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Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale only to be dismayed by its inability to display your weight on your living room TV? The Company has just announced that a Withing app is now available for Panasonic VIERA Connect-enabled TVs; access your complete health dashboard from comfort of your crouch or recliner as the case may be. For more details read the press release
Sonys augmented reality is been slowly losing its appeal given its sometimes laggy and unreliable performance most implementations required a weird marker to be in clear sight and graphics rendering speed on your handheld device. Sonys SmartAR announcement came along and said the technology took us by surprise with its super slick responsiveness, and marker less object recognition makes a compelling hassle-free selling point. Virtual objects continue to animate even when the original object is out of sight, Sonys SmartAR is available to game developers and advertisers, for more details read the press release and dont forget look at the video
The first standardized and hardware platform for peer-to-peer automobile communication called C2X, the module inside is the product of Choda Wireless and near-field communications at NXP, and it uses 802.11 Wi-Fi to let equipped cars see another around blind corners, through other vehicles, chat with traffic signals up to a mile away. Pocket-lint got a look at the technology during Automotive week, and its a good idea of when we expect the tech; NXP says it will begin rolling out in 2014 and hopes every cars will get it by 2020. For more details read the press release.
The Droid X2 makes the official announcement yesterday, the 4.3-inch Android2.2 can be upgraded to 2.3 smartphone with a qHD screen resolution and dual-core 1GHz processor, 8MP camera with auto-focus and HD video recording, it will cost $200 on contract and will be available to buy online from today and will hit the stores on May 26th. NVIDIA has confirmed the Tegra 2 chip is the unnamed dual-core chip inside the Droid X2. Click on the source link to order your Droid X2 for $199.99 on a two year contract and $449.99 as full retail price and for more details read the press release.
Samsung entices with its electrowetting displays at SID 2011. There was a monochrome model that operates at low frequencies to cut down on current consumption. According to Mirasols tech, electrowetting has ways to go to match the image quality of IMOD. They said that its reflective screens can be constructed with minimal mods to existing LCD manufacturing plants, while making Mirasol requires lab facilities. Mirasols large scale production plant wont be around until 2012. So Samsung hopes to snatch the market at first. Dont forget to look at the videos
D-Wave One is the first commercially available quantum computer, its 128-qubit processor can only handle very specific tasks and is easily outperformed by traditional CPUs, it represents a revolution in the field of supercomputing. D-Wave scale up to thousands or tens-of- thousands of qubits, complex number theory problems, and cryptographic systems can crumble before the mighty power of quantum annealing. The Price seems to be large at $10,000,000. Hit one the source link to know more about D-Wave One
The recent Boxee Box1.1 update fixes the surround sound problems, brings back volume control. The company has completed the work on the fix and released the version v1.1.1 update. Users of the Box can now matrix stereo audio sources through their surround sound setup again and if you prefer volume control to be on, its just a click of settings checkbox away. Its still not decoding the Dolby TrueHD to 5.1 channels PCM internally, appears to be the change originally intended due to the licensing between Dolby and D-Link. The update can be downloaded automatically or if you want to update it manually means click on the source link.
The Fujitsus LifeBook tablet PC hits in US for the cost of $1899. It features Intel Core i5-2520M Processor, 13.3-inch, 1280*768 LCD supports NVIDIAs Optimus Graphics, display also got active digitizer, for that you have to pay an additional $100 for dual digitizer that enables five finger capacitive multi-touch. For extra life, there is a modular bay that allows you to swap in a second battery or hard drive, along with integrated fingerprint sensor that will keep your kids away from your precious TPS reports. Hit on the source link to buy yours.
A facial recognition unlock tool RecognizeMe uses the front facing camera in your iPhone4 and iPad2 to unlock the user of the phone.
Garmin announced the high-end GPS navigator, the nuLink! 2390. It was Europe only affair, leaving American consumers wondering why the company was giving us the cold shoulder. We now spotted the unnamed 4.3-inch Garmin making its way through FCC. The newest nuLink!-enabled device is even showing its face in companys US website. It is not available to order and you will have to do some serious digging to unearth it. You will be able to pull in 3D traffic data and search Google, its GSM radio is nice, tether your phone using Bluetooth for hands-free calls, also got voice recognition software and tracking features are available. Click on the source link to buy the device
Motorola was the first one for getting the update of Android 3.1 after releasing it by Google. Now Acer and ASUS are following the suit with plans to freshen up their tablets. To recap the Android 3.1 benefits includes resizable widgets, support for USB peripherals, new Movies and Book Apps, and some other perks. Acer confirmed to us, it aims to start selling the Iconia Tab A500 with Android 3.1 next month, as well as upgrade existing units running Android 3.0. ASUS has been touting the impending update for the Eee Pad Transformer on Italian Facebook Page.
KDDIs just announced INFOBAR A01, hits the country by July. It runs Android 2.3, completely custom UI designed by Yugo Nakamura that follows similar glanceable design principles to Windows phone 7, KDDI describes it as a single band of information. It boasts 3.7-inch qHD display, 8MP camera, 1seg TV tuner, dual-mode GSM/CDMA connectivity; it got some tile buttons and common themes of INFOBAR phones. It will be coming in four different colors and some optical silicon leather case. Dont forget to look at the videos to see the phone in action.
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