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Seal Cell – this is the conceive of a infant good prefabricated by Seal Shield and presented as cosmos “the world’s prototypal diddley innocuous phone phone”.

The infant good is waterproof, which effectuation that you crapper regularly comely it in the give or diddley – this way, you’ll hold preclude the distribute of bacteria, germs and viruses.

The Seal Cell uses Seal Shield’s SILVER SEAL profession for helminthic protection, thusly cosmos nonabsorptive to modeling and sentiency accomplishment bacteria.

According to enrollee physicist Gerba at University of Arizona, “cell phones are the highest individual of microorganism with 25,000 germs per conservativist inch, or 500 nowadays more microorganism than the cipher toilet.”

As for the academic glasses of the Seal Cell handset, these include: quad-band GSM connectivity with GPRS, “ruggedized contact screen”, GPS, multiple SIM technology, Bluetooth, MMS, walkie-talkie function, burner light, and a 2MP camera.

The Seal Cell good module be showcased by Seal Shield at CES 2010 (which debuts tomorrow) and should be acquirable primeval this year. Its sound was not announced.

Via Press release

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By Chris Scott Barr

When you were a kid, how many times did you get home a little late when your parents weren’t home, but lied and told them you were on time? Or perhaps you snuck out, then back in late at night. Fess up, I’m sure that you did it at least once. Well it seems that some parents may be able to keep track of just when exactly their children arrived home. Oddly enough, it comes in the form of a femtocell.

DoCoMo has announced a new femtocell that not only helps your cell phones maintain a great signal while you’re at home, but it also can send out notifications when a phone has entered the area. Essentially, the parents could set it up to get an email every time their child came home. Seems like an interesting idea, until the kid figures out that he can flood his parents inbox by going in and out of the range of the device over and over. Come to think of it, that’s probably the first thing I’d do in protest.

[ FarEastGizmos ] VIA [ UberGizmo ]

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Amazon.com, America’s largest online retailer, has launched a new dedicated website that offers mobile phones and service plans.

Called AmazonWireless, the new online store is accessible at this address. It currently offers more than 120 phone models from AT&T and Verizon.

In the near future, Amazon will add more carriers and, obviously, more phones too.

One of the nicest features of AmazonWireless is that it sells the phones rebate-free. Also, you get free two-day shipping – probably anywhere in the US.

Even more, phone prices seem to be lower than on the carriers’ websites. For example, the Samsung Impression is as low as $49.99 at AmazonWireless, while costing $149.99 at AT&T’s online store.

“We’ve taken our eight years’ experience selling cell phones to create a new site that makes a potentially confusing transaction much easier for customers. The step-by-step purchase process on AmazonWireless makes it easy for customers who already have a plan to upgrade their phones. If you want to establish new cell phone service, we’ve made it simple to find the right phone, service plan and options for your needs. We’ve also eliminated the technical jargon and frustrating rebate paperwork that customers often face when buying a phone,” says Paul Ryder, vice president of Consumer Electronics for Amazon.com.

Now I wonder what the folk over at BestBuy will think about all this…

Via Press release

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A limited package for “light users” at 1GB/month, 768KB down / 128KB up, with overage charges of $2/GB/month.
Road Runner Lite, Basic, Standard, and Turbo packages at 10GB / 20GB / 40GB / and 60GB caps, respectively, and overage charges at $1/GB/month.
A big daddy, 100GB Turbo package at $75/month with overage fees of $1/GB, which, when coupled with that magic threshold of $75 in charges, becomes the “unlimited” plan.

We only have two questions, guys. First, how will you let end users know they’re hitting caps? Right now there’s no centralized solution for monitoring bandwidth. Even cell phones show minutes used, so will you give us the infrastructure for broadband monitoring? Secondly — instead of giving users a “virtually” unlimited package, why not just sell an unlimited package at $150 a month? The impression we get is that you want to leave the door open for aggressive users, and that your capping of capping charges might be a moving target in the right situation.

[Via eWeek]
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Hewlett-Packard, the largest computer maker in the world, could soon come with Netbooks based on Android. 

According to The Wall Street Journal, a team of HP programmers is currently testing Google’s versatile platform “for a potential Netbook”.

Nothing is decided yet, but if the company indeed launches one or more Android-based Netbooks, this will indirectly affect Microsoft, which licenses Windows OS for most of HP’s computers.

HP won’t have to pay anything for using Android (since it’s an open source OS), so a Netbook based on it would be cheaper than a Windows one.

All in all, it looks like Android is getting more and more recognition, even from companies that don’t manufacture cell phones. And that’s a good thing, right?

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You’re already buying TVs, washing machines, cheap keyboards and cell phones at Best Buy, why not a $12,000 electric motorcycle? That seems to be the thinking going on at Brammo HQ, where an infusion of cash from Best Buy’s investment arm last year has now led to plans to sell the $11,995 Enertia at five West Coast Best Buy stores in May. Okay, sure, but we’re way less optimistic about plans to let the Geek Squad handle basic repairs and maintenance — we don’t let those fools near our laptops, god forbid Pimples McUpsell touch something that could actually kill us. Eventually Brammo wants to sell bikes at every Best Buy location around the world, but we’ll see how this initial test works out.

[Via Autoblog Green]

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By Luke Anderson

A little while back I showed you the Scosche passPORT, which was an awesome little gadget for my iPhone. In case you don’t recall, it was a small accessory that allowed me to hook my iPhone up to my car stereo. While my iPhone technically could play through my current setup, I could only use it in airplane mode, or be forced to listen to that awful screeching sound that cell phones make through unshielded speakers, and it would not recharge. The passPORT took care of all of that, which only made me long for such a device to use with home docks. Thankfully Scosche was already working on it.

The passPORT Home Dock is very similar to its car adapter cousin, in that it allows your iPhone to recharge and play music without issue. It will work with just about any dock, and hold your iPhone 3G, 2G iPod touch or 4G iPod nano. You can pick it up now from Amazon or Scosche directly for $39.99.

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It was just a short year ago that we went to Fulton Innovation’s tiny booth at CES and failed to get a working wireless power demo, but a lot’s happened since then — the company is at CES 2009 in force, with a much larger, swanker booth, partners like Energizer and Motorola demoing working products, and tons of working real-world examples of the tech in action. We were particularly taken with the modded Dish DVR that automatically turned itself on and off when the remote was placed on top of it to charge up — oh, and the remote featured super-capacitors instead of batteries that charge fully in 10 seconds. There were also a ton of cell phones (including a modded iPhone, of course), new cooking demos featuring a blender, and a super cool Leggett & Pratt power tool charging workbench. Extremely impressive, all in all — we’re starting to think that 2009 could be the year that wireless power could really take off. Gallery below, video after the break!

P.S.- We asked if Fulton had anything to do with the Palm Pre’s sexy Touchstone wireless charger, but the guys in the booth didn’t know. We’ll let you know if we find anything out.

Gallery: Fulton Innovation Wireless Power

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Remember the Powermat? Unlike other induction-based “wireless power” contraptions we’ve seen, this one came out earlier this year as total vaporware and has now resurfaced as a collaborative effort by Michigan-based HoMedics Powermat North America (HPNA). We finally got a chance to see it work in person and, much to our surprise, it seems to have delivered on its promised… at least in part. We saw three pads that touched base with six different mediators for charging various cell phones, laptops, and handheld games. The devices magnetically “lock on” to the mats and a light comes on to indicate its working. The rep told us devices charge just as fast with the mat as they would via the traditional “plug” method, but it’s not like we waited around long enough to see for ourselves. No price or date, but we’re a lot more excited about it knowing this thing might actually work. We’re hearing some more interesting developments will be shown off later this week, from both Powermat as well as a few of the other companies here showcasing wireless power technology, which we’ll be keeping an eye out for. Hit up the gallery for some sexy recharging imagery.
Gallery: Hands-on with Powermat

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By Evan Ackerman

One of the things I really hope to see a lot of at CES is wireless power. Or rather, I hope to see wireless power that has progressed beyond a gimmick into something I can actually use without it being more trouble than it’s worth. Last year, we saw works in progress from companies like Powercast and eCoupled, but what’s keeping these technologies from showing up on my desk is (among other things) lack of a wireless power standard. The recent formation of a “Wireless Power Consortium” made up of some notable electronics manufacturers may help move things along by creating standards for charging electronics wirelessly, just like the standards currently applied to wired chargers make it so that you only need one convenient charger for all of your gadgets. Er, yeah.

Anyway, such standards should make it easier possible for current consortium members like Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, Olympus, Logitech, Sanyo, and Philips to integrate wireless charging options into their devices. The first thing you’ll probably see is a standard for wirelessly delivering 5 watts or below, which will charge cell phones and comparable devices in about the same time as a wired charger.

[ Wireless Power Consortium ] VIA [ PC World ]

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