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Fembot stars in TV commercial
Remember Kokoro’s Actroid DER2 a lifelike Fembot which made its debut in Japan two years back. Its human like expressions did not go unnoticed as she makes her small screen debut with a 15-second commercial spot for a UV insect repellent/sunscreen spray. The android is available on rent for around $3500 for 5 days which…
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Phorone your personal robotic secretary
Kokoro Dreams the same guys who made the Actroid Der 2 Fembot are back with another Android. Named ‘Phorone’ (that is what the machine translation tells) the lifesized android stands 175 cms tall and is from an anime show aired on Nippon network where she is a secretary who plays the role of a protagonist.…
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Wi-Fi Army Game for Google Android
Giving you a peek at what kind of gaming platform Google’s Android will host is the Wi-Fi Army developed by W2Pi Entertainment. The company hopes to win funds from the Android Challenge. This shooter game involves the 3 technologies – GPS, Google Maps, and camera phone. Instead of using video graphics, you can engage real…
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Android showcased by Willcom
Here is more news on the Open Handset Alliance’s Android. Japanese cellphone company Willcom recently displayed the new Android phone OS up and running on phone hardware. They showcased a core module based on Android and displayed the multitasking functionality such as answering a call while browsing Google Maps.
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Google’s Android- more news
After walking you through Google’s interface, we have more news to share with you. They have released their programming tools for their Android mobile-phone alliance for download, giving developers the ability to start writing software for phones due to start shipping in 2008. The software development kit or SDK is an open-source package available for…
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Google Android interface walkthrough
In the above video Google’s Sergei Brin and Steve Horowitz show off multiple prototypes of the Android platform. One is a Palm OS styled smartphone and other a high end Windows powered HTC smartphone form factor. The former shows off text messaging and Google maps (which looks pretty great, btw), and the latter shows off…
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Google Android, GPhone- more news
With a lot of Google Talk going around for the last couple of days hopefully all the speculations are put to rest with Press Conference they held. Google is incorporating software from the Linux world into a mobile platform called Android that’s designed to run on phones. Japanese wireless carriers KDDI and NTT DoCoMo are…