2019

Someone imagined the next generation tools.....




Wish I was there !

Sony eBook Reader PRS-505 (part 2)

After being with the Sony PRS-505 e-book reader for a couple of months and testing it with different contents (books, articles, blogs)., the final conclusions are:

• e-Ink tech is on his first steps;
• Color is a must have for our market (e-Ink is still B&W);
• Lack of interactivity is a big problem;
• Battery in the Sony reader is amazing (10 days in active mode)
• As a simple reader is very good, but don t ask for more. Very simple solutions could be created for this reader, but this is not our interest right now (iPhone solutions are).
• Music player integrated is awful (horrible sound quality)
• A technology to allow reformatting texts is needed (so you are allowed to increase text size).
• iREX should be my next Laboratory Toy.

Downloads saving music industry ?

I've just read a spanish newspaper where an article took my full attention: music industry is being saved by music phone downloads.

It seems that people were downloading music from the internet ..... till now. Phone downloads are today 50% of the total downloads. Believe it or not, music could be in front of their new hero: our phone!

TECH - Sending power with no cables

Are all our cellphones, iPod, mouse, keyboards and other wireless gadgets really wireless when we have to connect them every week ?

The solution has been totally developed and we can -today- send power over radio waves or charge our devices by induction. A new technology is allowing all kind of consumer devices to be powered and charged without wires. This technology was discovered in the 20s but it has been developped for commercial use the last ten years. In fact, Apple is trying to develop a special dock connector for iPod in order to charge them wirelessly.

The company, ECoupled, presented this new technology that includes an intelligent inductive coupled power circuit that dynamically adjusts, allowing the primary circuit to adapt its operation to match the characteristics of the load. The power supply circuit automatically optimizes efficiency by seeking resonance at ultra-high frequencies between the primary and secondary coils for any given load. Energy transfer efficiency is increased over conventional inductive coupling, resulting in power losses as low as 2 percent.

We just have to wait till commercial manufacturers start producing all devices with this new capability.