If Only I Had It

As my niece always says ” amazing” ( with a slang ) .

The Nokia 888 is a concept design phone from Tamer Nakisci, who is winner of a recent Nokia Design Award. See the phone in action here. 

Comments from the designer

Nokia 888 is a mobile device designed for freedom and fun. You can change its form according to your needs. It is aimed at young consumers who engage in many different activities. The target group is very mobile and engaged in so many different things during the day. Tamer’s design adapts to the moment, the place and the function.  

It uses liquid batteries, speech recognition, flexible touchscreen and touch-sensitive body cover. It has a simple programmable body mechanism so that its form changes for different situations.

Technologies that are used in this phone.

It uses liquid battery, speech recognition, flexible touch screen, touch sensitive body cover which lets it understand and adjust to the environment. It has a simple programmable body mechanism so that it changes forms in different situations.

A personal mobile communication device which lets you be free and fun. It is light, simple and carefree. You can change its form according to your needs during the day. Also e-motions lets you send forms to the other Nokia 888 users: i.e. you can send a heart shape to your girlfriend, or a dancing figure to your friends to call them to the party tonight. This way you can talk without words.

In these times of economic trouble, it’s good to know tech firms are on our side. TomTom’s new satnavs will even scour the local area to find the cheapest petrol on offer, before directing you straight to the forecourt!

It’s part of the satnav firm’s new Live service, built into the TomTom Go 540, 740 and 940.

We’ve heard about their web-connected satnav skills before, serving up ultra-accurate predictive traffic and even Google search, but now we know they’ll actually save us money while we’re on the road.

Due for an official unveiling it the UK in just a few weeks time, the satnavs will be TomTom’s most advanced dashboard companions to date, using built-in mobile internet connections to grab up to the date information and stop us getting pinched at the pump.

What’s more, we’d heard there’d be a £10 monthly fee for the Live services, but have now heard fuel price updates will cost just £7.99 each year.

Flying cars would just remain as dreams. Not even one that we’ve heard that has made a success. Forget about those flying cars, a personal jet-powered flying wing definitely sounds more promising here. As it’s been tested at 8,000 feet above the ground. Here we come Ironman.

Yves Rossy, in Switzerland, has made an official demonstration for his jet-powered personal flying wing. He asked a plane to lift him up to 8000 feet in the sky and drop him from there to let him sail by his jet-powered flying wing. Everything had gone smoothly, the wing worked, and he’d traveled in the air for about 5 minutes, flying horizontally over the mountains at a speed of up to 186MPH before parachuting gently to the ground.

The wing is about 8 feet across, powered by 4 Jet-Cat P200 jet turbine engines, which each can output 50 pounds of thrust that allows a flight time to last up to 10 minutes. The only control of the wing is a throttle, so Yves had to control the direction of the wing entirely by his body.

The engine enables the user to ascend, which is at a rate of about 1,000 feet per minute. But it might have problem to let you take off completely from the ground. In order to fly in the sky, you’d probably need a plane to lift you up to certain height, let go to let you sail in the air on your own. It’d probably involve some complexity, at least, you’ll need to be trained to know when to parachute to the ground. I guess the device is still in the prototype stage. There are still lots of rooms for improvement, such as making it easier to operate. And safety is the main issue to be taken into consideration before it can get materialized as a commercial product.

It has been quite a while now that I have actually really used a fax machine. All my faxes comes through my PC. There are so many ways of doing this. But here is the latest.

These days we all do our work on our computers. All documents are in the form of soft copy. But when coming to faxing the documents.It’s somehow pretty inconvenient especially for geeks like us who hate papers being scatted around. But we surely have to admit that not everyone in the society has adopted online services such as emails, e-fax, web etc. There is really no choice, in order to suit the other group of people who’re still in the dark side of Information Technology, we’ll have to print the documents in hard copy and fax over using a fax machine.

Here comes the USB digital fax, which is a device that you just hook it up to your computer’s USB port. And whatever documents that you’ve finished typing, and ready to fax, then you can just fax it over using this USB digital fax, without needing to print the document on paper. The USB digital fax comes with bundled software applications to manage your faxes too. It turns your computer into a completely paperless fax machine, which you can receive and send fax through it without any hassle.

As shown in the diagram above, the USB digital fax comes with a phone jack port, which allows you to hook it up to a fixed telephone line. And then you hook the device to your computer’s USB port.

Firstly this is how it looks from the ad then the bottom is how it actually looks from the back of it.

Sarotech’s new NAS (Network Attached Storage) product - the WIZPLAT NAS-20 is nothing unusual with its features compared to any other average NAS. The NAS-20 comes loaded with various common network services including FTP, SAMBA Server, Printer Server etc, which mostly can be found on other NAS products too.

But the little uniqueness that will pull little of your attention is its design. The NAS-20 is designed like a carrying bag with two handles on top. Meaning that you can freely carry around anywhere in your home. While carrying this on the road, no one would have noticed that you’re actually carrying a storage that stores most of your very important and highly confidential data.

This 2-bay NAS box supports a pair of SATA disks giving you a maximum of storage at 2TB. And it supports Gigabit Ethernet to give you high speed transfer of data at your playground. It features a pair of USB jacks. Other than the few network services mentioned before, it also has built-in iTunes and even a BitTorrent server which will replace your home PC to take on the overly tiring task of your 7 x 24 downloading scheme. The product is still unclear with its price and availability.

Still on the search for a small and compact enough computer that fits well to your frequent traveling schedule? The two new Gigabyte’s UMPCs, M700 and M528, which are on the show at CeBIT might be worth a look. The M700 UMPC features a 7? touchscreen with a resolution of 1024X600. Inside the case is a C7-M VIA CPU at 1.2Ghz, 2GB of RAM. And you have options either going for a 40 or 60GB of HDD (1.8GHz). And this guy runs Windows Vista Home Premium as the OS.

The M528 runs Linux as the operating system. It’s powered by a Centrino Atom CPU at 800MHz, 512MB of RAM and a 4GB SSD. It has a screen size of 4.8 inch only, which is a LCD touchscreen having 800×480 of resolution. This little guy is equipped with 3.5G/HSDPA wireless connectivity which is a must for those who’re always on the road. It also features a 3Mpix camera, GPS, Bluetooth and a keyboard. Both are nice devices but the price and availability are still unknown.

 Are you an executive styled person who needs everything whenever you want it. Such as a mini vacuum cleaner, a usb lamp and even a cup warmer for your hot cocoa. Then this USB product is for you.  

Now, ThinkGeek has joined all these functions into one body - a Mini USB Desktop Multi-tasking Device that can replace all you have on your work desk. Consider this and throw away all other detached pieces. The point is this has only one USB cable running to your computer’s USB port, so it looks much neater and you’ll get almost all you need!

The Mini USB Desktop Multi-tasking Device from ThinkGeek includes 4 functions for you, including a blue backlit cup thing for holding pens, a flexible mini lamp, a mini vacuum cleaner, a cup warmer, and one additional USB 1.1 port. The big question remains here is whether how the 500mA provided by the single USB connection from your computer can power up all these gadgets. The whole thing is about 8? diameter and costs only $15.

This is truly incredible. Have you ever wanted to actually be able to print out a solar panel directly from your inkjet printer. Now this is a possibility. Think of the enormous amounts of energy that you are able to save. Lets go green. 

A Massuchssetts company called Konarka Technologies has announced that it’s now able to manufacture solar cells using inkjet printing. In such a case, they can produce much cheaper solar panels as the solar cells can just be printed on paper or some other cheaper materials. Or maybe print the solar cells on a belt or shirt, then it will be another wearable product that can be used to power your gadgets while you’re on the road!

There seems to be non-stop USB fun coming to your desk. After a few of the birds, the toilets, the music stations, now you get a little USB White Mike Tyson to throw punches for you on behalf. The desktop USB boxer is to be hooked up to your computer’s USB port. And you can control its fists to throw punches against the little punching sack by using your keyboard’s left and right keys.

The up and down keys on your keyboard will make it to rotate its base, which is a turntable. The USB boxer also keeps and displays on your screen for how many successful punches that you’ve landed through him. Simply fun to have on your office, once your nasty boss has screwed up your day and this is where you can simply throw punches to release your anger.

The price of this little gadget is £29.99 .

So is it worth getting this little piece of gadget to keep you happy by your PC when you burn that night oil. I leave this decision up to you guys . Below is a Video of how this things works.

It seems now only those into Blu-ray discs and devices manufacturing are producing the first external Blu-ray drive. This is probably due to they have just won the HD/DVD and Blu-ray format war and now their position in the market is certain. The first external Blu-ray drive is produced by PLDS or Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions. The drive is a USB connected (USB 2.0) BD-ROM drive that is capable of reading Blu-ray disc media at 4x, single layer DVD at 12x, dual-layer at 8x and CD at 32x maximum.

According to Gizmowatch, the external Blu-ray drive can only play user-recorded high-def content from a digital camcorder, but not commercial movies released under the Blu-ray Drive format. This is due to the copy protection issues and lagging software development. One reason is due to commercial content is encrypted with High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) which can be decrypted using a HDCP-compliant graphics card that offers DVI or HDMI connections. And currently in the market, PCs with graphics chips that support HDCP are not available yet, so making it impossible to play the commercial content. Another reason is the Blu-ray disc playback software that can decrypt HDCP isn’t declared as saleable item yet.

Anyway, there is no word on the price and when it hits the street for this first external USB Blu-rayd drive.