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Sharp Displays Mira-style Smart Screen
News Sharp's attempt at a mobile, battery operated screen echoes that of Microsoft's Smart Display -- codename Mira. The $1,500 (£932) Sharp Aquos LC-1C5l1 TV houses a rechargeable lithium-ion battery which can run up to three hours with a dimmed screen...
[May 9, 2003, 8:40]
Smart Security: Network Scanners
Talkback I deleted the "smart security" screen of my desktop BUT even if I don't see it anymore at the back of my screen, he is still there. Ok, I have beautiful "dog screen" back and no more "smart security warning" but when I go on the internet, my "home...
[December 25, 2004, 17:41]
ViewSonic Sets UK Launch For Smart Displays
News Smart Displays can function as a flat-screen monitor or a wireless tablet that controls a base PC from around the home or office. However, this base price doesn't include the screen's docking station, necessary for using the unit as a primary...
[February 10, 2003, 13:57]
The White Board Goes Wireless
News Several companies have been souping up the tried-and-true but decidedly low-tech white board, taking it from a waxy writing surface for felt-tipped pens to a giant plasma touch screen linked to a PC and a projector.
[November 4, 2002, 13:52]
CE Family Welcomes Mira
News Mira, which was first unveiled in January, lets LCD screens act as a portable screen in conjunction with a nearby desktop computer, enabling people with the device to surf the Web or play music that is stored on the desktop PC.
[June 27, 2002, 10:03]
Smart Displays Allow Admins To Roam
News However, the Smart Display screen pops out of the base and functions as its own separate entity. A Smart Display is a special flat-panel monitor, whose screen detaches from the base, allowing users to roam throughout the office and still connect to...
[July 17, 2003, 10:56]
Monitor Hard Drive Health With SMARTDefender
News Doing either will display the main SMART Defender screen. If you return to the main SMARTDefender screen by clicking Home on the toolbar, you will notice that there are two other options: SMARTStatus and CapacityInformation.
[May 21, 2003, 13:37]
Microsoft Mira Hung Up On Licensing
News From the login screen, a user can access any PC set up to connect to the smart display, so that, for example, the display could be used to control one PC at home and a different one at work. Microsoft also showed a Philips model with a wireless...
[November 28, 2002, 14:44]
Little Things Mean A Lot For Gates
News Media2Go devices will have a 4-inch screen, hard drive and basic controls for viewing photos and TV programming downloaded from a PC and listening to digital music. Playing more of a greatest-hits show than usual, Gates mostly offered updates on...
[January 9, 2003, 7:51]
New Handheld Aims To Bridge Digital Divide
News Simputer also sports 32MB of DRAM, 24MB of permanent flash memory and a 320-by-240-pixel black-and-white screen. Inputting information into the Simputer is accomplished by either a software keyboard that pops onto the screen or new software...
[May 25, 2001, 16:21]
Mind-blogging Smart Film
Forum When the glass of meeting room is transparent, you can see outside; in opaque, it can be used as projection screen and white board. Glass display window, protect the products when it’s nontransparent, and may be used as a projection screen to...
[October 16, 2007, 3:50]
Sony Launches TV With Web-pad Remote
News The KDE-P50HZ1 and KDE-P42HZ1 plasma TVs are 50 and 42 inches in screen size and will go on sale in Japan later this year, for around $12,000 (£7,452) and $10,000 respectively. The remote control unit can operate independently as a Web pad, or with...
[August 5, 2003, 12:39]
Tomorrow's Tech At Microsoft Innovation Day
News When unpacking shopping, you can scan items against the screen (using RFID) which notes which items are being brought in. This is a car brochure (being held to the right of the screen) with a 3D image of the car it relates to being placed on top of...
[December 6, 2007, 16:30]
IBM Surveillance Could Monitor Borders
News The system performs attribute-based searches on stored video clips for specific objects or actions, or can be set to sound alarms when those things come across the screen. In a video feed of an airport, for example, S3 can electronically draw a...
[November 7, 2006, 9:26]
Is Dell's Growth Sustainable?
News He admits most of that equation is out of Dell's hands and rests instead with screen makers. But we're not going to do 61-inch; we're not going to DLP [a type of TV that uses a digital light projector chip to put the image on screen]; we are not...
[November 2, 2004, 13:49]
Tech's Future - Smart Dust And Ratbots
News We looked at technologies that were beyond the radar screen of normal market research," said John Gantz, IDC chief research officer. Smart dust, lily pads and ratbots. The researchers identified smart dust, lily pads, ratbots, nanotubes...
[January 16, 2003, 8:21]
Veitch Speaks: Handhelds Up For Grabs
News It's just a pity that the original had a dull screen that needed good ambient lighting and that US Robotics purchaser 3Com couldn't leave the product name alone. The colour screen devices are nice, if pricey, and especially useful now that...
[October 24, 1998, 8:02]
Smart Security: Network Scanners
Talkback Many thanks to the student from Cali for helping me get rid of the dreaded ":black screen"! I thought I found a file to delete (aoldesktop.html) that would do the trick, but instead of the black warning screen, I ended up with a plain white screen...
[November 27, 2004, 0:06]
Smart Security: Network Scanners
Talkback this is the only way i know of how to remove this.i hate those fuckers at smart security.at the very top of the screen, right click, it should appear as a standard option menu (compared to when right click the big black desktop.as you right click...
[December 16, 2004, 8:13]
Very Good, Except For Texting
Member Review Grerat phone, wonderful looks, swivelling screen (jz to show off, methinks), and many smart 'n ergonomic touches in the interface. HOWEVER, if you text a lot, it doesn't seem to be able to add words. It remembers new words in the msg u r typing...
[February 3, 2004, 10:42]
