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Apple is not the first to consider solar power For Mobile Devices

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Apple is reportedly looking into solar panels as a power source for mobile devices. A recently published patent application discovered by the Apple enthusiast site MacRumors.com describes a technique in which solar panels would be built behind a portable device’s LCD screen. From that location, the panels could absorb ambient light that passes through.

The technique would eliminate the need for Apple to redesign its iPods and laptops to make room for the new technology. Among the problems with using solar panels on devices are durability and the need to take up valuable space on the compact devices.

Apple isn’t the first to consider this technique for using solar power. Motorola describes a similar approach in a 2001 patent.
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Apple and technology companies routinely apply for patents on technology that may never find its way into products.

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Touch Wall-Microsofts New Cheap Touchscreens

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Bill Gates has demoed a vertical version of Microsoft’s coffee table computer, the Surface, at the company’s CEO summit.

Describing a future where cheap touchscreens will cover various surfaces in homes as well as offices, Gates said that he expects the technology to be “absolutely pervasive” in the near future.

Calling the Touch Wall, “new, risky and exciting”, Gates told attendees: “Our view is that all the surfaces – horizontal surfaces, vertical surfaces – will eventually have an inexpensive screen-display capability and software that sees what you’re doing there, so it’s completely interactive”, he told attendees at the summit.

Standing beside a 4 x 6ft screen, fitted with a camera to detect touch, Gates said that the technology is still at the research-and-development stage, but the company is using components of its interactivity at all levels, adding that he expects this technology to be affordable.
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“This kind of whiteboard, with a little bit of hardware advance over the next couple of years, will not be an expensive thing, and that’s why we’re saying that it will be absolutely pervasive,” Gates claimed.

watch the demo video
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPrfqdl55D0&NR=1

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Motorola RAZR V9 Ferrari Limited Edition soon

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Motorola is still managing to hook up with the big names like Ferrari and apparently launch a few Limited Edition handsets with the renowned car maker.

The MOTO Z8 Edition was launched at the end of last year and this souped up RIZR Ferrari colored handset came also included videos, wallpapers and ringtones as well as a rather generous pre-registration to the official Ferrari website.

MOTO’s latest, it seems, is the RAZR V9 that will also bear the famous Prancing Horse, and come with a lamb-skin case that will have the Ferrari logo. The handset’s specs won’t be any different. Some of the features include a 2MP camera, Bluetooth with A2DP, MicroSD card support and a secondary 2-inch semi-touch sensitive, external display.
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These darn Limited Editions cost a bundle. No price has been officially pinned to the handset yet.

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New Silver-zinc Battery provides longer Battery Life for Laptops & Mobiles

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Silver-zinc batteries pack more energy than lithium-ion batteries, giving laptops 40 percent more run time, according to Dueber. If a laptop runs for two hours with a lithium-ion battery, it should run for closer to three hours with a silver-zinc battery.

The batteries will be available in consumer and business laptops from major PC makers starting in August, according to Ross Dueber, the CEO of ZPower, although he declined to name any of the vendors on Thursday.

The battery’s water-based chemistry also makes it nonflammable, compared to lithium-ion, which uses dimethyl carbonate, a flammable liquid. Cells can go off “like firecrackers” in lithium-ion batteries.

It also remains to be seen if silver-zinc batteries can compete on price, since lithium-ion is relatively cheap. The silver-zinc batteries contain silver, which can be expensive.
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Samsung P960 world first DVB-H mobile TV phone.

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The 3G HSDPA mobile is said to be the world’s first DVB-H mobile TV phone that supports both of European mobile TV standards.

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These are Digital Video Broadcast – Convergence of Broadcast and Mobile Service (DVB-CBMS), which has now been endorsed by European authorities, and Open Mobile Alliance Mobile Broadcast Service Enabler Suite (OMA-BCAST).

The Electronic Service Guide (ESG) provides an on-screen TV guide and there’s also a Picture in Picture (PIP) facility that allows users to view two channels at once.

The time-shifting feature shifts TV program schedules when a show is interrupted by incoming calls.
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And Samsung has teamed up with Bang & Olufsen to offer “a professional quality audio experience”.

The phone’s battery supports up to 5 hours of TV watching time.

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Sony 2mm thick latest OLED display televisions

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Sony on Wednesday showed off its newest; Measuring just 2mm thick Sony’s latest generation of organic LED display televisions.
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At the Display 2008 expo trade show in Japan, these super skinny panels are even thinner than the company’s current industry-leading OLEDs.

Sony also showed a new version of its 11-inch XEL-1, the world’s first mass-produced OLED TV, where the display panel (although not the final TV product) measures just 0.3mm thick, an improvement over the current model’s 1.4mm (0.06in) thickness.

New TFT substrate and less glass, the same resolution of 960×540 pixels is possible despite the reduction in dimensions. Not about to go into commercial production, but an even thinner 3.5-inch prototype display was shown off that measures a mere 0.2mm (0.008in) and features a 320×220 pixel resolution.

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LG T80 Touchscreen PMP Launches with DVB-T

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LG has taken a break from designing phones to launch T80. The web is buzzing with news of a new MP3 player launched by the company that appears to take design cues from their phone range.

Offering a 3-inch, 420 x 240 resolution screen, the T80 has the added bonus of a DVB-T (the mobile TV standard for Europe) tuner.

The player supports “numerous” multimedia formats, including AVI, WAV, MP3 and JPEG and also offers an FM tuner and microphone for voice recording.
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Memory capacity comes in at a fairly unimpressive 4GB while battery life is reported to be two hours when watching TV via the in-built tuner and 6 hours for all other features.

So far LG has only announced the Viewty-like T80 in Denmark, where the device costs around 300 euros, a rather steep £250.

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Mitsubishi LaserVue World’s First Laser TV Released

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Mitsubishi Digital Electronics releases New 2008 product, highlights include thinner frame DLP models and Ultra Thin Frame LCD HDTVs with improved sound capabilities. Mitsubishi also has named its recently announced Laser TV, which will be branded as LaserVue and will be available to consumers in the 3rd Quarter of 2008. The new products include DLP Full HDTVs, at sizes upto 73 inches, Ultra Thin Frame 1080p LCD HDTV models ranging from 40″ to 52″, (seven in all) and the first-ever laser-powered television, LaserVue.

Mitsubishi’s entire line of LCD HDTVs feature Smooth 120Hz Film Motion, with dejudder for film originated content. In the conversion of film-to-video for display, 24Hz artifacts can be seen in slow panning scenes and Smooth 120Hz Film Motion eliminates this artifact for action content. The new LCD additions also will continue to leverage 10bit Panels, 6-Color Processor, x.v.Color and Deep Color.
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Today’s HDTVs display less than 40 percent of the color spectrum that the eye can see. But Mitsubishi claims that laser produces twice the color. Laser beams provide the widest range of rich, complex colors, along with the most clarity and depth of field.

This is an International release, and will be available beginning in April in US.

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iPhone and iPod will be Blu-Ray Player Remote Controller

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iPhone and iPod touch users will be able to control their Blu-ray players using an application called BD Touch. The application will use the network capabilities of Blu-ray hardware and Apple’s handheld devices to transfer data.

According to NetBlender:
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The iPhone application will be able to interact directly with movies, showing extra information in the iPhone. It will also be able to keep a database of your movie collection. BD Touch will also be able to get digital copies of the movies inside the Blu-ray disc, presumably already encoded for iPod touch and iPhone playback.

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HP Mini-Note 2133 Laptop for $499

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HP Mini-Note 2133 is fashionably late. Specs are exactly what we’d heard and what was up on Amazon earlier: 2.6 pounds,

The HP Mini is packed with a combination of features to boost productivity and improve the overall mobile experience, including:

* Simple, refined design and anodized aluminum shell that is sleek and sturdy yet lightweight;
* HP DuraKeys, featuring a clear coating applied over the notebook keyboard that protects the finish and printed letters and characters;
* An HP 3D DriveGuard, which sends a signal to shut down the hard drive upon sudden movement or shock by using a three-axis digital accelerometer chip
* Scratch-resistant display and magnesium hinge bracket
* A large 8.9-inch diagonal WXGA display, user-friendly full keyboard (QWERTY) and touchpad;
* Ability to view video, still-image capture, web conferencing or video-enhanced instant messaging(3) with no additional hardware to buy or carry. An optional(4) integrated VGA webcam enables video and still-image capture to allow the addition of photos and video clips to presentations, documents and email;
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* Two battery solutions – three-cell for lightest-weight configurations or optional(4) six-cell for longer battery life;
* Wireless technologies such as integrated Wi-Fi Certified WLAN(3) and optional Bluetooth™, allowing students to access the Internet as well as communicate via email, IM, chat, VOIP and blogging. The wireless technologies also enable connections at hotspots as well as with Bluetooth devices such as printers, mice and headsets; and
* Optional(4) Absolute Software’s Computrace(5) allows IT professionals to work with local law enforcement to track and help recover stolen or missing computers, inventory computers district wide and detect changes in hardware and software.

variety of configurations ranging from a $499 1.0GHz Linux-powered unit with 4GB of flash and 512MB of RAM to a maxed-out $749 config with a 1.6GHz processor, 120GB drive and Vista Business.

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