All the stories tagged with: General
Walkman sales boost bottomline for Sony Ericsson
01/19/2006, Sony Ericsson, the world’s 4th largest mobile phone company shipped 16.1 million phones in the last quarter of 2005, posting a record pre-tax profit of $250 million. Essential to this boost in its bottomline are the sales of its highly-rated [...]
PDC Smart Kiosk for cashless transactions
01/18/2006, The PDC Smart Kiosk is a free-standing RFID reader/writer that can be used for cashless transactions allied to wrist straps at amusement parks or other similar capacities. Just make sure you have enough cash loaded before you make any transaction. [...]
Free WiFi connection in Boston
01/18/2006, Boston city has a free WiFi connection for its citizens, running on a model that is supported by advertising revenue without dipping into the taxpayer’s contributions. This self-sufficient model is a win-win situation for everyone involved. Boston’s WiFi service will [...]
PowerFilm Foldable Solar Battery Charger
01/17/2006, The PowerFilm Foldable Solar Battery Charger is the world’s lightest and most compact solar charger. At 9 ounces, you can carry this wherever you travel and it is sufficient to charge most personal electronic accessories from laptops to cellphones, PDAs, [...]
Snap & Send offers novel way of sending postcards
01/17/2006, When was the last time you sent a postcard to a loved one? Although thoughtful, regular postcards do have one thing against them – limited space. The Snap & Send digital postcard is the brainchild of Stuart Calvey, a student [...]
Automatic monitor cailbration widget
01/17/2006, Enjoy the full benefits of your monitor with a new gadget on the block, the Huey. Connect this marker pen-sized gizmo via a USB port and let it calibrate your monitor automatically in less than 3 minutes. The Huey will [...]
Nanobatteries to power artificial retinas
01/17/2006, A team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) is currently hard at work developing a nano-sized battery that can be implanted in the eye to power an artificial retina. These bio-batteries will work in tandem with artificial retinas in [...]
Rakon presents world´s smallest GPS receiver
01/16/2006, New Zealand-based Rakon has developed the world’s smallest GPS receiver. The company’s specifications show that it is equivalent to the size of a baby’s fingernail, which is small enough to fit into nearly every device imaginable. Small in size doesn’t [...]
Learning Retinal Implant System a success
01/16/2006, Swiss-based Intelligent Medical Implants AG has made a medical breakthrough with the successful implants of their first-generation Learning Retinal Implant System on a couple of patients in December last year. The 50-electrode device’s main function is to replace the signal-processing [...]
Smart Card with digital display and buttons
01/13/2006, Aveso’s Smart Card features a digital display and some buttons that could change the way we view and use credit or gift cards in the future. The buttons and digital display add an extra layer of security by requiring the [...]
Fighting Android FA1 rocks the ring
01/13/2006, Self Defense Technologies Inc has created the Fighting Android FA1 that will be used in boxing and martial arts classes during training. The FA1 comes in human dimensions and follows the human anatomy closely. It is an electromechanical device that [...]
CF card data transfer rate to double by this year
01/13/2006, The current CompactFlash data transfer rate stands at 66MB/sec, and this ceiling will soon be raised to 133MB/sec later this year after a revision to the CF+ Specification is made. New CF cards that utilize True IDE and PCMCIA interfaces [...]
Sprint GPS cellphone used to track down stolen car
01/13/2006, Here’s an incident where modern technology comes in handy – a family managed to track down a stolen SUV that was carrying a baby via the father’s GPS-equipped Sprint phone that remained in the car. Current privacy laws prevent Sprint [...]
