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This is probably the first ever remote controlled robot that flies by flapping wings. Pretty cool, though as the video shows it sure doesn’t fly very well...

When I saw the title at first I was hoping for something that flies like real dragonflies, but clearly this is still early days, maybe in another five to ten years we’ll find it far more developed.

So it flaps its wings, woohoo...

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Samsung flattens LCD screens... even more!

November 22nd 2006 01:07

Thick as a credit card, the worlds thinnest LCD screen

Like they weren’t thin enough already (are they ever?) Samsung has created a new LCD display screen that is 0.7mm thinner than the last thinnest and at a thickness of just 0.82mm about as thick as the average credit card.

Samsung has achieved these results by redesigning the light guide plate subassembly and the glass substrate which contributed a lot to the LCD screens thickness. By doing so Samsung's engineers were able to shave 0.7mm's off of the width of the (previous) thinnest LCD screen in existence.

The LCD screen features a gVGA resolution (240x320 pixels) 300nit brightness and a 500:1 contrast ratio.

Along side this ultra-thin LCD screen Samsung has also developed a new technology called ‘i-Lens’ for integrating these screens with a protective layer into mobile devices.

An advantage in design ‘i-Lens’ has is that the protective layer is fastened directly onto the LCD screen, werein in other designs there usually is 2 to 3mm in space above the LCD panel to protect the screen.

‘i-Lens’ is thinner and more shock and damage resistant than previous LCD integration designs, saving a reportedly 1.4 to 2.4mm in thickness compared to other designs.

Samsung expects the new screen will hit mass production sometime in the second half of 2007.

What does this mean? Well to put quite frankly it means friggin Motorola can make its Razr mobile phone even thinner with its next release...

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NEC for Super 3G

November 21st 2006 07:31

Super 3G is the next leap from 3G mobile technology. 3G simply is the third generation of communication for mobile phones.

NEC has announced it will develop components for ‘Super 3G’ capable handsets which will be available on the market by 2010 for NTT DoCoMo.

‘Super 3G’ has download connection speed of 100mbps which is about 260 times faster than the current mobile 3G technology available, and about 50 times faster than stationary 3G connections.

First ever 3G handsets, prehistoric by whats to come

The first ever ‘Super 3G’ handsets were released earlier this year however are only able to download at 3.6mbps which is only 10 times faster than regular 3G.

While the protocols under which ‘Super 3G’ should comply will be finalized by 2007 most of the basic designs have already been completed this year, hence DoCoMo is in the reasonable clear to go ahead and develop this technology.

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