


The Cricket™ Laptop Stand, manufactured and designed by Innovative Office Products, Inc., is the first laptop stand that’s both portable and fully adjustable. Elevating laptops for cool computing and comfortable viewing, Cricket™ is adjustable to safely accommodate any screen size and preferred screen height, and also allows air to circulate and heat to dissipate.
Available in June 2008, Cricket™ is extremely portable to go anywhere with a laptop—folding to fit in a pocket or computer bag.
Features:
• Adjustable height – simply press button to adjust height of screen.
• Enhances airflow – air circulates beneath and around computer, keeping it cool.
• Extremely portable – easily fits in a pocket or computer bag.
• Ergonomic computing – elevates screen to comfortable viewing height, enabling use of full-size keyboard for more efficient computing.
• For tablet PCs – raises screen at angle for greater readability and more comfortable writing angle.
Motion Computing(r), a leader in ultramobile computing and wireless communications, today unveiled the LE1700, the company’s latest flagship slate tablet PC. The most feature-rich tablet PC on the market, the LE1700 integrates the latest technologies aimed at enhancing productivity of mobile professionals in healthcare, field sales and service, government and hospitality, among others. New technologies available on the LE1700 include Motion’s exclusive WriteTouch display option for dual-mode writing and touch-screen input; Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) integration; the Microsoft(r) Windows
Vista(tm) operating system; and Intel(r) Core(tm)2 Duo mobile technology.
“The LE1700 is another good example of Motion’s penchant for choosing the relevant and innovative technologies to help our vertical industry customers do their jobs better and more efficiently,” said Tony Bonadero, Motion’s vice president of product management. “Productivity, mobility and security go hand-in-hand and are paramount to the technology decisions mobile professionals make, so we’ll continue to focus on integrating the right technologies to support truly mobile workflows - from WriteTouch for flexibility of input to WWAN for staying connected regardless of location to data protection via ComputraceComplete and DataGuard.”
I am fascinated with the kind of obsession that humans have for robots. The latest milestone in the robotics field is that the Aizu Central Hospital near Tokyo has become the first hospital in the world to have an android receptionist and two porters. With most of the progress in this area happening in Japan, this bit of news doesn’t really come as a surprise.
The robots produced by Japanese robot maker Tmsuk have been hired at a cost of $508,000.
The blue receptionist robot welcomes visitors and answers spoken queries while the green porters (seen in the picture above) can help them find their destination while carrying their luggage at the same time. Hospital official Naoya Narita says, "By introducing them, we want to show the scene of a future hospital, where robots are getting along with patients and visitors."
If this is where the future services industry of Japan is heading, it will only add to the woes of an already disgruntled and out-of-work labor force. With all due respect to the tremendous applications that robots have had in the manufacturing industry, when it comes to caring, give me a human being any day. No robotic hospitals for me.
Samsung makes excellent sliders, Definitely true, if the U900 is any indication. Besides being very well built , slim and featuring a brushed metal body, the U900 has a lovely screen. It’s compact too, and very much for the college goer looking for something powerful and chic. The call accept/reject button are large, you could find them with your eyes closed. The keypad seems reminiscent of Motorola phones, some sort of a membrane based keypad that nonetheless works fine. The most innovative feature is incorporated into the menu button- there is none.
Samsung 5 megapixel camera is easy to use with good menus and option, although its camera isn’t as good as N95 or the N82. The only trick which Samsung missed is the presence of GPS and WLAN. The U900 is a good phone for something cute, hardly, yet functional. It hasn’t got the powerful convergence of features like N95 and N82, but it looks radically different and is flashy too, like the Viewty. Choose it over two Nokia’s above only if you don’t need the extra features they have!