“Sony Ericsson confirms that it has been made aware that a small number of consumers have experienced software issues with its Satio handset when using certain applications. Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4u have temporarily removed the handset from sale to ensure that future customers do not have an adverse experience. Sony Ericsson is giving this matter its utmost priority and is working toward solving it as soon as possible.”
This shouldn’t put you off having a go and have your eyes captured by photographer to the stars, Jillian Edelstein. Join the likes of Nelson Mandela, Kate Moss and Woody Allen and be immortalised by this legendary artist.
Jillian will be embarking on a mission to capture the unique beauty and individuality of 121 eyes, in 12.1 hours at Vodafone’s London Westfield store on the 2nd and 3rd December 2009.
To be in with a chance of taking part, simply upload your details, an image of your eyes and why you’d like to be involved. Alternatively head to your local Vodafone store where you will be able to sample the new handset. A trained member of staff will be on hand to capture your eyes and upload your image accordingly.
Sony Europe is helping a young team in its bid to stop the devasting effects of wildfires.
The team of six, whose ‘Forest Guard’ idea won the recent Climate Actions contest, were invited to Sony’s headquarters in Basingstoke to work with Sony engineers on making their idea come alive for the first time.
The team behind the innovative ‘Forest Guard’ concept are from Northern California where forest fires are rife and they are keen to highlight that the carbon dioxide emitted during these fires can equal that produced by several million cars on the road in a year.
They travelled over to Europe to present their impressive wildfire detection solution using a network of solar-powered CCTV cameras and citizen fire watchers over the web to obtain advance warning of these fires before they manage to spread and cause a devastating impact.
The team spent a couple of days with the Sony specialists in order to hone and refine their idea where they were actively involved in the workshops and brainstorming sessions.
Morgan David, Divisional Director, Research and Development (R&D) at Sony lead the team of engineers that worked with the team to develop the ‘Forest Guard’ technology: “We were really impressed by this innovative idea and felt we were in the perfect position to bring our knowledge of technology and engineering to the project and help them make it into a reality. To help solve problems to climate change through technology is at the heart of Sony’s philosophy”.
The Forest Guard team were winners of the Climate Actions contest at this year’s Children’s Climate Call competition held 1st – 3rd May in Copenhagen, Denmark organised by the LEGO Group and FIRST Scandinavia. The competition attracted over 140,000 children and teenagers from more than 40 countries, 700 of which took part in the European finals in Copenhagen.
Sony was a partner with the Climate Actions contest and it was here that the plan for Sony to give the ‘Forest Guard’ the benefit of its experience and expertise came together.
The problem of forest fires is not something solely limited to the United States; a recent spate of wildfires across Southern Europe and in Canada has highlighted the real need for something to be done to prevent the spread of these potentially deadly fires.
Check out the behind the scenes vid below and well done to the Forest Guard team!
The days of O2’s exclusivity on Apple’s iPhone has always been assumed to be numbered.
Today that day seems to have arrived as Orange has officially confirmed it will be offering the iPhone 3GS online and in its stores later this year.
This isn’t really a shock as I reported that Orange had been in [...]
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If you fancy getting summink for nuffink then you’d better check out the competition that’s running over on my good friend’s site: CoolestGadgets.co.uk
Coolest Gadgets are offering you the chance to win a fabby 42 inch LCD LG TV.
As you lovely readers may remember; the LF7700 comes with an integrated Freesat [...]
Wired have uncovered a form of transport that mixes the reliability brought by that German attention to detail we expect from Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt mixed with an Imperial speeder bike!
The Audi Shark concept has been penned by 26-year-old Kazim Doku and was the winning entry into a design competition (.pdf) co-sponsored by Audi and [...]
I think you guys know that I’m a fan of Mimobot’s.
Well, last year Mimoco started the Vimobot Design Contest.
They released a bunch of oversized blank vinyl toys for artists and fans to doodle on and then the plenty-many designs were eventually whittled down to 20 and then finally down to six by Mimobot forum members.
This [...]
Crave have got an Eee PC 901 and Acer Aspire One in the same room. Once they’d met and sniffed at each other for a while they were unleashed to see who would come out top dawg.
There was much love for the Eee PC 901’s £319 price tag and 8.9-inch screen. Also the 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 20GB [...]
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