October 3rd, 2009 by ketyung
Wireless power transfer offers lots of conveniences to mobile device users. When your device is running out of battery, you can simply hook up to a remote power station wirelessly, which allows you not to be bound by tangling power cable.
Sony is currently working on wireless power transfer technology, which has achieved pretty promising result that can transfer up to 60 watt of electrical energy over half a meter distance. The efficiency falls around 80%, 60% with rectifier. Besides portable gadgets, home entertainment system such totally wireless HDTV is possible in the near future.
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October 3rd, 2009 by ketyung
It’s a good idea to install a car video camera to record everything going on on the road. It comes in handy while you hit an accident, which it serves as a black box and gives you an idea what’s actually going on.
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October 2nd, 2009 by ketyung
Most laptop users will have worries about their laptops getting stolen, especially when they’re just a couple of steps away from their laptops. But now you can make use of an old USB flash drive as the laptop security alarm, which makes sounds when the laptop is being detached or taken away from its original position.
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October 2nd, 2009 by ketyung
Imagine how much data you could bring along in just your pocket these days? It’s as much as 1TB. The newly announced OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro is a 2.5 inch portable and pocket-sized hard disk drive that offers 1TB storage capacity.
This OWC 1TB portable hard drive is both FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0 bus powered. It can deliver a data transfer speed of 100MB/s and is bus powered (via FireWire or USB port) that does not need external power adapter to keep it running.
This little pocket-sized storage allows you to bring along the equivalent of 1,000,000 JPEG photos, 500 DVD movies, 76 hours of digital video, or 350,000 MP3 songs, anywhere you go. This OWC hard drive is definitely one specially designed for anyone to carry around as it comes in a stylish case that can withstand impacts.
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October 2nd, 2009 by ketyung
Here comes the Seagate FreeAgent DockStar, a special docking that is made to allow the Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drive to plug into it and be used as a networked storage like a NAS.
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October 2nd, 2009 by ketyung
Ooma, a small company which has shown off their DECT 6.0 cordless and VOIP in one phone system, Telo, back in January at CES this year, has now finally released the system.
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October 2nd, 2009 by ketyung
A handheld device has been developed by the engineers of Duke University, which can detect any early vision problem or vision loss that is commonly caused by ROP (Retinopathy of prematurity) in children.
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October 1st, 2009 by ketyung
Those who’ve got kids around will need to look into a way to protect your newly bought Plasma or LCD TVs. Kids could simply throw things around, which would easily break the screen of your expensive HDTV.
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October 1st, 2009 by ketyung
These days, satellite phones come in much smaller form factors, and even mobile phones come with combined functionalities of cellular and satellite are easily available. Genus, a product of partnership between TeraStar and AT&T is now coming your way to AT&T.
Having a phone that offers dual functionalities of cellular and satellite is super handy, especially for those who’re adventurous enough to always explore those remote areas where you’re out of any cellular network coverage. With the satellite function on your mobile phones, you can make satellite calls which allow you to contact outside world during emergency or when you’re losing your way in the middle of your tough journey.
The Genus phone features a 2.6 inch touchscreen, supports quad-band GSM/EDGE — Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA 3G, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/GPS connectivity and it runs Windows Mobile as the operating system. Users of Genus will have to pay standard minutes and data plan and pay additional charges while roaming via satellite.
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October 1st, 2009 by ketyung
Apple’s upcoming tablet will be emphasized more on its content. The device combines hardware, software and media on one. Once it’s in your hands, you will get to read lots of content on it. That’s how it’s fun and useful, it’ll be loaded with lots of contents. Unlike Apple’s past mistake such as the Apple TV, just a device that has only hardware and software but no content to consume.
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