Fight the dark with Stimuli 3.0

Everytime you work hard on some project of yours and you come up with the greatest idea of them all, you see how the sun is slowly going down, taking away the light you need so much in order to continue. The amount of the available light isn’t enough anymore and all you can do is to just take a break and obediently wait for the next day. It is the most terrible feeling and it brings you at your wits’ end.

But here’s an unusual lamp design concept that catches everyone’s eye even if it does nothing special at all. It looks like a science fiction movie setting object, as if it were the result of an alien civilization.

The Chris Natt designed lamp is a device that keeps up the light level constant: this means that the spherical shape and surrounding panels have a specific function, to constantly adjust the lamp’s light levels to correspond with that coming in through the windows. The so called Stimuli 3.0 is “a lighting system whose shape and therefore light output sensitively varies inversely with the surrounding natural light intensity”, says its designer. For example, at dusk, illumination gradually increases as natural light recedes.

The device is provided at its heart with an unique 3 axis gear box that shifts and rotates the panels to either increase or decrease the brightness of the light. Therefore, the panels block out more or less light. That depends on how much light there is coming from outside.

This is a very weird lamp, you must agree, and it would be perfect for an environment designed to astonish and amuse its inhabitants. It looks like a thing of the future and it would be a great achievement for Chriss Natt to actually mass produce such an attractive prototype and to release it on market under a reasonably price. If the concept will get to see the light of the day, then the designer might consider himself a very lucky guy and make a hit.

Knowledge in your Fingertips

I remember the days when I was a little child and all I could ask was “Why?”. “Why is the sky blue?”. “Why do people love to enter a little box (the TV) and talk to us as if they knew who we are?”. “Why do birds fly and I can’t?”. I was driving my parents crazy with all of these silly questions, but imagine: for someone unfamiliar with so many things, with the world out there, older people, who seemed to know a whole lot more than I did, were my first source of information.

As the years passed by, I replaced people with libraries, and therefore books, documentaries which were broadcasted on different foreign TV channels and later, much later, with the Internet. With the help of a simple search on Google, I could find everything I wanted to know without annoying people for nothing.

But how about Touch-Hear, an innovative concept based on a very advanced technology that converts your fingertips into the most useful source of knowledge and, why not, handier than others? That will certainly change our point of view concerning our fingertips, am I right or not?

You must have come across words you did not fully understand, at least once in a while, and I’m sure you wanted to know its exact meaning. There’s a great line you’ve heard in the movie you saw last night and you want to share it with your girlfriend, but you can’t articulate one word, as French has never been a passion of yours. Yes, you could always use the translation, but what’s the magic in it? Now: what if by only running your finger across the letters of a word, even in different languages, “someone” will whisper in your ear its meaning or pronunciation? So, from now on, foreign words won’t be a problem for you anymore, meanwhile famous events and locations will briefly be explained.

The Touch-Hear is a concept developed by the Design Incubation Centre and could make a whole lot easier the process of studying for exams, as it helps the assimilation of additional information. The purpose of the design research laboratory is to “examine the possibility of expanding the human potential through technological devices, innately empowering users in their everyday activities”.

All you have to do, guys, is to read. No more, no less. But… does this concept apply to handwriting, also? Because, in this case, Touch-Hear must be very patient and intuitive, as some of us skipped calligraphy classes taught in the first grades.

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iPhone 2.0 Upgrade

There is a company from Lawrence, Massachusetts, specialized in consumer electronic upgrades and trade-ins, that started a nice initiative that allows customers to change their first generation iPhone with a brand new iPhone 3G model.NextWorth gives you enough trade-in cash to cover the upgrade to the iPhone 3G. As you probably know, you have to pay $199 for a new iPhone 3G 8GB and $299 for the 16GB version, to which you’ll add the 1-year o 2-year contract costs. If you bring the first version of the iPhone 8GB model, NextWorth is giving you $299, while for the 16GB you get $300. The only requirement you have to meet is that your cell phone to be in perfect condition, with no scratches and with all the original accessories included. In case your handset has some problems, you still can enter the upgrade program but you’ll receive a smaller amount of money.What NextWorth does with the phones is to refurbish and resell, or sell piece by piece via certified recycling partners, if the damage is too high, promoting this way the reuse.How can you change your iPhone first version with the brand new iPhone 3G? –First you have to visit the company’s website and provide the details including model and condition of the handset. Based on these, the value will be estimated and if you accept the offer you’ll receive a box in which to place the device in order to send it back. After the phone is verified, you’ll receive a certified check in about 7-14 days.Before starting this, you should check the list to see if there is a participating retailer near you.In addition to the iPhone, you can also trade your iPod.“As the demand for the first generation iPhone in secondary markets remains strong, we are able to offer higher dollar exchanges and remove the price issue from the decision to upgrade to a 3G iPhone,” said Dave Chen, CEO of NextWorth. “We’re taking advantage of this unique spike in market values and passing the dollars back to consumers, making the upgrade process as fast and easy as possible.”

Portable PC Theatre Concept

For those of you who like to impress people with sophisticated PowerPoint presentations, here’s a concept design that could give you the edge when your company needs to pull an important join-venture. Forget about carrying you notebook and the projector separately. This cool concept merges the two into a more compact solution.

According to Ubergizmo, It is known as the portable PC theatre concept, and it combines a full-fledged multimedia PC and a 5.1 surround sound movie system that allows you to make stylish presentations as well as let you enjoy your favorite movies anytime, anywhere. All you need to have handy is a power outlet. Well, you could be using a notebook battery but that won’t last for more than an hour with this hybrid.

If you’re suspecting the projector might be causing some heating problems inside the unified casing, you can always detach it and place it on something firm. Unfortunately, the designer didn’t mention any possible specs for the two devices, not to mention that the design might never get commercialized. I guess the PC can pack enough processing power to end up as a great HTPC, and the projector could integrate the latest technology that enables palm-sized projectors to deliver good enough image quality while still retaining a small-form factor.

LG Preps Superslim DivX DVD Player

It’s not like DVDs are suffering a sudden death now that Blu-rays are finally being embraced. I mean look at CDs, they’re still around, even though most of us don’t need them anymore; music CDs still represent the standard and so do movie DVDs. Nowadays, one could recode HD content and make it fit only a single DVD. LG seems to be pretty interested in such techniques and has just announced the First DivX Certified DVD Player Capable of Playing HD Video.

The press release informs that the sleek player comes in a slim format and can be mounted on a wall. It is known as the DVS450H, and supports the latest DivX codec that allows users to recode HD content so as to fit DVDs instead of Blu-rays, with minimal quality loss. LG’s new player uses a special technology.

"The demand for products that play DivX video has continually driven us to produce solutions that maximize this high-quality experience across a range of product categories," said Dan D.H. Koh, Head of Marketing Strategy Team in LG Electronics' Digital Media Company. "Incorporating support for high-definition DivX video on this DVD player illustrates this in a significant way. We are committed to bringing our customers the very best entertainment solutions and are pleased that working with DivX fulfills this vision."

The player integrates a special “floating” technology that enables DVD playback in both horizontal and vertical positions. That’s why LG recommends the wall mounting option. DVS450H will be available starting October for around $240.

Nokia N96 Official Price

"The Nokia N96 is mobile entertainment at its best, a fitting flagship for our Nseries range. It defines convergence by blending phone and multimedia options seamlessly with the unique Nokia Nseries dual slider that makes discovering and sharing experiences easy. Watch live TV and video, take high quality photos and geotag them to specific locations or directly upload them online via the fast internet connection - it is all about taking mobile entertainment and communication to the next level," says Jonas Geust, Vice President, Nokia Nseries.

And with these said, the Nokia N96 mobile phone starts shipping worldwide at a retail price of EUR 550, approximately $792.

Nokia’s flagship multimedia computer with live TV capability continues the Nseries handsets line bringing a 5 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, geotagging and dual LED flash, turn-by-turn audible navigation guides, 16GB built-in memory, up to 24GB memory support via a microSD card, high-quality 3D stereo sounds, N-Gage games, and many other features.

Sporting a large 2.8-inch display it allows you to watch and record TV shows on the go based on the DVB-H technology, in the landscape mode, enabled by the motion sensor for auto-rotate. You can set transfer up to 40 hours of video from your computer onto the handset and using the smart kickstand you can place the Nokia N96 mobile phone in the right position to watch live TV anywhere you are.
It supports high-speed Internet connectivity thanks to the WLAN and HSDPA technologies, so you to browse full web pages and download different things directly on the handset. Other main features include FM radio with RDS, advanced music application, secondary VGA camera for video calls, and instant access to Ovi, Flickr, Vox, Yahoo! And Google.

Nokia N96 Available

Finally we have great news but also bad news for the fans of the Nokia N96 unveiled at the Mobile World Congress at the beginning of this year! After reading the rumors speculating on the Nokia N96 release date we finally have something set.
While some will have to wait until October, others have the chance to place an online order now and wait for it to arrive in a few days.
The good news is that the new smartphone is available for pre-orders in the United Kingdom. The bad news is the price of £535 including VAT, which is higher than many of us have expected to be, but you can receive it in just a few days. You can order it from here.
In Asian countries like India and Philippines it is still an upcoming cell phone and we can’t say the exact price which it will be available at, but it will probably cost around $900.
That’s all for now. Check back or subscribe to stay up find out when it will be released in the other countries, and when the price drops.