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| POSTED BY: djsamaa on 19/11/2007 07:12:54 |
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It was perhaps inevitable that Honda, with experience
in safety technology and motorcycle design, would be the first to
introduce a motorcycle air bag commercially. If crash sensors mounted
on the front fork detect an impact, a computer quickly decides whether
to deploy the bag. Honda Gold Wings will offer air bags as early as
this spring.
 E-mail
can be read only when a laptop is open, right? Microsoft's proposed
solution is SideShow. Laptop makers are planning to design small
screens on the outer body so you can read incoming messages or choose
music without opening the case. SideShow will be supported by the
Windows Vista operating system, launching this year. The
2007 Mercedes-Benz S-Class has a radar-guided park-assist option too,
as well as a "night view assist." By shining invisible headlight-
mounted infrared beams up to 500 ft. ahead of the car, it can display a
black-and-white nightscope view on the dashboard.
 Some
camcorders have ditched the tape, relying instead on internal memory.
Others capture high-definition video for playback on big-screen TVs.
Sanyo put both innovations into its Xacti HD1, which also features a
next-generation organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display.
 Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard Soft
Hardware. You may have heard about the jacket with iPod controls
stitched to the sleeve. Eleksen, the maker of "electroconductive"
fabric products, now wants to introduce a qwerty keyboard that you can
roll up and put in your pocket. The ElekTex keyboard will use Bluetooth
technology to connect wirelessly to PDAs and smart phones.
 Fly
coach, and the dream of watching movies on your laptop quickly fades,
thanks to the reclining seat in front of you. Intel's new laptop design
lets you pull the screen forward from behind the keyboard and even
raise the screen to eye level. Elements of the design may appear this
year in laptops priced at $1,100 and higher made by Intel partners. Samsung's
SGH-P300 is slimmer than Motorola's Razr. Its thickness is slightly
less than 9 mm. It looks like a pocket calculator, but it's a tri-band
world phone with a built-in MP3 player and 1.3-megapixel camera with
video-recording capability.
 Robosapien
maker WowWee Robotics teamed up with Philips to build the Smart
Companion Operating Technology. SCOTY (pronounced Scotty) is a camera-
and Wi-Fi—equipped butler who sits in your living room, obeying voice
commands to play specific music, read new e-mail and even report
intruders.
 Blue
is cold, red is hot—any kid knows that. So Delta developed the Brizo
bath faucet, which uses lighting to change the water color depending on
the temperature; it prevents children and the elderly from accidental
scalding. The electronic faucet can be turned off or on with a touch,
or with a wave of the hand.
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