Gadgets Category

In this day and age, it seems almost everyone has done away with the humble clamshell phone and has opted to buy themselves a swanky touchscreen smartphone. Although it looks like the clamshell phone has mostly lessened in popularity over the years, it still holds strong with the Japanese population. This is probably why the [...]

Samsung AMOLED Foldable Display

18May2011 Filed under: Gadgets

As our technology advances, the size of our gadgets seem to have decreased, and the same can be said for our mobile devices too. As much as everyone loves wants their tablets and mobile phone displays to be large, there is sometimes still the issue of portability. Here’s some very promising research from the Samsung [...]

Flexible PaperPhone: The Future Flexible Mobile Phone?

10May2011 Filed under: Gadgets

Mobile phones today are multitasking machines that we all know and love, but let’s take it to another, more flexible level. In this case, it’s literal with the Flexible PaperPhone, the world’s first of its kind. Developed by a team of researchers from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, they believe that this new communication device [...]

Ever wonder what you are going to do with all your microSD cards that are lying around? Most of them must only have a few of gigabytes in capacity, and they’re so small and easy to lose anyway, if they’re not sitting nice and snug in a device. A lot of them must have come [...]

Young Engineer Wins Prize for Electronic Drum Trousers

7Apr2011 Filed under: Gadgets

I’ve always love the idea of incorporating musical instruments into our everyday clothing. There was one where a keyboard was built into a jacket. Now, a 17 year old student of Hymers College in England has created a pair of jeans that double as a drum kit. Aseem Mishra won the senior age group title [...]