Electronics
BT-Q1000 Platinum GPS Travel Recorder
Febraury 22, 2008 QSTARZ, the company behind the solar-powered BT-Q1200 GPS Travel Recorder, has released the BT-Q1000 Platinum - a Bluetooth GPS Travel Recorder that pairs with your PDA or Smartphone to provide satellite navigation and allows users to record up to 200,000 waypoints. (read more...)
MWg and Splashpower to deliver wirelessly powered smartphone in 2008
February 11, 2008 MWg and Splashpower have announced that a new wirelessly powered smartphone will be available in the second half of this year. The MWg devices will be equipped with Splashpower’s technology to enable inductive charging, a process that involves using electromagnetic induction to wirelessly charge the batteries of a handset. (read more...)
Belkin Conserve Energy-Saving Surge Protector
January 21, 2008 Belkin's aptly named Conserve is an 8-outlet surge protector that reduces energy consumption by eliminating wasteful standby power, helping lower the overall impact on the environment and at the same time saving money. (read more...)
Micro Industries releases 65-inch interactive retail screen
January 16, 2008 Despite the company name, Micro Industries® new release screen is anything but small. The high-definition (1080p) Touch&Go Messenger 65 is geared for retail customers to create interactive in-store messaging on a super-sized 65” screen. (read more...)
Mitsubishi Electric Automation updates graphic operation terminals
January 13, 2008 The industrial automation solutions arm of Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. has introduced seven six-inch touchscreen displays for its GOT1000 platform of Graphical Operator Terminals (GOT). The new 24V DC-powered GT1555-VTBD features a 16-bit color spectrum TFT display in VGA (640 x 480 resolution) format, and is loaded with 9MB of onboard flash memory. It is capable of displaying over 65,000 colors for photo-quality images, and can execute many embedded advanced maintenance functions, such as ladder monitoring and system monitoring, that were once reserved for much larger terminals. (read more...)
Hand-held lightning detector and storm warning device
January 7, 2007 Looking more like a garage door remote control than any sort of scientific device, this lightning detector from SkyScan has the ability to detect the characteristic electromagnetic emissions from individual lightning strikes actual and determine how far away it is and whether it is moving towards you or away from you. With a 40 mile range of detection, the device gives the user ample time to seek shelter in the event of a lightning storm. (read more...)
Pinnacle Video Transfer records footage straight to USB devices
January 7, 2008 Pinnacle Systems has announced the Pinnacle Video Transfer solution, a pocket-sized unit which can record analog video from a TV, DVD player, PVR, camcorder or set-top box directly onto any USB 2.0 storage device without the use of a PC. Video is captured in H.264 format, the same codec used by iPods and PSPs, and users can control the file size and resolution by selecting from three levels of recording quality – the best of which delivers 720x480/576 (NTSC/PAL) resolution. (read more...)
Voxred announce PowerBuddy portable charger
January 7, 2008 Voxred, the company behind the Turbo Charge, iTurbo and TC2 lines of portable chargers, is launching the PowerBuddy at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. A compact, self contained device which uses lithium ion batteries to charge up to two electronic devices simultaneously, the USD$40 PowerBuddy comes with 11 adapters for cell phones, personal media players, PDAs and portable gaming units. (read more...)
Pre-production version of HydroPak water-activated portable power generator completed
January 5, 2008 Millennium Cell Inc. and Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies have announced the completion of a pre-production version of the HydroPak portable power generator that incorporates a unique water-activated cartridge system. The HydroPak product combines Horizon’s fuel cells with Millennium Cell’s Hydrogen on Demand storage technology to offer a clean and quiet power generator for use by consumers and professionals for emergency and recreational purposes. (read more...)
Kingston 19-in-1 Media Reader
December 14, 2007 Flash memory formats continue to expand but fortunately, so too do the transfer solutions. Kingston’s latest external, hi-speed multi-card reader supports 19 types of Flash memory cards in a 3.61" x 2.71" package for USD$17. (read more...)
Water-Activated portable power products possible for 2008
November 22, 2007 Millennium Cell Inc. and Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies are nearing completion of a beta version of a portable power generator that incorporates a unique water-activated cartridge system to provide 400 Watt hours of “instant power”. (read more...)
CSR announce low cost Bluetooth enabled MP3 player design
November 20, 2007 The falling cost of consumer electronics devices is showing no signs of letting-up with the latest example coming from the UK, where based wireless component manufacturer CSR has today announced the world’s lowest cost Bluetooth enabled MP3 player. (read more...)
Mobile explosives detection system ships to Middle East
November 20, 2007 Reveal Imaging Technologies, Inc., has announced its first shipment of Mobile CT-80 automated explosives detection system (EDS) to a government customer in the Middle East. (read more...)
Solar Powered RFID tracking system roll-out
November 20, 2007 Lockheed Martin subsidiary Savi Technology has begun deploying solar-powered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and signposts, saving energy and negating the need for installing electrical infrastructure in remote areas. (read more...)
ReLED Systems offer LED replacement for fluorescent tubes
November 13, 2007 ReLED Systems has introduced a solid state replacement for fluorescent tubes which allows existing light fixtures to be simply converted to Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), offering lower energy consumption, longer lamp life and environmental advantages over fluorescent tubes. (read more...)
Samsung unveils 64GByte SATA II SSDs
November 6, 2007 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has become the first in the industry to sample 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64Gigabyte solid state drives (SSD) with a super-fast SATA (Serial ATA) II/native SATA interface that writes at 100Megabyte per second (MBps). (read more...)
Fujitsu advances color e-paper technology
October 10, 2007 Fujitsu has displayed the latest incarnation of its electronic paper products at CEATEC in Japan. Having previously unveiled flexible color e-paper, this year the company has changed the form factor into an "e-reader" - a prototype content browser the size of an A5 sheet of paper that’s lightweight, extremely portable and features a high-contrast, easy to read 4,096 color display with very long (up to 50 hours) battery life due to its ability to hold an image once it is displayed without drawing on any power. (read more...)
Upgraded Sony Reader continues the digital e-book push
October 3, 2007 Many bibliophiles feel that paper is an irreplaceable medium, but the inexorable march of the digital age is bringing new products into the marketplace that bridge the gap between the traditional book and the sheer convenience of electronic storage. Sony has just released the upgraded second version of its Reader digital book - a compact, comfortable and lightweight viewing platform that allows you to carry up to 160 full novels around at any time. (read more...)
Texas Instruments releases TI-Nspire calculator range
September 27, 2007 Forty years after the invention of the first portable calculator, Texas Instruments has released TI-Nspire - a product designed to provide up to four representations of a problem at one time in order to engender a deeper understanding of mathematical principles and - believe or not - help students get excited about math. (read more...)
Keynote speakers announced for CEATEC JAPAN 2007
September 20, 2007 The keynote lineup has been announced for the upcoming CEATEC JAPAN 2007 exhibition to be held from October 2-6 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture, Tokyo. More than 500 companies are expected to attend the 2,843 booths featured at the exhibition which this year carries the theme “Experience the Frontline of Digital Convergence”. Gizmag will be on the scene to bring you the latest tech news – stay tuned. (read more...)
Inwindow launch large-format interactive outdoor advertising
September 12, 2007 Inwindow Outdoor has launched a large-format interactive video projection platform for retail storefront outdoor advertising. The new product utilizes larger than life images linked to sophisticated motion detecting Human Locator technology to allow displays to interact with passersby. (read more...)
Nanotech breakthrough promises single-atom data storage and molecular computers
IBM today announced two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules. Such Lilliputian, atomic-scale devices might be used as future computer chips, storage devices, sensors and for applications nobody has imagined yet. The work will be unveiled tomorrow in two reports being published by the journal Science. In the first report, IBM scientists describe major progress in probing a property called magnetic anisotropy in individual atoms. This fundamental measurement has important technological consequences because it determines an atom’s ability to store information. Previously, nobody had been able to measure the magnetic anisotropy of a single atom. (read more...)
ZPower's silver-zinc rechargeable batteries promise efficiency gains
August 7, 2007 Even though they are less volatile and more powerful than the alternatives, the price of silver along with some inherent deficiencies has stopped silver-zinc rechargeable batteries from making much of a dent in the market. But by using a unique design incorporating elements of nanotechnology, ZPower silver-zinc batteries could be set to overpower their lithium-ion competitors in every sense of the word. After embracing and improving a neglected model, ZPower now claims its product is more powerful, safer and more environmentally friendly than any other rechargeable battery on the market. (read more...)
Using a magnet to tune a magnet
August 2, 2007 An international research team, led by scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), has found a way to switch a material’s magnetic properties from ‘hard’ to ‘soft’ and back again – something which could lead to new ways of controlling electromagnetic devices. The research were published today in the journal Nature and shows how a magnet can be ‘tuned’ by subjecting it to a second magnetic field, perpendicular to the original. (read more...)
Good vibrations: tiny generator harnesses kinetic energy to power wireless electrical systems
July 6, 2007 Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a kinetic energy generator which derives electrical energy from the vibrations and movements that occur within its environment. Developed by Dr Steve Beeby and his team at the University's School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS), the tiny generator (less than 1 cubic cm in size) is 10 times more powerful than anything yet developed in the field and could form the basis of technology for self-powered pace makers and other embedded applications that require periodic replacement of batteries. (read more...)
