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Japan To Launch Ultra-Thin Car Dashboard Touchscreen In 2013
Just when we thought cars couldn't become any more tech-infused (after hearing about Audi's new exterior OLED surface wrapping technology), we now find out about car dashboards becoming ultra-thin touchscreens. It's a new technology that could make car dashboards a whole lot more useful, and relay i ...
Scanning System Can Make An E-Book From A Traditional Book In Minutes
Imagine what it would be like to turn your favorite traditional book into an e-book in just a few minutes. If you wanted to take some resource books with you for a project, instead of carrying the physical books, you could spend a very small amount of time digitizing those books. That way, you could ...
E-Ink Keyboard Is The Ultimate Affordable Software Chameleon
When the OLED keyboard Optimus Maximus by Art. Lebedev Studios was first announced, there was a huge hype about it's futuristic features. People went on and on about how groundbreaking it was, and how it would come to change the keyboard as we knew it. As soon as the price was announced, that hype q ...
This Is What A Transparent iPad Would Look Like
With the transparency concept being as popular as it is, it's no wonder everyone is trying to come up with something entirely new. Just a few days ago we learned that a company in Japan unveiled a concept transparent smartphone. I guess were all wondering how Apple reacted to that announcement. Is t ...
Omnidirectional Camera Takes 360° Photos & Sends Them To Your Phone
There is definitely no shortage when it comes to smartphone cameras, but there is a revolution going on right now, and there is no stopping it. It has everything to do with photos, and we're taking billions of them each year. But with such popularity also comes also a demand for an upgrade. Smartpho ...
Mac Belt Is An iPad Mini Stand Built Right Into Your Belt
Are you looking for a way to position your iPad Mini to make reading and typing easier, especially when you're on the go? Sure, there are cases available that feature stands for various Apple products now, but unless you have a table to rest it on, it might not be that efficient. For example, while ...
Fate Of Desktop PCs: What Will Your Workstation Look Like In 5 Years?
The world of computing is moving fast these days. That statement would ordinarily be par for the course, but in many ways, it is moving even faster than it ever did before thanks to the uptake in mobile computing with tablets and smartphones. PC and Mac sales are not as robust as they used to be, an ...
Secret Compartment Furniture That Makes Any Home A Treasure Hunt
It's easy to get drawn in by adventure movies, especially if they involve a whole lot of treasure hunting. I remember when I saw National Treasure for the first time. I was glued to the seat in the theater and couldn't believe all the cool secrets the movie had to offer. It's somewhat of a bummer th ...
Nail Display Aims To Reinvent Our Interaction With Our Gadgets
Every once in a while a new technological approach comes along that redefines the course of history. We have seen it many times. Take the touchscreen for example, it reinvented the phone the day it was introduced. It happened again with online music stores. The list of these things could be as long ...
40 Foot Touchscreen Gallery Helps Visitors Find New Artwork
As we reported yesterday, Rio de Janeiro is the first city to implement QR codes into their sidewalk design. It's an effort to help tourists find new information about the city and its history without cluttering the city with ugly, bulky signs. It seems information is about to take over our immediat ...
Power Loader From The Movie Aliens Soon A Reality
One of the most memorable movie moments in science fiction history is when Ellen Ripley battles the mother alien in the movie Aliens. When she steps into the power loader and literally kicks the living breath out of her opponent, you just know it's going to make movie history. Throughout the years, ...
Pen Scanner: The Ultimate Secret Agent Mobile Office Tool
Just yesterday I wrote an article about some clever tips to use your smartphone more efficiently for work. One of the things I learned from that, which seems so obvious now, is to use the smartphone camera in place of a scanner when we're working mobile and have no access to an actual scanner. With ...
Double-Sided Transparent Smartphone Presented By Docomo
What's so appealing about a transparent smartphone? Well, it could be that it allows for a whole lot of new features. First of all, applying touch to both sides would make the user interface a new breed. There are of course a whole lot of positive effects when a smartphone goes transparent. I have w ...
Sidewalk Design To Provide QR Codes With Tourist Information
It's no joke to say QR codes have become a huge hit around the world. Pretty much every product I buy today has a QR code embedded on it. I's a great way to keep product information updated and current. So why aren't they used even more within our already jam packed technological world? The answer t ...
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Home Office Design Of 2001 As Imagined In 1967 [Video]
Our expectations when it comes to technology seem to know no boundaries. For every new smartphone, TV, game console, yeah pretty much everything, we expect something groundbreaking, but innovating is not something you do overnight. It's a science weaved into technological optimization which sometime ...