Lee’s Journal

The Hug Shirt is designed to make you feel loved even when your loved ones are miles away from you.

Bluetooth-enabled pads of some sort are embedded in the fabric of the shirt, and can receive signals from your mobile phone.

One person wearing a Hug Shirt gives themselves a hug, which is picked up by their mobile phone and transmitted to their friend. The friend, also wearing a Hug Shirt, then feels the squeeze, with the same pressure applied.

The designers promise that the Hug Shirt can be washed, and are soft and comfortable to wear. You can move the pads from Hug Shirt to Hug Shirt, so that you can wear different colours and styles.

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Seok Hong Jeong, a Korean inventor revealed a cellphone with dual LCD displays at Seoul International Invention Fair 2006.

The dual LCD mobile phone is specifically designed to optimize mobile internet sevices for a wide-ranging variety of multimedia contents.

This unique cellphone claims to offer an enhanced Web browsing experience as today’s cellphone displays are still too small for proper use. In addition, wider screens mean better support for multimedia-intensive webpages. Once you’re done surfing the Net, you can easily fold back the displays into a compact candybar format.

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Sony Ericsson introduces the new Z310 mirror-finish clamshell phone.

As an eye catcher the Z310 features light effects that serve to both personalizing the phone and allow you to color code your contacts.

Other features include 128×160px STN screen with 64k colors, 96×64px external screen, VGA camera, Bluetooth, speakerphone and mp3 ringtones.

The Sony Ericsson Z310 is a Triple band/EDGE/GPRS 900/1800/1900 handset and will be available in selected markets from Q1 2007 in et Set Black, Blush Bronze or Lush Pink colors.

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Samsung SGH-E890 is a new Samsung mobile phone that is not a PDA but has a touchscreen, so it requires a stylus (included) unless you want finger smudges to be your wallpaper theme.

The touchscreen phone is only 14.6mm thick and features a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth and USB connectivity and touchscreen games.

Available now at S$568 (US$361.37) without contract and S$468 (US$297.75) with a two-year mobile plan in Singapore.

via cNet - SGH-E890: Touch me one more time

Samsung has introduced the new video phone, as part of Samsung Ultra Series, the SGH-F500. The Samsung SGH-F500 comes with swivelable keypad so that you can enjoy the video by placing the phone on the table.

Similar to Samsung SGH-F300, it has a navigation keypad for media player instead of numeric keypad.

Other features including a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, built-in 400MB memory, up to 2GB microSD expansion slot, music and video player and 2.4-inch TFT LCD.
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