Nokia Terminal Mode Demoed by Volkswagen [Video]

Volkswagen, the car maker released a video demo earlier today, showing how simple Nokia's Terminal Mode is to use.
With a vehicle supporting the technology, simply connect your Nokia device to your in-dash terminal, and navigate your phones screen, and menus via your car's inbuilt monitor. Enjoy!

Nokia PC phone - turn your PC into a Mobile Phone

Nokia PC Phone is an experimental service that gives you a possibility to use your mobile phone with your Web Browser. You can call, text and manage contacts from your phone.



I’ve used a similar program before. But it was only for receiving and sending messages using the phone. The nokia PC suite actually does this. You can send messages via PC as long as your phone is connected via bluetooth or data cable.

One of the difference with the PC phone is that it uses your web brower. Although you still need to download and install set-up file (which is less than 15mb)

Once the phone is connected, you will be able to access your contacts from your browser. You’ll also be able to see your messages, and call logs.

When a new message arrives, It will automatically be shown on the screen.

It will also show the number of unread messages.

I tried calling from my PC.

I think its telling me to pick up my phone! and i though i can use the PC speakers and microphone!

Iqua 603 SUN - Bluetooth headset

You will not have to charge your Bluetooth headset again!! Well, the Iqua 603 SUN is a earbud-style headset, complete with a world first - a solar panel to keep it juiced up, as long as the sun's shining that is. It'll stay working for 200 hours without the sun or will let you talk for up to nine hours. The headset comes with a one button control call function such as:

• answering
• ending
• redialing a call
• the voice dialing function which switches a call between the phone and the headset.

Charge mobiles with body heat

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany, have developed new circuits that can harness electricity from body heat that would otherwise be dissipated into the air. The scientists say the advance could lead to battery-less cell phones and medical monitors that draw energy from their users.

“The idea behind it is that you can replace the batteries or at least you can enlarge the operation times of batteries,” said Peter Spies, electrical engineer and group manager at the institute.

Spies and his team improved upon semiconductors called thermoelectric generators that produce electrical energy in the face of temperature differences.

Normally, a difference of several tens of degrees is required in order to generate enough power, but the difference between the body’s surface temperature and that of its environment is only a few degrees. This produces about 250 millivolts, while electronic devices require at least one or two volts.

As part of their research, Spies and his team incorporated a component into the circuit called a charge pump. The pump temporarily stores the incoming millivolts until they reach 1.8 volts. At that threshold, an internal transistor turns on and delivers the higher voltage to a component that can transfer the electricity to a device.

Matthias Ueltzen, an application engineer at Freiburg, Germany-based Micropelt, a developer and manufacturer of thermoelectrics, said, while the “idea of generating some electric power from the heat of the body is a great idea,” there are certain difficulties, which lie in the low temperature differences between the skin and the outside air.

“Only a very small part of the thermal heat flow can be converted into electrical power, and for that reason, the technology may only work for applications that don’t require a lot of energy,” said Ueltzen.

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