Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo has conducted a series of interviews with his people involved in the development of the Wii Fit.
Read the stories so far:
Sunlink International Holdings Limited and iView Limited have announced the worlds’ first handheld Personal Media Player (PMP) and presenter which incorporates pico projection technology. Unveiled at the recent Hong Kong Electronics Fair 2008 (from 14-17 April), the product will be the first such product to hit the market.
The pocket-size device is powered by the iView IPL630 VGA liquid crystal on silicon pico-projector module and Sunlink’s multi-media platform. It is fully self-contained with built-in rechargeable battery, a speaker, a 3.5” TFT touch screen, and remote control and a SD card slot. Equipped with a Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 core and Office Viewer, the product makes business presentation possible anytime, anywhere.
Currently there are no details about pricing or availability.
Dr. C.C.Change, Chairman of iView, is quoted as saying
“According to Insight MediaMedia, by 2011, there will be over 11M cell phones and PDAs embedded with pico-projector in use. We are very happy that SunView PMPP is the leader of the pack.”
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The Gadget Show – a TV program on Channel 5 in the UK – recently collaborated with Curventa a design and development consultancy also in the UK, to create a new design concept for a compact digital camera.
Using emerging techology including a flexible OLED screen, wireless (induction) charging and DLP projector the resultant design represents a unique and practical solution.
(Check out all the details of the design from Curventa at: http://www.curventadesignworks.com/what/gadget-show/)
Currently only a concept. Will we ever see something like this available in the marketplace?
Possibly, when the cost of the individual components required reaches an acceptable (low) unit cost.
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A touch screen with tactile feedback.
Optimus Upravlator is an input device which features a 10.8 inch color LCD (800 ×600 pixels resolution) with 12 see-through buttons occupying its surface. Each of them has five contact points—center, top, bottom, left and right—freely assignable to user interface elements in the software of your choice.
Upravlator uses open standards and protocols and is compatible with Windows and Mac OS X, allowing for the use of many different applications.
Details at
I noted that Microsoft has recently announced the first CTP (Community Technical Preview) of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio.
Microsoft Robotics products and services enable academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.
Do you like to pop bubble wrap?
Then why not try out this electronic version.
From Japanese toymaker Bandai, Puchi-Puchi (which is the Japanese for the sound of a little pop as well as for bubble-wrap) is a hand-held keyring attachment designed to simulate the look, feel and sound of popping bubblewrap.
After every 100 "pops" it will make a different sound such as a barking dog or door chime.
Available from a number of suppliers, I noticed it’s priced from around $15.
Fab@Home is another project for making and using 3D printers, or rapid prototyping machines, and provides all the information necessary to build or buy your own machine that you can use to print 3-dimensional objects.
Total estimated cost for all materials required for the whole build is around $2300.00
3D printers are used to create 3-dimensional objects by depositing drops of plastic, or a similar material, layer by layer to build the object.
RepRap is a project to design and make a 3D printer that could copy itself. The project was started in February 2004 by Adrian Bowyer from Bath University and is made available under the open-source GNU General Public License. The core team consists of a number of volunteers from across the world in the UK, Canada, New Zealand and the USA.
Details of this project are available from
and a guide about how to build the RepRap 1.0 "Darwin" machine can be found at
http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapOneDarwin
To date, here are the parts of RepRap that have been reproduced for itself (representing approximately 1/4 of the whole machine).
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