Do you remember the Bowlingual, the portable dog language translator that was released in Japan last year? The basic concept behind the $250 device (which people living outside Japan can get here) will soon be used for an iPhone app that translates what a dog “says” into human language and emoticons in real-time. Continue reading ‘Bowlingual: iPhone app translates what your dog barks, posts it to Twitter’
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01
Feb
10
What Next for Smart phones?
Mobile Touch Screens Could Soon Feel the Pressure
A quantum switch could add pressure sensing to mobile screens. By Duncan Graham-Rowe
Forget swiping or pinching–the next generation of portable touch-screen devices will be able to distinguish between a gentle touch and a hard poke.
Peratech, a U.K. company, has signed a $1.4 million deal to license its pressure-sensing touch-screen technology to Japanese screen manufacturer Nissha, which makes displays for companies including LG and Nintendo. Peratech’s technology is one of several approaches that can be packed into portable devices. But it uses a novel quantum mechanism to sense pressure, and this promises to be more sensitive and more efficient than the other approaches. Continue reading ‘What Next for Smart phones?’
31
Jan
10
Micro SD cards move up a notch!
Samsung have stuffed more memory in a tiny package than seemed possible a few years ago and announced their 32GB microSD cards. For integrated memory, they are readying chips with double that capacity – 64GB.
The previous best achievement in microSD cards capacity was 16GB but now that has been doubled. This feat of doubling the capacity of the previous generation seems to be the norm for flash memory. Continue reading ‘Micro SD cards move up a notch!’
Designer Dana Gordon has conceived a garment she calls Social Vibration, a jacket fitted with RFID and a small vibration motor. When members of an online community or social network are in the same physical space (within 10 meters of each other), the sensor-enabled hoodies trigger a vibration alerting each user to the other member’s presence.
Source: psfk.com
In fashion, black has always been “the trend”; it is a classic and never gets old, dull or boring.
Nowadays, green mobiles have the potential to turn into trendy and highly used and adopted phones, if special attention and clever strategic thinking are used to decide how they will be marketed, where and to whom.
Stay Connected, With a Cause!
As we read The Most Exciting Developments In Green Cell Phones, interest in this category of mobile phones grew, encouraging to find a unique and fresh approach to promote them in order to be a part of a bigger cause: helping the environment! Who wouldn’t want to have a phone that uses solar power cells, non-toxic recyclable plastic and eco-friendly paints?
Since these phones are meant to reduce toxic waste without forcing you to give up your mobile communication habit – or even addiction, combining fashion, trend, creativity and eco friendliness in one product should be able to pay off depending on some major factors.
Continue reading ‘Green is the New Black: A Mobile Campaign with Potential!’
There’s no denying it anymore: GPS is becoming a free service. It all started with Google Earth and Google Maps, which offered detailed satellite imagery of Earth for free; then, the iPhone and other smartphones started coming with GPS chips, and GPS navigation (together with other location-based services) became one of the most important features on smartphones.
Then, Google dealt a blow to companies like TomTom and Garmin, offering free turn-by-turn GPS navigation on Android smartphones. And now, according to Reuters, Nokia will offer free, global GPS turn-by-turn navigation on its smartphones.
Nokia’s offering will provide smartphone users with turn-by-turn directions covering 74 countries in 46 languages, with detailed maps for 180 countries. Since today’s smartphones have practically all the traits of a good GPS navigation device – large, bright screen, loudspeakers, internet connectivity – it’s obvious that with this move, standalone GPS navigation devices have essentially become niche products. If you need a rugged, outdoor model, or a boating GPS unit, you’ll buy a standalone device. But in most cases, the GPS chip and software that comes with your Nokia or Android smartphone (the price for GPS software for the iPhone is also plummeting towards zero) will be enough for your GPS navigation needs.
Continue reading ‘Nokia To Bring Free, Global Turn-By-Turn Navigation to its Smartphones’
One of the reasons why OLED technology is cool is the fact that you can create a semi-transparent OLED screen. We’re not quite sure how useful this technology really is, except for looking through your laptop when everyone thinks you’re looking at it, but imagining a future with a bunch of semi-transparent gadgetry around us somehow fills us with glee.
Samsung has decided to take a step into the future, creating a 14-inch notebook prototype with a semi-transparent screen. When the device is off, the panel is up to 40% transparent; the screen casing is made out of transparent plastic, which makes the experience even more seamless. Continue reading ‘Transparent Laptop Lets You Spy on People As You Type’
04
Jan
10
Google Nexus One Hands On Review
We posted earlier about the first look on Google’s Nexus One. Find below a more in-depth look into the upcoming phone via Engadget:
That’s right, humans — Engadget has its very own Nexus One. You’ve seen leaked pics and videos from all over, but we’re the first publication to get our very own unit, and we plan on giving you guys the full story on every nook and cranny of this device. In case you’ve been living under a rock, here’s the breakdown of the phone. The HTC-built and (soon to be) Google-sold device runs Android 2.1 atop a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 3.7-inch, 480 x 800 display, has 512MB of ROM, 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB microSD card (expandable to 32GB). The phone is a T-Mobile device and includes the standard modern additions of a light sensor, proximity sensor, and accelerometer. It has a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, and we have to say so far the pictures it snaps look pretty decent (and the camera software is much faster than the same component on the Droid). The phone is incredibly thin and sleek — a little thinner than the iPhone — but it has pretty familiar HTC-style industrial design. It’s very handsome, but not blow-you-away good looking. It’s a very slim, very pocketable phone, and feels pretty good in your hand. So read on for an in-depth look. C’mon, you know you want to. Continue reading ‘Google Nexus One Hands On Review’
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