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Gramo – Fold Away Solar Powered Party Speakers

by Jay G on April 30, 2009

solar-powered-gramo-speakers_1Finnish designer, Pekka Salokannel, has come up with Gramo.

Gramo is a totally cool concept for some flat-pack, solar powered, portable speakers.

Inside the speaker there’s a volume control and they seem ideal for that beach party life-style.

I’d buy one of these if they become a reality.

Would you?

In the designer’s own words:
Gramo speakers are made for digital music lifestyle. Whether you go for a picnic or stay at home listening your mp3’s, it gives you freedom of music. Gramo is easy to bend flat, which makes it easy to carry with you. When you turn elements out, speaker transforms to a table speaker. Design comes from the beginning when real records started to appear. It was gramophone – also as inspiration for the design. Gramo speaker holds 5 elements inside. Outside 3 toppest surfaces are also solar panels, which makes battery last longer when you’re enjoying fresh air and good company outside. Volume changes with soft touch of your finger.

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Scientists Work On Touchscreen Braille Using Nokia 770 Tablet

by Jay G on March 31, 2009

braille-touchscreenResearches in Finland have been working with a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet that will create an intense pulse of vibration that may work as braille.

The clever Finnish folk have developed a method for piezoelectric touchscreen devices that uses a single pulse to convey a raised dot, and a longer vibration made up of several weaker pulses to represent a missing dot.

In this way they are able to spell out letters that can be easily read by touch.

It did take a while for the volunteers to get the hang of it but once they had it down they were able to read a character in as little as 1.25 seconds.

Now that letters seem to be sorted the team is moving on to words and sentences.

All of this is with the aim to developing text-to-braille software sometime in the future.

This was reported in the New Scientist.

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3G iPhone Prices And Tariffs – 20 Countries Covered

July 8, 2008 Click to read more →

Ars Technica have compiled a list of iPhone prices for the 20 countries where the new version of Apple’s new phone will be making its debut on the 11th.
Surprisingly, seven operators still haven’t announced any pricing.  Oddness!
So, for everyone that should be getting one; Aussies, Cannuks, Fins, Brits, Danes, Kiwis, Yanks and the rest of [...]