Join OpenMoko begins to sell cell phones to consumers
OpenMoko has taken the stance to sell cell phones to general consumers as announced at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Before we proceed any further, here’s a little bit of history on OpenMoko. This company is run by Openmoko Inc. of Taiwan, a subsidiary of First International Computer Inc. of Taiwan, and is proud to be a developer of cell phones which rely on open source hardware and software. To date, OpenMoko has developed OpenMoko Linux and Neo, whereby both of them are open-source software platform and hardware for cell phones. Currently, OpenMoko Linux utilizes Linux as its OS kernel and employs X11 and GTK as its window systems. company is now concentrating to make the necessary steps in order to start selling individual cell phones to consumers as yet another stream of revenue.
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Microsoft Xbox 360 gets price cut
Console wars are heating up, with the Xbox 360 well into its third year on the market. Since Nintendo introduced the Wii a couple of years ago, the little console that could actually managed to tear up to the very top of sales charts virtually everywhere it went. It didn’t matter that software didn’t sell for the console, everyone in the gaming world was taken over by doing something different, and the Wii definitely offered a whole new world of gaming compared to current practices where a standard D-pad controller and a bevy of buttons rule the day. Microsoft is closing its ranks now, after seeing Sony’s PS3 pick up steam since the demise of HD DVD. In order to take over Europe, Microsoft has announced price cuts that range anywhere from 20 to 50 pounds, depending on the model chosen.
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Belkin Powerstrip has USB Functionality
It seems to me that the more gadgets I acquire, the more USB cords that I am collecting. Is it just me, or are we steering away from charging our mobile devices with traditional electronic outlet plugs to charging exclusively to USB power.
I suppose that is all right if you have your computer on the whole time, or if you travel by laptop, like most businesspeople. However, what if you are in a situation where you have a gadget that powers only by USB charging and there is not a USB port to be found?
Fortunately, Belkin, a company known for PC peripherals, has a solution. You will notice that the power strip in this picture has a few outlets on it, but also has some USB ports on it as well. Now you don’t have to go crazy trying to find a USB port whenever you need to recharge your iPod, cell phone, or other mobile gadget.
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IVONA Text-to-speech Program Rocks CeBIT
At CeBIT, one of the biggest Information Tech events in the world, a text-to-speech program named IVONA made quite a splash.
IVONA is made by IVO Software, and the demonstration at CeBIT had four voices in three different languages. “Ewa” and “Jacek” spoke fluent Polish, and “Carmen” was Romanian. One of the most popular speakers was “Jennifer” who spoke fluent US English.
This demonstration is still going online. If you go to www.ivona.com, you can have a chance to try IVONA in the aforementioned three languages. The best part is you can type in any text you want, and then have it spoken back to you. I tried typing a few select phrases on Jennifer, and I found that “she” was able to speak with some interesting tonal inflections. Continue reading » IVONA Text-to-speech Program Rocks CeBIT
Get a close-up of your mouth with the Miharu Home Care Camera
How many times have you been curious to see up-close inside your mouth? I know that when I had Tonsillitis a couple of months ago that I would have loved to look a little closer at things. I suppose that I’ve been curious about the inside of my ear when I’ve had an earache too. Well if you’re really curious, you can pick up the Miharu Home Care Camera and take a peek.
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Build on your iPhone with LEGO Touch
If you cannot get enough of Lego in your life, carrying around thousands of bricks in your pocket is not an ideal option. Play-Nyc decided to put the multi-touch screen of the iPhone to good use by creating a “concept” where you to carry millions of Lego bricks in your pocket. This cool little concept named LEGO Touch, uses a cover-flow type interface to scroll through every Lego brick you can imagine and it allows you to build up any Lego model you want by dragging pieces around with your fingers. You can zoom in and out by moving two fingers apart in the same way you would zoom or rotate an image. All bricks on the iPhone are in what Play-Nyc call a “Brick-Bin” and are ready at the touch of the screen.
Please note that this is concept at the moment unfortunately although it does represent what you might see in the coming months.
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Bloxes Bring Your Cardboard Legos to Life
I don’t know if any of you saw this mediocre movie called I Am Sam, but there is a scene where Sean Penn, who plays a mentally challenged father who loses his beloved daughter to the courts, literally walls himself in his apartment with origami bricks.
I only bring this up because the origami bricks from this film were really flimsy, and looked like a paper curtain. If Sean Penn’s character Sam wanted to build a better and firmer wall, he could have used Bloxes.
What exactly are Bloxes? Well, they are building blocks make from interlocking pieces of folded-up corrugated cardboard. As you can see from this picture, you can connect them together on all six sides and make walls, benches, tables, or pretty much anything else. You can really create a unique look that unfortunately won’t be fireproof.
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