| TechnoLiME January 2010 |
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(Issue 6 - January 2010) NEW for 2010 The next 12 months will see products that seemed like science fiction last year leap into your living room. Read on, and James Holland will bring you up to speed on the latest and greatest gadgets heading your way. Computing Asus Eee Keyboard Computers moved away from being boring beige boxes years ago, but this is one of their more wacky design detours. The Asus Eee Keyboard will be on sale in 2010, packing a fully-loaded PC, storage space to hold your music and movies, and wireless connections to beam pictures to your living room TV, all inside that slinky keyboard shape. The idea is that the Eee Keyboard stays with you on the sofa while you surf the web, email friends or watch films. Then, when you move to the bedroom, it can go with you, sending pictures to the TV there instead. Expect more quirky PC designs throughout 2010. Home entertainment Pure Sensia digital radio Relatively speaking, the radio has been left behind in the technological stakes. Okay, there are digital broadcasts and internet radio stations, but really there’s been no fundamental change - until the Pure Sensia that is. It’s the world’s first ‘Connected Radio’, blending traditional broadcasts with internet capabilities. Tune into a station and you’ll be able to interact using its touch screen, see photos from the studio or send messages via Facebook or Twitter. Cameras Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D This little beauty is the world’s first compact camera capable of shooting scenes in proper 3D. Two 10 megapixel sensors capture super-sharp photos, then blend them together to create a 3D image. There’s also a clever screen on the camera’s back that uses a lens to show both photos at once, directing each one to a different eye so your pictures appear to have true depth. Expect more 3D cameras in 2010, as well as 3D printing on the high street too. Portable entertainment Sony Reader Touch If 2009 was the year of the iPhone, 2010 will be the year of the e-reader. Designed to use very little power, and able to show thousands of pages of text on a single charge, these devices let you download books from the web and take an entire library with you wherever you go. Sony’s latest lets you swipe through pages using a touch screen, and doubles as an MP3 player to play back audio books. As more publishers make their wares available in electronic form you’ll see a flood of e-readers in 2010. Gaming Microsoft Xbox Project Natal No more playing games hunched over a confusing controller full of buttons. The Xbox’s Project Natal lets you play games simply by moving, making gestures with your hands or speaking aloud. No buttons, controllers or cables, just a pair of cameras peering toward you, letting the Xbox ‘see’ you in 3D. Project Natal can even read your facial expressions and tell when a game is making you frustrated or bored. It’s designed to make Xbox games more accessible, but will also let you play music, start a film or show photos just by pointing or shouting at the console. |
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