This is actually an amazing device to see demonstrated for real. It projects a red laser keyboard on the table, detects touches using a detector and a camera. It actually works pretty well, and it can also function as a mouse, which I thought was impressive. Battery life is 220 minutes.
Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of Datawind, shows us the Pocketsurfer 2 prototype and concept. Buy a $250 Internet Surfing device with a nice 800 wide resolution screen, GPRS and server-side web content compression technology, you get a pretty fast browsing experience for free for up to 30 hours of use per week. The free GPRS service is provided in cooperation with the GPRS provider and is ad-supported.
An Interview with Asus Eee product manager Zing Chen. Comparing the OLPC XO to the Asus Eee, showing the Eee 900 running Linux and Windows XP and with its larger screen (perhaps lower battery life) and the probable $499 or $599 price tag.
E-ink technology is awesome and it is about to replace the whole printing industry. The quality of this e-book is the same as printed text on white paper. Just imagine one sheet of paper that can load any of the worlds books digitized by Google Books, from Blogs, from online newspapers, from Wikipedia articles and other articles generated from user generated text content, as well as forum posts and more. There just needs to be some automatic selection of daily content as well as more features which this actual first generation e-ink product is missing like resume from ram and flash, pre-processing pages for faster page loading, currently there is about a second delay for pages to load and a slight delay for the WACOM magnetic touch-screen technology. it’s also based on Linux and there are online communities of third party developpers adding features to it.
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Meizu is a Chinese Mp3 player manufacturer who has announced the Meizu M8 to be a product that will look like the iPhone and be cheaper. They are launching the Meizu Music Card which has got a nice scrolling button and it’s cheap but only Flash memory based.
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With more than 2 million units deployed in more than 160 countries, Alvarion is the worldwide leader in Wi-Max wireless broadband providing systems to Wi-Max service providers.
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