The next mouse technology from Logitech, MX Air™ Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse

As far as we know, a computer’s mouse is developing from ball-type with PS-2 connection, then to optical-type with USB connection. It becomes easier and simpler to use. Now, the next one has come. MX Air™ Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse allow us to control pointer movement with our motion-hand pointing method, the trick is, it use a set of acceleration censor device to translate the mouse movement in the air, just like playing with a stick pointing to the PC monitor. Let me put it this way, we can use this mouse as easy as using a remote control, there are also “Play”, “Stop”, and other buttons besides the “left”, “scroll”, and “right” buttons as what we always see in most mouse.Till now, what i’ve heard about this device is that for beginners, they’ll definitely need a little practice, because it is very sensitive of movement. But as long as we try to adapt, we will soon able to control our PC from the comfort of our sofa. And if you failed to adapt and you give-up to try any longer, you can easily use it as simple as usual mouse, because this device is designed for on-air and on-desk use. What makes it more interesting is, that it can detect hand movement combination that has been configured before, for example in Windows Media Player, to step to the next track, all we need to do is while we hold the mouse, swing our hand (in circle) to the right (clockwise).

- info from : logitech.com

Irikon™ flash memory, protect your files with your eye !!

Did you feel caution and afraid every time you have to leave your flashdisk alone? Or did you still afraid that your hacker friend will look at your files even though you have protected it with a password? And that feeling never leave you alone when lots of possibilities can happen, such as they break through your winrar password, they decrypt what you have encrypt, or they can even brought back the files you have deleted from your flashdisk, i should warn you those possibilities could happen.

But, thanks to Irikon™ flash memory, now we can relax, because it allow us to protect our files inside the flash memory with our own iris ( a part of human eye ). It all started in the country Korea, they come up with the idea of Iris-Scan feature. Where the Irikon™ flash memory were paired with a integrated camera that will be use as the device to scan the owner’s eye. With this technology, only the real owner can access the files.

Irikon™ flash memory is the world’s first flash memory implementing iris authentication and ensures that the confidential data in the flash memory is secured by the iris authentication process. No one other than the pre-registered user can access the data within the flash memory without taking the iris authentication process. Users do not need to recall passwords but simply gaze into the iris camera on the flash memory to activate.

What i know about the device is that it can save up to 20 eye, means 20 different users/owners. The eye data will be encrypted in 256-bit depth. As what the producer company, Rehoboth Tech said, the false acceptance rate is about 1:1,200,000. The device is available in 1, 2, or 4 gb capacity, and compatible with USB version 1.1 or above. Dunno about the price yet.

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

Microsoft surface, tech will never stop !!

Say no more, just watch the video above and you’ll know what i mean by “tech will never stop”. If i had US$ 10,000 right now, i’ll be sitting in front of that Microsoft surface table thing, touching and pointing my fingers to it like crazy. That thing, by the name of God is the everything i could think a computer should be, at least today before they could create the next generation of a computer.

Speaking of the next, just for “blah blah” how do you think it would be? will it be in a shape of nothing, maybe. Or i don’t really know, what i know is they’ll do their job as long as they have the vision. Tech is now developing really quick and fast, i don’t think researchers even sleep enough, you know? they keep thinking forward on how the future will be.

- info from microsoft.com/surface

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is leaking . . .

This third service pack for Windows XP were originally scheduled to be released in 2006, but then is got postponed to 2007, and again it got postponed the second time, and now it is currently planned for the first half of 2008, i think it was all because of Windows Vista and stuffs that this SP3 is pushed to background by Microsoft, it was old news for them. But still not only this service pack is alive and kicking now on the web, but Microsoft also managed to leak details about what the refresh will contain.

Windows XP SP3, despite its collection of delays, will make it to the market, and Microsoft plans in integrate changes to Internet Explorer and to Windows Media Player into the refresh. “Microsoft has agreed to make changes to Windows XP, two Middleware Products, and Windows Live Messenger. The Windows Live Messenger changes have been delivered in the Windows Live Messenger 8.5 beta and will be included in the public release. Changes for Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player will be made available to users in August 2007 and Microsoft is discussing with the TC the delivery mechanism for those changes. The Windows XP changes will be incorporated into Service Pack 3 for Windows XP,” revealed the U.S. Justice department in its filing.

- info from news.softpedia.com

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

 

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

One laptop per one child, can that really happen. Even me doesn’t have a laptop yet. It is originally planned to be priced only about $100, but unfortunately the devices are now slated to cost $188 when mass production begins this fall. The last price the nonprofit announced was $176; it described $100 as a long-term goal. Spokesman George Snell blamed the increase on a variety of factors, including currency fluctuations and rising costs of such components as nickel and silicon. He said the project was committed to keeping the price from rising above $190.

The OLPC itself was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veterans, but quickly expanded to include a wide range of exceptionally talented and dedicated people from academia, industry, the arts, business, and the open-source community. Each individual involved brings a unique skill set, and a deep personal passion, to the project. Their goal is simply to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves freely and right.

Nicholas Negroponte lays out the details of his nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project. Speaking just days after relinquishing his post as director of the MIT Media Lab, he announces that he’ll pursue this venture for the rest of his life. He takes us inside the strategy for building the “$100 laptop,” and explains why and how the project plans to launch “at scale,” with millions of units distributed in the first seven countries. “This is not a laptop project; it’s an education project,” he says.

- info from laptop.org

Galactic Suite opens in 2012. Outer space, here i go. . .!!

A couple years ago we were watching Tom Hanks flying around a spaceship in the movie Apollo 13. Now we all can do the same thing ‘just’ to pay about $4 million, we’ll have a three nights stay. Galactic Suite is the first ever hotel planned in space will open officially for business in 2012, it would also allow their guest to travel around the world in eighty minutes, and by saying ‘around’ i mean really around like take a spin for the round-shaped earth.

The stay obviously will be unforgettable, we will see and done so many things that we have imagine to do in the earth but unfortunately we can’t. But now when we are in space we can be a spiderman or superman if we want. The guests will use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod rooms. Talking about zero gravity, how about the bathroom, what if we wanted to pee, i mean will everything be flying around? well i guess thats just one of the biggest challenge out there.

Considering the price of the unforgettable three nights that cost us $4 million, there will be only the richest people in this world that can afford that, they even have calculated that there are about 40,000 people that can afford that. The Galactic Suite itself began as a hobby for former aerospace engineer Claramunt, until a space enthusiast decided to make the science fiction fantasy a reality by fronting most of the $3 billion needed to build the hotel.

We’ll see if i can spend three nights there, cause i should have start saving about 100 years ago if i want to go there, LOL. But seriously, i am trying to be rich now.