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Sunday, July 4, 2010

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Gadget Thumbnails for 02-Jul-2010
Zoku Ice Lolly Maker
Melodyhorn Air Powered Synth for the musically inclined
Skyhook Wireless works with Samsung
E-Ink Next Generation Display Platform

Gadget Thumbnails for 02-Jul-2010

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:01 PM PDT

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Zoku Ice Lolly Maker

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:46 PM PDT

For those living in the Northern Hemisphere, it is without a doubt that summer is in full swing, and if you can’t stand the sweltering heat, why not get yourself an ice lolly to keep things cool? If you happen to be on a rather tight budget and wish not to waste all that spare change on ice lollies purchased outside, why not fork out a one time investment of £39.99 to get the Zoku Ice Lolly Maker? This unique device allows you to conjure a trio of ice lollies at any one time, as long as you make the necessary preparations a good 24 hours beforehand. Stock it up with your own flavored concoction of choice, place it in the freezer for 24 hours and you’re good to go. All you need to do after that is insert the pop sticks into the molds, pour in your favorite drink and wait for around 9 minutes as the lollies start to form. It is capable of making up to nine lollies before you need to re-freeze the whole shebang, so good luck if your immediate family happens to be larger than 9!

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Melodyhorn Air Powered Synth for the musically inclined

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:41 PM PDT

Do you have a penchant for making music? You might be interested then in picking up the Melodyhorn Air Powered Synth, but don’t be fooled by it being made out of plastic. After all, being plastic doesn’t mean it won’t work as well as a metal piece of instrument, but then again it might just be a whole lot less longer lasting than one made out of the solid stuff. Just what is the $29.99 Melodyhorn Air Powered Synth, you ask? Well, it is a brand of melodica, featuring keys of a piano, although you play it in a similar manner to that of a woodwind instrument, making it polyphonic like a keyboard or a harmonica. Haven’t heard of the melodica branch of instruments? Well, you might just be a wee bit surprised to know that the following artists have featured a melodica instrument in their albums or live shows before, and we’re talking about Ben Folds, Faith No More, Oasis, Depeche Mode, The String Cheese Incident, Cake, Cyndi Lauper, Indigo Girls, Herbie Hancock, and even The Beatles.

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Skyhook Wireless works with Samsung

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:30 PM PDT

Skyhook Wireless might not be familiar to some of you out there, so here’s a little bit of nitty gritty on it – it is a provider of the Core Location Platform, where the company recently announced that Samsung will deploy Skyhook's technology across multiple Samsung mobile devices. Skyhook has chosen the Samsung Wave (also known as the S8500) to be the first handset to roll out with its Skyhook service. Of course, we do hope that the Wave will not be the last phone to do so, as this is one of the first few bada-powered open mobile platform phones to arrive in the market at the moment. The addition of Skyhook on Samsung devices like the Wave results in an all location-aware application which offers the most precise, reliable, and fastest location information available.

Geo-location is at the center of this mobile innovation, and seems to be more and more fundamental to a host of emerging mobile services these days. After all, you can check out hundreds, if not thousands of mobile applications today which incorporate location as a part of their user experience. Precise location will help consumers to check-in with friends, find nearby concerts and exhibits, or even get directions to the destinations of their choice despite being in an unfamiliar place. As for other experiences including turn-by-turn navigation or local search, location is at the very centre, with applications such as Twitter, Shazam and OpenTable incorporating location to simplify user experience and to personalize content delivery.

Currently, Skyhook is the de facto leader in geo-location technology, capable of fulfilling hundreds of millions of location requests each day over a 100 million handsets, netbooks and digital cameras – are those figures enough to send your head into a spin? With the ground-breaking Core Location system from Skyhook Wireless, it will merge Wi-Fi, cellular and GPS readings to produce a single, accurate location quickly and in all environments.

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E-Ink Next Generation Display Platform

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:07 PM PDT

With the proliferation of e-book readers these days, it makes perfect sense for manufacturers to jump aboard the e-book display bandwagon, where among them E-Ink has already done a pretty bang up job in the past. The company has just announced that it will be releasing its next generation display technology known as Pearl in the second quarter of the year. Pearl will be the way where E Ink expands the capabilities of reflective displays, helping bring electronic paper performance to the next level. It is touted to offer the whitest reflective displays in the industry, while its contrast ratio is now rated at approximately 50% more than today's products, making text on the Pearl seemingly "pop" from the page, resulting in a reading experience most similar to reading text on printed paper. Now, where have we heard of that before?

It would be interesting to see whether the E-Ink Pearl’s introduction in more and more devices would mean the iPad would be used less as an e-book reader and more like a tablet device for surfing and browsing. Apart from that, the Pearl is a more lightweight and eco-friendly product compared to ordinary paper, since you will experience with less eye strain and longer battery life when compared to LCD technology. Those who are more technically inclined would be interested to known that the E-Ink Pearl design builds on the current generation of Vizplex designs.

Currently, E-Ink technology products are the lowest power displays in the market where e-book readers are concerned. The Pearl will carry forward that capability with next generation performance, and is completely bi-stable, requiring no power to hold an image or page of text. This als means there is no longer any more need for bookmarks, as an E-Ink display is full well capable of holding your page and save your battery life for weeks and perhaps even up to months, depending on how often or rarely you use your e-book reader.

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