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The Guardian: Retailers and distributors show what they will offer in the year ahead at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (more…)
Category: Gadgets
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Akihabaranews: Pioneer conducted a demonstration using it’s floating image display technology for embedded systems at the Embedded Systems Expo.Floating Vision is Pioneer’s own display technology that displays images as if a diorama sized world were before a viewer’s eyes in miniature realism. By combining Floating Vision with infrared sensors, it is possible to achieve an effect as if one had touched the floating image, and they demonstrated embedding this technology for use in a car navigation system as well as in a customer service role. (more…)
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May
2011
Engadget: Want more Android in your house? How about Android in your house. Google wants to think of “every appliance in your home” as a potential accessory for your phone. The opportunities are seemingly endless, the sort of thing we’ve seen in the Zigbee and Z-wave areas, but sadly this implementation doesn’t actually seem to be using any of those standards. The team teased ideas like lights turning on and off based on calendar events, applications talking to washing machines, games automatically adjusting for mood lighting, and basically little green dudes taking care of all the menial duties in your house. (more…)
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2011
Akihabaranews: We all love Microsoft Surface concept but we are still waiting for them to make is widely available to the rest of us! So until then we will have to rely on some very smart guys like Pioneer’s engineers for example to finally give us the possibility to play with the ultimate 52” Multitouch interactive discussion table, the WWS-DT101. (more…)
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Apr
2011
Akihabara news: First announced at CEATEC 2010 in Japan and then in the USA at CES 2011, Pioneer’s Carrozzeria GPS Smart Cradle has now been made official in Japan! So far only compatible with Docomo’s Xperia SO-01B, SO-01C and NEC’s Medias N-04C, the SPX-SC01 is set to be available in Japan next week for 15,750 Yen.
This GPS Cradle comes with all the bell and whistle that are available in a Japanese dash-in car GPS with 3D Map, Advance Search and VICS traffic information. Demoed at CEATEC 2010 running an iPhone 3GS we just hope that Pioneer will soon open its Carrozzeria GPS Smart Cradle to other android phones as well as Apple’s iPhones.
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Apr
2011
What Hi-fi: Nokia may have announced a future commitment to the Windows Phone 7 operating system, but that hasn’t stopped the company launching two new models running the latest version of its Symbian operating system.
However, the new phones face tough competition: figures from The Wall Street Transcript suggest some 350,000 Google Android smartphones are being activated worldwide every day.
That’s a 16% increase on the numbers from a few months ago, and a massive rise on figures from about a year back, which were running at about 60,000 a day.
The new Nokia models are the E6 and X7: the E6 is based on the company’s E71 and E72, and is described as ‘a sleek business smartphone with a full QWERTY keypad and a high resolution touch display.’
It’s been designed for exceptional battery life – almost 15 hours talk time and up to 744 hours’ standby – and has full access to Microsoft messaging services including Exchange and Communicator Mobile.
The X7 is aimed at the entertainment market, and has a 4in AMOLED touchscreen with ’16:9 near HD’ 640×360 pixel resolution and an 8MP camera.
It gives 6.5 hours talk time, 6 hours video playback, 50 hours of music playback, and 450 hours on standby.
Also provided are two preloaded games – Galaxy on Fire HD and Asphalt 5 HD – and the X7 has instant access to Web TV on demand, with the option of adding favourites to its home screen or add new channels via the Ovi Store.
Both models have 8GB of storage via a standard microSD card supplied, with support for cards of up to 32GB, and also built-in GPS navigation with free lifetime walk and drive guidance.
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Engadget: This planet we call home needs another iDock about as bad as we need another Charlie Sheen running around aimlessly, but no matter — we’re getting one, and it’s being delivered from JBL. The company has just outed its first-ever iPad speaker dock, the OnBeat. Truth be told, it’s capable of handling iPod touches, iPhones and iPads (no word on the iPad 2), but it’s clearly engineered to hold the largest of the bunch best. Aside from providing joints and jams to those situated in your living room (or basement, if that’s how you roll), it can also pipe Netflix and YouTube content directly to one’s television via a composite video output, and if you’re running around sans an iDevice, the 3.5mm auxiliary jack ensures that any other source will still function just fine. You’ll also be able to charge and sync any docked devices, but you’ll be asked to dole out $149.95 in order to bring one home when it ships next month.