Swedish website DailyMobile has posted some pics of the upcoming Sony Ericsson C510 codenamed Kate. Successor to the Sony Ericsson K770 it packs in a 3.2 MP camera with face detection, LED flash, QVGA video, 2.2 inch QVGA display and 160MB built in memory. The phone is scheduled to ship in February 2009. (More images after the jump)...
Many a times it is a tough call for referees to pin point where the ball is in a turbulent game. A Carnegie Mellon University professor is working on a project to develop a "smart football" with a GPS device built into it to produce 3-D, real-time position readings that would help referees make the right call in determining the correct position of the football on the field of play. The "smart football" weighs 3.5 ounces more the NFL's...
T-Mobile and Motorola also want us to love Mother Nature just a little more. Its newest offering the MOTO W233 Renew is a step towards a greener approach to product design. We upgrade our laptops, digital cameras, and all sorts of other consumer electronics on a regular basis, so there is a lot of that gadgetry that ends up in the trash. While they still want us to buy new phones as often as we can afford it. The...
MSI U115 is world’s first Hybrid notebook computer that is capable of operating both SSD and HDD hard drives simultaneously. The MSI U115 Hybrid functions primarily with the SSD system, offering a reliable, shock-absorbent, and speedy operating environment. You have the option of choosing the SSD system while operating with Windows, and selecting the HDD hard drive for file storage. The SSD system if much faster than HDD when retrieving files and it takes up less power. It is...
DigiFi's Digital Opera earphones are one of the sleekest looking wireless headphones using the Kleer technology. The DigiFi system comprises a transmitter - with a 3.5mm plug - that hooks up to your iPod, PMP or laptop, and a headset. The company suggests that you can see in excess of 10hrs of playback through the headset, with a 20HZ to 20KHz frequency range, 86dB signal to noise ratio and less than 0.1-percent distortion. The short-range Kleer wireless has 2.37Mbps...
Rumor has it that a pink iPhone and iPod touch may be out for this Hallmark Holiday. Replacing the standard chrome with Pink anodized metal the new Iphone and iPod touch have no other special features. There are a number of photos, that do look convincing, but there are no images of the back of the box, so it is still hard to tell if this is in fact a real Apple iPhone 3G....
The NVAG-6 goggles have made civilian night flying less of a brush with death in unavoidable circumstances. Made of light anodized aircraft quality aluminum, the goggles do not bear down heavily on the user's head. The helmet mount is ergonomically designed for easy finger-touch operation during flight. The 25mm eye-relief eyepieces can be individually adjusted for the user's clearer vision and comfort. Contact lens or specs users can even use the goggles without too much hassle. The NVAG-6 goggles...
The folks at the iPhone Dev Team have officially released their 3G unlock, named yellowsn0w, to the Cydia app installer, which is already available as a New year's gift to humanity. The developers claim that unlocking the iPhone 3G was a job anyone could accomplish. While the demo depicts the developer using the Terminal to run the tool, users will simply have to download and run the tool when it becomes available, hours before New Year's Eve. Those who...
IBM admits that it prefers to hire employees who play video games, with a preference for WoW players because it "teaches leadership skills." Hey I'm not saying this but apparently it's true! For all those who have been blaming, cursing and despising video games and think gamers are a brash lot…in your face! A time when people are getting sacked, imagine a stalwart company retaining a gamer cause he plays WOW well! Surreal but plausible, because games like these...
This year's CES will see Blaupunkt and miRoamer put an Internet radio into car dashboards and that too for the first time. "miRoamer's development with Blaupunkt is the first seamless Internet radio solution," said miRoamer founder and CEO George Parthimos. "With the simple push of a button, users can access AM/FM stations or Internet radio's thousands of music, entertainment, news and talk stations from around the world, all from the same car stereo." miRoamer spokesman Ryan Greives further explains,...
The past iterations of the Vuzix virtual reality glasses have been a sorry affair as far as looks were concerned. Thankfully their upped version looks a lot better that the past VR disasters. The Wrap 920AV will feature an improved variation of virtual reality packaged with amplified with reality, thereby creating the illusion of viewing the object or video feed in space. Apparently it opens up certain video away from a block panel display into one that will give...
We are a generation that's outgrown GI Joe and Barbie and progressed to PlayStation and MP3. However the simplicity of a toy-like caricature fashioned into a gizmo still catches our fancy. Eran Weinberg's Headphonies is one such thing that will appeal to the kid in us (trust me, there's one in each of us). The munchkin-looking speakers are the portable sorts that hook on to your iPod or MP3 player. These mini-speakers are armed with a built-in rechargeable battery...
Clad in bright shiny red is the Hello Kitty CD player. It is one of those products which bears the famous Kitty and yet scores in functionality. It can playback audio CD's and sports a AM / FM tuner, backlit LCD display and an iPod dock. The onboard speakers deliver an output of 2W. The unit comes complete with a fully functional remote control. The Hello Kitty CD player is available in Japan only for 12,800 Yen ($ 100)....
The release of iPhone immediately sparked off a race among manufacturers for smarter and cooler phones. The Nokia 5800 and Blackberry Storm are so far its closest competitors with large touchscreens and loaded to the teeth with multimedia and Internet functionality. Cellualare magazine takes a closer look on how the two stack up against the Jesus phone....
As a parting note for the New year we thought of talking about the new times square ball to be used this new years eve. For one hundred years, the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball has attracted millions of revelers to Times Square on December 31st to celebrate the beginning of the New Year. This year New York is set to debut a dazzling new LED-encrusted New Year’s ball! Composed of 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs, the 12-foot...