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Now you can keep your USB flash drive in your pocket while you copy or transfer files into it. This is made possible by a new product called Touch360.

We created a new product concept that allows users to keep their Flash Drives in their pockets (or purses) by utilizing wireless technologies (Bluetooth, Wireless USB, or other LAN/PAN).

It is needless to say that there will also be a ‘device’ that is essentially a battery-powered RF module that provides a dock for the flash drive.

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This is not an ordinary backpack, but a combo of MP3 player and a web camera. This means while listening to your digital music as you move about, you can also become an amateur movie producer by capturing the scenes around you (surreptitiously?).

Coming complete with a wireless 2.5GB hard drive, USB Hub, a tiny LCD screen with 4 button navigation and input, and 1 GB of flash memory, the PORTA2030 performs what its creators call “portable data sensing-storage-transmission” as it not only captures video streams in real time but also plays MP3s for its user to enjoy.

It’s a nice gadget for field workers or security personnel who need to monitor in real life what’s happening to other members of the team. Each Porta2030 is assigned a unique IP address for wireless transmission to a central hub.

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This is not science fiction, but a technology that is readily available to you by NTT. With this device, you can even open your door or locker just by touching it. It’s definitely faster than a swipe card.

The new product, called Firmo, consists of a card-sized transmitter carried in the user’s pocket. The card converts stored data into a weak AC electric field that extends across the body, and when the user touches a device or object embedded with a compatible receiver, the electric field is converted back into a data signal that can be read by the device.

For now, a set of 5 card transmitters and 1 receiver goes for $8,000, but NTT expects the price to come down when mass production begins.

The VW Park Assist Vision (PAV) will asset driver to remotely park their Volkswagen cars. The driver does not even need to be in the car. Apart from this, the Volkswagen PAV can park the car perpendicularly like in parking spots or in parallel as in along the street.

This means, if you can park in the tightest of spots, without worrying about how you are going to open your door to get out, because you won’t be in the car while doing the parking. This sounds exciting. This is the sort of things James Bond movies are made up.

The hardware involved includes ultrasonic sensors, electro-mechanical steering gear, and a 2GHz computer. Once the car is nice and ensconced in its spot, the engine shuts off and the doors are locked. All these will be done via remote control.

Source: Mobilemag