Lithium polymer (Li-Po) replacement, the Nanotube battery

Everyone agree that battery is the most important part of our digital devices? I think you do. Well, to agreed or not you still have to accept that our devices needs battery to live. Now let’s take a look at the battery we use right now, most of it shaped like this picture on the right, just for the record that picture is a Li-Poly battery for Motorola mobile. It is usually need at least an hour to be fully charged, a couple hours sometimes.

Now, do you ever wish you could charge your cellphone or laptop in a few seconds rather than hours? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) are developing a battery that could do just that, and also might never need to be replaced.

As our portable devices get more high-tech, the batteries that power them can seem to lag behind. But Joel Schindall and his team at M.I.T plan to make long charge times and expensive replacements a thing of the past–by improving on technology from the past.

They turned to the capacitor, which was invented nearly 300 years ago. Schindall explains, “We made the connection that perhaps we could take an old product, a capacitor, and use a new technology, nanotechnology, to make that old product in a new way.”

On top of that, the shape too, will not just be light-weighted, thin, or flexible, it could be made from a paper. It was researchers from Rensselaer Phytechnic Institute, who recently release this latest energy storage technology which dominantly made from cellulose which can be found in papers. Only they fill the paper with nanotube carbon , to used as electroda. As for prove, they have made a battery just a sized of a stamp that can lighten up a small fan or a LED light.

- info from : sciencentral.com, www.rpi.edu 

The latest barcode technology called “semacode” !!

Ever think of another way of buying things other than going to a store or electronically (over the internet) ? Well, now you have to because there is one, it’s called the semacode system. You all know about barcode, right? This whole semacode system is all started from barcode. For you that doesn’t know about barcode, i’ll explain a little bit about it, barcode is a system that attached to a database which contains information like prices, types or else of a product from a store, you should know it because it’s just a common thing to meet in life, almost all department stores are using it now, it’s that scanner thing that cashiers use to scan the product that we pick when we give it to them at the cashier desk.Semacode use the same ways as barcode, only in semacode the scanners are a little bit different, we will need a mobile phone, but must has a camera embedded on it. Here is how it works, we’ll need a software though.

Semacode’s Software Development Kit is a system for ubiquitous computing. Using this software you can create visual tags for objects and contexts, and read them using a mobile camera phone. The software that runs on your phone will then deliver you to the appropriate mobile content.

Semacode works by embedding a URL (web address) into a sort of two-dimensional barcode which looks like a dense crossword puzzle — called the tag. The software contains capability to detect and decode the tag very rapidly with the camera on your phone. It extracts the URL and sends you to that address using the phone’s built-in browser. The user experience is simple to use and easy to learn. By connecting users from physical media to mobile content, the system creates new affordances, new ways to interact with the objects and media that surround us (including augmented reality, remote presence, social software and location tagging). There are a number of opportunities to use this technology to improve the way people interact and communicate.

In addition, this is an open system. Anyone can create as many semacode tags for as many different URLs as they wish. Millions, even. As long as you own the domain name, the tagging system is completely unrestricted. Better yet, all of the software tools are available freely for non-commercial use. Therefore it is possible to build a complete system (for non-commercial purposes) without restrictions.

Now it even better, not just we can instantly get access to the URL which contains the specs of the semacode-tag-ed product that we took pictures from. We could also buy that product too, how? It’s easy, the H&M company are already using this service. They incorporates semacode to their advertisements, we as readers and consumers has the option to purchase goods with our mobile phone by scanning the semacode bar or tag. Then we’ll be directed to a menu where size and color can be picked. The item will be charged to our cell phone’s bill. how about it?

- info from : semacode.org

Triple touchscreens mobile – Apple Iphone, Nokia Aeon, and LG Prada

There’s nothing to comment about these three, first thing to say should be “What a tech”. First, we got Apple Iphone, claimed as a mobile with the largest screen resolution today, 480-by-320 pixel at 160 dpi. Embedded with OS X operation system, with a complete wireless connetion like Wi-Fi, Edge, and Bluetooth, also not forgetting to provide a camera of 2.0 Megapixels on the back of the phone and of course with high video and audio playback, that is more than enough for a mobile not to mention so many more other great stuffs it can do, except for its camera that only 2.0 MP, but no worries cause we could always purchase a camera digital separately, right?

Second, there’s Nokia with its Aeon concept phone, but unfortunately Nokia hasn’t yet revealed when they’re gonna release this phone, at least not officially yet. So there has been no specification at all, no one knows what the phone can do, but i can almost sure that the phone must be great, as we could see in the pictures above, that’s one phone changes into three colors, very impressive i should say, aren’t you?

And now last but not least, i proudly present to you LG Prada, a deluxe phone for everyone if you have at least US$ 600 – US$ 800. It is a very fascinating and luxurious phone, we can see it from its deluxe package box. The Specifications are not quite difference with other phones, it is easy to use and surely also suitable for the less experienced or beginning mobile phone user.

All these phones are great but of course we cannot say that it’s the greatest, cause mobile tech is never stop maybe until we die. . . But i think i should say it again that these three are really a great phones, you could purchase one of them and i guarantee you will not regret it?!

- Info from Apple.com, Nokia.com, and LGmobile.com