Researchers make tiny Radio from Nanotubes

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By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Transistor radios tinier than a grain of sand, made using nanotechnology, can not only tune in to the traffic report, but may end up outperforming current silicon-based electronics, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:22:25 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Okulon Hikari Pro920 tiny Pocket Projector

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Taiwanese Oculon surprises with a very small portable projector dubbed Hikari Pro920.

You can project a 12-inch diagonal screen with just over a foot of projection distance, and a 24-inch image from 1m distance. There will be a VGA and SVGA model of the Hikari Pro920. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Toyota iQ unveiled at IAA 2007

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Toyota unveiled the iQ concept car for urban use. The iQ is even a bit shorter than the Volkswagen Up! which was also unveiled today.

The iQ carries 3-4 people and measures a very short 2.98m. The width of the small car is 1,68m. Read more

Posted on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Volkswagen Up! at IAA 2007

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Volkswagen unveiled the Up! city car at the IAA 2007. The tiny car has the motor at rear again, like the classic Volkswagen Beatle.

The Volkswagen Up! is 3,45m long and 1,63m wide and has space for four.
The 3-cylinder engine is supposed to only need 3,5l/100km (67mpg). Read more

Posted on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

IFA 2007: Tiny Samsung VP-HMX10A Camcorder

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Samsung will introduce the new Samsung VP-HMX10A digital camcorder at the IFA 2007 in Berlin.

The Samsung VP-HMX10A is not a full HD camcorder (e.g.: New Panasonic HDC-SD5 and HDC-SX5) it supports a resolution of 1920x720pixels (Hi-Vision).
Features of the Samsung VP-HMX10A include 8GB internal memory, SDHC slot, records in MP4 format and features a 10x zoom. Read more

Posted on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hynix makes tiny 1Gb DRAM for Mobile Devices

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Korean chip maker Hynix announces what the call the world's smallest 1Gb DRAM chip for mobile devices.

The new 1Gb chip is based on 66nm technology and supports 200Mhz clock speeds. Hynix specifies the data throughput with 1.6GB/s. Read more

Posted on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Micro SD USB Card Reader

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This tiny Micro SD and T-Flash card reader is not much bigger than a USB plug.

Measurements are 25.5x12x4.5mm. You can always carry this card reader on your keychain to have it available when you need to transfer data from your micro SD card onto a PC. Read more

Posted on Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Logitech Announces VX Nano Notebook Mouse with Tiny USB receiver

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Logitech has announced a new notebook mouse using the same scroll wheel technology from the original VX Revolution notebook mouse called the Logitech VX Nano. The most notable difference in the two mice is the new wireless receiver the Nano uses.

Typical USB receivers are large and sized like many flash drives. The new Nano uses a very small wireless receiver that doesn’t stick out from your notebook much, allowing you to leave it plugged in at all times. Protruding only 8mm from the side of your notebook there is no worry of breaking the receiver by leaving it plugged in at all times. Read more

Posted on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Sharp tiny 2MP Camera Module

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Sharp introduces the industry's thinnest 2MP CMOS camera module.

The 5mm thin 2MP camera module is aimed at mobile phones. The module has auto focus and can process 15fps UXGA resolution video.
Overall measurements of the camera module are 8.5×8.5×5mm.
A phone with this 2MP camera module would still be at least 7mm thick. So that module is not really helping in getting really thin (<5mm) phones. Read more

Posted on Thu, 7 Jun 2007 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny PQI Intelligent Drive i810

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The PQI Intelligent Drive i810 is small clean designed USB flash drive that comes in 1GB and 2GB storage sizes.

The measurements of the PQI i810 are only 30x15.2x5mm, which is about the size of a SD card. The USB plug slides out from the compact case.
You can attach the small drive to your mobile phone as a charm or your key chain. It weighs only 2g. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 May 2007 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Haier Sterling Tiny Mirrored Phone Coming

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Haier readies another tiny phone for the U.S. market. Two weeks ago we reported about the tiny Haier Elegance phone. Today Haier informs us about the Haier Sterling mirrored handset that will ship starting July 7th.

The Haier Sterling looks like it is all metal, with only the black touchpad disturbing the shiny look.
Again this Haier phone is very small measuring 97x40x14.5mm (3.81x1.57x0.57inch). Features of the Sterling include 1.8 inch color screen, 1.3MP Camera (still and video), Mp3 music and MP4 video player, full WAP and Web access, microSD card slot and Bluetooth. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 May 2007 01:25:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Epoq EMP-FT804 PMP plays AVI

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Yesterday we reported about the new fashionable Epoq MP4 Watch. Today we got information about a small PMP Epoq is making dubbed EMP-FT804.

The Epoq EMP-FT804 features a 2.2 inch color screen and has touch sensitive buttons that light up reminding on LG's Chocolate interface look.

On interesting detail of this PMP is that it plays directly AVI file format. Most other PMPs in this category require you to convert the videos to the obscure NXV format.

The compact PMP measures 73.2 x 43.6 x 10mm and packs features like MP3 and WMA audio file playback, FM Tuner, voice recorder, photo viewer, built-in speaker, lyrics display, upgradeable firmware and miniSD card slot. Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 May 2007 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Haier Elegance Phone Ships

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Haier known for their Pen phone has another tiny GSM phone on the market that is not much bigger than a lipstick case.

The Haier Elegance measures only 3.5" L x 1 1/4" W x 3/4" D (90x35x17.8mm) and weighs 2.24 oz (64g).
Haier still was able to pack tons of features into the shiny and small phone. Features include 1.1 inch color OLED screen, MP3 player, FM radio, micro SD up to 1GB supported, Bluetooth, games and alarm clock.
The tiny phone has a standby time Up to 200 hours, a talk time up to 3 hours and a media play time of up to 11 hours. Read more

Posted on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Tiny R/C Helicopter

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Think Geek has a new kind of tiny indoor remote control helicopter in their shop.

The Picco Z RC helicopter was huge last Christmas. Of course more vendors want in on this hot toy trend.
This new R/C helicopter has a bit more refined body design and seems even a bit smaller than the Picco Z.
With a 15 minute charge time you get 5-7 minutes of flight time on this model. The IR remote supports two channels enabling you to fly together with a friend’s helicopter. Read more

Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny VIA Pico-ITX Motherboard

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VIA Technologies announced their new Pico-ITX motherboard form-factor.

The VIA VT6047 Pico-ITX measures only 100x72mm - about the size of a poker card.

VIA VT6047 Pico-ITX mainboard was designed to be powered by one of VIA’s energy efficient processor platforms, such as the VIA C7 or fan-less VIA Eden processor in the 21mm x 21mm nanoBGA2 package, combined with feature-rich VIA system media processors to enable the board to pack a performance punch in a tiny, low heat, low power package. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Remote Controlled Star Wars R2-D2

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R2-D2 is very trendy again these days. We have seen R2-D2 mailboxes and R2-D2 trashcans recently.

Think Geek offers now a tiny R/C R2-D2 action figure with light saber remote control.
You can make R2 go forward, or turn reverse in a circle. The tiny replica of the Star Wars robot makes realistic sounds, can turn his head and features a red LED eye.

Think Geek sells the R2-D2 desk toy for $29.99.
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Posted on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:35:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Review of Titan Computer EZ Sound Tiny 2.1 Channel Speaker System

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The Titan Computer EZ Sound 2.1 Channel Speaker is supposed to be the world's smallest.

The Titan PT-100 series measures 113x94x45.9mm and the two satellite speakers have each 0.25W output. The integrated subwoofer has 1.5W output. The supported frequency spectrum is 200Hz~18kHz.
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Posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Touchmate TM-M800 Camera Phone features Diamond

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Touchmate offers the TM-M800G mobile phone in gold with a fancy diamond in the middle-east.

The Touchmate TM-M800G (gold) / TM-M800S (silver) measures a compact 30x90mm and presents a Swarovski Crystal Diamond.
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Posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Robot Makes Cockroaches Believe it is one of Them

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A team of European scientists developed a tiny robot that makes cockroaches believe it is one of them.

The LEURRE Project already got some press back in 2004 (see Times), but now the researchers actually can demonstrate that their plan worked and the cockroach robot can lure real live cockroaches to a place of its choice.

The robot cockroach moves like a real one and because cockroaches have bad sight, they do not see that the robot is just a box on wheels. For additional efficiency the researches covered the robot with cockroach pheromones. All cockroaches in the test left their preferred dark spot to hang with the robot.
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Posted on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Teeny Tiny iriver S10

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Smaller portable gadgets are what every good geek really wants for Christmas and iriver has one of the smallest MP3 players on the market called the iriver S10. As much as I hate to break your geeky heart, geeks in the USA it’s not available here yet.

The little player uses a 1.15” OLED display to show your pictures and other payer info. The S10 supports MP3, WMA, ASF and OGG Vorbis up to Q10. The reviewer at Everything USB found the bundled headphones to be lacking and noted that the player doesn’t support album art. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:53:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Tiny Picco Z Making Big Waves

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We have been talking a lot recently about the cool little Picco Z RC helicopter. Over the last two weeks, we have posted both a written review as well as a video review of the fun to fly RC toy. Now CNN is also covering the tiny Picco Z as well.

According to CNN Silverlit, the maker of the Picco Z, is expecting to ship a huge amount of the tiny toy this Christmas season to the tune of 150,000 units. That is a lot of any type of toy, but for one that has no traditional advertising it is very impressive. Read more

Posted on Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun