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:

A New Creation

The Wii Balance Board

The Wii Fit Software

Sound, Design and Planning

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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.”

References:

Sunlink Press Release

http://www.iviewdisplay.com/

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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.

References:

http://gadgetshow.five.tv/

http://www.curventadesignworks.com/

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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

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-upravlator/

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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.

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