Wevery once in a while, we see watches that include all sorts of things you might think you need with you. This is no different in that regard, but it IS alluring, isn’t it? After all, this one comes with a tasty price tag and is packed with features. The only question you need to ask yourself before buying is “Will I use it more than a week or will it become just another toy that I set aside when the excitement wears off?” Take a look and form your own opinion.
Digitek’s MP4 watch, which features a 160 x 128 OLED display, USB 2.o connectivity, an e-book reader, seven preset EQ modes, and 2.5-hours (video) playback. Product page. Video preview after the jump. Here’s the bottom line:
Called the “SuperBot”, this thing is indeed super. It’s key selling point, as far as I am concerned, is its completely modular design. This design (as you can see from the videos below) allows it to, in essence, build itself into a near limitless array of configurations for various tasks and needs.
Some recent progress:
“Superbot consists of Lego-like but autonomous robotic modules that can reconfigure into different systems for different tasks. Examples of configurable systems include rolling tracks or wheels (for efficient travel), spiders or centipedes (for climbing), snakes (for burrowing in ground), long arms (for inspection and repair in space), and devices that can fly in micro-gravity environment.
“Each module is a complete robotic system and has a power supply, micro- controllers, sensors, communication, three degrees of freedom, and six connecting faces (front, back, left, right, up and down) to dynamically connect to other modules.
Microsoft was ordered by a federal jury yesterday to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 format, the technology at the heart of the digital music boom. If upheld on appeal, it would be the largest patent judgment on record.
I realize that patents are created to protect the people who develop intellectual property, but I also think this was out of line. If you develop a new technology, you should get it out there yourself as/in a product or start selling the licensing for it. Waiting 20 years and then going for the wallet is a move made by people looking for the easy money, I think. I know a lot of you will disagree, but think about the “licensing” of Internet hyperlinks that was talked about (usually with gritted teeth) a few years back.
As one of the first WM5-powered devices to include NVIDIA’s amazing GoForce 5500 chipset, the EM ONE doesn’t dissappoint. It features a 4.1-inch (800 x 480) touchscreen display, a PXA270 (520MHz) processor, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and HSDPA. Pricing and availability outside of Japan have not yet been announced. Two more pictures after the jump.
Here’s a device I would buy. Of course, as with any high end products, I’d have to play with it first and make sure it feels right in my hands, but it looks pretty damn delicious.
