Hi-tech posters guide commuters
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Interactive posters at 25 underground stations are helping Londoners travel safely over Christmas.
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Mobile phones that project video and GPS devices that display maps on anything from table tops to walls are some of the products showcasing hot new projection technologies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
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LONDON: If your city&#39;s increasing traffic leaves you with nothing but a headache, here is a &#39;godsend vehicle&#39; that promises to make life easier.
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By Dean Kahn, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 8--More local governments are providing free Wi-Fi as a way to attract shoppers and visitors. Even some transit agencies are providing Wi-Fi on buses.
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The BBC is looking for videos and photos of people commuting to work, all over the world. We'll be using these pictures to create a special short film.
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Business travelers who pack light and like to save money and time might consider rapid transit.
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Flashy new multimedia 'Gadget' ads are designed to draw watchers who'll share what they see.
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The company seems to be focused on developing a solution that would enable users to access complete directions and maps using a portable device.
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(InfoWorld) - Commuters in Tokyo are getting a chance to experience some cutting-edge display technology from Thursday -- although they might have to look hard to see it. On three commuter trains some traditional paper advertisements have been replaced with color e-paper displays. The displays, while technologically advanced, proved difficult to read during a demonstration Thursday. The 13.1-inch displays are made by Hitachi Ltd. and based on Bridgestone Corp.'s "electronic liquid powder" technology. There are two such displays on each of the three trains, mounted on the carriage wall at either end of the train. Each display is connected to a smaller unit which contains companion electronics and an 8MB memory that can hold 37 advertisements. Each advertisement is shown for two minutes in a continuous cycle. Electronic paper is still in its infancy. While it has been shown in prototype form for several, the technology has only recently started making its way into commercial products. One of the highest profile uses is Sony'sÂ Sony Reader electronic book, but it uses only a monochrome display. Color e-paper development lags. The displays in the trains offer relatively low resolution, at 50 dpi (dots per inch), and can only display eight colors. There's also no backlight, so on-screen images appeared quite dark and advertisements utilizing dark colors, such as red and black, were relatively difficult to read. Reflections on the display's protective plastic cover also caused problems. The month-long tests are relatively high-profile because the trains in question run on East Japan Railway's Yamanote Line, which runs in a loop around the center of Tokyo. It's used by about 3.5 million people each weekday, making it one of the city's most important and heavily used railway lines. The trial will gauge feedback from travellers and see how the system performs in a real-world environment, said Nobuyuki Ogura, a senior manager with Hitachi's transportation information systems division in Tokyo. They follow a trial last year in which a monochrome e-paper display replaced a wall poster at Tokyo Station, he said. Hitachi will continue working on the screens and hopes to have a commercial panel ready for use by March 2008, he said. The Yamanote Line has 52 trains and on each 11-car train there are 1,414 advertisements, for a total of 73,528 on the entire line. While 96 of the advertisements on each train are LCD displays, the rest must be changed by hand. The use of more digital advertisements would mean new content could be quickly transmitted to each display panel with little fuss. The trial system that begins Thursday includes the ability to update advertisements via a 802.11b wireless LAN link to the panels. Hitachi isn't the only company working on color e-paper. Earlier this yearÂ Fujitsu showed a prototype 7.8-inch panelÂ that can display up to 4,096 colors. The display, which is the same size as a sheet of A5 paper, was built into a thin case in the form of an electronic book reader and was on show at the Ceatec exhibition in October.
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First TVs, new printers, long-lasting inks, and projectors are targeted \
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Drivers still learning how to talk  on cell phones and maneuver at the same time are headed for an  even more complex world.
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The Creative Zen Vision W's screen is big enough to share movies and photos with your subway seatmates.
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Materials that could allow levitating trains and ultra powerful computers to become commonplace are coming of age
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Site will alert users to roadwork and accidents in their local area.
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By Greg Kline, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.  Feb. 26--A COLLECTION OF SHOPPING AIDS TO ASSIST YOU: I'm not going to  say mobile phone carriers intentionally make their plan descriptions, and even  phone specification sheets, complex and confusing on purpose.
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Television sets traditionally  dominate the IFA consumer electronics trade fair but there is  an abundance of new high-tech gadgets on display in Berlin this  week aimed at making life simpler and more beautiful too.
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Commuters will soon be able to use their mobile phones and personal digital assistants at four of Boston's busiest subway station.