Samsung Electronics have announced that they are finally going to make their memory cards available for the consumer market. These will be available in SD, microSD and Compact Flash (CF) formats. These cards will be of the ‘Plus’ memory cards class and will be compliant with the Secure Digital class 6 performance standards. Nice! What’s more is that they will be available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB variants. The cards are durable and trustworthy enough to keep away data...
The horrors of the holocaust are more than just a history lesson or a museum info-graphic. As history sees it, there hasn’t been something of that magnitude to touch the earth with such malice, and thankfully so. However, everything you wanted to know about the torture chamber called Auschwitz is now available on Facebook. The police in charge of the site and the museum have found a novel way to reach out to youngsters who would like to know...
Very soon, we will be able to setup a Wi-fi network at home without too much to sacrifice. This can be possible by the year 2010 when the Wi-fi alliance will introduce a more awesome means of communicating wirelessly over the Internet. The alliance is made up of biggies like CISCO, Apple and Intel who will work in co-ordination with 300 manufacturers of Wi-fi devices. We can surely expect a huge shake-up of the consumer market, owing to this...
Now here’s something that really looks like a whale in the sky but will surely travel at a hundred times more the speed. Technically, it’s called the WB-1010 and will demonstrate what we would see 85 years from now. Wow, that sounds a lot more possible than the movies that tell us tales of 2045. It has the capacity to accommodate 1500 passengers and can transport them at speeds of up to a whopping 1000 kmph! The material of...
Samsung’s YP-VX1 is a pretty snazzy looking voice recorder that ‘may’ be used by the cooler detectives around. It’s shaped like a remote control to some extent. It will make the speaker look like he’s speaking into a wireless mic. However, other features include MP3 playback, ID3 tagging and sound enhancing technology by DNSe. Now the gamble behind getting out a dedicated voice recorded from the likes of Samsung will surely mean that you need to have a really...
I so wish I lived in Finland! It’s surely hard to believe that a country could make a certain threshold bandwidth as a legal right for all its citizens. And this isn’t any small nation. With a population of 5 million, it surely takes a lot of ‘balls’ for the government to take such a call. Hats off to them! This move seems to be inspired by the French, who have made Internet access as a legal right. Finland...
If the rumor behind these images is to be believe then we may well be staring at the cool new e-book reader from Barnes and Nobel. It flaunts a 6 inch monochrome E-ink display on a white frame. It looks really, er, ‘blocky’. However, the touch screen LCD (yes, that’s what the image says) looks good with the on-screen QWERTY keyboard. That’s all that we can figure out from these allegedly leaked photos of the e-book reader....
A major development in the world of smart clothing and what I call ‘a first-hand cinema experience’ is on the brink of realization. Philips has come out with a jacket that can control your emotions, thanks to the evenly-spaced actuators present in it. These are based on the vibrators found in mobile phones. These trigger sensations like a shiver in the spine, or maybe a soothing backrub to bring about emotions like fear or pleasure from a caress (respectively)....
Imagine the fun in configuring your dream car in immersive 3D using multitouch technology on the Microsoft Surface table. Simple hand gestures or motions allow the user to alter virtually anything on the A4, with instant results. Paint finish, wheel and tire packages, and interior color scheme are just some of the options that will be available for the user to manipulate. Whether or not Audi plans to take their tech partnership to local dealers remains unknown, but this...
At the KES 2009 in Korea LG showcased its 120-inch multi vision PDP. The unit consists of four 60 inch PDP TV's which have a slim outline of 2mm thickness, mega contrast ratio of 100,000:1, 0.001ms response time and 60hz motion technology. The unit will be launched in Korea and China next year. [More images after the jump]...
Japanese carrier Willcom will be selling the Kyocera WX333K also known as the Honey Bee 3. Targeted at young Japanese the candybar phone has a 3 megapixel camera, 2 inch display, Java games and a Twitter application. The phone has dual cameras for video conferencing and comes loaded with applications to add text to photographs for some flirting. The phone measures 42×9.9×120mm, weighs 72 grams, offers a talktime of 7.5 hours, standby time of 750 hours and will be...
While air conditioners are taking a more important role in the lives of many these days with global warming and heat waves, the traditional fans aren’t yet going out of fashion. Dyson thought why not come up with a unique idea and design and get people to start noticing the cost-effective, conventional method of cooling – fans. This one though, has no blades and looks like a huge ring. The Dyson Air Multiplier Fan uses the technology from the...
Tweeting is the next FB-ing (FaceBooking you know). After we heard and read about all sorts of weird things getting to tweet these days, this new entry isn’t that surprising, but amusing nonetheless. It is the Lufthansa Airlines flights. They have set up a new service named MySkyStatus which automatically posts the current position of your flight to Twitter or Facebook allowing your friends to know where exactly you are at. Like for example, you are flying to Japan...
To have some fun from mundane employment life, why not try these on a day of board meeting to work? These are called the Pop Up Slippers and are made in Japan. They are very fun looking and insanely crazy. They are simple ovals cut to allow the edges to be folded over your feet and secure with a hole and a metal stud. All you need to really have to make one of these on your own is...
Yay! Its another flash drive – a funky, cool and brilliant one! Imagine having your very own Star Trek flash drive! Wicked! But only a few lucky ones gets these as these are limited version 4GB Starfleet Insignia flash drives. The digital copy of the new Star Trek movie will be on it and you can play it on any of five registered devices. The movie will only be around 1GB which means the rest is for saving all...
