The moment we step on a foreign soil, we buy a new SIM card for our cell phones. And Orange has announced it green plans to cut down on the amount of waste generated with this habit. Though it sounds very trivial issue, the trend of receiving new SIMs for an upgrade or new contract does leave its share of carbon footprints on our planet too. Orange has become the first European mobile operator to introduce mini SIM cards to support our environment.
How will it help? Till now the new SIMs come embedded in a credit-card sized plastic wrapping. However, only ten percent of the material is used for the plug-in SIM. The rest of the 90% of the card’s plastic is waste. But the new mini SIM cards will halve the amount of waste generated in providing customers with new SIMs by embedding two SIMs in each credit-card sized item during manufacturing.
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Orange Introduces New Mini Sim Cards To Reduce The Waste By Half
Accelerometers Becoming Mainstream, Driven By iPhone
Over one-third of mobile phones are expected to integrate accelerometers by 2010, according to the research firm iSuppli. Widespread adoption of the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors is being driven by popular devices such as Apple’s iPhone and the recently-launched Palm Pre. Although the trend continues to develop in the smartphone segment, the technology is also being used in simpler devices.
The iPhone is one of the first devices to utilize an accelerometer for a wide range of functions and input. The 3-axis motion sensor enables the device to switch screen orientation, or move through tracks as it is shaken. Many of the third-party games use motion input for control, instead of a dedicated joystick or input buttons.
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Netflix To Invade Sony Bravia TVs
Pretty soon, even your toaster will come with Netflix streaming built in. In the meantime, Netflix’s newest target is Sony’s line of online-enabled Bravia LCD televisions. Enabled via a software update expected to launch this fall, those with compatible Bravia sets will gain access to the same growing catalog of movies and television shows that are available on an also growing list of Netflix-streaming devices, including the Xbox 360 console, Roku player, some TiVo sets, and a few Samsung and LG Blu-ray players.
Supported Sony TV sets so far include the XBR9 series, Z5100 series, and the W5100 series, while other Sony sets can add support via a $200 Bravia Internet Video Link. In addition to Netflix streaming, Bravia Internet Video-enabled devices also support content from Amazon’s Video-On-Demand, YouTube, CBS, and others.
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Crazy 38-in-1 Wii Sports Bundle
You are probably aware that there are a ton of wiimote attachments to make your Wii controller in to various sports items like tennis rackets, golf clubs, steering wheels etc… A new kit has come out that now includes 38 of these attachments.
Included in the kit are accessories relating to football, golf, fishing, spear fishing, baseball, driving and a whole lot more.
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Alphascan Launches Prestige R2300D 23″ Eco-Friendly Monitor
The Prestige R2300D is the latest 23-inch eco-friendly monitor from Alphascan for the Korean Market. This widescreen LCD monitor supports a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and features 2ms response speed, 2000:1 contrast ratio, 0.3W high-efficiency power supply, 3D game support and up to 50,000 hours of using time. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing so far.
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Illuminated Auto-Scroll Mouse Pad With USB Ports
The Auto-Scroll Mouse Pad is another crazy gadget from GizFever that makes you wonder why it exists. The Auto-Scoll feature appears to be button activated to being the mouse pad back in to the casing. The casing of the mouse pad also acts as a 4 Port USB Hub and also has a “Blue Moody Light” for added effect.
Auto-Scroll Mouse Pad Features
- Features: Auto-Scroll Mouse Pad
- Button for auto scroll back mouse pad
- USB 4 Port Hub
- USB 2.0, support USB 1.1
- High-Speed
- Blue Moody Light
- Dimension: (Mouse Pad not open) 25 cm x 5.3 cm x 3 cm
- Dimension: (Max Mouse Pad Area) 22 cm x 18 cm
- Weight: 210g
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HIS Makes Radeon HD 4350 With Pcie X1 Interface
Apart from its occasional IceQ models HIS is pretty much keeping a low profile with its graphics card offer so it’s quite intriguing to see it come up with a PCI-Express x1 Radeon. The HD 4350 iFan comes with the RV710 GPU boasting 80 Stream Processors, 512MB of DDR2 memory and a 64-bit memory interface, active cooling, plus D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs.
The PCIe X1 card, which could be an interesting choice for boards without an x16 slot, is clocked exactly the same as its PCIe x16 brothers, which means the GPU and memory are set to 600 and 800 MHz, respectively. The catch with HIS’ card is that it will be almost three times more expensive than the PCIe x16 versions.
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Dell Offers Ready-To-Ship PCs, Custom-Look Inspiron
Dell this morning kicked off its first-ever offerings of fast-ship PCs. Offered under the FastTrack banner, the systems can’t be customized but ship by the next business day, eliminating the delay of two weeks or more that often accompanies ordering a system from Dell. The approach is based on the popularity of Dell’s custom-order configurations and should be continuously refreshed to mirror what customers actually want.
On launch day, the FastTrack lineup includes four models. The Inspiron Mini 10v ships in its usual $299 base trim with a 1.6GHz Atom, 1GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive. An Inspiron 537 tower ships for $499 (on sale) with a 2.5GHz Pentium dual-core, 3GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive and a 17-inch LCD.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Electronista
ZoneOut – Apple iPhone 3GS – Better Than Ever
It’s been almost a year since the Apple iPhone 3G hit our shores and if you are like us over at HardwareZone, you should already be a tad tired of your trusty phone sidekick. Little wonder then that we have been keeping our ears firmly to the ground in anticipation of every little bit of information about a new iPhone model that was said to be baking in the ovens of the Cupertino-based company. And despite countless rumors about a completely revamped iPhone design, little did we know that the folks at Apple didn’t have any change up their sleeves!
Because what was finally revealed at this year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference was essentially the same rehashed design of the Apple iPhone 3G and labeled it 3GS – with the S being the acronym for speed. While the hardware of the new 3GS was nothing to write home about, the phone’s software came into spotlight. Announced by Phil Schiller in the event, the new iPhone sports top notch features such as a voice control function, a video recorder and hordes of other exciting lineups. These tantalizing software updates were more than enough to fire up our excitement once again, and the iPhone re-entered every tech-head’s must have list for this summer.
Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Tour Specs And Features
The launch of the BlackBerry Tour on Verizon (and Sprint) will commence this coming Sunday, July 12. And to mark the occasion, Verizon has sent out a full “feature and spec” sheet for the Great White North device. Don’t ask me why, but they did. So, in case you were wondering about the Tour, please feel free to read on.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ MobileCrunch
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