Samsung Tab 10.1 Vs Apple iPad II
Apple introduced its first iPad in April of 2010. Just like the iPhone before it, the Apple iPad was an instant sensation and Apple sold three million iPads in less than three months. In the consumer electronic field being first out of the gate with a new product doesn’t guarantee that you will be able to hold your lead when your competitors introduce competing products. The question becomes can Apple keep its lead as other companies introduce tablet products?
The Convergence of Communication Technologies
The smartphone and tablet computers are quickly becoming the convergence device of choice. On their screens users now read what was once only accessed on paper, listen to what was once only accessed on radio, and watch what was once only accessed on TV or seen in the movies.
Web Surfing - No Standard
Computer Required
John Chuang, the CEO of litl has embraced the paradigm shift to cloud-based computing. His design team has created the first cloudbased computer, named “litl webbook.” They coined the name “webbook” to describe a new computer classification: a machine that only provides simple access to the Internet, unfettered with the hardware and software found on a standard computer.
SSD vs HDD
the Battle Begins
Google’s new Chrome OS is about to show up in a slew of new netbook computers that will all have SSDs.
Is the SSD about to become the mass storage device of choice?
How is an SSD superior to an HDD?
How difficult is it to replace an HDD with an SSD in a Netbook Computer?
Television Join the Internet
Over time, television went from black-and-white to color, from fuzzy images to super sharp highdefinition images, and from small screens in very large, heavy cabinets to relatively light, giant screens that you can hang on your wall.
Many new TV models now come with built-in modules that allow viewers to easily stream Internet content from their home broadband wired or wireless network.
A TV Internet link from Roku, Sezmi, Boxee, Neuros, Vudu, your game machine, or other portal device is not the same as purchasing the next generation Digital Video Recorder (Tivo).
Casio's EX-S12
Casio recently released a new series of cameras that can create dynamic digital photos. The EX-S12 has this best shot function that lets you lasso people, pets, or movable objects out of one scene and then insert them into a different photo.
This is only one of the amazing new features you will find on this camera. It gives you the power to create amazing photos that can defy gravity, logic, or even the space-time continuum.
3m's SCP716
Can literally turn your classroom's whiteboard into a fully functional Smartboard. 3M and Tablo
Hantech Tablo
It has a special wireless pen that allows you to treat your notebook screen as if it was a tablet PC.
3M Micro Projector
It is the size of a TV remote control, can project a 50 inch image, and it is designed to be hooked up to any device that is capable of transmitting a video signal. Such as a digital cameras, video phones, video MP3 players, DVD players, Personal Video Players, video game machines, and of course computers.
A New Type of Portable RadioSlacker Radio's WiFi Connection
One of the free online radio stations, Slacker Radio, has actually invented a new type of portable radio player. The Slacker G2 player receives its free music from slacker.com
(view video).
Your Slacker portable G2 player only needs a Wi-Fi connection to download the music to your player. You can refresh the unit at any Wi-Fi hot spot, which gives the unit an infinite capacity.
Picture This - Digital Frame
Revolution
Thanks to the camera-empowered cell phone and the pocket-sized digital camera people are constantly shooting photos. Now, if your goal is to view and share all of these photos without a computer, you should explore the advantages and disadvantages of a digital picture frame.
Re-Recording New or Old Analog into Digital Formats
Communication technologies continue to evolve, and this evolution—when it turns revolutionary—kills older technologies that once performed the same task. This column looks at some of the devices that can transfer analog recordings into digital formats that can be archived, listened to, or viewed using the latest technology.
Empowering Children
They want to provide laptop computers to the almost 2 billion children who live in parts of the world
where poverty and the lack of an
adequate structured educational
system make it impossible for them
to receive an adequate education.
Wet Electronics
You probably already know that your average electronic device can basically drown in a miniscule amount of water. The enjoyment of all water sports or near water activities would be enhanced if your electronic devices could be made water safe.
"Holographic Memory"
The next breakthrough in disk storage could be holographic. Storing digital documents all at once rather than bit by bit.
"Refocusing Photography"
The pixels of the camera recorded multiple images with multiple points of focus. The image's text file contains all of this information for these separate pictures and software sorts it out giving the photographer the ability to create pictures with different points of focus.
"Video Production"
New video production hardware and software are constantly being introduced. The direction the technology takes is often controlled by hardware and software...
"Transparent Electronics"
These new materials might one day allow you to transform the windshield of your car into a GPS activated map at the touch of a button. Or turn a picture window into a high definition video screen.
Laser TV
Novalux’s optoelectronic chipset uses a gallium arsenide laser combined with a lithium niobate crystal (LiNbO3) optic modulator to produce the critical wavelengths to output RGB (red, green, and blue) beams of light. Once you have red, green, and blue light you can create all the colors of the rainbow.
OLED TV
OLED screens have an organic semiconductor layer sandwiched between a transparent positive electrode layer and a nontransparent negative electrode layer. The flow of electrons between the two outer layers causes the individual organic cells in the organic layer to glow.
"Stereographic Video - Wothout the Glasses"
Could a new 3D HDTV system soon eclipse the popularity of two dimensional HDTV systems?
"Time & Place Shifting TV"
Time shifting TV viewing can be much more fun if you also place shift the viewing experience. Instead of renting or purchasing videos for your next commuter trip, why not transfer your TV shows to your portable player?
"Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays"
The Kopin CyberDisplays are mind boggling in size and performance.
VHS to DVD 2.0
The recording medium used to make video recordings has a lifespan of five to seven years. Your current precious moments are sentenced to death if you don't take the time to save them.
"3D Video Cruising"
X3D Technologies introduced to the press their 3D system that can, “on the fly”, convert video games, DVD videos, and live television broadcasts into 3D viewing.
"Dynamic Digital Printing"
A new commercial printing category has now emerged to reflect digital printing technologies. Many feel, over time, digital printing will replace all the other legacy methods of printing.
"Flexible TFT Screens"
We will soon build an ultra light, ultra flexible High Definition screen that can be rolled or folded when it's not in use.
Belkin Network USB Hub
The addition of the Belkin Network USB Hub could provide you with wireless connectivity to probably all of your support devices when you are within range of your current wireless network.
"A New Digital Experience"
Turn your computer into a television newsroom and post production editing facility. You develop your presentation as if it is going to be a live television broadcast.
"The Foveon X3 Chip =s Digital Film"
A Fovian X3 image sensor has 3 layers of photodetectors. This allows it to capture pictures more like color film...
"Data Mining the Airways"
Data mining involves the use of computers, modeling software, and statistical analysis to ferret out data relationships that would be of value to a particular segment of our society.
September 2011
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
A new GPS/Wi-Fi enabled system has recently been announced, and when it goes online it will allow location-based social networking systems to track enabled phones and tablets indoors. The system is called WIFISLAM.
WiFiSLAM can find your indoor location by fusing information from a number of sources. The starting point, of course, would be your last GPS location. When your GPS signal is lost, your phone will start to rely on the signals it receives from in-range Wi-Fi networks.
WIFISLAM =s Indoor GPS
Using Technology (Playlater and the Wi-Drive)
To Make Travel Time Fly
February 2012
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
PlayLater is a PC DVR that is married to an Internet browser. It lets you record shows from all the channels shown in the photo. You need an Internet connection to record your shows, but you don’t need a connection to watch them.
The Wi-Drive establishes a private Wi-Fi network. It is about the same size as an iPod Touch and it lets you supersize the storage capacity of your handheld devices. It can broadcast different content to up to three different-brand handheld units at the same time.
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a Playlater or Wi-Drive Video
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a Playlater or Wi-Drive Video
Waterproofing Electronics
April 2012
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
TechDirections Magazine
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The HzO process keeps electronics dry underwater without a waterproof case. This protective coating will be applied by the manufacturer. A phone with HzO WaterBlock on the inside and a LifeProof case on the outside would certainly be an interesting product to own.
This column explores waterproofing from the outside in and the inside out.
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March 2013
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
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What is new and emerging in Keyless Entry just might amaze you!!! At CES I learned that residential, commercial, and automobile locks will soon allow you to use your smartphone to do everything from opening doors to adjusting internal environments to match your individual desires.
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Advances in Remote Keyless Entry
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April 2013
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
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The basic science fiction concept of a
universal translator is simple. You speak into your smartphone in your native language and your words are changed on the fly so they exit the speaker on the other end of the wireless phone call in the language that your listener understands. (See photos.)
Microsoft is the current leader in the development of this technology. They can now almost instantly convert your telephone call statements into another language and have the person you are talking to hear your thoughts in their language in a voice that sounds just like you!
The Universal Translator Telephone
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Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s chief research officer demonstrates this technology
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Lead Researchers showing off an early version of this technology
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