Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, Handhelds
True, the tantalizing rumor of a TomTom GPS for the iPhone suffered a rather untimely demise, but not to worry — as a navigation aid, we figure the iPhone’s sizable touchscreen and dock connector just make too much sense for a GPS solution to not get willed into existence. Engineering firm partfoundry is taking a real (as in, confirmed) stab at developing a custom, purpose-built GPS module that slots into the iPhone’s port, delivering 16 channels of satellite reception to the software of your choice. Notice the “of your choice” there — it looks like partfoundry will be requiring jailbreaked phones and relying on the developer community to serve up apps capable of processing the module’s output and making use of it. The current plan is to get these bad boys out of the door in February, though they’re taking orders now for $89. Oh, and don’t worry, there are plans for a “stylish plastic enclosure” to bring the 1337 hax0r appearance down a notch or three.
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Written by Chris Ziegler on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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The picture says it all, Intel’s going crazy small with its latest SSD chips, but it’s certainly not leaving capacity behind. The new Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD chips come in 2GB and 4GB capacities, are extendable up to 16GB, and weigh less than a drop of water. We’re already impatient for phone manufacturers and DAP makers to start cramming these into their devices, and the RAID opportunities are really sinful. Intel should be showing the chips off at CES in January, no word on when we’ll see ‘em hit the market.
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Written by Paul Miller on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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Now when you eat something and someone says, “it’s good for you,” they may be talking about something rather unexpected; namely, the killing of nasty tapeworms and other nemodes. Tyra Tech, a green technology incubator, is developing a cheese that will not only be nutritious and delicious, but also kill a major health problem for more than 2 billion people living in rural Africa, Asia and Latin America. So even if you or I don’t suffer from tapeworms, many people do, and this new idea may well make their lives much more pleasant and healthier than before.
According to Tyra Tech CFO, Keith Bigsby:
“The company has signed a deal with Kraft Foods to bring these functional foods to market. Kraft will pay the company engineering fees and, if products come out, royalties from sales.”
Tyra Tech represents part of a growing trend for “nutraceuticals,” that is, companies that produce foods that can provide enhanced nutrition or medicinal properties. Although they will most likely be sold as “foodstuffs” and “medical products,” they are being marketed as “lifestyle products”.
Another company, Attune Foods, has come up with a shelf-stable chocolate energy bar containing probiotics, the healthy active cultures found in yogurt. It costs less than $2 and although some say there is a slight after taste, it otherwise swallows just like the real thing.
Green is the word for Tyra Tech, also working on bio-pesticides, which are all natural and made from microbes. They are safer for humans and can be sprayed closer to the time harvest than conventional pesticides.
Here’s to others who will follow your green and important lead, Tyra Tech!
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Written by Marjorie Dorfman on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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If you’re carrrying around a Mobiado Luminoso cell phone, it’s a safe bet you might be interested in Bissol’s brass-encased 4GB flash drives — so why not jack the ritz factor by combining them in Mobiado’s new battery cover for the Luminoso, which features a storage / display compartment for the included drive? That’s right — Mobiado asked itself what its customers wanted, and came up with a custom battery cover that only holds an opulent brass flash drive. Damn, we knew we weren’t exactly the target market, but you’d think they’d at least try to go quadband first.
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Written by Nilay Patel on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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Did you know the name for this electronic protocol dates back to a King Harald I of Denmark (Harald Bluetooth Gormson)? He was born around 910 and died in 986, having ruled as King of Denmark and Norway for a few years around 970. Blue in this case may mean “dark” or “black” and might suggest that the king had a “blue or “dark” tooth, maybe as a result of an accident. But the Bluetooth specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs) is no accident at all, and it provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices over a secure, short-range radio frequency. Affected devices can include: mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, modems, head-sets, digital cameras and video game consoles.
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Written by Marjorie Dorfman for Gadgetell, 2007. |
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Written by Marjorie Dorfman on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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Next time you go to the dentist for some dreadfully painful procedure, you may have the option of eschewing that Novocaine-bearing needle for a flexible dental mouthpiece that turns out the lights on your maxillofacial nerves. Developed by Laguna Hills-based BioMedDevice Limited, and recently approved by the FDA, the so-called gumEase uses no conventional anesthetics, instead relying on cryoanesthesia: basically, the freezer-stored device chills your mouth into numbness. One application of gumEase, which lasts up to 20 minutes, is said to relieve 90% of a patient’s pain within two to three minutes — and to prove it, the manufacturer has produced a rather graphic video depicting a hypodermic-free tooth extraction, which you can watch at your own risk after the break. With products such as this one and the RelaxView HMD seemingly making dental visits more pleasant than ever before, we may actually have to review our policy of only making appointments during leap years.
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Written by Evan Blass on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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In most jobs, if you cost the company money and generally screw up, you can expect a solid dressing-down from the management and then a swift boot out the door. Unless you run a major corporation like AMD. If you’re Hector Ruiz, CEO of the ailing chipmaker, you can freely and openly admit to fouling up the works and still get yourself a tidy raise, it seems. “We blew it and we’re very humbled by it and we learned from it and we’re not going to do it again,” Ruiz said on Thursday, just before the board of directors raised his $1,046,358 salary to $1,124,000 — a 7.4-percent gain. Oh, did we mention the nearly $13 million in stock options too? Hey, just because you tacked on $3.7 billion dollars in long term debt and your stock plummeted 56.2-percent doesn’t mean you’re doing a bad job… although we can’t think of another way to describe it.
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Written by Joshua Topolsky on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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There’s no point in wasting your time looking for the keyboard on this new electronic dictionary produced by the Korean company, Hannuri Biz. After all, it’s not as if it has been misplaced. It has, instead, been deliberately omitted and replaced with an adopted inductive wheel for navigation, which enhances its convenience in use. The Nurian FX1 has 55 kinds of dictionary contents that include English, Chinese and Japanese, and the “Speed Search Bar” makes it easy to search for words.
You will never get bored using the pen-based Nurian FX1 T electronic dictionary. When you tire of working with words, a mere flick of switch transports you into the world of audio/video player, E-Book reader, picture/text viewer and voice recorder. The Nurian FX1 is compact; measuring in at just .86 x 2.85 x .59 inches and weighs 4.2 ounces. It also comes enclosed in a glossy, UV-coated finish. All in all, this is one cool dictionary. No word on pricing or availability.
Via [Aving.net]
Written by Marjorie Dorfman for Gadgetell, 2007. |
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Written by Marjorie Dorfman on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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