Tag Archive for 'prototypes'
A team at Vanderbilt University has been hard at work and has come up with a prosthetic arm whose characteristics are far closer to that of an actual human arm than anything else so far. The weight is pretty close to the same and its capacity for lifting and other tasks is pretty on [...]
Japanese are not the only people that can create cool gadgets, a phone manufacturer in China has got some nice prototype of wristwatch phone called Cect mobile watch phone.
Not much in the way of information, but it’s great to see one of Intel’s UMPC concepts apparently getting the go-ahead for production. Hyped to include the company’s latest McCaslin-based CPU, it’s a twisty, flippy device with full QWERTY keyboard, trackstick and dedicated mouse buttons; it also has a rotating webcam and stereo speakers.
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Oh to have the sort of friends Steve Paine does. My inbox fills up with “funny” photos of dogs doing silly things, or round-robin messages of good will, whereas he gets pictures of prototype Tablet PCs. Admittedly the latest is conspicuous for the absence of accompanying information, but if pictures speak a thousand words then [...]
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 [...]
Optimus keeps trickling out even more impressive photos of the Upravlator keyboard, a grown-up version of the Optimus Mini Three with a four by three key matrix that are larger to boot. This time using LCD rather than OLED screens, running at a far greater resolution, Upravlator is aimed at macro-using graphic designers, computer musicians [...]
As I was writing about the Sony Reader the other day, my housemate looked over my shoulder and asked “why would you pick an e-book over a traditional one?” Given that he’s a student, I rolled out the usual justifications of being able to carry all your textbooks in one far smaller unit, easier bookmarking, [...]
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that the guys at Microsoft 10 have got their hands on a Zune, but two of them?! I’m shocked and appalled at this blatant favouritism, and you can be sure that as soon as I’ve finished watching their video of the music-playing marvels transferring songs between themselves I’ll be writing [...]
I’m a total Tablet PC convert, so the sight of a renovated Intel Ruby prototype brings joy to my pen-loving eyes. Ruby was a design concept by the processor firm to signpost the direction it saw its ultra-mobile, energy efficient chips heading in; a thin framed compact touchscreen tablet, the media inevitably compared it to [...]
During a senior citizen’s charity barn dance last year, my grandmother was the victim of a very slow hit-and-run incident when one of the other participant’s wheelchairs ran over her foot. With tragedy like this lacing our streets on an almost bi-daily basis, it’s a corn-fed shock to the system that wheelchair users are not [...]
