New Technology Gadgets - Nuclear battery

Are you tired of your short laptop battery life with only a few hours? Would you like the charge of your mobile phone to last a couple of months? Well, the answer to your “prayers” might be the nuclear batteries, which are been developed at the University of Missouri. They are designed especially for providing a lasting source of energy. And some people think these batteries could replace the current ones, including those used by the electrical cars. According to the creators, a nuclear battery has a very enormous capacity to generate electricity when compared to a regular one.

The batteries have always been the Achilles’ heel of the mobile devices. Usually, the designers of electronic devices for mass consumption (like laptops or media players) use small displays or screens that are not very bright in order to save the scarce energy resources that are provided from the regular batteries. But the new nuclear battery would bring a solution based on a liquid semiconductor (rather than a solid semiconductor) that will produce a much longer lifetime for the battery. The reason is the solid semiconductors are attacked constantly by some radioactive elements used by other types of batteries, while the liquid semiconductor is quite resistant to these attacks. Although the term “nuclear” can be a little perturbing, the fact is that these batteries are not very different from those batteries used in, for example, medical pacemakers.



The new radioisotope battery has the size of a penny and provides much more power than the traditional ones because, according to the researches, its capacity is very superior. Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri, said that the radioisotope battery “can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries”. That is to say, it provides no less than a million times more charge than any “normal” battery.

Kwon and his research team have spent enough time working to solve many problems that they have encountered when developing this type of battery. One important thing is the batteries need to be small and thin in order to be practical and useful; this way, they could be used to power watches and small electronic devices. As mentioned before, the prototype (which you can see in the picture below) has the size and thickness of a penny, but the researchers think they can achieve a thinner battery. In order to do this, Kwon has required the collaboration of another professor: J. David Robertson (chemistry professor and associate director of the MU Research Reactor). Together, they hope to maximize the power of the nuclear batteries as well as reduce the size and test other materials to make additional improvements. Kwon thinks that the final battery, which would be used in commercial gadgets, could be thinner than a human hair. For the moment, the research team have required a provisional patent in order to protect the exclusive right to use this invention.



Samsung DVD player and Blu-Ray: SH-B083 - First internal multi-format drive



Samsung Electronics has introduced its first internal multi-format Blu-ray drive in the electronic market: SH-B083. This Blu-ray disc drive is compatible with high-capacity discs of up to 25GB if they are single-layer discs, or up to 50GB if they are double-layer discs. And, of course, the drive can be used with personal computers (PCs).

This drive reads BD-R and BD-ROM discs at up to 8x speeds. Besides, the CDs are read at up to 48x speeds and the DVDs at up to 16x. Also, the new SH-B083 multi-format drive features an average access speed of 350 ms. On the other hand, besides reading Blu-ray discs, it reads and writes CD and DVD.
The SH-B083 comes with two lenses for more stable reading and writing. This way, a lens is reserved to read BD discs, while the other one reads and writes CDs and DVDs. In addition, the Spherical Aberration Compensation Technology (SACT) improves the reading of those BD discs where the protective layer doesn’t have an uniform thickness.

Also, the precision step control technology (PSCT) allows users to enjoy a higher resolution in the optical pickup head unit (OPU), which is an absolutely necessary requirement due to the smaller track pitch of BD discs (when they are compared with CDs and DVDs).

google-android-mobile-phone



Not long ago Google announced that the source code at the core of its Android platform would be available for free to anyone wanting to use it and develop with. This open source approach has opened up the market to more phones manufacturers and developers able to make Android based phones but it also means there will be a host of application to download for it - and I suspect we will see more useful applications than the mainly games ridden App Store on iTunes (I want a good Exchange Mail client). It looks like Asus, Motorola and Samsung will be the next to follow Kogan and the rather averagely designed HTC G1 with a Google Android phone early next year, hopefully making the most of the Android platform finally. - (Read more Information)

40″ OLED TV



Currently your best bet for an OLED is the Sony XEL-1 which I also included in my top Christmas gadgets list. It’s not the best price screen per inch but certainly is the best looking on the market. But as with all good technology the price will start to come down and screen sizes will go up. Samsung have already prototyped early this year a 40″ Full HD OLED display with 1920 x 1080 resolution, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and is under 1cm thick. Samsung therefore have proved it can all be done so it just a case of making them at a consumer friendly price and I think next year they will we will see these large sized OLEDs appearing.-(Read more inforamition)

Sony Rolly



The Rolly from Sony is all about fun. It is essentially a robotic MP3 playing robot that dances to the music you play. It comes with Rolly Choreographer software to create your own motions and even share them online with others. But if you don’t want to create your own it comes with an Auto and Self Motion modes which will analyse the music and create the type of style dance you request. It also comes with Bluetooth streaming (A2DP), 5 hour battery life, 2GB of storage, high quality speakers with 180 degree baffle effect..(Read full information)

Sony Ericsson J132

Sony Ericsson J132 Specs & Features

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1.5-inch display
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128 x 128 pixels resolution
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4MB of internal memory
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Dual-band GSM
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Dust-resistant keypad
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LED flashlight
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Built-in FM radio
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No camera




Colours:

Night Black and Heaven Blue

No prices announced yet.

Sony Ericsson K330

Sony Ericsson K330 Specs & Features

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Dual-band GSM
* 1.7-inch TFT display
* 128 x 160 pixels resolution
* 10MB of internal memory
* VGA camera (with video recording)
* MP3 ringtones
* Bluetooth
* FM radio
* LED flashlight



Colours:

Gold on Black and Green on Black

Sony Ericsson K330 will be available in Q3 2008, which is end of this year. No word on the pricing.


Sony Ericsson S302

Sony Ericsson S302 Specs & Features

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Quad-band GSM/EDGE
* 2-inch TFT display
* 176 x 220 pixels resolution
* FM radio
* M2 card slot
* Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
* USB
* 2 megapixel camera (no auto focus)




he Sony Ericsson S302 will start shipping in early Q4 2008, which effectively means early 2009.

Sony Ericsson F305

Sony Ericsson F305
Two lower mid-range handsets off which F305 offers interesting gaming features to the mass market and the S302 is one of the Snapshot series.

Sony Ericsson F305 Specs & Features

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2-inch TFT display
* 176 x 220 pixels resolution
* Quad-band GSM/EDGE
* 2 megapixel camera (no auto focus)
* Built-in accelerometer
* Stereo loud speakers
* Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
* Stereo FM radio






The Sony Ericsson F305 offers unprecedented gaming capabilities in this price segment. But the frills end there. It is not armed with any other high-end features in an obvious attempt to keep the price down.

Games:

There are three games pre-installed on the device (Bowling, Bass fishing and Jockey) and they all employ its built-in sensor. Additional motion games developed by Gameloft are available for download at PlayNow.

Colours:

Polar White and Mystic Black.

Will be available from Q3 2008, which is end of this year.

Pricing is yet unknown.

Latest 5 new handsets from Sony Ericsson

Hello Friends, Sony Ericsson has launched their New handsets in Market. Take a look..


Sony Ericsson C905

Leading the launch is this 8 megapixel that is touted to be Sony Ericsson’s flagship Cyber-shot handset. It look slick and comes equipped with a host of attractive features.



Specs and features at a glance:

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2.4-inch QVGA TFT display
* 104 x 49 x 19.5mm
* 136g weight
* Quad-band GSM/EDGE
* UMTS and HSDPA support
* Stereo Bluetooth
* Built-in accelerometer for screen auto rotation
* TV-out port
* Wi-Fi
* USB
* FM radio with RDS
* Face detection
* Xenon flash and photo flash
* Geo tagging
* 2 GB Memory Stick Micro M2

A with scratch-resistant mineral glass cover will serve as a viewfinder on the C905.

Colours:

Copper Gold, Ice Silver & Night Black

Will be available from Q4 2008, which effectively means early 2009. No word on the pricing yet.





U.S. company launches mobile news reader for iPhone, iPod touch

CNEWSCO, LLC, a U.S. new media company, continues its rapid expansion by announcing on Wednesday the launch of a new mobile application, Tantao Mobile News Reader for iPhone and iPod touch, specializing in both global and China news coverage.

Powered by real-time English-language content provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, Tantao News brings to mobile one of the world's most comprehensive and unique news services, now available for both iPhone/iPod touch and BlackBerry Smartphone users, with other platform and device availability to follow shortly.

"The extremely positive market response we have received has been outstanding and supports our proposition of the keen global interest in China and in quality Chinese news coverage," said Jim Campbell, managing partner for CNEWSCO, LLC.


"Our expansion into the iPhone and iPod touch applications realm allows us to build upon our rapidly growing global user base. The massive international resources of Xinhua, and our groundbreaking partnership on this new media initiative, give us a continuous, high-quality stream of digital content to fuel and power our mobile and Internet platforms," Campbell said.

Tantao News provides global coverage of leading world events as well as "China Focus," a special emphasis on China's markets, politics, foreign relations, lifestyle and culture -- a unique offering of world headlines and Chinese features that no other news organization can provide.

Jack Fensterstock, managing partner/China for CNEWSCO, LLC, described the development as "the most significant and innovative cooperation" he had ever seen in the media sector in his more than three decades of working in China advising key units on policy and commercialization and advising multinationals.

The mobile application, with technology provided by Handmark, Inc., gives users access to full text news stories and rich photo news in a compelling, easy-to-navigate application. Tantao News video service is expected to be available in future releases and can be found currently on http://TantaoNews.com/.

The Tantao News mobile application is a free application and immediately available for iPhone/iPod touch and Blackberry phones in the Americas. Users can download the mobile application from Tantao News at http://TantaoNews.com/; find the iPhone/iPod touch App in the iTunes Store; or get the BlackBerry App download at BlackBerry App World.

Source: English.people.

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