Nokia has a WiFi (Unlocking Mobile) video streaming device in the works?
Nokia has a WiFi video streaming device in the works?
Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, Portable Video As a natural followup to their Wireless Audio Gateway AD-42W (pictured), it looks like Nokia might be getting into the video streaming game with a new WiFi device for streaming video from your phone. The rumor comes courtesy of T3, and deets are slim, but we’re sure Nokia can figure out some nifty functionality for such a device if it does turn out to be real. We’d love to see such a unit act as a DVR and prep videos for your phone, but blurry and pointless camphone vids streamed from your Nokia onto the big screen will be nice too. We’re not quite sure we’d be naming this thing a direct iTV competitor, but between this, a Slingbox, a Media Extender, an iPod video loader and an iTV, our TV setup is starting to look more device-laden than our desktop, so we’re thinking something’s gotta give.[Via atmaspheric] Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsSPONSORED BY: BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time.
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Zinc Matrix Power unveils silver-zinc battery to trump li-ion
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Laptops We’ve been overdue for a lithium-ion successor since forever, and we can’t deny the urgency has been bumped a notch by the recent spat of battery explosions. Of course, many have pretended to the throne, but newcomer Zinc Matrix Power thinks their new silver-zinc battery packs really have a shot. They just unveiled the tech at the Intel Developers Forum, and they claim their batteries are safer, longer lasting and more environmentally friendly than those lithium-ion clunkers. As much as we treasure our lap in an intact form — which silver-zinc provides for due to a safer “inherent chemistry” of silver, zinc and water — we’re especially happy to hear of the “significant” performance gains over lithium-ion, because if there’s anything we hate worse than shrapnel in the upper thigh, it’s running out of battery mid-way through a high-scoring game of Snood on a cross-country flight. We suppose easy recycling wouldn’t suck either. Zinc Matrix says they’ll have the new power cells in the hands of device manufacturers for evaluation in early ’07, so hopefully we won’t have too long of a wait.[Via Tech Digest] Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsSPONSORED BY: BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time.
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