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2009 Latvian meteorite hoax

The deliberately amateur style of the video, with shaky handheld camerawork and apparently spontaneous reactions from the students, has been compared to The Blair Witch Project.

3net

Nintendo's 3DS handheld system frequently provides episodic clips of content from 3net's programs on their Nintendo Video service.

Adreno

Announced in February 2006, as the first Imageon product in the line featuring Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H) signal receiving support, allowing handhelds devices to receive digital broadcast TV (DVB-H) signals and enables watching TV programs on these devices, the chipset includes tuner, demodulator, decoder, and a full software stack.

Advent Shadow

Advent Shadow was an action-adventure game developed for the PlayStation Portable handheld and a side story of Advent Rising, however, the game was cancelled in January 2006.

Aguri Suzuki F-1 Super Driving

In 1993, Aguri Suzuki F-1 Super Driving was released for the Game Boy handheld, exclusively in Japan.

Automatic Packet Reporting System

Yaesu has recently entered the APRS market with their VX-8R(G) handheld and FTM-350R mobile radio.

Bien Logic

After a well-received presentation to Simon & Schuster CEO Dick Snyder who was an early believer in handheld electronic books, CCC's CEO Ron Fortune gave a substantial contract to Bien Logic in 1993 to develop the first educational digital book on the eBook/BOOKMAN platform of Franklin.

Biorhythm

Biorhythm programs were a common application on personal computers; and in the late 1970s, there were also handheld biorhythm calculators on the market, the Kosmos 1 and the Casio Biolator.

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure is the seventh installment in the Crash Bandicoot video game series and the first Crash Bandicoot game to be released on a handheld console.

Cyril Houri

Shortly thereafter, he launched Mexens Technology, Inc. and created Navizon, a wireless positioning system for handheld devices that triangulates signals from cellular tower and/or Wi-Fi access points to pinpoint the user’s location.

Didj

Leapfrog Didj, a handheld game console made by LeapFrog Enterprises

Digital Reader DR800SG

The DR800SG is an electronic handheld device, or e-Reader, which can be used for document reading using an electronic paper display.

Gates of Zendocon

Gates of Zendocon is a 1989 shoot-em-up action video game by Epyx written by Peter Engelbrite for the 1989 color portable handheld console Atari Lynx.

George R. Caron

A handheld 16 mm film camera on The Great Artiste captured the only known motion film of the explosion.

Herbst LaZar Bell, Inc.

HLB is responsible for designs as the Motorola NFL Coaches Headset, the first Internet Gas Pump by Gilbarco, the Papermate Liquid Correction Pen, and lifesaving products such as the Ethicon Mammotome Handheld Breast Biopsy System, the ZOLL AED Plus defibrillator, and the CardioVations Heart Stabilizer.

InterVideo

InterVideo HandHeld Business Unit developed multimedia software solutions in the mobile and embedded multimedia market.

IraqComm

DynaSpeak speech recognition is also used in the Phraselator, a weatherproof handheld language translation device developed by VoxTec, a former division of the military contractor Marine Acoustics, located in Annapolis, MD.

ISTAT

i-STAT, a handheld clinical blood analyzer made by Abbott Laboratories.

July 2006 in video gaming

Microsoft announces that it will release a handheld to rival the iPod.

K-NFB Reader

The K-NFB Reader (an acronym for Kurzweil — National Federation of the Blind Reader) is a handheld electronic reading device for the blind.

Men at Arms

It turns out that d'Eath has stolen the gonne, the Disc's first and only handheld firearm, from the Assassins' Guild, with the intention of discrediting Vetinari's government through the murders.

Michael R. Fine

Fine conducted beta tests on the first Palm handheld devices, as well as the original Bluetooth designs, and was significantly involved in the launch of xDSL and WiFi.

Microelectronics Education Programme

Each member of staff created correspondence on a handheld wordprocessor, a Microwriter, designed by Cy Endfield.

Mobile translation

See also Infoscope, which is a handheld device composed of a digital camera and wireless internet access, developed at IBM's Almaden Research Center.

Momma Can I Mow The Lawn

Momma Can I Mow The Lawn is a video game which started off in development for formats such as the PlayStation 2, but after the developer Warthog Games was purchased by Tiger Telematics to produce titles for the Gizmondo handheld console, it was moved to the Gizmondo.

Navman

Established in 1986 as New Zealand-based Talon Technology, Navman (as the company became known in the 1990s) is a GPS systems company providing stand-alone GPS units, OEM GPS modules, GPS software for Palm handhelds and Pocket PCs, automotive navigation systems and navigation systems for use at sea.

Neo Geo

In December 2012, Tommo released a new Neo Geo handheld in North America and Europe with SNK Playmore license, It's a open source based handheld like Dingoo but closed to emulate Neo Geo games, with 20 built-in games, called the Neo Geo X.

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

Ninja Gaiden series director Tomonobu Itagaki has stated that he decided to make the game for the Nintendo DS because of the originality that the platform allows, which he feels is the most important aspect of a handheld platform, and also to create a challenge for himself.

Otelo Burning

Much of the film was shot handheld on location in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.

Plugger

Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR), a US military handheld GPS system colloquially known as the "plugger"

Pyra

DragonBox Pyra, an upcoming Linux-based Handheld Computer equiped with Gaming Controls.

RandR

The extension framework allows laptops and handheld computers to change their screen size to drive external monitors at different resolutions than their built in screens.

Retriever Communications

Retriever has involvement in this project by RFID enabling its application at CHEP and providing a scanning mobile application for handheld RFID readers, integrated to the Telstra system.

ROM cartridge

Cartridges are still used today with handheld gaming consoles such as Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita.

See-through display

It is a technology that has been around for a decade or two, but only this year is it being incorporated by companies such as Samsung and Planar Systems into consumer products like handheld devices, televisions, and other technology.

SoftMaker

Its predecessor, SoftMaker Office 2010, is available for Windows CE, and Pocket PCs (Windows Mobile handheld devices).

Standard Army Maintenance System – Enhanced

Hardware: COTS notebooks, host, printer and AIT equipment (handheld device, wireless access point, encoder/decoder)

Stereoscope

In 1861 Oliver Wendell Holmes created and deliberately did not patent a handheld, streamlined, much more economical viewer than had been available before.

TI-Nspire series

The Nspire has a new Vernier DataQuest function which can be used to collect data from any sensors connected to the Lab Cradle, which allows up to 5 sensors, or one sensor probe can be connected via USB port on top of the handheld.

Transformers Animated: The Game

Transformers Animated: The Game is a video game for the Nintendo DS handheld based on the current Transformers television incarnation, Transformers: Animated.

Treasure World

The game is unique, as its gameplay consists mainly of collecting, making use of Wi-Fi signals picked up by the handheld.

Vitelcom

Vitelcom makes DVD and VCR equipment under contract using the Funai brand name, mobile phones using the Grundig mobile name under license, plus handheld computer equipment and ADSL modems.

Wikipad

The Wikipad 7 is an enterprise and video gaming tablet, running Android (4.2.2 ) produced by the independent Los Angeles-based company, Wikipad, Inc. Handheld prototypes were first shown at CES 2012 in January with the final product hitting shops in the UK accompanied by a well received TV in campaign December 2013 initiating its global roll out.

XENDEX

XENDEX's core business is to develop games for handheld devices, including mobile phones (Java ME/BREW, Windows Mobile, Android) as well as for the PlayStation Portable, the Apple iPhone and the Nintendo DSi.


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