Articles Archive for October 2008
All things techie, Fashion, Tech »
Fossil and Sony Ericsson is launching a new Caller ID Blue-tooth watch by the end of October. The watch is compatible with Sony Ericsson phones and Nokia Symbian series 60 phones. The watch can vibrate on the phone receiving an incoming call and also displays caller ID information on a small OLED display.
It also allows you to mute or reject the incoming call. It can also inform you about incoming SMS messages.
Analog timekeeping.
OLED displays caller ID information and text message icon.
Bluetooth 2.0 compatible.
Vibrating alert.
Rechargeable battery (USB or AC).
Stainless steel.
Water-resistant to 30 …
Fashion, Life Style »
Fossil Twist is all about looks in fact its just about looks. The watch with a window showing the internals is actually a quartz watch and the automatic part is just added for the looks. The automatic part does move and looks like a working machine, but its actually just moving to give the watch its looks.
Some of the models in this series actually uses the automatic to power the date etc. Now that is nice even if you don’t know the time you will get to know the date.
Most …
Internet, Mobile Phone, Open Source, Tech »
For now its being called Fennec, currently it is only available to Nokia N800 and N810 users. Fennec has a full-screen mode that provides the entirety of the screen for your browsing pleasure like in Opera. Tabs and controls will receive a new mobile-specific treatment as well. Instead of hovering above in buttons. We will need to wait and see how this thing handles on continuous browsing. Fennec’s goals is to carry over as much functionality from Firefox 3 as possible.
It supports pop-up blocking and other such standard features. Fennec supports add-ons. Are …
Fashion, Life Style, Mobile Phone, Tech »
Firefly has launched the glowPhone, designed for kids ages 5-8, offers a five-way navigation key to scroll through the phonebook or play games and has a full color screen, built in games, and customizable ring tones and wallpapers.
The flyPhone, designed for the ages group 9-12, has a electro-luminescent morphing keypad that can switch automatically between a traditional keypad and controller, as well as a built-in camera and MP3 player. The flyPhone lets one text and chat, and includes built-in games, ringtones, wallpapers and sample music and video. It includes the …
Auto, Internet, Mobile Phone, Open Source, Tech »
Google Android is a linux kernel based operating system and development environment that is both open source and free. The web gaint is now teaming up with Wind River Systems and Itnel to introduce Android into car infotainment systems. Today infotainment systems are more than vedio and music, they also have features ranging from GPS to IM. It is this phenomenon of merging technologies that google is trying to utilise to enter the Autosegment.
Now let us look at it from a differentperspective , one in which we analyse how it …
Auto, Featured, Tech »
Toyota has developed airbags for the rear window. Today’s smaller cars have little or no space between the passenger and the rear window, as Toyota puts it and they elaborate that there is very little metal or other car body parts in that region to absorb the impact. This new safety device, they claim comes in to fill the gap.
In reality the amount of safety this device provides needs to be questioned as smaller cars that would need this device usually have a smaller rear window which means that there …
Featured, Green, Technology »
World over sewage treatment plants are fighting algae bloom, when this algae can be effectively harvested and processed to obtain valuable oil that can be converted into Bio diesel. The equipment and knowledge required for the implementation of this process is available world over and at nominal costs , which is reducing by the day. The complicated part of this process is the separation of algae from water which currently has been made easy to a large extent.
Sewage treatment is done in different steps and the algae problem comes at around …
Featured, Green, Technology »
Ravichandra Potumarthi, a researcher in India, has demonstrated and presented his findings at a conference (the International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology) that using the enzyme lipase as the catalyst he can convert vegetable oils into biodiesel. The trouble, of course, with that, conceptually, is that lipase is a complex protein, difficult and expensive to synthesize. Naturally it would not be a significant breakthrough if Ravichandra did not start thinking “outside the box”, so to speak. He saw no reason to go to the trouble of refining the enzyme to …
Internet, Tech »
Googles 10th aniversary project called ten to the power hundered project aims at bringing Ideas from all over the world onto a platform of evaluation and then implementing the best Idea from the group with a funding of 10 million.
This is a selfless deal from Google’s side and also from the person with the Idea as he stands to gain only the satisfaction of having helped. The concept of getting people to contribute Ideas before doing a good deed is not a new concept, but with googles reach this is …
Featured, Internet »
Google’s project for user written authoritative articles is picking up heat by the day. Knol is defined by google as a unit of knowledge. Any one can create a Knol , it is also possible for an author to let other user’s edit their articles, it is actually possible to customize in detail who can edit and manipulate the articles.
One’s google account can be used to log in to this service also. The basic difference of the service from Wikipedia is that google has given importance to the author of …

