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Ross Lovegrove’s lighting design called Solar Tree celebrates its first anniversary since the European Tour started in 2007. A creation of the Italian Artemide Group, worldwide leader in innovative lighting products, the Solar Tree began its journey back in October 2007 at MAK in Vienna, then continued to travel across Paris and Germany. Now it is back in Italy, where you can have the chance to see it in all its splendor at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition on Viale Garibaldi in Venice, until November 23.

Artemide Solar Tree with solar cell technology is “a project that combines design, technological innovation, nature, and art”( Ross Lovegrove) using an advanced solar technology developed by Sharp Solar, a solar cells producer, and is eco-friendly.
After complex studies, the urban concept design became real representing “the DNA of our time and it also shows it is possible to create beautiful things using the most advanced technology"(Ross Lovegrove).

It is an artificial tree made of steel pipes, each having a light bubble with 38 complex solar cells connected to a battery and to a special device located in the base. Light is produced during night by Light Emitting Diodes, after accumulating enough solar energy during day time.

Its designer chose this shape to inspire organic forms, a new representation of morphology of the tree with sensual and modern feelings.
The tree can function autonomously or in synchronization with the public electric grid, and at dusk, LEDs are activated to light until dawn. It can illuminate for 3 days continuously even in overcast weather.



"Artemide has been considering social responsibility and sustainability for a long while now" says Ernesto Gismondi, the President of Artemide. "Respecting life, environment and all the natural resources available means facing the energy saving issue in a very serious way. Consequently advanced and high technical capacity technologies are created".

After Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola and Samsung high-end cell phones supporting the Second Life video game, comes Nokia N96 mobile phone’s turn to enable access to the 3D virtual world created by Linden Lab.

The technology that permits this is the single one available at the moment and was developed by Vollee to enable streaming of PC video games to mobile handsets. Such video games include massively multiplayer online role playing games, while the VolleeX engine is in charge with adapting the games to the cell phone’s screen size and keypad layout, without scarifying speed or gameplay quality. It works based on optimized compression which minimizes bandwidth requirements on 3G networks.



Nokia N96 mobile phone is a great handset for such high-end applications because it boasts a large 2.8-inch TFT LCD display of 320 x 240 pixels and 16 million colors. The accelerometer sensor allows you to rotate the multimedia computer sideways to enable the landscape mode, in which you can watch music videos, live TV shows, movies and play the latest mobile games.
Currently, the Vollee service is supported by 70 mobile handset models featuring high-speed 3G connectivity, and the latest addition, Nokia N96 mobile phone, allows you to enter Second Life game by downloading the application from Vollee website.



The company partnered with leading video game providers such as Activision/Blizzard, Linden Lab, Codemasters, and Encore Software.

We’ve discovered the Verykool mobile phones from the Mobile World Congress 2008 which took place in February in Spain. At the trade show, InfoSonics unveiled its cool cell phones such as the i700, the first Verykool phone prepared to ship to South Africa. Now we’ll see a new addition to this cool cell phones line called Verykool i250, a bar type handset with touchscreen interface accessible via a stylus pen.

This is a stylish phone coming with 5 fashionable colored interchangeable faceplates, with built-in 2MP digital camera for pictures and video recording, as well as web camera functionality when connected to your computer.
It is a quad band and sports the 2.4-inch TFT display, while integrating Bluetooth technology, USB, email, Java, web browsing, external memory support, up to 1,000 phone book entries, games, MP3 player, sound recorder, and a 3.5mm audio jack.
In addition to GPRS and EDGE connectivity types, Verykool i250 has Real Tones, multiple file format support for video and audio media, speakerphone, and 3 hours of talk time with 200 hours of standby. It measures 103 x 51 x 14.7 mm at 90.7 grams.



This cell phone was named the Best Mobile Phone at the 10th annual edition PC World Latin America Awards 2008 in Miami on September 25, a prestigious awards ceremony in the Latin IT Industry, where the winners are the best customer electronic products and solutions.
Verykool i250 is a cool cell phone in Latin America with a functional design, superb image quality and the web camera feature. These were the key elements that brought it the Best Cell Phone award.

“This award demonstrates our success in developing feature rich and innovative products at attractive price points for our target markets,” said Joseph Ram, President and Chief Executive Officer of InfoSonics. “As a proprietary offering for InfoSonics, the verykool i250 has generated positive initial feedback from our carrier customers, and should help to solidify our potential as a ‘rising star’ in a very competitive marketplace.”

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We touched this subject before like when we wrote about the deal behind the battlefield free online game at the beginning of 2008. We were discussing about a new free online version of this video game available for free, being supported by advertising and micro payments.

Free online games supported by in-game ads is a smart idea and is really working without bothering gamers during the gameplay. Now we have another alternative launched a few days ago by 123play, which became the Europe’s best source of free mobile gaming available in UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

123play is provided by Mobile Advertising Solution for mobile handsets, and users can choose from 800 different games to download and play on the go. The advertising appears when the game is launched and after the gaming ends, so users can click on one of the 2 ads if they like and land on mobile websites. In addition, if you play the same game several times a day you’ll see the ads only the first time you launch it, and if you are willing to pay a small amount of money all games become 100% free, with no ads.

You have games available from the most famous creators such as THQ Wireless, RealArcade, Vivendi Games Mobile and Hands-On Mobile, all supported by more than 800 mobile handset models.

“With today’s launch we’ve made the best mobile games even better – by making them free for anyone to download” said Markus Ramark, CEO of 123play.com “There’s no other service out there that brings together great games and advertising from leading brands, wraps them together, and makes it as easy as 1, 2, 3 to play.”

Electric powered motor bikes, also called motorcycle bicycles or simply LEV from “light electric vehicles”, are personal transport vehicles designed like standard bicycles, but powered by electric motors.
Even if we are not used to see people riding them on streets in Europe or US, these vehicles are popular in Asia.

What started in 1897 as a double electric motor-powered bike, an idea coming from Hosea W. Libbey of Boston, has been improved in time, and now we can look at the A2B electric powered motor bikes, designed and created by Ultra Motor, a worldwide leading provider of innovative urban transportation solutions, headquartered in London, UK.
The new bike was introduced recently at Interbike Expo in Las Vegas, after Ultra Motor decided to offer its customers in the United States an enhanced solution for personal transportation as an alternative to cars. This idea came up after the Smart Transport Survey revealed that 80% of the North Americans are prepared to receive new methods of transportation such as electric bikes, smart cars and hybrids, which are all considered to be the vehicles of the near future.



A2B electric powered motor bikes use the standard household current for recharging the battery, just like cell phones and laptop computers, while they are economic, quiet and stylish, enough to compete with cars. The new electric powered motor bikes are lightweight thanks to the aluminum construction with full suspension, and provide oversized seats for maximum comfort while riding.
They are capable to run automatically for up to 20 miles at their normal speed of 20mph, but if you make an upgrade, they can reach 40 miles using a secondary battery pack. More than that, you have the option to add baskets and rear carrier bags.

Coming in blue, gray and white, the A2B electric powered motor bikes has a price of around $2,800.



“Alternative transportation offers many clear benefits and it is evident that people are ready for change,” said Chris Deyo, CEO of Ultra Motor USA. “Whether they’re headed to the office, college campus or running errands around town, commuters will find that our A2B electric bikes will fill their transportation needs without emptying their wallet at the gas pump.”