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Double Sided Touch Screen Android Smartphone Prototype by Docomo

May 31, 2012 0 Tassavur

We have seen flexible displays from Samsung and a flexible smartphone by Nokia but this one by NTT Docomo in Japan is a lot different and perhaps could prove to be much more useful in the future once it goes…

Samsung

Samsung Announces the Galaxy S III; Has the iPhone 4S in sight

May 4, 2012 0 Rahul S

Samsung’s much awaited flagship Android handset, the Galaxy SIII has been finally announced. In an event held at London yesterday, the successor to the popular Galaxy S II was revealed to an expectant crowd of bloggers and journalists. While the Galaxy…

iPhone

Meet the Galileo of the 21st Century

March 28, 2012 0 Hakimuddin

What would you call a device, that integrates robotic technology, to be used as a tool for communicating through visual medium, running on one of the best operating systems in the world, the iOS? Confused? Well, then it’s time for…

Future WIP

A Hard Drive More Dense than the Milky Way: Seagate

March 20, 2012 0 Tassavur

There was a time when Bill Gates of Microsoft had said that an individual in his life time would not need more than a few MB’s of memory and today we have people not only buying TB’s of memory but…

MWC

Nokia 808 PureView Runs Symbian; Has a 41 megapixel sensor!

February 27, 2012 0 Rahul S

No, that’s not a typo. I did not mean to type 14 megapixels in that headline there. It indeed is 41 (forty one) megapixels. Anyway, let me inform you all what this is all about. At the on going Mobile…

CES

CES 2012: XPAL Power intros Cellphone that runs on one AA Battery, Lasts 15 years on Single Charge!

January 9, 2012 0 Rahul S

XPAL Power, the company behind famous battery brands like Energizer and Powerskin have announced a new mobile phone at CES. The phone, known as the SpareOne is unique in the fact that it is powered by a single AA battery.…

CES

CES 2012: Withings Introduces Internet connected Baby Scale

January 9, 2012 0 Rahul S

We start our CES 2012 coverage with an unlikely gadget –a baby weighing scale. That’s right. A baby scale. But this one’s a different breed compared to your normal baby scale. For starters, this one is connected to the Internet.…

Featured

Violet 3D: World’s First Space Sensing Home Theatre System

November 20, 2011 0 Tassavur

We went to NasscomPC 2011 with a quest to find if successful hardware manufacturing startups can be possible in the Indian sphere. Though the scenario of such an event happening looks bleak with consistent domination of China and the failure…

Tech Industry News

Screen Reflection Problems No More With Invisible Glass

October 31, 2011 0 Tassavur

How often do we come across reflection problems on screens of our devices? No matter which type of screen your device boasts of, reflection can still be a problem. Well now there is a solution so effective that it will…

Tech Industry News

Chinese SuperComputer With Self Made Microprocessors

October 29, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well China has not exactly been known to produce high performance micro processors. So it was a real surprise when China announced its first supercomputer the Sunway Bluelight MPP powered by micro processors made in China itself.

Samsung

After Nokia’s Showcase, Samsung Hurrying Up Flexible Display Fitted Smartphone?

October 29, 2011 0 Annkur

Nokia showed a prototype phone with a flexible display at Nokia World. While that wasn’t ready for prime-time and we have no date for a commercial launch, it seems Samsung has started to hurry up their plans of getting on…

Accessories

X-mini Rave Portable Speaker Review

October 29, 2011 0 Tassavur

X-mini speakers are ones you can aptly call devilishly cute. They look so small and yet they are so loud. We still haven’t forgotten how we fell head over heels in love with the X-mini V 1.1 & Happy. So…

Nokia

Flexible Interactive Phone by Nokia Coming Soon

October 27, 2011 0 Tassavur

Bitten by innovation by other players in the market and the resultant slipping market share, Nokia finally seems to be working on something disruptively innovative themselves. As it seems, Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 weren’t the only phones Nokia had…

Future WIP

The New Age Surveillance Bot: Rotundus GroundBot

October 24, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well this rolling ball is just not any ball but a revolutionary camera equipped surveillance bot for the future. Though it reminds me of those rolling creatures in the sci-fi movie Critters. This one is called the GroundBot made by…

Tech Industry News

World’s First 2.5″ 1TB SSD Courtesy OCZ

October 20, 2011 0 Tassavur

You might have heard that world’s first 1TB SSD thing before, but the fact remains that PureSilicon’s 1TB SSD neither saw the light of the day nor was it ever available in any of the markets worldwide. Hence technically we…

Videos

Kinect Powered Motion Tracking Based Animation Solution (Video)

October 19, 2011 0 Annkur

A few months back we met an innovative technologist Ramaprasanna. Hailing from Bangalore the IT city, Rama has created a number of geeky hobby projects and today we take a look at his latest hack. This time Rama has ventured into the…

Cameras

Kodak PLAYFULL Waterproof Camera

October 1, 2011 0 Tassavur

Kodak has introduced a no frills digital camera named KODAK PLAYFULL Waterproof Camera. Priced at a modest $99.95 the camera is ideal for novice photographers and comes in a sleek lightweight sturdy design weighing at just 85g with some easy…

Tech Industry News

Now Save Data For A Century With Sandisk’s Memory Vault

September 16, 2011 0 Tassavur

Yes, you read that right! Now Sandisk has come up with a USB memory drive rightly called the Memory Vault, which would save you data for over 100 years. The Memory Vault is being promoted by Sandisk as a solution…

First look

Toughest Phone In The World: Sonim XP3300 Force, Survives 25m Drop

September 1, 2011 0 Annkur

Sonim has secured the title of World toughest phone (Guinness record) for its model ‘XP3300 Force.’ Made for people with the most testing jobs, Sonim applies its learnings from over half million workers from varied industries. The GSM enabled XP3300…

netbook

Samsung N100 – Meego Eyes On

August 9, 2011 0 Mr Spock

Samsung has not gone all out to promote it, but we think that the company’s N100 netbook is a very important product, because it provides users with a different platform and comes at a very reasonable low price. It runs…

Concept / Educative

YouTurn, Turn Signals Meet Hand!

July 31, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well, we all know how difficult it is surviving with a bicycle on roads these days. Cycling during the day in broad daylight is much safer as compared to the night wherein there is a constant fear of the racing…

First look

GAIA, A One Billion Pixel Camera By European Space Agency

July 10, 2011 0 Tassavur

Construction of the largest ever digital camera at one billion pixels for a space mission by the European Space Agency is now complete and it’s called the GAIA. And the name indeed reminds one of Mother Earth of Captain Planet,…

Concept / Educative

LeapPad, The tablet For Kids By LeapFrog (Video)

July 8, 2011 0 Tassavur

With tablets becoming the latest fad, tablet for kids is a tempting market. Also, when you consider the cognitive educational benefits that kids can gain by studying (playing) with tablets, it becomes all the more relevant to have one for…

Concept / Educative

Flying Car Concept Closer To Reality With Terrafugia Transition (Video)

July 5, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well we all have always dreamt of owning a flying car. But till date not even a single car has passed the concept stage. But it seems that its not gonna be the same any longer. Terrafugia Transition is a…

Tech Industry News

Hanako 2: A Robot Patient For the Amateur Dentists (Video)

June 30, 2011 0 Tassavur

Meet Robot Hanako 2, she is a dental patient “Made in Japan”. As you may have guessed by now, this is a robot made for the dentists to practice their procedures. The robot is designed to behave and simulate human…

Cameras

Sony Launches New Projector Handycam the HDR PJ50 In India

June 29, 2011 1 Rahul S

Sony has brought is newest Projector Handycam, the HDR PJ50 to India. The unique thing about this product is the built in projection feature that it offers. This projector can display images up to 60-inches onto a wall in a…

Concept / Educative

Now Turn Sand Into Glass With 3D Printer, Solar Sinter (Video)

June 26, 2011 0 Tassavur

We have seen how solar energy helps generate electricity to power houses or corporations or even charge your cell phone batteries on the street. But this one is surely more creative than the other ones mentioned above. Aptly named Solar…

Future WIP

Super Cool ‘EHD Pump’ by NASA Cools Devices in Space

May 31, 2011 0 Tassavur

We all know how soon the electronic devices heat up and the subsequent effects or damage the heat can cause to those devices. This is why we have cooling fans in our devices which cool them up using air, but imagine…

Concept / Educative

The Foldable Origami Concept Phone!

May 31, 2011 0 Tassavur

With so much innovation happening in the smartphone and the tablet market, sometimes I wondered if this is the end of the road for the landlines or can they be revived as well with any innovation.  

Accessories

Eco Watch: Wind Aided Eole Concept Watch

May 17, 2011 0 Jassi

Julien Moise has designed a watch called Eole that displays time when you want to see it. The watch displays time when you blow on it. It is an environmental-friendly watch that requires wind energy to light up its display.…

Weird or not?

E-Cigs by Blu Makes Sure You Never Smoke Alone

May 13, 2011 0 Tassavur

Trying to kick the butt? Try an e-cigarette to wane off yourself from that harmful tobacco. This solution can leave you lonely at times when your smoking the e-cigs. Well in the age of social networking where not only ordinary…

Automobiles

BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept Car

May 13, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well its not often that a concept car is unveiled in India, that too a BMW. So it was a welcome surprise to have a BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics concept car unveiled in by Praful Patel, Honorable Minister for Heavy…

Accessories

WI-FI Mouse with 9 Month Battery Life Courtesy HP

May 12, 2011 7 Tassavur

    The mouse you are looking at has a similar form factor and specs like any other mouse except for one. And wow that is indeed a big one. This new mouse by HP is a wi-fi enabled mouse,…

Concept / Educative

Can you bend your phone? World’s first paper computer set to revolutionize smartphones

May 5, 2011 0 Pratish

  How cool would it be if your smartphone was paper thin? And if you could fold it and keep it in your pocket? Well, researchers from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada have just done that. The smartphone prototype, called…

Accessories

Didn’t Order the iHub? Well, Now You Can’t!

April 21, 2011 3 Aaplap

Looks like Apple’s legal team is on a bit of an overdrive mode this month. This is the second legal action taken by Apple in just over a week! Just a few days ago, a simple piece of gadgetry went…

Apple

iPod Touch Used For Joint Replacement Surgery, Arrives In India

April 21, 2011 0 Annkur

We have been hearing about iOS handhelds being used in education / healthcare for sometime now and here is a pro usage of the same. The last time I looked up a professional app on the App Store, it was…

Apps

Kinect Inspired Motion Gaming / Interaction On Smartphones?

March 24, 2011 0 Annkur

Motion gaming is catching up in the gaming world and Microsoft took the technology to a new level with the Kinect for Xbox 360 last year. While speculations of motion sensing coming to Windows PCs are rife, we have a…

Featured

Review: X-Mini V 1.1 And X-Mini Happy Portable Speakers

February 17, 2011 2 Rahul S

When I first saw these cute little speakers arrive for tests, I dismissed them as just another “Chinese” product that just looks good and delivers nothing when it comes to sheer sound quality. Boy, was I wrong. I first saw…

Wow Gadgets

Samsung’s Tango Stealth Robot Vacuum Cleaner Promises Squeaky Clean Homes

February 14, 2011 0 Rahul S

Since all you geeks know that it’s the eve of the Mobile World Congress, what better time than now to talk about Samsung’s latest gadget that is truly mobile. We are talking about Samsung’s new Tango Stealth “Robot” Vacuum cleaner…

Gaming

Sony unveils PSP successor, the NGP, with OLED touchscreen, dual cameras, back trackpad, 3G!

January 27, 2011 3 Nimish

Even, as India works itself into an iPad frenzy, there’s more stunning news coming in from overseas – Sony has announced the successor of the PSP. No, it is not called the PSP2, but a rather dull Next Generation Portable…