LG GD510 Cell Phone with optional solar panel

The LG GD510 Cell Phone comes with an optional solar panel which can be used as a replacement of its battery cover. When the battery of this phone runs out, the solar panel can take the place of the battery cover, giving a recharge to the phone’s battery.

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Sony Wireless power transfer promises total wireless HDTV

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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Seagate FreeAgent DockStar turns USB drives into plug and play networked storage

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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Handheld device to detect early vision problem in children

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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Genus – a cell and satellite phone in one coming to AT&T

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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Light Peak fiber optic delivers super high-speeds 10Gbps of data transfer

Intel has a better technology of transferring data between your computer and other connected gadgets, which uses fiber optic technology called Light Peak that shall deliver at least double the speeds of the current USB 3.0 can do (5 Gbps).

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Lighthouse SQ7 tablet meant for Facebook and Twitter

LightHouse SQ7 tablet calls itself a Social Media tablet as it comes with functionalities dedicated for you to access the two most popular social media sites, Facebook and Twitter.

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Samsung AMOLED W880 – 12-megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom

Samsung has officially announced the Samsung SCH-W880 M9820, their first 12-megapixel camera phone with 3X optical zoom support. This 12-megapixel camera phone features a 3.3 inch WVGA AMOLED display and built-in-memory of 4GB.

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Hasselblad 60-megapixel H4D camera supports True Focus

Hasselblad has annoucned their latest, super high-res, 60-megapixel H4D camera which comes with the True Focus support. The True Focus, with Absolute Position lock allows professional photographers to make photography with super accuracy that cannot be achieved with most DSLRs.

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6Dot Braille Label Maker

The 6Dot Braille Label Maker, created by MIT students, promises to cost only half of the conventional Braille label makers. This Braille Label Maker can print Braille characters on label tapes which can then stick onto objects to help the blinds identify objects more easily.

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