Intel offers video today of Lenovo’s first atom-powered Mobile Internet Device. With a 4.8″ screen, high-speed world wide web access, “finance software,” live GPS, PIM apps, a camera and web browser — and a claim of “mainstream performance” — it’s the vanguard…
Intel offers video this day of Lenovo’s first atom-powered Mobile Internet Device. With a 4.8″ screen, high-speed world wide web access, “finance software,” live GPS, PIM apps, a camera and web browser — and a claim of “mainstream performance” — it’s the vanguard of the next massive push to sell you handheld PCs.
It looks like some giant Dell PDA from 5 years ago, but as it’s an Beijing Olympics tie-in, we’ll probably never get to complain about how it looks in the flesh anyway. Centrino Atom awaits its unveiling [Intel via UMPC Portal]
This is the Nokia Remade, a concept cell phone made from completely recycled materials. Photographer Issac Brekken likened it to a cigarette case. I kind of think it looks like a miniature corrugated roof. Whatever Rosarch shape you think it takes, the handset is made from 100 percent recycled materials. The case is forged from discarded aluminum cans. The glass on the screen? Once it was a (beer?) bottle. Even the rubber that covers the hinge is made from old tires.
The insides of the phone, though, are actually not recycled. Rather they are refurbished components salvaged from other phones. Nokia however, is exploring options to make the insides out of the same recycled components that comprise the shell.
Never mind the handset itself, want to get ab idea on just how wasteful the packaging is on a cell phone? Get this: according to Nokia, just by reducing the packaging on handsets sold in developing countries, the Finnish company saved 150 million Euros in 2007.
Photo by Issac Brekken for WIRED. Yes, that’s his hand in the pic. Send him lotion.
Mr. T’s favorite laptop maker rolled out slick, useful and budget-minded updates to its Satellite line today. First up, the 13.3″ U400, 14.1″ M300, 15.4″ A300 and 17″ P300 have a new look called “Fusion,” a shiny finish with pinstripes and smoothed edges, not unlike that sucka HP’s successful smooth-n-shiny-n-pinstripey look. The eight shots in the gallery make the design look a bit greenish, so we’ll have to wait to pass final judgment. It’s one thing to look nice on the outside, but like T, these have a lot going on on the inside, too…
The laptops will all have “Feather-Touch” multimedia touch-sensitive keys and a webcam with facial-recognition security login, presumably more for fun than true security. They’ll all also have Sleep-and-Charge USB ports, which will charge stuff even when the laptop is asleep or powered down, provided the laptop is plugged into a wall socket.
At the same time, Toshiba introduced two totally new laptops, the A200, with a starting price of $600 including 15.4″ widescreen, DVD SuperMulti drive 160GB drive, 1GB of RAM and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor. The company also introduced the 17″ L350 with built-in webcam, ATI Radeon X1250 graphics and DVD SuperMulti drive for $750. [Toshiba releases: Redesigned laptops; Cheap laptops]
Mr. T’s favorite laptop maker rolled out slick, useful and budget-minded updates to its Satellite line today. First up, the 13.3″ U400, 14.1″ M300, 15.4″ A300 and 17″ P300 have a new look called “Fusion,” a shiny finish with pinstripes and smoothed edges, not unlike that sucka HP’s successful smooth-n-shiny-n-pinstripey look. The eight shots in the gallery make the design look a bit greenish, so we’ll have to wait to pass final judgment. It’s one thing to look nice on the outside, but like T, these have a lot going on on the inside, too… 
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