Qantas Announced Wirelesss Internet Access On The Plane

For those that are looking for seamless connectivity even when you are on the flight, you won’t be disappointed again. Qantas, an Australian airlines has announced that satellite-based internet service will be available on its new Airbus A380s starting from August 2008. The passengers will have options of whether to use their own laptops or use the built in seatback inflight entertainment systems to surf […]

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Embotec Unveiled Magnetic Levitation Keyboard

Embotec recently unveiled a new keyboard technology known as Magnetic Levitation Keyboard in Korea market that utilizes magnetic to keep the buttons ‘floating’ on the keyboard. The new concept is based on basic physics principal of magnetic force between two pieces of magnet with same poles that tends to repulse each other and thus creates  ‘floating’ buttons on top of magnetic-based keyboard.

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Motorola and Microvision Collaboration on Mobile Phone With Projector Function

Motorola is going to release an interesting feature on its new mobile series that is able to transform its mobile phone into a portable mini projector. This is after collaboration with Microvision, a global leader in ultra miniature projection display that plans to integrate its miniature projector module into Motorola new mobile phones. The projector module, known as PicoP is tiny enough to be able […]

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Huawei Demonstrated New Femtocell Prototype in Japan

Huawei Technologies, China’s leader in next generation telecommunication products has demonstrated a femtocell base station during Expo Comm Wireless Japan 2007 last week. The femtocell prototype which is still under development is capable of supporting both HSDPA and HSUPA to extend the high speed data transmission for the indoor coverage in home or building, which is normally not able to be covered by outdoor base […]

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Sanyo Unveiled ECJ Series High-end Rice Cooker

Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. has recently announced a new high-end IH rice cooker series which will be available in commercial market by September 2007. Featured with high thermal conductive pure copper (with purity of 99.9%) layered between stainless steel and aluminum alloy, it is said to be able to transfer heat quickly while able to cook delicious rice as compared to traditional rice cooker.

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Sony Released Firmware Version 1.90 for PS3

Rumors had been spreading around earlier saying that the new firmware version 1.90 for PS3 will be released soon which contains a few very interesting features. That is true. It has just been released in Japan and will be available in Europe and North America by after the day. For those who are looking for ability of changing the ordering of games in the hard […]

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Tomy Unveiled World’s Smallest Humanoid Robot

Takara Tomy, Japanese famous toy maker has recently unveiled a tiny robot known as i-SOBOT. With the height of 165 mm only, it is currently the smallest size humanoid robot in the world and has been certified and recorded into Guinness Book of Records. The robot can perform over 200 action patterns inclusive special actions like hula dancing and air guitar playing. All these actions […]

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Metalink and Hisense Collaboration to bring Wireless HDTV to Digital Home

Metalink has recently announced its collaboration with Hisense to enter China market by supplying its state of the art 802.11n WLANplus technology for HDTV (High Definition TV) segment. This is the first big step for this Isreali semiconductor company to work with China leading TV manufacturer, foreseeing that wireless technology and video streaming in digital home are another big demand in the advanced TV applications.

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Nagasa Annouced Massive Recall on its Portable DVD players

Nagasa & Co. Ltd, a Japanese trading company has announced on the recall of its portable DVD players after numerous reports of component defects in its LCD panel frame embedded in these DVD players. Even though there is no incident of catching fire yet but the company has voluntarily offered this recall action to avoid any further damage to the company reputation.

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How to Configure Your Mobile Phone As Wireless Modem

I just managed to setup my 02 Xda Zinc 3G mobile phone as a modem to replace the 3G datacard that costs around USD300. By either utilizing Bluetooth pairing or USB synchronous cable between the mobile phone and laptop, I can access the Maxis 3G network and then browse the Internet Explorer contents on the laptop. Some of the steps mentioned below may vary based […]

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Change Your Favorite TV channels by Simple Hand Gestures

Have you ever imagine that you can change TV program by just waving your bare hand on air without the need of IR remote control? With this innovation idea from few Australian scientists, the users will no longer needing to search for remote control to scroll through theirs favorite channels, while can comfortably sitting on the sofa and enjoying the program.

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Voice Sense PDA for Visually Impaired User

GW Micro has recently unveiled a new and special PDA known as Voice Sense. The unique of it is it doesn’t have a touch screen, a CMOS camera and those features that you normally find in latest PDA. That is true and you may wonder why. The reason is this newly released PDA is designed specifically for visually impaired users that keen on getting themselves […]

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