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July 2, 2007

Japanese gadget translates baby talk

We found this Japanese baby translator in one of the ancient vaults on the Internet, so please indulge us as we walk down memory lane.

And life really does seem to imitate art, if this gadget from Japan is any indication.

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October 14, 2008

Is the future of computing going pen-shaped?

pen shaped 1 only.jpgThis friends could be the future... and it comes from 2003! A friend told me last week about plans he had seen for an entire computer confined to five pen-shaped objects. With mobile phone functionality, too.

At first I didn't believe him. I could see how most of the computer would work like this, flash memory can be confined to brilliantly small spaces and there are devices on the market at the moment that can project a virtual keyboard onto a work surface. However what about the CPU and the monitor, how could they fit into something the size of an ordinary pen?

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