This new phone was designed by Chi Shing Lo for Orange’s D&AD student awards. The phone has a hole in place of where the camera’s viewfinder would normally be. The hole is used to hang the phone on to it’s charger to charge, or to upload photos to a PC without having to plug anything into the phone.
This means a lot less clutter, and no cables to get in the way. (more…)
A new breakthrough in DVD technology has made it possible to put 42GB of data on a DVD and increase the amount of data you can store on a CD by 9 times!
Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have discovered that instead of the more rounded grooves on the standard DVD it has become possible to make the surface grooves more V shaped. That allows for the massive increase in storage capacity.
There is a downside to all this. The new DVD/CD’s won’t work on current players and recorders. (more…)
Have we hit our limit? This new watch has so many bells and whistles it may be too heavy to wear. Let’s start with the phone. The dialing is done via the keypad on the back lit wrist strap. Talking is either straight audio with a built-in mike, or via a bluetooth earpiece also provided. Talk time is up to 150 min. Standby is as much as 100 hours!
It has a 1.3-inch display and it’s a touch screen. Right. I guess that means you can only touch the screen because you couldn’t actually manipulate something in that small space! There is a mini stylus handy that could help when using your organizer or one of the several games. It hides away on the watch so you can keep track of it. There is an MP3 player to listen to tunes wirelessly. Supported formats include: MP3, WMA, WAV & AMR. (more…)
A child is missing. Her face is posted on telephone poles throughout the city. The nightly news covers her frantic family’s plea for her return. A terrible scenario, yet it happens way too frequently.
Thankfully a solution is on the way. The Link Child Locator from Continuum Studio is coming soon. It’s a pair of bracelets. One for the parent, one for the child.
The child module transmits a signal to the parent. The radius is determined beforehand and when the child begins to go outside of the given radius, the parent’s watch/bracelet buzzes.
A glance at the bracelet will tell you which direction the child is in. (more…)
You’re set to buy UMPCs but don’t really like the current crop? Well, if you’re patient enough, you can get your hands on this fine UMPC from Dell.
No official name has been announced yet. For the moment, it’s being called the “mini-Inspiron”.
No word about the processor, memory, the OS or the pricing. However I think it will be sold in the range of ASUS Eee PC’s pricing. It will have three USB ports, a muti card reader, VGA out, and Ethernet.
It comes in your choice of two colors.
Samsung has been showing of their new AMOLED, or active-matrix organic light-emitting diode, laptop concept. Unfortunately it is unlikely that these little beauties will show up on the market in the near future, yet it is an interesting development in laptop display manufacturing.
The AMOLED, just like the OLED display, does not require any backlight to display its image. This in turn allows for the display to be a lot thinner and hence make the laptop lighter to carry around. (more…)
Microsoft has created a lower cost version of its Microsoft Surface. The TouchWall refers to a system, not a specific product, of converting any surface into a multi-touch computer interface.
The TouchWall system consists of a projector, 3 infrared lasers, 1 infrared camera and a flat surface. Any flat surface will do. In the demonstration, Microsoft used a vertical plexiglass plate as the image plane, with the projector projecting the image from the rear - to eliminate shadows caused by forward projection. (more…)
Perhaps the thought of carrying around a miniature projector in your pocket evokes childhood memories of Princess Leia pleading with Obi-Wan for help through a hologram, but Samsung plans to capitalize on 3M’s new mini projectors by rolling them out with new phones later this year.
What’s not clear is whether these projectors will come as a plug-in add on, or built into the phones themselves.
Currently, the size of the projectors makes them about as big as the cameras in the camera phones many of us currently carry.
Consumers might not appreciate it either way, as the component is expected to retail for anywhere from $200 to $400. (more…)
Wonder what will the future mobile phones be like? Nokia’s advanced design team shared their research project, named “Homegrown” at Nokia’s London design studio.
The project’s main objective is to encourage people to make more sustainable choices. This is not the first project showcased by Nokia.
The same team here also created the Remade concept, which was shown at Mobile World Congress.
The three concepts revealed are: (more…)
When it comes to TV, there’s a new kid on the block. It’s called the XEL-1 and it’s changing television the way the iPhone changed cell phones. So what’s it’s secret? A display that measures only 3mm thick and a picture that even outclasses HD TV.
This technology is breakthrough. An OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) converts electric energy directly into light. These display panels do not require a thick backlight, thus producing incredibly fast response times, and top energy efficiency. At 11″ the picture may be small but it has a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1! It’s not just the screen that is revolutionary, the TV itself sports two HDMI™ inputs, a digital tuner, and a Memory Stick® media slot.
Other “miracles” stuffed into this sleek package are: color purity(105% of the NTSC color space is achieved); a wide 178° viewing angle; exceptional color reproduction; outstanding contrast levels; and high brightness. Sony has created a milestone with the first OLED television, the XEL-1. (more…)
You ever looked at part of your life and thought it could be made much easier with the right gadget?
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