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Lexar creates its own SD WiFi Memory Card. It’s a card-based Eye-Fi cards.
Eye-Fi cards are known to be SD cards with integrated Wi-Fi, doing possible send photos automatically to PC’s or Web Sites. Before using these cards, you must configured with a computer, indicating which is the target computer (or website), in addition to insert configuration data of the wireless network that you are going to use to connect.
Eye-Fi company manufactures three types of cards:

• Eye-Fi Home (80$). Just to send photos to a PC within a local area Wifi.
• Eye-Fi Share (99$). Lets you send and upload photos to a PC or a website.
• Eye-Fi Explore (130$). Allows geotagging the photos (using Skyhook) and send them to a PC or upload to a website. Besides, allows the use of Hotspot access for one year.

All these cards have a capacity of 2GB, have to be configured before you use them and the photos just are sent when they detect that are within the range of wifi network.

I think Lexar has used the Share cards to create its own SD cards Shoot-n-Sync, but iam not sure.

Product Highlights (Shoot-n-Sync):

• Upload photos automatically, effortlessly, and wirelessly
• Instantly connects and wirelessly transfers photos via your home Wi-Fi network
• Backup photos to your PC and easily share them on favorite photo-sharing websites
• Works with SD-compatible digital cameras
• No cables, no cradles, no hassles
• Combines Lexar memory card technology with wireless technology from Eye-Fi
• Includes USB card reader for one-time setup
• 1-year limited warranty

In my opinion, I think is a very good idea because it lets you send photos instantly without the worry about nothing. You can use this to create backup of your photos or just to send them to friends.

Via Gizmologia

Nissan, NTT Docomo and Sharp Corporation announced yesterday that they have jointly developed a world first mobile phone capable of functioning as an intelligent key for automobiles. The device will incorporate Nissan’s Intelligent Key system, already a standard feature in various Nissan vehicles.

Nissan’s Intelligent Key system, installed in more than 950,000 units of various Nissan models since 2002, employs two-way wireless communications technology to automatically unlock/lock the car door and start/stop the engine. Nissan and Sharp has now integrated these electronic intelligent-key, wireless communications and electromagnetic technologies into the new handset.

Nissan, Docomo and Sharp will demonstrate this mobile phone with built-in Intelligent Key in their respective exhibits at CEATEC Japan 2008, which begins September 30. The three firms will continue to develop the product with an aim for commercial distribution in early fiscal year 2009.

I think this is a great idea in a country where everyone use their mobile phone almost for everything but I am sure it wont be available here in a short period of time.

Link Press release

So far we have talked several times about projectors in mobile phones, micro projectors as design concepts… and finally we can say that it has come to real life! 3M has developed the first micro projector, which name is MPro110.

But this is not a projector in a mobile device, just a micro projector itself. Its size is not yet small enough to fit in a mobile phone, but 3M promises to get it smaller (and brighter and with higher screen resolution) in the coming years.

Let’s talk now about some features:

• Size: it’s palm-sized!!!
• Price: it will be around $359 and it will be shipped at the end of this month.
• Lamp: it uses liquid crystal on silicon and LCD on a mirror that bounces light out the front of the projector.
• Fan & sound?: it doesn’t have a fan neither speakers.
• Display: it can display a VGA image (640 x 480) up to 50 inches diagonally. For this purpose, the lamp of the projector is over a moveable surface, that you can move to point the image diagonally at any surface. It has a rate of 60 frames per second (TV quality).
• Inputs: it’s got VGA and composite video inputs. Also inputs for memory cards ands USB port.
• Focus: it has a thumb wheel on the top to focus the image.

Other companies are developing similar products, like Texas Instruments, which uses LED
and its DLP imaging chip, similar to what you get in rear projection TVs from
Samsung.

Great news, of course, we have been excited since the first micro projector concepts and prototypes. I want one of these!!!

Via OhGizmo!

Until now, RFID chips, which are used for electronic identifications in animals, products, objects, even people, could be easily cloned. This represented a big problem because it was possible to steal a person’s identity, or replace a real valuable object with a fake.

Currently, Verayo has announced an augmented RFID chip called Vera X512H RFID chip, which is the world’s first unclonable silicon chip. This new RFID chip is based on PUF technology (Physical Unclonable Functions), one of the latest breakthroughs in semiconductor security technology.  PUF-based solutions tap the “physical DNA” intrinsic to silicon crystals at the atomic level, to generate effectively unclonable secret keys that can be extracted electronically from chips attached to branded products. Even the manufacturer of the chips does not know these keys.

No doubt, hackers from everywhere have a new great challenge.

Vía crunchgear.

Nowadays people use their mobile phones more than its cameras in order to take casual pictures. Day by day mobile phone cameras are better and better and smartphones or iPhones are the only gadget people want to hold in their hands, so handsets companies are supplying  with a lot of mega pixels to its caremas and people demand its 5 or more MP devices.

Researchers Eric Tremblay and Joseph Ford at the University of California San Diego are currently working on adopting the light-folding concept from telescopes to cell phone cameras and other applications. The biggest advantage of folding light is that it allows the development of super-thin lenses that provide unprecedented levels of magnification and resolution in small spaces.

The UCSD researchers hope that in a little more than a year, the lenses will be small enough for a cell phone about 10 millimeters in diameter.

That sounds good, don´t you agree?

Via InventorSpot

8.000.000 iPhones sold this year, 5,649,000 iPhone 3Gs added to the 2.4 million first-generation iPhones the company reported it had sold in the first six months of 2008. That means Apple has manufactured more than 8 million iPhones this year. Even if we plus this number with 2007 sales, Apple has sold 11.71 million iPhones worldwide.

WOW

Therefore that means, not only that Apple make lot of money with its device, it means that Apple create and market its products like no other to reach with them as a great success, even history icons, and of course it obtains this.

Congratulations Apple for this great success, and for bringing us this great machine.

Via Fortune

Thanks to XatakaMovil we’ve got noticed of this interesting trial performed by researchers of Radboud University (Netherlands) at the annual Four Days Marches of Nijmegen. After 2006 edition, with the death of 2 participants and 69 hospitalizations, the University began studying ways to monitor the health of marchers during the event.

The system trialed included several elements:

• RFID Pill for checking body temperature
• Backpack-RFID reader
• Mobile phone

Every volunteer swallowed the pill that sends the measure of temerature every ten seconds to the RFID receiver in his backpack. That data was then transmitted via Bluetooth to a GPS-enabled mobile phone and then to the operation center.

“Based on their height, weight and age, the system was able to alert the volunteer if their core body temperature had reached a dangerous level,” in words of Martijn Bakkers, branch manager of healthcare at Progress Software, the firm that provided the event processing technology, based on CEP (complex event processing).

And, what is more important, thanks to the mix of real-time time processing, location aware and push services, in case a volunteer were at risk he could have been notified to have a rest or rehydrate. In fact, not only the participant at risk, but that ones in her vicinity and the medical team.

This is a fantastic example of how near field communications, mobility and real-time messaging technologies can be combined to provide useful services that can make our life easier and more safe.

Via XatakaMovil
Link RFIDUpdate HQInc

The new Palm, called Treo Pro, has been finally unveiled. Good specs and fine built quality are not a surprise, but HTC as its manufacturer is. At least, a little one. This reminds us to HTC origins, when they built for HP or Dell, but it´s not a really big move for either firm. Anyway, there are no official declarations of a permanent manufacturer switch from Inventec (normal producer of Palm devices) to HTC.

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A japan watchmaker company, Seahope, have created a series of unique watches, which are designed to look like the electronic bulletin boards used on the JR Yamanote line, which is the most important commuter rail line in Tokyo. There are 4 models from 4 rail stations: Shinjuku station, Shinagawa, Ebisu and Ikebukuro.

Those live in Tokyo, like other people who live in big cities around the world, would like to be able to know the next departure of the train that they are going to take. But, do not expect to come this true with these devices. Disappointingly, these watches only display time and date.

Via Crunchgear

Garmin Nuvifone delayed his departure until 2009. The delay is due to have been initiated formalities so that the new device will be associated with some phone companies.

Nuvifone is a new GPS, with added features:

• Phone
• WiFi
• Camera (3 megapíxeles)
• HSDPA
• Multimedia
• Touchscreen

If we must account for that it is one of the best GPS on the market, it is quite cheap GPS (500$).

In my opinion, Garmin Nuvifone is a good GPS with new added features, and I think it should not compete against the new generation of mobile phones, such as Omnia, HTC’s Touch Diamond, iPhone, etc.

Via Xataka