'Promise a lot, lots of promise products'

When the curtain of the old year is about to let go, the list of winners and losers in the year has been announced, Europe should also be the time to face those who " loudest and promise ".

We mean the products that are sworn, promised, inflated, but never launched, or smothered like water-dip rice cakes.

A few of the products that have escaped the title are not in the last minute, but most notably Windows Vista and Sony PS3. Vista is too popular with the tradition of postponing the postponement, but being able to catch it is that the business version will be released in November 2006. Meanwhile, the PS3 has also been shipped, only you can't have a chance to touch it.

Many readers also voted for Apple's iPhone, but Wired decided not to include the case. Simple, because Apple has never really confirmed the existence of such a product.

And finally, please announce to you, the "Spiritual" table of those who promised to win in 2006.

1. Optimus 103 keyboard

Source: ixbt

Last year, Wired noted that Optimus Keyboard, a tiny screen-based keyboard on each button, would be a heavyweight candidate for this year's Shen Yun, because the manufacturer promised it would. released in 2006. Actually proved no Optimus 103 keyboard came out, and of course, Optimus deserves to be mentioned first.

Now Art Lebedev Studios, which produces Optimus, loudly promises to be a standalone keyboard model for this operating system that will be released in 2007. Accompanying it is a sensor keyboard named Upravlator. Chances are, these will be the two names that you will encounter in the next Fascination Table.

2. iPod killer

Source: AP

Every time there is a new model of portable music player, the manufacturer also claims that it is a "magic bullet shot through the heart" iPod, ending the monopoly of "Apple".

But the reality has shown: all are just great words. The Zune should have been born with the mission of helping Microsoft downplay Apple, but the device still lay dusty on the shelves, while all the beautiful Christmas gift boxes were open to the iPod inside. Even SanDisk Sansa outsold Zune.

3. SED TV

A man is "visiting" the SED TV model presented by Toshiba at the CES 2006 exhibition. Source: AP

The new generation flat-panel TVs are advertised as "connected" to the ultra-thin features of LCD TVs with the brightness, clarity, sharpness and high image sensitivity of traditional CRT monitors. Surface conductive light technology uses a separate "electronic shotgun" for each pixel on the screen, thereby creating an "eye-exploding" high-resolution image quality.

At the CES 2006 show, Toshiba demonstrated the first SED TV models attached to claim they will be available on the occasion of Christmas shopping this year. However, by October, the company announced that people would have to wait until the end of July 2007.

4. Spore

Source: Game Review

The rumors surrounding Will Wright's new game, the father of the classic "The Sims" game, really sounded squeaky.

In Spore, the player will lead a certain creature to undergo a long evolution - from a single-celled body to alien "super-intelligent creatures". Anything created by the user will be saved into a huge database and shared with other players via the Internet.

Wright performed Spore at the E3 conference in May 2005, immediately triggering a fever in the whole village. At the time, Wright predicted that Spore would debut in 2006, but as you know, that prediction did not materialize, as it had to be postponed to the second half of the year.

5. Skype for Symbian phones

VoIP on a mobile phone? There is nothing more promising than the idea of ​​integrating Skype software with Symbian phones. Believers of "crickets" have long been looking forward to this marriage, and the prospect of a smartphone from Nokia or Sony Ericsson that can chat with VoIP and make cheap SkypeOut calls really resonates.

The rumor that Skype is developing a mobile version of VoIP leaked in 2004. Screenshot also appeared on the blog in February 2006, confirming that the software is almost complete. But what happened? It's like a pebble falling into a pond, diving.

Trong Cam