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.

Laser Harp in Robotics contest.

Today I just found out this interesting thing, it is a Frameless Laser Harp, sounds interesting right. Anyways hers is some information relating about it. This Laser Harp happens to be at second place in Trossen Robotics Community's contest in a hot field that included a Seeing Eye robot, which can help the visually impaired people and a self-balancing motor board, which is similar to the iSlide, the most popular among the readers in recent Gizmag article.

Grand prize for the contest taken by Phoenix, a robot having six legs. The most interesting thing about this robot is its way of motion, which is some of the most convincing and eerily lifelike that we have seen in a robot that uses standard hobby servos and a common off-the-shelf servo controller. The kinematics for the robot are computed by a programmed spreadsheet. Oh, many numbers in there, good for trigonometry fans.

Now the question is, How a Laser Harp got eligible for a robotic contest. Well it is, because the Laser Harp does not actually make the sounds, it triggers the notes, which are produced on a MIDI.

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.

Intel Six-Core Dunnington Microprocessor

As according to the Eclipse Developer Journal, Intel now planning the launch of its six-core microprocessor, which will be named as the Dunnington microprocessor. On the contrary, Dunnington will be succeeded by Nehalem micro architecture, which will support eight or even more cores. While Dunnington, is still supposed to be a hush-hush but Intel has reportedly put three dual core 45nm Penryn chips on a die the size of a postage stamp and a shared 16MB L3 cache. Dunnington still uses a front-side bus.
Dunnington will be available in a variety of SKUs and with different clock rates with power dissipation that ranges beyond 120W.
Intel is reportedly seeking how quickly they can launch Dunnington to the market before the first Nehalem chips and could appear in Q3 or in Q2.
Meanwhile, Intel introduced Skulltrail, its eight core Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform for the gaming market, which is able to support two Intel quads and Multi-card graphics from ATI or Nvidia in D5400XS board, which costs $649.

Motherboard fan powered by waste chip heat

In Taiwan, Motherboard manufacturing company MSI is working on an interesting technology with new powerless cooling fans in their labs, which harvest the heat from processor with a small Stirling Engine. It all falls under the ECO friendly project, which we hope to see in near future. Since power saving green gadgets is hotly discussed topic, MSI has employed the Stirling Engine Theory to power a cooling fan without the need of electricity.

Heat is transferred from the motherboard northbridge chipset and according to the Stirling Engine Theory it is able to spin the cooling fan and that cools down the heatsink. MSI said that they would put world’s first powerless air cooler to an Nvidia motherboard.

Here is a demonstration video explaining how it actually works.

Pioneer - AVIC F500BT

Pioneer, a well-known name in auto music systems, is now planning to get into auto navigation systems with AVIC F500BT, a hybrid system and advanced voice recognition for providing complete control of iPod and Bluetooth devices.

AVIC F500BT stores utility of many devices, it is a navigation system with mapping function, which provides overhead and movable 3D viewing. It has a 5.8-inch touch screen, and directions are texts to speech. The database includes maps of the United States, Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii. In addition, it has an auxiliary input audio for personal audio and communication devices, and has the capability to play mp3 or WMA file by a SD memory card or streamed from Bluetooth mobile phone.

This device also has the advantage of voice control, which allows its users to control their iPods or other Bluetooth devices easily. The voice controls for the music allows commands as “Play Bryan”, and if you want, you can choose a particular album too. Moreover, for making a phone call, you just have to say "call xxxxx", and device will confirm you to call home or mobile.

Pioneer AVIC F500BT is said be available in Spring of 2008, but there is no hint over its price, having a lot in one thing do not expect it to be cheap though.

Readius - Cell phone with e-paper display

At Mobile World Congress 2008, Polymer Vision Ltd. showed a cell phone named "Readius", which is equipped with a rollable/foldable electronic paper display. Users can reduce the storage space of the handset by folding up the electronic-paper display. The display is extended when the handset is used, and folded when it is stored, for example, in a pocket.
Readius comes with the ability of displaying electronic books and able to play mp3 files on it. This phone supports W-CDMA and HSDPA, which enables its users to have phone calls and good data communication, also includes a Li-ion battery with nearly about 1100mAh, which can work for 30 hours on a single charge.
Polymer Vision, said it will release the phone in the middle of 2008, and the first customer will be Telecom Italia, a telecommunication company in Italy. Also plans to ship nearly about 100,000 cell phones by the end of this year. A manufacturer in Taiwan assembles the phone for Polymer Vision. The company also consulting with other potential customers.
"When we announced we are ready to begin commercial production, many carriers contacted us. Carriers in Asian countries like Japan, as well as those in other regions, showed high interest," the company said.

Gravity lamp - works 200 years

This is one of the coolest gadgets ever made, Gravia - the gravity lamp. A student in Virginia won the Greener Gadget Award for his LED lamp that works on the gravity. The lamp has a weight that needs to be raised everyday; the weight is connected to a rotor by a cord. The electricity is generated by the slow fall of a weight that spins the rotor and powering 10 LEDs inside the acrylic column, which sets whole acrylic lens on fire. The light output will be around 600-800 lumen almost equal to a 40 watt bulb.

As Gravia lamp works on it’s on, so there are no cables on the outside, which makes it clutter free and you can easily place it anywhere. Unbelievably, the lamp can be used for 200 years, if used 8 hours a day, 365 days a year. You will never buy another lamp again; it does not get much greener than that.

PowerMonkey Charger

PowerMonkey, this device is as a backup battery that once gets charged could charge other dead gadgets, and it can hold its power without leakage for almost a year. There are two models of PowerMonkey, Solar powered eXplorer and the mains powered classic model, they both available with all types of adapters, covers almost any chargeable device. Just plug it in to your gadgets and get them charged on the run. This eXplorer features water resistant rubberized casing, LCD screen that lets you know remaining charge, also a foldable solar panel. One more thing Computer Shopper Magazine- Dec 06, voted this device Best Buy. This device is really a best buy.

Watch Streaming TV on iPhone or iPod Touch through Wifi

Packet Video just started showing off their new Mobile Broadcast Receiver at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This device is rechargeable and all you need is a wireless broadband access point (WiFi). This in turn means that your device must be equipped with the WiFi feature, well it is getting common with all new mobile handsets to posses built in WiFi.
Anyways this device will be available during this year, but Packet Video usually deals with service providers, not with the consumers. So, let us wait and see until this device comes out to market.

Philips Xenium cellphone with AAA battery option

The latest phone from Philips has a new way to keep your cell phone running when needed. Actually, the Philips Xenium 9@9j has a built in slot for AAA battery in it along with lithium ion battery, which will give this phone 3 extra hours of talk time. Most people believe that AAA battery is not a very good option and it is a bit bulky too, but ask that person who always finds his cell phones showing low battery message.
So, with this phone, whenever you are running low on lithium ion regular battery just pop in a AAA battery, which are easily available everywhere and gives you 3 hours of extra talk time.

Clothes become power house

A nanotech research team reveals its latest invention, which can make your clothes into a powerhouse. By the help of some nanowires embedded in your clothes, your outfit can generate enough power to light up your mp3 player or your cell phone or any other gadget, by just walking or dancing around.
Professor Zhong Lin Wang and team of the Georgia Institute of Technology coated Kevlar strands with zinc oxide nanowires, protecting the bushy wires with a polymer and adding gold to other fibers to act as a conductor. The piezoelectric power-generating action comes when the nanowires bend as two fibers rub together, translating bending of the material into electricity, which flows along the gold fibers.
Professor Wang says "across several square feet of fabric the nanowire fibers can generate power adding up to tens of Milliwatts, which is not a huge amount, but is certainly enough for a dribble top-up charge for your portable devices". Well the idea sounds perfect for medical and military use, but it is clearly an invention in its infancy as Wang notes, "What we've done is demonstrate the principle and the fundamental mechanism." The only flaw until now is that the nanowires are not wash proof and washing the clothes is not possible without damaging them.

Calculator powered by Water

Cellphones do well most of the calculation needs today, but there are still many people who prefers to work on a calculator whether scientific or just normal. There is a calculator, which is powered by water; actually, it uses water or any other electrolytic solvent for power. The solvent or liquid creates a chemical reaction in the fuel cell with zinc anode and cathode produces electrical current that can power this water calculator for a month. I hope to see this kind of some cool innovations in laptops and cell phones as well and who knows they might be working on it right now.
This water powered calculator costs $19.99, and it available through computer gear's website.

Zeemote JS1 - Joystick for Bluetooth Cell Phones

Zeemote JS1 is joystick, which connects to a Cell Phone via Bluetooth and with four user configurable buttons, it provides a comfortable gaming experience. Zeemote is for those who feel a bit uncomfortable to use their Cell Phone's joystick, and for those who likes to play a bit old-fashioned way. Zeemote JS1 is small enough to put in a pocket. Several popular games are optimized to be played by Zeemote such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Tomb Raider, and Helistrike 3D, though it is sure that it will work with any mobile game. There is no clarity on pricing and availability, but really hope we see this out soon.

Nokia reveals N96

The new Nokia N96 is a dual-slider with 4 multimedia keys and two gaming keys, screen designed to render high-quality video and TV reception with built in DVB-H mobile TV tuner. It sports a 2.8-inch QVGA screen with 16 million colors, 16GB of internal memory, and an upgradeable microSD card slot, 5 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Optics, high speed data transfer through USB, integrated GPS with well defined Nokia maps 2.0 and built in geotagging. This phone has everything that one can wish for the moment. Nokia N96 hit the market by the third quarter of this year, and it will be costing around $800.

The features includes -

Symbian S60v3 Feature Pack 2
Quad-band GSM - 850/900/1800/1900MHz, and dual-band HSDPA - 850/2100MHz
Weight - 125 gms
2.8- inch QVGA display with 16 million colors
950mAh battery
WiFi with uPnP
DVB-H for Digital TV reception on the move.
5 megapixel camera with autofocus, Carl Zeiss optics, dual-LED flash for photos and video light, secondary front-facing VGA cam for video calling
VGA quality video recording at 30 fps
Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP support
3.5mm AV outlet for audio and TV Out
GPS with Nokia Maps 2.0 and built in geotagging
16GB internal flash memory, and expandable microSD card slot
Dual-slide with dedicated multimedia keys and gaming keys.

Get a customized Cell Phone (including features)

This week two companies announced two different versions of customizable cell phone. Now, it is clear that its the starting of a new era, where you can custom your cell phone like we did to laptops and PC's.

Modu, a cell phone manufacturing company from Israel, announced a GSM handset that will be released this October. It will be a tiny phone which can be slide into a jacket, and jackets will be having extra functionality. For example, a user might use a jacket with a nice camera in it for personal use, and then replace that with a jacket to use a QWERTY keyboard for business use. You will also get software, which give instructions to phone about color schemes in addition to other features.

Another company is zzzPhone, which has announced build to order phones, and they claims that buying its phone will be like ordering a PC from Dell. Just use their website, and select the features you want to have and the company will build it. It's base model costs $149, and will provide a wide range of colors and features like 7 mega-pixel camera, TV tuner or DMB, or GPS, etc. all additional features will be charged extra.