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Polymer Vision launched Readius phone with fold-up screen

RedPepper — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:20:05 +0000

Polymer Vision, a Dutch company launched Readius phone with 5-inch (13-cm) display – the world’s first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and folds back together so that the device can fit into a pocket. The gadget is in production and will fight with Apple’s iPhone and Amazon’s [...]

Bone-conduction cellphone eliminates ears

RedPepper — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:33:47 +0000

The A1407PT, made for Japan’s second most popular cellphone provider, KDDI by Pantech, is a very ordinary 3G handset running on the company’s CDMA 1X network apart, that is, from its earpiece, which is actually a bone-conduction loudspeaker. The principles behind bone conduction are nothing new – simply press the speaker to the head just [...]

Liquid camera lenses in our digital cameras within a few years

RedPepper — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:59:00 +0000

Developing camera lenses based on liquids is nothing new, but an venture by a Japanese giant in a small US firm promises that we could soon find fluid optics in our digital cameras and cellphones within a few years. Itochu of Tokyo and Osaka has decided to work with Holochip of New Mexico to commercialize [...]