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Sixth Sense Technology

Anoop Teja — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:13:11 +0000

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

Camera( logitech QuickCam)
Pocket projector ( 3MMPro110)
Laptop computer

The software for this prototype is developed on a Microsoft Windows platform using C#, WPF and openCV.

The projector and camera may be mounted on a hat or may be coupled into a wearable pendant like device.

Have a look at the video

World’s Slimmest Watch Phone

jagadish jain — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:00:08 +0000

Samsung, South Korea tech giant has unveiled a Watch Phone which is believed to be the world’s slimmest Watch Phone. The gadget is just 11.98 mm (0.48 inches) thick. Samsung compared its Watch Phone to that of its rival LG’s Watch Phone which is 13. 99 mm. Samsung is planning to bring this gadget first to France market and later to European markets.

The Watch Phone has some basic feature of a cell phone like

* Bluetooth

* MP3

* 1.76 inch touch screen

* Voice Recognition.

This gadget is priced at $639.

PS3 Slim

jagadish jain — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:56:38 +0000

Its slim,smaller and holds many unexpected surprises. The PS3 slim has a a matte finish which wont let get your fingertips on the console. The PS3 slim has the same shape as that of original PS3 but is noticeably lighter. For slim Sony didn’t think of bringing down the PSU outside the body like Xbox 360. No power brick. Because of the slim size Sony reduced the USB ports to 2 and there is no card reader. Also the slim version is not stable in vertical position unlike your previous fat one. The power and eject touch button have changed to actual push buttons.

When Transformer 2 game was run on the slim and the original version console, the disc drive was louder in the slimmer. The slim got somewhere between 25-33 dB and the fat got 22-30 dB.

Well, talking about the good part: the good part is that it has got matted finish and the bad part is that it has reduced vents.

As I have said earlier in the post that the slim is unstable in vertical position, a special stand is available for this purpose. Its nor free, but is priced at $24 , 8% of the price of console ($300). Is it worth that ?

Let’s hope Sony take a strong head over the slim bad side.

Sony’s Updated S-Series Leaked By French Retailer

jagadish jain — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:05:26 +0000

The first glimpses of Sony’s new S-Series was leaked by a french based entertainment retailer, material.net . The updated specifications of this phone are attractive. This slam-dunk features 2.4 inches QVGA LCD screen with built-in stereo speakers to enjoy music loud. Sony say it has 42 H of audio and 6.2 H of video battery life, but obviously at 128kbps music quality. It is compatible with i-tunes and windows media player. Video quality is upto 30fps. It supports almost all formats of audio files. The earphones that come along with this hand-set are not so great which does not include digital amplifier and clear bass. Sony is trying to offer a audio/video player with good functionalities at reasonable price.

Meet hTc Hero

jagadish jain — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:31:39 +0000

HTC Hero, the newly launched cell phone from hTc promises all things that a mobile geek requires.HTC Hero is the first phone to embody HTC Sense, a a seamless expereince built on three fundamentals -make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected.I bet If you have some important contents in your phone you would bury it into folders, rather HTC Hero lets you put it at a glance view with a selections of widgets that can be placed on your home screen. These widgets itself can be personalised into various designs that best matches your personality.

HTC hero makes stay close as simple as turning to your friend and saying hello to them. HTC Hero let you stay close to people in your life with text exchanges,email conversations, facebook updates, flickr photo album and many more intresting features.

Although many of its feature are similar to its siblings, hte HTC Sense technology make it unique among all.

The critics are to the point that HTC Hero is better than i -phone but works slower than its counterparts.

HTC Hero Configuration and Specification:

Processor	Qualcomm® MSM7200A, 528 MHz
Operating System	Android
Memory	ROM: 512 MB RAM: 288 MB
Dimensions (LxWxT)	112 x 56.2 x 14.35 mm ( 4.41 x 2.21 x 0.57 inches)
Weight	135 grams ( 4.76 ounces) with battery
Display	3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution

Device Control	Trackball with Enter button
GPS	Internal GPS antenna
Connectivity	Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g HTC ExtUSB (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one) 3.5 mm audio jack
Camera	5.0 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Audio supported formats	MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and Windows Media Audio 9
Video supported formats	MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and Windows Media® Video 9
Battery	Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery Capacity: 1350 mAh Talk time: Up to 420 minutes for WCDMA Up to 470 minutes for GSM Standby time: Up to 750 hours for WCDMA Up to 440 hours for GSM (The above are subject to network and phone usage.)
Expansion Slot	microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
AC Adapter	Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz DC output: 5V and 1A
Special Features	G-sensor Digital Compass