Category: Top stories
Interview: VoIP firm Jajah on T-Mobile investment and ad-funded VoIP prospects
Voice-over-IP firm Jajah is experimenting with advertising-funded models that could mean free telephony in the future. Although most VoIP services offer free calls now, they’re usually only to other users of that service, with calls to landlines or mobiles being charged – albeit at a lower rate than non-VoIP telephony.
If Nikon made a 360-degree panorama-cam…
It might look something like this. Designer Ye Chen is responsible for the concept product, which sadly isn’t actually being made by Nikon. Not yet, anyway. He’s billed it as the Coolpix 360, with the big innovation being a rotating head that would allow you to take full 360-degree photos.
Toshiba unveils its in-car HD DVD player
Toshiba has got together with Alpine Electronics to develop an HD DVD player for use in cars. It was shown off at last week’s Automotive Engineering Expo 2007, and should become a commercial product in 2008.
Video of Sony's flexible OLED display
If you were intrigued by our story the other day about Sony developing a flexible OLED display, now you can see it in action thanks to a video that’s popped up on YouTube. Just to reiterate, the current prototype is 2.5-inches in size, with a resolution of 120×160 pixels and a contrast ratio of 1,000:1. Take a look below.
GlowFur ain't just for the ladies
Shiny Shiny wrote about GlowFur earlier this month, focusing on a furry bikini packed with LED lighty malarkey. Aimed at female clubbers, it probably wouldn’t look that good on most blokes.
Get your hands on a Roboquad spider robot
Well, preorder one, anyway. You might remember Roboquad from Susi’s video preview in January this year. He’s a four-legged spiderbot from the same people who brought you the very-fine Robosapien.
YouTube video player gets a revamp
With about, ooh, 837 different video-sharing services out there, you can’t rest on your laurels even if you’re the top banana. It seems Google has been beavering away on an all-new YouTube video player, with some subtle yet welcome tweaks to make it a bit more interactive.
AIGO's Cool Box handheld games device
Round my way, a cool box is what you put your sarnies in to keep them nice and fresh for a picnic. Not in AIGO’s opinion though. Cool Box is the firm’s new handheld gaming device, which has just been unveiled at the CHITEC 2007 exhibition.
Charging to access MySpace's WAP site? Is Vodafone crazy?
Dave wrote earlier about the fact that Vodafone has launched a MySpace WAP site on its Vodafone Live portal, in advance of a downloadable application coming later in the summer. Since it’s part of an exclusive deal, for now this is the only way us Brits will be able to access MySpace on our phones.
Wii online triumph: Mario Strikers Charged Football impressions
Today’s a momentous day for owners of Nintendo’s Wii console – it’s finally getting its first online game. Mario Strikers Charged Football is the game, and as you’d guess, it mixes traditional footy with all manner of Mario Kart-esque power-ups.
