Firefox and Jajah

The JAJAH extension for Firefox integrates call functionality into your browser. Phone numbers on web pages are automatically detected and highlighted. When clicked, JAJAH initiates a phone call from your phone...
The JAJAH extension for Firefox integrates call functionality into your browser. Phone numbers on web pages are automatically detected and highlighted. When clicked, JAJAH initiates a phone call from your phone
- landline or mobile - to the desired destination. Alternatively, phone numbers can be entered directly in the toolbar, thus effectively combining phone communication with everyday web browsing.

Regardless of your phone company or plan, JAJAH allows long distance and international calls for less than 2 cents a minute - no monthly fee, no registration fee, no need for prepayment. Trial users receive 5 free minutes to experience the outstanding quality and simplicity of the JAJAH service.

For more info please visit www.jajah.com

Digital Life Style

(quoted from scantec.de)

4C: consumer products, car entertainment, communication, computer network

The difference between consumer and PC
What’s the difference when you stay in living room and study room?
You will spend much time to learn how to use Office/PowerPoint/ Outlook.
You won’t spend even a minute to learn how to use the TV remote controller.

Therefore, consumers don’t care about hardware inside but the functions and interface. It should be easy to use.

A fail example-PMP(Portable Media Player)
You can do other activities when you listen to music.
You can download music through internet in 1 minute.
The LCD panel of PMP is too small for use

A successful example-Digital Photo Frame
Put digital photos on the digital photo frame. It’s a simple concept and very useful.

Key feature of DPF -Functions in 2007
1. JPEG/TIFF/GIF/BMP/Raw data/
2. MPEG H.264
3. Speaker inside with audio decode functions
4. WiFi/ Power line network inside with DLNA
5. Support direct connection to Flickr, Picase, Webshots
6. Bluetooth and Digital TV function inside.

Digital home applications
1. DMA(digital media acceptor): Transmit the movies from computer to TV
2. IP STB: video on demand
3. IP TV: Encode cable TV signals and transmit to 3G mobile phone

Key features of digital consumer products
1. Must to have
2. Easy to use
3. Low cost
4. Low noise( without fan)
5. Low power(Especially for portable devices)
6. Internet connection (Nice to have)
7. Wireless (Nice to have)

Flexible Electronics

(quoted from physorg.com)

Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, is a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic devices on flexible substrates such as plastic. In the simplest case, flexible electronics can be made by using the same components used for rigid printed circuit boards. The only thing that needs to change is the substrate, being made flexible, rather than rigid. Typically, in LCD fabrication for example, glass is used as a substrate. If thin flexible plastic or metal foil is used as the substrate instead, the entire system can be flexible, as the film deposited on top of the substrate is usually very thin, on the order of a few micrometres. (Wikipedia)

In our group seminar this week, our department invited a professor who are good at the flexible electronics region to deliver a speach. I was very impressed on this topic. It's so-called future technology. The important features are urer-friendly, moblie and personalized life. He showed us many new concept photos and a short video about future life. The conclusion is that flexible electronics is the world wide trend, which will change our daily life eventually.