Google has has launched an event to preview its upcoming Chrome OS. It is a new operating system based on Linux and the Chrome browser.

“The entire system is web-based and runs in the Chrome browser — right down to USB drive contents, which show up in a browser tab, and the notepad, which actually creates a Google Docs document. Web apps are launched from a persistent apps panel, which includes Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and Hulu, among others, and background apps like Google Talk can be minimized to “panels” that dock to the bottom of the screen.”

It is still in early stage, not even in beta yet. Check out the videos after the break. Read more…

I just translated some words using the Google Translate and I found out that they have upgrade the translator, they can now speak. That’s fun to play with. Check it out at translate.google.com.

This Aphone A6 is actually an iPhone clone which runs on Google Android 1.5 with an iPhone UI skin. The phone comes with 3.5-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 130MB of RAM. Check out the video preview after the break. Read more…

These guys got paid drive and photograph the entire country. But they got no idea how far they are going to drive. Video after the break. Read more…

Google actually uses dessert to codenamed their Android release. Cupcake was 1.5 and Donut was 1.6 and the new one Éclair is expected to be 2.0. The Android team puts out giant sculpture to correspond the software’s release. Google hasn’t made any announcements for the 2.0, when the big Donut was shown in front of Google back in September the developer release was out within a few days. Now the Éclair was shown, it looks like will be seeing Android 2.0 soon. The Motorola’s upcoming Droid is expected to be the first mobile phone to ship with Android 2.0. Read more…

ACER UK has announced their new Android (Donut) Smartphone called the Liquid A1. It is the world’s first Qualcomm Snapdragon processor based and world’s first Android 1.6 high definition smartphone, featuring 3G and 3G+, High Definition capacitive touch screen (Wide VGA) at 800×480 resolutions and a 5Mpix AF camera module.

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Sometime Google Suggestions can be funny, check it out and try it out yourself.

Google Japan has made a short animated film to show us how Google Maps’ Street View function actually works in case you don’t know. Check it out after the break. Read more…

Have you seen a TV commercial advertising a web browser? Here it is, from Google Japan team for the Google Chrome. Check it out after the break. Read more…

Kids often lost themselves in the supermarket, that’s what parents worry about whenever they bring their children to shopping. Princeton has come out with a device to solve that problem. It is called the Kid Finder, it is capable of letting you know both distance and direction of your kids. But please take note that it only works in a range up to 90 meters. The transmitter also comes with a SOS button that will send an alarm to remote in case of danger. The Kid Finder is available at $108.

[via TechFresh]