Back in April, Wacom launched a European competition on MySpace.com to find a piece of music for a Bamboo brand video and received over 700 entries. UK based band, The Amateurs, scooped the prize and won €10,000 worth of music equipment. Their winning song is placed alongside a branding video for the Wacom Bamboo.

OverBoard’s Premium Waterproof Backpack featured as part of Stuff.tv’s latest video cast on festival gadgets.

This round up, by Lucy Hedges and Julian Whitehorn, showcases a wide range of products which would be ideal for festival goers. The video, which appears on the Stuff website, stated, “This 25 litre backpack, with its roll top for complete waterproofing, will keep your gadgets dry even if your tepee is submerged.”

sWaP, the watch phone specialists, recently attended the London music fesitval Lovebox in Victoria Park. At the festival, two special guests stopped by to check out the Signature watch phone. Mark Ronson and Dizzee Rascal both tried on the Signature and and had a play with the watch phone’s features.

Our new client Cygnett, which specialises in stylish accessories for Apple products, has its Aerosphere laptop sleeves exclusively with the Apple store and are currently on the Apple web store home page.

Datawind is offering one lucky customer the chance to win a £7,800 VW Urban Fox this weekend.

All customers purchasing a UbiSurfer from the Ideal World shopping channel (Sky 644) this weekend will be entered into a prize draw.

The Powerstrap from Orca has been included in The Gadget Show’s Top 5 must-have festival gadgets. The Powerstrap came in at number two in the countdown and was chosen by the lovely Pollyanna for its extra battery power and easy portability.

Gadget Show festival must-haves (starts at 5.56)

Two of BeBook’s eReaders were reviewed as part of a group test on the Dutch Worldwide Broadcast channel.

PR agency employed to promote new wireless memory cards

Aylesbury, UK, 23 June 2010: Ranieri Communications, the consumer technology public relations specialist, has announced that it has been appointed by Eye-Fi, makers of the world’s first wireless memory card for digital cameras, to drive sales and build the brand in the UK.

What a weekend so far…

One of Ranieri’s clients Incipio is sponsoring this years Gumball, so that mean’t some of the Ranieri team were lucky enough to help with registering the Gumballers and attend the London party with some friendly press. We’ll do a proper post later in the week once all the photos and video are in, but here are a few tasters…

The guys at the Frequency Cast podcast have put together a special report on the Gadget Show last week. Carl and Pete looked at a range of different products that were on show, including headphones, DAB radios, home entertainment hubs, and computers.

The new Wacom Cintiq 21UX has just been launched. Wacom has also just uploaded this video outlining the Cintiq 21UX’s unique features…

MEET THE NEW CINTIQ 21UX (2)
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New digital camera case ideal for snap-happy divers

Surrey, UK: OverBoard, a leading designer and manufacturer of waterproof travel and sports gear and official kit supplier to the RNLI, today launches its Waterproof Zoom Lens Camera Case. This case is the latest addition to OverBoard’s extensive product range, providing 100% waterproof protection and extra security for a telescopic lens. The 0.42mm thick matt TPU material case is perfect is an excellent holiday companion, allowing users to capture some unique underwater pictures

London February 12th 2010 – sWaP (smart Watch and Phone), the leaders and innovators of mobile watchphone technology, announces the latest new edition to its extensive watchphone range, the Active. This stylish, sporty, ulta lightweight, touch screen watch phone operates with all networks (except ‘3’) and provides a tri-band connection to make and receive calls in high clarity. The Active is available now from a number of High Street and online retailers including F.Hinds (TBC) and www.amazon.co.uk for £299.99.

Here are a few images from last night’s sWaP Active watchphone launch event at the Kingly Club in Soho.

The Active is a new watchphone for the sport-minded. It offers a tri-band connection, Bluetooth connectivity, texting, video and still picture camera, mp3 and mp4 player and WAP broswer to name a few of its tricks. The Active is water resistant and also has a light-weight rubber finish.

Aylesbury, UK, 5th January 2010: Ranieri Communications, the consumer technology public relations specialist, has announced that it has been appointed by PowerPlay, a developer of best in class gaming accessories, to position the brand as the market leading manufacturer of high-quality fitness products for the gaming sector.

Here’s a video of me playing testing the Varnam Q3 wireless gaming console. I am playing analysing the tennis game which is one of 10 pre loaded interactive games which use the wireless controller. There are also 30 other classic arcade style games preloaded onto the console.

We are excited to announce that we are now working with sWaP – the innovator of smart watch and phone technology.

The team at Ranieri has been brought on board to launch the company’s latest-generation, converged mobile communication device and to position the brand as the market leader. Consumer, lifestyle, technology and online sectors will be targeted through traditional PR activity as well as social networking tools.

Last week saw the launch of the Computers Unlimited vendor showcase event – CU Exposed

The event, which was held at the brand new ‘River Room’ in the impressive Millbank Tower, Pimilico, hosted 29 of CU’s hottest vendors including Adobe, be.ez, Bowers & Wilkins, Corel, Datacolor, Dymo, Etymotic, Eye-Fi, Incipio, IRIS, Microsoft, Scosche, Sonos, Tech21…to name just a few.

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Wireless charging set to disrupt market, GEAR4 champions new technology with launch of the first dedicated wireless iPhone charger

High Wycombe, UK, 12th October 2009 – GEAR4, the audio brand best known for its docking stations and cases for iPod and iPhone, today announced its move to power without wires by launching the first dedicated wireless iPhone 3G / 3GS charger – the PowerPad™.

With the official announcement of Windows 7 due tomorrow, the BBC news site today features an article about the launch. To illustrate the new multi-touch features built into the operating system, we arranged for our client Rick Munday at Medion to demonstrate the company’s new touch screen PC. Check out the video here.

Last weekend, we joined Computers Unlimited (CU) for its annual Wacky Races event, which ended up at the French seaside resort of Hardelot.

Around 20 teams took part in separate cars for a treasure hunt through France, with all competitors dressed in fancy dress. Not only were there prizes for completing the treasure hunt, but awards were also given for the best costumes.

Aylesbury, UK, October 2009: Ranieri Communications, the consumer technology public relations specialist, has announced that it has been appointed by television manufacturer Evolution HDTV, to build awareness and drive growth of its products within the UK.

Last Saturday, we were lucky enough to get a VIP invite to the Watford v Leicester game, courtesy of Evolution HDTV, our new client and official sponsor of Watford FC.