Month: February 2010
Samsung's 650TS: a sexy interactive whiteboard
Okay, so whiteboards aren't exactly sexy and conjure up 3rd form French more than that must-have gadget wow factor but Samsung's 650TS Interactive Whiteboard really roused gadget lust in me. So it's a giant 65inch LCD touch screen pinned to the wall. Choose a line colour and thickness and write on the board with your…
Samsung eBooks are great: paper-like and pleasurable to use
Okay we've all seen eBooks before, but Samsung's first foray into the field has produced some pretty desirable devices. Their eBook duo: the E60 and E100 are little treats. Both have pleasant e-ink displays with the E60's screen 6inches across (600 by 800 pixel resolution) and the E100 10 inch (825 by 1200). There's a…
Samsung Wave review: the beautiful screen with a phone attached
Samsung launched the Wave its flagship phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we had a little play round with it yesterday in Vienna and yes, that super AMOLED screen is quite something. If you want a crystal clear display that lets you see the individual veins on a leaf and startlingly bright colours,…
Disco fridge, the talking sign post: the weird bits of Samsung's Vienna
Humorous by-products on display at the Samsung Forum in Vienna included disco fridge, a fridge with LED panels and some speakers bolted on playing pop music and flashing trippy patterns - the sort of fridge Lady Gaga would own, sadly disco fridge was just a one-off, but I'd consider it if it becomes commercially available.…
Samsung's OmniPro – hands-on with the clever microwave
More intelligent white goods from Samsung's Vienna show with the OmniPro Microwave. Not only does the OmniPro cook your food, it knows how much to cook your food and makes helpful suggestions based on the weight and humidity of the items you put in it. Packing both weight and humidity sensors in the stainless steel…
Samsung NaviBot – hands on with the robotic vacuum cleaner
Samsung's fluff-collecting bot unveiled in Vienna yesterday is cute. The Navibot is an intelligent floor cleaner with visual and infra-red sensors making it the smartest thing to crawl around your floor since the stick insects died. But the stick insects were never this complex. A disc shaped object the size of a soup tureen the…
Samsung Forum 2010: a TV remote which IS ALSO A TV
This is slightly mind-blowing - the new remote control accompanying Samsung's LED9000 set will have its own LCD screen on which you can watch TV. The touchscreen on the remote can be used to simply control the large set but you can also use it as a second screen to watch another TV channel on.…
Samsung Forum 2010: the first TVs with apps
While the 3D images are the big new thing with Samsung's LED TV range - the series are all internet enabled and will feature apps - the first apps intended for televisions. Apps available include a LoveFilm one which lets users "rent" films by downloading them, a BBC iPlayer app and also access to social…
Samsung Forum: 3D TVs in the shops from March
Samsung will be the first to bring 3D TVs to UK shops they announced today at the Samsung 2010 Forum in Vienna, with the 3D flat screen TVs available from March. "Today is the day 2d content gets liberated, we are bringing a new world of full HD 3D television" said Samsung President Hu. Fellow…
School spied on pupils through webcams in their home
Frankly incredible story this one.. a school lent laptops to its pupils to take home with them, and then used the webcams built into the computers to spy on what was going on in the pupil's homes, according to a court case cited by Boing Boing. The webcams could be remotely activated by school administrators.…
