Motorola Xoom vs iPad vs PlayBook

The New Technology From Motorolla.

When the Motorola Xoom and BlackBerry PlayBook hit the market, we'll have two serious challengers to the iPad.

And, perhaps most interestingly, all three will be running different operating systems. So let's compare how the two newcomers stack up against the hottest tablet yet released.

In terms of releases, Motorola won't say anything about the Xoom's UK release date, though it is pencilled in for the first quarter of 2011 in the US. However, it depends on when Google is planning on getting Honeycomb out the door.

OS

This is the biggest difference between the three tablets. The iPad runs Apple's own iOS, the Moto Xoom Android 3.0 Honeycomb and the BlackBerry PlayBook runs RIM's own bespoke Tablet OS. The Xoom was the main unit used to demo Android 3.0 Honeycomb, at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, though we only saw videos of OS features running on the new device.

Android 3.0 rumours and latest updates

ANDROID 3.0: This Xoom was just running a video, but the real Honeycomb looks special

There will also be no Motorola MotoBlur interface overlaying Android 3.0 – this could be part of a bigger move by Google to stop having so many variants of Android.

We got hands on with the BlackBerry PlayBookat CES a few weeks ago and it's a serious threat to the iPad's dominance of the sector. TechRadar's Reviews Editor James Rivington says the PlayBook "could well be the tablet that changes the game. In a word, it's a triumph."

Processor

All three units use ARM-based silicon. The iPad runs Apple's own A4 processor clocked at 1GHz (it's less in the iPhone 4), while the Xoom plumps for a dual-core Nvida Tegra 2 processor, capable of 720p video or sending 1080p full HD to your TV via HDMI. The PlayBook is also running a dual core 1GHz Cortex-A9-based processor, though there are no more details on who has manufactured it. It's probably an Nvidia Tegra 2.

Touchcreen

The Motorola Xoom has a 10.1-inch, 1280 x 800 display. The PlayBook is only a 7-inch tablet and to us it can feel small. The touch on the PlayBook does extend right across the bezel though, which is a nice touch and pretty important for navigating around the OS.

The screens on both the PlayBook and Xoom look pretty spectacular even under the bright show lights where we checked them out. The PlayBook'ssize gives it an advantage though, as we said in our hands on:

"The PlayBook's 1024 x 600 resolution isn't far off the 9.7-inch 1024x768 iPad, but because of the Playbook's 7-inch display, the increased pixel density makes all the difference. It's sharp and crisp, and 1080p HD video looks fabulous."

3 Touch Screens Phone

 A concept smartphone designed by Kristan Ulrich Larsen with this clamshell phone has 3 touch screens and flexible, which can be aligned in many ways as needed. Equipped with AMOLED super resistant lenses, flexible and completely modular. 3 Touch Screens Phone explanations after the jump.

Mouse concept | Air Mouse

 If technology is evolving with each passing minute then why should the gadgets and accessories remain square and orthodox? Catching up the technological evolution, Canadian firm Deanmark Ltd has come up with a revolutionary computer mouse that invariably becomes an integral part of your body. Hailed as the “AirMouse,” the radical mouse can be worn on your hand like a glove, allowing easy as well as brisk web navigation. Integrating a right and left click mouse buttons in the palm, the AirMouse comes equipped with optical tracking laser that lasts for a week on single charge.



In comparison to the conventional mice, the AirMouse reduces the excessive force in a huge way, as it aligns itself with the user’s hand and wrist ligaments to keep the hand in a neutral position. Moreover, the user can type on the keyboard with ease without removing the glove. The wearable mouse will be available for a reasonable $129 by the end of the year.

Solia Tourmaline Ceramic Ion Flat Iron Review

The Solia 1 ¼ "apartments are equipped with Dynamic Alignment System to ensure perfect contact between your hair and plates. Kiss bad hair days goodbye! now available in classic black, pink, red and purple versions. It provides even heat distribution for true silky fur . Its ceramic / tourmaline ion technology will generate gentle far infrared heat and extra negative ions to create perfectly frizz free hair without heat damage.

The extra negative ions along with gentle far-infrared heat guarantee soft, smooth, frizz-free silky straight hair without heat damage. The plate pair self-adjust to provide perfect contact between your hair and plates, eliminating the harmful "hot spots " and "pressure points " so that the Solia can work through the hair smoothly without pulling.



Product Features:

• Versatile: This iron will straighten, bend, flip, spiral and curl hair.
• Variable Temperature Control : Works with all hair types.
• 1-1/4 inch plate width, the most popular size: wide enough for any hair length and hair types, yet narrow enough for bangs.
• Wet to dry: can be used on damp or dry hair
• Ceramic/Tourmaline Ion plates give a shinier, silkier result than regular ceramic flat iron in lesser time.
• Ceramic/Tourmaline Ion plates emits up to 6 times more negative ion.
• Heating plates wrap around edge for easy finishing touches!
• Ceramic heater with autosense? technology provides instant even heat.
• Contoured easy grip handles.
• Two years limited warranty.

Directions:

• Plug the appliance into a wall outlet
• Iron will be ready for use when light begins blinking
• Set desired temperature and turn switch to ON
• Unplug appliance immediately after use
• Light will turn off if you lower temperature, and then will begin blinking when ready for use again

Germinal No Longer - It Takes A World Of Technology

Last night at the gym while trudging away on the treadmill, I watched on television the best news that I've seen in ages, the rescue of the trapped miners in Chile. I am so happy that they all survived such a long and terrible ordeal.
I'm also happy that we live in a world where the innovation and the advanced technology was available to make a rescue of this magnitude possible.
From, the WSJ

If those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death for those men?

Short answer: the Center Rock drill bit.

This is the miracle bit that drilled down to the trapped miners. Center Rock Inc. is a private company in Berlin, Pa. It has 74 employees. The drill's rig came from Schramm Inc. in West Chester, Pa. Seeing the disaster, Center Rock's president, Brandon Fisher, called the Chileans to offer his drill. Chile accepted. The miners are alive.

Add to that additional technology from around the world

The high-strength cable winding around the big wheel atop that simple rig is from Germany. Japan supplied the super-flexible, fiber-optic communications cable that linked the miners to the world above. 

Samsung of South Korea supplied a cellphone that has its own projector. Jeffrey Gabbay, the founder of Cupron Inc. in Richmond, Va., supplied socks made with copper fiber that consumed foot bacteria, and minimized odor and infection.

Copper fiber in socks, who knew? Well now we all do.

The miners' rescue is a thrilling moment for Chile, an imprimatur on its rising status. But I'm thinking of that 74-person outfit in Berlin, Pa., whose high-tech drill bit opened the earth to free them. You know there are tens of thousands of stories like this in the U.S., as big as Google and small as Center Rock. I'm glad one of them helped save the Chileans. What's needed now is a new American economic model that lets our innovators rescue the rest of us.