Future Cellphone : Nokia 888

Nokia 888 is definately the cellphone of the future. The device is so compact and ultra portable that you can bend it, mould it to any shape, you can even strap it like a wrist watch.You can carry it anywhere, in any form. You can roll it, bend it, put on your clothes like a clip etc.
The handset uses a liquid battery, speech recognition, flexible touch screen, touch sensitive body cover which lets it understand and adjust to the environment.
It has a simple programmable body mechanism so that it changes forms in different situations.
Among other distinctive features, the new concept phone includes an alarm clock, liquid battery, GPS, touch screen, phone, push email receiver, PDA, digital wallet and jewelry.

Tranparent Toaster

“Transparent Toaster” uses special heating glass to warm a single slice of bread. Unfortunately, the glass does not reach a high enough temperature — at this time — to actually toast the bread,but may be in the future.The only flaw is the size as no one eats just one?. No word yet on if this concept will go into production.

Canon Digital IXUS 900 Ti

Canon Digital IXUS 900 Ti :

Not that long ago Canon hinted it was dropping out of the race to squeeze as many pixels as possible on to its cameras. So it is surprising to see the arrival of the 900Ti, a robust titanium-finished compact snapper that is capable of taking 10 megapixel images. 10 megapixels is excessive for all but a tiny minority of compact camera users, but there's no denying that the 900Ti is a superb camera. There some very neat touches such as the optical viewfinder in addition to the good-quality 2.5in LCD monitor. Start-up time is impressive too, with the camera ready for taking pictures in less then a second. There's also a great anti-shake system, and, unusually for a compact, the option of shooting in widescreen. Video quality is the best from a compact camera, with impressive levels of detail and accurate yet rich colour rendition.It is hard really to criticise the 900Ti, except to say that unless you have a specific reason for shooting large images, you don't need a 10 megapixel compact camera.Canon IXUS 800IS is good if quality is paramount, or else a budget look digital SLRs such as the Canon EOS 350D or the just-announced Nikon D40.






Samsung SGH-D830 :

Samsung has produced its most impressive ultra-slim mobile yet in the D830. The handset is less than 1cm thick, which makes it even slimmer than the latest Motorola RAZRs - and, at the time of writing at least, the thinnest in the world. Samsung has got a lot right with the D830. It has 80MB of storage, which can be supplemented by a microSD card. It also has Picsel Viewer, which means users can read Word documents and PDFs. The screen is as bright and colourful as Samsung normally deliver and the 2 megapixel camera is better than many of its more specified rivals. There's also an onboard MP3 player and video facilities. Where the D830 comes beautiful flat keypad. Not surprisingly given its size, the phone's battery is pretty small which makes it lighter and good.

Transparent Screen Laptops

A Transparent Screen?

A transparent screen is an optical illusion like this one where the screen looks like you can see right through it.

Transparent Screens is a Flickr photoset of laptops whose desktop wallpaper has been set to a digital photo of the walls and windows behind them, so that they appear to have totally transparent displays. The effect is striking.

This seems to be a bit of a craze at the moment. How it works (put simply) is that you take a photo of whatever is behind your computer screen, and then use it as your desktop. Obviously it’s a more precise art than that, but it’s relatively simple. But it really fantastic how it would be if someone could develop LCD/TFT glass displays.








How it works?

A camera is mounted on the laptop that would keep track of where the eyes are (there are programs out there that can already track the head - the eyes are located in predictable points based on that). The laptop would already have a mesh version of the present room in its memory.

By the view of the room minus “volatile” elements , the laptop could figure out the location of the screen of the lappie.

Combining that information, the laptop could figure out what the left eye and right eye should see where the laptop screen is, if that screen was not there.

What is very interesting about this is that the computer should be able to account for the head moving, and for the laptop moving as well!

Intel Core 2 Duo

Intel Core 2 Duo Architecture :

Intel’s Core Architecture is a first for Intel’s platform development. Core Architecture has been designed to support not only the desktop environment but also mobile and servers.

Smart Cache is Intel’s latest way of not only reducing the amount of cache memory needed for its dual core CPU’s but also a way to increase the efficiency of the data being shared between the 2 cores.

Intel’s Smart Memory Access includes a new technology called memory disambiguation. With this new feature each core is able to guess what data is needed from memory and is able to retrieve it before all the previous instructions in the queue have been completed.

The Core 2 Duo CPU is similar to the Extreme in almost every way. It features use of the same FSB, same cache volume, same transistor count and manufacturing process and only the use of a 10x multiplier giving a speed of 2.66Ghz differentiates it from the Extreme edition. In fact other than the writing on the heat sink it is impossible to tell the difference between each CPU just by looking at it.

There is a small clock speed difference between the two products, there is also one significant feature for the enthusiast market. Whereas previous Extreme CPU's came with increased cache or HT the Core 2 Extreme comes with a very useful feature – an unlocked multiplier. If the Extreme processor is to be over clocked the unlocked multiplier opens up huge performance tweaking options. That said, there is a huge price difference between the 2.93 and 2.66 GHz models and if you aren’t a hard core overclocker it would be hard to justify the extra expense.

The architecture of Intel Core 2, represented by the desktop core Conroe which has grown from the mobile core Yonah. Which in its turn stems from the ideas of Pentium M (Banias and Dothan). What concerns the latter, it has been noted many times that they are direct descendants of the 6-gen core of Intel processors (P6), which had been designed prior to Pentium Pro and had lived to Pentium III. Thus, on one hand, Core 2 is a step back, as it sort of cancels many architectural solutions that appeared in processor cores of the later generations (the famous Intel NetBurst architecture of the seventh generation). On the other hand, we cannot say that Core 2 is the direct heir to Intel P6 because of too many modifications. The new core has been altered beyond recognition :).

The key differences of the new architecture from the closest parent — Intel Core Duo (Yonah) come down to the following:

1. Improved decoder, expanded to 4 decoders of x86 macro-ops (3 in the closest counterparts, Intel Pentium M / Core Duo).
2. The execution speed of 128-bit SIMD instructions is one instruction per cycle in each execution unit (twice as fast as Yonah).
3. Improved operations with memory and hardware prefetch.
4. L2 Cache is shared by both cores, its size is distributed dynamically depending on the load (we have already seen it in Intel Core Duo).
5. Better power saving technologies.
6. Support for a new set of SIMD instructions, SSE4.

The following are the parameters of new processors:

1. 65 nm process technology
2. 1.87-2.93 GHz core
3. 800-1066 MHz FSB (probably 1333 MHz in XE models)
4. 2-4 MB Shared L2 Cache
5. 65-80 Watt TDP

Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme will be the fastest processors available. Faster than the Pentium EE having Smart Cache and Dynamic Execution.


FEATURES OF CORE 2 DUO :

Intel has specifically created one unified Core architecture for all categories: Conroe (desktops), Merom (notebooks), and Woodcrest (workstation/servers). All are based on Intel's Core technologies, and all three are 64-bit-capable dual-core processors with shared enhancements.

It consists of three variations :
Conroe,Merom and Woodcrest.

All three variations (Conroe, Merom, and Woodcrest) will provide more computing power and use less energy. This will help laptops extend their battery life.

Multitasking moves to the next level. With Core 2 Duo's virtualization technology, you can turn one physical PC into several virtual systems, all running different applications and OSs.

The Core 2 Duo processors can processes four full instructions per clock cycle.

Smart Memory Access has been designed to lower memory latency and improve data access. The key to this is "memory disambiguation", which allows the execution cores to pre-load instructions that are about to be executed before the previous instruction has finished. This is based on a set of intelligent algorithms and it doesn't work under all circumstances,

Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme

Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme :

The Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme are the first desktop processors to incorporate Intel’s Core Microarchitecture enhancements.They are fabricated using a 65nanometre manufacturing process, which Intel initially used to construct high-end Pentium D chips.Both processors are well equipped with 4MB of Level 2 (L2) cache and an effective front-side bus speed of 1,066MHz (actually 266MHz but data is transferred four times per clock cycle).

Smart Memory Access ensures that the location of data that the cores are working on is optimally placed in memory, thus reducing the effect of memory latency.

Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme consists of intelligent power capability, Wide Dynamic Execution, Smart Memory Access, Advanced Smart Cache & Advanced Digital Media Boost.

Intelligent power capability :

A sophisticated control in the cores powers up individual logic systems when they’re needed this helps reduce the risk of processor failure.

Advanced Smart Cache :

Advanced Smart Cache is the mechanism by which L2 cache is shared between the two cores. The cache is shared and uncontrolled, meaning one core can be dynamically allocated up to 100% of it.
An advantage over independent cache for each core is that data need only be stored in one place if both cores are working on it.

Smart Memory Access :

Smart Memory Access ensures that the location of data that the cores are working on is optimally placed in memory, thus reducing the effect of memory latency.

Wide Dynamic Execution :

This encompasses the ability of each core to process four instructions at a time and the support for macrofusion, which involves combining commonly coupled processor instructions to save execution time.

Advanced Digital Media Boost :

Advanced Digital Media Boost sees a great improvement in the handling of 128-bit SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) instructions. These are now completed in a one clock cycle rather than split into two 64-bit calculations.

Intel's new microprocessor design has made chips more energy efficient than today's Pentium M processors, while offering even greater performance than previous x86 chips.

Core 2 Extreme chips are already ready to rumble the Core 2 Duo desktops and mobiles.

Feeling Nostalgic for a Drive-In? Project a Movie on Your Garage Door

While the Dell 1800MP is powerful enough for sales presentations, it also plays games and movies. In other words, this $849 video projector is built for a conference room, but it’s also just right for the living room.

The 4-pound 1800MP can be mounted on the ceiling or placed on a table. There are three basic picture modes — PC, Movie and Game — and you can switch between the video-in ports to watch inputs from different devices, including DVRs and game consoles. Some devices may need adapter cables, which, like the projector itself, are available at www.dell.com. A unique ventilation system helps reduce noise.

The 1800MP projects video at a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels — not quite high definition. It accepts most standard video resolutions and can take high-definition signals from 1080i HD devices, although it will not display at that resolution. Under the right conditions, it can show images and video at up to 304 inches diagonally. Most family rooms don’t have that kind of space, but it’s nice to know that a far wall can double as a drive-in screen in a pinch.









Troll Touch offers the following popular LCD display sizes as Plug-N-Play touchscreen packages


Model Screen Size


TouchSTAR Model 12 12.1 inch
TouchSTAR Model 15 15.0 inch
TouchSTAR Model 17 17.0 inch
TouchSTAR Model 18 18.1 inch
TouchSTAR Model 19
(Limited Availability) 19.0 inch
NEC 1800 Series
(Limited Availability) 18.1 inch
NEC 2000 Series 20.1 inch
Apple Studio 17 17 inch
Apple 20, 23 & 30 in
Cinema Displays 20, 23, 30 inch
Sharp Model LC-30HV2U 30 inch



Troll Touch is proud to integrate our touchscreen technology onto LCD displays from NEC, Viewsonic, Sceptre Technologies, G-Vision, Apple Computer and others. All of the displays we integrate are "active matrix" screens with very high brightness and superb contrast characteristics. Our Plug-N-Play packages come complete with display, touchscreen, touchscreen controller, cables and driver software. Custom case colors are available at an additional charge.

Touch-enabled, Sharp Model LC-30HV2U (or current model), 30 inch LCD Display. The display features our TouchSTAR internally integrated PSR-1 analog resistive touchscreen system.