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Harness the sun's energy to charge your laptop, iphone, or other electrical devices. Currently, solar cells aren't efficient enough to produce enough Watts to power and charge a demanding electronic device such as a laptop, while maintaining a portable size. Current panels are 15-20% efficient. To get around the portability factor manufacturers can simply add more panels and have them fold nicely away. Soon though, as efficiency increases smaller cells will be able to produce enough power to make solar portability feasible for larger electronics
We are standing in front of a possible paradigm shift in publishing. Publishers have recognized for a while the benefits of dropping paper to distribute electronically. In the past few decades the publishing model has scaled down from dedicated printing shops, to desktops, to blogs, to 140 characters of Twitter text.
Content we read on paper, whether it be newspapers, books or ads appears more professional than content we read online. Most of us still trust paper more then web. This is hopefully all going change soon.
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Zune HD Gets Gamey
You’ve got an NVIDIA Tegra processor, oodles of music, and
some videos. It ain’t exactly a recipe for maximizing your assets. And so it’s
high time some developers took advantage of the raw power. Six new titles were
recently released, some of which were designed to push the Zune’s graphic,
certainly more so than the first round of 2D throw-away titles. Games like
Lucky Lane Bowling and Vans Sk8: Pool Service actually add a degree of
replayability, while upping the ante in visuals department. ...
First there was the Notebook, and for a time, things were good. Then there was the Netbook, and for a time, things were good. And now, courtesy of the ViewSonic, makers of fine computer monitors the world over, comes…the MovieBook!
Billed by ViewSonic as “the next generation of the ultimate, all-in-one portable entertainment experience,” this well-priced addition to the mobile movie player market is well suited to capitalize on a very specific demographic. But before delving into where it succeeds, we need to first take ViewSonic’s marketing team back to school with a little ...
Early reviews are portraying this technological powerhouse as Icarusian figure. After all, the HD2 looks amazing from the point of view of a spec sheet. But as the young boy proved all those millennia ago, great ideas can only be measured by their execution. And putting the raw power of a 1Ghz 4.3-inch touchscreen device in the hands of an inept operating system is about as tragic a conclusion you can have (in consumer products, that is).
HTC has slowly but surely been building a new for itself as a company that is not satisfied with maintaining the status quo in the handset department. ...
It’s said the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If
so you can’t help but notice the fall from grace that Peek is embarking on
after their well-meaning and generally well received email-only handheld device
is followed by the $200 Twitter-only PeekTwitter. Is the world ready for a gadget that only
parses 140 character sentences little over a year ago the Peek was released; a lifeline
being tossed to those hesitant to embrace the smartphone movement and yet
dedicated to staying connected to their email while on the go. The concept ...
You know that ever-present fear that surrounds being an
early adopter of, say, an Apple product? It’s nearly a guarantee that twelve
months after you purchase an iPhone that a newer, better version will hit the
market at that exact same price. It’s a little discouraging. Now, imagine you’re
a developer who has spent a year crafting a turn-by-turn navigation app. Loans
have been extended, late hours have been followed by early mornings. Then when
launch day finally arrives, and you're eagerly awaiting your first customers, Google ...
Ah, the wrist-watch. The tech designer’s Holy Grail of the
21st-century. Millions of modern citizens wear them, but they’ve
remained virtually unchanged since the advent of the digital watch back in the 1970s.
Sure, many have tried to revolutionize the device over the decades; from Casio’s
calculator watch to Timex’s iPod controlling i-Control. And yet, here we are in
2009 without a unanimous must-have watch among technophiles. Some think the
future of the watch is actually just a smaller version of a cell phone. But ask
the folks over at Allerta ...
The catchphrase for Callpod’s Fueltank line-up could easily
be “Portable power made simple.” As it stands, they’ve gone with the slightly
more boastful: “The world’s most versatile and portable emergency device
charger.” Either way, with the Fueltank you’re easily quadrupling the battery
capacity of nearly any portable gadget for a very affordable price.
The Fueltank Uno ($50) packs a rechargeable lithium-ion
battery, promising to replenish your portable device up to 4-times over. In
terms of the new ...
You know you’re dominating the portable music player market
when some of the biggest players in the home audio market are consistently
launching new product lines squarely aimed at your player. But that’s the
ubiquity of the iPod for you. Logitech recently announced two new entries into
the crowded iPod dock market but they’re looking to take over the niche group
of on-the-go audiophiles.
The latest iPod docks from Logitech provide two things: portability
and convenience. The S315i Rechargeable Speaker ($130; pictured above) ...
