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Why Didn't I Think Of This!

Via Uncrate

Check out the Stash Card, it's genius is it's simplicity.

Actual Origmai Device Pictures

Via CNET!

Intel showed off two prototypes of Ultra Mobile PC devices at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday. The models are examples of full-featured, low-wattage minitablets that can run a variant of Windows XP, developed as part of Microsoft's Origami Project.

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Real Flowers are so yesterday

Via Gearlog

Want to be original next Valentines day?  Here's your ticket, it's called a KOTOHANA.  In a nutshell it's a mood sensing terminal in the shape of a flower. Each flower contains a microphone that captures voice data for emotional processing, the results of which are sent via wireless LAN to the counterpoint flower. Then, the embedded LEDs in the KOTOHANAs change color -- yellow for happy, blue for sad, and so on -- depending on what the person who's hanging on to the other one is feeling.

They're able to figure out moods with an "emotion recognition engine" called Sensibility Technology (ST), developed by SGI Japan with the cooperation of AGI, which detects joy, sorrow, calmness and excitement in speech patterns. As emotions change, the changes show via color gradations and variations in brightness.

The KOTOHANA isn't in production yet, but it'll be shown at CeBit in Hannover, Germany, which starts on March 9.

David Ciccone To Demo the DualCor

Via Mobility Today

David Ciccone will be conducting a public demonstration of the DualCor cPC, the first UPC to run both Windows XP and Windows Mobile.  Details on the dates & times below:

WHEN: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., March 7 & 8, 2006 10 a.m. - 3 pm., March 9, 2006

WHERE: FOSE Booth #1701 (Westwood Computer Corporation) Washington Convention Center 801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W. Washington, DC

Toshiba Gigabeat S

You heard it here first!  The much anticipated Toshiba Gigabeat S PMC will start shipping next week, yea!!

Oh Microsoft How You Tease Us So...

Here is the latest on the Microsoft Origami front.  Part 2 of 3 videos went live today, Origami Project.  Today's video tells us we will learn more on March 9th, since when did Microsoft become Apple?  Here is what I think all of this means:

• Origami is a modified version of the Tablet OS that will be used in the new UMPC's that will be released in late March by Samsung and Asus
• Intel will be introducing the UMPC platform on March 7th
• This combination of hardware/software platform will support EVDO and contain built in GPS capabilities
• Full product demo's will be available at CEBIT in Hannover

Mystery solved.....