Toshiba’s Satellite T100 Series laptops charge while they sleep

Posted by Technorati Search for: smartphone on October 1, 2009

Toshiba's new middleweight T100 Series laptops will hit shelves on October 22, coinciding with the release of Windows 7. Both the 11.6 inch and 13.3-inch models come in at under 4 pounds and feature a LED backlit widescreen display, built-in webcam with face recognition, HDMI port, up to 9 hours of battery life and the company's very useful "Sleep-and-Charge" technology, which lets you power up portable devices when the laptop is turned off... Tags: Intel , Laptop , Toshiba , Windows

Apple iPhone patent applications hint at live object identification and loads of other cool features

Posted by Technorati Search for: iPhone 3G on July 9, 2009

Apple’s published patent applications always makes for interesting reading. The iPhone maker’s latest patent applications hint at some really cool features possibly coming down the pipeline - chief among them, a live object identification technology that will allow you to point your iPhone camera at a real-world object to pull up information about that object. Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) also outlines technologies that will enable face recognition, event-based tasks, filtering of text messages, cross