Archive for February 4th, 2008
While I don’t have any experience being pregnant due to the fact that I can’t biologically, it would be safe for me to venture that the experience is a sacred one to most women. Having a life grow inside is definitely a miracle, but sometimes the joy is overshadowed by kicks from within (momentarily, anyways). The kickTrak device can actually monitor the number of kicks you’re getting, making it easier to monitor the baby’s health. Hey, don’t take my word for it - ask a doctor and he’ll tell you the same thing! I suppose if David Beckham’s mom had this when he was still wrapped in his umbilical cord, the kickTrak would’ve registered off-the-scale numbers. $39.99 for curious parents-to-be.
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February 4th, 2008
iPhone owners who are peeved that their beloved handset does not support the 802.1x network access control standard are encouraged to head on here to sign a petition. While I’m not sure whether an online petition is enough to move the cold, cold hearts at Cupertino, it is still better than not trying at all. Hopefully that the iPhone V1.1.4 software will include 802.1x IEEE standard support with enough signatures. We all know that sending someone up to Jobs personally to say “Hi” won’t work.
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February 4th, 2008
Looks like Sony Ericsson is rather lax about their security when it comes to new phones - this leaked image of the Alona is not the first, and it definitely won’t be the last. Looks pretty glossy to me despite taking on the customary blurred image. Guess this fingerprint magnet is all ready to roll out soon - now we just have to wait for the FCC’s approval before busting our wallets open.
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February 4th, 2008
The new AS-101 Mobile Digital TV single chip receiver comes in a tiny footprint that measures a mere 5mm x 5mm and will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress later this month. Touted to be the smallest digital mobile TV receiver for DVB-H/T applications in the world, it comes with a multi-band RF tuner, an advanced OFDM demodulator, memory and interfaces all packed onto a single 90nm CMOS die. Guess the AS-101 will herald a slew of new gadget releases that will come in ever smaller form factors which allows you to view digital TV, but shrinkage of the device size must stop at some point as nobody likes viewing movies and soaps on too small a screen. [Press Release]
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February 4th, 2008
Audio-Technica’s new LP2D-USB Turntable was first paraded at CES ‘08 last month, and it is finally available at retail stores for $229. This machine targets record lovers who want to digitally archive their collection of music for posterity (as well as rocking out to tunes of yesteryears while doing your rounds at the gym without having to download and paying for them again). Features include a fully automatic two-speed turntable (33 & 45 RPM), a tonearm and a Dual-Magnet stereo phono cartridge. The inclusion of a phono pre-amp makes it a snap to hook up the turntable directly to the line level inputs of a receiver, doing away with the need for receivers or integrated amplifiers that do not come with phono inputs.
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February 4th, 2008
We told you about a pending auction of the Optimus Maximu OLED keyboard from Art Lebedev. Well, it looks like one was sold in another action for $2750. That’s quite a crazy number, even if the keyboard is cool and geeky. I wonder if the buyer is a competitor who to get his/her hand on an early unit…
look at our Optimus Maximus “hands-on” at CES 2008.
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February 4th, 2008
In this teaser video Motorola shows users carrying devices like TVs and Laptops in the street (it’s quite painful) and hints that its upcoming phone will be able to deliver all that, in the palm of one’s hand, obviously. The tagline is “It doesn’t need to be this hard” and it seems to be generating some buzz.
Speculation is mounting that this could be a teaser video for the Motorola Zine Z12, a 3G, 5 Megapixel camera phone. The phone should be announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barceona.
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February 4th, 2008
Researchers have been studying Geicos for years trying to mimic the stickiness of their feet but it seems that a commercial application is coming.
UC Berkeley and Clark College have announced that their teams have created a tape that works like a Geico’s feet: it sticks with horizontal pressure but releases vertically (that’s how the Geico can lift its feet), making it ideal to…hang frames, for example. It’s cool but when can we have gadgets like geico-gloves and geico-shoes?
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February 4th, 2008
We’ve got news from Europe that Samsung is going to show its G810 Symbian Smartphone at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona. According to the source, here are the specifications of the phone:
Symbian 9.2, S60 3.1GSM/HSDPA 3.6Mbps150 of Internal MemoryMicroSD slotWiFi b/gBluetooth 2.0 EDRUSB 2.0 connectorIntegrated GPS104×53x18mm580 Euros (without subscription)
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February 4th, 2008
Intel has launched its Itanium quad-core processor for servers (commercial name: Tukwila). It is just the latest evolution of Intel’s long line of X86 processors, but this one passes the 2 Billion transistor mark, which is remarkable. To be fair, most of these transistors are “cache memory (the black rectangles)”, which is much less complicated to design than the computing cores themselves. To give you an idea, two billion transistors represent the sum of these chips:
AMD Phenom (463M)DC Intel Penryn (410M)Intel Conroe (341M)PS3 GPU (300M)Sony Cell (234M)Xbox 360 GPU (232M)Motorola PowerPC 750 (20)…or about three GeForce 8800GTX Ultra, whichever resonates better with you.
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