spin-off Polymer Vision looks to be making fast work on its most recent promise to commercialize its foldable display this year, with the company set to officially unveil the first product to use the would-be paper killer at next week’s 3GSM conference in Spain. Somewhat awkwardly dubbed the “Cellular-Book,” the device will initially be offered by Telecom Italia (in Italy, naturally) although it appears to be more book than cellular. The main bit of kit is, of course, that rollable, foldable display, which can extend to a full five inches yet still wrap up into a device “smaller than the typical mobile phone.” The cellular part of the equation comes in the form of a combination of EDGE, UMTS, and DVB-H capabilities, which will give you access to an array of different services viewable in 16 levels of gray, including e-mail. RSS feeds and, of course, e-books, which you’ll be able to purchase through Telecom Italia’s mobile network. Though they won’t make as heavy use of that display, you’ll also be able to load up the device with music and podcasts, with a relatively hefty 4GB of storage provided to satisfy your media appetite. Unfortunately, there’s no word on price or a launch date just yet, though that would seem to be likely detail to be revealed at the big unveiling next week.

Via : engadget

famous fashion designer Hussein Chalayan has showed off his new designs.

The unbelievable feature of these dresses is that they can get transformed. The technology behind the clothes has been provided with an engineering firm called 2D3D.

The show hosted dresses that have a moving neckline, can become more revealing and dresses that can zip and unzip themselves in a variety of ways.

The director of 2D3D commented that:

Basically, the dresses were driven electronically by controlled, geared motors. We made… little pads for the models… within these containers we had all the battery packs, controlling chips–the microcontrollers and microswitches–and little geared motors. The motors we used were tiny, about a third of the size of a pencil and nine millimeters in diameter. Each of the motors had a little pulley, and the pulley was then attached to this monofilament wire which was fed through hollow tubes… running everywhere, carrying these little cables, each doing its little job, lifting things up or releasing little linked metallic plates. There was a huge amount of stuff going on beneath the clothes.

The only drawback of these dresses is that they are highly sensitive and can change with a sudden movement of someone nearby. This means that if you are in an interview and wearing these clothes then there is a possibility that you end up getting a bit ashamed…!

via : gizmowatch

Here’s an interesting clip that “take[s] viewers on an extremely creative journey from the beginning of the web to what we are now calling ‘web 2.0‘”.

via : techeblog

Why waste the few kilobytes/megabytes left on your old 99% filled USB flash drives? Designer Vicky Wei aims to solve that by designing a new kind of “stackable” USB flash drives. By connecting the drives in a daisy chain manner, the storage capacities can be combined.

Also, by connecting the drives, only one USB slot needs to be taken up. Great for searching for that one file which you failed to remember on which drive you kept it on.

Let’s see when this concept gadget will make it into production.

Company Zink has announced the development of a printer so small, it could fit in your pocket alongside your cellphone, spare change and half-chewed gum. It would be able to print your pics without ink. How would it do this? By using some special paper.

“Images are created when a heated printer head comes into contact with a sheet of specialized paper,” which is actually a polymer containing three crystalline layers. Varying temperatures and pressure points create the pixels of color, and just in case you figure out your latest printout doesn’t showcase your eye color as well as you’d hoped, it’s recyclable.

It would be able to print small images, 2- x 3-inch, in color. The company’s first products are likely to be a $100 pocket printer, or a $200 printer/camera hybrid. The special paper isn’t that expensive, at $20 for 100.

It’s not clear just when the device might hit the shelves, though Zink will be showing off the technology at Demo ‘07.

[ Tech Sheet (PDF) ] VIA [ Engadget ]

This watch has a small rotating Earth that makes a full rotation once every 24 hours, designed in Japan and made by Seiko Instruments. It has a small time zone indicator for the hour and a small orange dot to indicate the minutes, powered by a 10 year Lithium battery! The entire case is made of light weight Titanium and it is water resistant to 100m, just in case you are planning on taking a submarine trip