Meet the designers of Nokia N8

Meet four of the designers who worked on the Nokia N8: Axel Meyer, Shunjiro Eguchi, Mikko Aarras and Pinja Rouger. As the team explain, creating a device that will work all over the world requires a design team that is equally diverse. They also go into their thinking behind the shape of the device and the benefits of working with aluminum.

Android: Monitoring your health with your mobile phone

Imec and Holst Centre, together with TASS software professionals have developed a mobile heart monitoring system that allows to view your electrocardiogram on an Android mobile phone. The innovation is a low-power interface that transmits signals from a wireless ECG (electrocardiogram or heart monitoring)-sensor system to an android mobile phone. With this interface, imec, Holst Centre and TASS are the first to demonstrate a complete Body Area Network (BAN) connected to a mobile phone enabling reliable long-term ambulatory monitoring of various health parameters such as cardiac performance (ECG), brain activity (EEG), muscle activity (EMG), etc. The system will be demonstrated at the Wireless Health Conference in San Diego (US, October 5-7).

Testing Nokia N8 Gorilla Glass Screen – N8 gets tortured with a swiss army knife, coins and keys

Nokia N8s gorilla glass screen can really handle lots of pressure and… mishandle. The screen was tortured with a swiss army knife, coins, keys and a huge kitchen knife. You can see for yourself that the screen is intact and working like a charm.

Angry Birds goes FREE for Android devices

IT’S HERE. AND IT’S FREE. After an extended period of beta testing, Rovio is proud to present Angry Birds for the Android platform. Why is Angry Birds free on Android? The angry birds team want to make Angry Birds available for as many people as possible. Previously, many people were experiencing problems in finding Angry Birds on Android Market, but now everybody can download the game on their device.

Angry Birds will run on second generation Android devices and upwards, with Android platform 1.6 or later. Your device needs to support OpenGL ES 2.0. QVGA display resolution is not supported currently, but we will add support for QVGA devices soon. Angry Birds Android features mobile advertising. A future update will include the option to purchase and opt out of advertisements.

iPhone 4 and iPad gets HDMI adapter with 720p HD digital signal output

NOOSY has released the first one HDMI adapter in the world for the iPad, iPhone 4G and even iPod touch 4G. Now you can see your iPad, iPhone 4G and iPod touch 4Gs HD movies on your HD TV, monitor, projector or LCD display that uses a HDMI connector. The HDMI Adapter is compatible with iPad, iPhone 4G, iPod touch 4G. This HDMI Adapter supports 720P High Definition Digital signal output.