We all know that most of the cell phone in the market now come in color, so why not the home phone!? If you like something fancy, you’d like this white babe from Philips. The CD5351S DECT is a cordless phone with a color screen: 4096 display color with 98x67 pixel and CSTN display technology. The phone can play games, store 50 numbers, and send and log SMS texts. This cordless phone has a base that also works as an answering machine, and that can accommodate up to five handsets.
Philips CD5351S DECT features digital answering machine with 15-minute recording time and illuminated message-counter on base, icon-driven color menu, selectable wallpapers, games, SMS, identify call ID by the ringtone, and hands-free speakerphone. This Philips phone costs $89.
Welcome to the color world [via Philips]
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Philips CD5351S DECT Cordless Color Phone
Sony-Ericsson Moving on Mobile and Broadband TV
If you love Sony-Ericsson, this news will make you love it even more. The cell phone giant is now planning to move beyond cell phones to mobile and broadband TV. Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson and Japan’s electronics giant Sony will together develop software to link their products through wireless networks within the next two years. Per Nordlof, Ericsson’s director of product strategy and portfolio management, said that he envisions about 30 percent of users regularly watching television on their phones.
Nordlof also mentioned that Ericsson believes broadband TV will be an important factor, and most telecom operators will have to offer television through their broadband networks in order to keep their customers.
Sony-Ericsson Looking To Take On Mobile And Broadband TV [via crunchgear]
That old Mac Tablet rumour surfaces again
There are some rumours that you don't give two hoots about - radio-controlled jello monkeys? - and some that, even though you know they're tenuous at best, you really really want to believe in them. Apple making a Tablet is a good example of the latter. Many people have opined that, should the Cupertino company go all pen-enabled, it will mark the turning point for the so-far maligned concept. Whether that's the case or not, it would certainly put to rest the rumour and photoshoppery that has been a consistent Mac spectre for the past few years. Smarthouse are reporting that Apple researchers have built a working tablet prototype, and that three Taiwanese companies are costing it for a 2007 launch.
Mysterious "sources" have told Smarthouse that, rather than an enterprise device, the tablet will be aimed at the home and education markets, acting not only as a home-automation portal for the control of lighting, audio, entertainment devices and security feeds, but also linking to a docking station with HDMI outputs. Apparently, this docking station can also receive streamed content. I'm always dubious about anonymous sources, so I'll be taking this report with a pinch of salt, but I'm still crossing my fingers ever so slightly that it all comes true.
Smarthouse [via Ultranauts]
Pocket Plasma
Yo! Would like to be cool!? If you are looking for a trick to get attention from people around you wherever you go, here is one possible way. You can walk down the street with the Pocket Plasma and be the coolest “walking light.”
Pocket Plasma is a 3” screen, battery operated, portable, and so small that you can clip it almost everywhere. The lighting of the Pocket Plasma will respond to environmental sounds. The flame is made of clear glass, and the center is white when off. Use 2 AAA batteries to power your Pocket Plasma. Bring it to parties and watch the lightning respond to the best of music or your voice. You can own this cool device for a sum of $45.
Pocket Plasma [via gadgets.dk]
Flash Drive Bowling Ball Mod
Most people have felt that mini-heart attack of panic when you're rooting around the detritus at the bottom of your handbag/rucksack/briefcase/particularly-deep-pocket to find your flash drive, and wonder in horror "have I lost it?!" Well, the most-excellently named Chris Spurgeon was fed up of feeding his memory keys into the washer and so decided to embed his latest into a sixteen pound bowling ball.
Very little chance of losing this one, I'd say.
spurgeonblog [via NOTCOT]
Would you let these men valet-park your car?
Not so much SlashGear as CrashGear (oh lord, someone unplug the Pun-o-matic), but if you've ever wanted to see several hundred thousand pounds/dollars/insert your currency here of racing cars slip and slide over a soaking track then here's the video for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvc0Cij7zA
Filmed back in 2002 at the British GT Championship race at Oulton Park, watch spell-bound as a couple of Saleens, a Viper, a Ferrari, a TVR or two and a Porsche all go water-skiing and then decide to get up close and personal.
BGTC Oulton Park 2002 - Wet & Wild [Autoblog]
Keyton Innova Massage Chairs
Looking for something super nice this Christmas? How about luxury furniture that just fits in your place? Or, some good massage after a long day at work? Would it be nice to have something that helps relax from your toes upwards when you get back home? Yes! I’m talking about the Innova Massage Chairs from Keyton.
This babe is a robotized Shiatsu massage chair able to automatically adapt the massage to each back’s needs. A sophisticated control panel, located in the arm of the chair, allows you to enjoy an automatic massage at just a press of button. Its new SensorScan massage system allows you to personalize up to 32 types of massages with the remote control, and with the most advance technology available, the Keyton massage chairs can analyze the user’s back muscles at more than 350 massage points giving you the best-possible massage for a price of $7,500.
Keyton Innova Massage Chair [Via Bornrich]
South Korea says “we want smart homes now!”
Someone in South Korea has obviously rented nineties teen movie Clueless and decided that the computerised outfit selector Alicia Silverstone uses would be a great addition for the smart-home of the future. Only this being South Korea, they've decided not to bother waiting for the future to come along, and built more than 100 of them now. Electronics company LG has stepped up and used a networking technology called HomeNet, which uses the ring-main as a communication pathway, to link up everything from TVs and HiFi through climate control to laundry.
A touchscreen displays a map of the apartment, and selecting different rooms and then appliances gives full control, even going so far as to indicate electricity consumption and display video messages from neighbours and online friends. In the future, waterproof RFID chips will be sewn into clothes so that you can track which of your favourite items are in the wash and what sort of outfit you can put together with what's left in the wardrobe.
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Altair 8800 kit
I'm shamefully ignorant of early computers, although I can admire with an LED-appreciationists' eye the banks of flickering lights and glorious toggle switches. So it's the aesthete in me that loves this Altair 8800, rather than the bemused engineer/programmer, lovingly crafted by Grant Stockly and sold in complete kit form. One of the earliest "personal computers", the Altair was a modular design using a variety of add-on boards which meant advances in technology could be easily (relatively speaking) built-in.
Stockly's kit, currently being sold primarily through eBay, consists of everything needed to put together a replica 8800 - from the casing, through a complete selection of all the chips and boards, to the silk-screened front panel with binary input switches and output LEDs. All that's needed is to solder the parts together and plug it all in; Grant will even tweak your system back into working order, should you be a less-than-stellar engineer like me.
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Fossil’s latest Starck watch is holier than thou
Methinks designer Phillipe Starck was sucking a mint or two when he came up with his latest watch design for Fossil, the O-Ring Digi. How else could you explain the distinctive hole in the middle of the face? Lacking hands, the hours are displayed as numbers while minutes are blocks that build up to create a full ring; the buttons for setting the time are hidden on the back, keeping the whole arrangement sleek.
I suppose Starck could have a particularly nice mole on his wrist that he wanted to show off, or maybe a very small tattoo. Anyway, the O-Ring Digi is available now for $110 from Fossil's website.
Fossil [via MoCo Loco]
SlashPhone touchy-feely with Frost White Helio Drift
It's a sumptuous day of cellphones don't'cha think, and to ice the metaphorical cake nicely is the terribly limited edition Frost White Helio Drift. SlashPhone, our cell-obsessed sibling, has managed to score one of apparently ten examples of this sexy little GPS-enabled handheld, promptly filming the unboxing and then coaxing it into the studio for a damn good photoshooting.
Is this mobile morsel the 3G phone to own, or just another attempt to coerce the MySpace generation into managing their social lives on the oh-so-small screen? Right now we'll have to sate our curiosity with a menu walk-through video and Vincent's initial impression that it feels great in the hand and has some awesome features. Keep checking SlashPhone for the full review!
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Nokia N95 pre-production hands-on
Pre-production phones, eh? Who'd have 'em. Software glitches, occasionally dodgy build quality, not being able to sell them on eBay - it's a harsh life getting your hands on luscious hardware before anyone else. Enter stage-left the Nokia N95, not for our grabbing hands until next year but here in pre-production form getting the once-over by Jihad Abdullah Soaileek over at The Nokialist.
Does he like it? Well, it lacks the 802.11b/g and GPS chips that go partway to making the N95 so tempting, but otherwise it's a promising start - he won't rate it, but hints that if he were to it'd score in the region of 95%. This is a phone I'm very excited about!
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