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One step closer to cyborgdom?
February 8th, 2008 by LG Blog UK
There's lots of buzz about this interesting invention out - a phone charger that takes the waste energy from when you walk:
A knee brace which can generate electricity as you walk, creating enough power to charge mobile phones and medical devices, has been developed by scientists.
The device is inspired by technology used in hybrid cars which store the power from braking to generate electricity. So-called regenerative brakes can collect energy that would otherwise be dissipated as heat when a car slows. In the same way, the knee brace uses the energy dissipated at the knee as the leg slows after...
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Technologies to watch out for in 2008
January 3rd, 2008 by LG Blog UK
The BBC have published their list of technologies to watch out for in 2008 and some of it makes for interesting reading. Four of the five themes explored - blending offline/online, ultra-mobile PCs, widespread public wireless and mobile VoIP - illustrate the trend for computing power leaving the world of the desktop and the office and into your pocket, and the blurring of the distinction between offline and online.
Mobile VoIP and WiMAX public wireless go hand-in-hand and it's very likely we will see more of both in the future, with demand for one driving likely to drive supply of the...
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Uploading photos even easier?
December 14th, 2007 by LG Blog UK
Gizmodo have reported on a neat little Bluetooth USB dongle from Kodak and Belkin for transferring photos from your phone to your PC.
Nothing that spectacular so far but Belkin claims to have made transferring photos onto your computer even easier than it was before – which is no mean feat given how easy it is already.
So, how have they achieved this?
1. Whenever you’re in range of the dongle it will automatically transfer your photos onto your PC.
2. It will then upload them straight onto Facebook or Myspace.
So perhaps not hugely innovative in itself, but...
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The history of digital cameras
November 2nd, 2007 by LG Blog UK
Over at Crave there is this fantastic pictorial history of the digital camera - from cameras that recorded onto analogue tape (like videos), to the first true digital handheld cameras, and then the advances in miniaturisation and storage which means we have cameraphones today. We've come a long way since this prototype from Kodak way back in 1975:
A really interesting story - but it misses once crucial detail. What was the first digital photograph of? It's amazing that we have the world's first ever photo still to hand from over 180 years ago, but not the first digital one from...
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SanDisk Sansa TakeTV
October 26th, 2007 by LG Blog UK
Got piles of DVD’s lying around your house from transferring downloaded video content so you can play it on your TV? Having to move your computer so you can plug it into the TV? This is the problem TakeTV attempts to solve – by using a USB flash drive.
It’s a simple device and fairly innovative in that there is nothing much around that rivals it. You drag and drop files from your computer onto the drive and then use the dock provided to connect it to your TV with either s-video or composite connections. You then control it with...
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Smaller screens, more formats
October 15th, 2007 by LG Blog UK
I notice that the Commodore Gravel In Pocket is arriving onto the UK market. It’s a small video and music player controlled by a cheekily designed joystick at the back although from the footage I’ve seen it looks like you need two hands to operate it. It also supports WiFi with access to Commodore World but unfortunately no web browser.
What struck me most about the watching the demos was that increasingly, it seems people are viewing video on smaller and smaller screens. The Gravel has 2.8 inch screen which is large by some standards. The Cowon iAudio 7 for...
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Roswell – purdy for you?
September 21st, 2007 by LG Blog UK
Techdigest asks whether the Leon Roswell is "the most purdy calculator yet". I rarely use a proper calculator these days (not least because Google Calculator is just so useful, especially converting units) but this one does have its charms. It certainly has got craft going for it - the body is made out of just a single piece of aluminium with some laser cleverness, which is admirable. It also does currency conversions (although it doesn't say how it updates the exchange rates - presumably you have to tell it what they are)
To answer the questions, yes it is purdy, but...
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Infinite jest: a fun kind of USB drive
September 21st, 2007 by LG Blog UK
Sometimes, it's good to be whimsical with new technology. Sure - anything that can make the world a better place is welcome, but that doesn't mean we can't have our toys at the same time. So I'd like to show my appreciation of Vicky Wei's Memory Infinite concept (via) - where you can daisy-chain USB thumb drives together to form ever-expanding drives (like on the right).
It's only a concept - and it's probably not feasible to have thumb drives with capacities over 32GB (at least, none I've seen) but I applaud both the designer's idea (a modern take on those...
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