3D laser ‘virtual keyboard’ to hit the market

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) -- <Visual News> Celluon(www.celluon.com) expects to launch its virtual laser keyboard ‘CL850’ in Korea market in early-September, which offers similar input environment with existing keyboards.

The CL850 is portable input device adopting the company’s sensor module which recognizes locations and movements of fingers and transmits the inputs recognized by the sensor to user’s device. As a successor of CL800BT, it adopted Bluetooth and USB connectivity with which you can connect the virtual keyboard to your desktop pc and other mobile devices such as laptop and PMP.

Suggested price is expected to be between 100,000(KRW) and 200,000(KRW).

~~~>>> Moto Rokr E6 <<<~~~

Moto Rokr E6



Wow that’s cool, this guy manage to turn his MOTOROKR E6 into a
fully functional transformer phone
(fully functional as in transforming not making call).
More pictures after the jump.

 

 

 

a robatic phone

Technology lovers....eat your heart out!

Here come the new HP PCs:

Here's the gaming PC:




You can enter into the box and have full access with no tools - nope not even a screw driver.


and it is liquid cooling + air cooling



Coming soon....HP's new desktop designs:





HP's new GPS system: The most interesting feature on the GPS navigator is the 3-D mapping software. For certain, select cities, maps don't simply appear as lines in a 2-D space (not even a tilted, almost 3-D space). Instead, you get actual 3-D models of buildings filling the city space.

 

New smartphones: Unlocked phones so you don't get tied into a service provider not of your choice. Instead of a full-QWERTY keyboard, uses a 12-key keypad, but also integrates an innovative Smart Touch navigational wheel. Basically, the middle of the keypad also acts as a scroll wheel. Though you can't click the compass points, as you can on an iPod or similar device, you can use the wheel area for scrolling and other tasks. In our tests, the wheel area was very responsive, and an interesting way to improve navigation on Windows Mobile 6, without relying on a clickwheel. Tri-band UMTS for global, high-speed networking, as well as quad-band GSM for worldwide calling, Wi-Fi, including VoIP capabilities, as well as assisted GPS for navigation. In fact, instead of using Google Maps for navigation, it will ship with a more robust navigational suite. The iPaq 600 will also be loaded with HP's Voice Commander software, as well as Windows Mobile 6. A 3-megapixel camera will allow users to take shots, then upload them to HP's Snapfish service.

 

iPOD Touch & Nano

Apple unveils new iPod that has wi-fi and touch screen

After a week of feverish speculation, Apple released its new iPod last night, confirming rumours that the sixth generation of the digital music player will have a 3.5in touch-screen and integrated wi-fi connection, allowing users to connect to the internet from an iPod for the first time.

The new iPod will play video downloaded direct from the internet, as well as video games, both with widescreen view. Users will still be able to transfer music on to the player direct from iTunes, Apple's music provider.

The new iPod carries many of the features associated with Apple's iPhone, released earlier in the year, and closely resembles that product in appearance.

There had been frenzied gossip in anticipation of yesterday's media event in San Francisco's Moscone Convention Centreabout what Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple, would be announcing. The event was broadcast live by video-link to the BBC's offices in West London.

Mr Jobs, 52, also announced the launch of new versions of the iPod Shuffle and the iPod Nano, both smaller versions of the iPod, as well as an upgraded version of the existing full-size model that will now come in a metallic finish. The new iPod Nano will have a 2.5in (6.3cm) screen for watching movies and playing games, and will be available in five different colours.

It had been over a year since Apple released a new generation of the iPod or iPod Nano, the longest period between new generations of the music player. September, traditionally the start of the holiday season in America, has provided Apple with sharp rises in sales in the past. Apple is notoriously guarded about its new releases, and excellent at attracting publicity for launches. It certainly succeeded at yesterday's event, billed The Beat Goes On. In the past week alone, shares in Apple rose by 13.5 per cent. The company has sold more than 100 million iPods since it launched the product five years ago. Goldman Sachs predicts the new iPod will improve on its forecast of 19.8 million sales in the next quarter, and may allow Apple to match its 21 million sales over the same period last year.

Last summer, Apple's quarter-on-quarter iPod sales dipped for the first time since its launch.

The generation game

iPod – First Generation

Released in October 2001, the first iPod revolutionised the MP3 market and stored what was then an impressive 5GB of music (around 1,000 songs). Priced at £349, it had a mechanised scroll wheel with buttons on its right, left, top and bottom.

iPod – Second Generation

Released in July 2002, it came with what is now Apple's trademark touch-sensitive scroll-wheel and was compatible with Windows for the first time. It came with 10GB or 20GB.

iPod – Third Generation

Released in April 2003, it separated the four buttons from the wheel, putting them between it and the screen. A "cradle" allowed the user to recharge the batteries and put songs onto the 40GB player.

iPod – Fourth Generation

Just over a year later the buttons were returned to the wheel. The price of the player was substantially cut, to £219 for the standard 20GB model, and the player's short battery life, a common complaint of iPod users, was extended.

iPod Shuffle

In January 2005, Apple released what they said was the smallest digital music player in the world. Much smaller than the conventional iPod, it had no screen or click wheel and used 512MB or 1GB flash memory rather than a hard drive.

iPod Nano

Slimmer than a pencil, the Nano was released in September 2005 to cover the middle ground between the standard iPod and the Shuffle. A new widescreen version was launched yesterday.

iPod – Fifth Generation

Marketed as iPod5G, and released in October 2005, this iPod showed videos for the first time. With a larger screen and much slimmer design, the standard version came with 60GB.

iPod – Sixth Generation

After years of speculation, the iPod finally becomes a touch-screen device. Largely a derivative of the iPhone, which was launched earlier this year in the United States, the new iPod is a multimedia device that allows wireless web-browsing and widescreen video viewing... and you can listen to music on it. It has a smaller memory than traditional iPods, but is available with more than the iPhone. Updated versions of fifth-generation iPods have also been launched – these have a massive storage capacity.

Nokia 888 concept ... Mind Blowing

The Nokia 888 concept transcends conventional design and allows you to morph into any design you wish, roll it, bend it, clip it, whatever.


I think specs are peripheral to the topic here. We have all seen great innovation with Nokia's phone designs especially with the Nokia 7280 . Yanko Design features the Nokia 888 which is a lightweight communication device with a totally flexible form factor. What does that mean? you can roll it, you can make it a wrist band, you can straighten it, however you want it. The site mentions use of liquid battery and flexible touch screens for the concept. Lets wait and see ...

 

 

 

 

 

Bio Battery"

Sony Develops "Bio Battery" Generating Electricity from Sugar - Achieves world's highest power output for passive-type bio batteries
   
TOKYO, August 23, 2007- Sony today announced the development of a bio battery1 that generates electricity from carbohydrates (sugar) utilizing enzymes as its catalyst, through the application of power generation principles found in living organisms.

Test cells of this bio battery have achieved power output of 50 mW, currently the world's highest level2 for passive-type3 bio batteries. The output of these test cells is sufficient to power music play back on a memory-type Walkman.
 4 prototype bio battery units (left) connected to Walkman for playback
In order to realize the world's highest power output, Sony developed a system of breaking down sugar to generate electricity that involves efficiently immobilizing enzymes and the mediator (electronic conduction materials) while retaining the activity of the enzymes at the anode. Sony also developed a new cathode structure which efficiently supplies oxygen to the electrode while ensuring that the appropriate water content is maintained. Optimizing the electrolyte for these two technologies has enabled these power output levels to be reached.

Sugar is a naturally occurring energy source produced by plants through photosynthesis. It is therefore regenerative, and can be found in most areas of the earth, underlining the potential for sugar-based bio batteries as an ecologically- friendly energy device of the future.

Sony will continue its development of immobilization systems, electrode composition and other technologies in order to further enhance power output and durability, with the aim of realizing practical applications for these bio batteries in the future.

The research results presented here have been accepted as an academic paper at the 234th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in Boston, MA USA, and were announced at 11 am local time on August 22, 2007.
 
The bio battery mechanism

 The newly developed bio battery incorporates an anode consisting of sugar-digesting enzymes and mediator, and a cathode comprising oxygen-reducing enzymes and mediator, either side of a cellophane separator. The anode extracts electrons and hydrogen ions from the sugar(glucose) through enzymatic oxidation as follows:

Glucose -> Gluconolactone + 2 H+ + 2 e-

The hydrogen ion migrates to the cathode through the separator. Once at the cathode, the hydrogen ions and electrons absorb oxygen from the air to produce water:
(1/2) O2 + 2 H+ + 2 e- -> H2O

Through this process of electrochemical reaction, the electrons pass through the outer circuit to generate electricity.
Source : http://www.sony. net/SonyInfo/ News/Press/ 200708/07- 074E/index. html

To Access blocked sites: Use Calculator!!

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When both Domain Name & IP Address are banned, Use Calculator to Access that Website

Wuntoo has written a detailed comment on how to bypass the internet content filtering software of your school or office using just the calculator application (Start->Run. type calc.exe). This unique Mathematics based trick will probably work when websites are blocked in your institution or corporate network based on the host name or their IP address.

The trick is to convert the human readable website address that's blocked (like bebo.com) into an IP address ( 208.75.184.160) and again translate this value to a decimal address which is probably not blocked by the website filters.

Here's a step by step guide to render www.myspace. com to a decimal address:



How to Access Restricted Websites

1) get its IP address (216.178.39.74), by pinging the name (if you have a direct internet connection) or if you only have access via a web proxy then find it out by using a networking website like network-tools. com.

2) start your PC's calculator, and change it to scientific mode (using the "View" menu)

3) enter each of the four IP octets, one by one, converting them to binary (enter number and click on the "Bin" radio button)

Thus 216.178.39.74 becomes
216 = 11011000
178 = 10110010
39 = 00100111
74 = 01001010
Notice how any binary numbers less than 8 digits long have had leading zeroes added to pad them out. Reassembled into IP address order, you get 11011000.10110010. 00100111. 01001010

4) Remove the dots, so you get one huge line of binary, thus: 1101100010110010001 0011101001010

5) Copy this binary string

6) Go to your scientific calculator, and hit the "Bin" button FIRST (as you are about to enter binary), THEN paste in the binary string.

7) Click on the "Dec" button on your calculator, and you will get the converted value of 3635554122

8 ) Add the hypertext protocol prefix and paste into your browser's address bar: http://3635554122

Wuntoo adds: I used to be in a place that had websense, where both website names and their corresponding IP addresses were blocked. However was able to get limited access by converting the IP address to decimal, which websense (at the time) did not know about. This might have changed since, or if your school runs an old version it might still work. Note that if you surf away from the page you might hit websense blocks again unless you manually reconstruct the next address you want to get to.

From labnol.blogspot

How to access Bebo, Myspace that are blocked?


The most common websites that are blocked in schools include Bebo, MySpace, Hi5, Xanga, Orkut, Facebook and in some cases, Youtube. We share a couple of options to bypass the internet ban and they includes using proxy servers, special mobile websites and screen sharing software:

Trick A: Most solutions to unblock websites suggest using web proxies to bypass restrictions. Open Directory has a comprehensive list of public anonymous web-based proxy servers that you may want to try. [ How proxies work ?]

But chances are that your school administration has already blocked access to most proxy servers as well. In that case, you have some more options:

Trick B: Surf the web using Mowser, a new service that's free and converts any website into a mobile phone friendly format. The other option that may help access blocked website is Bitty Browser, a miniature web browser that is meant for embedding inside other web pages. Another solution may be Google Mobile Search.

Trick C: Finally, a option that will always work provided you have your sister or mom at home to help you - Use a screen sharing software like Microsoft Tahiti, CrossLoop or Yuuguu.

Ask someone at home to accept your screen sharing invitation request and browse the web at school using your home computer. This will enable you to access any website or instant messenger like Skype or Yahoo from the school or work computer. You may also try remote control software that comes with Win XP Pro instead of screen sharing apps to access restricted sites.

If Google Talk is blocked by your employer, use the Firefox trick and connect with Google Talk buddies outside the office firewall.

Accessing unauthorized web sites using the above tricks may be considered a violation of school or work policies and might put you in trouble. Use them at your own risk.

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