CeBIT 2010: the gadgets of tomorrow!
Discover the wildest inventions and gadgets handy that soon invade our world connected with this little round beads and announcements of hi-tech fair in Hanover.
Like every year, the city of Hanover hosts one of the biggest show of hi-tech world, which ends this Saturday, March 6. Once more turned to the professional world, CeBIT this year is approaching the public with unusual objects and innovative gadgets. Several big names have even made the trip: Nokia, Intel, Google, HTC and Asus (among others). For most, it was mainly to confirm or product lines focus on the connectivity of ultra high-end mobile and next generation netbooks (Asus and HTC). Google has taken to reassure the audience, worried about the interference of progressive giant Mountain View in privacy. Why not. The opportunity for Google to once again demonstrate Street View and the limitations that the firm is required to refrain from intruding into our bearings.
Under the sign of reconciliation but also by the connectivity of innovation or very useful gadget - including the proliferation of 3D in all display modes (up to you if the 3D fits into useful innovation or not) - the Cebit has still been the scene of many ads.
Nokia show yourself
Nokia products had deserted the stands of the Mobile World Congress last February. The mobile market was awaiting a sign from the Finnish giant, struggling a bit since the unabashed success of the iPhone, the growing success of Android Phone and the ominous shadow of Windows Phone 7.
Rumors and teasing around the letter "C", that is all that filtered the possible announcement of a new range of Nokia phone. On arrival: C5, a candybar type smartphone. Not a terminal facing the very tough tenors that are the iPhone, the Nexus One or Desire, it features a 2.2-inch screen (in other words pokey for today's standards), a camera of 3, 2 Mpixels, but an impressive battery life of 12 hours of talk time. An SD card slot can accommodate up to 16 GB extra to supplement the internal memory of 50 MB ... There is still that social networking aficionados will find a workflow Facebook and MySpace, but not Twitter, on a dedicated page. The C5 also manages a variety of mail clients and will be sold 179 euros.
Pinball by thought
That is what give flavor to high school and nostalgic replay of pinball! The brain computer interface concept Berlin can control many tasks by thought. For the occasion, the project had connected the interface to a basic pinball. The guinea pig is seen anybody wear a helmet-clad mini electrodes in contact with the scalp. The system then amplifies brain waves and translates them into simple commands pinball.
The dress is a few jokes but the result is there, you can slam a score without touching the machine. A telepathic when the pinball in cafés?
Like many innovations, the interest is elsewhere. The engineers believe most people paralyzed or control of machinery.
Archos Unveils Tablet
Announced along with the rumor about a possible Apple tablet (iPad, less known to the whole Earth from), the Internet Tablet Archos has finally shown at Cebit. The French brand also leaves drop its proposed smartphone, which incorporated little or bow design and the same functions as the Internet Tablet, and more compact. This tablet, called Archos7 Home Tablet runs on Android and has a 7 inch screen (18 cm diagonal). Wi-Fi, USB port, an endurance of 44 hours music playback and 7 hours (manufacturer data) video with support for 720p HD video.
Specifically, this tablet provides good management of its mobile multimedia content and Internet access. With Android, it's also the whole market that is available with thousands of free and paid apps. In addition, it is a beautiful object. The Archos7 Home Tablet will be available in April in two versions: 2GB to 8GB for 149 euros and 179 euros.
The CPL accelerates
We knew the CPL at 200 Mbit / s, now is the version 500 Mbit / s. The CPL is the power line, which lets you access your internet connection throughout the house via the power outlet. Devolo, manufacturer of the most active in this market is therefore more than double the connection speed with the product (like Netgear, who announced the same advanced in the wake).
Caution, however, this is a theoretical speed. Namely that the CPL 500 Mbit / s is expected to achieve the actual throughput of 200 Mbit / s, the throughput of the previous generation. Products should arrive in September.
Football Cybernetics
They are called Penny, Leonard, Rajesh, and Sheldon are the new football stars. Do not look in a newspaper or sports in your game console, you will not find anywhere. Because they are robots. The same robot soccer. Top 60 cm, these four must cyberfooteux Nao "life" to the company Aldebaran Robotics. Their public display of Hanover was done with a game 2 against 2. The robots, imitating bipedal humans, move through the delimitation of the land (they make the difference between grass and lines) and the orange ball. Preprogrammed, they shoot at goal whenever they can get upset and even cause errors.
Beyond the football prowess of Aldabaran Robotics highlights the progress made on the subject of recognition in space. Advanced that could be useful in other areas, such as transport of disabled persons (wheelchair intelligent). Penny and Rajesh are anyway near to give a little and play soccer during the World Cup soccer robotics, RoboCup, on June 19 in Singapore.
Sources: techyou.fr
