Magic Jack Gets Upgrades Now Called The MAGIC JACK PLUS
More and more people are dropping their home phone service provider, and switching to much more affordable phone services provided through VoIP networks. These VoIP networks use your high speed internet connection for making and receiving phone calls. One of these services is provided by a small device called the magic Jack Plus, the latest edition of the highly touted magic Jack.
What’s the difference between the magic Jack Plus and the magic Jack?
The first, and most relevant difference between the two devices is the magicJack Plus’s ability to function without a computer, thanks to its built in CPU and RAM. The previous edition of the magic Jack required it to be plugged into the USB port on a computer, and for that computer to be powered on. This was a major inconvenience as expressed by many users of the first device but it has been addressed here with the magic Jack Plus Another complaint some users of the magic Jack had was that the call quality was less than ideal. Users sometimes complained of static, and echoes when on calls. The magic Jack Plus now includes Wide Band Voice Technology, also called HD Voice, which doubles the device’s codecs from 8 kHz to 16 kHz, substationally increasing the quality of the sound, while also reducing static. Echo Control technology is also new to the magic Jack Plus; this technology helps to eliminate echoes while talking. These two updates have helped magic Jack to deliver a call quality is now on par with that of landline phones.
How much does the magic Jack Plus cost?
The magic Jack Plus costs only $69.95. This initial purchase covers the magic Jack Plus device, its AC adapter power supply, an Ethernet cable, and a USB cable. This price also covers the first year of service. Upon the initial purchase, though, you can buy five years of service, at a discounted rate of only $99.95 which is $50 off the price for five years if you were to renew on a year-to-year basis. You service includes the ability to make unlimited local and long distance calls anywhere in the United States, or Canada.
Does somebody from the company need to set up the magic Jack Plus for me?
No. The magic Jack Plus can be set up in just a few minutes, with some easy-to-follow instructions that are included with the device. All you have to do is plug the magic Jack Plus into your computer to sign up for an account, activate the device, and get a phone number. The just plut it into your high speed modem or router with the included Ethernet cable, and into its included power supply. Next, plug your telephone into the magic Jack Plus unit, and you are ready to make calls. You also have the choice of running the device through your computer, and using the softphone option which eliminates the need of having to use a telephone.
Is there any software installation required?
There is no software installation required. The device does not even need a computer to work! As stated above though it can work with a computer if desired and if you chose to do so it will require a minor software installation.
I travel a lot when I work, can I use the magic Jack Plus away from home? Absolutely. One great feature of the magic Jack Plus is its ability to work with your computer. You can take your phone number with you wherever you travel. All you need to do is plug the device into the USB port on your computer or laptop, and be connected to the internet.
Can I make international calls with the magic Jack Plus?
Yes. You can call your friends in family outside of the U.S. and Canada, for an additional rate (per minute) that varies depending on which country you are calling.
Does the magic Jack Plus include any features I get from my current phone company?
Yes. The magic Jack Plus provides many of the same features you get from your current phone company. The device will give you call waiting, three-way calling, call forwarding, and voicemail, Caller ID, and a lot more. The phone company, though, does not provide the convenience of taking these features with you wherever you go, like the magic Jack Plus does.
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Wikipedia's blacked-out message of protest was replaced with a white "thank you"
After a 24-hour blackout, Wikipedia has returned to full working order but declared: "We're not done yet."
The site had blocked its content for 24 hours in protest at proposed anti-piracy legislation in the US. The encyclopaedia said the site had been viewed 162 million times, with eight million people following instructions to contact politicians. The protest led to eight US lawmakers withdrawing their support for the proposed bills. Two of the bill's co-sponsors, Marco Rubio from Florida and Roy Blunt from Missouri, are among those who have withdrawn their support after "legitimate concerns". But backers of the legislation, led by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), described the action as an "irresponsible" publicity "stunt". The Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) have caused considerable controversy among internet users and businesses since the plans were proposed in October last year. 'Melted servers' Wednesday's co-ordinated action was intended to raise the profile of the debate to those outside of the tight-knit technology community - an objective Wikipedia said had been met. "More than 162 million people saw our message asking if you could imagine a world without free knowledge," the site said.
Elsewhere, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg deemed the occasion worthy enough to post his first tweet in almost three years. "Tell your congressmen you want them to be pro-internet," he wrote, linking to a longer statement on Facebook. He continued: "We can't let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the internet's development. "Facebook opposes Sopa and Pipa, and we will continue to oppose any laws that will hurt the internet." Google, which urged its US visitors to sign a petition against the bills, said more than 4.5 million signatures had been gathered. Advertising campaign Supporters of the bill were quick to condemn the actions of the websites. Ex-Senator Chris Dodd, MPAA's chief executive, described the blackouts as an "abuse of power".
Wikipedia - after the blackout
Meanwhile, Creative America - a group which represents many big names in the movie business including Disney and Warner Bros - has launched an advertising campaign in the US. A banner advertisement was shown in New York's Times Square offering advice on "what to do during an internet blackout". It suggested reading books, listening to music or watching a movie. News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, a vocal supporter of Sopa, continued to spar with users on Twitter. He tweeted: "Seems blogsphere has succeeded in terrorising many senators and congressmen who previously committed. Politicians all the same." Watching closely In the UK, the plans around Sopa and Pipa have been keenly watched, particularly by those worried about the effect the measures could have on internet companies in the country. Peter Bradwell, a campaigner with the Open Rights Group, told the BBC: "It's explicit that [Sopa advocates] want to tackle foreign websites.
A television advertising campaign supporting the anti-piracy plans has been launched "We're concerned about the jurisdiction that gives over the kind of things you or I do on the internet in the UK - and the power that gives US copyright holders over the things that we do here." Mr Bradwell recounted the comments made by Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, who in July last year said he was looking at some anti-piracy measures being discussed in the US. "Hopefully, what the storm around this has helped do is highlight why we are so concerned about proposals for new website blocking powers. "I hope it really helps them understand how they shouldn't make policy, and really should drive home some of the complaints that we've been making." 'Startling' The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it did not wish to comment on the protests, nor on the details of Sopa and Pipa. In pictures: Sopa protests
View a gallery of protest action taken by some of the web's highest profile websites
Eric Van Der Kleij, chief executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation, told the BBC: "We know that it is important for UK companies but it is definitely something for the US government. I am watching the situation closely. "Regarding UK regulation, our position is that we are completely committed to an appropriate regulatory environment that protects rights but does not stifle innovation." The UK's "digital champion" Martha Lane Fox said the blackout technique was surprising. "Neutrality and equality of access is one of the fundamental principles of the internet," she told the BBC. "So (while) I understand the concern that many US companies have about the restrictive Sopa law, blackouts are a startling way to show their frustration." Constructive debate Echoing the statements of rights holders in the US, Richard Mollet, chairman of the Publishers Association, criticised the blacked-out websites for not engaging "constructively" in the piracy debate. "They should say: 'OK, there's a problem with copyright infringement. We, as internet companies, have a role here. What can we do to fulfil that role and help rights holders reduce infringement?'"
Creative America posted an image on Facebook of its advertisement on display in New York's Times Square He argued that while Wikipedia was a valued resource, it would be more noticeable to the world if rights holders were to switch off their content for a day. "Think what you would lose. "If you walked around the streets of America or Britain with no creative content available to you, because rights holders had decided to shut up shop, you would be deprived of the BBC, cinemas, radio, bookstores and so on. "What's at stake when rogue internet sites are available to people and revenues are deprived is a great deal more than the excellent but nevertheless more limited Wikipedia."
Punctuating 30 years of nanotechnology research, scientists from IBM Research have successfully demonstrated the ability to store information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms. This is significantly less than today's disk drives, which use about one million atoms to store a single bit of information.
While silicon transistor technology has become cheaper, denser and more efficient, fundamental physical limitations suggest this path of conventional scaling is unsustainable. Alternative approaches are needed to continue the rapid pace of computing innovation. By taking a novel approach and beginning at the smallest unit of data storage, the atom, scientists demonstrated magnetic storage that is at least 100 times denser than today’s hard disk drives and solid state memory chips. Future applications of nanostructures built one atom at a time, and that apply an unconventional form of magnetism called antiferromagnetism, could allow people and businesses to store 100 times more information in the same space.
“The chip industry will continue its pursuit of incremental scaling in semiconductor technology but, as components continue to shrink, the march continues to the inevitable end point: the atom. We’re taking the opposite approach and starting with the smallest unit -- single atoms -- to build computing devices one atom at a time.” said Andreas Heinrich, the lead investigator into atomic storage at IBM Research – Almaden, in California.
The scientists at IBM Research used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to atomically engineer a grouping of twelve antiferromagnetically coupled atoms that stored a bit of data for hours at low temperatures. Taking advantage of their inherent alternating magnetic spin directions, they demonstrated the ability to pack adjacent magnetic bits much closer together than was previously possible. This greatly increased the magnetic storage density without disrupting the state of neighboring bits.
The challenge of Moore's Law We expect our hard drives to store more and cost less every few years. But by current conventions the technology industry is reaching the physical limits of its faithful adherence to Moore's Law, which says that the number of transistors on a microchip will approximately double every two years. To continue to advance, new methods were needed to pack more data storage and computing capabilities into smaller spaces. The world's smallest bit Scientists from IBM Research have been investigating and controlling matter on an atomic scale for decades. So, naturally, their latest quest would involve greatly decreasing the storage capacity needed for one bit of data, which on today's computers stands at about 1 million atoms. They set out to develop the ultimate memory chips of the future. Starting at the very beginning of density—single atoms—they created the world’s smallest magnetic memory bit and answered the question of how many atoms it takes to reliably store one bit of magnetic information at a low temperature: 12. By studying the behavior of atoms, researchers can identify crucial factors for building smaller, faster and more energy-efficient devices for business and consumers.
The suspected ringleaders of the Koobface botnet have been identified and appear to be five men based in Russia, with an office in St Petersburg, according to reports.
The gang suspected of being behind the Koobface botnet, which propagated via social networks, has been identified by researchers. Above: a spoofed Facebook page created by the gang.
The Koobface botnet has earned around $2m (£1.3m) a year since it started in mid-2008, The New York Times reported on Monday. The botnet propagates via social networks like Facebook to hijack users' computers. Security researchers, law enforcement officials and the NYT were able to identify the men due to lax security policies employed in running the botnet, Sophos and Jan Drömer, an independent researcher, said on Tuesday. "As in real life, a perfect (cyber)crime is something of a myth. The simple truth is that today's cybercrime landscape is aimed at achieving maximum revenue with minimal investment, and that implies a certain level of accepted imperfection," Sophos wrote. "It is this imperfection, paired with a sense of 'criminal arrogance' and an uncontrollable threat environment such as the internet, that ultimately led to the identification of multiple suspects forming the 'Koobface gang'." Facebook is expected to announce plans to share information about the group with security officials and other companies on Tuesday, in a bid to create an environment that makes it more difficult for them to operate, the NYT said. Koobface emerged in 2008 and used a variety of social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, to propagate. If people click on a Koobface-poisoned link on these social networks a Trojan virus infects their computer, hijacks it and interferes with web browsing. All five individuals appear to be living in Russia and run Koobface from an office located in St Petersburg, Sophos said; some have even 'checked in' to the office via the Foursquare social network, the NYT reported.
Security lapses
Sophos researchers were able to identify the botnet runners due poorly implemented security policies such as tying personal phone numbers to the command-and-control systems of Koobface. People shed their normal caution on social-networking sites, leaving the scammers and worm-writers to rub their hands with glee... "Probably the most stunning information was found within a PHP script used to submit daily revenue statistics via short text messages to five mobile phones," Sophos wrote. "The international prefix +7 identifies these numbers to be Russian telephone numbers." One number received a weekly text message saying how much Koobface had generated that week; the same phone was later used in personal online adverts for a BMW3 car and some Sphynx kittens. The telephone numbers, combined with the aliases that the suspects used, let investigators track the hackers down on social networks like Facebook and Russia's vkontakte.ru. Security researchers also used services like NameChk to identify other sites used by the aliases.
Shady nature
Some of the suspects have also been involved in the online adult entertainment industry, Sophos said, noting that the sector shares techniques such as traffic sharing and affiliate models with malware operators. "The somewhat shady nature of the scene, and the criminals' desire to make even more money fast, might be what makes some slowly cross the line and get involved in more malicious activities," Sophos wrote. Facebook had not responded to a request for further information at the time of writing. Sophos has made the full results of its investigation, including the structure of the command-and-control server for the Koobface botnet, available to law enforcement officials. "The full evidence is in the hands of the law enforcement agencies, and we wait to see what — if any — actions are taken to bring down the Koobface gang," Sophos wrote.
A new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs promises bionic eyesight
The human eye is a perceptual powerhouse. It can see millions of colors, adjust easily to shifting light conditions, and transmit information to the brain at a rate exceeding that of a high-speed Internet connection. But why stop there? In the Terminator movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character sees the world with data superimposed on his visual field—virtual captions that enhance the cyborg’s scan of a scene. In stories by the science fiction author Vernor Vinge, characters rely on electronic contact lenses, rather than smartphones or brain implants, for seamless access to information that appears right before their eyes. These visions (if I may) might seem far-fetched, but a contact lens with simple built-in electronics is already within reach; in fact, my students and I are already producing such devices in small numbers in my laboratory at the University of Washington, in Seattle [see sidebar, "A Twinkle in the Eye"]. These lenses don’t give us the vision of an eagle or the benefit of running subtitles on our surroundings yet. But we have built a lens with one LED, which we’ve powered wirelessly with RF. What we’ve done so far barely hints at what will soon be possible with this technology.
Conventional contact lenses are polymers formed in specific shapes to correct faulty vision. To turn such a lens into a functional system, we integrate control circuits, communication circuits, and miniature antennas into the lens using custom-built optoelectronic components. Those components will eventually include hundreds of LEDs, which will form images in front of the eye, such as words, charts, and photographs. Much of the hardware is semitransparent so that wearers can navigate their surroundings without crashing into them or becoming disoriented. In all likelihood, a separate, portable device will relay displayable information to the lens’s control circuit, which will operate the optoelectronics in the lens. These lenses don’t need to be very complex to be useful. Even a lens with a single pixel could aid people with impaired hearing or be incorporated as an indicator into computer games. With more colors and resolution, the repertoire could be expanded to include displaying text, translating speech into captions in real time, or offering visual cues from a navigation system. With basic image processing and Internet access, a contact-lens display could unlock whole new worlds of visual information, unfettered by the constraints of a physical display.
In recent trials, rabbits wore lenses containing metal circuit structures for 20 minutes at a time with no adverse effects. Seeing the light—LED light—is a reasonable accomplishment. But seeing something useful through the lens is clearly the ultimate goal. Fortunately, the human eye is an extremely sensitive photodetector. At high noon on a cloudless day, lots of light streams through your pupil, and the world appears bright indeed. But the eye doesn’t need all that optical power—it can perceive images with only a few microwatts of optical power passing through its lens. An LCD computer screen is similarly wasteful. It sends out a lot of photons, but only a small fraction of them enter your eye and hit the retina to form an image. But when the display is directly over your cornea, every photon generated by the display helps form the image. The beauty of this approach is obvious: With the light coming from a lens on your pupil rather than from an external source, you need much less power to form an image. But how to get light from a lens? We’ve considered two basic approaches. One option is to build into the lens a display based on an array of LED pixels; we call this an active display. An alternative is to use passive pixels that merely modulate incoming light rather than producing their own. Basically, they construct an image by changing their color and transparency in reaction to a light source. (They’re similar to LCDs, in which tiny liquid-crystal ”shutters” block or transmit white light through a red, green, or blue filter.) For passive pixels on a functional contact lens, the light source would be the environment. The colors wouldn’t be as precise as with a white-backlit LCD, but the images could be quite sharp and finely resolved.
We’ve mainly pursued the active approach and have produced lenses that can accommodate an 8-by-8 array of LEDs. For now, active pixels are easier to attach to lenses. But using passive pixels would significantly reduce the contact’s overall power needs—if we can figure out how to make the pixels smaller, higher in contrast, and capable of reacting quickly to external signals. By now you’re probably wondering how a person wearing one of our contact lenses would be able to focus on an image generated on the surface of the eye. After all, a normal and healthy eye cannot focus on objects that are fewer than 10 centimeters from the corneal surface. The LEDs by themselves merely produce a fuzzy splotch of color in the wearer’s field of vision. Somehow the image must be pushed away from the cornea. One way to do that is to employ an array of even smaller lenses placed on the surface of the contact lens. Arrays of such microlenses have been used in the past to focus lasers and, in photolithography, to draw patterns of light on a photoresist. On a contact lens, each pixel or small group of pixels would be assigned to a microlens placed between the eye and the pixels. Spacing a pixel and a microlens 360 micrometers apart would be enough to push back the virtual image and let the eye focus on it easily. To the wearer, the image would seem to hang in space about half a meter away, depending on the microlens.
Another way to make sharp images is to use a scanning microlaser or an array of microlasers. Laser beams diverge much less than LED light does, so they would produce a sharper image. A kind of actuated mirror would scan the beams from a red, a green, and a blue laser to generate an image. The resolution of the image would be limited primarily by the narrowness of the beams, and the lasers would obviously have to be extremely small, which would be a substantial challenge. However, using lasers would ensure that the image is in focus at all times and eliminate the need for microlenses. Whether we use LEDs or lasers for our display, the area available for optoelectronics on the surface of the contact is really small: roughly 1.2 millimeters in diameter. The display must also be semitransparent, so that wearers can still see their surroundings. Those are tough but not impossible requirements. The LED chips we’ve built so far are 300 µm in diameter, and the light-emitting zone on each chip is a 60-µm-wide ring with a radius of 112 µm. We’re trying to reduce that by an order of magnitude. Our goal is an array of 3600 10-µm-wide pixels spaced 10 µm apart.
Samsung’s video and photo editing apps also warrant some attention. Although we’ve seen earlier iterations of both on previous devices – the Galaxy SII, for instance – in their latest form they can legitimately take on desktop editing software. The video app allows you to combine clips, music and titles, make crops and cuts using either your finger or, for more accuracy, the pen, and then handwrite or add text, sketches, highlights and more on top before exporting at up to 720p resolution. You could feasibly film, process and export an entire mini-movie on your device, without ever needing to offload footage to your computer.
Samsung's video and photo editing apps make the Galaxy Note a must have for those who need to edit videos on the go -- the video app is very versatile for a smartphone app. Users can combine video clips, music and titles, make crops or cuts and even add text, sketches and highlights on the vide using their fingers or the S Pen for more accurate graphics. It's also possible to shoot, edit and export an entire video or even a short movie on the Galaxy note without uploading to a desktop computer. Indie filmmakers should take note of this model, there might be no need to purchase a video camera after all.
The photo editing software is similarly impressive, supporting an intelligent quick-selection tool of the sort you’d find in Photoshop so as to make selecting aspects of the frame more straightforward. You can then manipulate and morph those selections, as well as do all the usual annotation and tweaking, with little in the way of processing delay as the Galaxy Note does its crunching.
The photo editing software is equally as impressive. Users who are familiar with Adobe Photoshop will find similar tools on the photo app. There's a quick-selection tool to select parts of the photo easier. Photo editors can also manipulate morph, warp and add special effects to those parts with minimal processing delays.
In a few years, you may never have to recharge your phone again — provided part of you keeps moving. Back in March,scientists announced the world's first viable "nanogenerator" — a tiny computer chip that gets its power from body movements like snapping fingers or - eventually - your heartbeat.
The researchers can already use the technology to power a liquid crystal display and an LED, and claim that their technology could replace batteries for small devices like MP3 players and mobile phones within a few years
Practical Applications for Nanogenerators: Medicine and Beyond
Doctors need dependable technology to power devices implanted in patients to regulate or monitor the patient's health. Examples of such devices are pacemakers and continuous glucose monitoring systems. Implant devices come with an inherent challenge: They can wear out over time or require replacement batteries or a cumbersome external power source. By using nanogenerators, doctors could implant a new generation of these devices with the capacity to stay powered and last a long time with minimal body invasion [source: Medgadget]. Such devices would harness the energy of involuntary movement like a heartbeat or lung expansion. In short, you could be using your body to keep alive a device that helps keep you alive in return. In addition, by using non-toxic materials like ZnO as the piezoelectric material, there is a better chance of implanting a nanogenerator without harming the body [source:Greenemeier].
So what's beyond medicine for nanogenerators? Researchers believe that nanogenerators could soon be powering your iPod or smartphone. Because nanogenerators are so small, they could easily be embedded in the cloth of a T-shirt or hoodie, so your iPod could use your pulse to keep its internal battery charged. Wang expects the nanogenerators his group has developed to be part of such products and available for purchase within five years [source: FoxNews]. A side benefit of using nanogenerators is their potential positive impact on the environment. Nanogenerators use a renewable resource: kinetic energy from body movement. They're created from more environmentally friendly materials than batteries, and they have the potential to reduce the waste associated with battery production and disposal. Still, the impact is small, literally, due to the size and limited power of nanogenerators. Time will tell if the nanogenerators will be viable in powering larger devices such as laptops.
A Research in Motion sponsored project has unveiled a groundbreaking concept design for upcoming BlackBerry handsets. More than just a basic smartphone, the BlackBerry concept phone, dubbed the Empathy and envisioned by a project carried out by the Art Center College of Design, claims the ability to read users emotions and display the emotional states of contacts in a coloured ring bragging social map.
With a large touchscreen interface that turns transparent when not in use, the RIM concept design offers an insight into the future of mobile design. If the future BlackBerry is anything to go by, the current era of smooth, rounded edged handsets could be given the boot by more angular, original designs. Despite being nothing more than an idea at present, the graphical user interface of the Empathy, seen in the video below, is not a far stretch of the imagination away with interactive social hubs and relevant, updating contact information becoming increasingly integral to smartphone users.
BlackBerry London: is this the first RIM phone with the BBX OS?
We've just gotten a look at what might be the first-ever photo of the next iteration of BlackBerry devices (based on the upcoming BBX operating system and its QNX roots), and we wanted to share. The phone you see in the picture above is apparently dubbed the BlackBerry "London," and is said to be headed for a June 2012 release. The phone allegedly is equipped with a TI OMAP dual-core CPU clocked to 1.5GHz, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of onboard storage, an 8-megapixel rear camera, and a 2-megapixel front-facing shooter. The London is reportedly "thinner than the iPhone 4" and roughly the same size as a Galaxy S II (though our source didn't say which S II specifically). Oddly, the source says that the phone can be stood straight up on one of its sides (suggesting more boxiness than can be seen in the picture). As you can see, the phone is running some variation of the PlayBook's operating system, though coloring and icons have definitely been tweaked. For instance, the music app icon looks more like an evolution of the note you see on the PlayBook's version (this time appearing overlaid onto an optical disc). Our source says the phone shown was a "dummy" model, so it's likely the screen is nothing more than a static image. What's strange about the phone design is that it closely resembles RIM's Porsche Design P9981. Given the source of this image, it's possible that this is also a Porsche-designed BlackBerry destined for countries other than the US or Canada. We're told that RIM is also showing off two lower-end devices, as well as the next version of the Torch, which is said be "very thin" with a 3.7-inch display and slide-out keyboard. Even though we did multiple passes on this image for Photoshop and / or rendering artifacts, this could ultimately be someone's hilarious idea of joke. It's also possible that this is a prototype or concept design, and won't make its way to production. Still, given the detail in the image and some of the information we were given to back it up, we believe there's truth to this story. We're pounding the pavement for more info as we type, so stay tuned for updates as we get them.
New Porsche Design P9981 Blackberry luxury mobile phones
In the splendid setting of Dubai Porsche Design and RIM unveiled the new Blackberry luxury, The BlackBerry Porsche Design P 9981. The new product is the vision of the future according to Porsche and RIM with a design that breaks the mold, angular and hard, with the front part steel but in the back skin. A touch of class for a blackberry at the top in terms of performance with 8 GB of internal memory, 1.2 GHz processor, a dual-band Wi-Fi and 720p HD video with touch screen. Still no official announcement on the price, even though the model presented in Dubai at a cost of two thousand U.S. dollars: Technology, luxury, style and design in a blackberry destined to be talked about. The new BlackBerry Porsche Design P 9981 is the first born from the collaboration between Porsche Design and RIM that it fit into the market luxury mobile phones with a model of high prestige. “Porsche Design P 9981 smartphone is a very modern and luxurious, in which the timeless style of Porsche Design meets the unique experience of Blackberry” These are the words of Todd Wood, Vice president of Industrial Design at RIM. It is a model of the futuristic and so good for a few pockets.
Exclusive: First Image of BlackBerry Milan - next generation BlackBerry 10 slider!!
Well that didn't take long. Last week we posted our BBX (now BlackBerry 10) Roadmap Preview for 2012, where we dropped a number of new codenames into the mix beyond the already photographed BlackBerry London. Lisbon, Nevada and Milan were among the codenames of upcoming QNX-based phones mentioned, but the details we're still pretty slim. With the first image of BlackBerry Milan above, things are getting more clear for the next generation of BlackBerry 10 phones. While we don't have any specs just yet for Milan, the photo above says a lot. It's a slider BlackBerry, featuring the physical full qwerty keyboard that BlackBerry addicts know and love. And I'm hearing all of these next generation BlackBerry devices sport amazing displays (higher pixel density than the iPhone 4's retina display), which will really add to the sex appeal here. It's interesting to note that the design on this one seems to merge together two looks: at the top are rounded corners, similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, while along the bottom we have the sharper edges simliar to the photo of BlackBerry London. There's still time for RIM to tweak things up before locking down final hardware design for manufacturing so I'll be curious to see if things change up from here at all by the time we get this phone in our hands. This image also gives us a big hint as to how the traditional BlackBerry experience will evolve on BlackBerry 10. Gone is the optical trackpad, call, hang-up and menu and back buttons from the main navigation area of the phone (where the BlackBerry logo is in this image). This means we can assume a much more PlayBook like experience moving forward, even on BlackBerry 10 phones that have a full qwerty. Expect a lot of bezel gestures! Just looking at the phone you know some of that one-handed ease of use of the traditional BlackBerry experience will be sacrificed here, but I don't think many people will care about that given how much more modern and intuitive the touchscreen user interface will be.
Orbital Washing Machine Washing clothes has never been so easy. With the incorporated basket you can load and unload the clothes in the washing machine as easy as 1, 2, 3. This isn’t the only innovative feature. The spherical drum is moving on two axes washing your clothes better than the old washing machines that use only one axe.
Bediator Having a warm bed underneath you is a cool thing, especially if you’re in a place where winters are incredibly cold. Now I don’t know how much weight this bed radiator-bed supports but if it can take two medium people it is awesome.
LED Ceiling This is an interesting concept created by Seo Dong-Hun that allows you to create on the ceiling the light shapes you want. Literally, you can paint the ceiling with light. Imagine the artworks that would result from some people’s imagination.
LULA Lung Lamp LULA is a product that collects data and indicates the air quality in your room. If it’s connected to the internet, it can process the data and tell you the health issues that you are facing in that situation and how you can avoid having problems caused by the quality of air.
WAT Lamp The WAT lamp has the interesting ability to generate light if you fuel it with water. Yeah, it sounds outrageously futuristic, but the system is actually not that strange. The water combines with a hydroelectric battery to generate an electrochemical reaction that lights it up.
Miranda This surface tile is not for everyone but it is fun for sure, having the ability to morph the way you want it and create shapes and basic drawings on it. More info can be found on Giles Miller’s site.
WAVE Ultra Sonic Wine Ager And Refrigerator Ever wanted to age your wine so that it will be of a higher quality? Now you can, it’s not only a movie idea. Designer Mika Yamamoto has created this device that does this incredible thing. The Wave uses magnetic cooling system that is based on the magnetocaloric effect, which is the ability of some materials to heat up when magnetized and cool when removed from the magnetic field. It reduces carbon emissions and increases energy efficiency. It can possibly cut energy consumption by 40%. It also reduces the cost of electricity.
The Wave Dish Washer This dishwasher beautifully designed by Guilherme Parolin makes the action of washing dishes a piece of cake thanks to its user friendly control panel.
Swan Umbrella Dryer Drying up a wet umbrella has always been a problem. Till Noh Seon Mi designed the Swan Umbrella Dryer, of course.
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1limit Faucet Unlike the +- water faucet which only tells you how much you consume and doesn’t technically help you to reduce your costs, the 1litre limited faucet helps you to consume only the water that you need.
iChef+ Oven From what I’ve seen on the market, the ovens are not user friendly at all, having changed over the years only at an aesthetic level without modifying the process in which you actually cook the meal. The iChef Oven has an innovative and powerful computer behind it’s technology and I believe it can be considered a milestone in its niche.
The Book Light This product with integrated LEDs in a plastic body is an interesting product for the people who read a lot and need a discreet light over their pages. Don’t worry about the light being to powerful, cause you can adjust it as you please.
The Tulip Bath/Shower In a small bathroom there’s always a problem with space and the Tulip Bath/Shower designed by Piotr Pyrtek provides the solution. Saving space is not its only feature, having a number of characteristics that qualifies it as a luxury item, like underwater jets or massage programs.
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