the official Gmail blog.

At the time this post went live there was still no official responce via the Gmail Blog.

UPDATE 1. Google’s comment on the outage:

Since about 2 p.m. Pacific Time today, many Gmail users have been unable to access their email. We are very sorry for this interruption in serv