Mr. MindMentor – THE ROBOTPSYCHOLOGIST

Mental health has become a serious healthcare issue in this highly stressed society. Many people especially youngsters nowadays suffer mental health problems. Having mental health problems does not necessary mean someone is insane. Mental health problems can also refer to emotional disorders or the disability to enjoy life and procure a balance between daily activities and efforts to achieve psychological stability. There are various causes of mental health breakdown such as family background, stressful life, etc. Mental health problems can lead to school failure, loss of friends, family conflict, etc. To overcome mental health problems, the best way is to see a psychologist and get his or her consultation. However, many people who actually suffer mental health disorders dare not step forward to get consultation from psychologists. They feel weird to see psychologists and of course the high consultation fee is another concern. To help people who are possibly suffering from mental health problems but are reluctant to consult experts, two experienced psychologists from Netherlands, Drs. Jaap Hollander and Drs. Jeffrey Wijnberg, have created a robot psychologist called Mind Mentor which can guide the patients through a series of psychological steps to help them to solve problems and achieve goals.

ONE BILLION " RFID" CARDS VULNERABLE TO HACK

Even as RFID tech grows more and more ubiquitous, fears about its safety and security haven't dwindled -- which is why we're just disappointed, not surprised, to learn that over 1 billion RFID cards based on the Mifare Classic RFID chip are now at risk. Two different teams of security researchers managed to crack the encryption on the cards, which form the basis of a national payment system in the Netherlands and are used widely in other applications around the world. With the encryption broken, hackers can now make perfect clones of the cards, spoiling all that radio-frequency fun. There's no word on how easy that actually is yet, however -- one of the two hacks will be demonstrated later this week, and the other is being kept secret -- but still, it might be time to go back to cash and bump-proof locks, eh?

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MICROSOFT FINALLY CONFIRM WINDOWs 7FOR 2010 LAUNCH

It's all a silly misunderstanding, we tell you. Microsoft has been holding fast to its "three years" development time frame for Windows 7 since forever, the problem is that it's never been clear when that three year period started. Well wonder no longer, Microsoft has finally officially confirmed that the three years started at Windows Vista's general availability release, which was January 30th, 2007. Obviously that doesn't mean will have Windows 7 on midnight of January 30th, 2010, but it does mean we can look forward to sometime within that year for a release. Microsoft plans to give an exact release date only once Windows 7 "meets its quality bar for release." Sounds like a good metric to go by, if you ask us.

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30+ Useful Websites You Probably Didn't Know About

No, we're not talking about blogs and random articles. We are talking about pure, no nonsense, get something done now, kind of sites.

Would you like to get out of your cell phone contract? How about finding a free, easy way to back-up your computer? Maybe you'd love a new way to discover cool music that is suited to your tastes. Or maybe you just need to find a public toilet, like right now!

Well, good news, boss! Help for these needs is just a click away! Here are some super useful websites that you've probably never heard of that can help make your life easier, richer, and more enjoyable!

If you have some favorites to share (and I know you do), please leave a link in the comments!

General Goodness

• Cellphone Contract Buster. Want out of your cellphone contract? You may be able to do just that. Check out: Cellswapper and CellTradeUSA. Note that you need to get permission from your carrier in advance and let them know if you want to keep your phone number.
• GetHuman: Stop being frustrated with automated phone systems. This extensive list will give you the ways to reach a live person at hundreds of companies!
• Cash in on Airline Points: at Points.com: If you can't sell your airline points and if you can't use them either, you can now swap them for other items.
• How Stuff Works: If you ever need to know how something works from computer related queries to health to business and more, check out How Stuff Works.
• Online Conversions. Convert any measurement to another. Extensive and useful resource!
• Search Public Records. Links to over 41,000 searchable public record databases. United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe.
  

Health & Fitness

• Toilet Finder: Mizpee.com - Lists public restrooms in 18 US and Canadian cities. Go find one now or add your favorites and rate them! Handy when you gotta go!
  
• Weight Management: Free calorie counter, weight loss calculators and weight loss tutorials. Very no-nonsense.
  

Happiness

• Musicicovery. Discover new music according to mood, energy level, genre, and more. Very cool interface with results displayed in mindmap format. Very cool!
• WikiTravel. Wikipedia for travelers. Tons of great information on your chosen destination.
  

Family & Home

• Online Family Tree: Geni.com. This is a very cool online application that has many features! You can fill in your whole family tree going backwards and outwards. In addition you can set up profiles, set reminders, and more. It is a private social network for your family!
• HomeFair: Rich resource for families that are moving: discover city reports, school reports, and relocation wizards. Also calculate whether you are getting a fair salary for your credentials and your location. There are many calculators also including whether you should buy a home or rent.
• Universal Packing List. An online wizard that helps you with your packing list.
• Good Recipes Free: Epicurious. Excellent!
• How to Clean Anything. The name says it all.
  
• FixItClub.com: How to fix just about anything

Business & Finances

• Free Business Planning Resources: Check out the Small Business Administration's resources! They are abundant, highly useful, and free!
• Consumer Ratings: If you're shopping for an item head on over to ePinions.com for ratings, reviews, and price comparisons. Virtually all types of products are covered from Electronics to Baby stuff to Office Supplies to Beauty and more! Also try ConsumerReview.
• Online Library Book Requests! Lookup your local library's website. (You'll need to be a member first.) Request books, videos, and music. Pick them up when you get the email that they are ready for you! Better than Amazon and free if you return them on time!

Free Stuff

• Freecycle.org: Sign up with your local chapter to donate used items and put in requests for items you need. Items can be as small as baby clothes and as big as automobiles.
• Free Paperbacks: Paperbackswap.com - donate yours and take others'.
• Computer Backups - Backup your computer online for free with either Mozy or Carbonite.
• Free Books, CD's, & DVD's: Titletrader.com -there's nothing to lose! Also check out Full Books for more free books.
• Ringtones: Check out Phonezoo. You can create ringtones and download a ton - all for free.
• Learn a Foreign Language: Mango can get you started in 12 different languages. FSI does the same and maybe even a little better. You can choose, they are both free.
  
• Free Technical Support: Did you know that you can get free tech support? Try these free services if you're sick of paying big bucks to Microsoft and other big name companies for help:

• Tech Support Guy
• 5 Star Support
• AskMeHelpDesk
• Protonic

If you have some favorites to share, please leave a link in the comments! We'd love to learn about your fabulous finds!


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LATEST MOBILES

1 . Nokia 888 Communicator

Nokia definitely has the most interesting concept phones. Nokia 888 Communicator is a striking futuristic concept phone. The phone, which uses liquid batteries, speech recognition, flexible touchscreen and touch-sensitive body cover,is designed by Tamer Nakisci and won the Nokia Design Award

2 . Nokia Aeon

Nokia Aeon was presented by Nokia on their website in the Research & Development section. What is so great about this phone is that it looks like it will actually go into production next February. Of course, its just a rumor, but still, makes us hope to actually see it someday in the GSM shop. All we know about it for now is that its a touchscreen phone and it looks fantastic.

3 . Sky "Sleak n Slim"

"Sleek & Slim" from SKY is another concept based on touchscreen technology. The phone has a discretely glowing touchpad, hideaway keys and generally utterly-fashionable minimalist design.

4 . Benq-Siemes "Snaked"
Benq designers thought of women too and presented Snaked. This is a "reptile" looking phone, creepy somehow, but still is very cool. The Snaked is a fashion phone for sport loving women, because it also has body monitoring sensors to help the ladies keep those fine shapes.

5 . What You See is What You Get Concept

One thing is for sure about this concept phone…they could've named it shorter. Designed by Pei-Hua Hang, the phone's name comes from the fact that this concept no longer uses an LCD as viewfinder for the digital camera, instead it uses a transparent frame. And of course, interaction is made through a touchscreen

6 . Retroxis By Dark Label

If most phones presented here will never be sold in store for sure, the Retroxis concept phone from Dark Label looks kinda human, and makes us hope we'll be able to get one of these one day. Designed by Lim Sze Tat the phone is encased in high polished polycarbonate renowned for its lightweight and toughness and has an invisible OLED display that silently hides away when inactive.

7 . Benq-Siemens "The Blackbox"

Black Box designed by Benq-Siemens uses a touch screen as its keypad and, depending on the functions you are using, the touch screen changes the control layout immediately.

8 . NEC Tag

Somehow similar to the Snaked concept, the NEC Tag is a flexible phone concept that can be , for example, hung from a belt or wrapped around the user's arm. Interesting is that the phone has shape-memorizing material and sensors that allows the phone to change its shape according to the mode.

9 . TripleWatch

Though the idea of a cellphone watch is not so new, the TripleWatch designed by Manon Maneenawa has an interesting triple flip technique that allows the user to transform the watch into a normal cellphone. When used as a wrist watch, the phone has a speaker button that allows the user to answer the phone and hang up while driving.

10 . Asus Aura

Sony Ericsson USB port

Concept: Sony Ericsson phone with USB port

This is a Sony Ericsson concept designed by Vincent Palicki. The phone has a big screen and a standard SE key layout with stainless steel buttons. It has most of all common functions of Sony Ericsson phone and the special thing of this phone is that it comes with a full size USB port, allowing you to transfer song, video or pictures files to your phone from your thumb drive without the need of computer. One more shot after the jump.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Nokia N810

Here’s the Nokia new internet phone N810 successor to N800. It has a 4.3-inch widescreen display, 2GB of internal memory, TI OMAP 2420 processor, 128MB RAM, 256MB Flash, miniSD/microSD card slot, and a QWERTY keypad. The Nokia N810 will hit stores on the November with a price tag of $479. More pictures after the jump.

General

Operating Frequency

• Volume: 128 cc
• Weight: 226 g
• Length: 72 mm
• Width: 128 mm
• Thickness: 14 mm

Display

• High-resolution 4.13" WVGA display (800 x 480 pixels) with up to 65,000 colors

Processor

• TI OMAP 2420, 400Mhz

Memory

• DDR RAM 128MB
• Flash 256MB

Storage

• Up to 2GB internal memory
• Support for compatible miniSD and microSD memory cards (with extender). Supports cards up to 8GB. (SD cards over 2GB must be SDHC compatible.)

Operating times*

• Battery: Nokia Maps BP-4L
• Continuous usage (display on, wireless LAN active): up to 4 hours
• Music playback: up to 10 hours
• Always online time: up to 5 days
• Standby time: up to 14 days

*Operating times may vary depending on the radio access technology used, configuration and usage. The availability of the product and its features depend on your area and service providers, so please contact them and your Nokia dealer for further information.

Other characteristics

• Smooth slide with integrated QWERTY keyboard
• Built-in GPS receiver
• High quality stereo speakers and sensitive microphone
• High-resolution widescreen display
• Integrated desk stand
• Integrated VGA web camera
• HW key to lock touch screen and keys
• Ambient light sensor

Connectivity

• WLAN standard: IEEE 802.11b/g
• Bluetooth specification v. 2.0. +EDR
• Profiles supported: HID, FTP, DUN, GAP, SPP, HSP, SAP and OPP
• USB 2.0 high speed
• 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug (Nokia AV Connector)

Language support

• HW keyboard variants: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish-Portuguese, Scandinavian and Russian
• User interface languages: British English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, American English, Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, Latin American Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese
• User guide languages: British English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, American English, Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, Latin American Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Arabic

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Nokia N95 8GB

Nokia N95 8GB Available Soon

(preloaded with Spiderman 3)

Nokia also announced that they have teamed up with the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) to offer a Nokia N95 8GB preloaded with full-length feature film in Europe and selected countries in Middle East and Africa region. More after the jump.

“The Nokia N95 8GB opens up a wealth of exciting options for film fans as they can now watch world-class movies like Spider-Man 3 whenever they want, wherever they want. Pre-loading a film with such fantastic special effects truly shows off the device’s advanced capabilities. With its ground-breaking features, users can now fully appreciate the meaning of entertainment on-the-go,” said Ilkka Raiskinen, Senior Vice President, Multimedia Experiences, Nokia.
The movie will come with ten different languages and with subtitle. The Nokia N95 8GB will also be preloaded with Spiderman(TM) 3 message and ring tone, wallpaper and screen saver.

Samsung Bang & Serenata

Bang & Olufsen Serenata Music Phone Official Released

The Samsung Bang & Olufsen Serenata music phone has been released today. Yes, the phone without number pads but a silver navigation wheel. It has a 4GB of storage for music, 2.4” LCD sensi-touch display and integrated HiFi speakers. I’m sure this gonna go pricey, price of an iPhone? More pictures after the jump.

Nokia 2135

Nokia has announced a new affordable CDMA Phone, the Nokia 2135. 400 phone entries and full 3.5 hours of talktime or 11 days of standby. Nokia 2135 is expected to be available in the North America by the fall of 2007. An integrated speakerphone allows the whole family to join in the conversation at once, while user-assignable ringtones can announce who is calling without ever picking up the phone. It will colored in black or white with the chrome frame surrounding it. Check out more pictures after the jump.

“Many consumers are looking for a simple, affordable phone to keep them in touch with the people who mean the most to them, and the Nokia 2135 is designed with those consumers in mind,” said Larry Paulson, senior vice president and general manager of Nokia’s CDMA business group. “The large easy to read keys and familiar Nokia user interface makes the Nokia 2135 comfortable to use. The modern design and compact size makes it easy to carry, and the attractive price makes it easy to afford.”

LG Shine with Diamonds

Looks like LG Shine is getting bling at the Birks Jewelry store in Canada. Yes, LG Canada has unveiled their Shine phones with diamonds encrusted that worth more than $30,000. Those Shine phone are the most expensive phones in Canada and they are not for sale. The Birks Jewelry designers have make the flip model with a charm decorated in diamonds while the slider model glowed with the words “Born To Shine” spelled out in diamonds. The models were wearing the new CITIQUE series froim Birk’s which includes earrings, a pendant, bracelet and ring designed by Jose Hess with diamonds set in 18 carat white gold to match with the diamond Shine phone. This was the first time these pieces were shown to the public. One more shot after the jump.

Want to have a closer view? The telescope for iPhone is attached to the included unique protective casing. You can now have a closer look on the girl live opposite you and maybe take a few shots of her. The telescope is available for $20.60. Continue reading for more pictures.