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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Cellfish Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android App Reaches 1.3 Million Downloads
16 May 2012 2:05 PM | No CommentsNEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android personalization app, created by Cellfish, has been downloaded 1.3 million times, driven by the massive success of Marvel Studios’ blockbuster movie. ...
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Kodak Introduces ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printer and New Pic Flick HD App for iPad
16 May 2012 12:30 PM | No CommentsROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Continuing to offer consumers a no-compromise choice in home printers, Kodak today introduced its new KODAK ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printer combining advanced features, quality, and ...
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ceatec Archive
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Virtual Mirror: augmented reality without glasses
Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute -- the same Fraunhofer that holds many of the patents on MP3 -- have a booth at CEATEC exhibiting some of their research efforts, shopping them around for potential licensees. Their Virtual Mirror display is, I think, a great example of augmented reality done right. It uses a camera, a display, and their special software to dynamically alter the image projected back to the viewer. Video inside!
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Secure your data with encrypted USB drives
Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
USB media represents a double-edged sword: on the one hand, data portability is an extremely useful thing; but on the other hand, data portability can be a gigantic liability for your business operations. You can try to train your users not to put sensitive data on USB drives, but chances are that convenience will win out over security, and your data will slip out on USB media anyway. And then it's all too easy for USB media to simply disappear: I can't count how many thumb drives I've lost. New products are coming soon to help solve this problem.
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Toshiba shows off slate of smartphone prototypes at CEATEC (video)
Posted on October 7, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: Handsets, Windows Mobile, Toshiba
The admittedly powerful TG01 has been carrying the flagship banner for awhile at Toshiba's smartphone division, but if a brief look at CEATEC gives us any indication of what's to come, we'd say you can look forward to hearing an awful lot more from Tosh in this here sector. Behind a small glass case, a smattering of smartphone prototypes were quietly sitting pretty in effort to be photographed. Naturally, we took 'em all up on the offer, snapping the K01, K02 and L01 and hosting them in the gallery below. We're told that the lot is actually nearing production, with the K01 packing a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, the K02 a 3.5-inch resistive panel (with an 800 x 480 resolution) and the L01 a 7-inch screen within a MID-like form factor. Each of the three are to be powered by Windows Mobile 6.5, though we wouldn't argue if WinMo 7 ended up being the OS of choice. Video's after the break.
[Via Electronista]
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Tagged World Project uses RFID to evaluate “living willingness”
Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
One of the more interesting booths at CEATEC is that of the Tagged World Project. It aims to deploy many RFID tags around an elderly person's domicile, and then equip their slippers (or other house clothes) with RFID readers that will read the tags in its proximity. Then a variety of analyses can be performed on the data collected to determine, ostensibly, how healthy and active an older person is. Read on for more.
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TransferJet demo at Sony’s CEATEC booth
Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
John mentioned TransferJet briefly during the Toshiba press conference at IFA in September. It's a wireless data transfer system. It's different from Bluetooth in that there's no pairing required. It's also extremely limited in range -- like, two inches or less -- so there's less need to worry about someone sending pr0n to your mom's TransferJet-enabled television. Sony's got a live demo of TransferJet at their CEATEC booth, and I've got to admit that it's pretty cool -- and fast!
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Hitachi TV watches YOU!
Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
How much energy do you think is wasted every day powering devices that aren't actually being used? I'm not talking about stand-by power consumption, but actually on-and-in-use without a user there. I know a lot of people who turn their TVs on just as "background noise", without ever actually looking at the screen. Hitachi's cooking up a system to place TVs in power consumption mode if it detects that the viewer isn't actually viewing the screen. Click on through to see it in action.
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Live demo of Toshiba voice translation software
Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
Boy howdy could I use this thing at CEATEC today. Running on a Windows Mobile handheld, Toshiba has a real-time voice translation demonstration. It worked quite well. How much longer until we get the Star Trek universal translators? Video inside!
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Sony Flexible OLED display on display at CEATEC
Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
Sony, and just about everyone else, has been fooling around with OLEDs for quite some time, and they're starting to come up with some pretty clever applications of the technology. Flexible OLEDs have been in the news this year, and Sony's getting into that game, too. In this short video we see a 0.2mm thin OLED display being gently bent back and forth, while actively showing content on its surface.
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Photo dialing, solar cellphones, and newspapers on TV: only in Japan
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
Sharp has on display a number of fun new gadgets at CEATEC. As is all too often the case, these things are for Japanese release only (at least for now). Maybe we'll see them in a couple years. Read on for details on a dial-by-photo phone, newspapers on TV, solar-charging cell phones, and the Sharp Netwalker!
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CEATEC: ALPS sends data through the human electric field
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
ALPS, the folks that mainstreamed the touchpad way back in the day, are continuing to innovate. Now they're playing with electric field transmissions, which allows the human body to act as a communication medium. Video inside!
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CEATEC: 3D B-Vision offers new twist on 3D imagery
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
All the big players are here at CEATEC showing off their latest iteration of 3D televisions. They're bright, and colorful, and pretty, and impressive. And it looks like they all require the use of special viewing glasses. Come on, guys, I saw this stuff last year at IFA: have you really made no substantial progress on easy-to-watch 3D displays? I almost walked past the Holoart booth, and I'm glad I didn't. They're taking a unique approach to 3D viewing.
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Augmented Reality example at CEATEC
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
Augmented reality is all the new buzz, I guess. I don't know, because I only have an iPhone 3G -- mine's missing that important "S" indicating it's the new model on which augmented reality can actually execute. But at CEATEC today I saw some Sekai Camera examples in the real world. My experience wasn't entirely positive: find out why.
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CEATEC: Hands on with Wink Glasses
Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
Matt wrote about Wink Glasses a couple of months ago. He was skeptical of their value. I found them on display at CEATEC 2009, and just had to try them out! In the photo above, you can see them in the "active" state, helpfully reminding me that it's time to blink. Click on through for a thrilling video of Wink Glasses in action! HOT!