As smartphones slowly take over the point-and-shoot market, camera makers are doing the only thing they can: making their cameras more like phones. The Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera ($TBA) is a perfect example. Powered by Android, the SC1630 features a 3X optical zoom, a 16 megapixel sensor, a 3.2-inch touchscreen, micro SD storage up to 32GB, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and — oh yeah — apps. Hello Flickr top camera, goodbye days of not being able to upload photos without the help of a separate device.
Boil water to charge your mobile: new invention
In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, a Japanese company has invented a simple way to charge mobiles.
A member of Japanese electronics venture TES NewEnergy unveils a pot that can charge mobile phones while boiling water. (AAP)
A JAPANESE COMPANY HAS come up with a new way to charge your mobile phone after a natural disaster or in the great outdoors - by heating a pot of water over a campfire.
The Hatsuden-Nabe thermo-electric cookpot turns heat from boiling water into electricity that feeds via a USB port into digital devices such as smartphones, music players and global positioning systems
Digital cloud set to hover above 2012 Olympics (images)
A team of architects and engineers partnering with Google unveiled on Monday a planned showpiece structure for the London 2012 Olympics called the Cloud. The structure design is a collection of inflatable spheres supported by slender white towers.
The gossamer structure is meant to be a physical manifestation of the digital cloud. And it would, in fact, be a digital cloud that collects and broadcasts real-time data related to ongoing Olympic events, worldwide news and weather info, and practical city info for visitors. Money to build the Cloud will be raised via sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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Designers Are Intrigued by OLED Light - NYTimes.com
But an even newer technology is intriguing the world’s lighting designers: OLEDs, or organic light-emitting diodes, create long-lasting, highly efficient illumination in a wide range of colors, just like their inorganic LED cousins. But unlike LEDs, which provide points of light like standard incandescent bulbs, OLEDs create uniform, diffuse light across ultrathin sheets of material that eventually can even be made to be flexible.
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Dual-screen laptop on sale by Christmas
The gScreen Spacebook will boast two 15.4 in screens which can slide away to fill the space of a single screen when the laptop is being stored or transported.
The first photos of the pioneering gadget have been obtained by Gizmodo, the US technology website.
Gordon Stewart, the founder of gScreen, told the website that the first Spacebooks should be available on Amazon by December this year, once final modifications are complete.
“We designed this knowing that many may not need the extra screen at all times,” he said.
The dual-screen laptop is aimed at professional video editors, photographers and designers who need to flick between different applications to carry out their work.
