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Smarter, smaller electronics combined with a consumer thirst for lighter, more portable gadgets is the major driving force behind the trend for tinier technologies. There is also the aspect of the small gadget as the status symbol; a smaller gadget signifies for some a more advanced, more expensive piece of kit.

Here we’ve collected a selection of the smallest gadgets around - for the time being. With technology getting more compact everyday, it is only a matter of time before one tiny gadget is outdone by an even tinier one.

The lightest mobile phone: Modu

The Guinness Book of World Records recently named the Modu mini phone as the lightest mobile phone in the world. It’s just over 7.5 mm thick and, as the image shows, it weighs a mere 40.1g.

Smallest plasma television: LG 32PC5RV

A bit of a cheat, this one: LG claim that theirs is the “smallest” plasma screen HD TV in the world, measuring a mere 32 inches across. The idea is that the smallest plasma televisions previously available in the UK have been 37 inch models.

It might be that the majority of buyers in the market for a flashy television generally think bigger is better…

The smallest screen: MicroEmissive Displays

“[MicroEmissive Displays] has created the world’s smallest television screen.” So said the Guinness Book of World records a few years back, and indeed it is hard to imagine a screen tinier than those of Scottish microelectronics firm MicroEmissive Displays.

Miniature mouse: MicroNav

Claiming to be “the electronic industry’’s most compact and advanced OEM pointing device”, the MicroNav certainly is micro. At less than 1 cm square in area, this could well be the world’s smallest mouse.

Thinnest laptop: MacBook Air

Not necessarily the smallest laptop in terms of breadth and height, but the ultrathin MacBook Air beats the competition in terms of depth: it’s less than 20 mm across at its thickest point, tapering to a mere 4 mm at its thinnest.

Tiniest MP3 player: Ultimate Smallest MP3 Player

A descriptively titled gadget, the Ultimate Smallest MP3 player claims to be not just the tiniest MP3 player in the world, but “in the universe”. Who are we to argue against an electronics maker with extraterrestrial knowledge? Its dimensions are given as 24 mm x 24 mm x 24 mm.

Smallest iPod: iPod shuffle

Apple branded their iPod shuffle as the “world’s smallest MP3 player” back in 2006. At 27 mm high, 41 mm wide and 11 mm thick, it’s certainly still a contender in the field, and the smallest iPod by a fairly wide margin.

Smallest digital video camera: Digital Cowboy DVR-SP

Exhibited at CES 2008, the Digital Cowboy DVR-SP is the smallest consumer digital video camera. It is about the same size as a cigarette lighter but does sacrifice quality for compactness: the video resolution is 176 x 144 pixels

Thankfully, the Panasonic LZ8 8.1 Megapixel Digital Camera, with its great set of features, is here to make that decision easier for you.

Capture the Perfect Shot with Scene Modes

Not long ago it would have been hard to imagine a user-friendly and affordable digital camera packed with features that professional photographers envy, such as wide-angle Leica lenses, and manual controls. However, Panasonic’s commitment to research and innovation, and dedication in providing their consumers with the technologies they need to take professional-quality images resulted in an extraordinary feat.

Meet the LZ8 8.1 Megapixel Digital Camera. This digital camera is 2.44″ high, 3.84″ wide and 1.31″ deep and weighs around 0.31lbs. It supports an image resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels and an 848 x 480 movie resolution.

To provide digital photographers with added creative elements and performance, the Panasonic LZ8 8.1 Megapixel Digital Camera sports manual control over aperture and shutter speed, thanks to the camera’s newly-adopted iris. When shooting manually, users can choose from three modes: A-aperture priority, S-shutter speed priority and M-manual and enjoy added control and creativity normally reserved for higher end models. Also new to the LZ-Series is the Advanced Scene Mode, a feature that gives consumers manual control using some of the frequently-used scene modes: Portrait, Sports, Landscape and Night portrait.

With an optical zoom of 5x, the camera’s lens contains multiple elements that move in or out in relation to one another, creating a magnification factor. For digital zoom, the processor in the camera takes the image from the lens, and uses algorithms to interpret what the image through the lens would look like at a higher magnification for Panasonic LZ8 model. While in Advanced Scene Mode, when selecting the Portrait or Sports mode, the consumer is presented with additional settings such as the option to choose outdoor or indoor attributes. When selecting Landscape mode, there are options to specify if the shot is nature or architecture. For budding photographers who desire even more artistic freedom, they can choose Creative mode, which adds more manual controls over aperture or a shutter speed.

For consumers not quite ready for complete manual control, the LZ8 also features Panasonic’s Intelligent Auto Mode, which is comprised of five distinct technologies designed to provide users with intuitive and automatic camera adjustments. These five distinct technologies featured for Intelligent Auto Mode are the following: Mega OIS (Optical Image Stabilizer) helps to prevent hand-shake from creating a blurry image; Intelligent ISO determines if the photo subject is moving and changes the ISO setting and shutter speed accordingly, thus giving a blur-free photo; Intelligent Scene Selector senses the ambient conditions, recognizes the shooting environment and automatically selects the appropriate scene mode from. Face Detection detects up to 15 faces anywhere in the frame, even if they are moving, and automatically chooses the optimal focus and exposure settings so portraits come out clear and crisp; and Quick AF (Auto-Focus) focuses on the subject by just pointing the camera to the subject, thus minimizing the AF time.

The LZ8 camera also features new 230,000-dot high-resolution LCDs, complete with the new Intelligent LCD. The 2.5-inch LCD screens detect the lighting condition and controls the brightness level to offer optimal clarity in any situation, whether it’s dark or bright, indoors or outdoors. This camera also includes the popular High Angle mode which makes the LCD screen easy to view when held high, to shoot over a crowd or a tall object.

The Panasonic LZ8 8.1 Megapixel Digital Camera is perfect for consumers who expect a digital camera that blends power, performance and quality, helping them to maximize their digital photography experience. With the LZ8’s 32mm wide-angle lens, consumers can capture larger group photos and expansive scenic shots.

Currently in beta, Frengly is a free online translator which allows you to translate text of over 25 different languages. Although Frengly doesn’t provides many features such as document and webpage translaton, at least Frengly does pretty well in its simple text translaton.

To start a translation, simply type in some text into the form provided and click either ‘Translate’ or the languages tab. Your results will be shown at the bottom.

Want to know what is the coolest music website in the internet today? I really don’t know if you would entirely agree with me, but www.jejuh.com appears to be the coolest music website existing at the time present in the online market today. Why cool? Allow me to substantiate my claim. The site is user-friendly; it is up-to-date, comprehensive in its music material coupled with interesting Instrumentals and a totally unique total make-up which separates it from the commonplace.

You’ve got to see the site yourself to verify my claims. But I tell you, you will definitely enjoy your brief stay in the site as it offers so much to users that they cannot resist. You can buy beats by following easy steps, participate actively by submitting your recorded songs and get a chance to be a featured artist once your song is chosen.

Interesting, interactive, cool—these make the site distinct from the rest!

Yet Ten Sleep, population 350, is just as connected as any place these days, and home to a new company that is outsourcing jobs not from the United States to the Far East, but in the opposite direction.

Eleutian Technology hires people in towns across northern Wyoming to teach English to Koreans of all ages using Skype, the free online calling and person-to-person video service. Two years old, Eleutian already is one of Wyoming’s fastest-growing businesses.

The company has close to 300 teachers hooked up to more than 15,000 students in Korea, and CEO Kent Holiday said he’s just getting started.

“Our plan was never to be a company that had a few thousand subscribers,” Holiday said. “It’s a $100 billion market just between Korea, Japan and China, and so we wanted to be the leader and we wanted to have millions of users.”

Holiday got the idea for the company after a short stint teaching English in Korea in the early 1990s. He went to work in Korea’s telecommunications industry and eventually became a top executive of Korea Telecom.

All along, he kept in mind that language education someday would be possible online. He made his move in 2006, getting grief from friends about quitting his high-six-figures job. “I said ‘You know what? The time’s right,’” he said.

Eleutian isn’t the only company harnessing the Internet from the distant ranges of Wyoming. Whether it’s a Laramie man who sells high-end computers to day traders, or a Green River woman who writes software for mass transit systems, doing business in the least populated state no longer has to mean running the equivalent of a frontier outpost, said Jon Benson, CEO of the Wyoming Technology Business Center at the University of Wyoming.

“Broadband connectivity really has allowed people to do high-tech businesses from remote areas,” he said. “It allows companies to locate in a place like Wyoming and do business across the world.”

Eleutian’s teachers include Kathleen Hampton, whose home is remote even by Wyoming standards.

Hampton moved to Wyoming from New Jersey when she met her rancher husband during a trip out West 13 years ago. She teaches English online several nights a week after her 30-mile commute home from teaching kindergarten in Ten Sleep.

She teaches most Korean students one-on-one. Many are in college. A few are middle-aged business executives. Hampton also teaches groups that are in private schools called “hakwons,” which students attend after the regular school day.

“They’re always fun because they’re always yelling out in the background,” Hampton said. “You get 14-year-old boys yelling out ‘I love you!’ because they learn these English expressions and try to use them.”

Eleutian pays its teachers $15 an hour to start. They’re required to have state certification but don’t have to be currently employed in schools.

“When you put on those first headphones and you’re talking to somebody, it’s nerve-racking to start with,” Hampton said. “But it doesn’t take long. If you’re a teacher and used to explaining things, it makes no difference.”

Growling at her students is one of her techniques. The idea is to get them to make an English-sounding “r.”

“I’ll be growling at them and there’s some of these 20-year-old boys who will laugh, and they’ll growl right back at you. And their roommates are in the background laughing at you and they get right into it,” Hampton said. “And then you will have these quiet, little, studious people that will look at you and just won’t do it.”

Tuition for Eleutian’s courses varies with factors like the size of the class and the business that’s contracting Eleutian’s services. But like any outsourcing company, Eleutian competes aggressively on price. For instance, one weekly one-on-one Internet course from Eleutian costs $150 for a whole semester, while English tutors in Korea charge from $40 to $60 an hour, Holiday said.

Holiday had been planning to start Eleutian Technology in Utah. He picked Ten Sleep, where his in-laws live, after seeing fiber-optic cable being installed throughout town. Tri County Telephone, the telecom cooperative that serves the Ten Sleep area, upgraded from decades-old copper phone wiring to fiber in 2006 ? a step that has still yet to fully happen in many urban areas. Chris Davidson, Tri County’s general manager, said the company wanted “to build a network for the future.”

Holiday said the sparsely populated area also proved to have enough teachers. Some, like Hampton, teach from home. Others teach from Eleutian’s learning centers in Ten Sleep and four other towns in northern Wyoming.

Ten Sleep got its name for being the midpoint of a 20-day trek between Indian camps. The irony of its middle-of-nowhwere origins isn’t lost on Bob Jensen, chief executive of the Wyoming Business Council, a semipublic agency that encourages economic development. But he added: “With their technical capability, their telecom capability ? their fiber, their bandwidth ? there’s no reason why companies like Eleutian can’t grow in towns like Ten Sleep.”

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