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Planon PrintStik is a small portable printer which prints without ink

By Damir Beciri
4 Comments3 February 2010

planon-printstik1Although we encourage the reduced usage of paper in our articles, we couldn’t skip this example of gadgetry. Planon PrintStik with Mobile Enhanced application is the smallest full-page portable printer with self contained paper on the current market. With the trend of laptops getting smaller and cell phones turning into computers, it is natural to… »

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Transform surfaces into interactive screens with DISPLAX SKIN

By Damir Beciri
2 Comments2 February 2010

displax-multitouch-skinDISPLAX Multitouch Technology named SKIN, believed to be the first of its kind, is a transparent thinner-than-paper polymer film enables creation of large interactive screens suitable for outdoors and indoors usage. When applied to glass, plastic or wood, the surface becomes interactive. Significantly, this new multitouch technology can be applied to standard LCD screens as… »

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Apple iPad entered the market of tablets. Will it survive?

By Damir Beciri
2 Comments31 January 2010

apple-ipad-0Besides writing about potential technologies for upcoming tablets and e-readers, we knew Apple was planning to reveal their most rumored gadget in past few months. iPad is a tablet from Apple which can be used for browsing the web (more or less), reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games,… »

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VESA introduces DisplayPort v1.2 – double performance

By Damir Beciri
One Comment24 January 2010

vesa-display-port-v12The Video Electronics Standard Association (VESA) has unveiled the long awaited DisplayPort Version1.2 digital display interface that brings with it a host of enhanced features. Aside from a doubled data rate of 21.6Gbps and bi-directional USB data transfer of an impressive 720Mbps, the upgrade also offers multi-monitor support from a single plug, improved audio synchronization… »

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Boogie Board Paperless LCD Writing Tablet – digital magic slate

By Damir Beciri
11 Comments23 January 2010

magic-slate-catRemember the magic slates? You could write or draw on it and after you’d pull the foil the content would delete and you could write or draw new content on it. In this article we’re going to write about a digital version of such a product. Kent Displays announced the forming of Improv Electronics, a… »

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LG unveiled their newspaper-size flexible e-paper

By Damir Beciri
One Comment19 January 2010

lgd-flexible-e-paperLG Display has announced the development of a newspaper-size flexible e-paper. Despite the fact the market is becoming overwhelmed with tablets coming from various big companies, the folks from LG won’t give up the fight for a different concept which resembles common newspapers rather than easily-portable touchscreen displays. What makes this e-paper special compared to… »

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Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy – 3D printer for food

By Damir Beciri
17 January 2010

cornucopia-digital-gastronomy-3d-food-printer-1After writing about 3D printers as Mcor Technologies Matrix 3D printer and Festo iFab, and our emphasis of the potential to create similar machines designed meant for other uses beside rapid prototyping, here is a twist from folks in Fluid Interfaces Group (the group that came up with SixthSense). Cornucopia is a personal food factory… »

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Mint – floor sweeping and mopping robot from Evolution Robotics

By Damir Beciri
7 Comments13 January 2010

mint-robot-cleans-floorsThe company which designed facial recognition and location awareness systems for some of the best known consumer robotics in history, including the now-departed Sony AIBO robot dog and WowWee’s line of toy robots, introduced their competitor for the robotic cleaning market at CES 2010. Evolution Robotics presented their cleaning robot named Mint which differs from… »