Motorola's Green phone ~~~>> have a look

If recycled paper and plastic products were not enough, Motorola has now launched a cellphone made from recycled plastic water bottles.

Called the MOTO W233 Renew, the mobile phone not only boasts plastic exterior made from recycled material, but also the device is the first "carbon neutral" phone, said the company.

"Through an alliance with Carbonfund.org, Motorola offsets the carbon dioxide required to manufacture, distribute and operate the phone through investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation," All Headlines News quoted Motorola as saying in a press release.

In fact, the box that contains the phone is also made from recycled material, according to the media release.

Another postage-paid box comes inside the package, which is also made from recycled paper, and can be used by customers to mail their old phones back to Motorola for recycling.

With nine hours of talk time, the phone includes other features like ChrystalTalk technology and messaging capabilities.

MOTO W233 Renew will hit the shelves during the first quarter of 2009 at T-Mobile stores.

Motorola unveiled the phone at the 2009 International CES in Las Vegas.

World's most expensive phone is here ~~>> it's upto u !!!!

An Austrian jeweller has given 'bling bling' a new definition by designing the world's most expensive phone. The new Apple iPhone 3G 'Kings Button' is made of solid 18-carat yellow gold, white gold and rose gold! Designed by Peter Aloisson the stunning diamond-encrusted iPhone comes for a whopping 1.8 million pounds. The one-of-a-kind phone features a rare 6.6-carat diamond on its home button, reports The Sun. Aloisson is credited as being the ultimate pioneer when it comes to blurring the lines between gadget, art and jewellery.

A supercar that runs on wind energy ~~~>> buy one for yourself !!

Get ready for a supercar that could reach a top speed of 155mph without harming the environment, for it runs on wind energy.

Designed in California, the environmentally friendly Formula AE car will initially use a solar-powered battery to move, but later depend upon the airflow around it to power a turbine.

The high performance car will take less than four seconds to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph.

The car is expected to cost around 100,000 pounds when it hits the market.

The two-seater's bodywork boasts paper-thin solar panelling that could fully charge the battery in just 1.5 hours.

However, this time will be reduced to just six minutes with a new prototype battery.

A full battery would enable the drivers to cover more than 200 miles or to race around a track for at least an hour.

An advanced alternating current induction motor with a power output of 212 kilowatts will propel the Formula AE.

In fact, the chassis will be constructed from lightweight aluminium and super strong steel in a Formula 1-style monocoque shell. Rory Handel and Maxx Bricklinas from Beverly Hills, California designed the sleek motor of the car, and they expect the prototype to be completed in August.

"The Formula AE car embraces a rarely thought of alternative source of energy," the Telegraph quoted a RORMaxx spokesman as saying.

He said: "The target market would be the sports car, track day, eco-concerned auto-enthusiast. In addition, those enthusiasts who support and would want to promote the future development of revolutionary green technologies."

Space-age fibre optic to help detect cataract ~~~~>> lets see how !!!

A compact fibre-optic probe developed for the space programme is proving itself as the first non-invasive early detection device for cataract, the leading cause of vision loss worldwide.

Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) collaborated to develop a simple, safe eye test for measuring a protein related to cataract formation.

If subtle protein changes can be detected before a cataract develops, people may be able to avert the risk by cutting down exposure to sunlight, quitting smoking, stopping certain medications and controlling diabetes.

"By the time the eye's lens appears cloudy from a cataract, it is too late to reverse or medically treat this process," said Manuel B. Datiles III, NEI medical officer and co-author lead author of the clinical study.

"This technology can detect the earliest damage to lens proteins, triggering an early warning for cataract formation and blindness."

The new device is based on a laser light technique called dynamic light scattering (DLS). It was initially developed to analyse the growth of protein crystals in a zero-gravity space environment.

The DLS technique will now assist vision scientists in looking at long-term lens changes due to aging, smoking, diabetes, LASIK surgery, eye drops for treating glaucoma, and surgical removal of the vitreous gel within the eye, a procedure known to cause cataracts within six months to one year.

It may also help in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, in which an abnormal protein may be found in the lens. In addition, NASA researchers will continue to use the device to look at the impact of long-term space travel on the visual system.

NASA's Rafat R. Ansari, senior scientist at the John H. Glenn Research Centre and the study co-author, brought the technology's possible clinical applications to the attention of NEI vision researchers when he learned that his father's cataracts were caused by changes in lens proteins.

Several proteins are involved in cataract formation, but one known as alpha-crystallin serves as the eye's own anti-cataract molecule.

Alpha-crystallin binds to other proteins when they become damaged, thus preventing them from bunching together to form a cataract. However, humans are born with a fixed amount of alpha-crystallin, so if the supply becomes depleted due to radiation exposure, smoking, diabetes or other causes, a cataract can result.

"We have shown that this non-invasive technology that was developed for the space program can now be used to look at the early signs of protein damage due to oxidative stress, a key process involved in many medical conditions, including age-related cataract and diabetes, as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's," said Ansari.

"By understanding the role of protein changes in cataract formation, we can use the lens not just to look at eye disease, but also as a window into the whole body."

Gadget lets you be a porn star ~~~>> buy one for yourself !!!

While nearby porn stars autographed action photos and flashed their assets for camera-clutching fans at the annual Adult Entertainment

Expo, Brett Drysdale discretely demonstrated “the newest breakthrough in sex technology”.

He slipped two fingers into a rocket-shaped RealTouch device “developed and tested by a former Nasa engineer” contains belts, lubrication jets, heating elements and other gadgetry programmed to give men the feeling of sex.
One end of the canister-type devices sized to fit easily in one’s lap is made of soft “Haptic” synthetic material akin to that used for nipples of baby bottles. The faux-flesh wall is slotted to allow the insertion of a body part of a man’s choosing.

RealTouch devices connect to computers with USB cables and synchronize with adult movies streamed online so the inner workings replicate what a fellow might be feeling were he to be the man in the film. “You watch the action on a screen and a signal is sent to the box to simulate what is happening,” Drysdale said.
A dual track of variegated rubber runs inside the unit, with a water-based lubricant reservoir making sure that none of your sacred parts catch on fire.

The device works with video from an online RealTouch “theater” at a price of $1 per minute. RealTouch is priced at $150 and begins selling in the US in February. RealTouch product manager Drysdale said on Sunday that it will be available internationally by mid-year.

Stanford sets up green energy centre ~~~> lets see!!!

Stanford University is launching a 100 million US dollar energy institute to fund research into batteries, solar cells and other aspects of green energy.

The California University has spawned technologies that led to the formation of companies like Hewlett Packard and Google, and the new institute is expected to boost the ability of Silicon Valley to become a world leader in green energy. The tech region already boasts a 500 million US dollar energy institute at the University of California at Berkeley.

"The biggest renewable resource is the sun," said Lynn Orr, who will direct the new institute, which was officially launched Monday night.

"But we need to lower the cost of converting sunlight into electricity and supplying it through a much improved electric grid. The new centre will allow us to expand significantly our effort to develop new nanostructure materials for solar energy and energy storage and to work on the host of social, market and policy issues involved in the needed transition to energy systems with significant fractions of renewable."

Venture capitalist John Doerr, who launched companies like Apple, Sun and Google, said the institute would help turn Silicon Valley into Solar Valley. Already there were 200 start-ups in the region concentrating on solar energy, he said.

"Batteries are the holy grail of renewable energy and the US isn't even in the battery race," said Doerr. "We are not doing enough research," he said. "The Internet is a trillion-dollar economy and energy is a $6-trillion economy - it could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century."

Swiss knife meets Bluetooth

The Swiss Army knife, one of the hottest buys of the last century, is keeping pace with the new millennium and moving from campground to boardroom. Manufacturer Victorinox, celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, unveiled the latest version of the ubiquitous multi-purpose tool at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The company has been adding high-tech features to its knives since 2004 but the latest model, the Presentation Pro, takes the trend even further by incorporating Bluetooth and fingerprint recognition technology. Instead of a saw and a corkscrew, the Presentation Pro comes with a laser pointer and an integrated Bluetooth remote control that can be used to direct a slide show or a Powerpoint presentation. It also has a USB flashdrive with up to 32GB of storage and a biometric sensor that grants access through fingerprint recognition. The case remains red and the small white cross is still there but the plastic is now transparent, putting the innards of the device on display. The Presentation Pro is not just high-tech and gives in to tradition by keeping a knife, a pair of scissors and a nail file with a screwdriver head. But the company does offer a "plane-friendly" version of the model, the blade-free Presentation Pro Flight, which should cause no problems with airport security. Explaining the high-tech upgrade, Victorinox North America operations president Rick Taggart said the company is "striving to provide products that are relevant to the consumers of their era." The Presentation Pro is available from May and priced from 169.95 dollars to 329.95 dollars, depending on the memory capacity of the USB drive.

Lenovo unveils 2-screen notebook, PCs ~~~>> read this .....

Lenovo Group, seeking to set itself apart in a crowded field of laptop competitors, is releasing what the company says is the fi

rst dual-screen notebook computer.

It is one of several laptops that the world's No. 4 personal computer maker is debuting this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Although overall PC demand has been hurt by the global economic slowdown, notebooks have continued to show strength.

The ThinkPad W700ds has a main 17-inch LCD screen, along with a 10.6-inch screen that slides out to the right from behind. The second screen can be angled in by about 30 degrees.

Wes Williams, the ThinkPad's marketing manager, said business people have grown accustomed to the convenience of two screens at their work. The new ThinkPad will ensure that their work "isn't compromised when they go mobile."

However, the new laptop is neither light nor cheap. It weighs in at 11 pounds and will sell for $3,600.

China-based Lenovo, which bought IBM's PC business in 2005, held a PC market share of around 7.5 per cent in the third quarter, according to research group data, trailing first-ranked Hewlett-Packard, then Dell and Acer. Lenovo posted a 78 per cent profit decline for the September quarter.

The company has been criticised for being slow to enter the consumer PC market, and Lenovo's electronics show offerings include several new products aimed at that segment, like the IdeaCentre A600 desktop, a new all-in-one PC with a bit of a twist.

The thin, sleek device features a high-definition, 21.5-inch frameless screen and a digital TV tuner. But the innovation here comes with the A600's remote control, which also functions as an air mouse for the PC, a controller for motion-controlled games, and a voice-over-IP handset. The A600 starts at $999, although the model with the special remote will cost more.

Lenovo will also expand its line of IdeaPad consumer notebooks, which it launched at CES last year. This time around it will debut the new Y-se

ries.

The series includes three new models, including the Y650, a 16-inch notebook that the company says is the lightest and thinnest in its class at 1-inch thick and 5.6 pounds.

The Y650, which will start at around $1,200, will come equipped with a multi-touch touchpad and an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts the screen's brightness.

Lenovo will also use CES to offer a refresh of its S10 netbook, which the company launched last August.

The low-cost, ultra-portable category is shaping up to be one of the hottest of 2009, and Lenovo will have to play catch up. According to DisplaySearch, the company ranked tenth in third-quarter netbook shipments.

Polaroid digital camera ~~>> have a look

Polaroid Corp, the iconic inventor of the instant photo, has reinvented itself for the digital age, launching a digital camera which makes instant full-colour prints.

The PoGo, unveiled at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, arrives on the market a year after Polaroid ended production of its legendary instant film camera.

"This is the digital version of our traditional instant camera, which consumers have loved since the '70s," said Jon Pollock, Polaroid's vice president and general manager of Digital Imaging.

"It's what consumers have told us they want -- a fun, easy way to use a digital camera to print photos," he said.

The Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera uses Zink ink-free printing technology to produce instant prints on a special paper embedded with heat-activated dye crystals.

"With the push of a button, consumers can select from among the digital photos on the camera, crop or edit them and in less than 60 seconds, print full-colour, 2x3-inch prints," Polaroid said.

Photos can be reviewed on a three-inch colour LCD screen before printing. Polaroid said the PoGo will be available in March and cost $199. A 10-pack of Zink photo paper will sell for $4.99.

Polaroid filed for bankruptcy protection last month amid a fraud probe into its parent company, Petters Group Worldwide.

It discontinued production of its celebrated instant film cameras in February of last year and now produces LCD televisions, digital cameras and other consumer electronics products.

Flexicords use memory cord technology ~~> have a glimpse

Flexicords use memory cord technology

A Flexicord HDMI cable by E-filliate on display at a press event. The Flexicords use memory cord technology to hold their shape as they stretch from one to 10 feet in order to eliminate clutter and get cables off the ground.