Get Blown Away with the Xperia Play

If you like the latest in smartphone and gaming technology then you will love the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. This is the first smartphone in the world that has been certified by PlayStation and is the first one to have PlayStation control buttons, along with touch sensitive keypad joystick controllers. This phone really does deliver an authentic gaming experience; one that it is claimed will blow you away.

The basic engine that makes this baby fly is a Snapdragon processer running at 1 GHz, which is pretty much standard in all Android smartphones, but in the Xperia Play it is enhanced by an embedded graphics processor, the Adreno 205 GPU. At the risk of sounding too techy, we would like to add that the hardware includes a dual channel ddr2 RAM working at 300 Hertz. In simple terms it means that data gets moved around at twice the speed that it would otherwise. All this is controlled by the latest version of the Android operating system, Gingerbread.

The overall result of this is super smooth and fast graphics with refresh rates approaching 60 frames per second. If you love gaming, then you will adore this phone.

Of course this is more than just a gaming console. It is also a superb smartphone at the cutting edge of smartphone technology, but one that really is built for gamers. Even if for some reason you prefer as a phone the iPhone, which is understandable, or even an alternative Android phone such…

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Cool Leaf: transparent acrylic gadget with touch-screen keyboard, calculator and remote

Cool leaf, an innovation of remote-controlling world from Minebea, in cooperation with Kazuo Kawasaki, now presents to answer the user needs for an easy-maintained device.

Frequent problem faced by the remote-controller user is when facing a fact that a typical keyboard can be a pain to keep clean. Wiping a cloth over and in-between the keys will get rid of a lot of the dirt and dust, but then users often have to deal with dirt that falls underneath the keys, while ignoring it would never end the problem.

This Minebea’s Cool Leaf is indeed a single sheet of acrylic which make absolutely no gaps for crumbs to fall through and lay underneath, and a very easy-to-clean surface.

Cool Leaf, consists of a keyboard, calculator, and remote control. Minebea created each device by combining a single piece of transparent acrylic, a mirror-type film, a light guide plate, and a capacitive touch panel.

The users then find it looks like a high-end range of devices, very futuristic, a modern device that are very easy to clean (or even need not to be cleaned). Another nice feature is the fact the surface just looks like a mirror when it is switched off, and only displays the key inputs when the device is turned on or plugged in. Incredible experience of remote-controlling has come.

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