At the World IT Show 2009 Samsung Korea has unveiled the LD220 which is the world's first USB monitor for notebooks. The LD220 has a brightness of 300cd/m2, contrast ratio of 30,000:1 and a response speed of 5ms. Release date and pricing information for the same are not available yet. [Aving]...

Yesterday East Japan Railway Co unveiled the E5 Shinkasen the fastest bullet train ever built. Scheduled to go in operation from March 2011 the E5 will have a top speed of 320 kmph and will finally be at par with France's TGV. [Akihabaranews]...

T-Mobile announced the much awaited Dash 3G with native support to its 1,700MHz 3G network. This phone replaces the stock Windows Mobile 6.1 phone's Inner Circle feature with MyFaves for free calling to five US contacts. T-Mobile has not divulged any details about the phones launch other than the its expected release in July. The Dash 3G sports features like 2-megapixel camera, GPS and Wi-Fi. It also has a navigation trackball, which was a distinct BlackBerry feature until now....

Roger Entner, a telecom research analyst for Nielsen, quoted that an average iPhone user consumes over 400 MB data every month compared to 40-80 MB data by other smart phone users. This load has further increased after the iPhone OS 3.0 was made available for download and AT&T network is having trouble keeping up with this huge load. AT&T has more number of iPhone customers as compared to other carrier and number of iPhone users is steadily increasing everyday....

News Corp.'s Fox Mobile Entertainment has launched its very first commercial iPhone application, called the "Freakin' Sweet Family Guy" iPhone application. This application allows users to view up to 20 show clips and create custom video mixes of the show. The app also provides an embedded link to Apple’s iTunes to instantly buy full episodes of the hit series. Andrew Stalbow, Senior VP of Fox Mobile Entertainment quoted that this app is a great way to interact with the...

Samsung Electronics revealed the touchscreen, Yuna’s Haptic phone at the 2009 World IT Show. The phone derives its name for the legendary Korean figure skater, Yuna Kim, who is also endorsing this phone. It includes the 'My Diary' function to edit and update the scheduler with information such as restaurant listing, movies, etc in the form of a blog. 'Yuna's Haptic' also includes an innovative technology that automatically enables or disables the touchscreen sensibility, depending on the distance between...

Haier has announced its Haier H7 Android Phone at CommunicAsia, the fourth handset to feature the Android operating system after the HTC Dream, Magic, and Samsung I7500. The H7 is said to include a Cupcake update (Android OS 1.5) in the box, but its still not clear if the OS 2.0 of the firmware will be ready by the time the phone ships out. If that does happens, Haier will certainly dump the OS 1.5 for OS 2.0. The...

If you are a sportsman these days you get a lot of respect and love and affection and all that... and also a lot of money. Formula One dude Stirling Moss has got a home like James Bond where he has got a carbon fiber elevator. That is just one of the many gadgets there is in this house. The ceiling lowers from the kitchen to the bottom floor through a button while Moss just relaxes on the couch....

The real fun of water sports is keeping yourself drenched all the time as your strain every nerve for an excitement that only water can promise. However there are disloyalties all over the world who want to make the most of water and still stay dry. At one point in time this would be considered practically useless, but the O’Brien Whiplash Towable ushers in some really cool techniques to keep you dry and yet get you bouncing on the...

The name, Land Rover makes us visualize something really hard and powerful coming our way. It’s time to get out of this raging monster and, well, its new minion in tow. Here’s a geeks version of the Land Rover, and it’s a phone, a rather tough one. Christened as Land Rover S1, the phone has been produced by the car company in collaboration with Sonim Technologies. The catch is that this phone can withstand anything from a pressure of...

A few small and simple things harbor some fantastic ideas. Let’s take the case of the Spaceloon for instance. It’s an ingenious thought by two Nigerian entrepreneurs, Timothy Anyasi and Collins Nwani who have come up with the idea of using “near space technology” by a American company Space Data, throughout Africa. The duo is working on a strategy that involves sending a hot air balloon up in the sky till it reaches heights between 80,000 to 100,000 feet....

Even the Adam’s family would give this one to Wednesday on her birthday. A small kid can’t really tell gore from beauty but there are some exceptional parents around to even have the nerve of clicking a picture of their kids in such a thrilling ride. Let me guess, they thought that their kids would grow up to be brain surgeons after riding this one? Maybe a few peeks into the ear and eye could give them enough information...

At last we have a really interactive in-flight system that can get a lot more out of your iPod than the regular docks do. It’s called the Panasonic iPod Merge. The Merge gets all the data like images and audio from your media player and uses its own GUI to help you organize it. It also gives you a tempting chance to unleash your holiday mishaps with the thoroughly bored executive beside you. More specific specs are all that...

The SE659 is a good phone with pretty neat functions. It has a 2 line DECT phone, a great sound, shared contact list, amazing range and easily identifiable dial pad. The batteries are AAA size and are rechargeable but the battery life is not very long. You get only 12 hours of talk time and 150 hours of standby time. When you receive a new message there is no blinking to give you an alert and contact list is...

Apart from the 103 inch HDTV, Panasonic has unveiled a smaller TV of 85 inches at the InfoComm 2009. The TV is 99mm thick but 30% lighter per square inch that its 103-inch cousin. It weighs only 130 kilos. This TV will be available in Japan and US this fall. [Engadget]...