June 19, 2013

Interface - News


“BlackBerry Empathy”- A New Concept from RIM

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RIM has announced a new concept phone, the BlackBerry Empathy that displays the moods of your contacts. It would work by connecting the device to a biometric ring (mood ring) that would monitor and transmit your mood in real time. The designers were required to integrate an interface into the handset which combines human emotions [...]

Aviary includes“HTML5 Photo Editor” to Its Suite of Online Tools

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Aviary, the creators of a huge suite of online editing and creation tools, has just launched a rather suave HTML5 photo editor. Like Aviary’s other apps, the HTML5 photo editor — code named Feather — is easy to use and surprisingly powerful. Beyond its use of HTML5 (as opposed to Flash, Silverlight or other RIA [...]

“Swype Apps” for Symbian Beta now with Support for French,German & Polish Languages

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The beta flavor of Swype for Symbian, the application the Swype team developed in collaboration with Nokia’s Beta Labs engineers, has just got enhanced with support for a wider range of languages. Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen [...]

World’s first “Ice touchscreen display” built by Nokia NRC Tempere

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Researchers from the Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, have turned a wall of ice into a huge interactive touchscreen display. Using infrared emitters and detectors to determine hand location and movement, the team projected images onto the blocks of ice so that users could see flames behind their hands. Happily, users didn’t need to [...]

LifeTouch – New Android Tablet from NEC

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NEC has released its new LifeTouch Android tablet. After such a long time waiting, the real LifeTouch Android tablet was coming at last. With that being said, the company has launched its new LifeTouch Android tablet in Japan officially. It comes with lot of first-rate features, the 7-inch LCD LifeTouch has a touch panel and [...]

Welcome UEFI; Say Good Bye to BIOS

BIOS, One of the oldest pieces of technology, that is still widely used today could be on its way out following the development of a newer, more efficient alternative. A new technology known as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) will replace Bios, which has been booting up PCs for 25 years. Given the technological advances [...]

Dell Aero Andriod Smartphone Review

Dell Aero Andriod Smartphone Review : The Dell Aero is an inexpensive, consumer-oriented model running Google’s Android OS. It sports 3G, Wi-Fi, and a 5 megapixel camera. The Dell Aero has quad-band GSM/EDGE and tri-band 850/1900/2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA, Bluetooth and GPS on board. Packing a 3.5-inch 640 x 360 touchscreen, 624MHz Marvell CPU. Dell’s entry into [...]

Dell Aero, AT&T Brings it to US for $99

Dell Aero Goes Sales in US for $99 : The Dell Aero, an Android phone for AT&T, made its debut today in the U.S. The device was supposed to launch early this year. The Aero costs $99.99 so long as you get a two-year contract from AT&T. However, the device runs on Android 1.2, which [...]

Dell Aero from AT&T Now Available for $99

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AT&T Dell Aero Android Phone Now Available for $99 : Dell’s first smartphone has just been introduced in the U.S. The Dell Aero is an inexpensive, consumer-oriented model running Google’s Android OS. It sports 3G, Wi-Fi, and a 5 megapixel camera. The Dell Aero has quad-band GSM/EDGE and tri-band 850/1900/2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA, as well as Wi-Fi, [...]

Intel, Nokia Join to Develop 3D for Mobile Devices

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Intel and Nokia have announced at the University of Oulu in Finland, which has expertise in 3D interfaces, will be the home of their first joint research lab. The joint research center will create software for 3D and virtual reality experiences for use on mobile devices. The software will be developed by about 24 engineers [...]

General Dynamics Itronix GD300 is a New Military GPS Powered by Android

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By combining the most modern navigation and communications technologies in robust housing, the company General Dynamics Itronix is GD300 – a new battle-mobile computer. Weighing less than 300 grams and is based on the platform Android, this computer has a high sensitivity GPS antenna and an interface for communication with the tactical radios such as [...]