6 Best Budget Peripherals & Accessories

Peripheral and accessories are the most varied and distributed category in itself. They might not be considered as important as a laptop or a smartphone but it doesn't imply peripherals hold no importance at all. A computer may perform various tasks considerably, given its default software configuration. But without a keyboard and a mouse, the computer cannot fully function to its optimum performance. Mobile accessories can make their presence felt specially in crunch situations. For instance, suppose you went for outing and there your phone goes out of power. It will leave you in a very helpless situation where you will not be able to make or receive any important calls. Now think if you would have carried a travel charger along with you. So, peripherals and accessories are very important to computing products in many ways. Here, we showcase some of the best products of different nature.

Sony CP-F1L Portable Smartphone Charger

Sony CP-F1L is an emergency charger to power up your dying smart phone with 5-6 hours of additional backup. It's a USB-based power charger (with 3500 mAh battery) for charging a USB-based smart phone, tablet, iPod, and portable devices. One can easily carry it in pocket, since it's very compact yet robust. The product has an aluminum finish and weighs just 125g.

Price: Rs. 3,000

Key Specs: 3500mAh Li-ion battery, micro USB port, 50cm micro USB cable.

Antec Notebook Cooler Designer

It is very uncomfortable to use an over-heated laptop. This cooler designer is built to be used on a table or lap. The product sucks hot air from the base of the laptop and blows it out from the side vents. This product is built for cooling laptops with 15" screen size, and is very effective in dissipating the heat. It has an 800 rpm fan that runs silently and gets its power from the USB port on your laptop (no separate power source required).

Price: Rs. 1,235

Key Specs: Acoustical Noise: 23 dBA, Speed (Max.): 800RPM±200%, Weight: 0.7 kg, Dimensions (H) (W) (D): 42 x 330 x 280mm

Nokia DT900

Nokia has added a rare smartphone accessory called Nokia DT900, a wireless charging pad to its portfolio. It can charge the smartphone  wirelessly and is different form a docking table. You can just put your phone on the charging table, in any direction, and the phone will charge in just about the same time as a wired charger. It has a 2.5mm charging connector and the charging pad's output voltage is 12.0V. It fully charged Lumia 920 in less than 3 hours, which is what its wired charger also took.

Price: Rs. 3,900

Key Specs: Wireless charging, 2.5 mm charging connector, Standby power

consumption: upto 30 mW, Charger output voltage: 12.0 V, Charging

indicator LED, Cable length: 1800 mm, 120x60x11mm, Weight 93g

Rapoo E9080 Wireless Touchpad Keyboard

Rapoo E9080 is a smart innovation, combining a wireless touchpad and keyboard. It is a plug-and-play keyboard having a scissor-like key structure and stainless steel plate at the back. E9080 works seamlessly within the range of 10m. The QWERTY part includes all 82 physical keys and a multi-touch surface for 19-button numeric keypad (with no physical buttons). With a finger-swipe along the bottom edge, the pad turns into

a massive 72 x 106mm touchpad, with two-finger scrolling and a three-finger tap gesture that functions as a right-click. Overall touch experience was very nice, and you will find it very helpful when using with bigger and high resolution screens.

Price: Rs. 4,600

Key Specs: Wireless keyboard, 101 keys, USB receiver, touchpad, gesture functioning

DIGISOL BR1016NC Wireless Broadband Router

Here's an innovative wall-pluggable wireless Broadband and multifunction

router from Digisol for homes and small offices. It's very different from the traditional WiFi routers that are big, bulky, have external power adapters and stick out like a sore thumb on walls or on a table. This one looks like a power adapter itself, but with all the circuitry built-in. Simply plug it directly into any power outlet and start using it. There are no separate cables jutting out to spoil the look and feel of your home or office.

Price: Rs. 2,599

Key Specs: WEP, WPA and WPA2, 802.11n, 3G connection sharing using a 3G dongle, USB interface for charging iPad/iPod/iPhone and Android/Smart phones

Portronics Greenlock 2

Greenlock 2 is a device that protects the privacy of your computer monitor

by automatically switching it off and locking your screen. Wear the "Smart

ID card case", and each time you walk away from your computer, your screen is locked automatically. The screen unlocks and opens immediately

when you return in front of your computer screen. It is composed of a remote and USB dongle and functions on a 2.4 GHz ISM band. It is a

lightweight device with the remote weighing just 30 gm, and the USB dongle stands at 17 gm. It is very easy device to use as it doesn't require

any passwords to lock or unlock.

Price: Rs. 2,999

Key Specs: Composition - Remote and USB dongle, Frequency Band - ISM

band 2.4 Ghz, Weight - Remote 30gm; USB dongle 17 gm, Data rate

- 2Mbit/sec, Modulation - GFSK, Security - 128 Bit AES encryption, Battery

life - 6 month referred to 8 hrs of working