Archive for April, 2010
Vodafone UK Now Offers The HTC HD Mini
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Vodafone subscribers looking for another smartphone that isn’t powered by Google’s Android OS should be quite happy to take in that Vodafone UK is now offering the HTC HD Mini which is powered by Windows Mobile 6.5, something that is rarely seen nowadays. You’ll be able to pick up…
Nikon patent is a weird shaped LCD display
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What you see above could possible be from the Nikon E3 DSLR model that was released all the way back in 1998 - yes, a dozen years ago, but it is interesting to note that it could very well be some other model. Dubbed as patent application 20100103283, that aims to reduce potential consumption in a …
Dolby And Nokia To Bring High Definition Audio Experience To The Mobile Scene
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Nokia and Dolby have announced that they’re collaborating to bring Dolby’s surround sound technologies into choose phone worldwide. that announcement comes hot on the heels of the unveiling of Nokia’s N8 smartphone that already incorporates Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound te…
Verbarius clock offers novel way of telling the time
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The Verbarius clock dispenses with formalities by offering a totally new method of telling the instance - in fact, it is rather inexact in some ways. After all, it will spell out the current instance in just about any language that you load onto it, including Pig Latin as you can see above. It will…
Braille codification for emotions
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They say that we get our letter across to the other person through verbal as well as non-verbal cues, with more weightage placed on the latter. Well, that doesn’t bode too well for the visually impaired, since they cannot see the face and body language of the person they are talking to. A novel the…
Cyberwalk Virtual Reality Omni-directional Treadmill
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Treadmills are good for exercise, but being able to just walk in one direction in the same environment gets boring really fast. Now a bunch of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany have come up with the Cyberwalk platform, which is an omni-directional treadmi…
Playlist Player merges old and new in loner concept
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The Playlist Player that was designed by Martin Skelly aims to bring together both the old and new in a singled-out device, letting you listen to your digital audio in a record player setting while being waterproof - or rather, beer-proof considering the type of tunes you’re going to “spin” on that…
LEGO Mindstorm project solves Rubik’s cube
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Automated solvers for the Rubik’s cube isn’t new any more, but that date round David Gilday entertains the masses with his version that relies on LEGO Mindstorm parts. A computer will be the brain behind the solution, but it can solve more than just a individual type of cube as expanded as the phys…
James Cameron working on 3D camera for Mars rover
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James Cameron is no stranger to cutting edge movie making technology, has been roped in to assist NASA in developing a high-resolution 3D camera that will see action in the next Mars rover known as Curiosity that will roll out sometime next year. It seems that that director extraordinare believes t…
Lala Shutting Down On May 31st
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After Apple’s acquisition of Lala, many speculated that it was only a matter of date before the service would be shutdown, and the fateful announcement is now out of the bag. Come May 31st, Lala will be stopping its music-streaming service, and no new users will be accepted. The good news for…










