Here’s probably the cheapest Windows Phone yet,to be launched for 139€.
Category: Exclusive videos
Fujitsu Stylistic S01, smartphone for seniors
Posted by – February 26, 2013
Fujitsu releases their first Android smartphone for the European and US market, this Fujitsu Stylistic S01 is targeted for old people.
$99 Actions Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 10.1″ IPS tablet by Hott
Hott is releasing an Actions ATM7029 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 10.1″ IPS tablet for $99 without memory. Include 16GB flash storage and it’ll for $114.
Maysun Actions Quad-core Tablets and MediaTek Quad-core Smartphones
Posted by – February 26, 2013
Maysun shows off their latest tablets and smartphones at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. They have an Actions ATM7029 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9, Allwinner A31 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 in tablets and the latest MediaTek quad-core and dual-core in smartphones.
Huawei Ascend P2 launched for 399€
Posted by – February 26, 2013
Huawei claims this to be the worlds fastest smartphone, using Huawei’s own HiSilicon 1.5Ghz Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9, with CAT4 capable 150mbitps LTE modem, super slim and light design with a 2400mAh battery, new power management technologies that Huawei says provides 30% longer battery life. It runs Huawei’s Emotion UI.
Aptarism augmented reality systems
Posted by – February 23, 2013
Aptarism creates real-time augmented reality systems for theme parks, conferences, TV shows and cinema.
Thibault Brevet Grand-Central, arduino powered giant tweet printer at #lift13
Posted by – February 23, 2013
Graphic designer Thibault Brevet made this giant pen printer that writes out tweets. You can read more about it at http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670749/a-designer-turns-the-communal-message-board-into-oversized-art.
Wipro Chief Learning Officer Abhijit Bhaduri at #lift13
Posted by – February 23, 2013
Wipro is one of the worlds largest IT outsourcing companies out of India, they try to satisfy all and adapt to the evolution of IT for its 140 thousand employees.
Atracsys shows multi-touch UIs on large table PCs
Posted by – February 23, 2013
Atracsys provides large multi-touch table user interfaces and services to corporations in Switzerland.
Arduino Due with ARM Cortex-M3 explained by Massimo Banzi, Co-founder of Arduino
Posted by – February 9, 2013
Possibly the biggest project in the world getting people involved with prototyping and developing hardware and software projects, Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate.
The Arduino Due is a microcontroller board based on the Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU. It is the first Arduino board based on a 32-bit ARM core microcontroller. It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 12 can be used as PWM outputs), 12 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 84 MHz clock, an USB OTG capable connection, 2 DAC (digital to analog), 2 TWI, a power jack, an SPI header, a JTAG header, a reset button and an erase button.
Konstantina Zoehrer, creating Startups in Greece during crisis
Posted by – February 9, 2013
Konstantina Zoehrer is a social innovation activist, as well as being cofounder of social enterprise Loft2work and initiator of Startup Live Athens. She focuses on how informal structures and communities contribute to the socioeconomic development of several, less privileged areas in Greece and how they could lead the country out of the current circumstances of crisis.
seedstarsworld.com worldwide startup competition, finals in Switzerland
Posted by – February 9, 2013
http://seedstarsworld.com organizes a new worldwide startup competition with finals to be held in Switzerland.
HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design students show tech art projects at #lift13
Posted by – February 8, 2013
Here are different technological art projects being shown off by the Art and Design students at the Geneva University HEAD (Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design Genève)
Coteries, social network apps based on interests at #lift13
Posted by – February 8, 2013
EPFL startup Coteries develops applications to create social networks based on interests like music, sports and quotes.
Bruce Sterling at Lift 2013
Posted by – February 7, 2013
I ask him what he’s doing and what he thinks about the state of the world. He names people who are having a very good time. Follow him on Twitter, on Tumblr, his latest e-book or read about him at the LiftConference.com website.
Mobino Mobile Payments System
Posted by – February 7, 2013
Mobino is launching their new mobile payments system. Here showing off their Android app, it also works on any mobile phone, feature phone. They take a 0% fee from users and a 1% fee from merchants. See in this video how their mobile payments system looks like paying for a drink at a bar on Android. Just type in a 6-number payment ID generated by the bar and type your 4-number password, and the payment is done from your smartphone over the data network.
Iceland’s new constitution in the works: Gudrun Petursdottir
Posted by – February 7, 2013
Iceland’s banking collapse is the largest suffered by any country in economic history (relative to the size of its economy). As one of the reactions to the crisis, the Icelandic people are drafting a new collaborative constitution, by the contribution of the Icelandic people, elected representatives, they are waiting for the parliament (new election coming up in April 2013) to take this new people-generated consitution and implement it. Gudrun Pétursdóttir was chairman of the Icelandic Constitutional Council, which organized the collaborative and open process for revising Iceland’s constitution after the 2008 crisis.
Chromebook Pixel leaked
Posted by – February 6, 2013
Is this the Pixel Qi Google Chromebook for long battery life and outdoor usability? 12.85″ 2560×1700 resolution touch screen? ARM Cortex-A15 preferably big.LITTLE, is this a Texas Instruments OMAP5 powered or does Samsung provide Google with an Octa Exynos5 for Chromebook already?
What do you think the price is going to be? My guess is $100 for non-touch non-Retina version and $200 for touch Retina version. The goal to basically make the ARM Powered Chrome OS the number 1 OS for laptops/desktops worldwide.
Gary Shapiro’s conclusions on CES 2013
Posted by – January 24, 2013
Category: Exclusive videos, CES
Gary Shapiro is the President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, the organizers of the Consumer Electronics Show CES. He says that CES 2013 has been the best CES ever. They call CES the center stage for innovation.
My only complaint (other than them closing the press room at 6:30pm, do they expect us to upload and publish all our videos filmed during the day in only half an hour?) is that I had nowhere near enough time to see everything. All 3300 exhibitors, 800 people speaking, so many different conferences and other related things around CES, tons of company’s private meeting rooms also showing off so many things. By the next year’s CES, maybe I can find a way to optimize my video-blogging further, somehow get the time to film more than the 75 videos that I’ve posted.
OLPC XO Tablet, XO Learning System launched
Posted by – January 24, 2013
Giulia D’Amico, Vice President of Business Development at One Laptop per Child Association (OLPCA) launches the OLPC XO Learning System, a user interface optimized for Children’s learning on Android Tablets. Vivitar is licencing XO Learning to launch their first OLPC XO Tablet in all WalMart stores in the USA by the end of Spring 2013. The initial Vivitar OLPC XO tablet features a 1.6Ghz dual-core (my guess Rockchip RK3066), 1024×600 screen, and the price is going to be very competitive (perhaps $99?), the target for WalMart is to reach all the Children in the USA in the next few months with this OLPC XO Tablet.
Every child has dreams and XO Learning directs the child’s passion, creativity and energy for these dreams into a new user interface that has 12 dreams. Such dreams include “I want to be” an artist, a musician and a scientist. Each dream features a rich learning experience and applications, books, games and videos that allow children ages 3 to 12 to naturally explore their dreams and learn at the same time.
“The challenge in computing and education is to use the technology to develop new ways for children to learn. The rich content of the dreams allows the child’s natural passion to be directed into learning experiences,” said Giulia D’Amico, the lead designer of XO Learning. OLPCA teamed with the legendary designer Yves Behar of Fuse Project and his team to create the XO Learning user interface and cover.
The content in XO Learning has been curated and selected for age-appropriateness and learning value by OLPCA, in collaboration with Common Sense Media, the leading non-profit organization dedicated to helping parents and teachers make informed decisions about media. Common Sense Media offers more than 18,000 media ratings and reviews based on both robust educational research and child development guidelines. XO Learning also offers a full range of parental controls and user IDs for up to three children, a dashboard where the child or the parent can review usage, types of content and the skills the child is developing. Press a single icon and XO Learning switches from English to Spanish with all new content depending on the language. Additional languages will be available in future releases.
press release
Read more at: xo-learning.org
