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By Evan Ackerman

Logic Wireless’ Bolt projector phone, which we were first introduced to at CES tangency year, has gotten an update to edition 1.5. Not that edition 1.0 ever seemed to rattling impart to market, but still… We heard rumors of this update at CES that mentioned a small prototype, as edition 1.0 of the Bolt was pretty shucks chunky, and this infant help has definitely slimmed down, among another improvements. The flagship feature of the Bolt is, of course, the desegrated projector, which is confident of throwing a VGA (640 x 480) ikon up to 64 inches wide. Otherwise, you’re effort a smartphone that runs Symbian, has a touchscreen, digit cameras (one on the face and digit on the back), and slots for digit SIM cards. Oh, and there’s no 3G.

It’s trusty a fantastic ordered of features, which makes it all germane that the Logic Bolt 1.5 is currently for discernment finished Skymall (!) and not T-Mobile as we heard was plausible to be the case. It’s $500 unlocked, which pretty much restricts goodness in this abstract to grouping who for some conceive encounter that they departed domain a good that crapper do every of the unearthly things that the Logic Bolt can.

We’ll impart a countenance at it in mortal at CES in a hebdomad or so (!!!), and hopefully we’ll be flourishing to avow you whether there’s the remotest abstraction that it’s worth half a grand.

[ Skymall ] VIA [ Gearlog ]

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By Chris Scott Barr

I have a cat, and like most other felines she loves laser pointers. I generally spend a little bit each day using it to drive her crazy. It really doesn’t take much effort, and it entertains me almost as much as it does her. However, if you don’t feel like putting all of the effort into waving you wrist around, you can get a device to do it for you.

The Frolicat Bolt is a laser pointer that moves around on its own. You can set it on a table (or any other surface really) and have it move the laser in a random pattern for 15 minutes, after which time it will automatically turn off. You can also put it on manual mode and use it like an ordinary pointer. If you’re too busy to keep up with your cat, you can pick one of these up for just $20.

[ Frolicat ] VIA [ CoolestGadgets ]

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When the doctors told amputee Mark Lesek that the severity of his injury made him ineligible for a prosthesis, he refused to give up. Left with nothing but his own welding and engineering business, several hundred thousands of dollars, and an indomitable spirit, the Tasmanian gentleman began the quest for an artificial arm. First, he shopped around until he found a doctor who agreed to order an $80,000 prosthesis from Germany — which eventually broke down (but not before he shelled out $6,000 for repairs on the thing). His next stop was the Branemark Osseointegration Centre in Sweden, where he was fitted with an $80,000 bolt that works as a sort of “artificial shoulder.” Still unable to find a suitable arm, the guy teamed up with one of his employees to design and build his own lightweight magnesium “body powered” prosthesis. But that’s not all — he’s also working with the University of Tasmania to develop a more agile computer-controlled arm, controlled with “a cap with electrodes which will be interfaced into the computer.” Let’s hope that all his hard work pays off — and that he teaches those doctors a thing or two in the process.

[Via Switched]

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By Evan Ackerman

Back in September, we wrote about Chinavision’s projector phone. We stumbled across what appeared to be this exact phone on the show floor yesterday, except it was called the Logic Bolt, by a company called Logic Wireless. According to an article at PC Mag, Logic Wireless found “an existing company that made a prototype of the projector-phone. [They] took over the exclusive rights and redesigned all the features of the phone.” I’m not sure what they mean by “features,” but it kinda looks exactly the same as a Chinavision model except with tweaked guts that do include an upgrade to quad band GSM (from tri band) but no other changes that I can easily identify.

Anyway, here’s the specs: quad band GSM, QVGA (320 x 240) touchscreen, VGA (640 x 480) integrated projector and speaker, 3 mpx camera, 4 gigs storage expandable with microSD, 3 hours talk time and 2 hours projection time, accepts inputs from VGA and RCA sources with included adapter.

From the sound of things, the current version of the Bolt isn’t exactly a production model, although it will be for sale. A much smaller/better version is in the prototype stage and will be unveiled at CeBit Germany later this year. It may include a physical keyboard and will likely run either Windows Mobile or Android. So, um, yeah, don’t buy one of these anytime soon I guess.

Rumor has it that the phone is going to be available on T-Mobile, and that it’s going to cost $100 (subsidized) or $400-$600 straight up. Or you can (still) get a kinda the same model from Chinavision for $265.50.

Thanks to PC Mag for the additional info

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Is 2009 finally the year of the projector phone? Eh, not likely — but there are finally a few models filtering into retail after years of talk, prototypes, and empty promises, including the Logic Bolt from independent manufacturer Logic Wireless and this puppy from Sammy. We’re told that the aptly-named Show is inbound for release in South Korea before the end of the month, it runs Samsung’s ubiquitous TouchWiz platform, and it packs DLP-based pico projector tech from TI, but that’s about all we (and Samsung’s US reps) seem to know about it. The projector can be used to view media stored in phone memory, pull up mobile TV via Korea’s T-DMB airwaves, or simply project light, a function luddites may know better as a “flashlight.” Most importantly, it actually isn’t half-bad looking — a symptom of a major manufacturer getting involved and throwing some won and industrial design staff at the thing, we bet.
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Logic Wireless, a new startup has jumped right into the CES mobile fray with this, the mini projecting Logic Bolt. Logic Wireless assumed all rights to this device from ChinaKing — which we saw early in the summer of 2008 — and have tuned it up and have it here at the show. Featuring a quad-band GSM chipset, 3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, projected display size of 36 to 64 inches, and a rated talk time of 2 to 3 hours. Video can apparently blast on for two hours or more using content on the phone or VGA input from other devices. Logic Wireless aims to ship a dual-mode GSM / CDMA set with live video conferencing, four times brighter projector, and Windows Mobile supplanting the current Java OS sometime in the future. For a suggested $100 on-contract price or $600 off, we’re thinking if they can make this happen, we’re definitely going to be picking one up.

[Via Gearlog]