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Google gets patents from IBM, including “computer phone”

Google gets patents from IBM, including “computer phone”

03 January 2012 by Discuss (2)

In the great IP wars of the early 21st century, patents are bought and sold like AK-47s on the black market. And to extend the metaphor, Google just picked up a payload that might prove to be very effective indeed. The company has acquired 188 patents outright with another 29 patents pending being transferred to Google. The …

Wysips Solar-Powered Screen Cover to Add $1 to Smartphone price [ALPHA]

Wysips Solar-Powered Screen Cover to Add $1 to Smartphone price [ALPHA]

04 April 2011 by Discuss (1)

There are more details coming out over the Wysips Solar Powered screen for smartphones we reported on last week. According to this hands on, done by Laptop Magazine, the photovoltaic screen will be included in new smartphones within a year and promises to only add about $1 to existing cellphone prices. The hands on shows …

Touchscreens may do double duty as solar panels

Touchscreens may do double duty as solar panels

25 March 2011 by Discuss (1)

French company Wysips is working on a new technology which would cause smartphone touchscreens to do double duty as solar panels to recharge phones. The concept is quite interesting as it involves laying an ultra thin transparent photovoltaic film layer on top of the cellphone display screen. The film would capture energy not only from …

Inventor of the cell phone gave up his iPhone for a Motorola Droid

Inventor of the cell phone gave up his iPhone for a Motorola Droid

11 March 2010 by Discuss (0)

Most of us don’t know who Martin Cooper is, he was the first person to make a call on a handheld cell phone prototype in 1973 and he is named on the patent “radio telephone system” filed that same year. Android now has some strong endorsers in the inventor of Linux and now the inventor …