March 9th, 2010
Yes I know that we are still waiting for the 3G license auctions in India but here is a cheer from Verizon (US). Testing their LTE / 4G network, Verizon has released promising numbers of data transfer speeds over the network. The average speed given in these tests are between 5-12 Mbps, though much lesser than the 100Mbps theoretical promise, this still does a lot better than the 3G networks with peak download of 50Mpbs.
Trials in Boston and Seattle indicate the network is capable of peak download speeds of 40 to 50 megabits per second (Mbps) and peak upload speeds of 20 to 25 Mbps. The speeds are significantly faster than Verizon Wireless and other wireless providers’ current or promised 3G network speeds. [Verizon]
Rolling out later this year (possibly with the new iPhone 4th Gen?) the Verizon 4G network would initially cover 20-30 areas and go nation wide in US by 2013. Now only if we can have some handhelds that can use this super speed? Please 
Via Techmeme
Categories: Future WIP, Tech Industry News |
Tags: 4g, data speeds, iphone 4g network, iphone verizon lte, lte, lte data speeds, us 4g network, verizon, verizon lte | No Comments
March 8th, 2010
A new Palm phone has surfaced on a lot of websites that sell phone accessories. A snapshot from one of these websites shows that the handset is called Palm Elan. An AT&T employee also leaked that the Palm Elan would feature a ’soft keyboard’ and its (more…)
Categories: Future WIP, Leaked / Spyshots, Tech Industry News |
Tags: codename for Palm Pixi, leaked, New Palm pixi with soft keyboard, palm, palm elan, palm leaked, palm pixi, pixi, secret new palm phone | 1 Comment
March 7th, 2010
Yes weird as it sounds and geeky for sure! The idea of combining several cellphone displays by just placing them next to each other is certainly impressive and Motoorla is on it (the only problem is I don’t see a very practical use of this). According to this patent (“Reconfigurable Multiple-Screen Display”) filed by Motorola you can stream a video in parts on more than one cellphone at once and thus create a larger output by aligning the displays of these cellphones next to each other. See the diagram below to get some clarity:
So next (more…)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Future WIP, motorola, smartphones |
Tags: future mobiles, innovation, motopatent, motorola patent, smartphone patent, video on mobile patent | No Comments
March 2nd, 2010
Slashgear is featuring a cool Microsoft Mobile Surface video that shows a mobile controlled with a camera + projector surface that lets you interact with the system in a unique way. The demo shows a drum being played by tapping your hands in the air (over the projected screen). Microsoft would eventually evolve this technology to give you a Surface computer with just a projected screen on a table top. Intriguing technology, not very new though have seen similar ones before. But one things for sure ,this will be way cheaper than the current Microsoft surface is.
Half way into the video demo by Microsoft, I felt this isn’t new. I have seen similar magic before in a demo by TouchMagix (a startup from India), though Microsoft would integrate a full blown computer in this interface as it seems. A little googling, and I have a video demo by Touch Magix to compare with. Watch both the videos (Microsoft Mobile Surface and TouchMagix) below. You can also see the obvious similarities of this technology with the Light Blue Optics video we saw earlier. And did I forget the Pranav Mistry Sixth Sense demo from TED?
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Categories: First look, Future WIP, Tech Industry News, Videos, microsoft |
Tags: microsoft, microsoft mobile surface, microsoft touchmagix, projector computer, sixth sense microsoft, surface, surface mobile, touchmagix, touchmagix pune, ui | No Comments
February 22nd, 2010
One block of these can power 4 to 6 Indian homes or one home in the UK whereas you put the two together and its ready to power an American home. Thats the power of the Bloom box created by K.R. Sridhar a NASA scientist and the founder of Bloom Energy. As per the interview given to 60 Minutes, Sridhar confesses that this was an oxygen generating project built for the Mars project which didnt happened. So he reversed the process and now he can generate electricity. The process is carbon neutral. That brings us to the question: So how does he manage to do this? (more…)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Future WIP, Tech Industry News, Wow Gadgets, green energy |
Tags: Bloom energy, Bloombox, green enrgy, John Doer, K.R. Sridhar, magic power box, oxygen fuel cells | No Comments
February 11th, 2010
Choosing the right kind of make-up can be time consuming and skin damaging too. Keeping these issues under consideration, Shiseido has developed a Digital Cosmetic Mirror.
The mirror has a built-in camera that scans the user’s face and then different types of virtual make-up can be tested on the scanned image. The mirror provides recommendations on the latest make-up trends and also has options for different make-up styles which can be browsed through a touchscreen. It provides a print-out of ‘before and after’ image along with the purchase details for the make-up. The digital cosmetic mirror not only helps the user to choose the best make-up, but also helps in avoiding the blunders of experimenting.
While the mirror would save customer’s time, it would also help the cosmetic industry to save some cost with the end of samples and testers. Do check the video of the Shiseido’s Digital Cosmetic Mirror in action. (more…)
Categories: Future WIP, Weird or not?, Wow Gadgets |
Tags: digital cosmetic mirror, future tech, make-up mirror, Shiseido, video, virtual make-up | No Comments
February 10th, 2010
Google has revealed that they are developing a voice translation application for smartphones. Real time voice-to-voice translation would be the first attempt of its kind for phones. Google already provides an automatic text translation system on computers known as the Google Translate which supports 52 different languages. Google also has a voice recognition system which enables phone users to search the web or use google maps through speech. Now, Google is working on combining the google translate and its speech recognition system to develop a new voice-to-voice translation for phones. The application would recognize speech in packages and translate them to another language after interpreting the meaning of the original speech.
Although Google’s text translation works quite accurately, the speech recognition system has its flaws and Google is now working on improving it. Googles’ Head of Translation Service, Franz Och said, (more…)
Categories: Future WIP, Google, Tech Industry News, Videos |
Tags: Google, real time voice translation, voice translation, voice translation for phones, voice translation for smartphones | 5 Comments
February 1st, 2010
When the world is busy shifting to new full touchscreen devices like the iPad, there are a lot of people who still love to type on physical keyboard. For such audience, South Korean company Mobiance have developed a pocket sized keypad called the smallQWERTY.
Although the name does have the words QWERTY in it, the device is more of a traditional keypad used in cellphones. There are eight additional functional buttons to the keypad, four on each side. The user would have to tap button multiple times for typing on this device. The developers of the keypad have not revealed any technical specifications of the device. Which means, the connectivity mode used and the compatibility of the keypad is not known for now. Also, there is no news on its pricing and availability.
One thing I would certainly like to see is myself typing on an iPad using my Nokia E63 or perhaps more realistically the iPhone!
via [Dvice]
Categories: Concept / Educative, Future WIP, Wireless Gadgets, Wow Gadgets |
Tags: keypad, physical keyboard, qwerty, smallqwerty, touchscreen keyboard | No Comments
February 1st, 2010
Later this month Sharp is rolling out the SH6230C in Chinese market. Whats special is that, this is the first solar powered mobile from Sharp and another step towards clean tech coming to smartphones. While it would make a much more impact if mainstream cos like Nokia starts to push the green pedal harder (Nokia does have the remade concept and a recycle project for cellphones); we are happy to see commercial launches of cellphones with solar support (the SH6230C is a hybrid). The SH6230C is a clamshell that has a big enough 2.9″ LCD and a 5MP autofocus camera, the solar panel resides on the back. No word on pricing yet (don’t expect his one to be as cheap as the Samsung Guru), this runs Sharp’s proprietary solar cell module.
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Categories: Future WIP, Launch Pad, Tech Industry News, smartphones |
Tags: clean tech, green tech, SH6230C, sharp SH6230C, solar mobile, solar mobiles | 1 Comment
January 27th, 2010
Seen the cool Pranav Mistry – Sixth Sense video from TED? Well there are equally cooler things that are getting ready for a consumer launch already. This concept from Light Bluet Optics (‘Light Touch’ as it is called) was demoed at CES 2010 is one of the pretty cool technologies that promises to make the Apple tablet like hype when they actually hit our desks. Somehow we missed this before, but here it is now.
The video demo shows the cool UI that this projector computer packs and navigating media was swift. Powered by LBO proprietary holographic projector the device demoed herein has a CPU similar to whats seen on the iPhone and does pretty well. Video downstairs
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Categories: Future WIP, Wireless Gadgets, Wow Gadgets |
Tags: ces 2010, infrared keyboard, lbo, light blue optics, light touch, projector, projector computer, touch | 1 Comment
January 26th, 2010
Designed by Pratt Institute student Suhyun Kim, this sexy looking phone has out-sliding pillars that open up a gorgeous touchscreen and is designed keeping in mind the needs of the hearing impaired. The USP of the concept is that it derives outgoing voice from keyed in text, to be sent over to a desired receiver and vice versa.
Most hearing impaired people, specially (more…)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Future WIP, Wow Gadgets |
Tags: concept, concept phone, concept phone for deaf, deaf phone, phone for hearing impaired, sound, visual, visual sound | 12 Comments
January 10th, 2010
Intel certainly looks to prove Moore’s Law right with its bunch of announcements at CES 2010. The company’s CEO Paul Otellini made some big announcements during his keynote.
Here we summarize it for you :
- Intel’s AppUp Center is an app store with software’s / games made for Netbooks (just as we heard earlier). Currently in Beta, it works on Windows and Mobilin (mobile Linux). Also, the company is associating itself with Acer, Asus, Dell, and Samsung to create manufacturer-specific apps for their laptops. Developers will be linked via Atom Developer Program. The company says AppUp Store is focused at the netbook-centric Atom processor.
- Moresetown an Atom-based, Mobilin-driven smart phone made by LG, that brings multipoint, 3-way split-screen video-conferencing on the device itself.
- LightPeak (the Apple backed technology): a single-cable 10Gbps standard that enables the download of a Blu-ray movie in less than 30 seconds. That’s faster than even USB 3.0. Intel aims to provide computing and transfer power for 3D content in homes, including making your own 3D movies at home.
- A holographic glass digital display that can “digitally visually tag actual physical objects sitting behind it.” What Visual Tagging means (more…)
Categories: Future WIP, Tech Industry News, netbook |
Tags: AppUp Center, ces 10, ces 2010, Holographiocs Glass Digital Display, intel, Light Peak, LightPeak, Morsetown, Otellini, Paul Otellini | 1 Comment
January 5th, 2010
OmniVision – the company that supplies the cameras for your iPhone 3G and 3GS and Blackberry Storm / Curve has unveiled its new OV14825 14.6 megapixel image sensor specially built for mobiles. This thing will empower the future smartphones to shoot 1080p videos at 60 fps, now thats some quality. For comparison sake the 3GS does 30fps VGA recording and is already the most popular video camera for YouTube uploads.
Using a 1.4-micron OmniBSI pixel architecture the 1/2.33-inch sensor is capable of performing well in low light conditions and at the same time consumes lesser battery battery power keeping in mind the mobile usage.
So is this what Steve Jobs is planning for the iPhone 5th generation?
Via Gizmodo
Categories: Cameras, Future WIP, Tech Industry News |
Tags: 14.6 mp, camera, lens, mobile camera, omnivision, OV14825 | No Comments
January 5th, 2010
Remember how we are awed by the Talking robots which appear in Movies. Be it Flubber with the flying talking Robot, or the sweet little Wall-E, they all amaze us. But in a few years Movies will not be the only platform you will be seeing these computers in, they will be there with us, in our homes. Artificial Intelligence, Speech Recognition and Machine Vision will be the key features on which the next generation of Computers will be based, says Google’s director of research Peter Norvig. “I think we are always reinventing things, which I think is good,” he says candidly. “You always try to attract the best people and you can’t attract a person whose job is to just maintain something that was built 10 years ago. The top people don’t want to do that, they want to invent their own.” (more…)
Categories: Future WIP |
Tags: future computing, future gadgets, gizmo, talking computers | No Comments
January 3rd, 2010
While most of the cellphone manufacturers are still busy perfecting the touchscreen interface for mobile phones, two Japanese scientists have developed a new input method for cellphones. The developers, Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University, are calling it the “vision-based input interface”.
The system uses the front camera of cellphone which recognises all the five fingers of the user. The System binarizes the images of the fingertip and uses it as a template image. Then it tracks thefingertip in input images about translation, rotation and scale. In that way, the positions and postures of the fingertips are estimated. The user can wave (more…)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Future WIP |
Tags: fingertip movement, future gizmos, future mobile, vision based input, vision-based input interface | 4 Comments
December 20th, 2009
Intel in informing the tech world to gear up for its Postviller Refresh in Q4 2010 that will bring Solid Stage Drives of capacity upto 600GB. The drives would be based on the same X-25m SATA drives, but is said to be smaller than 34nm.
Currently Intel SSD’s based on X-25m (2.5″) are available in 80GB and 160GB versions. The newer ones are expected to be built with a 2xnm process and might be 28nm or smaller. With the capacity going upto 600GB we can expect netbooks and notebooks to offer great upgrades. Hope we can get the Pure Silicon 1TB NITRO SSD to launch a consumer version soon which the big boys currently enjoy.
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Categories: Future WIP, Tech Industry News |
Tags: 500gb ssd, 600gb ssd, intel ssd, solid state drive | No Comments
December 13th, 2009
Motorola is working on its web-based application store for Android called “SHOP4APPS”. Android and Me got a sneak peek of the application store during its testing.
Are they building an application store for just a couple of devices? Motorola sure sees a bright future for itself in Android. With the Android Market already in place, an introduction of a Motorola-branded Android application store would give its users more options to shop for apps.
The purchase of applications can be done through (more…)
Categories: Android, Future WIP, motorola |
Tags: Android, android app store, android applications, android market, apps, motorola, motorola app store, shop4apps | 7 Comments
December 13th, 2009
The most rumoured Apple product (iTablet/TabletMac) still remains a mystery. But all those rumors did get someone really inspired. We are talking about the aspirations of the Taiwan-based Asuteck Computers, or Asus.
DigiTimes claims that Asus is working on a tablet of its own, which is set to be called the Asus “Eee Pad”. The Eee Pad is rumored to feature a 4″ to 7″ wide screen. According to ‘industry sources”, (more…)
Categories: Future WIP, PMP - Portable Media, rumor |
Tags: asus, Asus Eee Pad, eee pad | 1 Comment
November 25th, 2009
FedEx is pushing the boundaries of consignment tracking beyond our beliefs. GPS tracking of a shipment is common and we have seen some experiments around that, with people leaving behind GPS navigators in shipments just for kicks. But Senseware costing $120 a month would let you do a lot more. You will be notified of the temperature, handling (drops), location and light exposure of your FedEx shipment, all live over the internet.
Currently in trial with 50 Fed-Ex clients, this isn’t the gadget you will use to track your wives birthday gift, but serious medical shipments like human organs would largely benefit from this. Of course businesses would love this once the pricing falls further. For the moment, you are free to speculate what the future of logistics can be.
Via Gizmodo
Categories: Concept / Educative, Future WIP, Wireless Gadgets |
Tags: fedex, future, logistics, senseware, shipment tracking, track drops in shipment | No Comments
November 17th, 2009
The Vega Android Tablet is an ICD (Innovative Converged Devices) creation that runs on Android 2.0. The tablet packs a fair set of features and a look to kill for. The Android Tablet will be available in three sizes – 7“, 11” and 15“.
The tablet is powered by NVIDIA Tegra Processor and a (more…)
Categories: Android, First look, Future WIP |
Tags: android tablet, ICD, innovatice converged devices, vega, vega android, vega android tablet | 1 Comment
