Toshiba’s mobile phone-sized LED projector is not being said to be the smallest projector of time but it could be stated as the lightest one. It weighs only hundred grams, which also includes its battery. It is expected to be available in the market next year. It is having the dimensions of 45mm x 17mm x 100mm. Toshiba hopes that this new device will contribute much in the rising market of electronic products that can take mobile phone media to higher levels.

When we compare the today’s mobile phones with multimedia centers we see that they are more and more functioning as compared to them. But the eye needs extra effort to see them on these mobile phones. Only snaps, short movie clips and games could be easily seen on them.
Pocket-sized mini-projectors, just as the latest one by Toshiba model, will enable people to present demonstrations in a new way. It will allow them to browse their media library in maximum possible size. They would not need being forced to drag around a briefcase having all of the projecting equipment.

The size equation has been superbly determined by using the LED technology. It keeps up battery power. It doesn’t heat up when functioning. This means that it eradicates the need for large, power-consuming fans. The first LED projector ever developed by Toshiba’s was model ff1. It was released in 2006.

This LED mini-projector is exhibited at the start of this month at the IFA exhibition in Berlin. It is scheduled to be launched in a market in 2009. The completed information about its specification or pricing is not available presently. More inside information is coming time to time.

Some of the Headlining iRiver’s 2008 products of personal electronics are announced. These include the SPINN MP4 Player and the P20 portable multimedia player. These are stylish gadgets. These devices are featuring high-tech Active-matrix OLED screens and analog toggle switch wheels.
The SPINN MP4 Player will be in the market for sale in this October. Its first market would be Europe. The SPINN can run and record digital music, images, video recording.

It supports major video formats which include MPEG-4 and WMV9. It can also work with Flash Games 2.0, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 and Text Viewer. It has a 3.3-inch AMOLED touch screen. The screen is having 480×272 resolutions. It would be set for sale in 4GB or 8GB capacity. SPINN System Technology depicts the device’s analog system. This system is having the controlling dial on the right side of the player. Users can operate it to navigate.

The P20 has a 4.1-inch AMOLED touch screen. It is set for sale with 80GB or 120GB of storage capacities. This player integrates the SPINN System Analog Mode & Volume Controls. It also run and record different entertaining features which include video, images, music, digital files, flash games and DMB. It also has some enhanced features in it.
Some significant features are a built-in microphone, TV Out and USB 2.0. It also features a SD&CF Multi Card reader.

The advancement of Solid State Drives (SSDs) employing flash memory is going on. These drives are not having any moving components. SSDs work in a cooler and quieter way. They are a more authentic choice than conventional hard drives available in the market today.
Intel has brought together the company with the declaration of two fresh SSDs. This technology will be based on multi-level cell NAND flash technology for laptop and desktop computers. The 1.8-inch X18-M drive and the 2.5-inch X25-M assure a lot of advantages. This includes faster overall system functioning, startup and resume times.
Intel calls that laboratory trials depict that the Intel X18-M and X25M boosts up storage system functioning. It is said that it is raised up to 9 times over conventional hard disk drive operation. This is credited to the SSDs power to take away input/output (I/O) functioning constrictions related to with hard disk drives. This successively helps increase the efficiency of Intel’s processors to its full extent. Both the X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA SSDs are in the market for sale in 80GB capacities. They are having 250MB per second speed for reading and 70MB per second speed for writing and 85-microsecond read latency. 160GB versions of the drives would also be available.

Within the incoming a couple of months Intel is also going to release some new creations. They are anticipated to bring in some productions of single-level cell (SLC) SSDs. These will be designed for the server, storage and enterprise environments. It will be introduced with the name of Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive. These SLC SSDs are configured to take the Input/output performances Per Second (IOPS) to their maximum level. This makes functioning to its higher level and lowering enterprise costs. Intel also says that an SSD-based data center will cut down gross infrastructure costs.

It will maximize the performance-per-square-foot to 50 times. This reduction of cost is made possible by the SSDs lower energy consumption, maintenance, cooling and space costs.
The 80GB drives are now ready to be delivered to OEMs for US$595 in a supply of 1,000. The customer products such as HP EliteBook 6930p notebook holding in the Intel SATA SSDs are likely to start shipping in the next a couple of weeks.

Below is the link of a video of Intel Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore, in which they are talking about the affect of solid-state drive technology. You can download it to get more information about it.

http://download.intel.com/pressroom/video/Gordon_Moore_SSD_HighRes.wmv

There are many arguments which can be given for switching to solar-powered street lighting. First of all they take power from sunlight, secondly they don’t give out any CO2 emissions, thirdly they render an off-the grid source of lighting during in an emergency situation and fourthly they employ efficient LED-based light which don’t direct insects towards it. Sharp Corporation has declared projects to roll-out two fresh models of solar-powered LED street lights. They are available in the Japanese market. These models are having the additional bonus of integral Seismic Motion detectors. These detectors can determine the existence of earthquakes of 5 or greater on the Japanese seismic scale. These detectors also react by changing over to full illumination for two nights.

The first solar energy LED Street light by Sharp was brought out in October 2005. The most advanced models put up an important betterment in luminosity. The 160W LN-LW3A1 is the powerful one. It features a luminous flux of 1,800 lumens. That is approximately six times greater than the former model i.e. LN-L19ZA. It has the equal capacity to give light output as of a regular 32-W fluorescent security light. This was claimed bySharp. The light is very bright. It could easily be distinguished the general facial features of a person on a dark street in night at a distance of equal to four meters.

The other model performs the same at a distance of 3.7m. The less effectual LN-LS2A1 model has a nominal output of 80 W, which is its best possible level. It features luminous flux of 1,200 lumens. Both of the above mentioned models employ Sharp’s proprietary solar (photovoltaic) electric components and high-intensity, long-lasting mercury free LEDs. It keeps on working about 10 years before they demand replacement. They require a 12 volt, deep-cycle, sealed lead battery. That renders sufficient power in reserve to produce the lighting for a week without sunlight.

In terms of cutting down gas emissions, Sharp guesses that the LN-LW3A1 model gets rid of approximately 48 kilogram of CO2 discharges per year. The comparison is made with the units (LN-LS2A1) power-driven by conventional utility sources, which eliminates 44kg per year.
The LEDs do not give off UV. This keeps down the number of insects that accumulated in the surroundings. While fluorescent or incandescent lights run to draw in insects because they make ultraviolet light in the 350nm wavelength range.

The power to detect earthquakes is especially applicable to the Japanese market. Sharp lays the Japanese market for fresh installations at about 100,000 per year. The seismic motion sensing element is placed in the support pole of the main unit. It turned on full nighttime illumination for two days, when it finds earthquake above five on the Japanese seismic scale.

The notebooks available in the market today need the power cord only after some hours of constant use. But now HP’s is introducing a new battery. This declaration assures to let you stand back from the mains supply for a longer period of time. This device is employing with an optional ultra-capacity battery. The company’s fresh HP EliteBook 6930p claims of twenty-four hours of battery runtime in a single charge. This achievement is attained by the battery design itself and energy saving parts such as LED displays and Intel® solid-state hard drives (SSD). This is good thing for the people who have ever strayed around an airport searching a socket to get charge.

Ted Clark is the senior vice president and general manager of Notebook Global Business Unit, HP. He said that with this new HP EliteBook 6930p, users no more need to care about their notebook battery being exhausted before their work day is completed.
This announcement of twenty-four hour figure was made by employing an industry-standard benchmark test and after examining its power-saving parts. The company’s representative says that the HP Illumi-Lite LED display introduced in this device betters battery run time making it equal to four hours when matched against conventional LCD displays. At the same time, the Intel SSD gain of 7 percent in battery life when taken into comparison with the conventional hard drives.

The EliteBook 6930 has a 14.1-inch widescreen display, which is in a diagonal shape. It is having the optional mercury-free Illumi-Lite LED in it. It also has some more good things for mobile professionals. It is in a lightweight form. It is having the weight of just 4.7 pounds (2.1 kilograms). In a bodily construction it is having durable inner magnesium shell. The hard drive is shock-resistant. A keyboard is spill-resistant.

The unit is also checked to meet the MIL-STD 810F military-standards. These standards ensure that the device is approved for environmental reliability, functioning at all temperatures (low or high) and resisting vibration and high humidity.
The new Intel X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA SSDs would be available in the market for sale in October.

For more useful information you can go to HP EliteBook 6930p Notebook PC site.

Another release is Sony’s E series, which is designed on the pattern of the S series but with increased dimensions (few mm from the waist). It keeps the features of S series like 2-inch QVGA liquid crystal display screen, wide format support, and drag and drop file transfer.
The only function that is dropped is the SensMe. The E series is presented in a selection of four color finishes. The battery timing is equal to forty-five hours for music playback and eight hrs for video.

The liquid crystal display is totally taken out in the ultra-portable B series. It can be plugged into a PC’s USB port to transfer files. You can select the design in a choice of four colors. It features an illuminator that pulses in time with the music. This series also have a voice recorder in it. FM radio is featured in the NWZ-B130F.

All of the above mentioned new model series (Walkman S, E and B series models) will be available in market for common people from the month of October. You can also pre-order them online from
Sony Style from September.

The more detailed information is available on Sony site.

The new S series Walkman Video MP3 players presented by Sony are having the special feature of their thin size. It is just having thickness of 7.5mm. The S series is the thinnest Walkmans available in the market.

The slender design has a high-contrast 2-inch QVGA liquid crystal display. This display helps the user in browsing digital media collection or watching videos. The display is shown at the rate equal to 30-FPS (thirty frames per second) in either horizontal or vertical orientations. The SensMe music suggestion engine is configured in it. It ends up the hard task of manually tagging individual tracks in your library.

It works on the two technologies from Sony i.e. 12 Tone Analysis technology and LCMIR (Low-Complexity Music Information Retrieval technology. SensMe examines your music collection. It suggests playlists, which is based on each track’s speed, mood and rhythm. It produces a choice of 11 themed ‘channels’.

The S series is also friendly to all available formats. The series support formats from all big download stores as well as WMV with DRM. It also features Supplied Content Transfer software. This helps in ‘drag & drop’ shift of music, videos, podcasts and playlists, (DRM files excepted), from iTunes.

It is being claimed by Sony that the S series could not only be called as the thinnest Walkman ever manufactured but the company is also advertizing it as the best-sounding one also. This is achieved by collection of four Sony-developed Clear Audio technologies. These technologies are complemented by the 13.5mm EX headphones.

It is good news that the NWZ-S730F series do have a fresh 3-way noise cancelling arrangement in it. That functions working with the 13.5mm EX headphones help to keep out background distractions. The persons travelling through air can also connect the S730F directly to the plane’s AV system. It is a real entertainment during air travelling having additional feature of high-quality noise cancellation.

Able Planet has brought out a new model of noise canceling headphones. This is designed especially keeping in view the cost-conscious audio-philes. These are the philes which are preferred to be protected against their hearing.

This would be likely to available in stores this month. The new Clear Harmony NC200 foldable headphones cost USD$99. It employs the company’s own developed, LINX AUDIO and higher-level active noise cancellation (ANC) technologies.

The above mentioned LINX AUDIO technology in the headphones was basically made for a new generation hearing electronic devices. It changes the audio signal to raise the intensity level of higher frequency harmonics. This technology makes it simple for users to hear words, music and sounds. Additionally, it increases the sensing of loudness without raising its volume.

Here is some technical information about it.

1. Frequency response is 20-20,000 Hz with sensitivity at 1 KHz: 110dB and 116dB.

2. NC200 has a 3.5 mm plug and ships with a home audio adapter.

3. An AAA battery.

4. Soft carrying pouch.

The fully functioning version of the Clear Harmony headphones is available at about USD$350.

He says that the technology is going through its refining process. He says that the company presented this in its prototype form as it did for other products in the past time. This will help the customers in testing the concepts and determining the options.

Xerox Corporation is one of the biggest document management, technology and services enterprises of the world. It is the big manufacturer of color and black-and-white document processing machinery/arrangements and related products. It also renders document management consulting and outsourcing services.

Xerox’s products are widely used by big companies and individuals as well. Their solutions and services help them manage their data. Last year, Xerox was awarded the National Medal of Technology. It is the highest technology award in America. The technology is developed at Xerox Research Center Webster in New York. It allows users to see how their material will come out before pushing button to start printing.

Xeros is a well-known electronic company. It has been the big manufacturer of some of the remarkable innovations and graphic artists of present age. Its new product, which we are going to talk about, is also big invention. The whole world will almost definitely rate this creation equal to any previous creations by any document system manufacturing company.

The preparation of detailed brochures and flyers with special folds is a costly process. It is also very demanding and time-consuming. This latest technology by the company is great. It uses 3-D software. Through this you can take a view of the whole layout of a piece before getting it into printing process. This is designed to eliminate some of the bottlenecks, which were there for a long time in the printing process increasing its cost. It will also save time and speed up the document preparation and approval procedure. The process being adopted costs six dollars for every one dollar costing on the print job itself. This was told by InfoTrends. With this new 3-D visualization software by Xerox, users can view the final printing form before processing. All of the printing aspects like texture, gloss, folds, binding and all others. This is performed without using any ink or toner to paper.

This 3-D visualization will also prevent mistakes and re-processing high costs. Rob Rolleston told this, who is a research manager at Xerox’s Research Center Webster. By seeing the final result before it is printed can eradicate many possible errors. This includes orientation, cutting, or even how any image will be displayed on the page. This costs much during the first time print.
The objective of this collaborative work which is carried out in all Xerox research centers located in New York and California is to help customers in understanding all the options available to them.

The company knows that the customer needs it while walking into a print shop or submitting print jobs through the Web. 3-D document visualization displays a tour of the required print requirement of each customer. The program shows customer by flipping through a color flip book. It opens and folds his greeting card as it would be in real form. This is a demonstration, showing how it will come out upon completion. Rolleston tells that this software enables users to develop new and interesting documents. There is no need to have vocabulary or the knowledge about the technology of the printing industry at all.

It looks computer manufacturing companies are now exhausted and being leaving to introduce unique model names. X360 is the big example of that. It is brought out by Samsung. This may confuse the customers (with less knowledge about laptops ), who are having interest towards purchasing an Xbox 360 or X300 series Lenovo laptop.

Samsung was exhibiting its fresh laptop in IFA in Berlin with strong perception taken from Apple’s Macbook Air. The company advertized its fresh model as “fully featured and lighter than air”. When we see at it we come to know that both of the claims appear to be true with the X360. It has been given the title of the world’s lightest 13.3-inch laptop. It is light weighted having just 2.8lb (1.27kg). It is lower than the previous light weighted model of Macbook Air’s, which weighed 3lbs, (1.36kg). It is fully featured having three USB ports, HDMI & VGA out, PCI ExpressCard/34 slot, a 7-in-1 memory card reader, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Ethernet socket and a 128 gigabyte SSD.

Other features include an incorporate 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR and an Intel Centrino 2 processor. The 13.3-inch display is of the LED form. This ensures a long time battery life from 6 to10 hrs after a single charging. The laptop is manufactured of a magnesium metal casing. It is having a groomed aluminum plate on the liquid crystal display back. The company will release this unit in a variety of colors. Samsung didn’t determine the dimensions of the laptop.

The X360 will be available in the market from September, 2008. The MSRP for this unit would be approximately US$2200. The detail information revealing more of its features is available on the official site of Samsung. You can visit it.

Philips’s has introduced new multi-function holder DVD Home Theater System recently. It is all-in-one device. It carries an array of home entertainment, combined into a distinguishing, compact design.

The CinemaOne features an incorporated comprehensive iPod dock, integral subwoofer and DVD player with HDMI 1080p. The unit resembles a packed, shapely trash bin. It is a lot more stylish. The little unit is offered with several Philips technologies. This includes Cinema Sound - power-driven by Ambisound. It is configured to give up dynamic sound from an only unit system by employing a blend of array processing, psychoacoustics and precise driver positioning. Philips says that Cinema Sound gives up a sound field that is importantly broadened, allowing the hearer with immersive sound - perfectly clutter-free.

This claimed clutter-free certification of the CinemaOne is more increased by the integral subwoofer featured in it. At the same time Philips’ FullSound technology helps to repair sonic details to compacted music. This is achieved through employing the inherent iPod dock. This dock gives up replay of films, music and photographs from an iPod. It also gives power to operate the iPod and browse through its feature collection on a TV screen, employing the CinemaOne’s remote.

The 50W product plays back the basic video formats; these include MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX and WMV. The supported audio formats include Dolby Digital, DTS, MP3, MPEG2 Multichannel, PCM and WMA. USB and MP3 Link allow support for non-iPod portable products. The HDMI digital output given in it helps in connecting with a HDTV with just single cable. All this is combined in an on unit. It weighs 4.7kg. The size dimensions are 273mm wide x 172mm high x 273 mm deep.

Philips demonstrated their new product at IFA in Berlin. But in this presentation, they didn’t tell about its pricing or date of release. More news are coming, you should stay tuned to Philips official site for upcoming inside information.

The “sip and puff” way, which allows people make out commands by breathing in and breathing out into a pipe, is most commonly used. But it provides users just four controls, which is a limited selection.

Control arrangements that employ advanced pads to evaluate neck and head motions are also general. But the use of this hardware could be exhausting and frustrative on smaller electronic devices like computers. And although fresher creations that track eye motion is a good achievement. This system could be expensive, sluggish and susceptible to mixed signals.

The tongue, no doubt, is a more flexible, fully responsive and untiring selection. Similar to other muscles of face, its functions incline to be saved in accidents where other parts of the body are paralyzed. The reason is the tongue is having connection with the brain and not any link to the spinal cord. The tongue’s promise has long tempted scientists. First time in the 1960s, research work concentrated on making the tongue a primitive lens by attaching electrodes to the tissue.

In the most recent researches a photographic camera is attached. This technique triggers tongue electrodes in the form of an object, facilitating blind persons feel images. NewAbilities Systems is a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, who also worked on such technologies. They also configured a nine-button computer keyboard positioned on the roof of the mouth to operate electronic devices.

Ghovanloo’s research, however, concentrates on making a realistic keyboard rather than a physical one. He achieves it through positioning a magnet about 3 millimeters wide under the tip of the tongue. The magnet’s motion is tracked by detectors on each cheek side. It broadcasts data to a receiver atop instead of a big-sized set of headgear. It is afterward prepared by software that changes the movement into instructions for a wheelchair or other electronic devices.

Initial trials involving Georgia Tech students are favorable. The team’s work has already appealed a $120,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and $150,000 from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. It is essentially required to better the software, fiddle with its size of the magnet and increase the wireless battery’s charge. Most especially, they should discover a method to hold prices in between the “sip and puff” systems. The design surely demands betterments.

Folks who can’t use their hands would be soon facilitated by a new way to operate the technology. This would be Georgia Tech’s Tongue Drive System. This method uses a little tongue embed joined with sensors inside the mouth to work as a joystick.

This technology item would be more functional than sip-and-puff devices available in the market; as you know that Sip-and-puff technology is a method which is used to transmit signals to a device through air pressure. It will be low cost as compared to the advanced eye tracking arrangements. The tongue is a very significant part of the body it controls taste and words, helps kiss and eat up and defends microbes.

Now scientists desire to bring extraordinary more power to the mouthy muscle. They want to make it a computer control pad. Georgia Tech researchers are making a research on a magnetic, tongue-powered arrangement. It is said that it would be made to transform a disabled person’s mouth into a practical computer. Teeth will be turn into a keyboard whereas tongue will act as the key controlling the entire system. This would render full hold over the environment by just moving the tongue. It is said by Maysam Ghovanloo who is a Georgia Tech assistant professor. He also chairs the team’s research.

This group’s Tongue Drive System makes the tongue to use it similar to a joystick. This will allow the disabled persons in controlling wheelchairs, handling home appliances and manipulate computers. This work needs many more advancements. Particularly to talk about its design as one potential user named it “grotesque”. However early trials are exhortatory.

This arrangement is far from the first that seeks afresh method to manipulate electronic devices by movements of the face muscles. But disabled advocates are fully hopeful that the tongue could be the most efficacious mean. This may render you an almost endless number of switches and choices to carry out communication. It is said Mike Jones who is a V.P. of research and technology at the Shepherd Center, an Atlanta rehabilitation hospital.

He said that this system is easy to use and person would learn an entirely different language by it. That’s rather a contrast to some of the techniques already being used by many Americans who had received disability from the neck down.

BlueAnt Wireless released their product V1 Headset. It is an entirely hands-free unit. It is being publicized as the “world’s 1st amply voice controlled Bluetooth 2.1 headset”. This modern headset lets users to dial and manipulate additional call features and functionalities on their phone without even viewing it.

It is featuring high-tech voice recognition, the BlueGenie Voice port and BlueAnt’s own Voice Isolation Technology. This new device allows callers to operate their headset through voice instructions instead of hitting or operating multiple buttons. Standard Bluetooth headsets back up voice dial potentialities. It is achieved through the cell phone’s new voice characteristics.
The V1’s voice control is also integrated in the headset itself. There are also some additional functions, other than the dialing potentialities.

The V1 renders full command of all headset features like pairing, volume and connection status through only the voice instructions. Statements like ‘Pair Me,’, ‘Redial,’ ‘Call Back,’ ‘Answer/Ignore Call’ are all added to it. By saying “What can I say?” the headset will verbally tell all features given in the device.

The BlueAnt V1 is the first and the only complete headset available in today’s market which contains the features of Bluetooth version 2.1 and Enhanced Data Rate specification. The headset is small-scale and lightweight. It weighs less than .thirty-five oz. It also contains freshly Comply Foam Tips and rubber ear gels. These things help block peripheral noisy sounds. Through dual microphones the communication is made clear even in the noisiest of surroundings. It has Voice Isolation Technology which is applied for intense noise, wind and echo cancellation. The device is checked to be matched equal to eight Bluetooth devices. This means, you are not constricted to just the one phone. It is available MSRP of US$129.95. The BlueAnt V1 holds 3 charging choices. You can have it charged at car, through phone or USB. It offers 5 hours of talk-time or 200 hours of standby.