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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.