Windows Mobile 7 for gaming!
So here you can see that Microsoft has unveiled the new mobile phone OS that Windows Mobile users have been speculating on for years.
It's evident that Microsoft have taken a fresh approach to this iPhone copy-cat market and like Palm they seem to have come out with the support of the overwhelming public.
What does it mean? It means that Microsoft are in-line with Apple, Palm and Google with their mobile software at long last and with the inclusion of XBOX Live gaming ability it means you will get some beefed up games running on mobile hardware.
For us that's exciting we're big fans of mobile gaming and this shows that Microsoft is as serious about it as the rest of the industry — I'm glad they took the time to do it right and differentiate themselves.
Gadgets Of The Future
When each year rolls around we see tech companies offering all kinds of mad devices, like hanspree who put a 40 inch television in a toy firetruck and this year put a tv in a stuffed polar bear. It seems their intentions are squarely aimed at children, but there are a ton of other companies who are pushing the envelope, little bits of their research and development gets outed at CES and this year is no different, except the gadgets are a lot thinner, faster, higher capicity and most of all, shinier.
What really grabbed me was the sci-fi related gadgetry, by this I mean things you think would have just jumped from a sci-fi movie like Minority Report or Bladerunner.
This identity card by Samsung actually moves! The square for the persons face is in fact a small OLED screen that shows the person from different angles. This is not only inredible but it's likely that the US and UK will have identity cards at some point (not that we want them) and I can imagine that they would have something like this on the card paired with RFID technology.
Samsung is pulling out all the stops, here they have a laptop screen, again using OLED but this time it's 40% transparent. That means, you can see through it. I'm not sure how productive it would be, but if they could make your desktop area whatever is behind your screen and then have applications solid over the top that would be incredible.
Phone technology is always moving on, but in the last year or so I've been unimpressed with what manufacturers have to offer, seemingly just lots of iPhone clones or traditional candy bar phones with bigger and bigger cameras. When I saw these phones from LG and Samsung, I was blown away. Despite the phones being fatter, there is a mini projector stuffed inside so you can playback video or photo slideshows anywhere.
via engadget
OnLive at Columbia Tech
OnLive shows what it can really do and discusses some of the technology behind it.
If you're not sure what OnLive is, it's basically a way for anyone with a TV or PC/Mac to play the latest and hottest PC games at full detail without having to spend any money on an extremely powerful PC. It runs entirely over the internet (kind of like streaming a movie trailer, only way more awesome).
This video is both exciting and an inspiration.
Captain Piccard Takes Flight
Well, not exactly. Solar impulse is a project engineered by Captain Piccard and his team, a project that on paper sounds impossible: Perpetual flight.
But that's exactly what Piccard aims to achieve with his ground breaking, ultra light-weight Solar Impulse (pictured) which recently managed to get off the ground using purely solar energy.
In it's current form, it's obeying test flight conditions, travelling 1,150 feet just 1 metre above ground level but this is certainly laudable, incredibly so since it's proves in these early stages that a grand idea such as perpetual flight is possible. As long as the sun keeps rising.
"What does the future hold?" is a question I always ask myself when reading about technological feats such as this and it's simple: fuel-less flying. Once the technology has been further developed, imagine flying without impacting the environment whatsoever. It's not impossible, it's certainly futuristic and it's already beginning to happen.
Hats off to Captain Piccard.
PETMAN Robot
PETMAN is an evolution of the BIGDOG technology by Boston Dynamics. The thing that still gets me is in a few years we'll see auto-bots that will do things like drive us places, serve us coffee and milk our livestock.
Robot uprising?
Honda EV-N Car Houses Unicycle
This car may not be to everyone's taste, but to me it's brilliant — I love the look of it. The roof is a solar panel and the rest of the car is white/cream to reflect sunlight to use less energy in things like air-con.
But the coolest draw for this little tyke? The uni-cycle we posted before sits right in the door frame. That's just awesome.
via engadget
Honda Sanitize The Circus
Honda have whipped up this incredible but somehow creepy unicycle that's kind of in a similar market to the segway. But somehow I can imagine this catching on and in my mind I'm seeing London commuters silently flying past on these one-wheeled machines.
via Engadget
Microsoft has the answer to the tablet?
I saw this video a moment ago and I thought "Whhaaaattt?". This is incredible, it looks and feels like an Apple product but it's not, it's a concept product from none other than Microsoft.
The whole cutting out, tearing, writing and dragging stuff seems pretty intuitive and gives you an awesome look and feel to the way the person is working on-screen.
Anyway, check out the vid.
via TheNextWeb