Gadgets and New Technologies

We had already seen the slow pace of new launches by Motorola that was making it lose its customers to more advanced devices. Motorola, it seems has finally woken up to its revenue loss and is set to expand its base globally. It has geared up to woo the Brazilians by bringing ten of its best models to this country. For the high-end Brazilian users, Motorola is bringing its latest product Motozine ZN5 that is one of the best camera phones until date. Motorola’s partnership with Kodak has paid off in incorporating the best photographic features for the phone.

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by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Jul 5th 2008 at 11:57AM Scientists have developed stereo mammograms — breast X-rays taken with special cameras and at multiple angles — that they say can help them increase detection of breast cancer by 23-percent while decreasing false alarms by 46-percent. By overlaying images taken at different angles or using 3D glasses, Researchers at the Mayo clining say they can now see behind dense tissue that would normally block potential problem areas. Since early detection is a key factor in beating breast cancer, this is an exciting new development.[Via Slashgear]Read PermalinkEmail this57 CommentsFiled under: Misc. (Read the full post about ‘3D mammograms increase breast cancer detection by 23 percent’…)

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Filed in archive Tip by jim on July 05, 2008 Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Mark Goddard Taking baby pictures is something I haven't done very often and, in fact, the last time I did it was with a film camera. So it's time to check out what others are doing with their digital cameras and babies. The article I found has quite a few very innovative ideas in it including the use of "macro" for baby pictures. Now I know that babies are tiny, but I never would have thought of using the macro setting for people pictures, but this digital photographer has some great ideas for using macro. Check out this article about digital baby pictures and then find, or make a baby, and try these techniques. (Read the full post about ‘Digital Baby Photos’…)

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Android first sprung up on the Nokia N810 internet tablet a few months back, however the install process was a little more challenging. Well as technology goes, things generally have a way of becoming easier with some time and that certainly applies to completing the Android installation process on the N810.

Now its as simple as three easy steps.

1. Download “android.img.bz2” to the memory card in your tablet. That file can be found here or here.

2. Download and install the “android-installer.deb” file. That can be found here or here.

3. Reboot your N810.

Once the reboot is complete, you will have the ability to run and check out Android.

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For many people just getting into digital photography, the world of photo editing can seem a tad overwhelming. Hewlett Packard offers some help in the foray through the forest of editing your precious snapshots and helping you turn them into all they can be, even if it didn’t happen exactly the way you wanted right from the camera.

The Adobe Photoshop program, a perennial favorite among many photographers is rather tried and true. It’s used by everyone from magazine layout staff and professionals to the Joe Schmoe who captured his son playing flag football at the weekend game.

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by Donald Melanson, posted Jul 5th 2008 at 5:02AM
There’s certainly no shortage of researchers working on printable electronics these days, but a group from the EU-funded CONTACT project is now boasting of a “major step” towards being able to print electronics on everyday materials. At the moment, they seem to be focused primarily on printing organic TFT displays directly onto glass plates, which apparently required the use of some aggressive solvents that “attack” the organic materials between the TFT and liquid crystal layers. Their current Labratester 1 printer (pictured above) apparently still has some problems precisely lining up each layer, however, but they say that’ll be fixed with the addition of some optical cameras in the Labratester 2 machine they’re now working on. (Read the full post about ‘Researchers boast of progress with printed electronics’…)

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Gigabyte has just released the M912V notebook in Taiwan. This tablet style notebook features a touch sensitive swivel LCD panel with a 1280×768 resolution, a 160GB 2.5-inch SATA hard drive,1GB of RAM, an express card slot, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, Wi-Fi, and even has an option for built-in HSDPA support.

The M912V would have been a good competitor to most of the netbooks around if not for its high price. This M912V is expected to retail for around $890 and it will come pre-installed with Windows Vista. Unfortunately for us, there are no words yet as to whether the M912V would be released internationally.

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Acer has launched a new monitor in the Japanese market. The X263Wbid is a 25.5″ widescreen monitor featuring Acer’s Adaptive Contrast Management technology (ACM) that provides a high contrast ratio of 3000:1. The monitor also provides 1920 × 1200 resolution (WUXGA), 5 ms response time, 350cd/m2 brightness. 160/170 degrees viewing angle, and HDMI. The X263Wbid is now available in the Japanese market for about $600.
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We had earlier heard rumors about Sony’s lack of interest in bringing its PSP phone under the Sony Ericsson umbrella and now there is some leaked information that the PSP phone will be made by Sony Ericsson. The display of the phone could be rotated to turn the phone into a PSP console. The 4.3-inch TFT LCD 480 x 272-pixel screen will be developed for full PSP experience.
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If you’re in the market for a smartphone that you can extend with potentially unlimited applications, are intrigued by the iphone, really want an Android phone, but can’t wait, then take a look at the Neo FreeRunner which hits the (virtual e-commerce) street this weekend. The Neo is arguably the first open mobile computing platform that is based on Linux. The 6.5oz phone itself boasts GSM (805/900MHz) network connectivity, a 480×640 VGA touchscreen, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPRS 2.5, Bluetooth 2.0, 128MB RAM and 256MB Flash, along with a microSD slot. Openmoko expects to launch a full suite of applications next month that will go along with the dialing & SMS capabilities that the phone will initially ship with. (Read the full post about ‘Openmoko launches Neo, Open Source Linux Mobile Phone’…)

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