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A New Seiko Bluetooth Wristwatch

Admin — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:19:13 +0000

Now this is a nice piece of kit,So what can you do with a Bluetooth Wristwatch? It can display incoming calls,text messages and notifications,which are convenient features.The Seiko BT watch also warns you if you forget your phone.The Seiko Bluetooth TR-006 is supposed to go on sale in 2007 but don’t hold your breath.

Keitai Girl (Body Suit Mobile Phone)

Admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:02:19 +0000

Emerging Japanese artist Yamaguchi Noriko created The mobile phone suit,thanks to its digital keypads, begs to be dialed,thus showing the vulnerable position of the artist within the grasp of any number of anonymous hands that might reach out and “touch someone.”In fact, certain guests are given the telephone number of her body suit and can dial her up from their own cell phones and engage Yamaguchi in conversation during her performances.Thanks to the widespread use of cell phones, or keitai, in Japan, Yamaguchi created this suit a full-body prosthetic that turns her into a walking and talking cellular device to investigate the future development of the human body and its interaction with technology.

Hitachi’s 7.5 Micron RFID Tag

K Saleh — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:56:32 +0000

RFID chips are already well beyond the embeddable-anywhere threshold, but the breakthrough Hitachi’s planning to show off at this year’s ISSCC (International Solid-State Circuits Conference) is their newest mu-chip, an RFID tag that’s a mere 0.15 x 0.15 millimeters, and 7.5 microns thick — ten or more times thinner than a sheet of paper with all the 128-bit identifying goodness we’ve to know and love / loathe. Ah, just think of the possibilities of embedding these things all the places their previous, positively bloated 0.3 x 0.3mm / 60 micron thick chip wouldn’t go (pictured right is the even more obese 0.4 x 0.4mm version). Ahem.