Posts tagged technology

IKEA’S KNÄPPA CARDBOARD DIGITAL CAMERA

IKEA is on an innovative roll these days and have just announce the KNÄPPA flat-pack cardboard digital camera. The KNÄPPA the flat-pack cardboard digital camera (made out one a single folded piece of cardboard) runs on two AA batteries and can hold up to 40 pictures of 2.3 megapixels.

It also has a swing-out USB plug, viewfinder cutout, shutter key and paperclip-friendly erase button. The camera will be handed out for free to all customers who purchase anything from their PS Furniture Collection.

Check out the video (above) for more info! Pretty cool, no?

Oh the possibilites…

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: XCom Global - Thumb (drive) up!

cnnmoneytech:

Just wanted to give a belated shout out to XCom Global for saving me the headache of scrambling for a connection at this year’s Mobile World Congress.

At an event with 70,000 attendees, you could imagine that connectivity is an issue — ironic, at a conference about connectivity. Wi-Fi is…

THE MAGIC CUBE LASER KEYBOARD
This sexy little box projects a full-sized keyboard onto any flat surface, allowing the user to type messages on an iPhone or iTouch without the need for midge fingers. The Magic Cube even makes a life-like tap sound when you type, so you feel like you’re really using the real thing. Check out some footage of the device in action [above]. 
Available to buy here!

THE MAGIC CUBE LASER KEYBOARD

This sexy little box projects a full-sized keyboard onto any flat surface, allowing the user to type messages on an iPhone or iTouch without the need for midge fingers. The Magic Cube even makes a life-like tap sound when you type, so you feel like you’re really using the real thing. Check out some footage of the device in action [above]. 

Available to buy here!

Are You (Still) a Technophobe?

joshpangan:

“Technology is changing fast, and those who don’t change with it will be left behind.” - SCORE, “Counselors to America’s Small Business”
“Are you suffering from fear of technology? In this day and age, reluctance to adopt tech tools can seriously hinder your business’s growth potential. Consumers and big businesses alike are embracing tools like smartphones and tablet computers to be more productive. If your business isn’t in step wit…”

Tupac to perform live at Coachella with the power of holographic technology

You wouldn’t know that Tupac is dead by all the news that surrounds him year after year including unreleased music, photos and conspiracies. Unfortunately, Tupac is dead - but for this weekend, he will come back to life thanks to holographic technology.

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Inside Apple’s Foxconn factory (video)

bitshare:

Foxconn is the Chinese factory that puts together all of the Apple products, such as the iPhone and iPad. It’s a pretty rare event when cameras are let into Foxconn, and in this video from Marketplace, they take us inside of Foxconn for a brief but telling view of how it is to work at Foxconn and what it looks like when an iPad is put together.

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My new favorite #iPhone accessory. The Moshi Moshi Gold Pop phone by Native Union.
http://www.nativeunion.com/us/limited/popphone-gold.html
5technique:

Best iPhone Accessory Ever

My new favorite #iPhone accessory. The Moshi Moshi Gold Pop phone by Native Union.

http://www.nativeunion.com/us/limited/popphone-gold.html

5technique:

Best iPhone Accessory Ever

futurescope:

Nokia seeks patent for tattoos to tell you who’s calling

I love tattoos and I love my cellphone, but I’m not sure how I feel about the two of them being combined. That’s exactly what Nokia is seeking to do with its new patent application — to create a ferromagnetic ink that when placed on your skin would communicate with your phone.
The idea is that a demagnetized ink would be imprinted on your skin and then re-magnetized. At that point it would be receptive to magnetic changes or signals sent from your phone and cause a “stimulus” to your skin.
In other words, your arm (or other body part) would vibrate to let you know you had a call.
There are some obvious upsides to this potential new technology. You could get calls in meetings or school or what-have-you without anyone noticing. And theoretically you could assign a different magnetic signal and resulting stimulus for individual callers if you are a compulsive screener. (As I write this, I am becoming more interested in how this would work.)
It should be pointed out the special ink may simply be “applied” to the skin much like you would apply a temporary or henna tattoo. The patent isn’t specific as to whether it has to be permanent or not, so maybe it isn’t as hardcore as it first sounds.

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futurescope:

Nokia seeks patent for tattoos to tell you who’s calling

I love tattoos and I love my cellphone, but I’m not sure how I feel about the two of them being combined. That’s exactly what Nokia is seeking to do with its new patent application — to create a ferromagnetic ink that when placed on your skin would communicate with your phone.

The idea is that a demagnetized ink would be imprinted on your skin and then re-magnetized. At that point it would be receptive to magnetic changes or signals sent from your phone and cause a “stimulus” to your skin.

In other words, your arm (or other body part) would vibrate to let you know you had a call.

There are some obvious upsides to this potential new technology. You could get calls in meetings or school or what-have-you without anyone noticing. And theoretically you could assign a different magnetic signal and resulting stimulus for individual callers if you are a compulsive screener. (As I write this, I am becoming more interested in how this would work.)

It should be pointed out the special ink may simply be “applied” to the skin much like you would apply a temporary or henna tattoo. The patent isn’t specific as to whether it has to be permanent or not, so maybe it isn’t as hardcore as it first sounds.

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