ai.rs blog http://ai.rs Artificial Intelligence - Technology Blog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:10:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Novothink releases solar charging cases for iPhone and iPod Touch http://ai.rs/2010/03/novothink-releases-solar-charging-cases-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/ http://ai.rs/2010/03/novothink-releases-solar-charging-cases-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:03:13 +0000 ik http://ai.rs/?p=1964 Novothink Solar Surge

Good news for all iPhone and iPod Touch users. Well, not for all, because only 3G and 3GS versions of iPhone and 2nd generation od iPod Touch are supported at this time. Now you can charge your devices on the go via solar panels attached to the case of your device. Case itself has integrated battery, and you can charge it with or without connecting the device. Very useful, especialy if you are lost in some African desert, or stranded on some tropical island. You won't get network coverage there, but at least you can listen to music and play games until help arrives :-)

Source: Engadget

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HTC Desire

HTC Legend

Amazon UK is offering new models of HTC's smartphones for pre-order. You can get HTC Desire (aka Bravo) for £528 (€587), HTC Legend for £400 (€444), and HTC HD Mini for £369 (€410). Desire and Legend will be released on April 1, and HD Mini will follow two weeks later, on April 14. Now, let's hope they hit Continental Europe around the same time.

Source: Amazon UK (Desire / Legend / HD Mini) via Engadget

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Google's Gesture Search application for Android is finally out. It enables you to quickly find a contact, bookmark, application or music track simply by drawing alphabet gestures on your device's screen.

Sadly, it is only working on Android 2.0 and up, supports only English language, and according to some user comments, is available only on selected Markets. If you can't find it on Market available in your country, you can try to use Market Enabler application, but only if your device is rooted.

Source: Google Labs via Android and Me

]]> http://ai.rs/2010/03/google-gesture-search-for-android/feed/ 0 LEGO conference table http://ai.rs/2010/02/lego-conference-table/ http://ai.rs/2010/02/lego-conference-table/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:00:54 +0000 ik http://ai.rs/?p=1926 LEGO Conference Table

It's amazing what a good idea and a few (million) LEGO bricks can produce. Advertising agency Boys and Girls is building image of fun workplace, and, according to this ideology, you need a conference table built out of LEGO bricks. Glass top is placed over the construction, to keep bored people from plucking bricks out of the table. Watch video for a fast-forwarded build process.

Source: Boys and Girls Agency via Freshome

]]> http://ai.rs/2010/02/lego-conference-table/feed/ 0 Dick Tracy’s new watch http://ai.rs/2010/02/dick-tracys-new-watch/ http://ai.rs/2010/02/dick-tracys-new-watch/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:00:57 +0000 ik http://ai.rs/?p=1918 Now, you can have a glimpse at smartphones of tomorrow. Or, should we say: smartwatches. For now, it is only a concept conceived in the mind of designer Susan Cho, but idea is very promissing. Device is equipped with multi-touch screen, GPS, maps, e-mail, contacts, to-do lists, and, at least by the looks of it, a very usable UI. Since this is only the concept, there are no informations on how (or whether) they are planning to cram all those features in relatively small watch, and leave enough space for some decent battery. But, we're holding our fingers crossed :-)

Sidewinder Watch Phone

Source: GizmoWatch

]]> http://ai.rs/2010/02/dick-tracys-new-watch/feed/ 0 Samsung HDTV with integrated Skype http://ai.rs/2010/02/samsung-hdtv-with-integrated-skype/ http://ai.rs/2010/02/samsung-hdtv-with-integrated-skype/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:35:09 +0000 ik http://ai.rs/?p=1912 Here are some interesting news for all your aunts, uncles, grandmothers, and grandfathers who are still living in 1980's when it comes to technology. Samsung has announced its new line of HDTV's with broadband capabilities and built-in Skype software. You can control Skype via TV's remote, and you can create new accounts, sign in to existing ones, and use Skype in usual way. Voice calls are supported out of the box, and you can make video calls with appropriate web-cam attachment.

Samsung Skype HDTV

Source: GadgetVenue

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YouTube video

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The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of Russia without leaving your house. While watching video on youtube you can enjoy russian music or literature (Tolstoy, Gogol, Petrov). Nice multimedia web project.

More info at project page

]]> http://ai.rs/2010/02/virtual-journey-moscow-vladivostok/feed/ 0 Motorola Devour is ready for launch http://ai.rs/2010/02/motorola-devour-is-ready-for-launch/ http://ai.rs/2010/02/motorola-devour-is-ready-for-launch/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:59:51 +0000 ik http://ai.rs/?p=1884 Motorola Devour

Motorola's new Android smartphone is ready to hit the streets in a few days. It will be available exclusively for Verizon Wireless, and it looks like it will have some rather interesting features. Most prominent of them is certainly slide-out four-row QWERTY keyboard with raised keys. We can only guess how comfortable it will be for prolonged typing, but having numeric keys in their separate row is pretty sweet. Also, there is in-browser support for Flash, and MOTOBLUR interface (aka Blur), with improved integration with social networks (you can simultaneously monitor updates from more than one network, and, also, simultaneously post on them). Lets not forget Google Maps navigation with turn-by-turn voice instructions, and Motorola Phone Portal, very interesting application for browsing your phone's content from your home computer via Wi-Fi.

Other than that, device is packed with Android 1.6, Qualcomm's 600MHz processor, HVGA screen, and 3MP camera.

You can watch demo of Devour, presented by Rick Osterloh from Motorola:

Source: Engadget

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As we witnessed ourselves, Google has been giving away free Nexus One phones for all registered atendees at Android Developers Lab's technical conferences at Mobile World Congress. While we are entering this text Nexuses are being unboxed and a bunch of people are walking trough Barcelona with grey new phones and pink X signs on their hands.

Way to go, Google!

Nexus One

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