One of the new technology gadgets anticipations is the Apple iPhone 5 which is rumored to have face recognition and a 64 GB memory. This is a cool phone which is expected to be more user-friendly while maximizing the level of security. Sure it was rumoured to appear in the last few months, in line with normal one-year space between new launches, but Apple is not in a hurry to get it to market as the iPhone 4 is doing just fine in sales. But now new rumours are pointing towards a late 2011 official release.

The iPhone 5 is said to support video chatting, GPS navigation and as usual it will allow users to sync it with their iTunes the same as other tech gadgets. The screen will be scratch protected and which is more, users will be able to watch local television channels. This might even give way for users being able to subscribe to cable channels if any service for iPhone is available. This will be one of the best gadgets so far, never mind the best smartphone.

One of the features of the new iPhone is its PICO projector (rumoured) which will allow presentations to be projected on to a flat surface or a wall. This is good for people who buy movies and cannot carry their humongous television. They can just play their favorite movie and projected on to the wall for better sharing. The projector is useful for school projects or for business meetings. Plus why get a large Plasma TV when you can use that projector to turn each wall into a small cinema. Don’t expect stellar performance, but at night you can get decent images out of the iPhone 5. Read more…

What on earth is a digital smartpen and how does it differ from other pens on the market?

The well-known Anoto digital pen technology is the path breaking high-tech pen technology that is responsible for transfer of handwritten text from paper into digital media in many of the digital pens on the market today. An essential difference in the Anoto digital pen technology is its sophisticated real-time image processing which can calculate and recreate 100 images per second.

What is the difference between a digital pen and an ordinary pen?

The essential difference lies in the shell of the pen itself. The basic ingredients of a digital pen are the sophisticated miniature camera which captures images of the handwriting, an image processing unit which takes the images and converts them into digital format along with a communication interface. The pen hosts a small ink cartridge which is used for writing on the special paper.

This special paper is divided into small rectangular parts like you see in a graph sheet. The images which are taken with the digital camera are captured with the patterned paper in the background. A special algorithm converts these images into digital format which is then stored into the memory.

What is the Difference between a Digital Smartpen like Livescribe Smartpens and other Pen Recorders?

Here is how the new Livescribe digital smartpens work. Using the special Livescribe dot paper, the pen recorder captures whatever you write and draw. At the same time, the smartpen records synchronized audio sounds made while you take notes or draw. Recorded audio can be played back by tapping the pen to the dot paper at a special word (keyword) or by searching by word or phrase. Tapping synchronizes the replay with timing of your original notes, so you can see exactly what you took down at a given point during the original lecture. The recorded audio visual clips are called pencasts. They can be stored on the pen and transferred to your PC or Mac for storage, updating, searching, retrieval, review and exporting to friends. The pencast works just like any computer file. Read more…

4G in simple terms means fourth generation mobile technology, it’s a name given to the International Mobile Telecommunication’s advanced standards which have been set by ITU (International Telecommunications Union). What these standards mean are download speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second while accessing the internet wirelessly.

According to the ITU, 4G is the next generation network which provides faster access, broadband multimedia and unified messaging services.

Even if a user is mobile at a rate of 60mph, 4G allows download speeds of up to 100Mbs which translates to downloading movies in HD in less than 30 seconds!

One might point out that there are various technologies that offer high speed internet then how would 4G be any different. For this reason certain technical standards have been specified by the ITU which should be followed by organizations that claim to offer 4G to its customers. The objectives and standards that have been defined are:

• An average data speed of 100Mbit/s while users physically move about at high speeds and 1Gbit/s while users relatively are stationary.

• A minimum data speed 100Mbit per second between any 2 points worldwide.

• Flexible channel bandwidth which is between 5 and 20MHz and can be optionally up to 40MHz.

• 1Gbit/s in downlink must be possible over the bandwidth of less than 67MHz.

• System spectral efficiency up to 3bit/s/Hz/cell in downlink and 2.25bit/s/Hz/cell for usage indoors.

• Seamless handoff across multiple networks. Read more…