Electronics

by Dimitri N.

Coming Soon: Sony Ericsson Satio Mobile Phone – 12 Megapixel Camera

Sony Ericsson Satio

Sony Ericsson have decided to really show off with his one. Groundbreakingly amazing is what some have called this handset with an impressive 12 megapixel digital camera built-in. A 12MP camera on a mobile phone? What’s the point? – Well, with that kind of resolution, you can take pictures big enough to go on a billboard poster (well nearly anyway!).

After hearing about the Sony Ericsson Satio Mobile Phone’s 12MP camera it immediately occurred to me that with this high resolution camera, there must come a requirement for an extremely large amount of memory. That’s fine because bundled in the box with the Sony Ericsson Satio is an 8GB memory card.

So what else is in the box?
Sony Ericsson Satio
Battery
Battery Charger
8GB Memory card
USB cable
Media manager
Colour-matched stereo portable hands free
User guide
Here’s the Sony Ericsson Satio Technical Data:

Sony Ericsson Satio Camera

12.1 megapixel camera
Up to 12x digital zoom
Auto focus
BestPic™
Face detection
Geo tagging of photos
Image stabilizer
Photo feeds
Photo fix
Send to web
Red-eye reduction
Smile detection
Touch focus
Video light
Video recording
Xenon flash

Sony Ericsson Satio Music

Album art
Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
Media player
Music tones (MP3/AAC)
PlayNow™
TrackID™

Sony Ericsson Satio Web

WebKit web browser
Bookmarks
Web feeds

Sony Ericsson Satio Communication

Call list
Speakerphone
Vibrating alert
Video calling

Sony Ericsson Satio Messaging

Conversations
Email
Exchange ActiveSync™
Handwriting recognition
Instant messaging
On-screen QWERTY keyboard
Picture messaging (MMS)
Predictive text input
Sound recorder
Text messaging (SMS)

Sony Ericsson Satio Design

Auto rotate
Gesture control
Media
Picture wallpaper
S60 5th edition Symbian™ OS
Touch screen
Wallpaper animation

Sony Ericsson Satio Entertainment

HD and 3D games
Facebook™ application
FM radio with RDS
Java
Video streaming
Video viewing
YouTube™

Sony Ericsson Satio Connectivity

Bluetooth™ technology
Modem
PictBridge
Synchronisation
TV out
USB mass storage
USB support
In-built WiFi™

Sony Ericsson Satio Organizer

Alarm clock
Calculator
Calendar
Contacts
Document readers
Document editors
Flight mode
Notes
Tasks

Sony Ericsson Satio Location-based services

A-GPS
Google Maps™
Turn-by-turn navigation

So in all really, that’s a lot of features for a small hand-held phone. The Sony Ericsson Satio mobile phone should be released on May 28, 2009 and for sale in stores by August / September ‘09.

by SparkFunElectronics

Here is the Contact Lens With Electronic Circuits

This time it is the animation turning to reality! Yes its true, the engineers at University of Washington have been successful in creating a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights by installing manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales. They have been designed to create virtual cross hairs in order to aid visually impaired people. They can be even used for holographic driving control panels and the way to surf the web on the go. These are just some of the usage of this lens as scientist argue that there are many applications that people will realize only after using these lenses.

Babab Parviz, assistant professor of electrical engineering at UW claims that through these lenses one can see what the display is generating superimposed on the world outside. The professor is also of the opine that this small initiative is a big leap towards a promising goal. The main authors and co authors of this research are Harvey Ho, a former graduate student of Parviz’s now working at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif and Ehsan Saeedi and Samuel Kim. This lens was presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ international conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems held on January 18th 2009.

The lens can have wide range of applications
The engineers who were involved in the research are of the view that the uses of these lenses can be very wide in scope. They will not only act instrumental for drivers and pilots to see a vehicles speed projected onto the windshield but the gaming industry too will benefit from it as these lenses will enable the user to transpire virtually in the animated world.

This lens were tested on rabbits for 20 minutes and they showed no inauspicious effect. Thanks to the prototype device that contains an electric circuit as well as red light-emitting diodes for a display, though it does not yet light up. The gadget is so human friendly that one will not be able to realize that he or she is wearing it. Second of all, its easy enough to pop in and out as well.

The engineers confessed that building a gadget like this is not an easy task as unlike the rest of the body our eyes are very sensitive. The methodology of manufacturing this lens involved inorganic materials, scorching temperatures and toxic chemicals. To manufacture them, the engineers built the circuits from layers of metal only a few nanometers thick, about one thousandth the width of a human hair, and constructed light-emitting diodes that are one third of a millimeter across. They sprinkled grayish powder of electric components on a flexible plastic sheet and used the technique called self assembly to create these tiny magical marvels.

This lens is designed in a way not to affect a persons vision and can also be used as a corrective lens. The professor also pinned hope on the possibility of a wireless communication to and from the lens. According to Parviz, “A full-fledged display won’t be available for a while, but a version that has a basic display with just a few pixels could be operational “fairly quickly.”

Goodbye computer mouse, keyboard and monitor.

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