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8 Mar 2010

Firstview Electronic HK Limited presents their Android based Laptop for $65 on CeBIT 2010 in Hannover, Germany

The website load is very slow when you compare it with more expensive Laptops, but you can buy for $65 in the Chinese factories when you order this Laptop in large quantities.

$65 Android Laptop

Specs:

  • Android
  • low cost and low power VIA 8505 ARM based 533Mhz processor
  • with 128MB RAM
  • 2GB Nand flash
  • 7″ 800×480 screen
  • WiFi
  • SD card reader
  • 3G dongle support
  • run 4 hours on a 2100mah battery

Its not anywhere near as thrilling as the iPad video demo. Its just one of the cheap Android tablets there at CeBIT.

8 Mar 2010

Kojiro mimics the human body and can handle more complex movements.

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Kojiro is a humanoid which is built by the University of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory.

Kojiro  musculoskeletal humanoid robot has a detailed musculoskeletal system built to mimic the human body.

via Engadget

To develop control algorithms for Kojiro, the JSK team is using an iterative learning process. This kind of system has lots of nonlinearities and is hard to model precisely.

The main drawback of using a musculoskeletal system is that controlling the robot’s body is difficult. For balance, the robot uses three gyros and a three-axis accelerometer on its head. To keep track of its posture and limb positions, they embedded joint angle sensors on spherical joints and six-axis force sensors on the ankles. To make the robot safer, the researchers built its body using mostly light and flexible materials. The results are transmitted to a computer and displayed on a control screen developed by Takanishi. A driver circuit board automatically adjusts the current fed to the motors based on temperature measurements.

Each motor unit has a rotary encoder, tension sensor, and current and temperature sensing circuit. Its brushless motors are quite small but can deliver a substantial 40 watts of output power. These tendon-muscle structures — Kojiro has about 100 of them — work together to give the robot some 60 degrees of freedom, or much more than could be achieved with motorized rotary joints. However in… Read the rest

8 Mar 2010

Its screen is small, it lacks color and its capabilities are limited. At a time when newspapers across America were folding, Amazons Kindle put print where people really wanted it – in their pockets.

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While its not quite as revolutionary as the iPhone, the iPad will continue this tradition by capitalizing on the fast-growing e-reader market that was forged by Amazon. And Apples string of hits continues to create new markets and to put money in investors pockets – despite one of the worst economic backdrops in modern history. However, the company and its public relations prince, Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, have achieved near-cult-like status with the companys devout customer base. Apple essentially reintroduced the netbook, but infused it with the type of touch-screen technology that its perfected with some of its other successes, including the iPhone. The media buzz that surrounded the launch of the device – branded the iPad – was certainly overstated.

Great Kindle vs iPad Review

Kindle vs iPad Review – iPad advantages

The best way to think of the iPad is as a larger iPhone – one with a 9.7? screen. The iPad’s advantages are -

  1. It does a lot of things – movies (including HD), TV, color screen web browsing, playing games (games look really good), .
  2. Very good looks.
  3. Larger screen size – the screen is a 9.7 inch IPS display. IPS is really good screen technology.
  4. Full capacitive touch screen.
  5. 1 GHz Apple A4 processor.
  6. 16,

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8 Mar 2010

This video is the TechEd Middle East Dubai 2010 Opening Keynote by Eric Rudder. He presents ”Indiana Jones” game on the WP7 series

Although this game is on Zune HD available month ago, this is a great presentation because it shows the ability to resume the same game on a different platform.

Eric Rudder Playing Indiana Jones On Stage

Think about Netflix or Windows Media Center with this functionality. If you’re watching a movie on a PC, you can pause and move it to your TV. And if you need to get on the bus, or even a plane, you can resume it on your phone.

Great

More from Tech·Ed

Microsoft Tech·Ed is the premier technical education and networking event for any technology professional interested in learning, connecting and exploring a broad set of current and soon-to-release Microsoft technologies, tools, platforms and services.

8 Mar 2010

Apple’s first iPad TV commercial debuts during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.

The ad follows Apple’s recent announcement that pre-orders for the device will be accepted beginning March 12, with shipments slated for April 3. Drag this to your browser’s bookmark toolbar, or read the detailed instructions.

Watch the iPad commercial featuring “There Goes My Love” by The Blue Van.

iPad TV Commercial – 2010 Oscars

I am wondering, what was the need to give the ad when it had nothing new to tell.

Check this review out from someone who has already tested the iPad “6 reasons why the iPad could be the ‘Star Wars’ of tablet” computing

Apple’s iPad Gallery

4 Mar 2010

Control the linux-based Dreambox, produced by the German multimedia vendor Dream Multimedia, remotely with your Windows Mobile smart phone and WMDreamRemote

If you’re reading this, you probably already know all about the Dreambox, one of the most popular lines of digital television series ever to be produced.

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Dreambox 7000-S via Wikimedia

Given all the fuss over these digital receivers being remotely controlled by an iPhone, owners of smartphones powered by Windows Mobile are probably feeling left out in the cold right about now. Is there any way to make Windows Mobile-based mobile phones remotely control a Dreambox as well?

“What in the world is a Dreambox?” you still may ask.

Okay, a quick review of the Dreambox reveals it to be a highly-popular series of Linux-based set-top box receivers for DVB satellite and cable digital television channels. These Linux tuners even support terrestrial television (that means your standard plain-jane TV channels, for you non-technical folks out there). It was originally produced by Dream Multimedia, a German multimedia company. The Dreambox series used Linux-based software originally developed for DBox2, another Linux tuner. The DBox2 was originally distributed by KirchMedia, another German company that has since gone “kaputt” due to a bankruptcy. The bankruptcy was a boon to Linux geeks worldwide, as it flooded the market with unsold Dreamboxes available for hobbyist tinkering. The low-cost Dreambox hardware makes Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) available on a shoestring budget.

Table of Dreambox models

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3 Mar 2010

The iPhone-4G will be awesome and could come in 5 colors plus motion-control.

Right now it looks like that Apple won’t change much on the 4G design, which shall arrive earlier than expected (April). On the other hand this could be a good sign that Apple will make the new iPhone much more powerful (dual-core). Design is more expensive nowadays then technology.

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Galery via MobileCrunch

Is the 4G the technological future (4th generation) of the mobile smart phone or will it only be a bit better then the actual update from the iPhone 3G to the actual iPhone 3GS?

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Image via unwiredview

Patently Apple reports that the iPhone can completely be controlled through motion sensors via “Cool New Finger Swiping Camera Controls coming to iPhone & iPad”

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Image source and more via MobileMag

Iphone 4G (Diashow)

People expect the following tech specs to name a few

  • OLED screen
  • 5 megapixel camera
  • all new casing, probably much the same as the iPads.
  • fast processor and better graphics card with better battery performance.
  • software 4.0

What do you expect from the iPhone 4G?

3 Mar 2010

Everything you need to know about the new HTC products and technology.

HTC made the first Android phone for T-Mobile and many other smart phones for Sprint before that. HTC is a widely known company that cnet and other tech sites have been reporting on for quite some time.

MWC 2010: HTC Legend, HTC Desire, HTC HD mini

Actually will Android run on the Legend and Desire and explicitly the HD Mini would be running on a Windows mobile system

3 Mar 2010

Videos of the 3D Engine on the Google Android Nexus One Uberphone

android 3d Demos of the 3D Engine on the Google Nexus OneThe new 3D features  are demoed with the upcoming Google Earth app for Android. These 3D features  will surely bring along many 3D graphics applications and even games (Androlib free) - much like on the iPhone. Google also has teamed up with Cooliris to bring the 3D experiences to the Android Nexus One user.

Now watch these videos and comment in our comment area

3D Engine on Google Android Phone – Nexus One

Even complex 3D engines seem to run fine on flash 10.1

Flash Player 10.1, 3D content on Google Nexus One

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After you have watched these videos, do you still think flash is too CPU intensive and is slowing down mobile phones?

2 Mar 2010

HTC’s statement on SlashGear. HTC is defending their own innovations against Apple

Headlines are filled with htc/apple lawsuit newsApple has sued HTC for infringing on 20 iPhone patents

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image via BBC and WindowsMobile7

Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs said:

  • “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,”
  • “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.” Apple

On Gizmodo you’ll find The Complete Documents here is the first doc

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Here is the statement from HTC posted by SlashGear

“HTC is a mobile technology innovator and patent holder that has been very focused over the past 13 years on creating many of the most innovative smartphones. HTC values patent rights and their enforcement but is also committed to defending its own technology innovations. HTC only learned of Apple’s actions this morning via media reports, and therefore we have not yet had the opportunity to investigate the filings. Until we have had this opportunity, we are unable to comment on the validity of the claims being made against HTC.”

(via @SlashGear)

2 Mar 2010

Microsoft’s SONGO mobile search architecture shall make your real-time search easier and faster with the search ‘on the go’ function

SONGO mobile cache architecture enables users to search the web instantly and access information (personal files, search results, local businesses, ads, etc.) across all of their devices (phone, PC, cloud, etc.) from their smartphones.

Overview of the SONGO web search cache architecture

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SONGO in action: real-time web search results

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SONGO in action: real time business lookups.

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images via Research Microsoft

At the TechFest 2010 event, which is this year’s version of  Microsoft Research annual show-and-tell event Microsoft could announce  more information about SONGO mobile web caching architecture (cached) according to Mary Jo Foley via  ZDNet