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Clamshell iPhone -- the Nextgen Phone Apple is always surprises the world with its cutting edge product. The iPod change the way we listen music and it is more controversial when they launched the iPhone. It innovative design is easily accepted by millions consumers. When it is first released, hundreds of people lined up outside the apple store to be the first one who have this device.In the present day, iPhone is widely used by millions people around the world. It becomes one of the most favorite communication devices. Every ones loves their iPhone and they thought that there will never be any better devices after it. If you one of them, you should correct your thought when you read this article. Apple is applying a patent right for clamshell iPhone. Yes it is true, a clamshell iPhone. The new design is marrying a multi touch screen interface with flip phone design. The dual sided track pad technology will gives twice enjoyment on brand new iPhone. This track pad will be active on bo...

Environment Friendly Indoor Drying Rack made from renewable materials Adult women will understand that most of our underwear and lingerie made from fine fabric that is not supposedly dried by machine. However, most of us live in suburban residences like apartment where clotheslines often not allowed. In the other hand, Laundromats service will spend a lot of money and should be considered that it consumes high energy. There is a gadget from Greener Gadget Design Competition nominees that seems to be dedicated to us. This device is Indoor Drying Rack. Made from laminate bamboo that is known as hypoallergenic materials, it ensures that your clothes will keep hygienically. Combined with recycled aluminum center shaft, this device is designed to attach to the wall. It folds easily and need no storage. This device is shaped as selectable spines. Yet it allows variable surface area and variable air circulation. You will need no electricity power to run this device. It allows your clothes dri...

Resin replaces ITO in latest flexible OLED prototype Make no mistake, wrapping your mind around the build of an OLED panel is mighty tough to do. Without getting you mired in technobabble, let's just say that indium tin oxide (ITO) has generally been a mainstay in every single OLED that was produced commercially. Now, a team of researchers from AGFA-Gevaert, IMEC, Holst Centre and Philips have prototyped a 12- x 12-centimeter flexible OLED lighting panel that swaps out the ITO for highly-conductive transparent resin electrodes. You see, it's been difficult for OLED builders to secure enough electrical conductivity of ITO in a low-temperature process, and this new methodology is perfectly suited for the coating method (which makes it ripe for printing). The resin itself is being dubbed Orgacon, and tests have shown it to have a 6x improvement over ITO in terms of electrical conductivity. Beyond that, the crews are keeping the secrets safe from the poachers of the world, but here...

DXG's latest camcorders sport the Burberry and Chanel look, KIRF-style Unimpressed by DXG's lineup of value-priced but generally underwhelming video recording options? Maybe a few trendy pattern appliques will change your mind. The company's apparently gone down to Canal Street, grabbed a few "discount" handbags, and turned them into gaudy camcorders that promise 720p capture at 30fps. They're set to retail for a mere $129, and while the company's pledging they'll be available at stores like Radio Shack and Walmart later this summer, we're thinking there are probably a few trademark attorneys out there with a thing or two to say about that.

Xbox 360 Elite bundle rumored to include Halo 3 and Fable 2 for $400 Don't get all loony just yet -- this one's still a long, long way from panning out -- but ArsTechnica has it from a reliable mole that Microsoft is gearing up to ship an even more attractive Xbox 360 Elite. One that comes bundled with hits Halo 3 and Fable 2 for the same $400 that the console alone runs you now. We already heard last month that Microsoft was considering phasing out the standard Elite in favor of bundled "limited edition" models, so that certainly jibes. Though, we will caution you that the last time Ars's mole spoke of console price drops, he / she didn't completely nail it. While said mole did accurately suggest that a $400 PS3 would hit America before the 2007 holiday rush (it happened in late October of that year), the whole "$100 PS2" thing took a full two years to come to fruition. Then again, E3 is just around the bend...

Packard Bell's new DOT S and DOT M netbooks Acer-owned Packard Bell is taking Acer's latest and greatest netbooks and rebadging them for the European market. The 10.1-inch DOT S swipes most of its specs from the Acer Aspire One D250, while the DOT M (pictured) goes for the 11.6-inch Aspire One's guts. There do seem to be a few aesthetic differences, however, with a fancy textured palm rest, silver touches to the trackpads and a tweaked lid. The DOT S will be available this week for 299 Euros, while the DOT M hits at the end of this month for 399 Euros.

Bandai's Project A.i.R. is a $525 blue grid that blows up Okay Bandai, we get it. After over 50 years of making cheap toys and video games you want to show the world you can make overpriced stuff too. As if your $2,200 Ginza diorama wasn't enough of a statement, now you're producing a $525 box that lights up and blinks like a miniaturized monochrome disco floor. It's called Project A.i.R., or Art In the Room, and it's basically a 5 x 5 grid with blue LEDs covered by some sort of translucent fabric. Inside each square in the grid is a fan that makes the cloth billow, slightly increasing the brightness of that section of the grid. It's an interesting effect for sure, but as you can see in the video below its functionality is somewhat... limited. But is it art?

Gigabyte T1028 netbook / tablet We've already seen Gigabyte's T1028 netbook / tablet up close, and even gotten a glimpse of the user manual, but the folks at UMPC Portal have now finally come though with a proper hands-on of the device, which looks to confirm that it does indeed deliver the goods, if not quite justify its $600+ price tag. What's more, as welcome as that swiveling touchscreen is, it looks like it's the little touches that really push this one over the edge, including an all too often omitted ExpressCard slot, built-in 3G, 802.11n WiFi, some actually accessible upgrade options, and an apparently faster than usual 2.5-inch hard drive.

Samsung flexes its muscles with a657 for AT&T Flips not your taste? If you need a phone you can throw down a flight of stairs into a pool of muddy water without a care in the world, that's a problem, because AT&T's two headlining rugged sets -- the Rugby and the Tundra -- are both flips. Good news is that's all about to change with the introduction of the a657 from Samsung, a beefy candybar (gee, that sounds gross) with HSDPA, AT&T Navigator, microSD expansion up to 8GB, push-to-talk, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, and an integrated flashlight. Conveniently, the device is certified to meet mil spec 810F standards for moisture, shock, vibration, and all that good stuff, so you'll be able to toss this puppy around without a care in the world. It's only available through AT&T's business channel at this point, so pricing will depend on your company's agreement with 'em (oh, come on, it's not like you were going to buy this as an individual anyh...

Land Rover S1 phone Sonim promised us Land Rover-branded handsets in 2009, and it looks like they aren't poised to disappoint. The S1 model recently hit the FCC, and to call it "rugged-looking" would be an understatement of epic proportions; we reckon this thing could probably be run over by a whole fleet of Land Rovers, in fact (though we wouldn't recommend trying such a stunt on a piece purchased with your own cash). Considering Sonim's kinda known for the whole rugged thing, that really shouldn't come as any surprise -- what might come as a surprise, though, are the price and launch date since we still don't have those. Stay tuned for that noise, and in the meantime, go hop some rocks in your $80,000 all-wheel drive luxo-yacht, aight?

Panasonic TC-P50G10 plasma TV Fans of the Pioneer Kuro plasma TVs that are riding into the sunset needn't worry -- based on the review from none other than the HD Guru, the THX-approved Panasonic TC-P50G10 is a more than worthy successor. Whatever tests the set had to pass to earn that THX badge, it was well deserved, too, with color that was spot-on and performance that ousted even the Pioneer Pro 141FD in brightness uniformity, ultimate brightness and motion resolution. Even fans of apline skiing should find the maximum brightness of 92 ft-lamberts more than adequate to make reaching for the ski goggles worthwhile. While there isn't a 72Hz mode, Panasonic seems to have addressed that deficiency with a solid performance of the new 3:2 pulldown mode. Check your credit card to see if it can survive a $1,800 bump.