The Motorola Droid is the only smartphone which has come closest to the iPhone in terms of customer likeness and recorded a whopping sales number of more than 800,000 handsets since it had been released in the US on November 6. The same is now being launched in the European market and has been already welcome by the major UK phone networks. The phone is supposedly to be launched in the UK on 7th December.

The Motorola Droid runs on Google backed Android operating system and it has some cool features such as; 5 megapixel camera, QUERTY keyboard which slides out, 3.7 inch touchscreen are few of the features its boasts about.
It is planned to be released via Expansys, UK technology retail website, with which it has struck a deal. It is ranged for £449.99, and for £50 with a T-Mobile Combi 30 contract costing £35 a month. In the UK it will be known as "Milestone", a change possibly linked to the fact that the name "Droid" is used in the US under licence from George Lucas' production company Lucasfilms, who copyrighted the term following its use in the Star Wars films.

In a statement from Motorola, the manufacturer cited international interest as a key reason for the release. "The device has received a great deal of interest from customers and consumers around the world," it said.

A diamond studded (200 diamonds) Golden iPhone has been unveiled by a British company which makes it the world’s costliest mobile phone. The phone is only meant for the rich.


The gold iPhone has been designed by Stuart Hughes for the Liverpool-based Goldstriker International. It is made from 22-carat gold has It has 136 diamonds in the front bezel and an Apple logo made out of no fewer than 53 diamonds. The phone's front navigation button comprises a rare diamond of 7.1 carats.


The Gold iPhone took 10 months to be made and it ships with a heavy crest crafted of a single granite block.

Pranav Mistry & Pattie Maes presents the SixthSense ; a wearable interface which augments the physical world around us into digital information with the use of hand gestures to interact with the information.

A very intelligent interface working on the lines of the five senses that we human beings use to perceive information. The SixthSense technology prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build.

The SixthSense presented by Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry at TED 2009 conference.