Improvise Your Memory with the Smart Goggles

It has happened to me more than a hundred times. Often I forget where I have kept the keys. And this short term memory loss has no cure since it mostly occurs because we try to finish off things in a hurry. Here is some good news for such folks.

A pair of goggles that remembers what you have done. Wondering what a pair of goggles can do? Of course it can hold a camera that can record the daily activities. So next time if you want to search for missed keys just replay the recorded event to find it out. Even a head mounted video cam can do that. So what does this gadget hold special to make your day easy?

The spectacle comes with in built camera, display and a processing unit. The smart goggles’ compact video camera records everything the wearer is viewing. Just by naming the object you are searching for (say keys), it replays the last instant where it was in use or on record to be precise. So how it actually works?

The glasses are connected to a small, but smart computer processor worn on the back which can learn to recognise shapes extremely quickly. To adapt the system to your home is simple. Put on the glasses and wander around the house for an hour or so. Make sure that you view all the objects that you may later want to find in a hurry.

Each time the camera focuses an object - such as a set of keys, a mobile phone or a purse - the wearer says the name aloud. The name is then recorded and stored into the memory.

Once the names have been programmed in, the glasses will try to find the right name for any object they come across. The names appear in small type on the viewfinder. If they are unable to recognise an object they make a guess and - if they get it wrong - learn from their mistakes.

In the future, if you are trying to find keys in a hurry, simply name the object. The glasses search its video memory and show its last known location of that item on the display. Isn’t that a cool concept?

I assume that it will receive lots of orders if they make it more fashionable. Also it will be a boon to those suffering from diseases like Alzheimer or weak memory.

Learning Calligraphy Made Simple

I have always loved to write beautifully. Really I wish if I could master the art of calligraphy. But compiling the letter writing classes from the internet is not that easy. It would have been easier if there is some gadget that does teach me the calligraphic fonts. I was more than happy when I read about the new Nintendo DS game.

This gadget could be the best calligraphy teacher for us. Being a game allows us to learn it with fun. It teaches us how to draw calligraphic lettering. The game places emphasis on taking tests and getting feedbacks from the virtual teacher.

Well this one is for Japanese characters. The game is known as Beautiful Letter Training, and trains you in the proper creation of Kanji and Kana characters. The stylus that comes along very much resembles traditional Japanese lettering brush.

This latest Nintendo DS game officially known as Bimoji Training was released on March 13th. Order yours from Play Asia for just $39.

Detachable Printer for Your Notebooks

Who on earth needs printers these days? Well the answer is everybody! How? Having a hard copy of the data that you carry on your USB stick or laptop may be required quite often. At least, when you book tickets online and fail to carry a proof copy on the way.

A printer that could be clipped on to your laptop will not be a bad idea altogether. This is the beauty of this compact detachable printer designed by Hung Chih Wang. And how it works follows.

It is USB powered and is an inkjet printer. A detachable print head that could be clipped on to the back side of the display side of your laptop does the printing job on demand.

I personally feel that the printer itself is not obtrusive and only adds to the beauty of your laptop. If this brilliant design gets commercialised I fear that The Jungle of Amazon may get thinner.

Wireless Headset Weighing Just 1g!!

Unbelievable! Is it? Not anymore. Do you think that it is some mock gadget and cannot function properly? No. No. A completely functional earpiece that is also invisible. Doesn’t that sound like a perfect spy gadget?

Yes it is! And is the smallest wireless headset of the recent times. The attractive feature is that it is worn inside the ear. The skin coloured acrylic fabric used, makes it appear invisible to others. How about the safety as it goes into the ear? Here it goes.

The attached thread helps to easily pull it off from your ear. And the thread is also invisible making it completely unnoticed. So how does this small thing work?

For that you need something like a mobile phone that has an audio jack. The headset comes with a transmitter necklace with a mic. This silent earpiece system uses a wireless technology making it the perfect spy gadget.

This cool gadget features:

• 24 hours undisrupted usage
• 105db output power
• 5% distortion
• 120-8500 Hz frequency range.

Good things wont come at low price. This mystic headset costs around $650

Tiny Mic for Laptops

Do you work on a laptop? Yes? Then this must be an interesting gadget for you. A tiny Microphone. What is so special about it?

The size and the compact design. It just has the protruding 3.5mm connector and absolutely no cluttering wires. Can something be called more compact? Well I really don’t feel so.

And the features are superb. Having an omnidirectional head makes you turn it 360 degrees. It has a wider range of voice reception making you talk freely without any strain.

Check out the figures right here:

• Frequency Range: 100~5KHz
• Sensitiveness: -54 +/-3dB
• Connector: 3.5mm, gold plated

This light weight mic for laptops is easily affordable as it costs only $8.

Self Destructing Spy Paper Suffering from Hydrophobia

Hydrophobia and Paper? Wondering how does it relate to? It could be when inventions take a step forward. What goes down under is a self destructing paper that vanishes into void after its use; May be by sprinkling some water. Unbelievable? Not really! Read on to visualise it in action.

This self destructing paper looks like any other paper and you can write down with a pen or pencil of any make. The difference is that the paper destroys itself forming a mass of scum once in contact with any liquid. This exclusive property of this paper makes it a useful spy item.

Now you can pass on all confidential info just on a paper without fearing that some one may read it later. Once the reader has read it, she should put some water or other liquid on it to destroy it for ever. There by the information remains unleaked. Well that makes it the hydrophobic paper.

Longest Pen That Extends Over Boundaries

Long Pen. That is its name. If you got a feel that this could be some model pen built to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, you are probably wrong. Wondering then why the name is misleading? Well, it is not actually. The working of the pen explains it all.

Long pen is a writing gadget that allows copying your action at any place in the world. In essence what you write here would be reflected in any medium that you want say a book or a piece of paper, which lies across boundaries. But how? Internet and fibre optics makes it all possible.

What does this Long Pen actually do?

Here’s how it works. You are busy exploring the unexplored in the Egypt during a vacation with the family. Urgently something comes up in office and it needs your self signature in an official document. Just to sign the document you may not want to break the excitement of the holiday. Then what could be done to keep both the sides balanced? Get a virtual signature.

Long Pen is sophisticated gadget that helps you put a genuine signature in a document that lies miles apart geographically. It has a tablet, the writing medium and a magnetic pen. Write anything on the electronic medium with the magnetic pen and click send. The other end has a pen with nib with fresh ink. The transferred image will be written down on any surface you want, in real ink making it a genuine document.

Another great thing about the LongPen is that there is a video-conferencing component available with the signing apparatus. This allows one party to see and converse with the other party as they perform the signing function.

Get your set of Long Pen and start enjoying the holidays to the fullest.

Get the Way Cleared By Blowing the Customised Horn Just Once

Pedestrian feels that he is the king. Don’t you agree that? Droving car out of a busy street is the worst of all. The crowd tend to ignore the horn no matter how hard you blow it. And you can’t use reserved horns like siren wails, bells, and whistle sounds to clear the way. So what is left? The old car horn! Not any more. Read more to enter the age of customised horns.

Think Geek knows what you want and has come up with customised horn. They call it the Horn Tones. The good part is that it is installed on the existing horn. And what it does? Make you the king of the roads.

How Horn Tones make you the king?

The device allows you to customize your own MP3 horn tones. It plays 256 megabytes of MP3s and comes with a USB slot to install new ones. It can store up to ten different tones.

If you are still lost, ThinkGeek gives a few examples of how this gadget can be used: -

• Dixie at the demolition derby
• The Empire Strikes Back theme when you pull up to the IRS office
• A Godzilla roar when stuck behind a Toyota
• The Back to the Future theme as you accelerate to 88 miles per hour
• Road-Runner “Meep-Meep!” right before you floor it
• The beginning of “Gimme More” if your name happens to be Britney.

This Horn Tones come at a price tag of $300 and is on sale at Think Geek. But beware that you don’t roll over rules.

Flexible Keyboard Withstands Stress

Bang! Another keyboard hit due to frustration. A knock on the forehead cant get the stress down. So why put your keyboard into trouble? If you still can’t control your stress you should better go for the stress withstanding keyboard.

No matter how hard you hit it, it still remains the same. You can even roll it or fold it to fit any small space. The next time you take it out it is still the same very much functional keyboard. The supreme flexibility is achieved by the quality silicon rubber of which it is made of.

This flexi keyboard from Chinavasion features:

• plug and play capability
• compatible with Microsoft operating systems up to Windows XP
• USB and PS/2 connectivity
• doesn’t require installation.
• 109 keys/buttons
• QWERTY standard
• works between -5 and +50 degrees Celsius.

The company claims this keyboard to be the indestructible and water resistant, dust proof and washable. Moreover it is a shock absorber, can keep your forehead in shape even after a strong bang. Spending $5.24 for such a multi-featured keyboard will be a great idea.

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Take Down Notes in a Brilliant Way!

I just don’t like it! How about you? Do you really like to be the one who carries a laptop to note down the lectures or seminars? Yeah you can go for recording devices that could playback it to you. What about the diagrams? Is there any device that could get me real notes to my computer without much additional effort?

Well I found it impossible till I came across the information about GPEN200N from IOGear. Still wondering how will it serve your need? Read on to get to know about the fresh avatar.

The new digital pen from IOGear allows you to jot down the notes on any standard paper with the special pen accompanied. An infrared transmitter that comes along, record all the pen movements. And once you are done with the class, get to the room and upload the notes to your computer with ease. Isn’t that cool?

The good thing is that this doesn’t require any special paper or costly ink. This pen, Mobile Digital Scribe also offers editing capabilities to modify your notes instantly. The handwriting recognition software (OCR) in the pen converts your bad handwriting to digital text. You can also export the notes in jpeg format for easy sharing of it on the web.

The OCR software supports 12 Language viz, English, Spanish, Traditional/Simplified Chinese, French, Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, and Russian. You can own this brilliant pen from IOGear for $129.95. I’m going to get mine right now. How about you?

The Dancing Sony Rolly

Finally, a robot made for music lovers. When you hear robot, you may be thinking about a humanoid one that can dance like humans, but this one is not that kind of robot. This robot has ear like flaps and it rolls like a mouse. Yes, it is small and you can easily hold it in your hand.

The Eggy Robot

This egg shaped player has two robotic wings that will respond to your song. The speakers are hidden under these wings. In addition to wings, there are two wheels that help the rolly to move around. The wheels help rolly to rotate 360 degrees and make the amazing dancing moves.

The Rolly Wheels are also the controls of this device. Turning the wheels changes volume and advances playlist. Sound sensitive neon lights beautifully surround the wheels. The cool thing is that you can customize all these movements with accompanying software. There is also an option to upload your customization to internet and spread among your friends.

Rolly is Light and Feature Rich

Sony Rolly weighs only 300gms and has a battery life of 5hrs. Its memory capacity is 1GB and supports Bluetooth streaming for your convenience. However, it lacks the most useful wi-fi connectivity.

Sony Rolly Technical Specification

Memory: 1GB
Supported audio formats: MP3, ATRAC, AAC up to 300+ kbps
Connectivity: USB 2.0, Bluetooth
Battery: 5h for music playback, 4,5h for streaming music over Bluetooth connection, 4h of music and motion combined, and finally 3.5h for streaming music over Bluetooth with motion. Battery charges through USB connectivity.
Dimensions and weight: 104×65×65mm, 300grams

Here is two video describing the functionalities of this product. The second one is actually Sony’s Rolly ad.

Currently, Rolly is only available in Japan. Amazon Japan sells this product for 370 USD.

Sony Memory Stick Walkman

Walkman is back! This time they are in the shape of USB sticks. Sony Corp just unveiled this new version of Walkman.

The new Walkman looks like a beautiful memory stick. You can drag and drop music content to this DAP (Digital Audio Player) using a PC. It also features a tiny colour LCD screen, where track names and album arts are displayed. Another cool feature is that you can change the outer shells to match your apparel. Thus giving this player new looks every time you need.

This Walkman comes with a pair of high quality in-ear earphones and an inbuilt FM radio.

Sony Walkman Technical Specs:

Storage Capacity: 1GB - 4GB
Audio Formats Supported: MP3, AAC, WMA, ATRAC, WAV
Battery Life: 28hrs.
Connectivity & Charging: USB 2.0
Other Features: 5 Pre-Set Equalizer, FM Radio, Playlist Features

The expected price of this player is about $150.

Life Just got Simplified with Automated Food Ordering

Ordering food requires no waiter! Sounds impossible? Not really. Exactly, now you don’t need the waiter to write down the course of your choice and get it to the chefs in kitchen! What you read here is already there in Japan. The amazing fact behind such restaurants follows.

Do you think that there is a better way to impress your date than ordering un attempted foreign meals? No there is not. But the fact is that placing such an order may leave you tongue twisted. What goes here is an easier or rather an advanced means of placing order of your choice to be smart.

How to be smart?

All that you need to do is get her to a restaurant using Deli Touch. Deli Touch is a device which uses wireless technology to connect to the restaurants kitchen. When ordering, you touch the pen on to the menu on the items you wish to order. The pen has a camera which scans the codes and the wireless features transmit this data to the kitchen. Isn’t it interesting? Once the order is placed; confirmation is done by the system. And an OK to that will get your tables set.

Now coming to the technical part, The system comes with 1 server, 30 pens and a printer. The cost is about $416 a month for rental. If you are a restaurant owner you can surely make a big fortune by installing it there. Recent Valentines may be searching for a well polished place to hang out.

What is Blu-ray?

Blu-ray disc or commonly called as BD is the name of the next generation optical media disc format that was specifically designed to support the latest high definition video and audio technologies.

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group representing electronics, computer hardware and motion picture production companies, introduced Blu-ray in 2006.

Blu-ray discs can hold large quantities of high-definition video and audio, computer data and other digital content. The capacity of single-layer BD is 25 GB while that of normal DVD is just 4.7 GB. That means, a Blu-ray Disc can hold as much data as 5.5 times that of DVD.

Why not Blue-ray?

The name Blu-ray was derived from the combination of blue the color of the laser in use, and ray meaning travel path of light. However, Blu-ray Disc Association decided to leave “e” behind of “blue” being a common word that cannot be trademarked.

How Blu-ray Works?

Blu-ray disc’s working technology is almost similar to that of DVDs. The major difference in BD is that the tracks are narrow and the pits are very close to each other thus enabling BD to pack more data in a similar sized disc.

In order to read & write data at these tiny sizes, BD employs the laser beam of lowest wavelength. Thus, BD uses the Blue-Violet laser that has the shortest wavelength among all lasers. When this laser creates small pits in the tracks (circular paths), data is stored. The pits represent the binary zero and one. Thus by packing more pits in narrow tracks, Blu-ray discs can hold up to 25GB of data in single layer.

What makes Blu-ray different from other optical media formats?

Disc Capacity

As earlier described, BD discs can store more than any other optical disc format. Single layer BD (Blu-ray) Disc can hold 25GB while double layer Disc can store 50GB.

Theoretically, Blu-ray disc of multiple layers can hold up to 200GB of data. However, the maximum capacity achieved so far is 100 GB.

Higher data capacity also ensures the disc is future proof that it would even support future high bit rate or more resolution video / audio formats that may need more storage space.

Data Transfer Rates - Blu-ray Transfers More

Blu-ray offers an amazing 54Mb/s data transfer rate for raw data and 40Mb/s for video. This means Blu-ray is the best choice for high data rate usage such as high definition content. Here is how:

For a movie at 1080p resolution containing 7.1 channel HD Dolby or DTS HD signal, you will need at least 39Mb/s data transfer rate. This means, these latest HD format can only work in Blu-ray as only Blu-ray discs offer such a high data transfer rate of over 40Mb/s. The former rival HD-DVD format can only deliver 33 Mb/s.

Higher data rate also means faster file transfers. Thus, BD offers better capacity and faster files transfers than any other optical media format invented.

Blu-ray’s Hard-Coated Surface Prevents Scratch

As the Blu-ray Disc employs high-density laser precise recording, BD Discs require an added hard coating technology called Durabis, which will protect the disc from scratches and fingerprints. Durabis coating discharges static electricity, which prevents it from gathering dust.

Blu-ray Security is Tough to Crack

Even though this is not always good for consumers, this is an important point Sony has for the movie studios. Movie studios want their content locked from the pirates and BD’s security and encryption features just help them do it in the most advanced way.

Blu-ray has three layers of protection called AACS, BD+ and ROM mark.

AACS

The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is digital rights management feature that prevents any un-authorized copying of content from BD discs.

AACS uses an encryption technology called Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). AACS is more advanced than earlier DRM used in DVDs. The difference with AACS is that each licensed player is given a unique set of decryption keys that licensors can “revoke” whenever they feel it has been compromised. By revoking a decryption key, the particular player will not be able to play any future HD content. Thus discouraging any attempt to decrypt the key.

BD+

BD+ is a safeguard against future cracks and hacks. It is a kind of and advanced DRM. Every authorized player will have a BD+ virtual machine that will decode the disc content to correct version. The advantage of BD+ is that it is dynamic and hence content providers can change the security feature whenever they wish. Thus, different Discs will have different encryption and therefore no single fix would help them play all BD discs.

ROM Mark

ROM mark was designed to prevent unwanted duplication of BD Discs. ROM Mark helps to create unique Discs that cannot be copied using software. This BD Discs will have a unique ID that are created with a specific BD licensed writer drive. No licensed BD players will work unless the inserted disc has a ROM mark. Therefore, without specialized equipments, you cannot copy a ROM Marked BD disc.

What are the different Blu-ray Disc formats?

Blu-ray discs are available in four different version. Here are they:

• BD-ROM - Blu-ray Read Only. Version for Software companies and Movie studios.
• BD-R - One time recordable version for computer users.
• BD-RW - For computer users. This disc is re-writable.
• BD-RE - A specialized version for HDTV recording.

This BD-RE disc offers editing functionality and time shifting features when recorded through a compatible Blu-ray HDTV recorder.

What are the Audio / Video Formats Supported by Blu-ray?

Blu-ray supports almost all high-resolution audio / video formats. In fact, Blu-ray was designed for just for HD content. Here is the full technical specification of Blu-ray disc.

Blu-ray Technical Specification:

Laser Wavelength: 405Nm
Storage Capacity: 25GB (Single Layer), 50GB (Dual Layer), 100 GB (4 Layers)
Playback time: 12hrs (DVD Quality), 3.5 hrs (HD Quality) on a single layer disc
Supported Video Codecs: MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) / VC-1 / MPEG-2
Supported Audio Codecs: Lossy - Dolby Digital / DTS / MPEG Audio & Lossless - Linear PCM, Dolby TRUE HD, DTS HD
Data Transfer Rate: 54 Mb/s RAW Data / 40Mb/s for Video with audio and subtitles.
Security Features: AACS, BD+, ROM Mark
Protective Hard Coating: Durabis

For more information on Blu-ray technology and new releases, visit the following websites:

• http://www.Blu-ray.com/faq/ - Blu-ray FAQ
• http://www.Blu-ray.com/movies/ - Latest Blu-ray Releases
• http://www.Blu-raydisc.com/ - Official Blu-ray website.
• http://www.Blu-raystats.com/ - Blu-ray Stats Website
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc - Wikipedia entry on Blu-ray disc.
• http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/Blu-ray.htm - HowStuffWorks entry on Blu-ray disc.

Silent Keyboard Let You Sleep Peacefully After a Tiring Day

Hasn’t it often happened to you? You come late from work feeling tired and damn sleepy. When you are about to fly into dreams you hear that tick tuck tuck tick. None but your wife is typing an email to her friend about the new jewellery that she own. No matter how hard you try to sleep you will feel that the noise is echoing in your head. Those of you doesn’t want to lose the sleep because of the keyboard noise, here is some exciting news.

A silent Keyboard. No more tick ticks. No more tuck tucks. Get it installed on your home computer to grant an undisturbed sleep for everyone. This silent keyboard from Thanko owns more features to make it stand top from the likes.

This SIRE2SET named keyboard comes with 2 USB connections to connect it to two different pcs. The sliding switch on the keyboard lets you select the pc you want to work on. Also it is compatible with OS Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later. Isn’t it wonderful?

The physical dimension of Thanko’s latest keyboard is 445 × 150 × 25mm and weighs just 540g. But there is a bad part to the new SIRE2SET from Thanko. It is available only in Japan for the time being. And the price is nearly $46.

New Kingston USB Drive with in built MicroSD card Reader

How easy will be the life if the USB drive that you carry everywhere has a MicroSD card reader also? For cell phone centred guys this would be the most exciting news in the recent past. This could be a breakthrough in integration of technology to store, transfer and read content on mobile memory cards.

The peculiarity of this card is that it provides a unified smart solution for reading different card formats running in different mobile devices. This new Kingston Data Traveler Micro USB Drive and microSD Card Reader features:

• Windows ReadyBoost enabled
• Up to 4GB of onboard flash storage
• Can read microSD, microSDHC, or M2 cards.
• Comes in 1GB, 2GB and 4 GB

The 1GB version will be shipped this month while the bigger ones may be on sale later. The prices are like 1GB for $19.25, 2GB for $28.95 and the 4GB for $42.00

Tokyoflash Shinshoku Tells Time through 29 LEDs

Tokyoflash Japan, the home of unique japanese watches just released the most geeky watch on the planet. Named Shinshoku, this watch tells you time in a unique way.

Read Time in a Geeky Way

The Shinshoku has 12 red LEDs, 3 green LEDs and 14 yello LEDs to tell you the time. The number of red LEDs give your the hour, green LEDs give you the minutes in 15,30 and 45 minutes blocks and the yellow LEDs give the additional minutes. For example, if it is 8.55 PM, this watch would light up 8 Red LEDs (Hour), 3 Green LEDs (15 minute blocks) and 10 Yellow LEDs (single minutes).

According to Tokyoflash:

“This unique time telling method makes it easy to see the approximate time quickly, whether it’s quarter past, half past or quarter to the hour whilst also telling the precise time.”

The watch is manufactured in stainless steel and is available in two versions. Black with steel or completely in steel. Shinshoku is available online for $140 at Tokyoflash web store.

Sony’s ReadyBoost Compatible 16GB PoketBit USB Stick

USB Sticks are getting bigger and faster. For instance, this USB flash drive from Sony offers 16GB capacity and a reading speed of 31Mbps. This data transfer rate is compatible for ready boost, where you can use the memory stick as additional RAM in Windows Vista.

Fast USB Drive

The data transfer speed of 31Mb/s is good enough to transfer your 1GB file in just under few minutes. This transfer rate is equivalent to 3.9MB/s, above the minimum requirement for ready boost system at 3.5Mb/s.

The USB drive has a unique looking prism LED indicator that will easily tell you the data transfer activity. This drive is USB2.0 and is available in 1GB - 16GB sizes. It is expected to cost around 212 Euros for the 16GB version.

Here are the Technical Specs:

Type: USB 2.0
Read Rate: 31Mb/s
Write Rate: 11Mb/s
Capacity: 1GB - 16GB.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 - The True iPhone Contender

Finally, a phone that is better than iPhone in features and performance. Sony just introduced their newest phone with Touch screen called XPERIA X1. The X1 would be the first product in the XPERIA series that Sony plan to introduce in coming months.

A New Experience

I believe that is what meant by XPERIA. A new experience in smart phones that all started with the iPhone. The standard feature of such phones is a touch screen with loads of features. This phone also has such a screen and it is believed that Sony developed a new user interface called “panel” for the Windows Mobile OS 6 exclusively for this particular phone.

This interface shows nine tiny tiles that represent individual application windows. When touched, they open up to display the application using a smooth animated style. The new experience also comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, 3-inch widescreen display capable of producing a resolution of 800 * 480 pixels. This phone also feature a 3.2 Mega Pixel camera that iPhone really lacked.

XPERIA also feature the brand new arc slider design that easily slides the display part over the QWERTY keyboard. The other features are: full multimedia capability, full internet capability with wi-fi, an internal memory of 400MB, a MicroSD slot, Bluetooth, A2DP and aGPS.

Sony expects to start selling this phone from second half of this year.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 full feature list below.

Camera

* Auto focus
* 3.2 megapixel camera
* Photo light
* Video recording

Music

* Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
* Media player
* Music tones
* PlayNow™
* Windows Media Player Mobile
* 3D games
* FM radio
* Java
* Video streaming
* Video viewing

Internet

* Internet Explorer® Mobile
* RSS feeds

Communication and Messaging

* Polyphonic ringtones
* Speakerphone
* Vibrating alert
* Video calling
* Email
* Picture messaging (MMS)
* Predictive text input
* Text messaging (SMS)

Design

* XPERIA™ panels
* Optical joystick navigation
* Navigation key
* Picture wallpaper
* Touch navigation

Organiser

* Alarm clock
* Calculator
* Calendar
* Document editors
* Document readers
* Flight mode
* Handwriting recognition
* Notes
* Phone book
* Tasks
* Touchscreen

Connectivity

* aGPS
* Bluetooth™ technology
* Modem
* Synchronization
* USB support
* WLAN

Windows® Mobile® Operating System

* Microsoft® Outlook Mobile: email, contacts, calendar, tasks
* Microsoft® Office Mobile: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
* Internet Explorer® Mobile
* Windows Media™ Player Mobile
* Windows Live™
* Exchange ActiveSync®
* Voice control
* Utility Applications: file explorer, calculator, pictures & video, notes

Facts and Figures

* Size: 110 x 53 x 16.7 mm
* Weight: 145 grams

Available colours

* Black
* Silver
* Main screen: 65,536 color TFT
* Resolution: 800 X 480 pixels
* Size: 3 inches

Memory

* Phone memory: up to 400 MB
* microSD™ memory card support

Networks

* GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
* UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 900/1700/1900/2100 MHz
* UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 850/1700/1900/2100 MHz

USB Camera to Revive Your Analog Camera Skills

To show off your photographic skill now you don’t need any high-end camera with umpteen resolution. Here is a tiny USB camera that will just prove your photographic sense and the response time like in analog ones with the ease of USB transfer. If that was like a bang on to your head, dive in for details.

The tiny USB camera from Eazzzy beares no LCD screen, no viewfinder and nothing except a lens, click button and some flash memory. And this simplicity is the highlighted feature of this stripped down camera. The captured photos can be transferred instantly to your pc through the USB port.

Having no cables extends its portability further. This mini USB Digital Camera combines the feeling of not knowing how your shots turned out like in analog era with the ease of USB transfer.

This is now in the concept phase and let it become commercially available for a detailed hands-on review.

Bluetooth Pillow Phone

PerCushion is a Bluetooth enabled pillow that connects to your cellphone wirelessly. Now you can enjoy all telephonic conversations from the comfort of your bed.

The technology has so advanced to extend the hands free to your bed. If you are tired of searching for your cell phone in the middle of the sleep to attend an urgent call, PerCushion may be a huge relief for you. The phone pillow shortens the search to the button on the pillow.

This spectacular pillow phone is made of foam core with cotton and velvet covering. The integrated fabric interface has an activating/standby button, indicating LEDs, a Bluetooth pairing button and another one for answering calls.

Integrated inside the pillow are a microphone and a pair of loudspeakers. The entire unit is powered by a lithium ionic battery that can be charged with the enclosed charger.

The dimension of this soft pillow comes as 66×30x13 cm. Though now in the concept phase you can soon expect the launch of PerCushion pillow from Urban Tool.

USB Smart Pen To Record Your Work on The Go

If you are a journalist it may happen that while jotting down the short scripts you may miss out something important in the conversation. Of course a sound recorder can help you out to play the whole once again. But what if there could be a better device that could save the surrounding sound and the written stuff also?

Livescribe has come up with a smart pen that records your write up and the surrounding sound. This pen comes with an integrated Infrared camera and two noise-cancelling microphones embedded in the pen chassis. For effective recording and play back, the pen’s body comprises of ARM processor, built-in speakers, headphone jack and OLED display.

The 250 MB memory space will be able to store all reasonably sized recordings. And for further detailed reference you can transfer the contents of the pen to the computer via a simple USB connection. The functionality of this smart pen includes language translation also (Current version offers support to Mandarin, Spanish and Arabic only).

The smart pen comes with a book of microdot papers that are required for the working of pen. Three versions of Smart Pen will be available varying in the memory capacity- 250 MB, 1GB and 2GB for a price of $99, $149, $199 respectively, with a maximum storage of 200 hours. An extra microdot book will cost you $5.

This would be extremely useful for graduate student who can then miss out nothing from a lecture. For the seekers, this smart pen will be commercially available in March.

Baby Monitor To Aid New Mom’s Day Out

Guardian Angel is a cordless video enabled baby monitor. This high-tech baby monitor can inform everything about your kid even when you are not nearby her.

Being able to see and hear what your baby is doing can make you feel comfortable. Guardian Angel baby monitor helps you to have instantaneous updates on baby moves when you are outside (the distance limit is 300 ft).

The baby monitor from Swann is quite handy and fits well in your pocket or can be hooked into your belt. This portability grants you freedom to do something else when your baby is sleeping in her bed.

The package comes with a camera and a receiver. The ultra sensitive microphone hooked to the camera picks up even the slightest murmur of your child. The infra-red LEDs provide night vision capability.

The colour LCD screen makes the video visible with ultimate clarity. To avoid any interference from Wi-Fi or cordless phones, the built-in 2.4GHz RF modules can be switched between four channels.

Altogether this is a perfect gift for new moms. You can get this Baby Monitor for $150.

USB Chameleon

Here comes a lively mate for your pc - A colourful cute looking chameleon that can do lots of pranks at you.

This little buddy can roll its eyes and stick its tongue out randomly. It can bend its arms, legs and tails. The vibrant coloured chamy [:-D, Isnt that a nice name?] is powered via the USB.

The chamy is compatible with any OS. You can make home for this pet for just $34.50.

Get Rid of Working Stress by Shifting to Mouldable Mouse

If you are someone who sits on your computer for a long while you must have experienced strain to wrist, fingers and other hand joins. Most of the contemporary ergonomically designed mice can’t live up to their stress reliever tag. Thankfully a bunch of brains have come up with a new model mouse which can change shape as and when pressure applied, leaving your hand at the least strain.

The Mouldable mouse takes shape that you want it to; making prolonged computing not a tough deal. This transforming shape does not affect the working of the mouse though. Like other contemporary mice, this one also comes with a right, left buttons and a touch sensitive scroll pad in form of stickers with built-in RFID.

At the base, it has full-recyclable PC/ABS plastic blend that houses the Printed Circuit Board, the laser optics and the batteries. The Mouldable Mouse, was designed by Lite-On Technology, P&C Design Center, as a lightweight and non-toxic modelling clay device covered with nylon and polyurethane to have moulding capabilities.

And this mouldable mouse concept has even won the Red Dot award for design concept 2007 in the Productivity and Work category.

Bath Time Fun Now Offered By Electronic Duck

Here comes the best replacement to your classic rubber duck in your bath tub. This remote controlled duck assures to give a perfect fun time for your kids. You will be surprised to see that your kids no longer hate bathing.

Unlike the rubber duck that floats on the ripples that you create, this e-duck paddle on its own once put in water. You have the remote to control the duck to make the bath time more interesting. The bright yellow colour and cute design makes it a pretty duckling.

This electronic duck comes with a remote control and a charger box; all coloured yellow. Operating the e-duck is simpler than what you imagine. Just plug him in the charger box for some time and he is ready to go. Drop him in water and you can see him paddling around.

The controller and duck is water proof and is safe for kids of any age. Make the bath time a fun time with this remote controlled duck. You can get this for your tub by spending just £14.95.

Let Your Pet Grow Healthy Even When You Are Away

Whether you are a student or employee if you love your pet you should find this as something very interesting. Haven’t you often found it a trouble feeding your pet? - Especially when you are out of station and there is nobody at home to feed your kitten or puppy.

The remote pet feeder comes to your assistance to take care of your pet when you are away. The set up is quite simple and you can be assured that your pet is having the right amount of food at the right time. For this, All what you need is an internet connection and a remote desktop access application already ready to be run on your home computer.

This remote pet feeder is apt for all those who really care for your pet and don’t want to feed him extra in the mornings to make up for a starvation for noon. This auto feeder allows you to set the hours when to feed the pet. The photo camera comes along can show you images as email, with your dog or cat eating at scheduled times.

All the required stuff comes along with the feeder and you can read about setting it up at the Smart Home’s website. The package comes at a price of $278.99.

Digital Photo Frame Comes with In Built Printer

Some photos appear awesome when framed. Such photos of your family or friends will remain in your heart for ever. Having a printed copy of the same will make you nostalgic even when you are away from dear ones. And getting a hard copy the instant you wish for it will make you feel on cloud nine. This picture frame can push you there.

Smartparts have just displayed their new digital photo frame with an in built printer, the SP8PRT, at PMA 2008. The speciality of this photo frame is that it can get you a printed copy of the displayed snap just by a click of button. The moment you wish for a print and you have it. Isn’t that pretty cool?

The printer is very well concealed behind SP8PRT’s LCD screen. The digi frame comes with dye sublimination (dye sub) colour cartridge loaded with ink and paper. Just load the cartridge into the frame and you’re done with the print set up.

This photoframe is all set to sell like hot cakes once launched.

Can Cameras Fly?

Not with the wings of course. But with a flying stick. Yes the same one that you used to play in your child hood days. This conceptual gadget is actually a camera embedded in a flying stick. Rub it off to air and let it take pictures from a height.

What you need to do is roll it from your palms and let it go. Flying Stick automatically takes pictures at set intervals. Pictures from above are prettier than ones from ground.

No specification about memory and resolution are finalised as this is in a concept phase. Surely the imagination includes face detection and other high end camera features. Only time can tell how much feasible is it.