In areas with Verizon Wireless LTE service, the Sleek 4G-V is aimed to give you a strong LTE signal, as well as conventional 3G or 2G signals. Benefits include fewer dropped connections and no-service “dead zones,” faster data transfer rates and improved battery life for wireless devices.

The Sleek 4G-V is on display at the Wilson Electronics booth #35219 in the Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, level 2, through Jan. 13.

The $149.95 4G booster will be available in the second quarter of 2012. It links up with Verizon Wireless’ 700 MHz LTE, as well as all carriers’ 3G and 2G cellular signals on 800 MHz and 1900 MHz frequency bands.  It provides up to 20 times amplification of an ordinary cell phone signal, device is also designed for use in a vehicle, and can be used indoors with the purchase of an optional accessory kit. That makes it perfect for boosting signal to 4G wireless hotspots like the Verizon JetPack 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot MiFi 4510L.

I’m not on Verizon, I didn’t experience any of its outages. But as long as it boosts 2G/3G signals, too, it might be a good gadget for me, too.

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Naturally, a presumed quad-core 1.5 GHz Exynos 4412 application processor for this phone might be a good basis to include 3D visual capabilities for its screen. Real question is, how much traction the idea might gain amongst consumers? Samsung 3D TVs are still looked upon as a niche product, however, maybe a phone with 3D UI capabilities will fare better.

Imagine a carouseling 3D TouchWiz 5.0 UI on such a phone’s home screen, or on apps screen. When the icons and widgets will be rendered really in 3D, it might be actually operated better with hovering swipes than applying the regular touch swipes. That is, if Samsung will embrace Cypress Semiconductor TrueTouch technology for its rumored Super AMOLED Plus HD capacitive screen’s sensor. But just as with those renderings from Russian artists, one of which is shown here, it may never happen.

Samsung Galaxy S III is expected to show at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February-March 2012.

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A few years ago invisibility cloaks were just confined to fiction. Now, it is a reality with research going on in a number of countries. But most of the experiments are being done for making something invisible. But the scientists from Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology decided to do something different, create an invisibility cloak for sound.

As you might know, all the current invisibility cloaks play with light. A light ray from behind an object is curved around it and then it reaches the eyes of the observer. This makes the object invisible as the viewer will only be seeing what’s behind the object.

For developing the “silence cloak” the scientists, obviously, experimented with sound waves. The experiment was done using a 1mm-thick plate which was built by Dr. Nicolas Stenger.

As the plate is made of both soft and hard carbon polymers, each ring within the plate was found to be resonating on a different frequency over a range of 100 Hertz. This resulted in the sound waves traveling around a central circular region within the plate. Sound was not absorbed or deflected.

Prof. Martin Wegener, Stenger’s colleague, has this to say on the experiment: “Contrary to other known noise protection measures, the sound waves are neither absorbed nor reflected. It is as if nothing was there”.

The experiment appears to be a success and we believe the concept might become big in the very near future. And we will be covering it when that happens, so stay tuned to this space.

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