February 9th, 2010 by Tassavur
Are you the one who is not happy with their weight? (To tell you the truth mostly all of us aren’t). We usually tend to avoid stepping on the weighing scale fearing the worst. Well heres one way to ensure that you step on one daily. Its the door mat (door mat again!) or a rug that comes fitted with a digital glowing scale that shows the user’s previous weight, present weight, and goal weight. Its designed by Kwon Sunman, wonder what was the inspiration behind this one! Though by the looks of it, its much more cosy and comfortable than the traditional ones. Also you do have the option to detach the rug for cleaning purposes or attaching a new one as per your taste.
Right now this is just a concept. Would definitely like to have one though when its ready…
Source Red Dot
Categories: Concept / Educative, Weird or not?, Wow Gadgets |
Tags: geek gear, geeky rug, gizmo, innovative rug, rug, rug with weighing scale, scale |
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February 8th, 2010 by Annkur
Technovanza 2010 at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) was bigger than ever before. Technovanza team had set out with the aim to take Technology to the society this year and the various initiatives we saw at the exhibitions left us highly impressed. Here are a few that caught our eye over the weekend:
1. Braille Tutor
A low cost tutor for the Blind, the Braille Tutor is something (more…)
Categories: Videos, Wow Gadgets, events |
Tags: braille technovanza, braille tutor, exhibitions, mechanical calculator, robotic arm, Technovanza, technovanza 2010, VJTI |
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February 8th, 2010 by Annkur
Combining the stability of a Chopper and the efficiency of a aeroplane, the Humminger concept had won the Stage-I of DRDO Students Competition in 2008 ranking amongst top 10 of 272 teams across India. With constant improvements made to the design the Humminger 3.0 was showcased at VJTI’s annual fest – Technovanza. Humminger is a concept that (more…)
Categories: Videos, Wireless Gadgets, events |
Tags: drdo concept, humminger concept, humminger drdo, humminger video, humminger vjti, Technovanza, technovanza 2010, vjti rc plane |
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February 8th, 2010 by Annkur
One of the many impressive views at the VJTI annual festival – Technovanza was the Rubik’s cube competition. Endorsed by the World Cube association the competition at Technovanza saw rubik’s enthusiasts from all over India going head to head. Having seen our friend Varun perform at Barcamp Mumbai 6 and later at Startup Saturday Mumbai, I was sure that he would be the show stopper out there. But then there were these magical kids who managed to show us such blackmagic that I got to say this – Your got to see this, to believe it! The videos below would give you an idea of what we have witnessed over the weekend: (more…)
Categories: Entertainment, Videos, events |
Tags: rubicks video, rubiks cube 3x3, rubiks video, technocanza rubiks, Technovanza, technovanza 2010, vjti technovanza |
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February 8th, 2010 by Kunal
When it comes to design, Motorola is coming out with something entirely new and impressive these days. After a backwords flipping QWERTY with the Motorola Backflip, here comes multiple orientation keyboard phone — Motosplit. The rumored Motosplit is expected to have a unique form-factor, according to the leaked design image shown above. The phone is rumored to be featuring a multi-sliding keyboard. The keyboard can be a numeric keypad as well as a full QWERTY because it uses touch sensitive monochrome displays for keys.
The cut-outs for the ‘touch-keys’ match the counter of a standard finger to make typing easier. The key label would change according to the slide layout in use. The keyboard can be slide downwards for use as a standard numerical keypad and can also slide sideways to be used as QWERTY in landscape mode.
Other rumored specifications include a screen-size same as that of the Motorola Droid (3.7“, 480 x 854) and a snapdragon 1GHz processor. The phone is expected to be official in Q3 2010.
via [AndroidCommunity] (more…)
Categories: Android, Leaked / Spyshots, motorola, rumor |
Tags: Android, changing qwerty, motorola, motorola android, motorola motosplit, motosplit, rumor, touch qwerty, touchscreen qwerty |
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February 8th, 2010 by Kunal
ContactFlow may be new for App Store but was available previously for jailbreaked iPhones. The application allows iPhone users to browse through their contacts in a cover flow style. Its similar to browsing albums on an iPod.
While flipping through the contacts, the user needs to tap on a particular contact to flip the picture for calling options. The options involve calling, SMS and e-mail. The application is a standalone app and doesn’t integrate with the inbuilt contact application on iPhone. Which means, it would have to be used instead of using the built-in contact app.
The good thing is it would compel you to take photos of most of your contacts. I know its time consuming, but it would leave you with a lively contact book to browse through whenever you use your iPhone for calling/SMS/e-mail. The application is available on iTunes for $1.99. [iTunes Link]
via [JustAnotheriPhoneBlog]
Categories: Apple, iphone, mobile app |
Tags: app, appstore, appstore app, contact flow, contactflow, cydia app, iphone app, paid app |
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February 6th, 2010 by Annkur
If there is anything that the poor sales of the Google Nexus One proves to me, its the control, the evil control rather – that the US carriers have over the mobile market. Long before Google unveiled the Nexus one, it was rumored that Cupertino is cooking plans to end the carrier raj in US. In their small way they did, however Nexus One was tied to T-Mobile. Selling solely over the Internet, NexusOne is surely rated high by the powerusers. I can see the craze amongst my friends on twitter here in India (with a few luck ones getting the device already).
So why did it do just 80000 units in the first month? (more…)
Categories: Android, Google, Market Watch |
Tags: android nexus one, android sales, Google, google nexus, google super phone, nexus, nexus one, nexus one sales, tmobile google, tmobile goole |
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February 6th, 2010 by Daksh Juneja
Now for this app giving the name of Classics is very rhetorical, cause the future of books is This, as this the core thing on iPad. Let me clarify myself here, Someone once said future is very much reading a book from a screen and voilà here it is with Classics. An Ebook store with titles ranging from Alice in wonderland to Pride and Predudice, from Jungle Book to Gulliver’s Travels it’s got a great collection of eBooks. The text is eligible and the turning of pages with a touch of a finger gives it a very neat look, you (more…)
Categories: iphone, mobile app |
Tags: app, books app, Classics, ebooks on appstore, ebooks on iphone, ebooks on ipod touch, free app, iBooks, iphone app |
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February 6th, 2010 by Navin Israni
Remember that weird (futuristic) transparent AMOLED laptop that Samsung displayed at CES this year? Now the news on it is that the company is actually planning to launch it within a year.
And not just that, Samsung actually wants to create a separate category of products having the transparent screen and plans to launch several such products next year. Also there are rumors of a transparent navigation device that Samsung plans to mount on the car windshields.
My views on this weird laptop form factor with a transparent display still remain the same : it’s simply has no practical use! I mean, obviously this looks cool but it also allows people around you to see what work you are doing. So that clearly violates your own privacy. And then, there are issues of it’s usability in the direct sunlight. At the max, you can play music, games or do some casual work on it. You surely won’t spend your hard-earned bucks only to play music while you show off the gorgeous transparent screen. Will you?
As for the transparent navigation device that Samsung plans to mount on the car windshields. It makes a lot of sense, given that this technology would aid a situation where we are discussing in-car screens, that would not distract the drivers attention from the road ahead (atleast not completely).
(via CrunchGear)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Notebook / Laptops, Weird or not?, samsung |
Tags: AMOLED, in car transparent screen, navigation device, samsung, samsung amoled, transparent amoled laptop, transparent laptop, transparent oled laptop, weird laptop, weird transparent laptop |
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February 5th, 2010 by Tassavur
If the internal IITB exhibitions rocked this year the international exhibitions were no less and pretty much upto the mark compared to the previous versions. There were many innovative and advanced technologies at display (read James Bond style technology if that helps your imagination). Ranging from nanobots to underwater robots (fishes and lobsters), from 3-D simulations of earthquakes to amazing solar powered racing cars, this year had it all.
Gwawr – The solar car
This beautiful welsh named car Gwawr meaning dawn was one of the attractions of the international exhibitions at the Techfest @IITB this year. Also a winner of the Panasonic World Solar Challenge Environmental Awareness Award 2007 not only because it runs on green fuel but also due to the fact that most of it is made from recycled materials resulting in almost zero carbon emissions when when the car is scrapped.
The car at display wasn’t the original one, but a scaled down model which was powered by electricity for now. Prof. Graham and Tom built it in 9 days for the exhibition. The actual car is a dual powered one which can be charged via both, Yeah! you guessed it, electricity and solar power. The scaled down model at the exhibition could do 25mph (because it had got Prof. Graham’s bicycle motor attached to it). The braking system was also adopted from the bicycle itself. While onlygizmos was lucky enough to get an exclusive video of Tom (future Schumacher for his sheer driving skills) driving the car. I was even more luckier to get a chance to get into the car.
Natures Raincoat
Although the name had us guessing and all we could think of was something associated with rains. But this one was something very different that we have seen for a while. On display were super hydrophobic material that repelled water as the opposites of a magnet repel each other.
We had the magic sand at display which came out as dry as it can be in a super hot desert even after immersing in water. Then there was this special coated business card which left no traces o water even after you drop water on it. They also used a ducks wing to display the same. This phenomenon was explained by pressing a blown ballon on the surface of a bed of nails which even if you pressed hard would not be pierced by the nails and not burst. It so happens that the surfce is such that pressure of the drop gets equally distributed on the surface as a result of which water does not break in to the surface and is bounced off the surface leaving it untouched by water. I know its difficult to understand but Ubercool stuff isnt it?
Quantum of solace
As the name suggests this was indeed an amazingly sophisticated display of state of the art technology straight out of the Bond flick (more…)
Categories: Reviews, TechFest, Videos, Wow Gadgets, picture |
Tags: fish robot, Gwawr, IIT exhibition, international exhibition, nano solar car, Naro fish robot, natures raincoat, robot lamprey, robot lobster, robotis, solar car, Techfest exhibition, waterproof card, waterproof sand |
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February 4th, 2010 by Annkur
Last June Nokia announced its plans to go open source with the Symbian platform. Already handed over to the Symbian Foundation, the smartphone OS that currently powers over 300million handsets has been battling it out with the Apple iPhone, Android OS and others in the race to be the smartest mobile OS. It announced today that the Symbian OS is now open sourced (and free), full 4 months before schedule. This opens the door for Symbian to be ported on other mobile devices like netbooks, tablets or perhaps even PMPs.
While we heard since years that mobile is the future, mobile is the future … the fact remains that true smartphone capabilities were tested only by the iPhone in 2007 and since then we have seen newer platforms like the Android and WebOS steal the show with nothing competitive being presented by Symbian / Nokia. Nokia is one of the most efficient mobile manufacturers in the world and still the largest globally, but the loss of mindshare to the competition is significant. Samsung has climbed up to the number 2 slot globally and might well be knocking on Nokia’s door. The enterprise market is ruled by Blackberry and powerusers are diehard Android / iPhone lovers. How long can Nokia survive on the common man? As a matter of fact most common users use a decade old WinXP on their desktop, but when it comes to mobile the industry is moving fast, unbelievable fast!
Nokia avoided the Google backed Android OS in favor of Maemo (not to forget that they are also working on oFono with Intel). This has made many to term the OS strategy by Nokia as “Confused”. However Samsung has been offering everything that one can expect, low end phones with its own non-smart OS (some on the other side aswell), Windows Mobile & Android smartphones and an upcoming BADA OS. So will Symbian manages to turn the tables with the ambitious move to go Open, we hope to see Nokia deliver some new wine 
Categories: Tech Industry News, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: free mobile os, free os, nokia os, open source, os, smartphone os, symbian |
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February 4th, 2010 by Kunal
A close look at the Nokia’s product lineup would surely suggest a broken link between the low-end phones and the high-end N-series/E-series. If the speculations of a handset called C5 are to be true, then Nokia might just be filling this broken link with a new C-series. C5 is the first leaked handset of the new rumored C-series. C5 would be a mid-range Nokia smartphone which should fit perfect into the price sensitive pockets. The phone seems to be running Symbian S60 v3 & the shortcuts / widgets on the homescreen reminds us of the 5233 UI we saw earlier this week.
The rumored specs are -
- Symbian S60v3 OS
- 3.2MP camera
- HSDPA / HSUPA
- 2.2? QVGA screen
- 50MB internal memory
- MicroSD Slot
- GPS / A-GPS
- 3.5MM audio jack
- FM Radio
The C5 is expected to be announced later this month @ MWC 2010 at Barcelona. The pricing of the device is unknown.
via [Electronista]
Categories: Leaked / Spyshots, nokia, rumor |
Tags: c5, c5 review, mwc, mwc 2010, nokia, nokia c-series, nokia c5, nokia c5 preview, nokia leaked, rumor |
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February 4th, 2010 by Annkur
All that we aren’t taking about at OG, but there is a chatter in the tech town!
Categories: Tech Industry News |
Tags: in teh news, news, news on the loose, tech news |
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February 3rd, 2010 by Tassavur
Technovanza 2010, is the event to watchout for this weekend. Held by VJTI, this one is the most sought, after the IIT’s Techfest. Their theme for this year is “Taking Technology to Society”.
Having promoting technology all these years, this time they are showcasing technology to serve a different purpose. Keeping in with the need of the hour, Technovanza this year will concentrate on technologies that will not only help conserve the environment but also improve it at the same time. Keeping this in mind they have lined up a number of events like Amphi Train and Domotique. Some thing very unique and innovative is the initiative called (more…)
Categories: Concept / Educative |
Tags: TechFest, technical festival, technology fest, Technovanza, VJTI |
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February 2nd, 2010 by Annkur
I have probably mentioned it a dozen times that Samsung is missing a smart OS in its touchscreen range (viz Corby, Star) and perhaps BADA OS would fill that gap. We are hearing that the S8200 would be the first BADA OS phone from Samsung and might well be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress later this month. The S8200 is said to be a Snapdragon powered high-end touchscreen, that would feature a 3.7″ AMOLED screen (), 5MP camera, WiFi, GPS, HSPA etc. Hope they also manage to get a more mature OS for the low end touchscreens aswell after the mega BADA OS launch is done with.
In other news it is also confirmed that Samsung GT-S8500 would be the first smartphone to support USB 3.0 which has just been cleared by the Bluetooth SIG. Another full touchscreen with a 3.1″ OLED display the S8500 might well be one of the BADA OS releases at MWC. Exciting stuff happening from Samsung, hope they live up to the hype.
Categories: Tech Industry News, rumor, samsung |
Tags: bada, bada os, mwc, mwc 2010, s8500, samsung, samsung bada review, samsung mwc, samsung s8200, smartphone, usb 3, usb 3.0 phone |
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February 2nd, 2010 by Annkur
The iPad came and went down with a lot of criticism. In a market where traditional PC’s rule and only the scaled down version of the very same interface sells, Google tried to sell us the Chrome OS concept last year and got a luke warm response (better than the bombing iPad has got). With the 2010 flavour of tablets, a tablet version of Chrome OS is what we are looking at now.
Last month we hard heard rumors of HTC working on a Google tablet that would be powered by the Chrome OS and here we have a tablet concept UI posted on the official Chromium site. While Chromium is the open source community that powers the Chrome browser and the Chrome OS, Techcrunch notes that these might well be posted by Glen Murphy (Google Chrome’s designer). It is rumored that Google is working closely with manufacturers to fine tune the Chrome tablet, just like it worked with HTC to build the Nexus One.
This seems to be the only way in which Google can counter the advantage cos like Apple & Palm have (controlling the entire experience: hardware + software). More pictures below, video here. (more…)
Categories: First look, Softwares, Tech Industry News |
Tags: chrome os, chrome tablet, google ipad, google tablet, htc tablet, ipad, tablet, tablet os |
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February 2nd, 2010 by Annkur
Nokia has said RIP to Gage for sure, but you never know whats really cooking in Finland. Nokia might well be planning some cool gaming phones that could match up with the challenge thrown by the iPhone / Android and lately Palm. What we have here is the Ovi Orion concept that is a gaming touchscreen and by the looks of it, it sure is sporty! Recombu Orion concept is loaded with a ‘killer’ CPU/GPU, 4.3″ touchscreen, a QWERTY with additional one line display on the back and gaming controls (along with the usual suspects like the WiFi, Sensors etc).
More pictures and the Orion Video after the break (more…)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Gaming, Tech Industry News, nokia |
Tags: Gaming, ngage, nokia, nokia gaming, nokia ngage, Nokia Ovi Orion, ovi, ovi orion, touchscreen |
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February 2nd, 2010 by Navin Israni
At OnlyGizmos, we are constantly in search of technologies based on alternative energy sources. Solar, Wind or Hydrogen-powered devices, you name it, we love it. Basically, the idea is to help reduce our dependence on energy from traditional fuels and minimize carbon emissions. Kinetic Energy is another alternative that could potentially be used to charge up our gadgets, by our bodily movements.
A team of Scientists and post-graduate student researchers from Princeton and California Tech Universities (more…)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Tech Industry News, Wow Gadgets |
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February 1st, 2010 by Kunal
The first time the world saw Apple’s tablet iPad was during the apple event on Jan 27th. Interestingly, the second public appearence happened during the Grammy’s award function. Stephen Colbert pulled out an iPad to announce the nominations for the best song.
The iPad won’t be out on sale until March 2010. The one with Stephen had been given by Apple to promote the device.
via [IntoMobile] (more…)
Categories: Apple, Entertainment, Videos |
Tags: apple ipad promotion, apple marketing, grammy, grammy ipad, ipad, stephen colbert |
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