Device
Oct 17th, 2009 |
By Won |
Category: Device, General Opinion
▲ Eric Giler demos wireless electricity (via Ted.com)
It has been a while since we’ve seen Eric Giler presenting WiTricity, a technology that enables wireless electricity transfer, on Ted.com. The technology still seems to be in a relatively basic state, at least not at a stage where we strive for efficiency. It seems feasible for [...]
Tags: palm pre, touchstone, wireless electricity
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Aug 27th, 2009 |
By Won |
Category: Device, User Interface
Touch screen interfaces are extremely popular nowadays. However, despite the hype, user satisfaction from using a touch screen device is not as high as it should be. Certainly there are many reasons behind this. However, one particular reason I am going to address here is the Response. When pressing a button [...]
Tags: Haptic, Touch
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Aug 23rd, 2009 |
By Won |
Category: Apple, Device, User Interface
Bump Technologies have came up with a new way to share personal contact information and photos utilizing iPhone’s Peer-to-Peer Bluetooth functionality and motion sensor. Simply run application on both ends, and BUMP one device to the other, the information is sent to the other side. Above all, the application is completely FREE.
Tags: iPhone, iPod Touch, Motion Sensor, P2P
Posted in Apple, Device, User Interface |
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Jun 9th, 2009 |
By Won |
Category: Apple, Device
Image from Apple.com
New iPhone has been released and perhaps to a naked eye it’s difficult to find the ‘Hardware’ difference between the new iPhone 3Gs and prior iPhone 3G. After all, software can always be upgraded with firmware update.
So here’s a simple summary of the hardware specification on Apple’s Homepage.
- CPU: 412MHz ARM 11 [...]
Tags: iPhone
Posted in Apple, Device |
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Jun 4th, 2009 |
By Won |
Category: Device, Sony, User Interface, Vision
Here’s a new shocker from the E3. Perhaps a even more shocker for me than PSP Go. Hmmm. I take that comment back. I was very very VERY shocked with PSP Go, not because of its specifications, but rather the rumor of hideous, not-sony-like design turning out to be true. Anyway, unlike [...]
Tags: Game, motion controller, PS3
Posted in Device, Sony, User Interface, Vision |
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Jun 2nd, 2009 |
By Won |
Category: Device, Microsoft, User Interface, Vision
It’s simply all too good to be true. The new XBox presented at the E3 yesterday seems to have included two controversial technologies, Full body motion capture and Voice Recognition. We have always presumed these two technology to be crude, unfit for the general customers. And of course, I’m very skeptic with [...]
Tags: motion capture, voice recognition
Posted in Device, Microsoft, User Interface, Vision |
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May 8th, 2009 |
By Won |
Category: Device
It’s surprising how new devices often appear in close time period.
Even the most sofisticated and complex devices like mobile phones, which have a developing period of more than 6 months, appear or announced on the market within periods of weeks.
It’s probably safe to assume that most competitive companies research, try out pretty much [...]
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Apr 27th, 2009 |
By Won |
Category: Device, General Opinion
Photo from TodayPPC
WiBro has always been the controversial technology in Korea. As I’ve mentioned once in previous article, WiBro was launched in June 2006, and since then, it has failed to gain a fair share of users. The main reason there aren’t many subscribers is the relatively high price. Especially in a [...]
Tags: Egg, KT, WiBro, WIFI
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Dec 24th, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: Apple, Device
Recently the number of applications on the Apple Appstore surpassed the milestone of 10000. A blogger on the taptaptap.com celebrated this by creating a poster using the icons of the applications on the site. Considering Apple Appstore’s recent growth rate, this news don’t really come as a surprise to me. It has became the [...]
Tags: AppStore
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Nov 18th, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: Device, News
Another article regarding CNN’s ‘Magic Wall’ has been posted on the web. The article introduces Jeff Han and his company “Perceptive Pixel”.
Link – The inventor behind CNN’s election ‘Magic Wall’
Tags: Multitouch
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