Amazing Scanning Technology

Dixau Text Scanner Wikifies and Googlizes Your Reading :

Reading is such hard work without the internet at your disposal to cross
reference anything that you don’t immediately understand. Until now,
people had to read books while at the computer if they wanted to look
stuff up, manually typing it in to Wikipedia or Google. It’s horrible,
I know. The Dixau text scanner from Korean company Unichal makes is so
that you only have to be next to the computer. It contains a little
camera that is able to take pictures of text, recognize the characters,
and then provide on-screen explanations via search engines. Technology surprises us each n everyday.

The Dixau may seem totally superfluous (especially for $90), but what I
think it’s designed for are Korean students who want to be able to
translate words from English scientific texts on the fly. And with that
in mind, it really could be useful even for native English speakers
trying to decipher English scientific texts. I mean, I majored in
geology, which is perhaps not the most technical of disciplines, and I
still swear that half of those words were made up just to confuse
people.

Dixau from Unichal is a device available on the Korean market designed to
help you understand what you are reading and while you are reading.

If you are in the middle of a study related to medicine or you encounter
specific terms that you are not familiar with, Dixau’s built-in camera
captures the image with the sentence at the push of a button and
searches through Wikipedia, Google or a dictionary you provided it
previously.

It then finds the detailed explanations in your PC
with the help of text recognition technology, and reveals them on the
monitor. Such a device costs around $90 and if you understand Korean
you might want to check all the details about it on the official
product page.

Turbocell introduces this technology!!

Mobile charger for your mobile phones - Technology grows!

Cellphones were originally designed to keep you connected while out in the field. Though "the field" can be rather lacking in wall outlets, so when your phone's batteries run dry, and you've gotta top up, you'll need a portable charger. The Turbocell Charger uses simple and readily available AA batteries to pump some go-juice into your cellphone's lithium ions. As small as a pack of gum, and with enough connectors to mate with nearly any manufacturer's phone, you'll be good to go, no matter where it is you're going. Technology is growing much faster than ever.

The average AA battery can add up to 2 hours of extra talk-time, which might be just what you needed - especially if, during the above movie, you have to hack into the aliens' computer network to upload a virus from your Mac. It would suck if your cellphone gave out at the last minute, and would make a terrible downer of a movie ending.

Details

Plugs into 9 different brands of phones: Audiovox, Blackberry, LG, Motorola, Nextel, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson
Takes 1 AA battery
AlgorChip charges your cellphone's battery safely without damage or risk of fire
Up to 2 hours extra talk-time per average AA battery

Mooon concept technology!

Touchscreen Mooon+ Concept phone!!

Do you have a hard time keeping track of all your gadgets? Wouldn't it be nice if you were able to connect your Bluetooth headset directly to your phone? This way, you're much less likely to lose the handsfree side of the equation.

That seems to the be thinking behind the Mooon+ (the extra "o" is not a typo) cell phone concept. The top section of the phone detaches to reveal a fully functional Bluetooth headset. The rest of the phone seems to borrow some styling cues from the BlackBerry Pearl, but the interface is completely through the touchscreen display.

Seems like it could be a neat idea, but I'd imagine that the premium of the "free" Bluetooth headset will be integrated into the price of the phone as a whole.

Chinese scrolls technology in cellphones!

Yun Liang's new technology!!

As flexible displays come to market, designers are asked how they can design products that utilize the technology while remaining meaningful. Yun Liang’s scroll cellphone takes its inspiration from how traditional Chinese paintings are unfurled.

When not in use, the display neatly rolls into the tube. All numeric key functions remain tactile running along the side of the scroll as opposed to touchscreen. This makes it possible to use without having to unroll the screen. You would only do so when accessing media and data.

Direct from your brain! Technology never stops!

Control the system from your brain! Directly!

The Human Interface has a new contender technology. Though we’d like to think we’ve come a long way with computers, the keyboard and mouse remain the predominant way we interface with them. We’ve had the unfulfilled promise of handwriting and voice recognition and hope that something better will come along sooner or later. Perhaps this is it - brain computer interface technology pioneer Emotiv Systems will have its EPOC neuroheadset to market before Christmas 2008. The lightweight US$300 EPOC is, worn on the head but does not restrict movement in any way as it is wireless. The set detects conscious thoughts, expressions and non-conscious emotions based on electrical signals around the brain. It opens up a plethora of new applications which can be controlled with our thoughts, expressions and emotions.

The Emotiv EPOC will be the first high-fidelity brain computer interface (BCI) device for the video gaming market when it becomes available to consumers via Emotiv’s Web site and through selected retailers in late 2008 for a recommended retail price of $299.

The company is also opening its Application Programming Interface (API) and providing a range of development tools to enable developers to integrate neurotechnology into their applications. The initiative will spur the adoption of brain computer interface technology in video gaming and other industries, enabling consumers to experience an entirely new form of human-machine interaction.

The Emotiv EPOC detects and processes human conscious thoughts and expressions and non-conscious emotions. By integrating the Emotiv EPOC into their games or other applications, developers can dramatically enhance interactivity, gameplay and player enjoyment by, for example, enabling characters to respond to a player’s smile, laugh or frown; by adjusting the game dynamically in response to player emotions such as frustration or excitement; and enabling players to manipulate objects in a game or even make them disappear using the power of their thoughts.

Yet another direction enabled by the EPOC is that of live animation using the unit’s facial recognition sensors to mimic the wearer’s facial expressions in an animated avatar.

We look forward to exploring this one further. Very exciting possibilities.