Aimed directly at sassy Spanish youth, the Alcatel One Touch Mini rolls out in Spain. The phones are quite affordable and feature packed as well. The phone sports a 2.4 inch touch screen that displays a really helpful widgets bar. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel camera, FM and Bluetooth. The attractive colors and the cool QWERTY keypad makes up the rest of the phone. As mentioned before, the Alcatel One Touch Mini will be a Spanish delight and...
This is just like the games we used to play as kids, on tree-houses with really sinister clubs. ‘Groupism’ was the way of life back then and rivals often popped in to spoil the fun. So we had a secret knock that matched the beats of ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’. It worked. No one but club members could understand it. Similarly, the Knock-Detecting Door Lock manages to keep your door sealed, with a secret lock that opens up only after...
Well, even those who are probably hogging out of it right now, will find it hard to believe that there exists a burger wending machine among them. In the land of the rising sun, vending machines have a whole new dominance as compared to the western world. They have vending machines for cigarettes, t-shirts, cokes on credit, etc. Burgers are the latest things to be popping out of these machines. I would like to house a Wimpy prototype near...
Here’s a printer that can come in as another replacement for all the handwork that artists have been through, down the centuries. The Printbrush will cover a full sheet of paper with color at 600 dpi. It can also print wirelessly with the help of Bluetooth and batteries. Being so portable, it can print on various surfaces like letters, t-shirts, etc. With the use of its superior optical sensor, it manages to craft the most perfect designs that you...
Thanks to a honest effort of one Justin Cole, who managed to bring back our entertainment from yesterdays, that can never be forgotten. Yes, he did rip out the entrails of a good old cassette, only to breathe in some fresh breath into it, thus making it iPod ready. So you basically have a retro MP3 player. I remember the days when I’d sit by the player and watch it spin to the sound of The Everly Brothers. Here’s...
TIM stands for Time Is Money. Well, there are no second thoughts about that fact but what are we doing about it? Having long meetings to discuss a companies marketing strategy can get so stretched that one may forget that there could be quite a few calls made and a few deals struck in that time. So to avoid such situations and gauge the losses incurred by overdrawn meetings we have the TIM device by Bring. It’s basically a...
The first USB 3.0 that we have stumbled upon happens to be just what we have been looking forward to so eagerly. Super Talent’s thumbdrive is the first of its kind to use USB 3.0 standards. This gives it wings to touch speeds of 200 MB/s with regular BOT drivers and can touch 320 MB/s when paired with UASP (USB attached SCSI) drivers. The latter are designed to bear the high speed of these new devices. However, these drivers...
When one says that something is wireless, it should completely justify the device. Klipsch has brought forth the ProMedia 2.1 speakers that need to be connected (with wires, ugh!) to be powered up. Well, if were just the woofer that needed a connection it would be cool, the satellite speakers could do well with a powerful battery. But sadly, everything’s wired out here, save the one that connects to your music source (that too, with a dongle). The main...
Nokia have made it a point to cash in on the bankruptcy of the world as the global economic downfall finally reaches a relieving end. The phones include the Nokia 1280, Nokia 1616, Nokia 1800, Nokia 2220 and the Nokia 2690. Each of them have features that include anything from FM to a flashlight to dust-resistance to amazing battery life. All of these should be in the market by the first half of 2010. The Nokia 1280 will cost...
NEC have developed a one-of-a-kind wearable translator. Though the device is still in its primitive, prototype days, it surely impresses us immensely with its real-time language translation capability. The optical device has to be worn over the eye and can project translated text directly on the retina. It’s called the Tele Scouter. Though it leaves us wondering about what the possible disadvantages could be, NEC states that it is quite safe for the eyes and doesn’t cause any kind...
Virgin’s program for those who suffer from the fear of flying is popular enough, even with the $300 price tag that it costs you, for just a single day. This is mainly because of the 98% success rate that the program boasts. Now it’s really possible to get over the nagging fear with the help of a cool iPhone application that does the same. All you need to do is download it , at a more affordable price and...
Firstly we need to know what 3M’s 3D displays are all about. Basically, these are developed using a technology that makes it possible to have 3D displays on LCD panels. The film on the display consists of lenses on one side of the display and prism structures on the other, so as to create a 3D effect without wearing glasses! 3M displayed 9 inch and 2.8 inch LCDs at FDP International this year. We can see a bright future...
After marching into games with their eternally accepted music, The Beatles are having a ball of a time with USB devices coming out, totally dedicated to them. In collaboration with EMI Music, the guys at Apple Corps have gone on to bring out a limited edition USB sticks. The 16 GB drives will have 14 stereo titles that will be in LAC 44.1 Khz 24-bit format, plus MP3 tracks at 320 Kbps and other things like videos that could...
How badly can you be affected by the world of social networking? Bad enough to get addicted to something as mundane as the TwitterPeek? I think even that’s an understatement. Well, we have people who believe that there would be such crazy fans/addicts/whatever out there who would go for a Twitter device with a QWERTY keyboard, a not-too-tiny screen and a single application to work on! This makes the whole idea uninteresting from the word ‘go’, especially in an...
If you do no know who Ibn Sina is, then let me enlighten you about the great Arabic thinker of the 11th century. So great were his works that he managed to land a tribute to himself that’s got its share of AI and robotics in it. Meet Ibn SIna-the robot. He looks as real as any regular Arab, walking the gulf streets. It took nine years to develop by French firm Acapela. The robot is so well groomed,...
