Motorola today unveiled two new 802.16e Wave 2-ready WiMAX devices. The desktop CPEi 750 and PCCw 200 PC card are part of a new generation of WiMAX devices designed to bring end-users higher data rates at a lower cost. These and other WiMAX customer premises equipment (CPE) and devices, along with Motorola’s WiMAX infrastructure solutions, will be on display enabling personal media experiences in Motorola’s booth (#8A159) at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Feb. 11-14, 2008.

I believe that not much is being seen in WiMax networks, in terms of mobile phones or even laptop built-in modules, and especially little advertisement is being shown, atleast on most countries. By 2009, WiMax should be replacing technologies like iBurst and GPRS/EDGE networks, and someday even HSDPA and HSUPA.

We usually only look at the most beautiful phones and even the world’s most expensive phones, but sometimes we should also name the most ugly phones…and mock their creators on the head!

I really don’t know what is wrong with the style of some people, but  for $3000USD I rather have myself a flagship Symbian phone rather than a jewel covered monstruosity.

Designed by a renowned international jewelry designer, the individual pieces feature vintage 1930’s and 1940’s intaglio Czech stones sprinkled with tiny specks of Aventurine gold.

 Source: Luxury Launches via Engadget

There is always a point in history when science fiction becomes reality, and the holographic displays follow the tradition.

University of Arizona optical scientists have discovered a way to produce refreshable 3D images, and these don’t need to be viewed with special eyewear, and it is apparently developed with the military’s funds.

For this research, the UA College of Optical Sciences collaborated with Nitto Denko Technical Corp., which is an Oceanside, Calif., subsidiary of Nitto Denko, Japan.

According to Cellular News, their device basically consists of a special plastic film sandwiched between two pieces of glass, each coated with a transparent electrode. The images are "written" into the light-sensitive plastic, called a photorefractive polymer, using laser beams and an externally applied electric field. The scientists take pictures of an object or scene from many two-dimensional perspectives as they scan their object, and the holographic display assembles the two-dimensional perspectives into a three-dimensional picture.

The researchers also are working to write images even faster using pulsed lasers.

"If you can write faster with a pulsed laser, then you can write larger holograms in the same amount of time it now takes to write smaller ones," Tay said. "We envision this to be a life-size hologram. We could, for example, display an image of a whole human that would be the same size as the actual person."

Picture: How Stuff Works

Source: Cellular News