When it comes to Bluetooth headsets, almost any choice one would make looks more or less like anything else on the market. We'll not get so far as to say that everything looks alike, but we'd rather invite you to judge upon this matter yourselves: take off your headset and look at the one your neighbor or work colleague owns – pretty much the same thing when it comes to looks and principle, isn't it? Well, if new and cool is your game, the latest idea from Qian Jiang might very well be something to dramatically raise your interest. The B-headphones is in fact a set of two ear plugs fitted with Bluetooth communica... [read more >>] ECMA has announced the finalization of a standard for short range wireless communications on the 60 GHz frequency band. According to the association, the new standard offers the possibility to stream uncompressed high definition video. The ECMA TC48 standard has already seen implementation, and one of the first products to feature it is the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) single-chip 60 GHz CMOS radio. The GEDC chip has a power consumption of less than 100 milliwatts, features an embedded antenna array and 60 GHz font-end and multi-gigabit baseband signal processing into a standard QFN package. In early November, the chip was used a... [read more >>] Although video calls and video-telephony are yet to reach their peak, it would seem that we're certainly on the right track. And that's because none other than ASUS (which seems to be "spreading" its tentacles to all sorts of new market segments lately) has just launched what it touts to be the world's first Skype-certified video phone, the AiGuru SV1.As the company informs us, the ASUS AiGuru SV1 has been designed specifically for video calling and, for this reason, it has been equipped with a large, high-resolution 7-inch TFT LCD (800 x 480 pixel resolution) and an integrated webcam (CMOS sensor, 640 x 480 pixels). Addition... [read more >>] Russian government agencies are reported to enforce the registration of any Wi-Fi-enabled device used across the country. The imposed restrictions look strikingly similar to those enforced by the Chinese government, given the fact that Russian Wi-Fi users would have to fill loads of paperwork then await for their approval.Today's technology makes heavy use of wireless devices that ship with Wi-Fi capabilities by default. For instance, the vast majority of notebooks and intelligent mobile phones rely on Wi-Fi to connect to a local wireless network. While most countries do not impose users to license their wireless gear, the Russian medi... [read more >>] If you have ever had a bite out of a wireless network, then you must already be an addict. Wireless networking is an extremely easy way to take advantage of Internet connectivity while freeing yourself from the short leash of the Cat5E cable. In fact, connecting to your own wireless network is so comfortable that your neighbors might want a piece of it for themselves.Getting robbed of your bandwidth is old news, but leaving your wireless network unsecured can lead to much more unpleasant situations than slow Internet traffic. Wireless routers can be tampered with, DNS servers can be changed to point legit domains to obscure servers that ste... [read more >>] | 
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