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OLED Display "Widget One" Fits in Your Wallet, Sports OLED Display

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Ever want to have a portable digital photo frame than fits onto your wallet and not just capable of showing pictures, but also playback music and video and even display current weather forecast? Thanks to EmTrace, now you can with “Widget One”। Measures at just 0।5 x 9 x 7cm, “Widget One” is a small gadget featuring a 2।5-inch 320×240 16M colors touchscreen display, a 128MB of onboard storage, a 64MB of main memor, and a rechargeable battery। EmTrace, creator of the Widgetstation , has unveiled their latest gadget: "Widget One". It features a "2.5-inch LCD, 320x240 16M colors, a rechargeable battery, 128MB of storage and 64MB of operational memory." No word yet on pricing and/or availability. Looks like this digital photo frame, 5mm thick, and 9 by 7 cm wide and हाई, Also supports information widgets like CNN news, weather, and more। That’s because Photoskins has an embedded Linux OS running on a ARM920T CPU inside it. In other words, it’s a business card with a scr

Google Maps for mobile with My Location (beta)

Google Maps for mobile with My Location (beta)

Credit Card of the Future

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According to Jacob Palmborg, the credit card of the future will be "an RFID card linked to every account you have।" A small interface indicates your own economic situation and forecasts what effects your purchases might have on your future economic status. The whole thing works wirelessly so no actual date is stored on the card. The card also has biometric security so only you can access it

Flexible All-in-One Device Boasts OLED Touchscreen

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"Connext" is essentially an "all-in-one, flexible smart device that can morph its form to fit the application that it assumes।" No word yet on if this concept will go into production। Combining OLED touch-screen technology with E-paper flexibility, this device can switch to become a mobile phone, computer, multimedia player, watch, physical avatar etc. - virtually and physically. Pressing one of the six Mode Keys instantly brings the user to the specific device function, and prevents the user from 'getting lost' in the interaction interface

Il display che si fa flessibile - The flexible display

Electronic Newspaper is Always Up to Date

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"MyTimes", an E-paper based device, "merges the experience of being able to read a printed newpaper with the benefits of keeping it updated with the latest news as available through the internet।" Click here for first picture in gallery. User will purchase a news subscription for "MyTimes", customize the contents and set the priorities through which the space they occupy on paper will be decided

Rollable Displays Might be Future of Paper Media

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The problem with reading devices like the Amazon Kindle is that they can't fit in your pocket. Polymer Vision announced that it has officially began mass production of the Readius. This electronic-document reader can unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself. Featuring four gray levels, the monochrome, 5-inch QVGA (320 pixels x 240 pixels) display provides paper-like viewing comfort with a high contrast ratio for reading-intensive applications. Video of rollable display prototype after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

World's first full-color OLED display

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At 0.3mm thick, Sony's 2.5-inch display is the world's first full-color OLED display. Practical applications for this technology include: televisions, computer screens, digital audio players, and even billboards. Unlike LCDs, OLEDs do not require a backlight, which means they are ultra efficient if run off battery power. Sony has yet to set a commercial release date for these displays ;)

What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) cell phone

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This "What You See is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) cell phone boasts a transparent screen, which allows users to snap photos without looking into a viewfinder. With the 50mm equivalent camera module, this cell phone no long depends on the screen while taking pictures. By using the transparent frame as viewfinder, "What You See Is What You Get."

Motion gestures apple remote

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Despite Sony's reputation for producing simple (bland) VAIO-branded electronics, this Apple-inspired remote is very sleek. Allowing users to perform basic functions like changing channels/volume/etc. with simple motion gestures.Best part is they add to your tablescape. The bowl they reside in actually recharges the Apples, err I mean remotes. Just remember to tell guests to lay off

LCD Display on Hero Guitar

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Cyberpyrot of AcidMods decided to go high-tech with Guitar Hero 3, by integrating a 7-inch touchscreen LCD into the guitar's case.The touchscreen itself mirrors the action on the TV and something else: it allows you to control the whammy bar by sweeping your fingers across the screen. The mod took "about 3 days to make, and it wasn't really expensive: $108 for Guitar Hero III, $77 for the LCD, $44 for the touch panel and about $30 for miscellaneous items."

Now cameras will know who you are photographing

Now cameras will know who you are photographing ........ This is wild. And could be the next cameraphone feature. News.com reports on several technologies that make digital photography qualitatively different from the film photography of the past. Autotagging for one - which enables users to sift through pictures by date (but you have to remember who you shot when) and more interesting, face recognition technology, which is software that can "trained" to recognize a set of people, based on the premise that most people take pictures of the same 25 to 30 people