Acer has just unveiled what looks like a Dual Screen tablet but when we look at the specs, it is more of a dual-screen laptop than a tablet. It is called Acer Iconia, which is a dual-screen laptop tablet powered by none other than the Intel Core i5 processor and sports dual 14 inch touchscreen displays which is surely going to have a heavy impact on the price tag.
Based on a personal computer that accompanies you through your day and context-oriented docking stations at personal spaces like in the office or at home. Those stations are matching the needs of the user in their particular surrounding, like home entertainment in the living room or conferences and multi-tasking at the office. The computer itself is a OLED-touchscreen slider, with a second hidden touchscreen underneath. This way, it gives you a similar working experience as with a 2-monitor setup. It is controlled per hand or via a “senstylus pen”, that you can use like a normal pen or twist it and use it as a 3d-sensor remote, with a sensor field under the thumb for precise menu controls.
The whole idea of notebook docks was interesting 10+ years ago when we had to be frugal with our I/O ports and live with subpar LCD screens. Now that notebooks have pretty much caught up with desktops, do we really need another docking solution? According to designer Yong-Seong Kim, we do. His go-anywhere desktop docking solution calls for a large slot behind the LCD display. This is where you slide your notebook in, allowing you to access all its information from a desktop form factor. The notebook’s screen also becomes your second display, in portrait mode of course. It’s an interesting concept but somehow, this makes as much sense as the palm folio.
The news of ASUS? bamboo notebook, the Ecobook, created a lot of buzz in the month of March 2008 this year. The Ecobook, will be the first laptop made of real bamboo. The ASUS’ green Ecobook aims to be as environmentally friendly as possible as ASUS is aiming for a 50% recyclable rate. The laptop touts biodegradable bamboo around the mouse pad, keyboard, and on the exteriors. The trackpad will also include a handwriting function that would let you use your fingers or stylus to enter text. The circular PowerGear button will glow red or green to indicate the amount of power being consumed. The internal components haven't been finalized yet. I know you are finding it tough to wait for the release. Well, you can check out the picture gallery for now to soothe your eyes.
As popularity, breakthrough and competition of smartphones gets exciting, Nokia will be competing deeply in mobile industry with its latest model of Nseries the Nokia N8. This smartphone packed with cool features and great designs.Nokia N8 has a 3.5'' multi touch screen display with resolution of 16:9 nHD and 16.7 million colours. Capture your video in high definition on a H.264 format, edit film and create masterpieces then share them with the world. Add music, images, text and transitions – all from the phone. With a large 12 Megapixel sensor and Carl Zeiss optics you can capture great images. The Xenon flash allows you to take good pictures in low-light conditions as well. Nokia N8 runs in a Symbian 3 platform that makes interface and application much easier and enjoyable to use.The Nokia N8 features an HDMI connection so you can easily show off your images, videos and music on compatible televisions and projectors. All in stunning high-definition digital 720p resolution. It also features premium-quality * Dolby Digital Plus technology – compatible with home theatre systems - so movies will sound as good as they look.Brings your friends together in social networking with Nokia N8 , by pulling feeds and updates from Facebook and Twitter to one handy application. Photos and videos can be shared the moment they're captured, Facebook events added to your calendar with just one click. Live updates are shown on your home screens, making it even easier to stay in touch.When it comes to music, you can browse smoothly through all your favourite albums and once again get thrilled by the album artwork. Re-experience your record collection for over 50 hours straight.The Nokia N8 brings your friends together, by pulling feeds and updates from Facebook and Twitter to one handy application. Photos and videos can be shared the moment they're captured, Facebook events added to your calendar with just one click. Live updates are shown on your home screens, making it even easier to stay in touch.Personalise your phone by adding your own widgets. Not one but three live home screens – make one for work, use one for fun, and have one with your favourite picture as the wallpaper. Swipe between the home screens with an easy gesture. Download more widgets from Ovi Store.Turn your Nokia N8 into a tool for showing off, having fun and being creative. In Ovi Store you'll find thousands of different applications to constantly upgrade and improve your device. Download apps, games and videos. The possibilities to make your phone smarter, more useful and simply more fun are endless.The Nokia N8 with on-demand Web TV. Access your favourite TV channels like CNN and National Geographic and get them piped to your phone from the comfort of your bus seat. Visit Ovi Store to find even more Web TV channels.The Nokia N8 has a Voice-guided navigation for over 70 countries worldwide. Absolutely free. Simply enter where you want to go and Ovi Maps with voice guidance will tell you how to get there, turn by turn. By car or on foot.Hear voice-guided navigation from Ovi Maps conveniently through the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-608. Or go all out and make your flight a pleasure with the Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-905 with eight microphones for cancelling up to 99% of background noise.Access with data network capabilities of Nokia N8 through GPRS/EDGE class B, HSDPA Cat9 max speed up tp 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps, WLAN 802.11 b/g/n and TCP/IP support. Various connections in a certain devices that includes Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI, High-Speed USB 2.0 from a micro USB connector which can also acts as power charger and 3.5 mm AV connector for headsets and speakers. N8 has FM transmitter for broadcasting music from your phone into FM Stereo.The internal memory comes up with 16 GB, bigger enough to save images, music, and video files. It also has a MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable up to 32 GB. The handset casing is anodized aluminum and available in 5 different colors Silver white, Dark grey, Orange, Blue and Green.
The Logitech Squeezebox a color touch-screen Wi-Fi music player that lets you discover a world of music—all through your stereo from the hottest online music services to free Internet radio stations from every corner of the globe, never has such limitless music been so easy to enjoy your Wi-Fi network, you're free to listen to anything you can think of, all through your home stereo. Just touch the screen to tune in to music, news and sports from local stations across the planet. Discover new music tailored to your tastes from a world of music services. Even your entire digital music collection is right at your fingertips. With Squeezebox Touch, your stereo isn't just a music system. It's the center of the music universe.
The easy-to-read 4.3-inch touch-screen and intuitive menus put you in total music control. Simply touch "My Music", "Internet Radio" or one of your favorite online services like Napster or Pandora to browse, select and play whatever suits your mood. Even album art is displayed so you can see what you want to hear. You also have a smart remote that actually knows where you are in the room. Move away from the touch-screen over to the couch, and the menus automatically enlarge for easy viewing from across the room.
Listening music to each room in the house becomes wireless with Squeezebox Radio and Squeezebox Boom all-in-one Wi-Fi music players with built-in speakers as they small enough to fit easily on your bedroom night table or kitchen counter. And they work with your Squeezebox Touch. Simply add a handheld Squeezebox Controller and you can play the same music throughout the house, or mix it up with a different playlist in every room.
You like to hear it all, from the haunting high notes in a U2 guitar solo to the deep resonant bass at the bottom of a Miles Davis classic. With support for high-resolution encoding, Squeezebox Touch makes sure the important details in your digital music sources don't get lost in translation. Even if you're playing music softly in the background, you'll enjoy a high quality sound experience—without missing a beat, note or nuance.
Squeezebox Touch keeps things simple from the start. Just plug the music player into your audio system, turn on the power and the player automatically finds your home Wi-Fi network. You also have the option to plug in an Ethernet cable. Either way, in just five minutes you'll be listening to stations around the globe.
Say you have a ton of favorite tracks stored on an external flash drive. Just plug the drive into the music player's USB port and your tunes are ready to play through your home stereo. You also have a built-in SD card slot. Just slide in your memory card to watch an instant slide show of your pictures, right on the touch-screen display.
Your Wi-Fi music player comes complete with the Logitech SqueezeNetwork, an online service that makes it easy to access all the Internet radio stations and music services you could ever want. Sign up for free and get connected right on your Squeezebox touch-screen.
A Bluetooth device perfectly best while listening to music and communicating through a mobile phone having an advanced digital signal processing and call management with Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-905.
Nokia BH-905 has a background noise cancellation and two microphones dedicated to capture speech let you hear and be heard in noisy environments. When it comes to music ahigh performance speakers and noise cancellation features providing great sound while listening to your favorite song and listening made simple through the headset controls.
A wide compatability makes the Nokia BH-905 Bluetooth headset to connect wirelessly with every bluetooth compatible phones and music player. In case that wireless connection through bluetooth is not available, you may plug-in to standard audio jack.
Camcorders come in real handy when it comes to taking videos on the roll. The Flip Ultra 3 is an awesome gadget for people who like to capture it in high quality. The specs for this useful gadget are pretty nice, see below for details.
Features:
8GB of internal memory
Two hours of 60fps 720p HD videos in MPG4 format storage
USB Bug Jewelry Flash Drive it’s yet another storage device that has been designed so that you can wear it like a piece of jewelry. This time it come in the shape of a bug with an 8GB storage capacity.
Features:
USB 2.0
Portable and easy operation
Stylish and useful
Plug and play
Support Windows XP/Vista, Linux 2.4, MAC OSX or lastest version
Dimension: 53 x 28 x 18mm (approx.)
Weight: 27g
The USB Jewel Bug NecklaceFlash Drive is yours for $33 from the USB Brando website.
Bee USB Flash Drive Necklace
it’s another one of those USB drivesthat allows you to carry your most important files like a piece of jewelry around your neck. This latest model is designed like a bee.
Olinari is proud to introduce a unique Sterling Silver Dog Tag designed to hold a USB storage drive secure lock and more important technology. This drive dog tag, costs US$ 349 and holds up to 2Gb of data. Very stylish and good looking, with an Antique Look. More pictures after the jump.
The polished chrome Pico USB flash drive is only 31.3 x 12.4 x 3.4 mm in size, but it is still capable of storing an impressive 8GB of data.
Store four full length ripped movies, five days worth of music, more than four-thousand 5 mega pixel photos, or eighty-meters worth of shelved books. Sure, it’s so small you could easily lose it, so we’ve included a chain to help keep it around.
Features:
Smallest size yet largest capacity USB flash drive around
2GB USB flash drive is not use only for data storage, but it use for a voice recorder. You can records any sound whenever you need and save it in WAV format. It has Built-in a rechargeable batter, You can use it 5 hours continuous recording. You can keep it in pocket and go with your data and information.
Features:
Built-in voice recording On/Off switch
File Format: WAV - 1GB ~ 70hours recording
Built-in rechargeable battery
Battery powered (around 5 hours per full charge)
LED indicator
USB 2.0
Portable and easy operation
Plug and Play
Support Window 7 / Vista / XP, Linux 2.4, Mac OS X or latest version
Nokia has announced the all so extra brilliant looking E7, the smartphone which seems to be noticed everywhere due to its high features and exclusive promotion. The E7 has some brand new features like you can make PowerPoint presentations on the go. With a stainless steel body, sleek cuts and exclusive features this mobile is sure to give its competitors a run for their money. Features, pictures and video is given below. Features:
4” AMOLED touch screen and QWERTY
Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels)
Real-time work and personal emails
Maps with free GPS navigation
8 MP camera and HD video
Size:123.7 x 62.4 x 13.6 mm
Finger touch support for text input and UI control
Weight (with battery): 176 g
Bluetooth 3.0
High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)
GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33
HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps
WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
Capability to serve as data modem
Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes
Allerta has announced a side gadget for the BlackbBerry users which would certainly make their life easy. The inPulse smartwatch enables you to see your BlackBerry alerts right on your wrist. Its real handy when you are away from your mobile or if its in your pocket. This gadget would definitely get a good response from the consumer market, as it has a pretty simple display and has nothing technical. Features:
1.3-inch full color OLED display.
Bluetooth 2.0
150 mAh lithium-ion polymer battery.
Glass lens.
Vibrating motor for alerts.
Micro-USB port to charge the thing & the ability to install firmware updates.
The inPulse also requires an app installation on the main BlackBerry, which needs to run BlackBerry OS 4.3 or up.
Allerta is taking pre-orders for the inPulse smartwatch at $149, with deliveries scheduled for February 2010.
Adobe is now planning to put the full PC version of its flash player into Smartphones. It would be available to Windows Mobile, Nokia's Symbian S60 and Google Android. Adobe Flash Player lite version was installed to 40% of mobiles in the last year. However the only problem is that how they would fit the full version, because of the memory issue.
With the full flash version, mobile phones would be able to run websites which earlier had some trouble opening.Moreover,Adobe says that it won't give the full version software to Apple.
Nokia has recently announced the X2-01 which comes from the X2 family. The new mobile has all the features incorporated in a really nice, clean and sleek body. With a QWERTY keypad and easy shortcut keys its best for messaging and writing in emails. The features are not extra ordinary and nothing special to brag about but it provides easy usage. The promotional video for the X2-01 (which you can see below) also focuses on the "social" communicating aspect like messaging and emails etc. Check out the features listed below. Features:
A slim line, lightweight concept Notebook for the mobile worker. This notebook gives the user possibility to use it without a notebook bag. As Adjusted for use in car whilst stationary to enable a work space for the business commuter. Inside the car the notebook is designed to fit the interior, Once connected into the cars system, through the notebook the user has easy access to personalize the vehicles environment and settings to their preferences. The Notebook would only work in the car while driving as a HUD (head up display) with the projector, for a safe driving. And turn into workmode while stationary and adjusted on the drivers steering wheel.
The whole idea of notebook docks was interesting 10+ years ago when we had to be frugal with our I/O ports and live with subpar LCD screens. Now that notebooks have pretty much caught up with desktops, do we really need another docking solution? According to designer Yong-Seong Kim, we do. His go-anywhere desktop docking solution calls for a large slot behind the LCD display. This is where you slide your notebook in, allowing you to access all its information from a desktop form factor. The notebook’s screen also becomes your second display, in portrait mode of course. It’s an interesting concept but somehow, this makes as much sense as the palm folio.
Convertible tablet PCs – that is, tablet PCs that can turn into a regular laptop form factor – have traditionally had swivel screens on hinges that work the same way as the swivel screens on Sony’s Alpha DSLRs, for example. There was also one with an awkward sliding mechanism that nobody remembers, but we won’t go into that here. At the Intel Developer Forum being held right now in San Francisco, Dell introduced an upcoming addition to their dell Inspiron line with a 10-inch notebook that transforms into a new tablet PC using a whole new approach. Once you open the lid of the laptop, the screen flips around on an axis halfway down the sides of the display, turning into a clamshell laptop!
The notebook itself has a dual-core Atom processor and runs Windows 7Premium.
