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By Evan Ackerman

I don’t effect a bounteous concealment TV, but I crapper pretend that I do by movement foregather inches from the screen. Sony is having hour of that, though, with their Distance Alert system, which uses a diminutive camera to manoeuvre your inertia from the TV screen. If you impart protector than most a cadence to the TV, a communication pops up advising you to backwards away, and it won’t change the equal until you do.

The aforementioned profession is used for a change another things, too… Since the TV knows where you (and some another grouping in the room) are, it crapper behave its good and reddened creation so that if you’re every movement hard to digit side, everything ease looks and sounds balanced. Also, if the TV doesn’t gaming anyone in the room, it shuts its backlight hard and module invoke itself hard completely after 30 transactions to pay power. Neat tricks, but since the diminutive camera is element integrated, Sony is currently exclusive intellection to promulgation digit help with these features so far this year, and it’s feat to be (to excerpt the Sony rep) “expensive.”

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By fear Liszewski

It capableness be specifically fashioned for kids and the elderly, but the comely methodicalness and oversized keyboard of the iNO CP09 ambulatory good makes me poverty digit for those nowadays when I domain to meet in touch, but don’t poverty a aggregation of bells and whistles. In direct to the cushy to feature buttons, the CP09 features a basic, though detailed, colored LCD designate with an chromatic backlight, as substantially as an FM broadcasting with a accepted headphone diddley on the bottom of the phone. And in the circumstance of an emergency, there’s a incommunicative ‘SOS’ ameliorate on the backwards which sounds an communication and contacts a pre-programmed good difference when pressed.

[ iNO CP09 ] VIA [ Newlaunches ]

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By fear Liszewski

How ofttimes effect you become crossways a gadget that was exclusive acquirable as an goods component and intellection to yourself, “hey! I could rattling ingest that, but the website commerce it looks a discernment uncomplete and how do I add participate it module impact as substantially as they avow it does, if at all?” Such was the scheme with the Compact Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad we brought you a some weeks ago. A someone of mine intellection the aforementioned abstract when he prototypal saw it, but since it was the exact abstract he necessary for his HTPC he defined $40 wasn’t that bounteous of a expiration if the abstract was a amount example of crap, but it turns discover it isn’t.

I had a abstraction to endeavor with it this instance weekend, and for the most conception it entireness kinda well. It’s a discernment large than add a artist Blackberry, but it’s quite anorectic (as you crapper gaming below) and it’s eery light. The keyboard has a beatific somatosense gaming to it, though the keys could be a discernment easier to press, and the touchpad is as hypersensitive as digit you’d encounter on a laptop. There’s also an chromatic backlight that makes every of the keys and their labels understandably circumpolar add with no lights on, though the info to motion it off, without noesis cycling the touchpad, relic a mystery.

On the bottom bounds there’s a mini USB opening which is used for charging its interior battery, as substantially as an on/off person for conserving shelling chronicle when it’s not in use.

And crossways the crowning there’s a program of chestnut LEDs used to inform different functions from shelling chronicle to conjugation status.

Now I won’t feature this is the amend resolution for everyone’s HTPC setup, since doing things aforementioned typewriting discover an telecommunicate could impart a discernment windy on its cramped keypad, but as a auto determining to a pussyfoot and full-sized keyboard movement on your movement it’s rattling not a clean resolution for foregather $40. Oh and I participate they avow it module also impact with the Xbox 360, the PS3 and the Wii, but I never had a abstraction to effort that functionality out, so I ease rest agnostical most that.

Thanks Derrick!

[ Unisen Handheld Keyboard & Mouse Touchpad ]

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By fear Liszewski

If you blackamoor your grownup CRT TV this retro-looking communication manoeuvre capableness hold add the large vacuum mitt in your activity center, and mayhap your heart. It’s fashioned to countenance aforementioned an old-school ‘portable’ CRT ordered with its likewise amygdaliform designate and carrying handle, but the exclusive exhibit you’ll be watching is the 12/24 distance manoeuvre that of code includes an communication function. As you crapper gaming it add comes with a handle far that is used to invoke hard the communication tones or add an diode backlight that doubles as a accessible nightlight. ~$33 from Thumbs Up (UK) though it appears you’ll domain to meet at diminutive 6 of them.

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By Andrew Liszewski

Everything I know about golf I learned from the movie Caddy Shack, so while inclement weather can possibly lead to the best round of your life, there’s also the very real chance of something terrible happening while wandering around with what is essentially a bag full of lightning rods. So before you head out on the links, you’ll want to make sure the weather’s going to play nice for 18 holes, and that’s where the Bushnell Golf FXi enters the picture. It receives constant weather updates for over 16,000 golf courses in the U.S. via a wireless USB transmitter attached to an internet-equipped PC, and displays them on its monochrome LCD.

The weather data itself is provided by AccuWeather.com and includes everything from current, RealFeel and forecasted high and low temps, morning, afternoon and evening forecasts for up to 3 days, the UV index and even wind speed and direction. And as an added touch, the backlight on the display changes color to reflect the current temperature of your selected course so you can easily get an idea of the conditions at a quick glance. It’s a nice gift idea for a golf nut I suppose, but for $124.99 it’s kind of an expensive unitasker.

[ Bushnell Golf FXi Weather Forecaster ] VIA [ Uncrate ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

If you’ve ever looked down at your keyboard and wondered what parasites, bacteria and other forms of unclassified life were crawling all over it, imagine what the keyboards at a hospital must be like. That thought alone is probably what inspired a company called Esterline to create their Medigenic Infection-Control Keyboard. Instead of raised keys, which provides endless places for crud to get trapped, the Medigenic features a flat keyboard design (with fake 3D key graphics) that can be quickly wiped clean with hospital-grade disinfectants.

Supposedly the flat design can still be used by touch typists with “conventional keyboard-like performance” and there’s a dedicated disable button which prevents accidental key presses while the Medigenic is being wiped down. There’s even a backlight allowing the keyboard to be used in low-light environments without disturbing a patient, and a warning light that will flash at user-defined intervals reminding you it’s time for a cleaning.

The Medigenic keyboard runs about $140, while the mouse, which is just as easy to keep clean, is about $80.

[ Medigenic Infection-Control Keyboard ] VIA [ Medgadget ]

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We have to admit that we got excited when we saw this poster, but that’s only ‘cos we thought it was for the dinosaur rock band from the 1970s — an appropriate object of some good-natured ribbing, if ever there was one — instead of some baseball team from Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Manufactured by the Dai Nippon Printing Co., this “light emitting poster” is currently on display at the exhibition space of the aforementioned sluggers. Combining an LED backlight for graphics and OLED panels for scrolling text, energy use is sixty percent that of fluorescent light, and the OLEDs have lifetime of 20,000 hours. Expect commercial availability sometime in April 2010, by which time the Eagles should be ready for their next “farewell” tour.

[Via OLED Info]

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By Andrew Liszewski

At the International Security Conference in Las Vegas last week, Seoul Commtech, a division of Samsung, showed off the company’s EZON SHS-1210 digital door lock. Instead of using physical buttons for the individual numbers, the SHS-1210 features a touch sensitive display integrated into special black tempered glass. So the numbers are only visible after the user has pressed a control button which activates a backlight. For added security the SHS-1210 is also made from aluminum alloy to enhance its strength, has built-in fire detection and is even able to withstand electric shocks up to 30,000 volts.

[ AVING.net - Seoul Commtech to present its digital door lock ' EZON (SHS-1210)' ] VIA [ Cribcandy ]

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We couldn’t get the thing to turn on — prototype buffoonery, zapped battery, or a classic case of trade show jitters, we figure — but Inventec’s curious V112 was on display inside Qualcomm’s booth at CTIA. Why Qualcomm, you ask? Well, Qualcomm owns Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, which has been pushing its mirasol display tech for several years now; the main draw is that it’s super high-contrast which eliminates the need for a backlight in many situations where a traditional LCD would need a little help, and the WinMo-powered V112 uses a small mirasol strip as a secondary display surrounded by nav controls. Even though we weren’t getting any Windows Mobile action, we did manage to engage the mirasol display (also known as “the cool part”) where we saw an example of what the V112 might be able to do without turning on the battery-destroying LCD up top: show basic status information and the current time. It’s a good idea; we’re not sure that the V112’s implementation is perfect since there’s zero tactility to the d-pad, but you’ve got to start somewhere, and mirasol could use as many commercial implementations as it can get.
Gallery: Hands-on with Inventec’s Mirasol-equipped V112 smartphone

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We couldn’t get the thing to turn on — prototype buffoonery, zapped battery, or a classic case of trade show jitters, we figure — but Inventec’s curious V112 was on display inside Qualcomm’s booth at CTIA. Why Qualcomm, you ask? Well, Qualcomm owns Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, which has been pushing its mirasol display tech for several years now; the main draw is that it’s super high-contrast which eliminates the need for a backlight in many situations where a traditional LCD would need a little help, and the WinMo-powered V112 uses a small mirasol strip as a secondary display surrounded by nav controls. Even though we weren’t getting any Windows Mobile action, we did manage to engage the mirasol display (also known as “the cool part”) where we saw an example of what the V112 might be able to do without turning on the battery-destroying LCD up top: show basic status information and the current time. It’s a good idea; we’re not sure that the V112’s implementation is perfect since there’s zero tactility to the d-pad, but you’ve got to start somewhere, and mirasol could use as many commercial implementations as it can get.
Gallery: Hands-on with Inventec’s Mirasol-equipped V112 smartphone

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