HTC Hero
HTC launched its new smart phone HTC Hero. This is another Android based phone can be personalized like never before. The user can select different types of menus with respect to their personality or their surroundings. We can switch between scenes that reflect different moments in our life. This HTC Hero has the choice of managing variety of communication channels and variety of applications. Hero contains emails to Face book entries. This helps the user by tracking all the communications like phone calls, emails made to a friend once when you view people which are very useful in tracking the communication which we have made in the past. This also has number of things such as album which is not only just a place where all photos are saved, but also a gateway to online collections of Face book or Flickr which is an unexpected one. This also comes with a dedicated search button which helps in searching people in contacts or finding emails in the mailbox etc.
Web browsing is made easier by the Adobe Flash support in the phone and has a 3.2-inch HVGA (320×480) TFT-LCD touch screen. One of the cool things is that when we turn over the phone then the silent mode is activated. This smart phone runs on Qualcomm’s 528MHz MSM7200A processor with 512MB ROM. This contains digital compass, gravity sensor, GPS based applications, 3.5mm audio jack, 5 MP camera and 1350mAh lithium-ion battery which gives 7.8 hours of talk time.
Palm Pre
Palm is a smart phone running in the Palm operating system webOS. This is one of the best phone for your business. You can perform multiple tasks like email, messaging, call forwarding and move back and forth between those applications. Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology is used in this which helps in push mails. We can receive and send multi email accounts including Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail. The google, Outlook, calendar can be logically viewed and we can plan our program. Different types of files like PDF, Excel, Word can be viewed even when we are in call.
We can also install many new applications designed for WebOS for our business need. This phone is with GPS and also with WiFi which support some protocols for security. The data can be safeguarded by automatic backup of the selected data. The slide out with full key keyboard is easy to use and to type messages.
- Width: 59.5 mm
- Height: 100.5 mm
- Thickness: 16.95 mm
- Weight: 135 g
- 8 GB memory
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- Digital camera of 3 MP
- Micro USB port
- 3.5 mm jack
- Accelerometer
- HVGA touch screen of 3.1 inches with a resolution of 480 × 320.
One Laptop Per Child
OLPC(One Laptop Per Child).This laptop is only meant for the kids for learning purpose. Both the academy team and industrial team worked for a long time to create this XO laptop. Thus both the technology and the learning is integrated in this. The environmental conditions like humidity, heat are considered while creating this.
This laptop will be used by the kids and so it is light in weight and it is in attractive color and the size is like a text book and the weight is less than a lunchbox. The edges are in round shape and so it won’t get damaged soon and it have a kid sized handle and rubber membrane key board in it. It also has touchpad and that supports drawing and writing. LiFePO4 or NiMH batteries are used which lasts long. In many case studies it was found that many laptop fails due to hard drive failure and internal connection collapse and hence this XO laptop is without hard drive and the internal connectors are of 3mm thick while the normal one are of 1.3mm thick. Wireless antenna is present with high performance then the normal laptops.
Some specifications are,
- 242mm*228mm*32 dimension
- weight is 1.45KG to 1.58kg
- Gamepad for some games
- Touchpad for controlling
- Audio system
- Wireless networking
- Video camera
- 3.5mm jack and headphone
- USB for accessing external data
The mission of this team is to give education to the world’s poorest children by giving a high durable laptop with content loaded for easy and joyful learning of the subject. They are connected to each other and hence they can improve themselves and also the world.
Panasonic Toughbook
The Panasonic Toughbook is the only note book which will withstand any type of climate. It will withstand both the maximum and the minimum temperatures over 140 degree and below -20 degree Fahrenheit. The note book is fabricated in such way that it can withstand those temperatures. This can also be used at high altitudes, in dusty conditions, in liquid etc. This Toughbook is highly resistant to shock and vibrations. It can endure 3 foot drop which is not available in any other notebooks. In some explosive environments using laptop is highly dangerous and this Toughbook can be used in such cases.
This Toughbook can be easily converted into handwriting friendly tablet computer which can be used as a notebook to take notes. Panasonic CircuLumin technology is used in this Toughbook so that the screen can be viewed even in sunlight. That is anti-glare and anti-reflection coating are given. It comes with windows vista or with windows XP also.
The Panasonic Toughbook’s version is Toughbook 19 for $3749 and toughbook 30 for $3649. The Toughbook 30 is the latest one and its battery life is 40% more than the previous one and it comes with Intel, Centrino 2. There is a function key with which we can control the entire lights of the Toughbook and we can customize the control to specific lights like backlight, LED’s, screen light and even WiFi and Bluetooth can be controlled with that single function(fn) key.
Some of the Toughbook 30 specifications are,
- Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology
- 2 to 4 Giga byte DDR2 RAM
- 13.3 inch display
- circular polarization
- WiFi
- 160 Giga byte hard disk
- 10 hour battery life
- camera at the bottom
And much more excitement guranteed.
Laptops from 80’s to today
The first laptop was created by Adam Osborne in 1981 USA. That first model was named as Osborne I and it is the first portable model. Fom 1982 the laptop weighs about 11 kg and has a 64 KB RAM subsystem CP / M 8 bits and that got reduced as days passed with the help of technology improvement. The first created laptop is supplied without hard disk and it is loaded with two floppy drives with a capacity of less than 80 kilobyte. This first laptop was designed to keep it under the passenger seat on the plane to avoid the baggage. It came with a limited set of standard office programs for use in a professional setting. It is equipped with a 12 volt battery.
Beginning in 1985 with the arrival of Toshiba Papman we start to produce portable laptop. Portable means that the machine was connected to a power outlet and also equipped with a battery and could be used anywhere.But the durability of the battery is very low when comparing to todays laptop. The Papman was the first “true” portable PC.
But today we can get a laptop for very high configuration than the past one and also with the lesser price when compared to the old one. Today we can configure or customize the laptop before buying. Such options are available in some companies and that will satisfy most of the customers because they can get the laptop at their specification. So it is easy for one to buy a laptop nowadays when comparing to the past.
Some of the leading laptop manufacturing companies are,
- Acer
- Apple
- Toshiba
- Sony
- Samsung
- Hewlett-Packard
- Dell
- Panasonic
These companies also provide very good service for their laptops.
Desktop Gadgets
Today I am going to share something about the important or mostly used gadgets in many personal computers. These gadgets are more useful wherever they are used. The gadgets like search box in a website will be more helpful for the users to search for a particular thing.
These gadgets consume less memory and hence it is easy to load in any web page and it very easy to integrate any gadget in one’s website. The gadget like RSS feed can be used to get the recently updated information and the gadget like stocks will keep on updating the stock market news for all the time. We can also add picture puzzle gadget in our desktop and can solve that if we find our self boring in the work and also for some mind relaxation. In case of laptop we can use the gadget which indicates the remaining power available and with respect to that we can schedule our work. Another gadget indicates the connectivity of internet just like the tower indicator in mobile phones. The online dictionary is more helpful in searching new or unknown words easily. There is another cool gadget called Wikipedia search through which we can search anything easily provided with internet connection.
Eee PC from ASUSTeK
Eee PC from ASUSTeK is one of the light weight and easy to use notebook in the market. This comes in various sizes like 10, 9, 7 inch variants. This got rapid start up time and is always ready to use. The WiFi helps to detect the network available automatically and connects to it easily. ASUSTeK announced a new touch pad driver with which one can use multi-touch system at free of cost.
But this upgrade option is available only for the persons using the system with Windows XP platform. This is one of the top three most desired gadgets in Amazon.com. Specifications are 160GB HDD + 10GB Eee Storage, 1.3 megapixel webcam, 10 inch LED Backlight screen DDR2 SO-DIMM 1GB and 1.45kg, Intel Atom N270 / N280 etc, all at affordable price. Battery life is up to 9.5 hours for optimum use. Powered by an energy-efficient Intel Atom processor, this Eee PC comes in different colors like pearl white, black, pink, blue or gold Infusion finish on its glossy LCD lid. The keyboard is 92% of size when compared to the other systems available in the market.
Acer Timeline series
Acer is one of the leading notebook makers now introduced a series of notebook which is easy to use without power for a long time. They have named that as “Timeline series” which is based on Intel Ultra-Low Voltage platform. This Ultra-Low Voltage Intel Core has 2 solo processor which enables low power consumption which increases battery life. These notebooks consume 66% less power when compared to other available notebooks in the market. These notebooks use Cine Crystal LED display which can be easily viewed in low-light also. The available sizes are 13.3”, 14” and 15.6”. This also comes with Dolby sound system which provides high quality sound from any pair of speakers.
Since the power consumption is very less, we can use this notebook for a long time without depending on direct current. The crystal LED display also helps in reducing the power consumption and also in protecting out eye from bright light of the screen. The size is also very thin so that we can easily carry that and also use in our lap. Price tag is from Rs. 39,999 to Rs. 44,999.
Daily Gadgets
Gadgets are small objects which are very useful in the daily life. They are small technological object which are designed extremely good than the normal objects. They are also called as gizmos.
Using the java script and other programming languages gadgets are designed to perform a particular task. Electronic gadgets are made up of transistors and circuits. Some of the application gadgets are clock, weather report, gadget which indicates the CPU usage etc.
Some of the electronic gadgets are iphone, watch with integrated phone etc. These gadgets are very useful in saving our time. It will just provide the information which we are looking. Some widgets are used for advertisements because it is one of the simple way to advertise through widgets which will replace the banner add and it improves the basic look of the site or the place where it is used.
For example if you are using currency conversion often means then you can just get an currency conversion gadget and can place that in your desktop to access it easily. Some of the most widely used gadgets are digital clock, currency converter, window media player, clock showing world time, calculator, CPU usage monitor, calendar, games etc.
Health care and IT
The future health care industry fully depends on the information technology and computer controlled machines. These computer controlled machines look like human being in its activities and will replace human surgeon to perform surgeries. The Artificial Intelligence comes into play in healthcare industry as they involve in Robotic surgeries.
In the future performing surgery through conference will be a common thing where surgeon from one place who is expert in certain specification will guide the surgeon in other place to perform surgery. People who are living in remote areas can use this facility where availability of expert surgeon is rare. Human Genes are being studied now and in future with the help of advanced systems each gene will be distinguished through which we can rectify the disease caused by the problem in gene.