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'Intrusion' warning over mini projectors
Mini projector
Mini projectors have been under development for a number ...
A miniature projector small enough to fit into a mobile ...
The projector, developed by the company 3M, is around 4c ...

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... ly design experiences to be the same on the all screens.

A collection of hardware and software components providi...
The components of the toolkit include:
Com-Phone a multimedia narrative application for a m ...
Com-Tablet a tablet-based media repository and Com-C ...
... loads where applicable, are a

A recent iome survey into the social impact of mobile ph... the UK’s deep rooted emotional bond with handheld devi... mobile phones a vital role in our social lives. Almost a... respondents (31 per cent) confirmed they would feel “c...
from this p

A smartphone designed for blind people has been launched.
Georgie, as the device is known, has a voice-assisted to ...
The phone was designed by blind husband-and-wife team Ro ...
It was named after Mrs Wilson-Hinds' first guide dog.

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An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months an... reaching to the ABS block mockup stage. During this time... out the next best way to put the phone together, as well... best weight and the best components for certain models, ... size of the

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass.
And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ...
But this could change if a new 4G m

Clear is hands-down worth picking up if you’re interes... and have any need for a simple list-making-and-completin... beyond its immediate worth, I think that it could signal...
It’s roughly five years into the multitouch revolution ...
I think tha

Cycell Easyphone
RH Numbers
Brainchild of designer and entrepreneur Tom Sunderland, ...
CyCell uses a printer from the Japanese company Mimaki t ...
Cycell Easyphone

Dickens London Trails is an iPhone app that enables user... London as characters from Dickens’ fiction would have.... through the streets of London on a series of unexpected ... encounters. You also discover more about Dickens’ even...
Your guides

Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as ... society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raisin... conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the s... minerals is fueling in the DR Congo. The campaign and re... complex sup

Finding your way around a museum — or a mall or airpor... — is about to be as simple as using the GPS on your phone.
As of Aug. 1, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria will becom ...

Frost Ajax Library Logo The Frost Ajax library is a tool... development on constrained browsers, such as micro brows... phones or gaming consoles. It is intended to abstract th... the XMLHttpRequest object (XHR) or an equivalent ActiveX... therefore m

Get talking with Go!Messenger, a free voice and video ch... available on PSP.
Go!Messenger lets you keep in touch with friends for fre ...
The full service launched February 29, 2008, and all you ...
Developed in partnership with BT, one of the world's l

Google just released Google Currents (what's up with the... supposed to be "kind of" like Flipboard, except that it ...
Google also released an update to Google Maps some weeks ...
Google, here is the problem: If you cannot make the UI o ...

Handset maker Nokia today announced the creation of an e... called "Nokia Situations" that can automatically adjust ... behavior for various situations and contexts. For exampl... shut off the ringer whenever you go into a meeting, with...
According t

Here’s a nice example. On one morning, I was walking t... via the underground pass, and I noticed a new Disney pos...
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Stitch. Notice the eyes a ...

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

If you have read my earlier posts, you must have seen th...
Today I have discovered that Fukuchi Kentaro, who is an ...
I have put a page on my server for you to use the functi ...
This is a demonstration of calling the page:
... e. (PS: Kaywa reader ne

If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile start... point it occurs to you that the company it most resemble...
Sailfish, Jolla insists, will become a legitimate altern ...
“China… is the most dynamic smartphone market—it†...
Jolla canno

In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l...

Indian telcos give voice to the illiterate
knINDIAN_KIDS_wideweb__470x350,0.jpg Sending text messag ...
"... Since the urban market for mobile phones in India i ...
The solution is called Voice SMS. It is just like leavin ...
Some of the big operators —

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

Jigsaw figures out what you are doing by monitoring your... microphone, GPS and accelerometer for patterns character... activities - and it could be set to send the results to ... sites.
More importantly, Jigsaw can log how active you are each ...

Light field cameras – which let you adjust the focus o...
According to DigiTimes, Taiwan's Industrial Technology R ...
Apple is also investigating light field camera technolog ...
But there's a way to go before Lytro tech finds its way ...
Still, ther

Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackb... title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag