Double your possibilities
Are you running two mobile telephone numbers? Then Samsung has the perfect phone for you. Samsung’s new D980, is the world’s first full touch dual SIM EDGE-EDGE mobile phone. The D980 provides the functionality of two mobiles in one unit, whether for separating business and personal calls or to use when roaming.
Samsung D980 is enhanced with a large 2.6” QVGA LCD that offers a full touch navigation experience with a drag and drop user interface. The handset is loaded with advanced multimedia and music capabilities. The D980 comes with a music player, 5 mega pixel digital camera, 3X digital zoom and image stabilization. Users can record MPEG and H.263 videos as well as playback video files at 30 fps in VGA resolution. The D980 is equipped with a 2.0 USB and Bluetooth 2.0 to provide faster data transfers and wireless connections to enable the user to be connected to a range of peripherals including wireless headsets and mobile printing.
In terms of battery life, the D980 comes with a large 1200mA battery that allows the mobile to compensate for power-consuming roaming features, so there will never be any downtime while away from home.
Wii mows the hillside
The University of Southern Denmark has found a new use for the Nintendo Wii remote controller. A robotics team at the university has interfaced the “Wiimote” with its Computer Assisted Slope Mowing Robot or Casmobot module. This enables a slope mower to be controlled at a distance. Such mowers are used in agricultural and mountainous areas for weed and grass management.
The idea started out as a joke one late Friday afternoon in the university's robotics laboratory. But soon nobody was laughing. The Wiimote turned out to be a more intuitive way to control the slope mower, instead of using a standard industrial remote control unit, especially for people who hadn't tried steering larger remote controlled vehicles before. Manual steering of the slope mower is performed by simply tilting the Wiimote in the direction that the operator wants the vehicle to drive. Learn more about it at www.fieldrobot.dk.
Football site launched in Arabic
If you’re a Saudi football fanatic then Goal.com will become the site to visit each morning. Mohammad Saeed, the editor of the new Arabic version of the site commented that since people in the Middle East and North Africa are very passionate about the game, he expects that Goal.com will become an essential resource for timely information for millions of football fans in the Arab world. The Arabic site will also stimulate healthy debate within its forums and will encourage more participation in discussions about the latest events in the world of football.
Backup the family network
WD’s redesigned My Book World Edition network storage drive is marketed toward consumers who have multiple computers on a home network. The new drive will be available in 1 terabyte and 2 terabyte capacities, and is compatible with PC and Mac machines.
Just plug the My Book World Edition drive into a network router, click a few buttons and the storage device backs up the files from all the PCs and Macs on the network. Any changes on these computers are automatically backed up as well. The drive's storage capacities are available from any computer in the home, which allows for the creation of a shared digital media library that may be accessed over the Internet as well.
