Forget pico projectors, a company in India is promising to have the first mobile phones with holographic projectors ready within two years.
Infosys says the handsets will think nothing of beaming and screening 3D films, games and objects - and could even help accident investigators, teachers and doctors in their work.
It's all down to Fourier algorithms, which we won't pretend to understand, but a useful phrase to drop into conversation nevertheless.
Asus supplied us with a black Eee PC 901 with Windows XP a couple of days ago, which means we were finally able to finish our battery testing – the early Windows drivers on our first review model meant that our first batch of battery results were tentative.
The good news is that there’s a staggering increase in battery life once the Intel Atom processor’s power-saving features kick in. We’ve revised the original review accordingly, but you can read more about the final battery tests – and see some more images of the black Eee PC 901 – after the cut.
Toshiba's been busy knocking out not only the world's first laptop with a 128GB SSD, but also the first series of laptops with dedicated processors for upscaling DVDs to HD quality.
The 12.1in Portégé R500-S5007V is the model getting the 128GB SSD
makeover. Having all that solid state memory onboard does bump the
price up to $2,999 in the US, but that's still less than Apple charges
for the 64GB SSD version of its MacBook Air, which sells for $3,146 in
the States.
Toshiba also claims that, at 1.09kg, it's "the world’s lightest laptop
with a 128GB SSD and DVD SuperMulti drive." Given that it's just about
the only laptop with that combination you could also argue that it's
the heaviest, but you get the point.
It was aiming for five million but it looks like Firefox makers, Mozilla, smashed that on its Firefox 3 Download Day. While it awaits confirmation from Guinness, Mozilla is claiming it's set a new world record of 8.3 million downloads in just 24 hours.
And though the first 24 hours may be over, the downloads continue. The current total now stands at a whopping 13.7 million, with the UK contributing a healthy 0.5 million all by itself. That puts it ahead of France and Spain on 4.7 million apiece, but trailing Germany who not only made short work of Portugal (61,000) last night but have also downloaded Firefox a table-topping 1.1 million times.
Current world champions, though, are the US with 4 million downloads. Honourable mentions must also go to the 11 downloaders in Chad and the 29 in Turkmenistan. Bravo.
Huawei, dongle maker extraordinaire, has unveiled its latest HSDPA-hungry creation, the E180. As well as carrying out its usual modem duties, it also packs a MicroSD card reader, capable of supporting cards of up to 8GB in capacity - neatly doing away with the need for a separate memory stick for your files.
At a mere 10mm thick, with an "innovative swivelling USB conector", Huawei claims it's the world's thinnest HSDPA modem. It supports standard uplink speeds of up to 5.76Mbps and downloads up to a speedy 7.2Mbps. Apple fans will be pleased to know it's also Mac friendly.
With Huawei dominating the rebadge 3G dongle market, expect to see it wearing your network's logo when it goes on sale at the end of the month.
We heard rumblings back in April that Lenovo's ultra-thin Thinkpad X300 would be getting some siblings and now we have a photo of the first offspring. This shot of the 12in X200 has been leaked on Chinese site, 51nb.com.
The main noticeable difference is the loss of the trackpad but thankfully the site also has a handy spec list so we can see inside the sprightly 1.32kg body. Lurking under the magnesium alloy chassis is a 45nm Intel Centrino 2 + VPro Core 2 Duo CPU running at up to 2.4GHz and optional 64GB SSD storage alongside standard 200GB or 320GB drives.
It also boasts up to 9.6 hours of battery life from its 9-cell battery - an impressive feat, although likely to be hit significantly once the various WiMax and GPS options are turned on.
51nb has it slated for a mid-July release so expect official details and pricing soon.
Apple has its OS X but that only runs on the iPhone. Google's Android, however, has been designed to run on many devices, and some are predicting it could unleash a raft of new handsets and makers.
The Co-founder of the nicely titled, 'The Astonishing Tribe', Hampus Jakobsson, a member of the Open Handset Alliance that has played a part of Android's development, has told Tech Radar that the Google platform will: "lower the bar for developers," leading to, "an explosion of new phone manufacturers."
When it comes to showing just how tough a rugged laptop is, we can think of better ways than using one for an impromptu bit of hammering, but what do we know?
By using its xTablet to hammer a nail in to a piece of wood, MobileDemand hopes to show just how durable this chunky Tablet PC really is – and it's attached an accelerometer to one side to show just how big a beating it takes in the process. And with the cack-handed carpentry complete, the xTablet has suffered just a little case damage, yet is still “running like a champ”. Video after the cut.
The first Mobile WiMax network in Europe has now gone live in Amsterdam, offering speeds "comparable to broadband" from anywhere within the city's ring road for €20 (£16) a month.
Being mobile, the network conforms to the 802.11e standard for WiMax, which means it can be used on the move, rather than just from stationary laptops...
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