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Pantech PH-L4000V camcorder phone

Juniper Foo | Feb 03, 2005

Time to toss away your camera-phone, folks. Pantech's announcement of its camcorder-phone is likely to leave phone aficionados panting deliriously to get their paws on one. Unfortunately, the handset's CDMA support puts paid to the idea of even parallel importing a set into Singapore. Amazingly, Pantech has stuffed a 2.1-megapixel sensor, swivel screen, onboard flash and optical zoom into a phone form factor, and word is it's using the miniSD card format. We're crossing our fingers and toes at CNETAsia that there'll be a GSM version in the pipeline... soon!

Price: N.A.
Availability: From February, Korea
Device: Camcorder phone
Basic specs: 2.1-megapixel CCD sensor, 2x optical zoom, flash, miniSD card slot, MPEG-4 support at 1,244 × 1,632 resolution

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Wind-Up Sushi

Juniper Foo | Feb 02, 2005

These aren't anything like the USB Memory SushiDisk quality-wise, and the price reflects it. But Japanophiles will probably want to collect this set of wind-up sushi or get them as cheap gifts for colleagues. If anything, you can relieve the occasional work tedium by getting a few laughs out of seeing wound-up plastic sushi scuttle across the desk.

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Price: US$12.99
Availability: Office Playground
Device: Wind-up toy
Basic specs: About 2 .25 x 1 x 1.5 inches, hard plastic, pack of 12 of 6 designs

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Splashpower universal wireless charging

Juniper Foo | Feb 01, 2005

Imagine recharging your phone, digital camera or any portable device simply by dropping these onto a mouse-like pad? No more wires, no more cables, no more adapters. The brains behind this vision-soon-to-turn reality are Splashpower founders Lily Cheng and James Hay, two Cambridge University engineering students who have devised a SplashPad charging base and SplashModule power receiver. The idea is to fit, say, a cell phone with the receiver module, and drop this onto the SplashPad. The latter generates an electromagnetic field which is picked up by a SplashModule. This then converts the field into usable power and pumps it into the depleted battery of your cell at whatever voltage is required. After three years in the petrie dish, fruition is finally at hand as Splashpower looks to rock and roll before year-end. Now all we need is one for notebooks, and life's perfect.

Price: N.A.
Availability: Est. to roll out this year
Device: Power-charging device
Basic specs: Magnetic power induction, universally interoperable, delivers power to multiple devices simultaneously, no need for alignment of receiving module and charging base, thin, flexible and customizable power receiver

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