techno freak

Wireless way to see whoz calling...

2007-03-21T10:19:00.000-07:00

Combining the magic of Bluetooth with the wonders of Caller ID, a new wireless headset lets you see who is calling right on the earpiece. The BlueAnt V12 Bluetooth headset has a backlit L.C.D. screen that displays the phone number of the caller alongside other information like battery and volume levels.The lightweight V12 is available for about $60.BlueAnt V12 is also compatible with voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) service and can be paired with up to five devices.The headset uses a lithium polymer battery that can last for up to 12 hours of talk time and up to 15 days on standby between charges.

I - Mate Jaq3

2007-03-11T22:55:00.000-07:00

The I-mate Jaq3 sports a sleeker design and adds a 2-megapixel camera and integrated Wi-Fi. The Windows Mobile 5 smart phone also has integrated buetooth, push e-mail capabilities, and the I-mate Suite, which provides extra productivity and security utilities to the business user.I-mate's last smart phone, the I-mate Jaq, was bulky, slow--pretty much everything you wouldn't want in your smart phone. Fortunately, it looks like the company may have learned a lesson or two as the I-mate Jaq3 is quite an improvement over the Jaq, but it's still no standout. The Jaq3 answers some of the problems we had with the Jaq; it's sleeker and adds a 2-megapixel camera and Wi-Fi. I-mate also includes its own suite of productivity and security apps to help the mobile professional.

The I-mate Jaq3 looks nothing like its bulky, plasticky predecessor, but that doesn't mean we're in love with the design either. At 4.9x2.6x0.5 inches and 5.6 ounces, the Jaq3 is definitely sleeker and sexier with its black casing. In fact, it pretty much looks like all the other slim, black QWERTY smart phones in the market today--the Samsung BlackJack, the Motorola Q, or the RIM BlackBerry 8800, take your pick. Like the rest of these devices, the Jaq3 is on the wider side, so holding it up to your ear as a phone will take some getting used to if you're new to this type of handset. To make things a bit easier, the Jaq3 features a soft-touch finish to give the exterior a rubber-like texture and make it easier to grip.

A football which knows how far it was thrown!!!!

2007-02-26T09:15:00.000-08:00

The virtual distance football can let you know how far it was thrown with an accuracy that's supposedly within 1 yard and shows the distance in it's LCD readout. Its sensor tells how far the ball has traveled by measuring the ball's impact at the end of its flight.

The main backdrop here is that the this isn't a regulation-sized football - - - at just 6 inches long it's 5 inches short of the regulation tip-to-tip length of a the regulation NFL ball, but weighs about an ounce more than the NFL-standard 14- to 15-ounces.

Next Gen Mobiles to Pack Fingerprint Reading Touch-Screens from SHARP

2007-02-26T08:55:00.000-08:00

Sharp was the first mobile handset manufacturer to put a VGA screen on a mobile phone.Now it want’s to do something better by making this VGA screen into a touchscreen combined with fingerprint reader.

The new VGA touchscreen features 640×480 300 ppi resolution, 30fps frame rate and has built-in image sensor that can read your fingerprints. It is developed in sharp's europian labs. The screen will be used in cellphones and will add touchscreen and biometric sensor functions to them. The fingerprint reading ability also gives Sharp the possibility to implement touchscreen scrolling function.