White sticks for the blind certainly serve their purpose, but won’t always catch everything lying in the ground or below head height, leading to nasty accidents for the visually impaired. Not any more though, with iSonic’s sonar for the blind.
January, 2009
Motorola has created what it claims is the world’s first Carbon Neutral phone – the Moto W233.
Multitouch is great for phones and computers, but what about advertising? We saw an incredible concept on display at CES today: a multitouch billboard which will let you juggle stacks of multimedia at the same time, on huge screen HDTVS.
We’ve all been there: you’re out at a bar, you meet a girl, you want to make a move, but you’re worried that your breath smells worse than a Steve Ballmer’s BO. Then you’ve thought, if only I had a portable media player that checks my breath and rates it for kissability instead of this rubbish iPod Touch. Haven’t you? Haven’t you?
No, no, a thousand times no! Despite being denied more often than the Lone Gunman theory, the rumours that Microsoft will be switching the Xbox 360 to Blu-Ray just keep coming.
There are TV widgets from almost every major manufacturer at CES, but the absolute cream of the crop are Samsung’s Internet@TV widgets. They’re simply gorgeous, rendered on-screen in full HD and putting some of the blocky offerings from rivals to shame. If Apple ever makes an internet-connected TV, we’d expect it to look exactly like this.
LG has announced that all its new mobile phones will be fitted with dual-mic noise reduction technology from now on.
Sony was first to show off Transfer Jet at CES last year, but the products it touted never materialised. Now Toshiba says it’s ready to shove the wireless transfer technology inside laptops and TVs launching this year.