SUPRA coaches are fitted with the most advanced technology and safety items on the market. The vehicles include the latest in road safety, regulation of distance to the preceding vehicle, lane guidance, stability control, etc.
Dubbed the OT-C825 Vintage Slider, it's anything but old fashioned: the handset has dedicated music playback keys; a 176 x200, 262,144-colour display; Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP wireless stereo technology; and a six-hour talk time.
The camera's resolution is a little behind the times - it's just 1.3 megapixels - but it'll work as a webcam if the phone's connected to a PC's USB port.
Perhaps it's the phone's "smokey brown" colour scheme that gives it that "vintage" feel? It's certainly got a dour, retro quality to it reminscent of bakelite radios and their ilk.
The OT-C825 comes with a 128MB MicroSD card for song storage. It's a tri-band GSM device.
Alcatel said the phone will go on sale in the June/July timeframe, but it didn't say how much the Vintage Slider will cost.
VitrA has already begun to enter this market with the Espace fridge. A tall unit with integrated fridge, this freestanding piece of furniture is designed for individuals who prefer the finer things in life; be it cooling bottles of champagne to sip while bathing or for keeping cosmetics fresh, the fridge epitomises a new generation in bathroom cultur
Funky little cylindrical Sony Rolly is a $400 MP3 digital music player that moves around with the music. It moves slowly if you play a ballad, faster if it is a rock song. The speakers are at each end with flapping like winglets that open and close in time with the music
Tech heads and early adopters must have had a field day at CeBIT, Australia's largest technology trade show. It wrapped up this
week, clearing the way for the latest hardware and software to be embraced by consumers and businesses. Some of the gear is already available, other devices will arrive later this year. Much of it capitalises on the trend toward mobile work.
Among the stars of the show was the ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC) - between a tablet PC and a personal digital assistant (PDA) - with full PC capabilities at half of the price of a tablet. The new $1650 EO from TabletKiosk is 50 per cent bigger than the average PDA, runs Windows XP and ditches Pocket PC applications in favour of full Windows software versions.
