This just in from CASIO Singapore… The latest on the G-SHOCK Shock the World Tour that has visited 35 cities, including Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Mexico City, New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Bangkok and Tokyo, since it started in London in 2009…
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G-Shock started its year long Shock the World Tour in celebration of CASIO G-Shock’s 30th Anniversary. The much-anticipated tour is finally making its stop in Singapore, bringing a series of …
Microsoft’s Surface is continuing its global retail rollout, expanding its reach well beyond the western hemisphere. In late March the RT model of Redmond’s in-house tablet effort will begin popping up in Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan, (though, not necessarily at the same time) adding to the pile of European nations where it’s already launched. Meanwhile, the Surface Pro will finally be leaving the Americas and heading for Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the UK sometime in the coming months. Unfortunately Microsoft isn’t getting any more specific about when its full-blown Windows 8 machine will appear in countries other than the US and Canada. All we can do now is await the promised follow up post on the Surface blog for more details about availability. If you’re a fan of press materials (even those that don’t provide a ton of information) you’ll find some after the break.
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Did you think that Russia’s YotaPhone was consigned to the island of misfit concept devices? The company has just inked a production deal with Singapore-based OEM Hi-P international, with YotaPhone planning to launch the handset globally in the second half of 2013. While Hi-P isn’t a name you should be familiar with, a cursory search reveals that it’s previously produced hardware for Apple, RIM BlackBerry and, most notably, Amazon’s E-Reader division. At the same time, the Russian business is opening up an R&D center in Singapore to help research “subsequent generations of YotaPhone,” so it looks like Janus devices could be here to stay.
YOTA DEVICES SELECTS SINGAPORE Hi-P AS ODM PARTNER
YotaPhone to be Ready for Market in H2 2013
Moscow, Russia and Singapore, 20 February 2013 – Yota Devices today announced it has selected Singapore Hi-P as its ODM partner for YotaPhone, the first dual-screen Android phone with a liquid crystal display on one side and an electronic paper display on the other.
Hi-P is one of the fastest growing Tier 1 contract manufacturers in Asia, specializing in wireless telecommunications and consumer electronics. Their clients include significant brand owners in the mobile, lifestyle and consumer electronics industries.
“Bringing a unique product like YotaPhone to the market requires an experienced manufacturing partner with both qualitative and quantitative engineering skills and Hi-P excels in both,”said Vlad Martynov, CEO, Yota Devices. “Hi-P has a proven track-record in high volume production of mobile devices with sophisticated design and advanced technology.”
Yota Devices also announced that it is establishing an R&D and Asian sales office in Singapore. The Singapore R&D center, along with the company’s development teams in Russia, the U.S. and Finland, will work with Hi-P to perfect the technology in production of the first and subsequent generations of YotaPhone.
“YotaPhone is a real differentiator in the smartphone space, and Hi-P is pleased to be workingwith Yota Devices to bring this one-of-a-kind product to market,” said C.T. Yao, Executive Chairman and CEO of Hi-P. “Hi-P understands that speed and flexibility are keys to success in this rapidly changing market and we are committed to deliver on-time results of the highestquality for Yota Devices.”
YotaPhone, which was unveiled in December 2012, is expected to be ready for sale first in
Russia and then globally in the second half of 2013.
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About Yota Devices.
Yota Devices is a private company dedicated to mobile communications and connectivity
devices based in Moscow, Russia. Yota Devices’ international team of software and hardware
engineers and experts come from Russia, the U.S. and Finland. The company’s business
philosophy is based first on innovating the user experience and then on applying the best
emerging technologies to deliver on this promise. Yota Devices is bringing the company’s
knowledge and obsession with the user experience to the new YotaPhone based on the
company’s successful connectivity devices business. Yota Devices has already sold more
than 3 million fast, reliable and attractive modems, routers and other connectivity devices.
The company’s share of the LTE modems market is 6%. For more information visit http://
www.yotadevices.com and www.yotaphone.com.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
If, like us, you struggle to read the front of the Corn Flakes box of a morning, you likely gave up any hope of cracking ancient codes long ago. If you didn’t, however, then your time might be now — as one of the oldest scripts know to man is still up for grabs. Prefer just to observe? No problem, as we’ve got super-Earth-searching satellites, military mice and vertical farms, all for your viewing reading pleasure. If you hadn’t guessed already, this is alt-week
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Alt-week 27.10.12: ancient texts, super-Earths and special-ops mice originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Antennas have often capped the potential speed of a wireless link — the 450Mbps in modern 802.11n WiFi routers is directly linked to the use of a MIMO antenna array to catch signals more effectively, for example. That ceiling is about to get much higher, if A*STAR has anything to say about it. The use of a polymer filling for the gaps instead of air lets the Singapore agency create a 3D, cavity-backed silicon antenna that measures just 0.06 by 0.04 inches, roughly the size of a seed on your hamburger bun, even as it increases the breakneck pace. The new antenna generates a signal 30 times stronger than on-chip rivals at an ultrawideband-grade 135GHz, and musters a theoretical peak speed of 20Gbps — enough that 802.11ac WiFi’s 1.3Gbps drags its heels by comparison. Before we get ahead of ourselves on expecting instant file transfers at short distances, there’s the small matter of getting a chip that can use all that bandwidth. Even the 7Gbps of WiGig wouldn’t saturate the antenna, after all. Still, knowing that A*STAR sees “immense commercial potential” in its tiny device hints that wireless data might eventually blow past faster wired standards like Thunderbolt.
Filed under: Wireless, Networking, Alt
Seed-sized A*STAR antenna could open the door to 20Gbps wireless originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Researchers in Singapore have managed to create high-resolution color images several times sharper than typical methods using a metal-laced nanometer framework. While normal inkjet and laser jet printers can reel out up to 10,000 dots per inch, this nanotech-based technique has a theoretical limit of around 100,000 dpi. The technique is closer to lithography than typical modern printing, and could pave the way for future high-resolution reflective color displays and high-density optical storage. Scientists crafted precisely patterned metal nano structures, and designed the surface to specifically reflect the intended color. According to project leader, Dr Joel Yang, “The team built a database of color that corresponded to a specific nanostructure pattern, size and spacing,” with an ultra-thin metal film spread across the image activating these “encoded” colors. Looks like yet another reason to upgrade our dull fleshy retinas.
Filed under: Displays, Science
‘Stained glass’ nanotechnology capable of printing up to 100,000 dpi originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Aug 2012 07:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The advent of movie support in iTunes for the Cloud was a boon to Apple TV owners as well as any iTunes user with a tendency to hop between devices — within the US, that is. Apple today swung the doors open and let Australia, Canada, the UK as well as 32 other countries and regions around the world get access to their movies whenever they’re signed in through iTunes or an iOS device. Not every studio is on the same page, as many American viewers will know all too well: it’s more likely that you’ll get re-download rights for a major studio title such as Lockout than an indie production, for example. Even with that limit in mind, there’s no doubt more than a few movie mavens glad to avoid shuffling and re-syncing that copy of Scott Pilgrim to watch it through to the end.
Filed under: Home Entertainment
iTunes in the Cloud movies find their way to Australia, Canada, the UK and 32 more countries originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Scientists from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University aren’t keen on being wasteful — that’s why they’ve developed a toilet that uses 90% less water than other commodes and is capable of generating energy. Aptly named the No-Mix Vacuum Toilet, the porcelain pedestal’s pot divides waste between two partitions — one side for liquids, the other for solids — and uses vacuum tech reminiscent of airline lavatories. Flushing solid and fluid wastes with 1 and 0.2 liters of H2O, respectively, the can will be able to route refuse to external processing facilities. Fertilizer ingredients such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous would then be harvested from liquids. Similarly, methane can be coaxed from solids for conversion to electricity or as a replacement for other natural gasses. Two of the university’s restrooms are slated to have the toilets installed in the near future, and the team expects the thrones to roll out worldwide within three years.
[Thanks, Yuka]
Scientists develop flush-efficient toilet system that can turn waste into energy, sort before it recycles originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Many Apple fans on the opposite side of the Pacific from Cupertino haven’t had much of a choice to shop from iTunes, even though they’ve had the App Store for some time. There’s now a much better sense of balance: Apple just flicked the switch on the iTunes Store for music and movies in a dozen countries and territories across the Asia-Pacific region. The company singles out our own Richard Lai’s Hong Kong as well as Singapore and Taiwan, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are also getting the media catalogs, which include local content along with the international hits. It’s a full catch-up as well, with iTunes in the Cloud re-downloads and iTunes Match subscriptions available in every new country. If you’re a huge Andy Lau fan but wanted his albums from the most iPhone-friendly store possible, the wait is over.
Apple opens iTunes Store in Hong Kong, Taiwan and 10 other Asia-Pacific territories originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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