ASUS chairman Jonney Shih has introduced some of
the company's latest designs at CES 2010 and a noteworthy inclusion was
the ASUS NX90 Bang & Olufsen ICEpower notebook – a handsome and
functional laptop which was designed in conjunction with Bang &
Olufsen’s lead designer, David Lewis. The NX90 features a smooth,
polished aluminum body and palm rest that coordinate perfectly with the
sleek dark keyboard and dual touchpads – which together with the desktop
software - are designed to be used much like a DJ’s mixing desk. The
B&O ICEpower speakers sit either side of the high-definition flat
screen and are designed to produce flawless surround-sound audio – this
is definitely a laptop designed for the living room, not the home
office. Read More
Business travellers have voted online check-in as
the ‘innovation of the decade’; followed closely by Wi-Fi, flat beds,
notebooks and the Eurostar. The top five innovations, hailed for
immeasurably improving business travel over the last ten years, were
revealed in a survey of 2,400 business travellers in London. Read More
Mayo researchers collaborating with investigators
at the University of Iowa, University of Connecticut and New York
University (NYU) have discovered a molecular mechanism that controls
energy expenditure in muscles and helps determine body weight.
Researchers say this could lead to a new medical approach in treating
obesity. The findings appear in the journal Cell Metabolism. Read More
USD5 million Ferrari 400 Superamerica Cabriolet Pininfarina
By Gizmag Team
January 6, 2010
It may be nearly half a century old, but this
rare Ferrari 400 Superamerica Cabriolet Pininfarina is appreciating
quite nicely with age. So well that when it goes under the hammer in
Monaco in May, keen judges are expecting the 1962 supercar could fetch
in excess of US$5 million. With CES top of mind right now, one wonders
how many products on the showroom floor this year will appreciate in
value over the next 50 years. Read More
If you've ever lost your phone without having a
backup of your contacts, you'll know what a painful experience it is.
Enter IDrive Lite, a free service that allows you to backup the contacts
on your phone into the cloud. Previously available for iPhone and
BlackBerry, it's finally made its way to Android. Read More
New from electronics maker Parrot comes the
AR.Drone, a Wi-Fi helicopter with dual cameras and augmented-reality
video streaming, that you control using your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Although the RC flyer is still in the prototype stage, Parrot has been
demonstrating it at the 2010 CES show in Las Vegas. The AR.Drone
features four rotors and interchangeable hulls for flying both indoors
and outside. Built-in flight stabilization technology keeps the drone
steady while you use your iPhone’s motion sensors to steer it remotely
over the craft’s Wi-Fi network. Read More
Sony and Panasonic have announced a new
technology that would increase the capacity of a single-layer Blu-ray
disc from 25GB to 33.4GB. The new technology, dubbed i-MLSE (Maximum
Likelihood Sequence Estimation) evaluation index, is achievable using
existing Blu-ray laser diodes, and can subsequently be added to existing
Blu-ray players with a firmware upgrade. Read More
If I had to make a list of the most boring and
thankless household jobs - then ironing would definitely be in number
one spot. So anything that can make that tiresome task a little easier
is worth a look. Panasonic’s new 360° Quick Multidirectional iron
promises to not only reduce ironing time but it also makes side-to-side
movements easier and can be used in any direction. Read More
Motorola today unveiled the Backflip, follow up to the Android-powered Cliq
released last year. Like the Cliq, the Backflip includes Motorola's
Motoblur service, which aggregates data from sites like Facebook,
Twitter and Gmail and presents it coherently on your home screen - but
it's the hardware that really stands out. Read on for the details. Read More
3-D printing technology
is maturing to the point where rapid prototyping machines are becoming
affordable to small business owners - and even for high-end home use.
Dimension's uPrint 3D printer has just been released at a retail price
of US$14,900, giving anyone with CAD skills the ability to prototype and
even manufacture pretty much any small shape they want in hard ABSplus
plastic - including pre-assembled objects with moving parts. What would
you create if you could have any plastic shape you wanted? Read More
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