Personal Devices Category - Page 6
Lemoptix Projector Smaller Than Pico [Lemoptix, a Spinoff of EPFL, Creates a Projector With a One Cubic Centimeter Head]
Projectors are great, especially when you can attach something like “biggest” or “brightest” on to the narrative somewhere. But “smallest” definitely works, and the upcoming projector from Lemoptix may well be one of the smallest ever seen.
Fujitsu Readies For Widespread Contactless Charging By 2012 [Plugging in Toshiba Products after 2012 May Be A Thing of the Past]
The folks out at Fujitsu have been hard at work developing a system by which you will no longer need to plug in your Fujitsu portables, and they think they may have figured it out in time to start releasing it on a wider scale by 2012.
Disney Wants Standards For Web-Connected Toys [Disney Looks To Create a Set of Technology and Manufacture Standards For Toys That Connect To the Web]
Say what you will about Disney–and you can say a lot in either direction–but the one thing you can’t say is that they don’t understand tech. Disney may well be one of the most aggressive engineering forces on the face of the earth, and their constant innovation brings about lots [...]
India’s Cheap Tablet Made In China? [Analysis of India's Vaunted $35 Tablet PC Suggests Chinese Manufacture]
Here’s a bit of a shocker coming out of India, suggesting that something’s up with the much-talked-about $35 tablet PC from India, recently dubbed the Sakshat and given a contract for manufacture with HCL Technologies. Analysis of the tablet shows an incredible amount of similarity between it and the Hivision [...]
iLoveHandles Turns Your iPod Nano Into Huge Wristwatch [iLoveHandles' Rock Band Is Basically Giant Watchband For iPod Nano's Latest Version]
Lest you get overexcited, Rock Band is coming to the iPod Nano. But not the game Rock Band, rather, a new kind of peripheral from the folks at iLoveHandles that allows you to turn your iPod Nano into a kind of huge wristwatch.
PS3 Jailbreak Accomplished With TI-84 Graphing Calculator [Jailbreaking Your Playstation 3 May Be Easier Than First Thought After A Graphing Calculator Does It]
This was definitely a surprise. I remember the TI-8X (where X is a number from 0-9 as I remember 82s and 84s) from my high school physics days where my teacher was so enamored with them he made their use part of the curriculum, and he used to work as [...]
Rockchip Shows Android Based Desk Phone [Android OS Now Available In A Desk Phone From Rockchip, Not Yet For Sale]
One of the strangest and least noted things to come out of the spectacular IFA show out in Berlin recently was a desk phone from the folks out at Rockchip. Most don’t think about desk phones these days unless they’re at work–why? They pretty much just make calls and let [...]
Nintendo 3DS Release Date Leaked? [Translation of a Twitter Post From a Japanese Developer Possibly Lets Date Slip]
Admittedly, this is very much a rumor as it’s not straight from the crew at Big N, but it does fall under the category of “possible accidental leak”, which is always worth a look. We already knew that Nintendo was going to spill the beans on the release date of [...]
Fanvision Makes Every Seat A Good Seat [Fanvision Handheld Viewer Allows You To See Action All Over A Stadium]
If you’ve been to a football (or most any other sport) game recently, you may not have had the best seats. In fact, you may not have had good seats at all. But with the Fanvision handheld, your cheap nosebleed obstructed view seats may well end up just as good [...]
Google Walking Navigation Now Available In Beta [Google's Walking Navigation Gives Your Feet a GPS]
GPS systems are great, make no mistake about that. I love having one in my car for those times when I decide to take a turn out of my element and see some new sights (also known as “getting abjectly butt-lost”). But one thing they don’t do so well is [...]

