Smell-O-Vision TV That Lets Viewers Smell What’s Unfolding On Screen!

University of California researchers in collaboration with Samsung have developed a new technology that generates odors to match television images. Viewers can actually smell what’s occurring on television.

The team has shown that it’s possible to create “smell-o-vision” by developing a compact box that fits on the back of a TV, capable of generating thousands of different scents, conceived to match what’s unfolding on TV.

For instance, if people are having pizza, the viewer gets a whiff of the pizza emanating from a television or cell phone.

The odor emanates from an aqueous solution like ammonia, which produces an odorous gas when it is heated via a slender metal wire by an electrical current.

The heat creates pressure, causing a small hole in an elastomer to open, discharging the scent, which is measured by the detector.

And when odors emanating from the television start to fade, the odor-producing device can be replaced just like an ink cartridge on a printer.

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The BlackBerry Facial To Smoothen Neck Wrinkles

There’s a new worry for cell phone users – a BlackBerry neck. This condition refers to the development of neck lines caused by time and again looking down to send emails and text messages on your favorite mobile phone.

The Blackberry Facial available at the Paul Labrecque Salon & Spa in midtown Manhattan, actually isn’t a facial at all. It’s a gentle & soothing massage to get rid of necklines formed by excessive social networking.

Aesthetician Joanna Czech, who came up with the $200 Blackberry Facial, says the treatment is suitable for anybody who desired a fresher looking neck.

The forty-five minutes intense exfoliation neck treatment is certain to leave the client with a petal soft & smooth neck.

The Blackberry Facial treatment includes a neck cleansing, a peel with sapphire stones, another peel, a hydrating serum & then some lymphatic drainage.

The treatment ends with twenty minutes of LED light & microcurrents, topped off with an oxygen mask.

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Just Type To Power Laptops

Is your laptop battery dying out on you? Just type more to charge it.

That’s what Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology researchers have envisioned – they have come up with a way to power electronics by harnessing the energy from typing.

The Australian researchers believe that laptops could soon become self-powered by making use of piezoelectrics - which converts pressure into an electric current - & a thin film technology that’s found in microchips.

Further research needs to be done before it is practical for economical laptop integration.

If proven successful, piezoelectric technology may soon be transferred to other new devices & be integrated into running shoes to power mobiles, enable the charging of laptops via typing, or even used in converting blood pressure into a power source for pacemakers.

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Mobile Phones Powered By Speech

In what is believed to be a godsend for people who frequently suffer the frustration of dead batteries, scientists from South Korea have created a device that enables you to charge your mobile just by speaking into it.

South Korean electrical engineers have developed an innovative technique which transforms sound into electricity, thereby allowing mobiles to be powered while users carry on a conversation.

The engineers of the Institute of Nanotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoulsay this new technology would also have the ability to harness background noise & even music to power a phone when not in use.

The technology makes use of minuscule strands of zinc oxide inserted between 2 electrodes. There’s a sound absorbing pad on the top that vibrates when hit by sound waves, causing the minuscule zinc oxide wires to compress & release. This movement generates electrical current that could be used for charging a battery.

Korean scientists say sound power may be used for a variety of novel applications including mobile phones that could be powered during conversations & sound-insulating walls close to highways capable of generating electricity from the sound of passing vehicles.

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Soon, Tap Your Palm To Operate This Imaginary Phone

German researchers have devised an imaginary phone that allows you to keep your mobile in your pocket and answer calls or use apps by simply tapping your palm. According to Potsdam University researchers, if someone’s washing dishes & his smart phone buzzes, rather than drying his hands fast & fumbling to take the call, the imaginary phone allows him to just touch his palm with a finger to answer the call remotely.

A user can reject a call while the phone is still in his pocket or, if he’s really dexterous, send a message by just drawing on his hand.

The technology dubbed ‘iPalm’ makes use of light sensors to help monitor where users move their finger on their palm & accordingly presses the screen on the smart phone. Software interprets finger movements & positions and helps correlate it to the location of icons on the user’s iPhone.

However, to operate effectively, you have to know exactly where the apps and specific buttons are located on the physical phone.

The researchers linked light sensors to a depth camera fitted on the user’s head, but it’s hoped that in the future, the camera would be shrunk to the size of a button.

Scientists envision that at first, mobile phone users would use the ‘iPalm’ as a shortcut to operate their physical phones kept in their pockets. As they become more experienced, a day would come when they actually leave behind the gadget at home & spend the entire day ‘all-imaginary’.

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