Guiness World Record,Smallest TV!

Officially recognised by the Guinness World Records as the smallest TV screen in the world even now, five years after it first won the title, MicroEmissive Displays' TV screen is smaller than a fingernail. The colour screen, called the ME1602, measures just 3.84x2.88mm with a resolution of 160x120 pixels. But exactly what use is the world's tiniest TV screen, you may ask? Well, they're a component in things like viewfinders and TV glasses that come fitted with the miniature screens.

Sadly, the creators, Scottish firm MicroEmissive Displays went into administration in 2008, citing the unwillingness of banks and private equity firms to stump up cash for small businesses as the reason.

Smallest Digital Camera

This tiny camera fits on the tip of a finger, measures less than an inch in all its dimensions and weighs about 14 grams. Quality obviously suffers in a camera with a lens this small - images only get as good as two megapixels and you're stuck hoping for the best with auto focus. However, impressively, it can also record video and supports up to 32GB microSD cards.

It's quite mind-boggling that a working digital camera could be this small, but then, why would you want it to be? A present for someone who likes to travel really light, perhaps? It suggests that you might want to use it for personal espionage activities, saying, "[it's] reminiscent of devices employed by Cold War-era operatives for intelligence gathering." Quite.

HP to make webOS software public by September

Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday it will make its webOS mobile operating system available to the open source community by September.

HP to make webOS software public by September

HP announced in December that it was planning to make webOS open source, meaning that developers anywhere can tinker with it as they wish and it will be available for anyone to use free of charge.

The Palo Alto, California-based HP acquired the webOS software as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of Palm in 2010 but later abandoned plans to make smartphones and tablet computers using the platform.

"By contributing webOS to the open source community, HP unleashes the creativity of hardware and software developers to build a new generation of applications and devices," HP said in a statement.

The computer maker said it would make the webOS source code available under an open source license "in its entirety by September."

"This is a decisive step toward meeting our goal of accelerating the platform's development and ensuring that its benefits will be delivered to the entire ecosystem of Web applications," said Bill Veghte, HP executive vice president and chief strategy officer.

HP also said it is releasing version 2.0 of webOS developer tool Enyo, which allows developers to write a single application that works across mobile devices and desktop Web browsers.

Citing disappointing sales, HP announced on August 18 it was discontinuing the TouchPad, a tablet computer powered by webOS, just seven weeks after it hit the market.

Google's open source Android mobile software is widely used by handset makers but it has been pounded with patent lawsuits from rivals Apple and Microsoft.

Just Show Me: How to change the theme on your PlayStation 3

Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to change the theme on your PlayStation 3.

The home screen on your PlayStation 3 can be customized to display different background, themes, etc. Personalize your PlayStation 3 to reflect who you are!

Take a look at these other episodes of Just Show Me that'll help you use your PlayStation 3 to its full potential:

• How to connect your Netflix account to your PlayStation 3
• How to connect your PlayStation 3 to your wifi network
• How to create new profiles on your PlayStation 3

For even more episodes of Just Show Me, subscribe to Tecca TV's YouTube channel and check out all our Just Show Me episodes. If you have any topics you'd like to see us cover, just drop us a line in the comments.

RedPad: Android tablet for Chinese politicians that costs twice as much as the iPad

An Android tablet designed for Chinese officials without special features inexplicably costs $1,600

Would you buy a $1,600 Android tablet that doesn't have any special features compared to other slates half its price? A relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer seems to think people would, and released a tablet called the RedPad — a Honeycomb device specifically meant for China's government officials, that costs almost two grand.

The 9.7" RedPad is a pretty standard Android tablet fare, with 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, which is usually the lowest capacity found in mid-range slates. For $2,000, you'd think buyers will get a top-of-the-line device or at least a few extras. But the only bonus they will get is a rather shoddy looking leather case, and an inscription of China's "Serve the People" slogan at the back of the tablet. The total cost for manufacturing each device is $480, so why it's priced at $1,600 is beyond us. An interview with the company spokesperson, Xianri Liu, reveals RedPad's somewhat twisted reasoning for that price point: the company believes people think expensive things are good. Therefore, RedPad must be good.

He also argues that RedPad comes with a bunch of apps including tablet versions of periodicals, and a state-sanctioned Chinese version of Twitter. Installing those kinds of apps on the iPad, he says, will cost as much as $1,600 in a year. A device of that price point targeted toward politicians will almost certainly cause a stir not only within China, but all over the internet.

Liu says the company plans to release RedPad to market, and compete with Apple's iPad — a feat that will be extremely hard to accomplish when the tablet costs that much.

Apple’s First iPhone Was Made in 1983

The first iPhone was actually dreamed up in 1983. Forget that silly old touchscreen, this iPhone was a landline with full, all-white handset and a built-in screen controlled with a stylus.The phone was designed for Apple by Hartmut Esslinger, an influential designer who helped make the Apple IIc computer (Apple’s first “portable” computer) and later founded Frogdesign. The 1983 iPhone certainly fits in with Esslinger’s other designs for Apple. It also foreshadows the touchscreens of both theiPhone and iPad.
Images of the 1983 iPhone have been circling the web for a while but there has been renewed interest in Apple’s early designs and history thanks to a peak inside Stanford University’s massive trove of Apple documents. The archives are a close-guarded secret but Stanford is starting to grant access to select journalists and organizations. The archives were donated in 1997 after Steve Jobs rejoined the company and document much of the design and personnel changes that took place in the 1980s.



The 1983 iPhone is just one of many prototypes buried in Apple’s past. There’s even a device that looks eerily similar to an iPad. Despite the phone’s age, it actually looks like a cool concept that could easily be updated into a modern consumer product by replacing simple stylus screen with an iPad-like interface.
Mashable has reached out to Stanford to get a private look into the material. Stay tuned for more, but in the mean time, take a look at some pics of the iPhone that never was.

Jobless man builds a house out of $1.82 billion worth of shredded money

What would you do with $1.82 billion worth of shredded money? In Ireland, people build houses out of it — at least that's what Dublin-based artist Frank Buckley did. The unemployed artist originally wanted to create a gallery for his series of mixed-media artworks called "Expressions of Recession," but he ended up building a house instead.

Buckley has been working roughly 12 hours a day every day since the beginning of December. During the early part of the construction process, he made bricks out of the decommissioned Euros Ireland's mint lent him. In all, around 50,000 money bricks went into building the house that consists of a bedroom, a bathroom, and a living room. He plans to continue expanding the house that sits on an empty office building to include a kitchen, a shower, and a patio.

If you're wondering how it feels to live in a house made out of paper currency, he said that it's quite warm inside: "Whatever you say about the Euro, it's a great insulator." Frank is one of the countless people all over the globe affected by recession, and he built the house because he "wanted to create something from nothing." It will take around seven more weeks to complete building his new home, but Buckley (who's been living in the house since December) welcomes any visitor who wants to take a look at his billion-dollar masterpiece.

Apple CEO responds to allegations of Chinese worker abuse

New auditing website takes an Apple-friendly look at abuse-riddled Chinese factories

Is Apple finally getting tough on their abusive Chinese suppliers? Maybe. Intent on stemming the increasing complaints from the public and investors alike, Apple CEO Tim Cook fired off an email yesterday to combat claims from "people questioning Apple's values," detailing what the company is doing to find "problems" in their supply chain.

Tech giant Apple may have a net worth greater than most first-world countries, but working conditions at their Chinese suppliers' factories are notoriously third world. Addressing this, Cook wrote an email addressed to all employees to explain what the company is doing to combat abuses.

"Earlier this month we opened our supply chain for independent evaluations by the Fair Labor Association. Apple was in a unique position to lead the industry by taking this step, and we did it without hesitation. This will lead to more frequent and more transparent reporting on our supply chain, which we welcome. These are the kinds of actions our customers expect from Apple, and we will take more of them in the future."

Apple's new website, Supplier Responsibility, allows visitors to track the company's progress in addressing issues regarding their suppliers. There, you can learn more about Apple's requirements with regard to labor and human rights, worker health and safety, and environmental impact of the companies it contracts work out to.

Public outrage over Apple suppliers, especially notorious Chinese company Foxconn, is nothing new. Two workers were killed in a Foxconn iPad factory explosion in 2011, and the high rate of worker suicides has forced the contractor to install suicide-prevention netting. The Daily Show, among others, have compared Foxconn factories to prisons.

Scientists create star matter in a lab: what could possibly go wrong?!

Experiments bring us closer to understanding our own sun

As scientists work to discover more and more about the galaxy and our own solar system, they're doing some pretty amazing things. But U.S. Department of Energy scientists working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University have accomplished something that really boggles the mind: they have created superhot solid plasma — the kind of material you would find at the center of a star or a giant planet.

The scientists used a machine called the Linac Coherent Light Source, the most powerful X-ray laser machine ever created, to accomplish this feat. They fired the laser at a tiny cube of aluminum only one-thousandth of a centimeter wide, and as the laser pulses converged on the aluminum, it created a superhot solid plasma burning at a temperature of 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit (2 million degrees Celsius).

While that might sound pretty darn hot (and it is about the temperature of our sun's corona or outer atmosphere), it's still much cooler than the 14 million Kelvin (13.9 million Celsius) of the matter at the center of our star. But the research goes a long way toward understanding the nuclear fusion process that powers our sun and makes stars work.

Casio’s new smartphone looks like an oversized watch; might survive the apocalypse

It's probably not bullet-resistant, but it may be the closest you'll get

Looking for the most rugged smartphone on the planet? Well then, meet the new Casio — yes, that Casio — Android G-Shock. It's the kind of smartphone that Lewis and Clark would have taken with them had there been 4G cell service in 1804.

The phone appears to be geared toward the more adventurous smartphone owner — it's both water-resistant (to 1.0 bar) and pressure-resistant (1.0 ton), so you can take it deep sea diving. It's also shock-resistant to 10 feet, so if your son drops it off the front porch, you're covered. Oh, and did we mention that its thick frame and unusual shape makes it looks exactly like an oversized watch?

Cool and stylish as the phone looks from the outside, we really don't know a lot about the inside yet, because Casio's not telling us. All we know is that it'll be running Android. Casio is being hush-hush about the smartphone's processor as well, aside from the fact that it still works even at the bottom of your backyard swimming pool.

Adorable and foldable pod-like electric car headed to production in Spain

The Hiriko cars will likely cost around $16,400 each if and when released to the public

It may look like just another shiny concept, but this curious-looking and futuristic pod-like car is already slated for a trial production in Spain. To announce this development, a prototype of the tiny electric car Hiriko (the Basque word for "urban") was recently demonstrated in Brussels. Aside from being quite unusual in appearance, Hiriko has another very interesting feature — you can actually fold the car so it takes up the smallest amount of parking space possible.

The collapsible two-seater designed by the MIT Media Lab has a single entrance located at windshield: You just have to swing the front of the glass bubble up in order to get in. MIT's designers also eschewed the traditional steering wheel in favor of a joystick, so you can pretend you're playing a game while navigating a busy street. The four-wheel drive's expected range is roughly 60 miles, but that may change once the first batch of cars comes out in 2013.

The first 20 Hiriko cars to be manufactured will be part of a pilot program in Spain's Basque region, intended for shared-use similar to existing car sharing projects. MIT is also studying the possibility of deploying Hiriko fleets to Malmo (Sweden), Barcelona (Spain), Berlin (Germany), Hong Kong, and San Francisco. The manufacturers don't have concrete plans to sell the car to individuals yet, but if and when they do, their target price is approximately $16,400 per unit, or around half the price of the Chevy Volt.

MakerBot 3D printer is the real star of this adorable stop-motion music video

We told you a few days ago about the incredible MakerBot Replicator, a 3D printer showcased at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. We knew it was awesome, we were excited about the thought of creating our own 3D objects, and then we saw this video, created by MakerBot Industries to show off some of what it can do. Trust us, this video is seriously fun.

Called "The Right Heart," it's the simple tale of a princess looking for love, and it features characters and set pieces created by the MakerBot Replicator, and a catchy song by Scary Car (Brooklyn musicians Bryan Scary and Giulio Carmassi). And a dragon. Just wait till you get to the dragon. We won't spoil the ending, but take our word for it, it's worth watching.

The Pirate Bay rehabilitates its image by offering free promotion for indie artists

The infamous file-sharing website is looking to help promote worthy bands and political causes

Do you have a band, video, or cause that you'd like to draw more attention to? If you're offering your work for free, then infamous file-sharing website The Pirate Bay wants to help promote you.

The Pirate Bay recently launched The Promo Bay, which it describes as a "promotional apparatus." Participants are asked to design a new front page image for the site. If an artist's work is selected, The Pirate Bay will offer a high-profile link to their site in return. Just about any type of content is fair game, from music to a political cause, so long as the site offers something to the world for free.

The program appears to be a way of legitimizing the SOPA-threatened website's tenet that creative media and information should be shared without limitation. Participation in the program is a win-win situation for all involved — exposure on the popular site means an artist's work will be seen by exponentially more people than otherwise possible, which might lead to increased sales and other forms of revenue. In exchange, The Pirate Bay gets to prove that there is indeed a real-world benefit to offering artistic work for free.

The Pirate Bay, originally a Swedish site, is the largest file-sharing website currently in operation. Though the number of people who engage in illegal file sharing is on the decline, it's still a way of life in Sweden. The country recognizes file sharing as a religion and as a political party. In 2009, voters in the country sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament.

Finally, a backpack that you can ride as a scooter

Brazilian designer finds way to combine the joy of scooter ownership with the joy of backpack ownership

Have you ever looked at your backpack and wondered, "gee, why can't this be a scooter, too?" No, of course you haven't. Still, that didn't stop Brazilian designer Gustavo Brenck from inventing the Gig Pack, a backpack that converts to a scooter.

The Gig Pack's design is simple — or, at least, as simple as a backpack-turned-transportation can be. When you're ready to leave the house, just pull out the base of the scooter, fasten the straps to keep them from getting caught up in the wheels, and ... scoot. When you've arrived at your destination, the aluminum scooter folds up inside the backpack without compromising space for other items.

The fashion-conscious scooter can safely support people weighing up to 200 pounds. But don't go out grabbing a second mortgage on your house to buy one just yet — Brenck is still looking for manufacturers.

Crazy optical illusion watch tells time

Remember those Magic Eye pictures that were all over the place in the mid-1990s? Technically called autostereograms, they're designs that look random at first glance, but if you look at it just the right way, a 3D picture emerges. Now Japanese watchmakers Tokyoflash, makers of unique timepieces, has taken that sort of optical illusion and applied it to watch design.

Called the Kisai Optical Illusion watch, the LCD display looks like a bunch of random diagonal lines. But if you look at it the right way, you'll notice that the short lines going one direction actually show the numbers of the time or date. It's pretty tough to see at first, but thankfully Tokyoflash has incorporated a cheat — just tap the touchscreen and it will show you the numbers. You can also tap on different parts of the screen to turn on the backlight, check the date, or set an alarm, and there's a setting that will switch between puzzle mode or time mode every 20 seconds.

The Kisai Optical Illusion watch is only available for a limited time, and for the first 48 hours, will run you $179. After that time period, the price jumps to $199. So if you like confusing people who ask you for the time, hurry and order yours!