New Technology sends Blu-ray Movies direct to your iPhone

The new technology, BD Touch by NetBlender is now going to show you Blu-ray movies direct on your iPhone ready to play using Wifi connection. This technology will let you use your iPhone as like another new fancy remote for your player. This application can gather the data from Blu-ray player, which can create an iTunes like catalog of movies into the iPhone. The new Technology, BD Touch, can offer you title recommendations, you can also use your iPhone as a game controller by turning existing Blu-ray discs into games, easily manage and update rental queue, it can display extra information about the movie in sync with the movies playback, etc. Overall, it seems to having limitless possibilities.

The video for demo showed on site is quite funny because they showed transfer, which took only seconds, most of us know how much time it takes converting a regular DVD for use on an iPhone, but still imagine if it is real then it is amazing.

Now I guess the next thing they must make a universal remote for full home automation, which can controlled by iPhone.

Here is the demo video:

Solution for dead Car Battery - Porta Jump

It happens sometime that you left your car's headlights on for a long time and when found out you are completely helpless. Then the solution might be to get a pair of jumper cables and try to get it connected to someone else's car. Well now dead car battery will be a thing of past with the help of this tiny Porta Jump battery.

Porta Jump measures 3” x 3” x 2-1/2”, which is much smaller than any such device I’ve ever seen, just plug it into a cigarette adapter or some power port and wait until you get green light turn on. Once this happens you can start your car. A “smart chip” battery tester is built in to let you know if your low battery will accept a charge.

This is a rechargeable device, and you just need to leave it plugged in cigarette adapter while driving for half hour to get it full charged. As the device is so small and comes with a Nylon pouch, you can carry it anywhere you like.

This device cost just $19.99, and it's a must have.

Chinese Phone having 2 years (666 days) Standby time

You might have heard of one-year standby phone Solomobi from China, but now they have returned with another discovery, ZJ268 phone. This phone is a Dual SIM, supporting GSM900 / DSC1800, with eye-catching a 3-inch display. The device said to achieve this much through a 32,800mAh battery, calling it a "Super Battery".

This phone costs $128. In addition, you can see a picture of the 87 x 51 x 10-mm / 0.12-kg lithium battery and the devils own credit card after the break.

Surprisingly good and a must have for anyone who usually forgets to recharge their phone and found themselves with a dead battery. Well if you doubt about its performance then you have to wait 666 days until we get its results.

Philips Pronto TSU 9600 with WiFi

The new Philips Pronto TSU 9600 is a universal remote, which can control almost anything from a central location like your home theater system, music libraries, cable TV; it can even do your lighting if you have an automation system installed. It works on WiFi technology and has a 3.7-inch touch-screen (640 x 480 pixels). It is said to be powerful enough to work through walls. Well that is good because you do not have to install separate WiFi routers to work with it. A few people are suspicious about it that it may have side effects living in such a close proximity from a device like this. All of its functions are easily configurable by a PC, which enhances rich user experience.

Pronto is a must own for anyone who ever considered (or actually purchased) theater-style seating for a home screening room, or for anyone who wants to get spoiled by sitting at a place and controlling everything.

A Green Project in Abu Dhabi - Masdar HQ

The latest green project named Masdar HQ in Abu Dhabi has big planning, and I really mean it. This is going to be the world's first positive energy building, which means it creates more energy than it may consume.

The worth of this project is expected to cost about $300 million, and it will be an impressive center piece for the Masdar City, which will be a $22 billion development stretching out the Abu Dhabi. This project is the vision for our greener future.

The roof pier will be the first thing to be hosted into the place, which will be all covered with solar panels that will generate enough energy for its own construction. The complete size of the structure will be about 1.3 million square feet.
Now this is what they call Intelligent Design.

Mooon+ Concept Phone

Here is a new concept phone designed by Sunman Kwon, beautiful isn’t it? This is not just some touchscreen cell phone but it has a very distinguished feature, there is an integrated detachable Bluetooth headset, which can be separated for use and when connected to phone it can get charge itself.

After all this seems to be a promising factor, because you don't have to think about charging your Bluetooth headset separately.

However, when on the run I personally feel that Bluetooth headset may consume a lot of energy through cell phone to keep itself charged. Who knows maybe they have a turnoff switch on it, oh it is a bad joke. So just, wait until this concept may come to reality.

Nokia and Microsoft talks for loading Windows Mobiles in Cell phones

Nokia, always supposedly loyal to the Symbian platform for it phones, is now talking with software giant Microsoft to put Windows Mobile platform on their handsets as said by John Starkweather one of the Microsoft's marketing director.
Nokia already using Microsoft’s ActiveSync and PlayReady. Microsoft is working “closely” with Nokia and wants to “go all the way.” It is still too early to determine whether you are going to be able to buy a Nokia phone with Windows Mobile on it, but Nokia will still be selling phones with Symbian platform on it. Therefore, no need to worries Symbian lovers.

Scan checks at home to make deposit

Milwaukee Online banking service provider CheckFree Corp. is coming out with technology that could help consumers to deposit their checks from home. It is called as Remote Deposit Capture, the technology will allow letting people scan their checks through their computer's scanner and deposit them electronically, the technology has been around for several year, until now, it was mainly used for the business purpose. CheckFree said the service is available starting this week for any consumers who bank online, as long as their banks offer it.

Measure electricity by a clip

If you are like me, and your electricity bills also reaching skies, then here is some gadget, which we call as "Saverclip". It is a concept from the designer Lee Young Don that may prove useful to anyone who is looking to control there electricity or power consumption. This device look very similar to a clothespin and it actually latches onto any kind of power cable to determine the energy usage by just measuring the electromagnetic fields emitted. It can even recharge itself by the same electromagnetic field.

There is a LCD panel, which can help us to determine that what the devices are responsible for the most power wastage. The design is quite simple and looks friendly, which could be a useful gadget, if it may ever come to the reality.

USB 3.0 is about to come

Intel and other companies are forming a group to promote USB 3.0, this will be even 10 times faster than 2.0, which is already running at 480Mbps, but soon the USB 3.0 will be able to transfer the data at speed up to 4.8 Gbit/s. It will remain be compatible with USB 2.0, which was always compatible with 1.1 version.
Intel stated that the USB 3.0 would be optimized for low power and improved protocol efficiency. The USB 3.0 ports and cabling will be designed with both copper and optical cable capabilities, which means even more higher speed is ensured in future.
The USB 3.0 specification should be out soon with the products arriving in 2009 - 2010.

iriver's handwriting friendly e-book or tablet

Well iriver did not show this at the CES, but it is definitely a cool product. It looks like a combination of e-book and tablet PC with the capability to recognizing handwriting, and have a quite good color display. Well it seems really an interesting thing, because from the top it does not look like an e-book or a tablet, more like a normal notebook. Nowadays, iriver seems more like developing prototype or concept gadgets, and we never get to hear much about its last terminal e-book. Therefore, there is not enough information about this gadget but hope to hear about this more in the future.

Nokia 4G test successful

Nokia announced the 4G test "long term evolution"(LTE) wireless technology was a success, it was one of its kind. This test was carried in urban environment using the spectrum of 2.65GH z, the peak download speed at this spectrum recorded 173Mbps; this was the best result then all earlier tests. LTE can provide the combination of bandwidth, range, scalability, and low power that users will expect from a 4G service.

The prototype base station was installed for ongoing LTE tests at the top of the Heinrich Hertz Institute building in Berlin, in urban where interference typically degrades bandwidth. Test featured multiple users connected to the new base station, giving the 173Mbps throughput was the real world peak. They also tested the LTE by putting terminals into cars and driving them 1 km away from the base station.

“We can demonstrate that LTE meets the high expectations set for this new technology,” said Nokia’s Matthias Reiss in a prepared statement. “Most importantly, we now have evidence that future LTE networks can run on existing base station sites and mobile operators can build LTE networks without requiring new antenna sites.”

LG's Biometric and Vaccine USB drive

Many people knows that, what is biometric devices do? Like taking fingerprint scanner or eye(retina) scanner like that, and the the most common reason for to have these devices is for security purposes. The LG has come up with its two new USB Flash drives, named as LG Biometric USB drive and LG Vaccine Drive.

Lets take the the first one that is LG Biometric USB drive, it actually is able to read the fingerprint through its scanner and provide the user most of the security need. You can store upto 10 fingerprints on it, in case you want to share it with somebody else, or use it on all of your fingers. It can also be password protected for the most worried person.

Now the second one is LG Vaccine Drive, this drive comes with installed antivirus software in it, so you don't have to worry about spreading viruses from one computer to another computer. The company don't have revealed the name of the antivirus that they are going to use in it, but they said that every customer will get a two year license with it. And the terms to extending license is not revealed yet.

Future is going to be highly secured, but too much worry creates too much stress.

Mobiblu Nanum

The new Mobiblu Nanum the mp3 player, is made by Mobiblu (Korea) a new popular name around with its new mp3 player. Its a cool looking cube, actually its a folding one opens up in a cross shape. Although without having a screen, but still looks pretty great. It has 1 GB of storing capacity, USB 2.0, Lego-esque pop-out buttons, dimensions of just 1.1 inches a side, supported audio formats - mp3, wma, and wav.

It seems like a concept one, but its already there in Korea, prices are expected to be around $70.
Right now, i can't say anything else about this one, you have to see it yourself. Just wait for a while until it gets around in local stores.

Transmitta II

For all music lovers who never wants to move around without listening to there favorite tunes. heres a new gadget named as Transmitta II, this can enable you to spread sound around on almost any music player by your PC, TV, Stereo, etc. at any corner of your house, flat or even office, so if you want to listen in MTV in your bathroom just plug it in.
Transmitta II comes with one transmitter and other part is the receiver. Transmitter can easily be plugged to any audio source around, whether it may be CD player, Computer, TV, Ipod etc. by a headphone socket or USB. And on other end, Receiver can easily be connected to any music device by an Auxiliary socket. The Transmitta II works on 2.4GHz frequency allowing to transmit CD Quality sound streaming, and use frequency hopping to detect if there may be conflict with any other devices.

Features in detail:

• Play almost any music player wirelessly through your PC, TV or stereo.
• One transmitter.
• One receiver.
• Units speak to one another via 2.4GHz frequency providing a CD quality audio.
• A 50m transmission distance.
• 16 channel selection.
• 2 audio cables.
• A USB cable.
• An I/O converter.
• An internal battery that recharges via the mains or USB.
• A minimum of 6 hours use per full charge.
• Power and charge LED indicators.
• Size: 7 x 5 x 2cm (per receiver/transmitter).

USB Business Card

When meeting a client for first time all we need is a business card, but if you want to impress your client give him this electronic business card, call it as M++Cards. Its a memory card so you can store some information on it. You can store entire portfolio, PDF's, etc. It can be used as Business card, website card, product info card, etc. Means it will be a lot easier for you to deliver all the needed information to a client, but the only problem is that right now its only a concept. But hey its still sounds practical to have an electronic card. I hope to see this cool thing in near future.

Voicemail to text messages by SpinVox

People who found themselves busy a lot, and there cell phone keeps on showing miscalls and voice-mails, then you better try this service by SpinVox. It claims to convert your voicemails into text messages. Remember its a usual thing that somebody leaves a voicemail and give some information to note down (like some number or some other important things) and you don't have a pen and paper to note it down, and when you find some then have to listen to voice mail again.
SpinVox is charging you $15 a month for the service, there is one more thing that you'll get to see the callers number included in text message, so calling back will be quite easier.
Personally i don't like to have voicemails for important numbers or issues, but getting same information in text will be great for all. Now just see how accurate will they going to provide us this service, cause Callwave does this for free but you hardly get to see accuracy in there service.

SSD (Solid State Drive)

Toshiba announced the launch of its new 128GB SSD (Solid State Drive) in Japan, and it is expected to be in the market by the Q1 (first quarter) of the 2008. While on the other hand Super Talent has already launched its 3.5 inch 256GB SSD in USA. But if you are going to see CES 2008 then you can easily have a look at these. Toshiba will be offering both SATA-2 SSD as well as SATA-2 drives in 1.8" and 2.5" form factors in 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB storage capacities. The maximum read speed of the SSD products is rated at 100 MB/s, the maximum write speed is 40MB/s with a SATA-2 interface. The operating life of the drive could be near about estimated at 1,000,000 hours.

Toshiba said that SSDs are able to remove NAND flash produced in 56 nm technology and can be integrate an original MLC controller that can support fast speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling, and can achieve performance levels that can be comparable to those of single level NAND flash SSDs. The multi level cells was key to achieve a density of 128 GB, the firm noted.

HD radio by Sangean

The most of technological advancement into the Radio broadcasting is the HD radio. The Radio by Sengean is a good quality HD radio, which is a better investment for all people who wants to have a good Digital based sound by Radio. The Sangean HD Radio has very attractive features like:

AM/FM/HD Radio with superior reception, with improved bass response and the most realistic acoustic reproduction.
Store up to 142 station presets.
Plays your iPod through the Aux jack.
FM radio sounds like a CD; AM sounds like today’s FM.
Humane Waking System — wake by a buzzer that ramps up or by an HD Radio station.
Receives additional digital HD2 Multicast programming with no subscription required.
Plugs into outlet with the included AC adapter. Credit-card-size remote runs on one 3V CR2032 battery.

At the end it’s a great deal. It can play your HD radio, wake up to whatever station you want, and also will plug and play with your iPod.

Speaking Paper Strip

Wow! its is also a coolest thing that may come to existence very soon. Label that Talks, has come up with software that lets consumers print high-density bar codes on strips of paper that store recorded voice messages. Scan the paper with a cheap handheld scanner--or a cell phone with a built-in scanner--and it plays back a message. The strip of paper you see in the picture can hold about eight kilobits, enough for a ten-second voice message, said Ken Berkun, president and founder.
"We're trying to get it to twenty seconds," he said.
"I have a daughter and I have photo albums," Berkun said, explaining how he came up with the idea for the company. Another large potential market lies in pharmacies and hospitals, which would put labels on medicine bottles. Thus, Mick Jagger, via your plastic prescription vial, could sing "You go running to the shelter of your mother's little helper" every time you go for a Paxil.
Hewlett-Packard is working on similar device called Memory Spot which is a sticker that contains a NAND flash chip. Memory spot prototypes can contain 256 kilobits to 4 megabits of data, so you could store videos in them or additional pictures. Pictures and videos on Memory Spots could be beamed to a computer or cell phone via an integrated networking interface.