Category Archives: Think Technology

With all the applications available on smart phones today, it can be tedious and oftentimes time-consuming to search for specific apps among the dozens on your phone just to make a call. Or search the web. Or send an email. Or update your Twitter status.

Vlingo is attempting to simplify and speed up that process by integrating speech recognition and artificial intelligence to access your phone’s applications. Vlingo’s SuperDialer analyzes spoken commands and retrieves online information or personal data in order to carry out commands like “Call Mom,” “Find coffee shop,” and “Note to self.”

No longer do you have to search through your applications, open them manually, or even type on a keyboard.

Check out this video for more on Vlingo’s new technology or read “Talking to Your Phone”

If you’ve got a Google account (and live in the U.S.), today you can login to Google Voice and get a shiny new Google Voice phone number!

You’re probably thinking, “Why on earth would I get another phone number?” Simple, that new phone number can simulatneously ring your cellphone and various landlines (think work and home numbers) and provide automatic voicemail transcriptions when you recieve a call. Check out the video below to learn more.

Would you ever consider getting a Google Voice phone number?
There’s a few of us in the office who get very bad cell reception at home. I’m in this camp since I live close to the waterfront and apparently the Verizon towers are facing inland, behind our home. I may just give this a whirl.

OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays are made of organic material and is the next generation technology that will be used in all displays.

OLED has many more features vs LED. OLED allows for a bendable display, faster response time, better color, better contrast, and uses low voltage, it can be as thin as a credit card, and no backlighting is necessary.

Since OLED uses less electricity as LED displays cell phones built with OLED displays will have a longer battery life. Samsung has recently released a cell phone with OLED display.

The technology is still more expensive then LED to make which is why it is not used as much as LED at this time. Sony has recently released some small OLED TVs.

You can see an example of how the OLED displays can be bent in the video below.

In the next video you can see an example of how the display can be used on a credit card.

Siftables are computer interfaces the size of a cookie which interact with each other. They have displays and audio on built into them.

This seems like it will be great for kids to play with and learning, but I am not sure if the business world can benefit from them. I could see them also maybe being used in hospitals for people getting therapy.

They would be a fun toy for $20 but they are estimated to be about $200 each when they come out.

You can view a presentation on Siftables here:

The technology to silkscreen batteries will soon be available.

This can open up more marketing opportunities.

You can read more about this here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090702/sc_livescience/tinynewbatteryisprintable