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solBAT II – Solar Powered Backup Battery and Charger

Posted on February 7, 2010 by admin

Scosche’s $29 accessory; the SolBAt II “Uses your existing USB cable to charge most devices including iPod, iPhone, MP3, Blackberry, cellphones, etc.

Internal 1500ma lithium-ion battery stores power for when you need it
Includes windshield cradle and universal carabiner mount
Also includes USB charging cable for rapidly charging from any computer or USB charge”….<More>

Lenovo’s Skylight: The Smartphone Netbook

Posted on February 7, 2010 by admin

From Lenovo’s Website “Skylight combines the long battery life and connectivity of a smartphone with the full web browsing and multimedia experience of a netbook…. high definition 10 inch screen ….full size keyboard makes typing easy….Skylight has over 10 hours of active battery life,1 …. charges like a mobile phone….and Skylight [...]

Apple’s iPad Hands On Videos

Posted on February 6, 2010 by admin

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

“User experience wise, it’s the iPhone at its core. Which is not a bad thing–as Jobs said, 75 million iPod touch and iPhone owners will intuitively dive right into the iPad. You touch something, and it responds. But look closer, and it’s the subtle tweaks like flipping [...]

Prefab LumenHaus: Responsive Architecture

Posted on January 31, 2010 by admin

“Where most energy-conscious houses are closed with strategic openings to resist heat transfer, LUMENHAUS has open, flowing spaces linking occupants to each other within the house and to nature outside….On the cutting edge of responsive architecture, LUMENHAUS can operate completely self sufficiently, responding to environmental changes automatically to balance energy efficiency [...]

Motorola BackFlip Android phone with MotoBlur

Posted on January 31, 2010 by admin

From the Motorola website: “BACKFLIP comes fully equipped with the MOTOBLUR features you know and love. The full HTML browser on BACKFLIP’s 3.1” high-res, touch display will be sure to impress, and, with 3G speed and Wi Fi access, you will never be out of the loop. Android Market™ gives you access [...]

iPhone Solar Charger-The pFlip

Posted on January 29, 2010 by admin

“Fully compatible with your iPod, BlackBerry and iPhone, the Solar P-Flip power pack flips both ways, horizontally and vertically, to harness the solar power for your gadgets….Equipped with an efficient 2000mAh lithium polymer battery, Solar P-Flip offers eight hours of talk time, 15 hours for video or games, or 60 hours of music.”…. <More>

Apple’s iPad Launch: Video & Specs

Posted on January 27, 2010 by admin

Display

9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Wi-Fi
Digital compass
Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
Cellular (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive”>>>>>>><Full Specs>

LG’s GW990 HD Smart Phone with 2 Cameras

Posted on January 27, 2010 by admin

Check out the video hands on <Here>
“As the first smart phone powered by Intel’s Moorestown processor, the LG GW990 definitely pushes the boundaries of smart phone capabilities–and their dimensions….One of the hallmark features of this device is that it plays 720p video. But as you’ll see in our video demonstration, it’s not only possible to [...]

Gates’s Malaria Vaccine

Posted on January 26, 2010 by admin

“We have a vaccine that’s in the last trial phase – called phase three. A partially effective vaccine could even be available within three years, but a [...] fully effective vaccine will take five to 10 years,” he told the BBC World Service’s World Today programme”…. <Article>… <The Gates Foundation>

Slideshow:Communications of Tomorow Circa the 1940s

Posted on January 24, 2010 by admin

Back in the mid-1940s, Seagram’s advertised its VO Canadian whiskey with a series of extremely manly magazine ads about “Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow” — unspecified futuristic thinkers who liked the fact that Seagram’s was patient enough to age VO for six years. They’re entertaining when they sort-of-accurately predict scenarios that eventually came to be, [...]