Firefox for Android and Maemo is Now Available

Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo. It’s built on the same technology platform as Firefox for the desktop and optimized for browsing on a mobile phone. Firefox beta for mobile comes with many of your favorite Firefox desktop features like Firefox Sync, Add-ons and the Awesome Bar.

Firefox 4 Beta includes Firefox Sync to create a seamless Web browsing experience between desktop and mobile. With Firefox Sync, you can take your browsing history, bookmarks, tabs, passwords and form-fill data with you anywhere so you never have to retype passwords or long URLs again.

This release delivers a rich set of features, including pinch-to-zoom, which is now supported on multitouch-capable devices, and the Awesome Screen, which instantly gives you access to your recent history, bookmarks and tabs just by tapping in the Awesome Bar.

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New Kingston DataTraveler 128GB USB

Kingston's new DataTraveler® 200 USB Flash drive is ideal for storing and transferring digital images and presentations and transporting all kinds of data. With capacities up to 128GB, the DataTraveler 200 features password protection via Password Traveler software, which allows you to create and access a password-protected, secure area of the drive called a "Privacy Zone."

DataTraveler 200 is ideal for those who need significant storage capacity and data protection in a sleek, durable design. With a capless design the DataTraveler 200 is perfect for home or business.

DataTraveler 200 is backed by legendary Kingston® reliability plus a five-year warranty and 24/7 tech support.

Features/Specifications:

• Capacities — 32GB, 64GB, 128GB
• Fast — Data transfer rates of up to 20MB/sec. read and 10MB/sec. write1
• Dimensions — 2.77" x 0.49" x 0.89" (70.39mm x 12.52mm x 22.78mm)
• Operating Temperature — 32°F to 140°F (0°C to 60°C)
• Storage Temperatures — -4°F to 185°F (-20°C to 85°C)
• Simple — Just plug into a USB port
• Practical — Durable, capless design
• Guaranteed — Five-year warranty
• Safeguarded — Includes Password Traveler security software for Windows

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Sony's Flexible Electronic Paper

Sony might just introduce a future game changer with their latest prototype flexible electronic paper display that relies on plastic substrate instead of glass substrate that is extremely common today. The latter is heavier and more prone to damage than the former, where plastic substrate will also add greater degrees of bendability to it. Heck, it is touted to be difficult to break even when dropped, and is flexible enough to be rolled up just like actual paper. Sony has yet to mention when such technology will make it to the mainstream, but we think they will perfect it in a couple of years' time. 

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From Paper to Pencil

What if you can make a Pencil out of scratch paper? A lot of papers are thrown away as garbage in almost all offices. This is where a P&P Waste Paper Processor comes in a concept device that aims to make use of those papers to make a pencil. Put a paper into the paper feed slot, and then a moment after the paper is a complete pencil stick. It's a pretty useful concept design as it can help reduce wastage, and perhaps they should place some serious effort into turning it into a reality.

It requires: Pencil lead, power and glue.

Designers: Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan & Chao Chen

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APad - China's iPad

 APad is another iPad Clone running Android OS from china. It’s priced half of the Apple’s iPad, where you can watch movies, connect to internet, make a video call, read E-books, play music or even record a video.

APad’s Specifications:

• Dual-core Rockchip 2808A 600Mhz/500Mhz DSP processor
• 2GB-32GB flash memory
• 128MB of RAM
• Memory card slot for up to 16GB of storage space
• 7-inch WVGA 800 x 400 pixels touch screen display
• Wi-Fi support 802.11b/g
• Google Maps
• Accelerometer
• Android OS
• Video support: MKV, AVI, RM/RMVB, FLV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2
• Music support: MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC, AC3, WAV
• Photo support: JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF
• Built-in G-Sensor
• Built-in 3000mAH rechargeable battery
• Dimensions (L*W*H): 190.5*118.5*14.7 mm 
• Weight: 332g

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World Smallest PC?

 

While im browsing the net, I came across with this Apple Sized PC, I don’t know if this the worlds smallest PC but it’s still exceedingly small measuring just 52mm x 52mm x 55mm.

It’s called the Space Cube. It has a built-in 300MhZ processor and it’s also equipped with 64MB of SDRAM. There are a bunch of ports, such as USB, Ethernet, Flash memory, a VGA port, serial connection and Audio port.

 

 

 Space Cube specs:

•    200MHz, 250MHz or 300MHz CPU
•    64MB of DDR SDRAM
•    IEEE1355 (SpaceWire)
•    XGA Video Output (1024×768)
•    USB1.1
•    LAN (100BASE)
•    Audio (Stereo)
•    RS232C
•    JTAG I/F (I’ve no idea what that is)

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LG bringing color and flexible e-paper

LG Display says it is developing a new generation of color and flexible e-paper that may go into future products such as e-readers or tablets.

The company expects to begin mass producing 9.7-inch color and 19-inch flexible e-paper, according to an SEC filing it made on Friday. E-paper, or electronic paper, is a display used in e-readers on which text appears as it would on printed paper.

LG introduced the 9.7-inch IPS LCD screen used in Apple's iPad, and remains a main display supplier for the tablet. LG also is one of the suppliers of the 9.7-inch e-paper display Amazon uses in its Kindle DX e-reader.

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iRing by Apple

Apple iRing is a bluetooth device concept comes in ring form with a stylish design and wireless bluetooth connectivity with your iPod and iPhone, the iRing allows you to control playback and volume on any of your Apple media devices.

 

  “iRing features a bright OLED status display with touch-sensitive function strip, and a rechargeable battery life of up to 2 days.

 You can recharge iRing using the included cradle. Its minimal size and unique ring-lock mechanism make it an ideal companion for charging and storing your iRing.

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1.2 GHz Dual Core CPUs for Smartphones

Qualcomm has announced the availability of the advanced 1.2 GHz dual core Snapdragon CPUs that will power the  future smartphones, Currently 1GHz CPU is the standard norm in the high end smartphones, this will change once these new breed of highly capable mobile processors hit the  market, with these processor chips you would also be able to play 1080p video on your smartphone or you can use the TV Out feature to play the high definition content on your HDTV.

These second generation of Snapdragon processors MSM8×55 and QSD8×50A will also include a powerful GPU with 3D/2D engines for Open GLES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1 acceleration along with low power GPS and audio engine.

Qualcomm 1.2 GHz mobile chips will soon be made available to the Manufacturers, So you can expect 1.2 GHz smartphones by the end of this year.

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Light Blue Optics, an interactive projector

Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen.

Light Touch™ has Holographic Laser Projection (HLP™) technology inside which creates bright, high-quality video images in WVGA resolution. Integrated infrared sensors detect motion and turn the projected image into a 10.1″ virtual touch screen, so the user can control the projector and interact with applications simply by touching the image.

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iBottleopener Case for iPhones

The iBottleopener is a two part slider case which can open bottles with the flick of a wrist. This case won’t even block any ports, so you can plug it in without needing to take off the case.  Beyond the bottle opener on the back it’s a pretty simple case.  It will work for your iPhone 3G/3Gs and it will soon fit the iPhone 4.  It will cost you $19.95 (USD) for one of these cases.

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iPill a capsule shape microphone from Ozaki

 iPill from ozaki is a compact  microphone specially designed for iPod nano 4 and iPod touch 2, but not like any other microphone, iPill comes in capsule-like shape. It has an outstanding sound quality recording, and works with third party applications. iPill cost $13 and better than Apple’s microphone according to some reviews.

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Paper Thin TV screen

Sony has developed a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-colour video.

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World's smallest digital TV Tuner

Sharp developed the world's smallest digital TV tuner. The small module works with Japanese Seg-1 terrestrial digital broadcast (Wansegu).

The Sharp TV tuner module measures only 7.3×7.3×1.25mm. This is small enough that Scalar could integrate it right away into their ultra-lightweight Head mounted displays. Sharp also managed to design the VA3A5JZ912 tuner module to use only 85mW of power. This should increase the battery life when watching TV on a mobile phone.
The mass production will start in September 2007. Sharp plans to make 1 million units per month.

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