Here’s a new iPhone case company, funded through Kickstarter, it includes the cable and does an ergonomic shape behind your iPhone.
Category: Tradeshows
Blue Times shows $50 HiSilicon 3716 and AmLogic 8726 ARM Cortex-A9 Android Set-top-box
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Blue Times uses the Huawei HiSilicon single-core 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 as well as the single-core AmLogic ARM Corte-A9 for their Android Set-top-box.
Emdoor shows $140 9.7″ and $85 7″ Telechips 8803 ARM Cortex-A8 ICS Tablets
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Emdoor Digital Technology Co Ltd shows Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich working on their Telechips based 7″ capacitive and 9.7″ IPS capacitive based Android tablets.
Augmented Video-blogging Hangout featuring the Kopin Golden-i at CES 2012
Posted by – January 16, 2012
Category: Wearables, Smart Glass, Other, Exclusive videos, Opinions, Texas Instruments, CES, Windows
Here’s a Google+ Hangout recorded while at the Kopin Golden-i reception held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas during CES 2012. Demonstrating and talking about my Augmented Video-blogging using their device, and other uses of this headmounted display device and other news from the CES. You can fast forward to about 34 minutes 40 seconds in for the demo by Motorola Solutions’s Product Lead on the Golden-i, Nicole Tricoukes, explaining how the Golden-i headmounted computer works and what Motorola Solutions plans to target it for when they plan to mass produce it and release it in the second half of the year (you can watch her TEDx presentation)
CES 2012 Monorail Hangout day3
Posted by – January 16, 2012
On the day3 of CES, I streamed and recorded following hangout where I am joined by +Trey Ratcliff and +Samantha Villenave
E Ink On Every Smart Surface
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Exclusive 17-minute interview with E Ink’s CMO at CES, where they showed me a Triton color display for signage with color so saturated that it looked like an LCD except that it was thinner than OLED, sunlight readable, uses no backlights and uses very little power. I also saw the SURF display used in a hand drill which has not been filmed before. The 11.5″ 300DPI eDocument reader made in collaboration with Epson. The Triton color display based Ectaco eReader that had just won the CES innovation award, it is being deployed in Russian schools. New E Ink watches from Phosphor and Seiko. Finally, the Eton Ruckus music player with E Ink display that was launched this week was demonstrated, it is considered to be indestructible.
E Ink has shipped over 25 million E Ink screens for e-readers alone in 2011, that’s up from 10 million screens in 2010 and 4 million screens in 2009. Now E Ink is also working to expand into new markets, signage, appliances, everywhere. The idea is that more and more devices and surfaces may get an E Ink screen on them that thus by being bi-stable can show the informations for a long time without using any battery. While many electronic paper technology companies show samples, E Ink is actually in mass production with monochrome, color and segmented displays and they claim that no technology in the world comes close to the reading experience on E Ink’s displays and these displays are easy on the eyes since they don’t have a shiny background or light emitting backlight.
E Ink also provided me with following amazing video featuring the actual E Ink Pearl roll display material used in Nook, Sony, Kindle etc. The video was shot alongside the Charles river in Cambridge/Boston and you can see MIT (E Ink is MIT spin off) and Boston skyline in the background. The display is a few feet wide and can go one kilometer (it was 500 meters in this video):
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- CES 2012: Color e-Ink readers are finally a reality, though not in the U.S. (news.consumerreports.org)
Zenithink shows Android 4.0 ICS on AmLogic tablets
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Zenithink shows $90 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 capacitive 7″ tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich support ($80 for resistive), minimum order is just 50 pieces, the 10.1″ is $160, 7″ 1024×600 for $120.
Feihong shows $130 ICS on Telechips 8803 1.2Ghz ARM Cortex-A8 and $48 ARM11 VIA based tablet
Feihong Industry Co Ltd shows Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich running on their Telechips 8803 based tablet. They also announce that Telechips is working on a dual-core processor to be released in tablets around March already (to be confirmed by Telechips etc).
Sharp ICC 4K Technology, 1080p to 4K upscaling on 55″ Sharp 4K TV to be released soon
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Sharp is about to mass produce a 4K2K 55″ HDTV. Their secret sauce is the ICC technology (Integrated Cognitive Creation) which is an upscaling technology, somehow sharpening and adding details to 1080p sources to make them look more amazing on the 4K HDTV. With this, people might want to consider re-watching all their Blu-ray movies to re-experience the same 1080p source files in more amazing quality. That until each of the movies are also available in the native 4K2K resolution on Blu-ray, hard drives, streaming and other potential 4K media.
ST Electronics Digisafe, secure hard drive encryption
Posted by – January 15, 2012
ST Electronics show their Digisafe 2.5″ hard drive enclosure that provides 100% secure encription to the enclosed 1.8″ hard drive.
YouTube keynote at CES 2012
Posted by – January 15, 2012
YouTube had a huge keynote by YouTube Content Partnerships manager Robert Kyncl at CES 2012, you can see it in its entirety here. The talk is about the amazing growth of YouTube, web video is about to represent 90% of all Internet bandwidth. YouTube works to monetize more and more of the web video content. I’d like them to overlay affiliated one-click purchases and price comparisons of the products video-blogged. I believe web video is a huge deal, just as it’ll consume 90% of the web’s bandwidth, it will also generate upwards 90% of the web’s and Google’s revenue, profit, learning, information, attention and time spent.
In the following clip, Stan Lee, the creator of the CSI TV show franchise, talks about user generated content on YouTube.
VMware shows smartphone virtualization on the LG Revolution
Posted by – January 15, 2012
VMware now supports a secure enterprise version of Android at the same time as you can run your personal “hackable” version of Android, both on the same device in a fully secure virtualized way.
LiftMaster shows Android and iOS powered Garage Door opener
Posted by – January 15, 2012
You install their garage door motor on your garage door and you install the Android or iOS app on your smartphone and tablets and you can then open and close your garage door over the Internet.
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E130
Posted by – January 15, 2012
Here’s the next generation entry level ultraportable Lenovo ThinkPad laptop to be sold in the USA at $449 using the second generation Intel Core i processors and AMD’s quad core processor.
Toshiba Excite X10 launched in the USA, OMAP4430 1.2Ghz thinnest lightest 10.1″ Tablet
Posted by – January 15, 2012
The Toshiba engineers use a magnesium casing and a new type of display where they are directly bonding the touch panel to the display itself, eliminating the air-gap between those two, helping them to get it to be really thin and really light.
Motorola Kopin Golden-i at the Verizon booth at CES 2012
Posted by – January 14, 2012
Category: Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Smart Glass, Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, CES, Kopin, Windows
The Motorola Kopin Golden-i is being showcased at the Verizon booth at CES 2012, demonstrating hands-free wearable computing user interfaces for Industrial uses such as Construction, Medical, Public safety, Utilities and more. I’ve been using this for the past 2 months to attempt to have a wearable computing augmented video-blogging system, using Google+ Hangouts On Air with the headmounted display showing a live chat and live status updates from Google+, Twitter, Email alerts and more.
Geniatech shows Ice Cream Sandwich on Set-top-box using AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9
Posted by – January 14, 2012
Shenzhen Geniatech shows their latest Set-top-box powered by the single-core AmLogic ARM Cortex-A9 processor running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Asus Transformer Prime powered by the Nvidia Tegra3
Here’s the worlds most powerful ARM Powered Laptop.
ZTE X501, 3.5″ HVGA cheap Android phone
Posted by – January 14, 2012
ZTE is showing this cheap 800Mhz Android phone. It will definitely sell below $100 unlocked or on pre-paid.
Qualcomm shows Android TV on APQ8060
Posted by – January 14, 2012
Qualcomm is investing in Android TV support, the first product being the Lenovo Android TV. This is not Google TV yet, but it could soon be with or without HDMI input/overlays and IR blaster.
