Worm Geek

On the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 many bright ideas and devices were presented, so I would like to stop your attention on one of them, that just few years ago would seem like pure science fiction.

We all have played sport simulator games where you can always check your speed, trace data or other information on the screen. With Recon Instruments goggles you can have this information displayed right in front of your eyes, while you skiing downhill for real.  The device displays automatically determined speed, altitude, geographic latitude/longitude, vertical projection of distance, total distance, time measurement, temperature and other data.

The goggles support bluetooth connection so you can use them for connection with mobile (under Android OS) and have information like calls, text messages or playlists displayed too. Yet another pleasant surprise is the open SDK support for new applications.

After several mounts of information “leaks” Apple finally introduced iPhone 4. This happened on 7th of June at the opening of Apple WWDC developers conference, where Steve Jobs compared new iPhone with Leika camera and said that it will revolutionize the world of smartphones. (more…)

There is some kind of trend in technology development into very big or minute devices. This one is definitely in the large scale scope of multi-sensor displays.

So what actually is the mTouch? It is a coffee table with incorporated 32″ or 42″ sensor display produced by Merel Technologies. It support Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, has USB ports and multi-format card reader. The computer characteristics are: Intel Core 2 Duo (2.8 GHz) processor, 4 GB memory and 320 GB HDD.

Although the mTouch is still in development stage it already has some nice applications including gestures and objects recognition, multimedia functions, Internet and social networks integration.

MTouch will be available in July in custom colors and on price of only 3200 or 4200 USD for respectively 32″ and 42″ models.