The PlayStation Portable (PSP) will be able to support Wi-Fi telefony. The news says that British Telecommunications PLC (BT) is developing a software-based Internet telephony for PSP. In addition, PSP’s users will enjoy the internet voice and video calls from their devices.

The service will be provided for Europe and possibly Middle East, Africa and Oceania. BT will get the full support of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd. However, the service could not be functional in Americas or in Asia, because BT and not Sony supports the development.

To perform the voice and video calls, the PSP will need a camera. It already comes with built-in Wi-Fi adapter. PSP doesn’t meet the sales expectations for this year. Thus, Sony is trying to make it more attractive for the markets.

[via Yahoo]

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A guy from Live Digitally has interviewed Netgear’s CEO - Patrick Lo. During the interview at Netgear’s HQ, Patrick Lo presented him the 2nd-generation WiFi Skype Phone. Yes, the phone is in development right now.

The 2G Skype Phone doesn’t look very different from the first one. However, it is smaller, lighter and the battery lasts longer. The WiFi Skype Phone 2.0 will work seamlessly with hotspots. Netgear is trying to develop a new graphic user interface. To use this Skype phone you will need a wireless rooter and a base station. You can connect up to 4 phones to a single base station. Other official details will be presented in the future. For now you can check up the video showing the phone.
Here is the video with Patrick Lo:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNQFyJlk63s[/youtube]

[Credits: Live Digitally]

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Sony announced on their website the thinnest OLED display in the world. It is only o.3 millimetre thick and offers 16.7 million colours. The display presented by Sony is 2.5″ wide and gives 160 x 120 pixel resolution.

Sony’s display will be officially presented at an academic symposium in Long Beach, California, this week. The display has more colours than the competitors products - Samsung with 262k colours and Philips with 16k colours. On the other hand Sony’s OLED offers only 1000:1 contrast ratio compared to Samsung’s 10000:1 ratio. Anyway there are slight chances to see this kind of displays replacing the actual LCDs and plasmas. The problem is that the costs are higher to produce the OLEDs.

[Source: Yahoo]

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To the right, Adam McConnell, three years old. To the left, a broken 42-inch plasma. The joy of breaking the TV after losing at Wii sports, priceless.

This is a real case. 3 year old Adam, smashed his father’s plasma while his dad went to the kitchen to get him something to drink. It should be really fun to hear “two big bangs”. Why he did this? Because he lost a tennis game playing Wii Sports. It wasn’t a slipping Wiimote so no reason for a lawsuit here, just the boy’s rage.

Now that really makes me think what was the little boy drinking? Maybe whiskey in the morning and some vodka in the evening? He’s now banned from playing Wii, for two weeks.

“I left him playing the tennis game and went to the kitchen to get him a drink. Then I heard two big bangs. When I ran back in Adam was using the handset to smash the TV screen. It was a 42in plasma screen which cost around £1,000 - the whole front is wrecked.

I think he lost a game and he just cracked up. I went out to the table and put my head in my hands, while I thought about how I could explain to a three- and-a-half year old what he had done wrong. I ended up asking him how he’d feel if I broke his Spiderman.

He is so independent and he already has a real competitive streak, but I didn’t realize he would lose his temper like that. He could be the next John McEnroe - he had a great swing.”

Do you understand now, why they released a TV protection shield? - ALEX ION

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This is a weird invention we got our eyes on. This is a 12-volt adapter that will turn into an air conditioning gadget or will power USB devices when you put it in the lighter slot. The power is supposed to be up to 120 Watts. Impressive!

Gizmodo had their hands on it, and used it for charging a Sony Ericsson mobile phone and the MacBook Pro powerbrick, separately. They phone didn’t charge when the laptop was in the adapter, so they charged it from the notebook. I think this new device should be used while driving your car and stuff like that because I am not sure if you car battery will be able to support what you charge. Even the manual says for every 3 hours of use, to start the engine for 20 minutes. The price is $40 and my conclusion is that it’s well deserved. - ALEX ION

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