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Toshiba Powers Cell Phone With Methanol Fuel Cell
Toshiba continues to tease us with its prototype liquid fuel cell-powered gadgets: last year it was a Gigabeat media player, and at this year's CEATEC you can check out a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) that's been crammed inside a cell phone, lending it a robust six hours of talk time (compared to the paltry three or four hours of a traditional battery). Toshiba won't reveal the capacity of the DMFC, but they have said that a 50ml cartridge is good for about 15 refills. No release date yet, but the phone "might" be available "as early as next year." In the meantime, enjoy this picture of a woman holding a flip phone with "DMFC" clearly visible on the display.Toshiba Shows Off Die-Shaped Media Server
7 Cool TVs From the Future
by Tom Samiljan, posted Oct 3rd 2008 at 4:40PM
Any Japanese consumer electronics show worth its salt will have plenty of cell phones and TVs. Since we've already covered some of the stranger new concept phones we saw while at this week's CEATEC convention in Tokyo, we're moving on to the televisions. Take a look at the following seven prototype TVs, and tell us which ones you like!
World's Weirdest New Phones
by Tom Samiljan, posted Oct 2nd 2008 at 6:31PM
Concept Phone Can See Through Walls -- In Theory
Video-Conference Your Doodles Via Cell Phone With Tegakichat
by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Oct 1st 2008 at 5:16PM
Japan is drenched in arcades with female-only purikura (photo booth for you gaijin) corners in which aflutter girls take pictures, bless them with sparkly decorations, and print them to book cover friendly stickers for all to see, for better or worse, to the horror of their moms, to the delight of their potential boyfriends. Let's say Sharp was to take the purikura phenomenon and fuse it with to the teenage girl's number one obsession: the cell phone (keitai for our Japanese readers). That's exactly what it did with this concept phone and software, complete with a shared art space that can be collectively decorated over wireless networks. Scary? Perhaps. Cool enough to snap some video in awesome disbelief? Most definitely.
Don't miss the gallery at Engadget.
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Has Panasonic Reinvented the Remote Control?
by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Oct 1st 2008 at 11:23AM
The remote can sense left- or right-handed users and adjust the interface appropriately, moving important triggers around based on where one's thumb may (or may not) be. Dual touch pads allow for multitouch data entry and zoom manipulation, while gestures allow for quick scrolls, making this one of the most intuitive and drool-worthy remote controls we've seen in a while, or ever.
We're so into it that we've provided a full gallery and three videos after the break (and if you want to see more of what televisions are going to do in the coming years, check out our gallery of 7 Cool TVs From the Future).
