Latest Mobile Phones & Gadgets

Just what is a USB widget? It’s simply a software application that opens up when you plug in the associated USB drive. It is ‘dynamic’ and automatically delivers updated info from the web. MAC widgets usually don’t autorun and may cost more though.

When you plug your USB widget in, you can set it to autorun or not as suits you. Once operational, it opens in its own non-browser window and displays its dynamic contents. You can get one for practically anything but today, we’ll talk about Avatar widgets.

These are groovy little gadgets that are fully customisable to the character (or, Avatar) of your choosing. You can record your own voice for the character to use or you can choose other pre-set options to be its voice. Many of them have text-to-speech modes too.

They are most useful for putting on your website to guide visitors around or just to welcome them. You can even set them to answer questions. You can even update the content remotely by telephone so if you’re away from your PC but need to have your site’s Avatar say something different, just tell it so on the ‘phone.

These Avatars can be custom made for practically any purpose and to do almost anything.
Prices vary depending upon what customisation is needed.

The story of technology of the modern world is essentially the story of convergence of different types of skills and equipments being rolled in to a singular unit. And pertaining to this, both the experts and users agree that there is perhaps no better example for this phenomenon that the camera phones that are currently so widely popular all across the globe. A camera phone is fundamentally a mobile phone with inbuilt accessories and technologies that will enable the user to capture still as well as moving images and store, transfer and exchange them in the form of digital data.

Though there are various patents dating back almost to five decades which can be considered relevant in the development of the camera phone technology, the CMOS active pixel image sensor which is all about ‘camera on a chip’, advanced by a team led by Dr. Eric Fossum in the early 1990s is actually the first step towards materialization of this idea. Though initially the camera phones marketed by Japanese corporate used CCD instead of CMOS sensors, the later has successfully captured the market at present. Among the advantages of CMOS technology over CCD are the scope for mass production and the low power consumption by the former. However the advent of camera phones has also given rise to a number of social issues that have currently called for execution of new regulatory laws.

To connect people to the internet at any time, mobile technology is making computing accessible in the mobile phones. The Intel Atom processor is a low power processor specially designed for mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The Intel Atom processor is based on an exclusively new micro-architecture designed particularly for small devices and low power, while maintaining the Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set compatibility to which consumers are habituated with when using a standard PC and the Internet. The devise also comprises support for multiple threads for better performance and improved system responsiveness. All of this on a chip that measures less than 25 mm². These new chips, previously codenamed Silverthorne and Diamondville, will be manufactured in Intel’s 45nm process with hi-k metal gate technology. The chips have a thermal design power (TDP) specification in 0.6-2.5 watt range and scale to 1.8GHz speeds depending on customer need. By comparison, today’s mainstream mobile Core 2 Duo processors have a TDP in the 35-watt range. The Intel Centrino Atom processor technology, formerly codenamed “Menlow,” includes the Intel Atom processor, a low-power companion chip with integrated graphics, a wireless radio, and thinner and lighter designs. So now this processor will be in great demand for the convenience that will be gained from this device