Mitsubishi to unveil Laser TV at CES 2008

The next generation of TV is the Laser TV, which is deemed capable of displaying more visible colors to the human eyes. Basically, the Laser TV is a variant of DLP, which replaces the old cathode ray tubes with three laser tubes for the red, green and blue. The use of laser gives better color and removes the the deep dark black rings.

The current problem faced with the dominants in hi-def TV market, the LCD and Plasma TV – is they can only reproduce 40% of human-eye visible colors. Whereas with the Laser TV, it is expected to display 90% of visible colors.

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Nokia 4G real-world test hits top download speed of 173Mbps

This is what I wanna hear, a much more promising high speed wireless Internet connection from the cellular network – 4G. It’s Nokia that has carried out a real world test for its 4G, “long-term evolution” (LTE) wireless technology. And amazingly, it was able to reach a top download speed of 173Mbps. The test was carried out in an urban environment using 2.6GHz spectrum (At top of the Heinrich Hertz Institut building in the center of Berlin, where interference typically degrades bandwidth).

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Hackers use fake video of Bhutto assassination to attack

According to ComputerWorld, hackers make use of the breaking news of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to lure users into downloading some malicious code.

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Super PocketTrack Covert GPS Tracker: best tool for suspicious wives!

As shown here is the Super PocketTrack Covert GPS Tracker, which is an nice and easy gadget for you to spy on the journey of someone – lets say, your spouse or your kids. The suspicious wives would use this little USB stick to keep track of where the husbands have been. Just leave this USB stick inside his bag or car, the device will record all the locations where he has been. When he is back home, then you’ll need to get it out of his bag or car and plug it to your computer and you can simply plot out his entire journey using the software loaded on the stick.

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ATP GPS Photo Finder makes geotagging photos so easy!

For those who have been traveling around and taking photos along your journey, you’ll definitely want to label or geotag each photo for the location where it is taken. Of course, nowadays with so many gadgets available, you can do it by having a GPS device synced with the time of your camera, and having the GPS device on for tracking the locations, while you’re taking photos. But, this way will need pretty much of your time for having to match the GPS info with your picture timestamps when you’ve finished taking all the photos and back home later.

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Happy are those who haven’t yet upgraded to Windows Vista!

Not sure if I’m the lucky or unlucky one, as I’m still running XP (and Linux) for most of my computers. I haven’t switched over to using Windows Vista yet. Recently, couple of blogs or news sources have been condemning Windows Vista. Here is a funny one, which shows you how Vista sucks with copying files – it’s extremely slow while copying files particularly from USB keys & drives.

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Prototype of Google Android spotted in the wild!

This is the first early prototype of Google Android spotted, which looks like carrying an HTC form factor. The guy who found this Google phone, has some pretty positive comments for it. After using for a day, he found the phone is generally light and fast, even though this gadget is still in its early prototype. And it’s deemed much faster than the desktop emulator at times.

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Sudoku Junction – the online Sudoku puzzle

I’m no big fan of Sudoku puzzle, in fact I ain’t know that much how to get this puzzle around. But only recently as told by a friend on how to play with it. What I know is it’s a kind of puzzle that consists of some numbers on a few square boxes and you have to fill in those numbers from 1 to 9 and the numbers of each row and column must not be repeated. Anyway, if your office work is simply too boring and you can stay connected to the Internet, Sudoku Junction would be a good website for you to hang around and play the Sudoku puzzle to kill some times.

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PocketSurfer 2 gets reviewed

Gizmodo has done a review for the PocketSurfer 2, and it turned out to be more negative than positive for all of its features. They broke it down into a few points here as follows after the jump:

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Second generation of Apple iPhone is almost there!

Some rumors floating around about the second generation of Apple iPhone is already in its final stage. The second generation embraces the 3G connection, so you can use it to stay more connected to the Internet instead of the current version that provides only the poor EDGE. The second generation of iPhone would be made available on the second half of 2008. And analysts also predict the next higher storage version of iPhone, the 16GB version will be released on the first half next year. Anyway, a friend bluffed me that his friend had already got the 3G version of iPhone. Well, I guess he could have got in from the underground market in China.

via [2dayBlog]