Dunhill’s biometric wallet protects your money while looking stylish

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If you’ve ever been a fan of Dunhill products, you would know that one of their mottos has been “Style, quality, excellence.” Well now they have one more to add to that list: security. Dunhill’s latest wallet, the Biometric wallet is a thing of marvel. Besides looking ruggedly stylish & handsome, this high-tech wallet protects your cash using high-tech security – Biometric security. The card features a biometric that detects your finger before allowing you to open it. Thieves & robbers who manage to steal the wallet off you will be hard pressed to get to the cash without the use of your finger. The wallet also comes with a feature to link to your phone using Bluetooth. When the phone & your wallet are separated for over 5 meters apart, an alarm will sound on your phone letting you know that your wallet is missing. Security & style won’t come cheap though. At $826, this wallet will usually cost over the amount of cash you’ll keep inside it. Head here if you’re interested in purchasing it.

Nook Color earns its very early, very unofficial Android 3.0 Honeycomb wings

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One of the first things that happens after a brand new platform emulator breaks loose is that a bunch of hackers far smarter than ourselves get hold of it, tear it apart, & port it to whatever's convenient. In the case of this week's Android 3.0 Honeycomb preview, "whatever's convenient" would be the Nook Color, which reigns as perhaps the lowest priced decent-quality Android tablet funds can currently buy. Naturally, xda-developers has a thread going on the subject as they speak; the current port is said to be  slow & mostly broken -- but then again, that kind of describes the current state of the emulator itself. excellent news is that the developer says they designs on working on graphics acceleration to improve performance over the weekend, so with any luck, the Xoom might have some unofficial competition before  long. Follow the break for another shot.

Over the Top is a 17 x 17 x17 Rubik’s Cube

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would like to see someone solve this particular cube, which was designed by Oskar van Deventer. It is a 17x17x17 puzzle cube printed using Shapeways.You got to like how it has a black frame around the edges. In case you doubt whether or not this is genuine or not, this 17 x 17 x 17 Rubik’s Cube, also known as Over The Top, will be on display at the New York Puzzle Party Symposium on Saturday, February 12th.

iCar has discovered the secret of flight: It’s the wheels

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This one, which is called the iCar, doesn’t need any wings or magic to fly but makes use of specially designed wheels. Apparently round spinning surfaces can generate lift, which is called the Magnus Effect.

The iCar takes advantage of the Magnus Effect to turn its wheels in to wings. On the ground, the iCar is a one seater sports car with three traditional wheels & giant cylindrical hubs. To get airborne, it extends its hubs outward to generate a bigger lifting surface, the hubcaps on the two front wheels swivel forward to turn in to propellers, & the car is prepared for takeoff. As it starts to move forward, the cylinder wings spin (driven by electric motors), & they generate  lift to get the iCar airborne in about 1,500 feet.Apparently, the car has a range of about 500 miles & has a cruising speed of 200 miles per hour.

BlackBerry PlayBook reportedly in production

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It appears that they might be getting our BlackBerry PlayBooks by March or earlier – if recent reports turn out to be correct. According to DigiTimes, RIM has begun production of their QNX tablets and they expect have 150,000 to 200,000 PlayBooks made each month. RIM selected a factory in Taiwan called quanta computer Inc. to manufacture their tablets instead of a factory on the mainland of China to help prevent other manufacturers from copying their designs, as well as  protect its security features. No wonder they haven’t heard much news about the tablet at the factory until now. Well they all can’t wait to get our hands on this QNX device, so a March release date sounds nice to us. Keep your fingers crossed, and stay tuned.

Motorola Atrix 4G and Xoom tablet launching at the end of February, Droid Bionic and LTE Xoom in Q2

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Motorola had one of the best CES showings of any company in recent memory, & now we've got some rough ship dates for all that new gear: CEO Sanjay Jha  announced on the company's earnings call that the Atrix 4G for AT&T & 3G Xoom for Verizon will arrive at "the finish of February," while the LTE-enabled Droid Bionic & LTE Xoom will arrive at "the finish of the second quarter" as historicallyin the past promised. That sounds good to us -- & with that earlier Best Buy leak proposing the Xoom will hit on February 17, we're hoping that Moto's taking a long view of when the finish of February actually begins. Even better, a late February Xoom release supports those rumors that Honeycomb will be usually released in March, which is when the actual Android tablet invasion will start. It's all happening, folks.

Amnesia Razorfish offers gesture sharing with Microsoft Surface

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Heard of Amnesia Razorfish before? they haven’t either, & think that it's a chilled name for a rock band. The company, however, offers high tech solutions, & their latest effort would involve Microsoft’s super costly Surface multitouch display. Their effort at letting you share your content between your smartphone & the Microsoft Surface is an effortless one (for the finish user), as all you require to do is place a compatible smartphone or tablet device on the Surface, dragging pics & other documents straight onto the device. Of coursework, there is also the ability to preview them instantly if that is your cup of tea. No specifications were given on how that is going to be achieved, but according to Amnesia Razorfish, a purported “Connect” system will make full use of Wi-Fi connectivity, nearness detection, a matchless ID & phone accelerometer, where all of them depend on the type of phone & location. It works with iOS devices only at the moment, but Amnesia Razorfish intends to roll it out for Android, Windows phone 7 & BlackBerry smartphones as well.

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You know that crazy next-gen PSP (NGP) with multiple touchpads, dual analog sticks, and quadrupled resolution that Sony  trotted out? Yeah, it's got a quad-core Cortex-A9 and a quad-core Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX543MP4+ GPU doing the grunt work within. We've seldom seen a handheld this powerful. Then again, thinking about the darn thing won't be launching until this holiday season, possibly quad-core parts will be the least Sony will want in order to match up to the "super phones" coming up this year. We're  wondering how long any of these souped-up portables will last on a charge. Full spec sheet after the break.

Navigon rolls out iPhone Car Kit for $50

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The turn-by-turn navigation specialists at Navigon are pairing up their MobileNavigator iPhone app with an official automobile Kit today, debuting at MacWorld out in San Francisco. As you might expect, said kit includes the usual array of car-mount necessities -- a USB automobile charger, an Apple-approved 5-foot iPhone cable, & the suction-style mount itself, which the company describes as "a stylish example of french tech design" featuring a "barely there look" that won't detract from your car's luxurious, indulgent interior. The Kit is available now for $49.99 -- $44.99 through February 3rd. Follow the break for the full press release.

Apple store down, white iPhone 4 imminent?

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Thanks to the MacRumors forums, whispers abound that the Apple store is already offline (even as at publishing time), & this normally happens when Apple is about to release a new product (or two). Of course, there is also the remote possibility that Apple is maintaining their web-site but of course our itching ears would prefer to lean towards the chance of a white iPhone 4 hitting the markets seven times the “maintenance” is over. In fact, a tweet that identifies a pair of purported white iPhone part numbers, & they are the MC604X/A (16GB) & MC606X/A (32GB). Will you be refreshing the page every few minutes so that you can be one of the first few to lay your eyes on the genuine deal, digitally of course.

Laser-propelled rockets in the future?

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We’ve already seen laser-powered helicopters from LaserMotive plus perhaps the company will go about sending rockets into space using lasers in the near future too. One of the issues about sending a chemical-powered rocket into space is that you need to carry all that fuel on board, which isn’t exactly light. An alternative would be to use an array of powerful microwave lasers that stay on the ground plus heat up the rocket. The rocket would have a heat exchanger on the outside, gathering the energy it needs. Since the actual reaction energy in such a system would be coming directly from the ground, it wouldn’t must be carried along with the rocket, lightening its load plus also making it much safer. Is this how space travel will be done in the future?

InOne concept all-in-one computer is super elegant

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This idea InOne computer is exactly what its name suggests, an all-in-one computer, but it’s one that looks very eye-catching. It features a 22-inch display, keyboard, touchpad, speakers & digital tablet all built in to a single unit. it's built-in wireless connectivity like all modern computers & while there aren’t any technical specifications associated with it  yet, we’re  hoping that it’ll be turned in to a actual product, irrespective of specifications.

Holocube scales up with life-sized, 70-inch, HC70 holographic projector

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First they were little, then they added touchability, now Holocube's holograms in a box are going giant time -- in that the company's latest model is physically much larger than the others. It's the HC70, a brand spanking new version with a 70-inch transparent screen that can be viewed from both sides. It's powered by a Windows 7 Embedded machine with 40GB of flash storage from which it can loop between seven plus 18 hours of video, displayed by 1080p projector. you can see it in action below showing a... slightly mesmerizing collection of random bits of footage. let us know in case you can find the hidden meaning.

Report: HTC Planning Three Android Tablets in 2011

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HTC is this week’s latest contender, as the company appears poised to launch three new tablets in the first half of 2011. they may see the first of these as soon as March, according to a document from DigiTimes. Dubbed the “Flyer,” HTC’s first tablet release is said to look like a larger version of the company’s Desire smartphone (above).
The Flyer will ship with the most-current Android version, 2.3 (Gingerbread),  than the heavily-hyped 3.0 Honeycomb version, the upcoming Android OS designed specifically for tablet devices. DigiTimes says customers will be able to upgrade to Honeycomb one time the OS is widely available. Google has not yet announced Honeycomb’s exact release date

A March release for HTC would put the company in line with the slew of spring tablet releases to come, including the Motorola Xoom (which will launch with Honeycomb) & the recently leaked HP webOS tablet offering.

HTC announced three new 4G-enabled Android smartphones at CES in January: the Thunderbolt, the Evo Shift & the Inspire. Much like the Flyer tablet, all three rings operate on Android version 2.2 (Froyo).

For smartphone hardware manufacturers, keeping pace with Google’s frequent upgrade schedule is difficult. In the first three years of Android’s release, the OS was updated 4 times. & with carrier contracts usually requiring three years between free phone upgrades, that’s loads of potential OS updates to be missed (especially if the phone isn’t able to update its OS when the new version is released).

MSI shows off tablet concept with a integrated projector

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We're not positive how they missed this idea tablet at CES a few weeks ago -- oh right, there were over 40 something tablets hanging around! -- but MSI's projector-equipped Windows 7 slate positive is an fascinating one. Yep, in addition to its crazy Butterfly and Angelow all-in-ones, MSI also put together a  chunky Atom-powered, 10-inch tablet with a built-in swivel projector. they don't have any details on the projector itself -- no lumens or resolution -- but according to laptop Italia, it can be maneuvered to display onto a wall or even flipped around to project downward onto a desk. An MSI rep implied that the latter function could be used to enable some kind of laser projected keyboard (we're imagining it to be a lot like this one from Light Blue Optics), but there's no actual application in place for that yet. That appears to be a popular feature in ideas these days (see Mozilla's amazing Seabird) -- now  give us the actual thing! Hit the source link for a few more shots of MSI's tablet / projector contraption.

T-Mobile brings Samsung Galaxy S 4G to the fore

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What you see here is not the Samsung Galaxy S 4G, but , its predecessor since official images of the handset did not accompany the press release. Still, that has not stopped T-Mobile from announcing their exclusive deal with Samsung, offering the Galaxy S 4G on “America’s largest 4G network”, where it will run on Android 2.2 Froyo, being full well able to delivering theoretical peak download speeds of up to 21 Mbps, while retaining the superb tremendous AMOLED touchscreen display. Of work, to stay at the leading fringe of know-how, you will need to pay, and pay dearly you will for the Galaxy S 4G as T-Mobile requires you to sign up with its 4G information designs from $10 every month. No official release date for the Galaxy S 4G has been revealed  yet, although according to T-Mobile, it will be obtainable in the approaching weeks. Will this dampen sales of the CDMA iPhone from Verizon (which runs on 3G by the way)?

Ethical robots coming your way

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When it comes to the subject of ethics in robots, this is a  touching subject just because you can not very reduce human ethics to logical rules. Of coursework, there is this  small issue of robots liking logical rules to the hilt as well. Researchers at the University of Connecticut are currently trying to navigate through a  tricky situation, where they have been trying to conjoin machine learning with traditional ethical philosophy so that robots can behave ethically – or at least, in theory. Of coursework, the backbone of this approach is based on a technique pioneered by a philosopher named David Ross, who touts that people make ethical decisions basically through a careful balance of different variables against each other, such as ‘do nice,’ ‘don’t do harm,’ ‘keep your promises,’ ‘don’t be annoying,’ & other things in a similar manner. Robots are  nice with variables, so logically speaking, shouldn’t this be a snap to implement? Of coursework, the tricky part would be to program the right variables in a way where the robots can quantify.

Sansa releases universal 3D glasses

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While glassless-3D TV is slowly picking up in popularity, it’ll be  some time before it becomes something that every home or living room has. Regular 3D TV (that requires glasses) is only beginning to catch on now, & people aren’t exactly queuing up miles to get their hands on one. Because of this, there is a market for third-party 3D glasses & Sansa knows this. that is why the parents over there's come up with the Universal 3D glasses. One of the major drawbacks to having a 3D TV is the fact that you need to wear glasses in order to experience it. What happens if you lose the glasses? Or they don’t work anymore? they cost a bomb to replace, & not all manufacturers charge the same price for their glasses, & most glasses & compatible with 3D TVs from other manufacturers. Sansa’s 3D glasses are touted to be able to recognize 3D signals coming in from any 3D TV – Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba or Sharp – which is a bonus if you own over one 3D TV of different brands at home or if you need a spare pair of 3D glasses when heading over to a friend’s house to watch 3D TV together. In addition to being universal, the glasses cost $100 a pair – which is reasonable if you take in to account its universal functionality. It recharges by a USB cable & can be bought in 3 different sizes – small, medium & large & they even come with a nosepiece to for those of you who wear spectacles