Posted on 19 February 2007
Recently my wife lost her mobile phone. We knew that the chances of getting it back were remote. Yet, there were a few formalities to be completed. So the whole day I kept calling up the lost phone’s number and as expected I got a “It is switched off” message. In the meantime I also [...]
Tags: Mobile phone, Mobile phone theft, Security
Posted on 14 February 2007
Fujitsu is possibly on the way to launching the first e-paper in colour. The prototype was displayed in the Publishing Expo in London today.
However, the e-paper is unlikely to be launched until late 2008. There are other e-paper technologies too but they are all in monochrome which according to Mike Nelson, GM of Fujitsu in [...]
Posted on 03 February 2007
Ever tried using a laptop while in a train or may be in a restaurant. You invariably find people trying to have a peek into your computer screen. Snooping is prevalent everywhere from offices to public places. So how to prevent people from snooping and looking at laptop screen.
Here is where 3M’s Notebook Privacy Computer [...]
Tags: laptop, laptop snooping, Notebook privacy, privacy, Privacy filter
Posted on 30 January 2007
Zink, with help from Polaroid, has created a way to print photographs or documents without ink or an ink cartridge.Without the ink cartridge a printer can be reduced to the size of an iPod or smaller.
The Zink system can be embedded in any device. It is also more environmental friendly, the company says. Ninety-five percent [...]
Tags: inkless printing, printers, without ink, zink
Posted on 20 January 2007
Seitz has outdone every other Digital Camera with its mind-numbing 160-Megapixel 6×17 digital camera. You got that right - one hundred and sixty MP. Couple that with 48-bit colour depth, and you get images of definitions we can’t speak about. At the maximum resolution, an image is 900MB, and you can’t use flash to store [...]