LG’s new 5 Megapixel phone was on display at a seminar in China today. According to TelecomsKorea, the C960 camera phone, which was to have debuted this month, will be available in May instead. Features include :

5 Megapixel swiveling CCD camera
Works on CDMA cellular networks
19mm thick [...]

Toshiba has developed a flatbed display system that allows viewers to see three dimensional images without any aids such as those colored glasses. The new system is based on about 10 or more still images of an object. The display then combines those images via small lenses that control the direction of light emission. The [...]

One of the items on display at IDF Japan 2005 (April 7-8) was a prototype tablet PC in PDA clothing, called the ‘Ruby’. The device is based on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, and utilizes the ultralow voltage Pentium M 600MHz. It has a 5″ liquid-crystal display and a full keyboard. Battery life [...]

SK’s new model IMB-1000 mobile phone also receives TV programming via satellite, but only if you’re in Korea. Its another one of those DMB (digital mobile broadcasting) satellite-TV phones. The phone has a 2.4-inch QVGA screen and a two Mega-pixel camera, and has an interesting sliding screen. The main feature of [...]

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a small article marking the 50th anniversary of the Salk polio vaccine. As a result of the vaccine, polio has been eliminated as a threat in most parts of the world, and is nearly gone from the rest. The article goes on to note the little-known part [...]

The annual TED conference took place February 23-26, 2005 in Monterey, California. Despite the fact that the word “Technology” figures prominently in the TED acronym (i.e. ‘Technology-Entertainment-Design’), there was not much to report on with respect to technology and/or gadgets. The closest that the conference came to anything gadget-y was speaker Robert E. [...]

The annual Milia/MipTV event opens in Cannes tomorow and runs for 5 days at the Palais des Festivals. The conference is mostly about content providers, such as film studios, and content consumers, such as network TV companies, and the phone companies, mixed together with various DRM tech firms. Some hardware does manage to [...]

LG just introduced their 410 series of mobile phone, intended to be evocative of sports cars. The styling somewhat fits, what with the windshield and the mock headlights and all, but the lack of wheels kind of throws bit of a damper on it. The design of the 410 is courtesy of LG’s [...]

Samsung has announced a new mobile phone, the model SPH-V6900. Well, its sort-of new : They started with their very-popular SGH-D500, converted it to operate on CDMA/PCS and added A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile). This means that the V6900 is the first mobile phone able to deliver stereo streaming audio over a Bluetooth link. [...]

Today’s New York Times has a small review of the soon-to-be-available Oxyride AA and AAA disposable batteries from Panasonic. The company states that these batteries will “last up to two times longer than traditional batteries in most digital cameras, and 1.5 times longer in other electronics ” . The Times put that [...]