First Mobile Phone With Projector Makes an Appearance

Epoq EGP-PP01.

This Tri-band GSM handset has the capability of projecting images as large as 30 inches (diagonal). The resolution of the projector is 640 x 480 pixels. Not only can it project images that are on the phone but DVD players or other media devices (including Laptops) with TV out features can be hooked up to the handset.
The handset comes with a 2.4-inch TFT LCD with a 240 x 320 pixel resolution. It supports GPRS and WAP, has a 1.3MP camera, supports Bluetooth with A2DP and USB and has a sound recorder. From the looks of the images floating around it seems like the handset runs on a UI similar to Apple’s iPhone.The Epoq EGP-PP01 is priced at $549.95 on GadgetCraver. Perhaps it’ll make it here too. When... is of course the big question.

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MOTOZINE ZN5 Launches in India

Motorola and KODAK's MOTOZINE ZN5 camera phone has finally made it to the Indian market. Sony Ericsson's Cyber-Shot series has got more competition now. With features that include Motorola's "ModeShift Technology" and KODAK's "Imaging Technology" this camera could just give the other mobile in this segment a run for their pixels. The ZN5 also comes with a Xenon flash. It has a 2.4-inch TFT display with a 240 x 320 pixel resolution and 256k colors. With regards to connectivity the handset supports Wi-Fi, EDGE, GPRS, Bluetooth with A2DP and USB v2.0. Memory can be expanded via microSD cards. It also comes with a TV out feature and a 3.5mm earphone socket. Motorola's CrystalTalk technology is also present in the ZN5.
Consumers can experience a totally customized Indian experience on their ZN5. They can stay updated with news on their mobile phones with access to the WAP version of printed publications including Financial Express, Indian Express, and Deccan Chronicle via the ‘Daily News’ link in the ZINE ZN5. This WAP version has been specially designed by Pressmart Media Limited. Motorola designers have specially designed wallpapers inspired by India and its people, traditions and fine arts.

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City-In-a-Pyramid Could House a Million Dubaians, Power Itself !

A particularly optimistic design firm in Dubai called Timelinks has proposed designs for the Ziggurat, a complete city to be layered inside of a massive pyramid that could serve as home for a million people at a time. Timelinks is currently seeking patents for a variety of technologies that would make such a building possible, including a three axis public transportation system that would run residents up, through and across the pyramid. They've also claimed that with a hybrid wind, solar and steam power the Ziggurat would be able to meet its own power needs, and that there would be enough room to allow for some minor agriculture in designated "green spaces."
Before you just write this off as another wacky internet design concept, consider the absurdly ostentatious structures that Dubai has already built, and the fact that unlike the hyperluxurious ego-boosters currently under construction, the Ziggurat might be a viable housing solution for people who don't have a natural resource-infused trust fund.

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The i-bird. You are the wind beneath its wings.

The i-Bird is the latest generation of R/C flyers, and without a propeller in sight, it’s easy to see why this gadget does warrant a whole new generation. Rather than using un-bird-like rotors, the i-Bird simulates a real bird’s flapping wings perfectly. This is enough to keep it airborne and allows it to flit around both indoors and outdoors, completely in your control.
Granted, the hand controller isn’t as sleek as the i-Bird itself, but through infrared, it does the job of manoeuvring the little fella away from the expensive crystal. If you are still worried about not being skilled enough to steer away from an expensive crash, the i-Bird flies at a relatively slow speed so that you can keep up with it. It’s also tough enough to survive even my abrupt landing skills.
Priced at £30 from RED5* the i-Bird is an affordable must for the gadget lover in your life.

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Philips Squeezes Home Theater System into Tiny Round Box

Philips has stumped up a new home theater system that's as small, and almost as round as, a soccer ball—for those of us bored of boring, standard rectangular entertainment gadgets. Though it's tiny, it fits in an iPod dock, a five-channel amp, six speakers and a subwoofer built into the base. It must be pretty cramped inside, since it's just 10.75-inches across, and only 6.75 high. The DVD player can cope with DivX, MPEG-4 and WMV, and upscales to 1080p over HDMI and the CD player can read MP3 discs, and it's got USB-in. If that's whetted your appetite, you'll have to wait as there's no info yet on timing or price.

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Xbox 360 Goes Coin-Op..

While the Xbox 360 arcade is ironically the least expensive version of 360, The Arcade Station T2 is the probably the most expensive...and it actually belongs in an arcade. Essentially an arcade cabinet housing an Xbox 360, the Arcade Station T2 features two controllers, memory card slots and system link gaming (which we're assuming means local multiplayer, not full LIVE access). Potentially bundled games could include Halo 3, FIFA 08, Assassins Creed and Devil May Cry 4, but players won't need to shove in more quarters every time Master Chief gets teabagged. This will be a pay-for-time unit. Bonus pic:
Currently in testing overseas, the officially licensed cabinet should be available in the coming months. And if it only ditched those controllers for a couple of high performance joysticks, we might just be tempted to score one for home use.

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World's Best Looking Solar Gadget Charger..

Great concept from designer Vivien Muller for a modular, Lego-like little bonsai tree with 54 mini photovoltaic panels as leaves to soak up juice from the sun and charge your gadgets. Adapters get tucked away beneath a nice little tray, and your gadgets lay on top, basking in the shade. Vivien can you make this, please? I can't keep a real plant alive worth a damn, but this I think could place in the windowsill and be just fine with. More shots of the detachable pieces follow.

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Bluetooth Enabled USB Sunglasses with MP3 player

This cool and smart sunglass allows you to attend the calls via the Bluetooth connectivity. This wireless gadget can connect to phone calls even when you are listening to music. It will automatically switch from mp3 to call when an incoming call is sensed. Similarly when you hang up the call, you will get back to the mp3 mode.
This Bluetooth enabled USB sunglass is mounted on a light weighted frame for your whole-day comfort. The three-way adjustable earphone lets you converse easily. The special flip-up lenses with contours can protect your eyes from sun, wind and side impact.
Other exciting features of this spectacular sunglass follow:
512MB flash memory
Support MP3, WMA and WAV
Volume control
Play/pause/stop control
Continuous Playing Time: 6 hours
Recharging Time: 3 hours
Talking time: 4 hours, standby time: 120 hours
Charge battery by using USB cable, Car charger or AC adaptor
Weighing just 52 g, this light weight audio player has an overall dimension of 172×160x40mm. Make your forthcoming days comfortable by switching to this Bluetooth enabled sunglasses for just $110.

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The Pen Phone

This is a new kind of device that looks like a Pen and works like a Phone. It is still in concept stage and lacks many modern features.
Because of the limited size, you should not expect it to have a camera, big LCD screen and all the modern stuffs. Instead this phone has everything on the minimal side. Apparently, this phone also has a microSD slot.
As you can see from the picture, the numbers are on the side of the Pen adjacent to wide LCD screen. The control-wheel helps you jump between phonebook content. Unlike other pen phones, this device is quite small and is unclear how the speaker and microphones are embedded.

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Mini Phone Based Ghetto Blaster

Mini Phone Based Ghetto Blaster
This mini slider cell phone features a built in MP3 playing boombox that gets surprisingly loud. The best part, you don't have to forsake your existing cell phone (unless you want to). The Mini Boombox GSM Cell Phone comes with 256 MB of built in memory to store your MP3 music files or videos, and the storage is expandable up to 2GB via a Micro SD card slot. Now you can share your musical tastes with everyone around you without making your old phone mad.

Product Features
Mini cell phone features a sliding keypad and built in boombox for playing MP3 music files
tri-band unlocked GSM Phone (850/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS Speed for Data
Powerful Amplified Speakers
Sends SMS and MMS messages. Supports SMS group sending
Can play back MP3 music files and display Movie Files
Supports MP3 or MIDI based ringtones
WAP Browser
Built-In Speakerphone
Optionally reads the numbers of incoming calls with voice synthesis
Built in 256MB Memory expandable up to 2GB
Transfer files via USB

Hardware Specifications
Phone Dimensions (Closed) 3.5" x 1.3" x .8"
Tri-band unlocked GSM Phone (850/1800/1900 MHz)
GPRS Data
Powerful Amplified Dual Stereo Speakers
1.3 Mega Pixel CMOS Camera/Camcorder Function
1.5" 65K Color TFT LCD Screen
Built-in MP3/MPEG4 Player Functions
SMS, MMS, WAP Support
64 Polyphonic Sound
Expandable Micro SD card slot
Video Recording up to allowable memory space

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Your iPhone has a Huge Security Flaw

The iPhone 3G's password gate can be broken down with just two taps

The invincible iPhone has been jailbroken, pwned and now get ready to hear this -- your private data is not secure; even if you have password-locked your iPhone. With the latest iPhone 2.0.2 update: just a simple tap and your password can be bypassed, and access to personal data such as SMS messages, your inbox, your contact list is just taps away! Scary stuff. The process to bypass your password? As easy as ABC, or rather just A and B --
1. Tap emergency call. 2. Double tap the home button. That's it, you are in -- password bypassed. To prevent this breach, you need to change some interface behaviour.

As Gizmodo puts it: 1. In the iPhone home, go to Settings 2. Click on General 3. Click on Home Button 4. Click on either "Home" or "iPod"

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IronKey....self destruct pendrive (Beware)

This Thumb Drive will self-destruct in 10 seconds...
Thumb drives are a convenient and cool way to carry around your data, and with drive sizes in the gigabytes, you can store a ton of photos, files, music, and video in a very tiny space. Unfortunately, due to their small sizes, they are targets for information thieves.
Think about it - all that personal data - your resume, email, password-files, and pictures of your girlfriend (wink) can be picked up and copied and returned before you even noticed it was missing. You want to have this data handy, but handy for you and not for that scumbag down the hall with the sticky fingers.
Like you, the US Military wanted portable but secure storage, and the guys at IronKey stepped up. They've developed the perfect solution that's one-part thumb-drive, and two parts Mission: Impossible. Their thumb drives hold up to 8 Gigabytes of data, but includes a hardware encryption chip that scrambles the data so as to be completely unreadable without a password.
Passwords can be hacked, but not the IronKey. It's built to withstand attacks both virtual and physical. 10 incorrect password attempts, and the encryption chip self-destructs, making the contents of the flash drive totally unreadable. The contents of the drive are filled with epoxy, so if a hacker tries to physically access the chips, he'd more likely damage them instead. Even if he did get access to the memory chips, they'd be worthless without the encryption chip. Electron-shielded, even a scanning electron microscope can't get inside.

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Eyeball Lamps clone your eyes ...WoW !

This new lamp can be filed under all that is bizarre and the slightest bit creepy. They are hand blown glass and made to look exactly like your eyes. So if you’re a bit full of yourself when it comes to your eye color, now you can show it off through a bit of quirky lighting. Although I imagine your guests would feel the slightest bit unnerved by sitting next to a set of lamps that keep staring back at them.
So just depending on how much you actually like your friends, you might not want to keep something like this around. To get your own set custom made for you, you will have to take close up shots of your eyes. Then pick out a color that matches the shade of your eyes. These are made by Livio Serena who works out of Murano. Each pair is going to obviously be created made to order, so its not something that can be rushed out. You will need to contact 5.5 Designer to get the pricing info and availability on this product.

Source: Gadgettastic

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Sonic Bomb Bed-Shaking Alarm Clock: You’ll never oversleep again!

Personally, I wouldn’t pay anyone to deafen me and shake me out of bed in the morning. I’d give them something… but certainly not money. Nevertheless, for those who are a sucker for that extra five minutes, which inevitably turn into an hour, this is the perfect solution.

The Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock’s buzz is way beyond that of a normal alarm clock; it booms out at 113 decibels and is guaranteed to wake the heaviest of sleepers. (Either that, or give them a heart attack!) It can be likened to the sound of a pneumatic drill, at 110 decibels.
If the ludicrously loud volume isn’t enough to wake the living dead, this alarm clock viciously shakes your bed courtesy of a vibrating pad under your mattress.
Now, the last time I woke up to my bed shaking, my room was being possessed by a poltergeist! Ok, so it was actually an earth tremor… but my vivid imagination and exorcist style bad dream led me to believe otherwise.
Don’t worry though; this alarm clock can be used as a ‘normal alarm clock’ thanks to some regular features, including:
A red LED display for night viewing.
Snooze button (As if! I’d be flying out of that bed!)
Battery back-up.
Volume control (Thank god!)

Price: $ 50

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The iRing: Making the Coolest Gadget Ever Even More Fashionable

Without doubt, the gadget that has set the benchmark for style, technology and popularity is the Apple iPod. It wasn’t going to be long then before new gadgetry was designed around the deity of the techy world, to make the already usable iPod even easier to live with. Introducing the iRing, a Bluetooth ring concept that you wear on your finger to control the playback functionality of your iPod… and to show everyone around you just how tech-savvy you are!

Its wireless connectivity means that skipping that one song that you hate on your favourite CD no longer warrants you rummaging through your handbag, or risking cracking a vertebrae as you twist around for your iPod in your back pocket. You no longer even need to jostle the people around you on the ever-crowded bus, just subtly press on your ring and be in total control of what you listen to.

The iRing’s functionality is every bit as cool as the iPod’s. To adjust the volume, you simply need to slide your finger across the touch sensitive surface of the ring. To play or pause songs, just tap the apple icon on the ring and to skip tracks you need only touch on either side of the icon depending on which direction you want to go. The iRing is USB powered and comes with an equally stylish cradle for you to keep the ring safe or (as I would!) display it proudly on your coffee table. The cradle is also used to recharge the iRing through a USB connection.

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