Huawei's Ascend D Quad: The World's Fastest Smartphone

This week, quad-core smartphones are making noise at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. First the LG's first model take the center stage, followed by the HTC's One X, and now China's Huawei Device is hoping to trump the competition by launching what is claimed to the be the fastest smartphone in the world - the Huawei Ascend D quad.

HUawei claimed the world's thinnest crown for its Ascend P1 S smartphone at CES 2012 and launching the first Android 3.2 product last June. Now the company has crammed its own K3V2 quad-core 1.2 GHz/1.5 GHz processor into a smartphone that's just 8.9 mm thin to give the competition something to think about.

The 129 x 64 x 8.9-mm (5 x 2.5 x 0.35-inch) Huawei Ascend D quad features a generous 1800 mAh battery that's claimed to be good for at least a full day of use, possibly two if the company's proprietary power management system - that's said to provide up to 30 percent energy savings and helps maintain low chip temperatures for better performance - has anything to say about it. The smartphone runs on Android 4.0 and benefits from a sunlight-friendly, 4.5-inch 1280 x 720 pixel resolution (at 330 ppi) touchscreen display, 8 GB of onboard storage with microSD expansion and 1 GB of system memory.

The technology features Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound and Audience earSmart voice technology (a voice processor that enhances clarity in noisy environments). There's an 8 megapixel backside-illuminated AF camera with dual LED flash at the rear capable of 1080p video capture, and a 1.3 megapixel cam at the front.

The Ascend D quad - along with an XL version housing a bigger battery - will be made available in China, Australia, Europe, Asia-Pacific, North and South America, and the Middle East in Q2 2012. A dual-core D1 series cousin is also set for April. Unfortunately, there's been no word on pricing.

Samsung shows off latest Galaxy Beam Projector Phone

Samsung has officially unveiled an updated version of the Galaxy Beam, a smartphone with its own built-in pico projector. The phone has the ability to project pictures, video, and other media onto walls, ceilings or any other flat surface via a 15 lumens projector that Samsung says can display images up to 50-inches wide.

Samsung originally showed off the Galaxy Beam at Mobile World Congress in 2010. This year's announcement brings an updated version of the handset sporting Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

The 2010 version of the Beam came running Android v2.1, had a 3.7-inch screen, and a 9 lumens projector. The updated 2012 version shown off at Mobile World Congress 2011 comes running Android v2.3, has a 4-inch screen, and comes rocking a much more powerful 15 lumens projector.

The projector is the stand-out feature of the phone. Beyond that, you're looking at your standard run-of-the-mill Android handset. The phone has a 5-megapixel built-in camera, and has a 1GHz dual-core processor, 8GB of internal memory, and a 2000mAh battery.

Samsung has yet to announce pricing or availability for the 2012 Galaxy Beam.

HTC One X: HTC's first Quad-Core Smartphone

Extraordinary quad-core power gives you lightning-fast web browsing, remarkable picture quality and hyper-realistic gaming effects — all on a giant, 4.7-inch HD screen. Then there's the amazing camera that captures every moment with crisp, vivid, beautiful photos.

HTC announced its new flagship handset at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona - the HTC One x. The phone will be HTC's first quad-core handset.

Specifications:

     Screen: 4.3-inch 1,280 x 720 HD display

     Processor: NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core

     Memory: 1GB

     Camera: 8-megapixel rear-facing and 1.3-megapixel forward-facing

     Video shooting: 1080p (can be edited directly on the smartphone)

Much like other HTC handsets of late (such as the HTC Sensation XE and HTC Rezound), the HTC One X comes with built-in Beats Audio, offering the phone a bit of a sound advantage over some of its competition. The phone will also ship running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), and will offer 25GB of free DropBox storage in place of expandable memory.

The global version of the HTC One X is rumored to be released on April 5 2012 and priced at around US$650. A dual-core LTE version of the One X is set to come to AT&T in the U.S. later this year. 

Here's the first look at HTC One X:

Japanese Company Proposes Space Elevator by 2050

According to the Daily Yomiuri, Japanese construction company Obayashi has announced the intention to build a space elevator, which would allow trips to a space station located in a geostationary orbit, or 36,000 kilometers above Earth.

Obayashi Corp. hopes to have a space elevator operational by 2050, carrying passengers and cargo in a vehicle that travels along a ribbon made of carbon nanotubes extending a quarter of the way to the moon.

A counterweight at the end of the 96,000 kilometer (59,652 mile) cable would anchor the entire assembly, which is connected to a station on the ground. Passengers would travel from the surface of the Earth to a terminal station housing a research center and residential facilities located about 36,000 kilometers (22,369 miles) up the ribbon in a car traveling at 200 km/h (124 mph). At that speed the journey is anticipated to take about a week.

The concept of space elevators was originated since 1895 when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was inspired by the newly built Eiffel Tower. The company hopes to transport 30 passengers at a time along the space cable, perhaps using magnetic linear motors. 

Los Angeles' Indoor Skiing and Snowboarding

Los Angeles gets a new type of personal training: Indoor skiing and snowboarding

The first thing that comes in our mind when we talk about indoor skiing, it's in the form of massive, resource-intensive indoor ski resorts. German company SkyTec Interactive offers a more streamlined type of indoor skiing: simulated ski training with virtual slopes. SkyTec debuted its first public facility in the United States this month.

The globally patented ski simulator system from Munich-based SkyTec Interactive combines exercise equipment with a large virtual reality ski simulation. The system includes a pair of skis or snowboard mounted to rails on a long, lateral surface. The equipment allows the trainee to move like they would on the slopes, essentially carving from edge to edge and schussing down the slopes. Through a series of sensors and a computer system, the trainee engages with the virtual ski environment.

In terms of fitness, SkyTec says that its machines offer a combination of strength training and cardiovascular training. The training strengthens leg, back and stomach muscles while increasing muscle coordination and flexibility. 

Samsung Circle Media Player Concept

Modern industry of portable players is a very sorry sight, they are a square, a rectangle. The idea of ​​a new concept of Samsung range of simple and elegant. The configuration of the player Samsung Circle  is extremely minimalist: on the front panel is a full-size touch screen, and on the edge of the player there is a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack and menu button. Everything else makes the user directly on the screen, what helps him a nice interface. Brilliant and easy! 

Widespread standardization and reluctance to experiment generate endless look-alike devices and as a result, fierce patent war. Although even the sheer detail could fix it. Take, for example media players, almost all of them now have a rectangular shape, whether representatives of the series Sony WalkMan or members of the family Apple iPod. Exit invited Senegalese designer Laye Gning.

His idea is simple and elegant, he set it in its new concept Samsung Circle, a small portable media players in a round housing. The configuration of the player is extremely minimalist: the front panel is a full-size touch screen, but on the edge of the player there is a standard 3.5 mm jack and the dial menu.

Everything else makes the user directly on the screen, what helps him a nice interface. In the performance of Samsung player Circle, of course, would be a successful product, a kind of analogue of the latest generation iPod nano, only a modest cost.

credits Future Technology, My XNews

The Future of Screen Technology

Experience a normal day with touch screen technologies.

Touch screen is what's common to most of the gadgets of this century. But what if screen technology looks like this? 

This is the result of TAT's Open Innovation experiment. It is an experience video showing the future of screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent screens and e-ink displays. Credits: TATMobileUI

Funniest Robot in the World

The funniest robot recorded is currently circulating in YouTube. It is an 8 foot robot which entertains people through telling jokes, singing, acting, and dancing.

Here's the video:

Credits: thecomicbots

uTree - Street Light Innovation Concept

The use of solar energy will make a fairy tale come true and give energy saving and environmental preservation of the industrial city. uTree is the new innovation of oour streets light now. The uTree concept is one of the most realistic concepts for urban energy generation since these “trees” can be installed virtually anywhere as they do not require more than a few inches of floor space for the supporting pole and take up a few square feet of overhead space.

A rotation engine optimizes energy production by ensuring that the leaves are always facing the sun at the correct angle while easy screwed connections allow each uTree to be easily set up and dissembled. There are 77 cells per leaf and each generates over 2.5w energy per day. Each tree can generate over 1732.5W in an 8 hour day, which equals 13.86 KWH/day per uTree, or 5058 KWH per tree per year. This kind of energy would be sufficient to feed 20 street lights every night.

Credits: Future Technology

Kandila (Short Film Festival Official Entry)

Kandila is the official entry of Information Technology and Engineering Department in the Short Film Festival held at St. Anthony College during the celebration of its 8th Founding Anniversary with the theme Expanding Infinitely to Greater Heights Together.

Competence and perseverance are what is being shown and portray in the video. Kandila won the Best Sound and placed second among the four other entries. 

iCup - Coffee Hot Everywhere Concept

iCup is an innovative concept of heating up any drink (coffee, water) inside the cup anywhere by connecting it to your laptop or notebook/netbook, as well as any device that supports USB connection, via USB cable. This concept is designed by Apple. The key goal of the project is to ease life with more manageable features that ensure uninterrupted working opportunity, doesn’t matter the user goes to the park, library or working in the office.

The Apple logo in the cup indicates the temperature of the inside content - blue for cool, orange for warm, and pink for hot. It incorporates a displaceable handle that offers convenient fit into any small area and the changeable upper portion allows easy washing.

"Kube2" - Smallest Touch MP3 Player

"Kube2" has an aluminum body, runs for six hours on a one-hour charge of its lithium-polymer battery, and can store approximately 1,000 songs on its included 4GB microSD card.  

Users can store approximate of 8,000 songs by swapping in memory cards to 32GB.

Photo Credits: Future Technology

Smartphone Booklet Concept

This featured technology - smartphone is made in a futuristic form factor booklet. The device consists of several panels, the thickness of each of which is comparable to the thickness of the cardboard sheet. Get all the necessary electronics in such thin panels help of nanotechnology. What exactly – it is part, and not the essence, and the possibilities Smartphone Booklet. 

Credits: Future Technology

Accessibility

It has unlimited memory, not having on board his own drive. All user data stores in a "cloud" and access them at any moment upon request.

Battery Life

The volume of its own battery Smartphone Booklet is minimal, since the surface of the device are solar cells, through which charge is easily accomplished even without access to the city mains.

Affordability

According to the author’s idea, the cost of a smartphone is minimal, this is a one-off device, which you can just throw it away when it goes out of fashion or become defective. Great idea, though I really futuristic. 

10 Future Technologies that already Exist

Here are ten proofs of today's future technologies. Seems impossible, but technology made it possible!

Video Credits: alltime10's

Tiny USB Voice Recorder

The Tiny USB Voice Recorder records 4 hours of voice on a single charge with just the flip of a switch.  It charges using the USB port on your computer while it downloads off of your files to your hard drive.

Simple, easy to use, very effective voice recorder.  

2GB of internal memory lets you also use it as a USB storage device. Carry your important files with you while knowing you always have a digital voice recorder should the need arise. 

• Charge it using your PC or any USB power source
• Record for up to 4 Hours with the slide of a switch
• 2GB of Memory for Files or Voice Storage
• Simple, Effective, Accurate!

CREDITS: www.spygadgets.com

Spy Digital Wrist Watch Camera

This blog features a Waterproof Spy Watch Camera with Digital Video Recorder/ Hidden Camera. This digital video recorder is a real watch and displays the time in seconds, minutes and hours. It comes with a one-size-fits-all, high-quality adjustable leather strap, and a working status LED indicator. with 4GB internal flash memory, you will be able to store and view the images and videos that you have recorded.

SPECIFICATIONS:

• 720P HD 1280x720 Sport Watch Digital Video Recorder with 4G Memory, Hidden Camera
• Water resistance: up to 30 meter underwater (not recommended for diving)
• Digital video recording function
• Photo camera function 
• Voice recorder function 
• PC web camera function
• Removable flash disk function
• Memory: 4GB •Watch Function: time display (hour, minute, seconds)
• USB: 2.0 
• Power Source: Internal Li-ion Battery for working up to 100 minutes
• Strap is one size fits all adjustable leather straps
• Built-in MIC: Yes
• Video Recording Format: AVI
• Video Resolution: 1280 x 720 pixels HD
• Image capturing function 
• Image resolution: 1600 x 1200
• View angle: 62 degree
• Minimum illumination: 1 LUX
• Frame rate: > 20 frames
• Voice sampling: 16 bit
• User Manual English
• Driver CD included
• AC/DC charging adapter: 110V 240V
• USB cable for charging and data transfer
• Storage Temperature: 20C to 80C 
• Operating Temperature: 0C to 60C 
• Unit net weight: 78g 
• Size: 148x105x68mm