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Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 To Be Waterproof?

It seems that 2012 is the year of ‘waterproofing’. I find this ironic, since in the movie “2012”, the world is destroyed by a variety of disasters, ending in massive flooding.

Maybe companies are thinking, “Hmm… just in case?” All jokes aside, we’ve seen some interesting pushes towards waterproofing technology such as P2i’s Aridion technology, and the new waterproof Pantech Element.

Now it seems that both Apple and Samsung might be making a move down this road as well, as both are actively looking into a hi-tech spray that make smartphones waterproof, and such technology could even arrive with the iPhone 5.

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Prodigy projection keyboard iPhone case turns any surface into a keyboard

It’s not the first time we have seen a virtual keyboard at Pocket-lint. In fact we reviewed one called the iTech Virtual keyboard back in 2004. However, it is the first time we have seen the technology in an iPhone case.

Called Prodigy and made by a Korean company Celluon, the idea is that you slip your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S into the specially designed case to give you a full size virtual keyboard so you’ve got something bigger to type on.

The unit, on show at this year’s CES, works by firing a laser pattern of a standard QWERTY keyboard onto any surface in front of it and then tracks where you break the beam to know which key you are virtually pressing.

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