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Concept Phone: Free Of Battery, Getting Powered by Kinetic Energy

“What?” I shouted also when I read the title. A conceptual cell phone by Atlas Kinetic is without a battery and gets powered when moved or shaken, seems like a wrist watch type which don’t require batteries but a shake or two which it gets easily from our routine movements.

I think its not as simple to apply the same to a cell phone as applied to a wrist watch because a wrist watch is almost always attached to the wrist, and as I wrote above the movement of our hand provide the watch with enough kinetic energy to get it powered. With the mobile phone things are somehow different in the way that we don’t have the phone all the time in our hands like the wrist watch and hence, can’t equal the wrist watch in terms of getting powered. Also, with the ease of powering the watch as compared with the phone, there’s another point that a watch requires less power than a phone.

This Aluminum-glass handset is ’straight-forwardly’ only a mobile phone and has no extra functions other that sending and receiving calls and messages.

Uniquely designed with a small display and a circular keypad had made me to attract towards the cell phone and then I couldn’t resist myself to read about the it. See for yourself.

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Diamondville: Power Saving Processors By Intel

What can you think of anything more energy-efficient than a processor which would require only 4 Watts to operate? Providing a processor with only 4 Watts to be operated upon is very much an energy-saving practice. These processors will be available for desktops and mobiles.

The whole new chain of these ‘Diamondville’ processors include: SC-230, a processor for desktop and SC-270 (both single cores) for mobile will be available this year likely in the second half. The third quarter of this year will see the release of dual-core processors of Diamondville family.

Aimed at low-cost and low-performance PCs market, this new chain of processors from Intel are meant to capture the said growing market.

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Toshiba 815T PB, The Robotic Phone.

The ‘robot syndrome’ has took over the people around the world in such a way that the time has come when a mobile phone has been made to look like a robot. The Toshiba 815T PB, is one such phone, will be released by the Japanese mobile operator ‘Softbank’ in April this year in two colors: Black & Silver.

Having a weight of 107 grams, this cool handset has 3G connectivity, 240 X 320 pixel resolution on the 2.4 inch display, 0.8 inch of external display and a 3.2 MP camera. The phone’s memory can be extended up to 2 GB via a microSD card. Also it, has a music player, is Infrared enabled and is capable of accessing Internet.

Here I must write, this phone is one of its kind, having such cool features written above and a great look. For those who can’t wait for the handset to have it in their countries after its release, I must write that it could be bought via SoftBank website.

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No Its Not A Music Player, Its A Mobile Phone.

Liscio, a product of UK based mobile phone company ‘Onyx’, having the appearance as if its a music player. It has the music playing functionality but primarily its a mobile phone, which it don’t looks like in a glance. The stylish 90 x 35 x 17.8 and 60 grams handset also has FM Radio, voice recording, USB 1.1, playback time of 11 hours, 128 MB of built-in memory and support for the microSD card, the screen of 1.1 inch which gives the resolution of 96 x 96 pixels.

It will be true to say that style and usefulness both are packed into one, thus making an attractive combination. The handset is SIM-free, priced about $255.

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Morph: Nokia’s revolutionary concept phone

Nokia research centre (NRC) unveiled its new concept phone named Morph in collaboration with university of Cambridge Nanoscience Center(UK). Its a joint nanotechnology concept with endless possibilities and magical capabilities. It is the next generation phone which can do so many wonderful things like no other portable device can. It has been featured today in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition (which is going on from February 24 to May 12, 2008,) in New York.

Features:

This concept phone as I have previously said, can do wonders and may create fantastic opportunities for portable world such as:

 

• It is very flexible and will blend seamlessly with our normal life with the stretchable silicon built into it.
• It can clean itself automatically from dust, liquids and even fingerprints with its Super hydrophobic “Nanoflowers”.
• With a solar charging option through “Nanograss”, it has proved itself to be a hardcore environment friendly.
• Is the apple I am buying washed and hygienic? Is the air I am breathing in is free from germs? You would be able to ask these type of questions from the morph which will be answered with the help of its Integrated sensors which would enable us to choose the thing which would be best for our environment and ultimately for ourselves.
• One more thing, it would have transparent greenish type electronics, meaning you could see through it. Amazing isn’t it?

In addition to the features I have written above, it would have one more feature which is more functionality in less cost and space. All of these new capabilities will unleash new horizons to communicate and interact in unprecedented ways.

It could be transformed in various types of shapes according to one’s needs including:
Standard mode: Just like any normal handset.
Landscape mode: In this mode, It could analyze things with its nanosensors in great detail. Just like the apple example I gave above.
Bracelet mode: Wrist up the phone around your hand just like a watch as you might have seen in some sci-fi movie.

How this all works?

According to nokia.com

Nanotechnology enables materials and components that are flexible, stretchable, transparent and remarkably strong. Fibril proteins are woven into a three dimensional mesh that reinforces thin elastic structures. Using the same principle behind spider silk, this elasticity enables the device to literally change shapes and configure itself to adapt to the task at hand.

Comments from the authoritys:

Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Head of the NRC Cambridge UK laboratory said:

We hope that this combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience. The research we are carrying out is fundamental to this as we seek a safe and controlled way to develop and use new materials.

Dr. Bob Iannucci, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia, told:

Nokia Research Center is looking at ways to reinvent the form and function of mobile devices; the Morph concept shows what might be possible.

Professor Mark Welland, Head of the Department of Engineering’s Nanoscience Group at the University of Cambridge and University Director of Nokia-Cambridge collaboration mentioned:

Developing the Morph concept with Nokia has provided us with a focus that is both artistically inspirational but, more importantly, sets the technology agenda for our joint nanoscience research that will stimulate our future work together.

The partnership between Nokia and the University of Cambridge started in March, 2007 in result of an agreement to work together on research projects. Nokia has established its research center branch at the West site of Cambridge university and aimed to collaborate with several departments functioning of which has started from the Nanoscience Center and Electrical Division of the Engineering Department with projects centered on nanotechnology.

To see morph in action, we have to wait at least 7 years, because the concept shown here is easy to see, but not that easy to build and thats why in the beginning, it may cost much but would likely reach the pockets of people after taking some time when nanotechnology will grow up from its infancy.

See the video also and decide for yourself whether it is a revolutionary concept or not.

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