The ZOMM is apparently the “world’s first wireless leash” for cell phones. It’s a little disky thing that you attach to your keychain, and it tethers itself to your cell phone via Bluetooth. If it gets separated from your phone by more than a preset distance, it beeps at you, which is its primary feature. It also works as a wireless speaker phone, and if you push the single button on the front, it will start shrieking and auto-dial emergency services.In general, the ZOMM seems like a handy thing to carry around. It’s reasonably small (about the size of a

While they had little to no information about the phone itself, the good people at Texas Instruments were showing off this unnamed Samsung phone (I believe the model # 9600 was thrown around?) since it features a built-in DLP-based projector. While it’s not as thin as the Nexus One or the iPhone, it’s still remarkably compact given there’s a projector crammed inside! And a decent one at that!Now a crumpled piece of copier paper isn’t the most ideal thing to use as a projection screen, but to be honest it’s pretty close to real world conditions. I

Do you think the battery on your mobile phone is inadequate? Well, maybe in the future we’ll have phone like this one designed by designer Daizi Zheng, which runs on Coca-Cola. Its fuel cell generates electricity from carbohydrates in the Coke, or any other sugary liquid for that matter. This will ideally be a more eco-friendly solution to providing battery power, and will generate water and oxygen while the battery dies off. So will there ever be a day that we pop into the nearest 7-11 to buy a can of Coke to juice up our mobile

[CES 2010] We thought that i-mate had called it quits where making rugged cellphones are concerned, but they are back with the 810-F which is a general bad-ass handset, capable of withstanding just about any abuse you throw at it. It complies with military specifications, which makes it shock, water, dust, cold and heat-proof (to a certain degree of course). Heck, we suppose driving your car over this wouldn't hurt it one bit, and you can always continue chatting on the 810-F while you're taking a shower. Pity about Windows Mobile 6.1

Motorola made its Backflip with MOTOBLUR Android smartphone official. The device is the company’s second phone, after the CLIQ/DEXT to have MOTOBLUR equipped. Instead of sliding QWERTY keyboard, the Backflip features a reverse-flip QWERTY keyboard. It includes also the BACKTRACK touch panel on the other side of the device.Motorola’s Backflip has a 3.1-inch 320×480 touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash, Bluetooth 2.0 , aGPS and WiFi 802.11b/g. It supports H.263, H.264, MPEG4 playback and recording. There is a 3.5mm audio hack and a microSD

Look at this strangely designed phone that runs Android. Sure, it isn’t the neatest design we have ever seen, in fact it’s pretty blah, but the Motorola HS1001 is a home phone, so you won’t have to be seen with this thing. It’s basically a cordless phone upgraded to support Android. The device will be one of the first Android-powered home phones. The HS1001 features dual WiFi to connect to its base station and a home WiFi network. Some specs include: DSPG Arm9 240 Mhz processor, 2.8 inch resistive touch screen (QVGA), 256 MB flah ROM / 128 MB RAM, MicroSD

It looks like AT&T is going to get its version of LG Arena KM900 that known as the LG GT950. The GT950 is basically AT&T’s Arena. It offers similar features including a 3-inch 800×480 touchscreen, S-Class UI, a 5 Megapixel camera, 8GB internal memory, GPS and WiFi.[engadget]

Here is the ZOMM, the world’s first Bluetooth wireless leash for mobile phones, which is unveiled at the CES 2010. Nowadsays, everyone have at least a cellphone and sometime you may just walk away and accidentally leave their phone behind. This is what the ZOMM device designed to solve.Once the ZOMM connects to your Bluetooth-enabled cellphone, it will sound an alarm if you walk away from your phone. The devices also serves as a Bluetooth handsfree device with a microphone for two-way communications and a a speaker for speakerphone functionality. It also includes an

Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University have come up with a new input method that they call “vision-based input interface”. Basically this system uses a forward facing camera to read the gestures of your fingers, allowing you to type, click, browse pictures and some other stuff without having to physically touch the phone. The front facing camera used in this demo is a 154 FPS (frame per second) sensor, which will mean we’ll need better front-facing cameras on our phones for this to

Do you remember the “superboot” image that rooted Google’s Nexus phone a few days ago? Well, according to the Twitter account of the person who came up with the trick, it might not work on the version of the phones that are being shipped – bummer. Of course, if you’re really desperate, you could hang on the “probably” that he mentioned, but let’s not place too much hope on that, shall we? The good thing is that the Android community is rather active, and with the excitement around the