Chinese company Lenovo has demonstrated visitors MWC 2015 a new device – a portable projector that projects onto any horizontal surface image with a diagonal of up to 110 inches. The device can operate in standalone mode up to 2 hours.

The Pocket Projector is connected to a mobile device over a wireless communication standard DLNA. In addition, the developers have provided and the presence of the memory card slot (supports up to volume 32 GB).

The brightness of the projector lamp is 50 lumens and the duration of the device – 20 thousand hours. Image resolution is not too high and is 854 * 480 pixels.

Price of the device – $ 250.

Source: PhoneAren

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“Smart” Pocket Geiger Radium developed by a group Sergey Vladimirov (Amsterdam) and submitted to Crowdfunding Kickstarter. The product is designed to track various levels of radiation in real time and can be used both at home and during the tourist trips and special expeditions.

Pocket Geiger Radium Smartphone

The device was created during the last year and includes the functionality of all existing developments and innovative solutions in this area. Its main advantages are:

• Maximum ease of use.
• High-quality measurements.
• Compact dimensions.
• A wide range of its functions.

In addition to its functional team, Vladimirov offers free apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone wireless record readings on the smartphone. This will involve features such as geo, data export and notification via SMS or e-mail. In addition, developers can create their own applications or integrate them via Bluetooth with other existing software.

Participants suggested the startup of its four main differences Geiger counter from similar devices, which should stimulate its popularity. In particular, Radium:

1. Has the cost of cheaper counterparts. Price reduction has been achieved with the help of schematic optimization and selection of the best suppliers for the purchase of compact and efficient components,
2. Has fewer dimensions analogs. The device can be used as is or be a module drones, robots and other third-party hardware.
3. It has Bluetooth, a modular design and is an autonomous unit integrable, which is important for software developers.
4. Generates measurement with high accuracy. The device has enhanced sensitivity of the tube, which can detect alpha, beta and gamma radiation. The product comes with two such sensors to filter different types of radiation.

The main applications of portable Geiger counter for operational radiation measurements:

• In the food at home or in a store.
• In the building materials for repair and construction.
• In clothes and other things like

Technical parameters of Radium:

• The Cortex 32 bit.
• Lithium-polymer battery 750 mAh.
• The display diagonal of 1.3 inches.

In the maximum configuration, Radium Pro Pack the cost of the device is 364 euros. In this set includes, in addition to a portable Geiger counter, Radium Box, MicroUSB / UART cables, Bluetooth Dongle and a pair of sensors for measuring different types of radiation.

Subject to set the right amount of funds for Crowdfunding model will go on sale in the summer of 2015. It is also possible to purchase a separate module without display and buttons, which greatly reduces its cost. Dispatch will be implemented in all countries of the world.

Source: Kickstarter

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Photo sharing on social networks interesting, but still fresh in the memory of sensations that you experience, leafing through photo albums of their school years, youth, military service, and hiking in the mountains with friends. How much fun entering the lens restless “photojournalist”. The new printer to print photos directly from your phone by Polaroid allows users to print photos that they do using their smartphone cameras. Polaroid Zip produces small colored miniatures of reality in about a minute.

Polaroid Zip, however, is not the first mobile printer, which will be offered by the company. Back in 2008, the company released the PoGo Instant Mobile Printer. As the unit from the PoGo, Zip print small photos measuring 2 × 3 inches (5 × 8 cm) using the paper Zero Ink Zink Imaging.

Products Zink Paper allows you to not depend on the needs in the ink. Instead, a specially formulated paper, which includes crystals paint. Heating the various areas of the paper within a certain time period at certain temperatures, paint colors appear, and the image becomes visible. The company Polaroid say that the result – “full-color, high-quality, well-stored and protected from any spot images without ink cartridges, ribbons or ink at all.”

Printer Polaroid Zip has the following dimensions – 2.91 x 4.72 inches (7.4 × 12 cm). The device weighs 186 grams (0.41 pounds). The printer is powered relative internal rechargeable lithium-ion battery that can work during printing up to 25 photos on a full charge. This device connects to the smartphone user or via Bluetooth, or via NFC, and is controlled using the accompanying application that is compatible with both the operating system iOS, and with OSAndroid. The only physical element of control over the device itself – the power button.

The new portable printer to print photos on the go will retail for US $ 129.99.

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