Forget the iPhone, real gadgetphiles carry a tricorder. You never know when some damsel in distress is going to need a lighting quick ruling on whether her Miata is made of Duranium or Tritanium. This life-altering, limited-edition diagnostic tool, complete with authentic sounds from the Voyager and DS9 series, can be yours for $349.99—although at second glance, didn't they abolish money in the Star Trek universe? Maybe this thing should be free.
David Bruemmer and Douglas Few, engineers at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Lab in Idaho Falls, have put together an unlikely use for the Wiimote—they've hacked the remote so it can control a bomb-disposing, landmine-detecting, machine gun-carrying robot.
The Packbot robot, which is manufactured by iRobot in Massachusetts, is 70 cm long, transports itself via inbuilt tracks and is usually controlled via joystick-like device. However, the joystick method is problematic because it separates speed and direction controls, therefore requiring the soldier's undivided attention. The Wiimote hacks works exactly as you would expect; by simply waving the remote around the robot moves accordingly, and when an object of explosive interest is detected, the Wiimote's in-built vibration feedback goes nuts. We're guessing the B-trigger shoots the on-board machine gun, and if it doesn't, it definitely should.
The crazy modding pair plan to get to work on the iPhone next. They reckon soldiers should not need to lug laptops around with them when a modified iPhone could do the task equally well. First stop; iPhone controlled Packbot, complete with streaming footage. Now, there's something you won't get going on WinMob.
Meet modu, officially named the world’s lightest mobile phone by the keepers of all those sane and, not-so-sane, achievements, the Guinness Book Of Records.
Not many phones have a sophisticated design and so many technologies integrated as Samsung models, especially those exposed at CES 2008.The expert in mobile phones presented the most revolutionary models at the show in Las Vegas, as a demo of cutting-edge technology and design innovation, and we are talking about SGH-i450, SGH-G800, SGH-i620, and the SGH-i780.
Samsung SGH-G800 is the world’s first 5MP phone with 3x optical zoom combining the features of a digital camera with a multimedia mobile device, and coming in a sleek form factor.Its camera has special features such as face detection, Wide Dynamic Range and photo and video sharing.
Measuring just 8.5-mm thin, you're looking at what Samsung claims to be the slimmest CMOS camera module of its kind. The 8 megapixel module is expected to supplant the 5 megapixel job found in todays top-end cameraphones sometime in the second half of the year. Fortunately, this isn't just a case of megapixel marketing as the module also features anti-shake, a 1-cm macro, and face tracking technology. It also packs a smile shutter feature to snap that picture just as soon as a smile, or vinegar, is detected.
