Interactive touch screen

With the atracBar you can transform your conventional counter, bar top or information desk into an astonishing interactive surface that will react to the objects laid on it. The multi-touch surface offers an infinite number of tools and possibilities. For each presented item, insert multimedia content like comments, audio and video files. Let your customers – or your salespersons – access all necessary product information with natural finger movements.


atracTable is suited for a wide range of applications like:
* Interactive presentations in restaurants or bars: menus, drink lists, etc.
* Let your customers order their drinks via the atracBar interface
* Entertain your customers and create any kind of atmosphere thanks to the infinite possibilities that the atracBar can offer

Samsung launches monster D9500 72-Inch 3D Smart TV in Korea

Samsung launched the massive 72-inch Samsung D9500 3D Smart TV in Korea today, various reports note. The D9500 has the largest screen size for its kind not only for Samsung’s line but also for all 3D TVs.
According to reports, the D9500 has a 240Hz LED-backlit screen, black diamond panel and features Samsung’s 3D Hyperial Engine.
The D9500 also comes with a QWERTY keyboard for browsing channels and using the built-in Samsung Smart Hub software.
However, the massive 3D TV uses active shutter 3D technology and users need to wear active shutter 3D glasses to view 3D images.
The D9500 comes internet-ready and can connect to the web using its built-in Wi-Fi connectivity allowing users to surf the web, play games online, use Skype and other web-connected technologies.
Interested buyers in the U.S. and Europe will have to wait, however, as Samsung is yet to reveal when it plans to sell the massive 3D TV in those regions.
Those who want to buy the huge D9500 3D Smart TV will also have to shell out an evenly mammoth amount for the unit since Samsung sells the D9500 at about $17,500 or more in South Korea.

Foldable Notebook with Flexible OLED Screen!

Brilliant! The Feno is a folding notebook. Typically we expect a hinge between the display and keyboard, but the Feno has an additional hinge within the display! This not only makes the size more compact but also explores future use of flexible OLED screens. The pice de rsistance is the pop-out mouse! Just pop it out and you are good to go!


Designer: Niels van Hoof
 

Futuristic Watch Phone

Futuristic Watch Phone

A watch and cellphone hybrid, the Alexey Chugunnikov Rollerphone acts like a mini projector on the wearer’s wrist. This projection shows the time on one side of the wrist and when the wearer turns it over, a roll out, transparent screen becomes available for phone calls.
A customizable design, the Alexey Chugunnikov Rollerphone encourages perfect ergonomics and anthropometry. Essentially, the screen rolls out right to the tips of the wearer’s fingers to ensure these features.
You can also watch videos, chat online, play games, read books and listen to music on the Alexey Chugunnikov Rollerphone.

Incredible Custom-Built Portal PC is Water-Cooled

Created by UltraFlip of HardForum, this incredible custom-built Portal PC is based on the Cosmos 1000 case and features water cooling, Aperture logo, and a host of LEDs. for more pictures. Continue reading for a couple videos.

CAMJ Tiny SLR – the smallest DSLR in the world?

This CAMJ Tiny DSLR [translated] comes from the school of ridiculously small working gadgets. The 2 megapixel beast (hah!) is a fully functioning camera, which shoots SVGA images, records video at 30 fps and stores it all on microSD cards (like you use in phones). It can accept 32GB cards, which means a *lot* of shots.

Charging is done either via a small portable external charger which uses AA batteries as the power source or a USB port, and the whole thing comes with a one year guarantee. What it really needs of course is a lifetime ‘lost it down the back of the couch’ insurance policy, but that’s the risk you take with silly small, eh? Priced at around $97.00 in Yen stuff. [Via]

Amazing 4.5-GHz Computer Built Directly Into Desk is Water-Cooled

This desk-based computer may not be the first of its kind, but it's definitely the most beautiful example we've seen yet. Powering this beast is a 4.5-GHz Intel Core i7 980X processor, Corsair Dominator GT 6GB DDR3-2000 CL7 RAM, ASUS Rampage III Extreme ASUS GTX580 SLI, Highpoint RocketRAID 3560 24x SATA-300 2GB, 6x Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 12TB raid5, and a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 800W. for the first picture in gallery.

World's First Screenless Multitouch Interface

Stream Machines

By Simon Munk

It’s finally happened: We spend more time on the Net than on the couch. TV is losing viewers … to laptops, tablets and smartphones. But the boobtube’s far from going away -- it’s just going with you ... online. At the same time, more online content is making its way onto your TV. Crazy, right? Modern video streamers are linking up the Net and TV, allowing you to take “The Real Housewives of New York” on the road wherever you go. Like most housewives, there is no hiding from them! Here are our recommendations for the best video stream machines for your viewing needs. Best … if your favorite network is social

D-Link Boxee Box

This device -- which looks like a Rubix cube with a corner cut off -- collects video content off the Net based on your friends’ recommendations via Facebook, Twitter and Boxee’s own social network. Boxee then delivers Internet feeds to your HDTV in vivid 1080p, with Dolby Surround Sound. It also offers a slick interface, allowing you to use your iPhone or Android as a remote. The catch? Its functionality is in the early days of development, and some video sites are still blocking the technology. (Some sites can be so stubborn!)
Price: $220
Best for Apple Lovers
Apple TV

Tiny, slick and cheap, the Apple TV is hard to beat in the streaming category. Apple’s media streamer grabs music and movies from your computer and streams them to your TV set via HDMI and optical audio technology. It’ll also allow you to rent and stream high-def movies and TV shows online, as well as hook into services and Internet apps such as Netflix, YouTube and Flickr. You can control it with an iPad or iPhone. The drawback? It’s all done via iTunes -- so it only works for Apple-supported file formats and services. Photo: Getty Images
Price: $99
Best for Traditional TV Lovers

Slingbox PRO-HD

The Slingbox performs almost in the opposite manner as a media streamer. It draws high-def TV programming from your standard satellite feed or cable box (or pretty much from wherever you get your TV signal), then slings it out to your desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phone -- via the Internet. So why whistle while you work, when you can do something so much more productive … like watch “The Jersey Shore”?
Price: $300


Best for Multimedia Maniacs

Sony PS3

Hey! You may think of your Sony PS3 as a game console, but its many multimedia functions offer many more possibilities. Along with playing Blu-ray discs, the PS3 can hook into your computer’s media archive and stream digital TV, movies, music, photos and more to your TV. And, unlike the rival Microsoft Xbox 360, it’ll also connect to a handheld PSP over the Internet -- so you can watch downloaded content anywhere in the world. So, instead of watching your favorite TV shows from your living room, you can travel around the world and watch ’em there! Now that’s progress!
Price: From $300
Best for the Economically Challenged

Roku

Dollar for dollar, it’s tough to beat Roku’s bargain media-streaming solution. Even a low-end model comes with built-in Wi-Fi, an HDMI output and high-definition video handling (albeit at a limited 720p). It’s lacking some of the high-end features that pricier rivals boast, but it’s a good buy for the money. It’s like hiring your cousin the plumber to come over and watch TV -- except your cousin’s actually a lousy plumber.
Price: From $60

TOP Futuristic Laptop Designs

Technology takes a leap almost each day in this era. Gadgets and gizmos are progressing so rapidly that an illusion today becomes a reality tomorrow. Check out some of the most unusual yet interesting laptop concepts that will entirely change the way you work on your portable systems, once they will be real in the future.


Computer on Your Wrist. Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked for the year 2020, features like a holographic projector (for screen), pull-out extra keyboard panels and social networking compatibility, make the concept plausible.


Dell’s Eco-Friendly Froot. Designer Paulina Carlos has made a bold leap to introduce a computer without either a monitor or a keyboard.The Froot makes use of laser technology to create a computer monitor of sorts, a keyboard and a mouse for any flat surface. If you have this light gadget, you don’t need to carry your heavy laptops everywhere.



D-Roll. Check out this next generation notebook concept from designer Hao Hua – dubbed the D-Roll, or rather, digital roll in full.


Canvas Laptop Concept. A designer named Kyle Cherry has developed the laptop of the 21st century. Keeping the design clean and simple so artistic efforts are unhindered, auxiliary controls sit outside of the keyboard area and include a four-way navigation joystick.


The Siafu concept notebook. The idea behind Siafu was to give people with vision loss an intuitive computer experience. Images from applications and Web sites are converted into corresponding 3-D shapes on Siafu’s surface.It can be used for reading a Braille newspaper or feeling the shape of someone’s face, for example.


Vaio Zoom notebook. The Zoom supposedly utilizes holographic technology that has been condensed into a thin glass form factor. Featuring a holographic glass screen that goes transparent and a keyboard that turns opaque when turned off, it’s slick and beautiful. Even the  mouse buttons are holographic.


Compenion laptop. Felix Schmidberger design for a laptop for 2015 with OLED touch screen. It consists of two sliding OLED screens, one of which can be used as a keyboard, where necessary. The idea behind the Compenion Laptop is it’s versatility to transform into several types of portable devices via a range of docks. By the looks of things the docks include; a media player dock with built in speakers, a projector dock, a drawing-board style sketch dock, and an e-reader dock.


MacBook 0801. This concept was created by Isamu Sanada. The keyboard of MacBook 0801 is transparent and ultra thin, that will give you a new concept of laptop.




Cario. This sick Laptop was designed by Anna Lopez. A slim line, lightweight concept Notebook for the mobile worker and can be carried around by its handle, placed like an easel or even placed, and used, on a car’s steering wheel.


Nokia’s Scroll OLED Laptop. Another member of the “scroll” family, Nokia’s scroll OLED laptop concept was conceived by Rodrigo Mercado with distinctive entertainment functions. With a wide viewing angle, low power and high contrast ratio, viewing things on the laptop will certainly become more fun.


MacTab. It is ultra Portable Complement to Macbook by Yann Le Coroller. The MacTab is equipped with a very thin wireless keyboard and when it’s not in operation it will be use to cover the screen for transportation. On the back of the computer, a hinge allows it to be put in a vertical position so you can use Mactab comfortably on your desk.


LG e-Book Laptop Concept. LG introduced e-Book, an ecological laptop concept that uses fuel cell batteries and features organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology. The batteries of the LG e-Book use natural gas, methanol, and other eco-friendly liquid fuels. The fuel is stored in a transparent cylindrical hinge.


Canova Dual Screen Laptop. The Italian company V12 Designs has devised a new version of the ‘Canova’ which is a dual LCD laptop. The notebook features dual display with touch-sensitive screens, sketch pad, music score, graph paper, an electronic pen and a dedicated hardware for its smooth functioning.



B-Membrane laptop concept. Created by designer Korean Won-Seok Lee. The B-membrane is a user friendly computer with a membrane like key-board which appears when it is needed, integrated optical drive and when not used as a computer, the projector can beam ambient light effects on any surface you desire.

A innovative concept tablet !

Korean designers Yonggu Do, Jun-se Kim and Eun-ha Seo have found a more conventional use piezoelectricity, in the form of powering our very own tablets and smartphones. Statistically on an average, users press their touch screens over 10,000 times a day. Ingenious system dubbed simply as the Ecopad, where the tablet or any similar device can utilize the piezoelectricity generated by that ‘tapping’ of touch screens. This in effect forgoes the need for those cumbersome adapters (and any power source for that matter), while the device can literally be self powered throughout a period of days. For those who are not acquainted with piezoelectricity – it is the charge which accumulates in certain solid materials (notably crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA and various proteins) in response to applied mechanical strain.
Electricity is made automatically simply by using your ‘ecopad’. currently commercialized tablet PCs and smart phones  have a very limited battery life – often not more than a day before having to be recharged. on average, people press their  touch screens over 10,000 times a day. the ‘ecopad’ does not require special charging from an adaptor. instead, it generates electricity when a user presses the touch screen due to the nano piezoelectricity film that is located below the display.  

Sony HDR-TD10E

200-Megapixel Hasselblad H4D-200MS Medium-format Digital SLR Camera

The Hasselblad H4D-200MS medium-format digital SLR camera is capable of creating 200-megapixel photos. Designed for studio photographers, the H4D-200MS features a 50-megapixel sensor and adopts the multi-shot technology to produce a 200-megapixel image. A piezoelectric motor slightly moves the sensor, while the camera takes six images of a scene. It takes around 30 seconds to capture and stitch the six pictures into a 600MB, 200MP image. Other features include support for an external hard drive and an ISO range of 50 to 800. Priced at €32,000+tax (around US$45,667), the Hasselblad H4D-200MS is a must-have for the professional, who takes stunning photos of stationary objects such as luxury cars, jewelry, artwork and other high-end products. [Hasselblad]

Best Android Tablets Available Today

The range of Android tablets on the market is growing at an exceptionally quick pace and each one offers something slightly different than its rivals. Once you have decided to go with an Android tablet and not other platforms like in the case of the iPad 2, HP TouchPad or BlackBerry PlayBook, another difficult decision follows: Which Android tablet is right for you? Here are 5 Android tablets (3 Honeycomb and one Froyo) that are available on the market right now.

T-Mobile G-Slate

 

The T-Mobile G-Slate elbowed its way through the Android tablet crowd earlier this week and so far has some positive reviews in terms of exceptional hardware and performance. If there were any shortcomings it would have to do with its 4G speeds that are slower than the Motorola Xoom LTE and more complaints about Android 3.0 Honeycomb feeling like an unfinished product. The T-Mobile G-Slate features an 8.9-inch display, Tegra 2 dual-core processor, 5-megapixel camera and one key feature that no other tablet has on this list, 3D video recording and playback. T-Mobile is also throwing in 3D glasses for free.

Acer Iconia Tab A500

 

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is another well price Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet set to hit US shores very shortly. The Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet with a 10.1-inch display (same as Motorola Xoom) will reportedly cost $449 and deliberately undercut the base iPad 2 model which starts at $499 (16GB WiFi). For that price, you get a Honeycomb tablet packing a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, 1GB RAM, 5-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front camera, microSDHC slot and HDMI output. There is also some custom widgets, DLNA media sharing using clear.fi and a couple of other handy apps. Expect some great games as well like Let's Golf and Need For Speed: Shift

Motorola Xoom

 

This was the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet and although it had a buggy start (no Flash, 4G LTE coming later on, lack of Honeycomb optimized apps), it still stands as a good buy if you don't mind forking out for the higher than normal price tag. Some of the key specs of the Motorola Xoom Android tablet include a 10.1-inch widescreen HD display with 1280:800 resolution, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera for HD video capture and 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video chat, a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, full suite of Google Apps and services, access to Android Market, Adobe Flash Player support and a stock Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform.

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 

 

The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer correct one of the biggest mistakes of the Motorola Xoom and that is the price tag. The tablet will set you back $399 (16GB) and $499 (32GB). Now of course, this tablet won't technically be able to "transform" without the keyboard dock. That unfortunately is not included in the package and you will need to plunk down an additional $150. This technically makes $450 the lowest price point you are walking out of with the full ASUS Eee Pad Transformer experience. While it ain't cheap, you're still looking at $50 less than the base iPad 2 model for this WiFi-only Honeycomb tablet.

Samsung Galaxy Tab

 

The first real Android tablet competition to the iPad, the Samsung Galaxy Tab sold worldwide in the millions and is still a sought after tablet. While it is the only Android 2.2 Froyo tablet on the list, it deserves a mention as it is still available through US carriers and severely marked down. On paper it doesn't have much to offer (both software and hardware wise). However its solid build and now decent price makes it a worthy option for those looking for an Android tablet that is a lot cheaper than the others on the list while still getting the job done.