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Olympus MR-F20 MP3 Player
Earlier this year Olympus released their new m:robe MP3 player, the MR-F20. This was covered by a few places, including on dapreview. Details were a bit thin though, so I'm going to add a bit here now:
Posted by: Ryan Permalink Source Better Performance, Longer Battery Life For Cell Phones And Gadgets
PHOTO CREDIT: University of Rochester Anyone who uses a cell phone or a WiFi laptop knows the irritation of a dead-battery surprise. But now scientists at the University of Rochester have broken a barrier in wireless chip design that uses a tenth as much battery power as current designs and, better yet, will use much less in emerging wireless devices of the future. Hui Wu, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester, a pioneer in a circuit design called an "injection locked frequency divider," or ILFD, has solved the last hurdle to making the new method work. Wireless chip manufacturers have been aware of ILFD and its ability to ensure accurate data transfer using much less energy than traditional digital methods, but the technique had two fatal flaws: it could not handle a wide range of frequencies, and could not ensure a fine enough resolution within that range. Wu, together with Ali Hajimiri, associate professor of electrical engineering at California Institute of Technology, surmounted the first problem in 2001, and has now found a solution for the latter. When a cell phone or a laptop using WiFi or Bluetooth communicates wirelessly, the data is transmitted at very specific frequencies. One person can talk on a cell phone at a frequency of 2.0001 gigahertz, and someone else nearby can talk at 2.0002 gigahertz, and neither one will pick up the other's conversation. In order to make sure it is both listening for and sending information on exactly the right frequency at all times, the phone must maintain a very accurate and stable clock, which is generated by a special circuit called "phase-locked loop." This circuit consumes a dramatic portion of the battery usage on wireless devices......... Posted by: Ashley Permalink Source Linking Digital Images To The Cameras That Created The Image
"The defense in these kind of cases would often be that the images were not taken by this person's camera or that the images are not of real children," said Jessica Fridrich, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. "Sometimes child pornographers will even cut and paste an image of an adult's head on the image of a child to try to avoid prosecution. "But if it can be shown that the original images were taken by the person's cell phone or camera, it becomes a much stronger case than if you just have a bunch of digital images that we all know are notoriously easy to manipulate". Fridrich and two members of her Binghamton University research team - Jan Lukas and Miroslav Goljan - are coinventors of the new technique, which can also be used to detect forged images. The three have applied for two patents related to their technique, which provides the most robust strategy for digital image forgery detection to date, even as it improves significantly on the accuracy of other approaches......... Posted by: Ryan Permalink Source Lucent Files Suit Over Xbox 360
So what does this mean for Xbox 360 owners? Well, not much right now. These types of cases could take up to two to three years to hit the trial phase. Plus, like RIM, Microsoft would much rather settle with Lucent than to let its next generation gold mine be pulled off the market......... Posted by: Ryan Permalink Source Global 3G-Powered Notebooks
HP is expected to be the first company to provide customers with global 3G capabilities when it expands its range of broadband wireless notebooks to integrate Cingular's critically acclaimed UMTS/HSDPA-based technology later this year. Customers will be able to enjoy wireless access to email, the Internet and critical business data 1 both in the United States - either with BroadbandConnect or high-speed EDGE services - and abroad in more than 100 countries worldwide in which there are UMTS or GPRS/EDGE networks available. BroadbandConnect service is expected to be available in most major U.S. markets by the end of this year. "Cingular is a pioneer in the deployment of national, high-speed wireless data services and in the integration of wireless wide area network capabilities in portable computers," said Jeff Bradley, vice president, business data services, for Cingular Wireless. "We look forward to putting this wireless experience and expertise to work for HP as we team with them to bring notebook customers the global 3G wireless broadband technology of choice"......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Best Things About An iPod Speaker
Isnt it a whole lot better if you listen to music that comes from a full rounded source? There are a lot of reasons why people listen to the music. One is in order to relieve tension because music as they say can heal your soul and probably for others, simply for fun. Whatever reason you may have, the bottom line is youd prefer to listen to high quality music and sounds. This is where iPod made a killing, not only does it look good, it offers great quality music. There are so a number of iPod products already in the market that you can choose from; each of them offers an incomparable convenience. The products are made portable and handy so that you wont find it difficult to lug around wherever you may go. You have the new iPod nano that keeps you grooving because of the thousands of songs that it can handle in such a small frame, and now here is another product that will elevate its performance, the iPod speaker. Clearly speaking, the speaker is an equipment that helps neutralize the sound that is produced by your VCD, DVD and other equipments. However, there are various kinds of speakers that are presented in the market. Some are credible and quality tested but others are not. For the iPod, there are numerous high quality speakers available......... Posted by: Ryan Permalink Source Inflatable USB memory
This USB memory is called the 'Flashbag'. So far so good, but what is unique with this product is that it gets inflated when you fill it up with data. When the USB memory is full, the flashbag looks like it's going to explode. It's only a concept model, so you can't buy it yet though. Interesting idea and product, or what do you think? plusminus.ru........ Posted by: Ryan Permalink Source Motorola's Ming PDA Smartphone
But why call it Ming? The press release explains that the "Ming means bright, clear, overt or open, clear-sighted and to understand." The touch-screen beauty also has business card reader to easily store information in a snap. [Thanks Anna]......... Posted by: Ryan Permalink Source How To Make A Good Short Movie
In order to make your submissions as successful as possible, we got Andrew, who normally posts at Digital Shot to post some helpful hints. How to make a short movie:. First, take your favourite movie recording machine - this may be your compact digital camera, your camcorder, even your (latest and greatest) cellphone. What to film it up to you - that's what this is all about. You've got 13 subjects to pick from. Remember - you've only got 15 seconds, and you want to be sure to say what you want to say, as clearly as possible......... Posted by: Ryan Permalink Source Nintendo DS Lite Shipping Update
Airform Pocket Lite Enamel Navy One month after the official street launch date in Japan, hundreds of vain calls to suppliers and truckloads of parcels later, we can see the Lite at the end of the tunnel. Today is a great day as the very last remaining preorders for the Enamel Navy and Ice Blue colors are shipping out. Furthermore, we have more stock ready at your disposal, and snatchers are finally welcome, with both flavors listed on "ships within 24 hours" status. Weekend Update: Sales during the past 24h have exceeded expectations. All orders placed through the weekend should be cleared by middle of next week. The new shipping status of the Enamel Navy and Icy Blue versions is now "Ships Within 1-5 days". We are expecting daily restocks of these two models......... Posted by: Ryan Permalink |
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