Three Types of Windows Phone 7 Series Planned

Windows Phone 7 Series will be made available on three types of chassis. The first called Chassis-1 are classed as the large touch-screen devices that have a 1GHz snapdragon processor. The next chassis, Chassis-2 are designed to look like Palm Treo devices and will feature a keyboard under the screen. Certain screen aspect ratios have to be used though which means the device will have to reach particular dimensions to get everything just right.

The final version which is Chassis-3 hasn’t been details although some are suggesting it will be a candybar style layout although if a slideout keyboard isn’t present in Chassis-1 or 2 then perhaps Chassis-3 will handle the slide out keyboards. [Read more…]

Michael Jackson Disco Shoes

These shoes are designed to look like the shoes worn in the classic Billy Jean video which MJ wears when walking on floor tiles that light up. The problem though is that if you want your own light up floor then you are restricted to walking on that floor if you want light up squares under your feet. Normally, you wouldn’t be able to easily carry a vast amount of light up tiles around with you.

These shoes actually come with light up tiles attached to them allowing you to take the light up squares with you wherever you are walking. [Read more…]

NVTouch Touch Table Surface Computer costs $70K

The NVTouch Touch Table is a multi user and mult-touch surface computer that allows you to integrated with a desk based system. By converting digital information in to images you are able to drag the contents of the computer around the surface. Example could be dragging and dropping photos in to various folders.

Other things that can be used on the surface computer are digital maps that can be grabbed, rotated, zoomed etc… by using gestures on the surface.

This particular version uses a computer with a powerful graphics card, a HD projector mounted under the table projecting an image upwards and puts it altogether in a cabinet that is smooth on top. [Read more…]

Home-made Lego Soap Bricks are amazing

Roots and Wings Co have created a detailed tutorial that gives all the steps you need on how to make your own soap bars that look like bricks of Lego.

The mold that created the bricks was made of urethane and was shaped around actual Lego bricks. By attaching the real Lego bricks to a surface and building up surrounding walls it allows the liquid urethane to be poured and left to set. Once the mold is created it allows for soap to be poured and again left to set creating some colourful Lego soap bricks. [Read more…]

Sigma SD15 Digital SLR Camera

Sigma have revealed details of a new camera called the Sigma SD15. The SD15 is a digital SLR camera that is an upgrade to the previous SD14 model. The new model now accepts SD cards for storage and has a more durable shutter mechanism.

Other features include a new sensor that can capture images in RAW format up to 21 frames in a single shoot. The sensor is called the Foveon X3 and the image processing engine used is the Sigma TRUEII. A 77 segment AE sensor can be found on the SD15.

On the back of the camera is a 3 inch TFT screen that can display 460,000 pixels. [Read more…]

General Electric Introduce new Digital Cameras

General Electric isn’t a company you’ll probably think of if asked to name a make of digital camera, but here we have a few new cameras introduced by GE recently.

The first series is the GE Active Series G5WP that is waterproof and rugged camera. It is built with a sturdy metal design allowing it to take a few knocks along the way. The camera it’s self has a 4X internal zoom lens which captures images at 12.2 megapixels. The camera comes in a graphite gray, raspberry red and ocean blue colours. When launched in the second quarter it will cost $179.99.

The next camera is the GE Power Pro Series X5 that features a larger optical zoom capable of 15X. A 28mm lens is included along with optical image stabilization. When launched in Q2 it will be priced at $149.99. [Read more…]

Street Figher 4 for iPhone Coming in March for $10

Street Fighter 4 will arrive on the Apple iPhone next month with a price tag of $10. The downside is that although it’s the 2009 game that you are getting, you’ll only be able to fight with 8 characters.

The eight characters included in this version of the iPhone game are Ryu, Ken, Guile, Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, M. Bison and Abel. From what we see in the game play footage, the graphics look amazing, as does the sound. I’m not sure how good an on-screen controller will be but I am sure we’ll find out more as reviews of the SF4 game for iPhone start appearing. [Read more…]

Apple iPhone OS Going to new Platforms?

Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone OS might be moving on to other platforms other than the iPhone and iPad that we currently know about. This rumour has started due to a job listing that was found which said….

The Core Platform team within Apple’s Core OS organization is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms. The team is responsible for low level platform architecture, firmware, core drivers and bring-up of new hardware platforms. The team consists of talented engineers with experience in hardware, firmware, IOKit drivers, security and platform architecture.

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LG T280 Thin and Light Notebook

LG have introduced a new thin and light notebook computer called the LG T280. The T280 has an 11.6 inch screen that can display a fairly high resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The notebook is powered by an Intel CULV processor.

Two options of processors are being made available for the LG T280 which include a 1.3GHz Pentium SU4100 dual core CPU or a 1.3GHz Duo SU7300 processor. For graphics this notebook has the usual integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD chipset.

Memory and storage wise it has 2GB of RAM along with a 500GB hard drive for storage. Connectivity includes wireless 802.11b/g/n [Read more…]

HTC Desire ROM now Ready for Nexus One

Last week we mentioned that someone had already started working on porting the HTC Desire ROM over to the Google [GOOG] Nexus One. At the time of writing that, the port wasn’t quite ready due to a few issues with memory allocations. We now hear that an Alpha version has been released.

As well as bringing Sense UI to the Nexus One, this Alpha release also brings flash 10.1 for Android to the phone. With it being in Alpha there are still a few niggles in the ROM that are still being worked out.

If you want to test out the Desire ROM on your Nexus One then you are in luck as some instructions have been created that take you through the process step by step. As always, just be careful not to brick your phone and do at your own risk. [Read more…]

Lenovo Thinkpad W701 with USB 3.0 and 16GB of RAM

Lenovo have just announced their new Thinkpad X201 series of laptops that we just mentioned. We also hear that they have created some high-end laptops that come with USB 3.0 and 16GB of RAM. The new Lenovo Thinkpad W701 is the companies first Thinkpad to feature USB 3.0 and is capable of transferring date at up to 5GBps.

The laptop isn’t small as it packs in a lot of high-spec features that includes plenty of RAM at 16GB, a Quad-Core 2GHz Core i7 processor (on the top end of the range) and is capable of handling demanding visual editing.

The graphics card tops out at the Quadro FX 3800M that allows pro-level 3D rendering. Storage wise it has the option of either a harddrive with a 160GB capacity or an SSD with a 128GB capacity. [Read more…]

Lenovo Thinkpad X201, X201s, X201t Laptops Announced

Last week we spotted some documents of the Lenovo Thinkpad X201 range. At that time there were no official pictures, and just line drawings of what the X201 will look like. We now have the official details.

The X200 series is getting an overhaul as expected. They will now be known as the Lenovo Thinkpad X201, X201s and X201t. The X201 and X201s each have a 12.1 inch form factor with the option for touchpads. Processor wise you’ll get the option of a Core i7 or Core i5 processor. Both these models will weigh in at less than three pounds if using the regular 4-cell battery. Out of these two models the X201s is the lighter and thinner of the two and this model only allows for a Core i7 processor to be selected. [Read more…]