Archive for February 7th, 2010:
Hi tech gadgets and increasing suicide rates: Lahore
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Desk Lamp Robot
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Travelon Stop & Lock Luggage Scale, Black, One Size
- Stop & Lock Luggage Scale
- Metal/Plastic
- Compact and portable scale to 75 pounds
- Easy Reset
- Dial stops and locks at weight for easy reading
Product Description
•Don’t be charged for overweight or oversized luggage
•Compact and portable luggage scale
•Use tape measure to check overall dimensions
Dimensions:3.00 x 1.50 x 4.00… More >>
USB Ionic Air Purifier – Perfect Gift Computer Geeks
- Carbon fiber brush system to emit anion particles
- Removes toxic substances including the dust, odors and molds
- Absorbs airborne allergens like pollen, smoke, pet dander and other small particles
- Eliminates static and reduces EMI
- Unique design with rotating cover
Product Description
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Imagine an advanced USB gadget that will silently clean the air around you in your office and home. The USB Silent Ionic Ionizer Fresh Ozone Air Purifier uses a carbon fiber brush system to inject healthy negative ions into the air, effectively supplying clean, fresh air 24/7. The device also removes toxic substances in the air such as dust and molds. Along with giving you fresh air to breathe, this USB gadget also eliminates static, reduces EMI, and helps boost your en… More >>
Gadgets That Will Make Your Travels More Enjoyable
One of the coolest things about technology is that they make life so much easier. Technology gadgets have been evolving so quickly that sometimes, people find it hard to catch up. There are now gadgets for almost every need you can think of – portable printers, video and audio players, netbooks, and more. There are gadgets for both leisure and business.
People often travel for both leisure and business purposes. During the trip, there are often pockets of time available, and one may want to bring some useful gadgets along just to make better use of the time. For example, a flight may be delayed unexpected. A portable media player will help provide entertainment both in the airport and during the flight. Simply hook it up with your laptop and start playing a movie. So let’s consider the various gadgets that may come in useful when traveling.
Portable media players.
Portable media players provide hours and hours of entertainment. These devices usually come with huge internal disk drives (over 100GB). The disk space is to allow the owner to store as many DVD movies as possible. For a media player that has over 100GB of disk space, an estimated 50 movies can be stored.
Portable players can be used to watch movies while waiting for a flight, during a flight, in a hotel room or at a cafe.
A netbook or a laptop.
A laptop is probably the most important gadget that you can bring along. Almost all hotels provide wired or wireless Internet access these days. In the hotel room, you can always connect to the Internet and start surfing like you usually do. You can chat with friends, work on documents, download MP3 music files or stream videos.
If you are traveling purely for leisure, you can consider bringing a netbook along. A netbook operates very much like an ordinary computer, except that it’s meant for viewing content rather than creating content. You can use it to play movies, read digital books or play music. But don’t expect it to run any resource intensive software. If you need work to be done, it’s better to bring along a laptop.
Another difference between the netbook and an ordinary laptop is that the netbook is much smaller and lighter. For this reason, it is the ideal travel companion if you do not need the functions of a normal laptop.
Video eyeware.
Video eyeware is a gadget that you can wear like glasses. You can use it to play games or watch movies. It functions very much like a portable monitor, except that it’s very small and light.
This gadget has a rechargeable lithium battery that will operate for 6-8 hours. You can plug it into your iPod, media player, Play Station, Nintendo, and more. This is a great gadget for watching videos outdoors.
You may wish to consider bringing the video eyeware along and leaving your computers behind if you are traveling for leisure. Doing so will help ensure that you really relax while you are on vacation. Stop thinking about work for those few days and really let go!
For more technology articles on gadgets to use when traveling (such as the HP Mini 1000 netbook), visit the Gadget Advisor web site.
Multi-touch display maker FlatFrog gets $18m in funding – a credible adversary for Surface?
Everyone with eyes in their head can see the bright future of multi-touch displays, but the huge variety of technologies out there makes it hard to place a bet. Will capacitive film rule? Or will it be the IR overlay? Or will Microsoft’s foresight in nurturing the Surface project pay off once they reveal their new, flatter display? Well, there’s one more competitor joining the already-crowded field, and they’re coming in heavy with $18 million in funding.
FlatFrog doesn’t appear to offer any revolutionary features, although they claim to be the only current solution for large-scale displays (40″ and above). This video demonstrates that the display, which is 10cm thick all-inclusive, can handle multiple touches (up to 24, we’re told) and seems reasonably precise and responsive. It’s an in-glass solution they call planar scatter detection — which I’m choosing to understand as detecting interruptions of infrared light suffusing the glass (like the FTIR mouse). The best news is that a FlatFrog device is supposed to be rather cheaper than a Surface, probably because it uses more traditional display tech.
The lack of major differentiating features (that it works is the most important feature anyway) doesn’t seem to have discouraged investors, however: FlatFrog has raised $18 million in funding from Promethean and Invus, with Sunstone Capital participating in the round. According to them, the money is for R&D and commercialization:
These systems will initially target the education, gaming, hospitality and digital signage markets. At the same time, FlatFrog is accelerating the development of high-performance optics-based multi-touch kits and subsystems designed for smaller form-factor, high-volume consumer electronics products such as all-in-one computers, notebooks and tablet/slate devices.
The question now is whether FlatFrog will be able to distance themselves from the pack. With money they can build a substantial suite of programs and promote their product, but there’s a lot to do if they’re to outpace Microsoft, which just last year put $24m into touchscreen startup N-trig and continues to invest heavily in the project. There are no visible results yet, but I feel confident that the money is not going to waste, and MS may actually surprise us in this particular corner. If FlatFrog is smart, and I’m thinking they are, they’ll put some of this money towards serious usability research; MS has done thousands and thousands of hours of work on foolproofing and streamlining the Surface interface, and that’s something that will need to be matched either with careful design or through user feedback.
Dentists to replace drills with plasma jets
I can’t believe how great this idea sounds. Instead of using the old-school (as in patented in 1887) drill technology to remove cavities, researchers are developing a method of using something called cold plasma to destroy the bacteria. I love the idea because I absolutely hate the sound of that damnable drill.
The benefits are huge. The drill is not only loud, but it’s extremely invasive and damaging, and can actually cause more problems then it solves. Researchers have discovered a way to make something called “cold plasma” which will actually sterilize a tooth instead of grinding out the damaged tissue. To be honest, researchers aren’t entirely sure exactly how the plasma works to destroy the bacteria, but they are able to determine that a burst of about 12-18 seconds will completely eliminate the problem. It would also be painless, so to a wuss like me it sounds like a great solution.
The researchers working on this technology expect that it could be available in a general dentistry application in about 3-5 years. I know I can’t wait.
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New Technology in Baseball Products
With the game comes the gear, as technology advances into the 21st century so does technological baseball products. There are some extremely interesting baseball products that are being produced year after year. From baseball gear, to protection, to improving your swing, protecting equipment and memorabilia, the coming years promise great technological advances and some old favorites. Each praised for the high quality, competitive pricing, and innovative designs. Here is a rundown on some of the products that you can expect to see now and in the future.
Major League Baseball is advancing into the digital age by testing and using technologies to assist in helping teams, umpires, and individual players achieve optimum performance. Take for example the Umpire Information System (UIS) that tracks the baseball from the pitcher’s hand all the way until it crosses the plate. This innovative product borrows technology from the United States military missile tracking devices, monitoring pitch location and trajectory that the umpire holds on a laptop computer. Then there is the SportMaster Pro device that works in tracking pitch- by- pitch and handles databases of the pitchers, batter performance, and types of pitches thrown. This handy little gadget operates by the use of a touch-screen tablet and is light weight and durable. An oldie- but- goody is the Digital Scout, first deemed to be the official handheld statistical software in 2002. This software enables both coaches and fans to track statistical and scouting data on a handheld device that uses point -and-touch technology. Using the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) as its platform this software is great for collecting player and team performance and even report printing.
But with everything that computers can do, baseball purists argue that technology takes from the human aspect of the game. While others say that it only enhances statistical data and adds accuracy and efficiency in performance monitoring. Which ever way you lean technological advances in baseball are an asset that allows teams to organize their information without any the real threat of replacing managers, coaches, scouts, or players by computers.
The ever popular video analysis adds that special aspect of real-time playback and the ability to review from many different angles the player’s style or techniques. Panasonic had developed a video coaching system with the capacity to archive 400 hours or more of video used by coaches to search, view, and compare players. It’s going to be very interesting to watch and wait to see what we can think of next.
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