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Ready to take a beating
Olympus TOUGH series
For those who lead an active lifestyle and just love being outdoors, Olympus’ TOUGH series introduces three new fun, functional, and heavy-duty cameras. Resistant to water, dust, shock, and freezing temperatures, the TG-320 (P9,995), TG-620 (P12,995), and TG-820 (P15,995) are tough cameras that can withstand any rough and tumble thrown their way.
Travel safe
Travelon RFID Blocking Billfold and Document Organizer
Keep thieves away from your important documents, cash, and credit cards with the RFID Blocking Billfold (P2,190) and the anti-theft Document Organizer (P2,490).
Small and super
Nokia Asha 200
The Asha 200 features a 2.4” QVGA TFT display, dedicated SIM manager and messaging keys, 5-way NAVI keys, and a 2MP camera. It supports up to 32GB microSD storage—perfect for keeping all your photos and favorite songs.
Revolutionizing projectors
Epson MegaPlex MG-850HD
The Epson MegaPlex MG-850HD (P43,900) helps you share your multimedia content easily as a 720p HD all-in-one projector, speaker, and Apple device dock combo.
TECH FRONTIERS | FUTURE TECH
China seeks to increase rainfall
While the changes in China’s atmosphere have been mostly byproducts of the country’s rapidly growing industrial revolution, the country now plans to make some purposeful atmospheric changes. They want to make it rain in order to grow crops.
Care for a 2-year-old sandwich?
The gummy paste and freeze-dried food troops once carried into battle will soon become a thing of the past. The U.S. Army’s new breakthrough is considered the world’s most cutting edge sandwich—one that can be served fresh off the shelf after a full two years of being on it.
IBM’s lithium air batteries
Batteries of the future
Our cars may be able to run on batteries alone sooner than you think. Researchers from IBM are working on a new type of lithium battery that can be as practical as fuel.
Owners of electric vehicles are constantly bothered by the fact that they are not able to travel more than 161 kilometers or so (almost 7 times the whole stretch of EDSA) per charge.
Future smartphones can gauge your health
Aside from its usual communication functions, your smartphones may help you save time from taking trips to the hospital as well. Imagine your phone as a diagnostic device that can detect your illness and take in your blood and urine samples.
Touch-screen technology works by recognizing electronic charges from a person’s finger. And similar to how medical tests are done, the technology can be used to detect biomolecular matter.
