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[2009-10-27] Dept. of Energy to announce $3.4B in Smart Grid grants tomorrow

October 26th, 2009

“The Department of Energy is getting ready to announce the recipients of $3.4 billion in stimulus package grants to utilities looking to adopt smarter, more efficient electrical grid technology, as early as tomorrow.”

[2009-10-27] It’s a netbook/tablet/MID/UMPC mashup!

October 26th, 2009

“Is it a netbook, a tablet PC, a MID (mobile internet device) or a UMPC (ultra-mobile PC)? Kohjinsha has announced the PA, a description-defying portable computer that runs Windows XP Home Edition via a 1.3GHz Atom processor, 32GB solid state disk (SSD), and a TV tuner, the company says.”

[2009-10-27] Xerox develops silver ink for wearable or throwaway electronics

October 26th, 2009

“Xerox researchers have invented a kind of ink that can conduct electricity and be used to put electronic circuits on top of plastics, film, and textiles. That means in the coming years we’ll be able to wear or bend our electronics. You could even print out your electronic gadget on plastic sheets, as if you were printing a document.”

[2009-10-27] Spawn HD-720 Hands On

October 26th, 2009

“The promise of the Spawn HD-720 is twofold: You can “log in” to your console to play games when, say, your TV is otherwise engaged, or you’re away from home. You can also invite remote players to play against you—as a local player, interestingly enough—over the internet, from anywhere. The whole system will set you back $200, but there’s no monthly fee.”

[2009-10-27] Your Augmented Future: The 3 Hottest Videos From International AR Symposium

October 26th, 2009

“Who says the web is all about pages that you view in a browser? Check out these three visions of a fast-approaching future where data is drawn from and overlaid on top of the real world around us.”

[2009-10-27] Big Cellphone Makers Shift to Android Platform From Google

October 26th, 2009

“Android is on only 1.8 percent of smartphones worldwide, according to Gartner, and Windows Mobile software still dwarfs Android. But Microsoft is slipping. The percentage of smartphones using the Windows Mobile system has plummeted to 9.3 percent, from 12 percent in the second quarter of 2008.”

[2009-10-26] Tablet computer’s designed for Windows Embedded

October 26th, 2009

“Aaeon has announced a 10.2-inch tablet computer specifically designed to run Windows Embedded Standard 2009. The RTC-1000 includes a touchscreen display, fingerprint scanner, handwriting recognition, and ten programmable function keys, according to the company.”

[2009-10-26] eviGroup’s Pad is a 10-inch 3G tablet with personality

October 26th, 2009

“eviGroup, the crew responsible for the attractive 5-inch Wallet MID, has announced the 10.2-inch Pad, whose pièce de résistance is the Seline10 artificial intelligence software that’s been in development for a decade”

[2009-10-26] Brother, NEC look to invade your retinas next year

October 26th, 2009

“Brother’s as yet unnamed goggles do promise to beam an 800 x 600 image directly into your retina that’ll appear as a 10-centimeter wide image floating about one meter in front of them — which is certainly no small feat, even if it may not be the most practical one. Slightly less specific, but also working on a retina display of its own is NEC, which apparently hopes to incorporate a microphone into their display and use it as a real-time translation device that would quite literally display subtitles as you talk to someone.”

[2009-10-26] How Moms Use Their iPhones

October 26th, 2009

“According to a new survey by mobile advertising network Greystripe, mothers with iPhones regularly let their children use their phones, download games specifically for their children and often use their phones at grocery stores to compare prices and check their grocery lists”