Tag archive: Smart

One of the major trends we saw at CES this year was connectivity. Every electronics maker has a “smart” something, boasting products that communicate with one another so that all of your technology can be in constant sync. And cameras were no exception at the show, with every manufacturer showing off a smart device of some sort.  In an appropriate move, Kodak was one of them. The beleaguered camera company has infamously struggled… Read More

Best known for its fun, but unstylish, video display glasses, Vuzix has been pushing forward with its augmented reality technology for what seems like eons. But this year, it becomes a reality. At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, the company debuted its new SMART high-definition display engines and waveguide optics, which display a holographic-like full-color image on a see-through lens that measures just 1.4mm thick. Developed with the help… Read More

With bicycles becoming a more and more popular mode of daily transportation, both in Europe and here in the U.S., tiny-car company Smart has decided to take its eco-friendly design chops into the two-wheeler market with the Smart Electric Bike ($TBA). The company debuted a concept design for the bike at last year's Paris Auto Show, but we're now hearing that the bike will go into full-scale production starting in 2012.  The sleek… Read More

Published within Frontiers in Cognition, Walter R. Boot and Daniel P. Blakely of Florida State University as well as Daniel J. Simons of the University of Illinois called into doubt the methods used within studies that found video game players out performing non-gamers in cognition and perception. Cognition includes aspects like solving problems, attention, making decisions as well as linguistic skills while perception involves understanding… Read More

South Korea's LG Electronics has announced a new line of “Smart” W53 widescreen LCD monitors that look to make the everyday computer display a little easier to use—and friendlier on the eyes. The new monitors feature a notebook-like auto brightness feature that enables them to automatically adjust their brightness based on ambient light around them; other features include cinema mode that blanks out everything except… Read More

The new Wrist Net Smart Watches are available in two different brands and three styles and feature thinner designs and butterfly clasps for a more comfortable fit. Using the MSN® Direct wireless service developed by Microsoft Corporation, the impressive FOSSIL Wrist Net Smart Watches enable people to stay connected to the information that matters most by delivering personalized news, weather updates, sports scores, stock quotes, horoscopes,… Read More

From the press release: Pharos Science & Applications Inc., a leading provider of portable GPS navigation and location-based services, has announced a partnership with Hitachi, Ltd. to enable Hitachi's new G1000TM Multimedia Communicator with Windows Mobile software for Pocket PCs with Pharos' award-winning Ostia Smart NavigatorTM, the first Web-based service to combine GPS navigation, real-time traffic and dynamic… Read More

“After evaluating current market trends … Microsoft is not at this time working on the next version of Smart Display technology,” said Megan Kidd, a Microsoft product manager, in an e-mail response to questions. Microsoft and its hardware partners came to the decision to stop work on the Smart Display product in early December, she said. The first Smart Displays started shipping in January last year after a short delay.… Read More

The Smart Display, a year old, will not make it to 2.0 – Microsoft has told the unfortunate manufacturers who partnered with it in the doomed venture. The idea of a flat panel display which you could pick up and carry around the house sounded like a brilliant idea when it was first mooted, since all it needed was a (presumably, cheap) Windows CE processor and a wireless link. At the time it was not quite as obvious as it is now that… Read More

This designation reflects the value of Transmeta's energy efficient processor technology for Smart Displays running Microsoft® Windows® CE .NET and reinforces the very highperformance capabilities of these processors for demanding applications. Smart Displays are wireless, touch screen monitors that allow users to access Microsoft Windows XP-based PCs from remote locations in the home or office. In so doing, Smart Displays… Read More