Saturday, October 18, 2008

The PRADA Phone

Fashionistas would love this. PRADA. PRADA. PRADA. Who wouldn't want PRADA? Yeah, except guys ofcourse, but not all men some men are so into this stuff also.

So back to this PRADA Phone, or LG Prada Phone also known as LG KE850. Actually, it was announced in the market way back December of 2006 but it's official release was made on January of 2007.

Anyone familiar with the phone "Vu" by AT&T? Well, "Vu" is a redesigned version of LG PRADA which was released May 2008.

Here are the features of LG PRADA Phone:
  • Capacitive Touch Screen
  • Music Player
  • Music Multitasking (Messaging)
  • Video Player (MPEG4, H.263, H.264)
  • Adobe Flash UI
  • Document Viewer (ppt, doc, xls, pdf, txt )
And the Specifications:
  • Form Factor: Touchscreen
  • Dimensions: 98.8 x 54 x 12 mm
  • Weight: 85 g
  • Main Screen Type: TFT touchscreen, 256K colors
  • Main Screen Size/Resolution: 240 x 400 pixels, 3 inches
  • Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email
  • Operating System: Flash UI
  • Built-in Handsfree: Yes
  • Voice-dial/memo: Yes
  • Vibration: Yes
  • Organiser: Yes
  • Office Document Viewer: .ppt, .doc, .xls, .pdf, .txt
  • Battery Stand-By: Up to 300 h
  • Battery Talk Time: Up to 3 h

Connectivity

  • 2G Network: GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
  • Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
  • USB: Yes, v2.0

Multimedia

  • 2MP camera: 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video(30fps), flash
  • Internal Memory: 8 MB shared memory
  • Memory Slot: microSD (TransFlash), up to 2GB
  • Games: Halloween Fever, Photo Puzzle, Virus, Pipe
  • Music: MP3 player
  • Radio: Yes
  • Ringtones: Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
  • Speakers: Built-in handsfree






Friday, October 17, 2008

The Wizcom Pens


The Wizcom SuperPen Voice (left) is a handheld scanner and translator for English speaking markets.

The SuperPen Translator is sold in the USA and sold as the SuperPen in the rest of the world.

The WizCom SuperPen is a hand-held scanner and translator. This pen provides the functionality of our QuicktionaryII together with the scanning applications offered by our QuickLink Pen Elite .

Scan and Translate: The SuperPen comes with over 30 downloadable language dictionaries - absolutely free! These enable users to scan full lines of text, receive instantaneous word-by-word translation/s and hear scanned English words pronounced aloud. By changing dictionaries as needed, users around the world easily become fluent. Integrated Text-to-Speech technology enables users to pronounce new English words with confidence. These and other SuperPen features have made this product the reading tool of choice for students and travelers alike.

Scan, Store and Transfer: This function enables users on the go to capture essential printed data - anytime and anywhere. The product can store over 1,000 pages of printed text, which can be transferred to a PC, PDA or any Windows application at leisure. The scanning and transfer applications interface with MS Word/Excel/Outlook. Users working with their computer can scan printed text directly to an active cursor point. The active cursor point, allowing data to be transferred to any Windows based applications seamlessly.

Quick Link Pen Elite (right). Used just like a yellow highlighter, the QuickLink-Pen Elite allows the user to collect notes electronically from any printed text – anytime, anywhere!


The QuickLink-Pen® Elite is the successor to the very popular QuickLink-Pen, providing users with new and improved electronic note-taking capabilities:


  • Reads notes aloud.
  • Beams to Smartphones, as well as to PDAs and PCs.
  • Includes English dictionary definitions.
  • USB connection to PC.

The QuickLink-Pen Elite is ideal for students, doctors, business people, or researchers who need the ability to quickly and easily take notes whenever and wherever they might be - in a library, on a plane, or in a business meeting.

The QuickLink-Pen Elite comes complete with several useful applications including:

Scan and Store

  • Scan and Store up to 1,000 pages of text in English (additional scanning languages - German, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and French are supplied on CD ROM for optional installation).
  • Transfer stored text to PDAs (PalmOS and WinCE), Smartphones (PalmOS and Windows Mobile 2003) or PCs via IRDA Infra red connection.
  • Transfer stored notes to PCs via USB connection (and automatically create MS Word documents).
  • Read aloud the scanned notes using the text to speech function, either through the built-in speaker or headphones.



The new 13-inch MacBook


Consider elegance at its best and performance at its finest.. that is how i view the New MacBook.

What is so new about it? According to apple.com this 13-inch Macbook has "new design, new features, new technologies and all engineered to standards that don't exist yet"!

How is that for you?

With it's Ultrathin 13.3-inch LED-backlit display, the seamless glass and instant full screen brightness make everything you see flat-out spectacular. Truly durable and yet beautiful with aluminum unibody enclosure and up to 5x faster NVIDIA graphics performance. The keyboard is advanced, The MacBook keyboard is solid, responsive, and comfortable. Just put your fingers on the crisp keys and you’ll feel pure typing bliss. An illuminated keyboard, a popular feature of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, now comes standard on the 2.4GHz MacBook model. So when you’re in low-light settings such as airports or lecture halls, you can always see what you’re typing. It’s a luminous feature for anyone on the go. The amazing new trackpad doubles as a button — just press down anywhere and consider it clicked. No separate button means there’s 39 percent more room for your fingers to move on the silky glass surface. Now that Multi-Touch gestures have come to MacBook, all the function is in your fingers. Use two fingers to scroll up and down a page. Pinch to zoom in and out. Swipe with three fingers to flip through your photo libraries. Rotate to adjust an image with your fingertips. Using the new four-finger swipe gesture, swipe up or down to access Exposé modes and left or right to switch between open applications. If you’re coming from a right-click world, you can right-click with two fingers or configure a right-click area on the trackpad. The more you use the Multi-Touch trackpad, the more you’ll wonder what you ever did without it.

To build something truly different, you need to work in a truly different way. Apple designers and engineers work together through every stage of product development. It’s a partnership that makes innovation possible. And it’s exactly how the new MacBook was created. With its breakthrough unibody enclosure, industry-first features, and environmentally sound design, it’s a revolution in the way notebooks are made.