New water resistance Walk man’s from Sony
Sony released a new water resistance,wearable Walkman “NWZ – W250″ . This tiny piece is available in 2 GB and 4 GB capacity models and apparently boasts 11 hour long battery life.
This weighs up to 43 grams and is available in 4 different colors(black, silver, lime green and magenta).You can pick one or more of these models at about 60US$.
Society has become increasingly mobile and fast-paced. Internet access is available on demand, either as an a la carte service or through the ubiquitous availability of wi-fi. Everything is wired, from schools to book stores to coffee shops. Everyone is connected. Laptops, cell phones and other smart devices allow anyone to have access to business, school, or to each other. Everyone is online, and everyone is hooked in.
All those devices require a steady stream of power to keep the system going. Now there are a number of backpacks that take advantage of the most powerful and reliably consistent source of power available: the sun.
Solar-powered backpacks not only store the devices that so many of us have come to rely on, they also power them to ensure uninterrupted coverage no matter where you are.
Understanding the technology
Solar power isn’t the stuff of some Jetsons-like future land. It’s a relatively simple technology that has been mastered for limited use — and is being studied for more widespread and powerful use.
Solar energy uses photovoltaic cells to college light from the sun and convert it into energy. Silicon is often the semiconductor of choice. 
Solar-powered backpacks utilize solar panels attached to the outside of the pack in order to charge cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players or even laptops. But the panels are lightweight and waterproof, making them practical, as well as useful.
Solar-powered backpacks can produce up to four watts of power. Some higher-end models can produce up to 15 watts. One hour of direct sunlight is enough to power a cell phone for about an hour and a half or an iPod for three hours. But solar-powered backpacks also use a lithium-ion battery to store energy, allowing for up to 55 hours of stored energy. A handy tool for those cloudy days!
The market
There are a variety of solar-powered backpacks on the market, and they range in price from $75 to $500.
Voltaic, Tonino Lamborghini and Eclipse all have models.
Features of some backpacks include a variety of adapters for different cell phone models and a USB plug for MP3 players and other devices.
Some models even hook up to a travel charger or a car charger to give an extra power boost.
The bags can be work as backpacks or slings, and they can fit up to a 15″ laptop and are padded for protection. The bags feature compartments for various other electronic devices and their cords for organization.
And there’s no need to sacrifice style for convenience and technology: These bags come in a variety of styles, from a typical backpack design to a messenger-bag style. They are stylish and sleek, and are built to meet all of your needs.
This guest post is contributed by Maria Rainier, she writes on the topic of online degrees . Email her at: mariarainier@gmail.com
Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural interface device that augments the physical world with digital information and lets people use natural hand gestures to interact with that information
The prototype is comprised of three main components
Have a look at the video
It may be the company that has taken the gadget world by storm and rewritten the rules for success in the world of technology; it may have got the whole world talking and raving about its products and the quality of its technology; and it may outsell all the competition put together; but I still think Apple and its i-prefixed products are overrated, not to mention overpriced. And the reasons I wouldn’t buy from Apple are:
So yes, even though my Windows may crash at times and I curse Bill Gates and Microsoft, there’s just no way I’m going the Apple way.
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Few days back Apple released it’s tablet, iPad and created sensation all across the world. I see everyone talking about its feature so interestingly. Many, by now might be knowing its feature, but you should be aware of its lack of support to many stuff. Today I would like to take this time up writing about its disadvantages. Here are some of the disadvantages of iPad, which could let you wait for its successor.
No Support To Flash Player: iPad doesn’t support Flash player, so you will not be able to play most of the videos online or play games which uses flash. Of course it will let you play YouTube videos. As many of the websites uses flash player to view their content, this can be a big drawback.
No Multi-tasking: One of the big disadvantage of iPad is its nonexistence of multi-tasking. Multi-tasking is one of the key future of the modern day devices, iPad’s nonexistence of multi-tasking gets me amazed. So, if you are playing a game and quickly want to browse a website, then the only option you have is: to close the game application and browse. That means you cannot let your application run in the background.
Lack Of Webcam: Yet another strong disadvantage of iPad. Its so hard to believe that the device developed for the people who like browsing doesn’t support video conference. You cannot use webcam while using instant messenger. It will not let you grab a picture for your personal blog.
No USB Support: Universal Serial Bus which is suppose to be big breakthrough in the technology, is not supported by the iPad. Almost all of the peripheral these days are connected to devices through USB. So, no USB drive, USB headset and USB related stuff.
Other Drawbacks: Apart from these disadvantages iPad have many more drawbacks:
Price tag is much high
With all these disadvantages, the thing that comes to my mind is: “iPad is marketing 2G”. iPad certainly not a 3G device.
Pingo is probably the coolest gadget ever for all the Facebook addicts. Basically pingo is a robot which can be integrated with your Facebook account through a Facebook application which let you give name to this robot, set its mood, profile and manage its daily life. Pingo the robot is tiny and come with an internal speaker, microphone, proximity sensors, ground sensors, two small wheels for its motion and two little dazzling LED eyes.
Here is what the little pingo does:
Pingo is cute, lovable, adorable, interactive Facebook friend.Call it a pet or a robot but this is surely a cool gadget a geek would like to have.
Here is a video demonstrating how it works.
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Google is now fast, simple and stylish. Google recently announced about 100 themes designed by artists for its browser, Google chrome. These themes is a merger of art and technology that may enrich your browsing experience ( you won’t be able to see much of art as you will be working on web pages). If you are a Google Chrome user you can apply these themes here.
Here is a video which shows the preview of some of the themes.
Steven Alop of Microsoft at a recent Wharton Business School conference unveiled a video depicting the vision of 2019. Its really an interesting video which show how touchscreen technology is going to conquer the world in the next years. It’s no hard to imagine all the things show in the video coming true because earlier in 1990’s even simple touchscreen technology was seen as a future vision in those days, which is now used in almost every gadget.
It has not been long we have talked about Apple’s Tablet and hold our breathe for official launch of it. But here is a contender for Apple’s Tablet: Microsoft’s Tablet Courier. Courier is still under developing stages and is currently with the outside agency for better testing. The dual 7-inch multi-touch screens designed for writing, drawing, flicking and fingers make it fit to call a booklet more rather than tablet. The two dual screens are connected by a hinge, the battery life and wireless connectivity status are along the rim of one of the screens. This tablet supports wireless charging that means it charge through inductive pad. And yes, On the back is a camera. In spite of the fact that Courier promises user friendly applications, a pen dominated interface with several multi-touch finger touch gesture and sophisticated themes makes it more complex than the details of Apple’s Tablet. Hold-on till we get further details about Courier.
Dell is still found fighting hard its reputation as manufacturer of flavourless computer. Its worldwide share at the end of last year was seen 15% dropping 3 percent down from 2007. So Dell knew they have to make an attractive product to catch the eyes of the world. And the response from Dell was its soon to be released Latitude Z notebook. The notebook is has 16 inch screen, which is larget than the typical notebook. And yes, it also have Intel proccesor, hard disk, RAM and advanced wireless capabilities. According to Forbes the notebook will be charged wireless, which is sets it uniqueness. Although the details about the wireless charging is not yet revealed. Probably, this notebook will have a inductive charging pad which will charge without wire. This notebook will be priced little more higher than the typical $1100 notebook.
Connecting two computers at remote places has always been a hectic task. It usually requires two computers to have same software, passwords, waiting for connection. The connection between two remote computers is made easier by this gadget, iTwin, which aims to make the connection process entirely plug and play.
iTwin is a simple two-part USB drive. The first part is plugged to one system and the other part is connected to remote computer on which the sharing is done. This provide instant access to the remote computer. You might think that the two parts are connected by cable, but they aren’t. iTwin connects two computer without cables, just USB drive and internet. The two parts of this gadgets remind me of those friendship or love lockets, where you have the half and your friend or love the other half.
Using USB drive is simple. Sometimes you don’t have enough space to store other computer’s hard drive or find security problem( loosing USB drive,etc). iTwin is a solution to this problems.
According to the developers this gadget is set to launch in first half of 2010 and is expected to sell 200 millions of these drives next year. This gadget is expected to be priced at $99.
Here is a video which shows the demonstration of this gadget.
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mp3 Player and i-pod: Remember the day you saw a college student without headphones. I bet the answer to this is No. Now-a-days its hard to imagine being in college without mp3 player or i-pod. Today’s mp3 player are not only play ones favourite playlist but also have remainders and calenders to organize students life. Now with the mp3 players with 1GB storage costing at around $25 – $35 these have become the favourite gadgets for the students.
Digital Camera: Now are the days most of the college students freak with social networking sites like facebook, MySpace, Orkut, etc in their spare time. The best things students like about this sites is their feature to share photos with friends. Students enjoy sharing their photos with their friends and commenting on friend’s photos on social networking sites. For this all they need to get best pic is a digital cameras. With the down fall in the prices of digital cameras, these are seen with almost all the college students.
Cell Phone: This is a prime gadgets now-a-days. There might be hardly any students who does not possesses this gadget. Remember text messaging in boring lecture, exchanging files through bluetooth, multimedia messaging. Tell me now will you get into or survive in college without this gadget?
Water Bottle: Sometimes not everytime, you think of your health too. Though your college serves mineral water to its students many prefer getting their own Water Bottles. If you are more concerned about your health and water consumption per day, then the Hydracoach Intelligent Water Bottle is the thing you are looking for. This is not your regular water bottle, it reports how much percentage of water you have consumed and how much furthur you need to consume for better health.
Laptop: For Lecturer’s student or a funky students this gadgets satisfies both these kind of students need. With many college students prefer earning online to fill their pockets its hard to see a students without this gadget in your college canteen. Many use it for academic purpose, many for earning, some for time-pass, this gadget can be used for any purpose.
Portable Disk: When you are working on your assignment or project its a good practise to take back-up of your data in a portable disk. The ScanDisk Cruzer Titanium shown here is a good choice. It’s easy to use and is crush proof up-to 2000 pounds.
Japan is all set to build a solar power station in space, which will generate power in space and beam it to earth. This project is planned by Japan’s Electrical giant Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and IHI Corp. The project will cost around 2 trillion yen ($21 billion) and is expected to complete in next four years.
The one giga-watt solar station will have four square kilometers big solar panels, which would generate enough energy to light up 294,000 houses in Japan without using cables (through microwaves). It may sound like a science fiction movie but it will be good alternative energy source as the fossil fuels are soon gonna disappear. It is expected to generate power from sun in space regardless of weather unlike the earth based solar plants. Its obvious that the project will cost no less than $21 billion as the project will require transportation of solar panels 36,000 Kms above the earth surface. Launching a rocket into the space itself cost around $10 billion.
Its a pretty extraordinary project and let’s hope it doesn’t end up with side effects to people in Japan.
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