Archive for Stefan Frank
Samsung i900 Omnia unboxing video
Here’s a quick video by MobileBurn’s Michael Oryl of the Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia, a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone will all sorts of finger-touch type goodies added to it. It comes equipped with a very capable 5MP autofocus camera and is aimed squarely at HTC’s popular Touch Diamond handset. Michael will post a full [...]
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Sharp shows 26-inch solar powered TV
Sharp 26-inch Solar Powered TV
At the G8 summit in Japan, Sharp has unveiled a new prototype 26-inch television that is powered completely by solar energy. The company developed the product for the many parts of the world where TV signals are available, yet reliable power is not.
The new prototype TV uses 25% of the power [...]
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Verizon FiOS Internet service goes 50Mbps all over
Earlier this week Verizon announced that it will begin offering its 50 and 20Mbps FiOS internet services across its entire 16 state footprint, and that other tiers of its FiOS internet service would be receiving a speed boost as well. This is seemingly in response to an announcement from Comcast earlier that said that it [...]
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HTC Touch Diamond unboxing, videos, camera samples!
HTC Touch Diamond
MobileBurn’s Michael Oryl has posted a review of the new HTC Touch Diamond, and we have a few of his videos and photos mixed in with a series of unboxing photos for our own use. In case you have been living under a rock lately, the HTC Touch Diamond is a new [...]
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OmniVision BSI camera sensors get smaller, yet see more light
OmniVision BSI sensor
Today OmniVision announced that is has a new backside illumination (BSI) CMOS camera sensor to offer OEMs. Backside illumination switches up the normal order of the layers in a CMOS camera sensor, placing the silicon layer above the metal layers in the sensor, meaning that only the color filter and the microlens [...]
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Samsung announces 256GB solid state drive (SSD) for laptops
Samsung 256GB SSD
Today Samsung announced that it has developed a new 256GB solid state drive for laptop and notebook computers. The drive fits the normal 2.5″ form factor commonly used in portable computers, and makes use of the SATA II interface, for speedy data transfers.
This new SSD is only 9.5mm thick, and Samsung claims [...]
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Santa Fe group claims to be allergic to WiFi, suing to have it removed from public buildings
A group of people in Santa Fe, New Mexico is suing the city of Santa Fe in an attempt to force it to remove WiFi wireless networks from public buildings. The group of people claim to be electro-sensitive and allergic to the WiFi signal, and that by making use of it, the city is [...]
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Dutch robot walks like a human, looks like a Sci-Fi villan
Flame, a walking robot
Researcher Daan Hobbelen of the Delft Univsity of Technology (TU Delft) has developed a robot, named Flame, that walks in the same “falling forward” way that we humans do. Hobbelen claims that his robot is the most advanced human style walking robot in the world.
Researchers at TU Delft also plan on [...]
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Triumph shows Solar Powered Bra in Tokyo
Triumph’s Solar Powered Bra
We’re all for the worlds of fashion and technology meeting up once in a while, but this particular Fashion/Tech love child kinda scares us a bit. Triumph International Japan, a lingerie manufacturer, today showed off a green (literally) solar powered bra. What does a bra need power for you ask? [...]
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Solar power meets Bluetooth, Iqua’s 603 SUN headset
Our mobile overlords at MobileBurn.com recently posted a review of a solar powered Bluetooth headset, the Iqua 603 SUN. While it uses a regular miniUSB charger to top its rechargeable battery off the first time, the headset’s solar power keeps it going pretty much from that point forward. The side effect of that, [...]
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