Slice Camera By Kodak

Kodak is starting to take on the competitive digital camera market. Kodak has just launched Slice, a 14 mega pixels camera having internal 5x optical zoom, image stabilisation and a 8 cm (3.5") 16:9 capacitive touchscreen at the rear.Besides taking photos,it can also record 720p HD video at 30fps, reports Silicon India.
Slice by Kodak consists of 2GB of onboard storage, and comes equipped with a microSDHC card slot for additional storage. Slice has face and scene detection technology along with an automatic "Smart Shoot" mode which will lead to better pause with good quality.
In this kodak Slice camera, ISO settings from 64 to 3200 are possible.
Another feature on the Slice is a share button by which user can upload photos on the many social networking sites like Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. The Kodak Slice is priced at Rs 15,750 ($349.95).

Making Car Fuel From Atmosphere

Researchers from the South West are working on a £1.4 million project.This Project could adopt carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into car fuel.

The project targets to develop porous materials that can absorb the pollutants that causes global warming in the atmosphere and turn it into important chemicals that can be used for making car fuel or plastics in a process powered by renewable solar energy.

The researchers hope that in the future the porous materials could be used to line factory chimneys to take carbon dioxide pollutants from the atmosphere.Thus reducing the effects of climate change or global warming due to pollutants.

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

IMS refers to internet protocol multimedia subsystem.

IMS is the telecom architecture for offering multimedia and voice servieces over ip framework.IMS is defined by 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP).IMS supports multiple access types including GSM, CDMA,WCDMA,WLAN,and other packet data applications.IMS will provide internet servieces such as web browsing, email,instant messaging and video confrencing from any location.New servieces such as WAP,MMS will be introduced at the top level ofpacket switched network.

IMS uses open standard ip protocol,hence users will be able to utilize all the servieces while roaming as well.So a multimedia seesion between two ims users, between one ims user and one internet user,between two internet users is established using same protocol.Effectively IMS provides wide range of servieces via packet and circuit switched networks.

Key thing about IMS is that it is intended as open system architecture.Some applications where IMS can be used are as follows:

1.Preseance servieces

2.Full duplex video telephony

3.Multimedia advertising

4.Video streaming

5.Web/Audio/Video confrencing

6.Push-to servieces

Scentsory : Nokia Mobile Phone device

Scentsory is a communication device that works with the
sense of smell, sight, hearing and touch.Thus it gives users the ability to experience remote communication on multi-sensorylevels.By the development of Scentsory phone, remote interfacing will become biologically natural.In addition to basic audiovisual features, Scentsory phone is able to detect, transmit and emit smells.It can also radiate colours, lighting, and temperature from the caller's environment.Smell can unconsciously trigger entire memories, complete with deep-rooted associated emotions. The average man is able to recognise approximately 10,000 different odours.
Nanotechnology plays a key role in the development of this scentsory mobile device Using highly sophisticated sensors, the electronic nose samples the odour of the caller and transmits this to the recipient electronically.Scientists have found that a distinct genetic pattern is associated with every odour, so it is simply a matter of matching electrical harmonics with gene activity.Hence the perception of a smell by electrical stimulation could be technologically induced.
When the phone is in open mode(flat), the LED touchpad two screens and stereo speakers for audiovisual calls are accessible. (Wireless earbuds are available.) In open mode two screens with a hidden camera and stereo speakers, interior scent detectors, emitter and exterior temperature sensors are revealed. In closed mode, the phone's slim profile be fits traditional voice calls. The LED screen on the lower folding surface of scentsory phone alerts the user to incoming calls.

iCup for a Cup of Hot Drink

iCup is an innovative concept specially designed for Apple that can heat up any drink

inside the cup by connecting it with the user’s notebook, as well as any device that supports USB connection, via a USB cable

anywhere.Now while working,,you can take a

cup of hot drink and don't worry about of it being cooled . your icup will help you to make it remained hot drink. The key goal of the project is

to ease life with more manageable features that ensure uninterrupted working opportunity, doesn’t matter the user goes to the park, library or working in the office.

The featured Apple logo of the

cup is actually a heat indicator that

shows the temperature of the inside content,

blue for cool, orange for warm and pink for

hot, while enhancing the aesthetics.So make

a cup of hot drink and take it anytime you

need.iCup will make it remained hot.

Moreover, iCup incorporates a displaceable

handle that offers convenient fit into any

small area and the changeable upper portion

allows easy washing.

Ashtray powered by USB to reduce smoke

Smoking is harmful and smelling a second hand smoke from someone’s lighted cigarette is so dangerous and cheap. However, with the help of technology today, this ashtray powered by USB the answer.It is basically developed for lessening the smoke produced by cigarette smoke.

USB-powered ashtray absorbs smoke and blows out less smoky air. USB powered ashtray will keep your room fresh by absorbing and filtering cigarette smoke into fresh air. The ashtray can hold up to four cigarettes simultaneously and easy to locate.

This ashtray is USB powered.It can also be run on a couple of AA batteries. Odors smoke will pass through the filter and absorb by the carbon. When it is plugged into any available USB port, a fan will begin to turn, sucking any smoke upwards and forcing it through a carbon filter.

The USB powered ash tray is designed in the shape of a car and opens up halfway to reveal an ashtray. Tray and filter can be removed for easy cleaning. And it is available in color red, yellow, blue, green, and silver. Price is just right. It is economical.

Roll-on Charger for Rural India

A Mumbai-based company has developed a

hand-powered charger for the electricity-deprived rural India.

The Roto Charger helps users tap power by either cranking or rolling the device any time they need to top up charge on their phone. A decade ago, India had less than 10 million telephones and the growth rate was meager. The country was heading towards a billion people, but had amongst the lowest tele-densities in the world. Now, India is the second largest telecom market in the world, thanks to the entry of

wireless communication devices such as cell phones with chargers.Even the villages of India are witnessing the urge to get connected to the rest of the world by possessing mobile phones

The Roto Charger helps users tap power by either

cranking or rolling the device any time they need

to top up charge on their phone or to survive it the next

hour or to make that last call. What differentiates the

Roto Charger from other similar charger is that the

user can charge the mobile phone in two ways, by

rolling the handle or by rolling the device on any

surface. “Not only in villages, our charger is

well-received in urban areas also. The small,

light-weight roto deviece is definitely a resource of power

for those who travel a lot. this is called rolling deviece or

roto charger because it is used through rolling it by fingers.

the roto charger costs at Rs 450, roto charger's environment-friendly

energy solution can be used even while talking by the

single hand rolling mode. The charger takes just one

minute of rolling to provide three minutes of talk

time and about 30 minutes of stand-by time. Also, it

is safe to use for the cell phone batteries. In fact, the

lower charging currents can lead to a better battery

life.