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Conspicuous by the lack of any substantial new coming from this year’s CES were the two South Korean behemoths LG and Samsung. Actually, that’s not quite true: both of these electronics giants were busy showing off hundreds of hi-tech products, with HDTVs in particular occupying pride of place in the line-ups.

As far as mobile phones were concerned, though, CES 2008 was a decidedly low-key affair, with LG in particular showing off a range of phones that were decidedly underwhelming.

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Mobile phone theft is a big problem these days, but Orange think they have the problem licked with an innovative solution – a mobile phone that screams when stolen. If your phone is stolen, you call orange’s new Synchronica Mobile Manager service (sold for an extra £10 per month), which then wipes all the data on the stolen mobile, and causes the mobile to emit a ringtone which apparently sounds just like a human screaming. At last, a real use for ringtones!

[Source: The Inquirer]

After the latest Apple iPhone hype, Apple seems to have thrown everyone off guard with a new patent that focuses on a wireless iPod that could take on the carriers in the music download market. The patent discusses a “portable wireless device”, which would be used “…to identify a digital media item on an online media store and mark it for download. The digital media item may then be downloaded at a later time when the user is able to connect to the online media store with a transfer device, typically a personal computer.”

Furiously avoiding any mention of hype, old-skool Public Enemy man Chuck D has launched a new distribution service for mobile music, aimed at providing ringtones, voice tones and other clips from urban artists.

“We hope this distribution platform will really give an opportunity to other musicians (who produce) more positive urban music,” Walter Leaphart, Chuck D’s manager, said last week. “Kids are force-fed when to buy, where to buy and how to buy. The labels are only caring about the quarterly bottom line, and they say (gangsta rap) is what sells. If you take all that bullshit off and put on healthy stuff, you may change a kid’s perspective.”

Called Chuck D Mobile, the new service will “…build on Chuck D’s work to leverage the Internet to give artists more control over their content and how it is distributed to music fans.”

[Source: RCRNews]

The next advance in ringtones could be the BrainTone – a set of frequencies that quite literally hack your brain, making you feel a specific sensation just by listening to the tone. Called entrainment, the technique modifies the electrical activity in your brain through specific sounds that mimic the electrical activity (in the form of soundwaves) associated with certain mental states.

Read on to find out what kind of mental states a BrainTone can mimic.

[Source: forevergeek, bwgen]