Named as the Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70; these three are finely tuned to understand and solve the needs of the business users. The Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70 support today’s most popular and newly announced corporate mobile email solutions like BlackBerry Connect, GoodLink from Good Technology, Inc., Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail and Visto Mobile. The Nokia E60 provides the uncompromised look, comfort and usability of a classically designed mobile phone. The Nokia E61 is designed in the familiar style of today’s most popular mobile email devices. Yet it is incredibly slim and packed with powerful new functionality. A cinch to use with either hand, the device has a four-way joystick and full keyboard combined with a wide 16 million color screen making mobile email easier than ever before. At first glance, the Nokia E70 looks like a modern smartphone. Open it up and find a full messaging keyboard for fast and easy thumb typing, a generous color screen for viewing emails, plus attachments (document, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF viewer and ZIP manager) and an editing function (document, spreadsheet, presentation) for staying up-to-date with the inbox. Via Phoneyworld

How does a chair made of working New York City signs take your fancy? Sporting a custom modified metal frame with galvanised self adjusting feet, adjustable flash speed and remote control to turn it on/off, this $3700 item would certainly add a conversation piece to your chic apartment. The chair can come complete with all the genuine scuffs and stains of its New York City roots or can come ‘squeaky clean’ with a fresh coat of paint. The seating surfaces have been reglazed with one inch-thick polished resin, cushioned with felt suspension. The chair plugs into a standard 115V AC outlet, and the standard bulbs (included) are replaceable. Via – Gadgetryblog

A Japanese government committee is mulling a copyright law revision to charge royalties on digital music players, but the opinion is so divided on the so-called “iPod tax” that it isn’t likely to be imposed, officials said Wednesday. Japan already levies an extra fee for copyrights on gadgets sold in stores such as mini disk recorders that consumers can use for home copying of music. That charge, generally 3 percent of the product’s wholesale price, is included in the price tag so most shoppers aren’t even aware they’re paying it. The money from such copyright royalties, totaling some 2.2 billion yen, or $19 million US, is collected by an organization set up especially for that purpose and doled out to intermediary groups who in turn pass along the money to recording companies, composers and other artists.

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Korean electronic and audio equipment manufacturer Cresyn has unveiled its new Bluetooth headset (model: CS-BH8000) that facilitates the transition between streaming stereo music and phone calls. The new hands-free solution offers 17 hours of talk time and 11 hours of continuous music listening. With the Bluetooth dongle (model: CS-BD800), users can wirelessly connect non-Bluetooth devices, including an MP3 player, PMP, DVD, or TV, to the Bluetooth headset CS-BH8000.

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Japanese snack maker Tohato has launched a new type of potato chip called Jagasane: Bacon & Black Pepper, that uses a “combination twin taste. What this means is that you get a different flavor on each side of the chip: bacon and black pepper. So depending on how you eat it, the snack will provide you a different combination of flavors. It is available in Japan only for 130 Yen ($ 1.25)

Toshiba presented an attendant robot ‘ApriAlpha V3′ for elderly people in Toshiba’s 130th anniversary exhibition. ‘ApriAlpha V3′ can perceive and identify sounds from every direction by using 6 mikes built inside. It also employs TOSHIBA’s exclusive ‘Voice Signal Processing’, so the robot can respond to greeting of a person and answer a question of another person right away. Its visual sensor and high speed image processing help to identify color and textures of the clothes that people wear. If he meets a person wearing particular clothes that he already has information, he starts to follow him and stops when he reaches the person. When he misses the person, he examines the information again.

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Have you ever been sitting on the pot and wished that you could be checking up on your downloads or maybe even to see if your friend wrote you back. Well wait no more, now you can use your PSP to access your computer completely wirelessly. Detailed instructions.

Samsung presents the SCH S370 with fingerprint recognition. The handset will be able to store and recognise upto 5 individual fingerprints. Depending upon how strictly you have set the privacy controls, the handset could get locked up if it does not recognise the print repeatedly or it could simply prevent usage. The fingerprint recognition sensor is at the bottom of the keypad in the clamshell phone. Its noteworthy to mention that while the handset does not have a touchpad, this same sensor can be used for navigating through the menus (details are unclear on this). It has a large grille for the built-in handsfree, as well as a camera (megapixel) with flash support. The S370 will of course have Mp3 playing capability since it is one of the functions that is strongly demanded by users. The S370 will be available by the end of the year. Via – Phoneyworld

Toyota announced today its plans for the 39th Tokyo Motor Show. Among the seven concept vehicles planned for display are the Fine-X, a new fuel cell hybrid vehicle, and the i-swing, a new personal mobility vehicle. Toyota is touting the Fine-X as a revolutionary, new concept and a glimpse of the automobile’s future, providing the environmental performance of a fuel cell hybrid system and featuring an ease of movement through four-wheel independent drive control and a large, steering angle mechanism. The vehicle aims for a sense of “hospitality” through variable lighting intensity in the interior and through power “Welcome Seats” that move in and out of the car as the gull-wing doors open widely to assist getting in and out of the vehicle.

At “Ceatec Japan 2005,” Matsushita Electric Industrial, Co., Ltd. demonstrated digital home appliances able to connect each other using IP networks. The company’s proprietary “VIANA” specification is used as the protocol for mutual connection. The VIANA specification is a protocol, which mutually connects Matsushita’s digital home appliances with an Ethernet port, without concerning IP (Internet protocol) routers. The technology makes a tunnel between “VIANA client” products featuring this protocol and “VIANA servers” for authentication and access on the Internet, and leads a communication protocol in the second layer to IP networks,.

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