The phone doesn’t really matter from a consumer point of view but if you ever wanted to know what Motorola’s successful RAZR successor would’ve looked had it launched in the market, refer to the video below. The video shows off the phone, which bears the looks from the RAZR family but boasts a large external touchscreen display, 5MP camera with LED flash, Nuance voice-recognition, GPS and a lock switch.

Motorola shut RAZR development in a bid to regain their lost market with Android phones.

[Via Fonearena|Slashgear]

In the bustle of 3D TVs and e-book readers, Haier was showing an interesting product on the CES show floor. Haier introduced a prototype of a wireless HD television that was powered from the energy created by a nearby magnetic field.

Haier’s TV was using MIT’s WiTricity technology that converts the AC power to a higher frequency which is fed to a coil (power source). The current fed to the source then creates an oscillating magnetic field and the device to be powered captures it with the help of an integrated power capture coil, which then converts to AC or DC current as per the device’s specifications.

No word on the expected availability but if we were to make a wild guess, it should be sometime in late 2010 or early next year.

Epson has created what is said to be the world’s first 4K-compatible high-temperature polysilicon (HTPS) TFT liquid crystal panel for 3LCD projectors. The prototype display measures only 1.64-inches but it boasts a mammoth resolution of 4096×2160 pixels, four times higher than the full HD (1080p) resolution.

Epson reckons the use of projectors has expanded from boardrooms to various other applications, like in auditoriums, simulations, at big events and 4K panel helps to deliver on that front.

Epson plans to showcase high resolution pictures along with ultra-high resolution projector using this panel at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition (Inter BEE 2009) in November.

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[Via Crunchgear]

Undoubtedly, Adamo XPS is one of the coolest laptops that has been created and if Dell designer’s had their way, it would’ve been much, much cooler than the present version. PC World got their mitts on the early prototypes of Adamo XPS that reveals designers’ somewhat crazy and not to forget, expensive ideas.

The prototype above has a 4-inch multi-touch LCD that functions as a trackpad and also as a secondary screen, pretty much like Fujitsu’s Lifebook N7010.

Another prototype created by them did not use the multi-touch LCD but instead integrated a no-moving capacitive keyboard.

Of course, both these features would’ve been nice inclusions but Dell decided against them plainly because Dell thought the 4-inch multi-touch LCD is not price worthy whereas the capacitive keyboard won’t be welcomed by many due to constant fingerprint smudging and lack of a real keyboard feeling.

[Via Gizmodo]

Bridgestone predominantly makes tyres but they have a penchant to develop technologies related to e-paper. They have shown couple of innovative e-paper technologies in the past and now they’ve unveiled an e-book reader that is unlike Kindle and the likes. This prototype features a flexible e-paper, effectively allowing the reader to bend to some extent. The reader measures up 10.7-inches in size with a thickness of 5.8mm.

Bridgestone for some reason, won’t release it in the market but will test with consumers from next year.

[Via Crunchgear]

Sony today unveiled a major breakthrough that makes wireless charging more interesting. Their newly developed wireless power transfer system can transfer up to 60W of power up to a distance of 50cm.

The contactless electricity transmission is possible with the help of magnetic resonance. The power recipients such as a TV needs to be assigned an identical resonant frequency and is matched with the magnetic resonance, which transfers electromagnetic energy irrespective of metal objects located between the receiver (TV) and the transmitter.

Sony says the transfer efficiency is approximately 80% or when used with a rectifier drops to – still acceptable – 60%. Passive extender units can also be placed so as to widen the transfer distance without losing efficiency.

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NTT DOCOMO today announced that they’ve created a phone prototype made with the surplus wood. From the Shimanto jungle, NTT DOCOMO picked up the wood that was culled during forest-thinning operation and crafted it into a phone with Sharp and Olympus giving a helping hand. Since the natural wood tends to wear off over time, a special three-dimensional compression molding has been applied to enhance its durability and make it resistant from water, insects and decay.

The phone will exhibited at ITU Telecom World 2009 in Switzerland and CEATEC 2009 in Japan.

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Philips Research is busy working on transparent OLEDs that can be used as glasses for windows. The transparent OLED is a concept for now which looks like a normal window when turned off but illuminates when it is turned on. Philips has prepared a 12cm prototype and claims that it could take a few years before it hits the retail market.

[OLEDinfo via Techradar]

Michael Arrington from TechCrunch yesterday showed up a prototype of his CrunchPad web tablet. Unlike other netbooks in the market, this tablet is capable of doing only one thing – surf the web. The specifications of the prototype include a 12-inch touchscreen display and is powered by a Via Nano processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB flash drive, Wi-Fi, accelerometer, webcam and a 4-cell battery.

The device ran a fully blown version of Ubuntu Linux and had a custom Webkit based browser. Overall, the total cost of the device was just over $200 and is expected to rise further with the inclusion of a better touchscreen panel.

The prototype is neatly done but one thing to look out for will be its price, provided if it ever reaches the market. I wouldn’t want to pick this up at the same price of a netbook which offers me more functionality than the CrunchPad.

[Via TechCrunch]

You don’t need to be a geek to figure out what is so special in the AIRO laptop. It looks like any other laptop in town but open the lid, and the uniqueness reveals. The keyboard begins to slide behind giving more than sufficient area for resting your palm and also a tilted keyboard for ergonomic friendliness. The notebooks is still a prototype without any hardware, but the slide worked perfectly. See the video at Engadget.

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