TV on your iPhone

TOP Ways to Watch TV on your iPhone


1. Sling iPhone Application

The major problem with the Sling iPhone app is that you need to also purchase a Sling box and have it hooked up to a cable box that no one else is using. If this is something that you would not mind, then the Sling iPhone application is perfect for you.

2. Mophie TV Pack

The FLO TV Mophie iPhone, application and encasing allows you to watch HD basic TV from your iPhone while on the go. The encasing makes the iPhone 2mm thicker and much heavier, but still lets you watch broadcast TV.


Source: Engadget, Sling Media, and FLO TV

The Future of Batteries

The introduction of the PowerMat that charges devices without plugging in any cords has advanced the future possibilities in charging electronic devices. Below are some of the developed battery and energy technologies currently being worked on.

130 Twirls

The Twirl battery concept, designed by Song Teaho and Hyejin Lee, allows for 130 twirls of the phone battery for another two minutes of talk time. Using the same technology as crank batteries, this type of technology would be perfect for a lot of other applications outside of cell phones or cameras.


Charge your Phone or Camera from your Wireless Internet connection

Being able to plug your phone into the Airnergy WiFi Harvesting Charger would allow you to charge your phone or camera without pluging the device into the wall.

After precharging the Airnergy with "WiFi power," the device was able to power a Blackberry from 30% power to 100% power in 90 minutes, illustrating a clear future in wireless power applications

Source: Engadget, Gizmodo, and Yahoo! News

Video Phone Future: Sideline Cinq USB

Image working at your desk and receiving a video conference call from a colleague that takes up no room on your computer desktop, this is the best use I can imagine for the Sideline Cinq USB monitor. The monitor has a 10.1 inch screen, 10244 x 600 lcd screen that works on both Windows and Mac.

The best part about this product is that there is only one cord, as the side monitor is powered by the usb cable. I would use this for video conferencing or security camera use, freeing up more desktop space. The Sideline is available for $249 or for $199 if you pre-order it from the Sideline website.

Connect Everything to Everything: HSTi Wireless Media Stick

This usb media sick allows you to connect anything with a usb port to another usb port device, such as controlling a digital picture frame from your computer, or accessing your movies on you computer from your Xbox 360 or PS3. The media stick also includes smooth 720p media streaming and is available Jan. 15th for $119.99.

Once the software is installed on your computer, you can plug the usb stick into anything on the same Wifi router, allowing you instant access to everything in your house.

Skype: The Future of Home and Business Communication

Skype has expanded its video chatting market by placing their technology in the comforts of everyones home. Now large family's can video chat globally for free.

The Skype service on a TV will work much as it does on a PC, but with some limitations. A TV program will stop playing once a Skype call is made or answered; TV processors are not yet powerful enough to allow people to chat while they watch a show, the companies say.

Panasonic, based in Japan, and LG, based in South Korea, will sell specially designed Web cameras for their Skype-enabled sets, which should cost $100 to $200. These cameras, unlike typical webcams, are customized for the technically challenging environment of the living room, where there can be a wide range of distances between the TV and viewers.

New York Times

Skype TV's will be a cheaper business communication method than the current global video communication software and hardware offered by Cisco. The Skype enabled TV is perfect for business conference rooms.

For businesses looking to use cheap video chatting technologies to accomplish business tasks should also look into using the gmail business function, which allows companies to control chats, email, and video conferencing all from an email web browser.

Mars 2025: The First Crew

The Possible First Men and Woman to Land on Mars

Here at OE Technology we strongly believe the technology to land human life on mars already exists, it just needs to be adapted for suitable application. When imagining humans living on Mars or the Moon, it seems pretty logical that robots would be used to build shelters for human visitors. This technology is already under major development:

Honda Asimo

VS.

Toyota Robot Violinist

The Ghetto Drobo

The Drobo Elite, with a capacity for 16 TB is a beast of an external hard drive, but what about those of us who want unnecessary amounts of computer storage but don't want to pay $5899 for it. A friend of OE Technology sent in this picture of his 5 slot hard drive raid switch that allows for up to 10 TB of storage.

The Ghetto Drobo cost under $500 for 4.5 TB [3 x 1.5 TB Drives] with 2 slots still open. 10 TB would cost you around $700, one fifth the cost of a 10 TB Drobo. For the hard drive consumer, this is the way to go for massive amounts of storage if you do not have a businesses budget.

Big Boy Toys: The DROBO Elite

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Meet the King of All External Hard Drives,

The Drobo Elite.

Grow your storage in line with your data capacity needs with minimal effort. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard disk or replace your smallest disk with a larger one, even when all eight disk bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology found in Drobo Elite enables you to mix n’ match disk brands, capacities and speeds. This allows continuous expansion as disk capacities grow. With DroboPro expansion is automatic, instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.

Not only can this hard drive hold eight 2 TB hard drives, totaling in 16 TB of possible media storage, it also has "Dual-Disk Redundancy' that backs up your data even if you remove three of the hard drives. The price tag is a little high though, starting at $3499 and with 16 TB of storage it cost $5899. It makes a great holiday gift though.

Some of its draw backs are that only 12.48 TB of storage is usable due to the disk redundancy, making the price tag very high for only 12.5 TB. But the Drobo Elite is made for businesses and allows multiple servers to connect to it.

Play Xbox 360 on Your Mac

For a few months now I have been trying to figure out how I can play Xbox 360 on my pretty new iMac and no one was able to help me find an answer. Not the people at the Apple Store or anyone else so I had to become more creative with my search. I started looking up hdmi to firewire cords and DV female to firewire cords and came up short. Until I found this:
The Pinnacle Video Capture For Mac is a sleek and simple way to add analog video capture capabilities to a Mac. The user can capture video in an iPod-native format from a wide range of analog sources -- camcorder, set-top box, game console or VCR. Imported videos are automatically added to iTunes, ready to sync with an iPod or Apple TV. The built-in MPEG-4 encoder frees up the Mac’s processor for other tasks.

Not only can you play Xbox 360 games on your iMac, you can also record them. Though using this product will not allow you to take advantage of the HD capabilities of Xbox 360, you still will be able to play in full screen using your mac.

Specifications

• Video inputs: Composite video (RCA), S-Video (mini-DIN)
  
• Audio inputs: Stereo audio (RCA x2)
  
• On-board MPEG-4 compression hardware
  
• Connection: Hi-Speed USB 2.0 or USB 1.1
• Capture from any video source with composite (RCA) or S-Video output

Features

• Easy connection – Just plug it into a USB 2.0 or 1.1 port on your Mac
• Flexible recording – Record video from any analog source: camcorder, set-top box, game console or VCR
• Video for iTunes® – Videos automatically added to iTunes, ready to sync with iPod® or Apple TV™
• Hardware encoding – Built-in MPEG-4 encoder frees up the Mac’s processor for other tasks
• Capture Formats - Hardware compressed Mpeg-4