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New Silicon Circuits Invented: Bendy, Stretchy, Rubbery
2008-03-29 00:05:00 Scientists have made a discovery that makes silicon cool again: it can now be made into bendy chips. Stiff silicon devices are powerful, of course, but not the best fit for some situations such as advanced medical sensors. Now a team University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has worked out a way to stick 1.5 micron-thick ... More About: Circuits , Silicon
Samsung Launches 10.2-megapixel L210 Point-and-shoot
2008-03-28 02:32:00 Now isn’t this bugger just as cute as a button? Even if red isn’t your hue of choice, Samsung ’s L210 point-and-shoot comes in black and silver motifs too, and while the 10.2-megapixel sensor is probably a bit much for a shooter this size, we suppose Sammy’s just following the trend. Aside from the pocket-friendly design ... More About: Digital Camera , Zoom , Point , Shooter
Kodak Intros New EasyShare Photo Frames With Quick Touch Borders
2008-03-28 02:25:00 It’s been a little while since we caught sight of Kodak ’s last batch of digital photo frames, but the company’s now come back for another go ’round with a trio of new EasyShare frames, each of which pack Kodak’s newfangled “Quick Touch” borders. That feature lets you scroll though photos simply by sliding your finger ... More About: Photo , Photos , Models
Microsoft Surface In Your House In 2011
2008-03-28 02:05:00 For Microsoft , full speed-ahead on a cheaper consumer version of Surface, its multi-touch computer table, means 2011. Tom Gibbons, VP of Microsoft specialized apps and devices group says that “In the three-year time window, we absolutely see how to get there. If we can beat that, we’ll try to beat that.” Alas, it’s Microsoft, so ... More About: House , Money , Info , Microsoft Surface
Thinkware To Launch Its Real 3D Navigation ?iNAVI K2?
2008-03-28 01:57:00 Thinkware(www.thinkware.co.kr) announced the launch of its premium navigation device ?iNAVI K2? in Korea market, which is equipped with its dynamic electronic map of 3D space representation ?iNAVI 3D?. Adopting 8GB SDHC memory card and 256MB of RAM, the iNAVI K2 provides useful information on the 3D environment structure through a 4.8-inch WVGA(800 x 480 resolution) LCD ... More About: Environment , Navigation , Launch , Real , North Pole
XO OLPC Overclocked: Now It Means Business (Kind Of)
2008-03-28 01:44:00 Think that the OLPC’s 433 MHz Geode LX 700 CPU is just too wimpy? Well, now you can toughen up it a bit and give it some processor bite by overclocking that mother. A post on OPLC News Hacks forum shows exactly how to do it: it boils down to some simple code to type ... More About: Business
HP UMPC 2133 Specs Revealed, Street Date Of April 7th?
2008-03-27 04:01:00 We’d been hearing that HP’s slick UMPC 2133 was going sport VIA processors, and now we’ve got some more info to back that up — we just received what appears to be a full spec list for the upcoming machine, and it’s VIA C7-Ms all around, with graphics courtesy of a VIA Chrome 9 chipset. ... More About: Graphics , Sport , Bluetooth , Notebook , April
16GB Samsung P2 Now Available From Best Buy Canada
2008-03-27 03:58:00 You may still not be able to get an iPhone in Canada (at least officially), but you can now at least grab a spiffy new 16GB Samsung YP-P2, which is a whole 8GB bigger than the model currently available in the US. From the looks of it, Best Buy Canada is the among the first ... More About: Iphone , Storage
Sanyo Brings ?smallest And Lightest? XGA Projector To These Shores
2008-03-27 03:50:00 It looks like it’s not only those in Japan that’ll be able to get their hands on what’s purported to be the “industry’s smallest and lightest XGA projector,” with Sanyo now also announcing that its diminutive PLC-XW60 LCD projector will soon be available ’round these parts as well. Most importantly, the price has also received ... More About: Projector , Shores
Super 3G Hits 250Mbps Downlink In NTT DoCoMo Field Test
2008-03-27 03:45:00 Just think — this time next year, we’ll all look back at this milestone and wonder how on Earth we thought it was impressive. For now, however, we wouldn’t blame you for high-fiving everyone around, as NTT DoCoMo has stretched the boundaries again with a recent Super 3G field test. Reportedly, the outfit was able ... More About: Network , Info , Launch
Eee PC Touchscreen Coming This Summer, Asus Confirms
2008-03-27 03:08:00 Asus’ president of sales, Kevin Lin, has announced the upcoming 8.9-inch Eee PC will have a touchscreen incorporated. Lin also speculated that the device may have GPS functionality, too, however this was not confirmed. The announcement has us a little confused, as earlier reports suggested otherwise. Still, Lin went on to say the expected starting ... More About: Summer , Notebook , Asus , Info , Tablet
LG SH240 Designed With Skin-on-Skin Action In Mind
2008-03-26 01:50:00 The otherwise run-of-the-mill LG SH240 GSM HSDPA phone comes with a silicon (or maybe silicone?) coating on its front, including keypad and d-pad, in order to give the user the feeling of touching skin, rather than cold, unfeeling rubber. And then, to drive the point home, LG hired hot models and told them to touch ... More About: Skin , Cellphones , Action , Korea , Mind
Acer?s Eee Competition To Have Lower Price Tag, More Beautiful Eyes
2008-03-25 01:14:00 According to a report on the lately-talkative Acer, the company’s first iteration of Eee PC-competition will be somewhat cheaper than ASUS’ current (and future) sticker prices. In a scant article, speculation abounds that the first wave of Acer-made 8.9-inch laptops will be priced around $350 to $400, while ASUS will market its 8.9-inch micro-top for ... More About: Laptops , Eyes , Competition , Harmony , Asus
Fujitsu Announces World?s First 320GB Laptop Disk To Spin At 7200rpm
2008-03-25 01:13:00 Take that WD, Toshiba, and Hitachi. Fujitsu just returned from exile with a claim to the biggest fastest laptop-disk throne. The 3Gbps SATA-equipped MHZ2 BJ series measures in at a standard 9.5-mm and spins at 7,200rpm with a 16MB cache and 25dB idle noise level. Average seek times are listed at 10.5-ms for data reads ... More About: Laptops , World , Samsung , Laptop , Memory
Great Pack Features Notebook: ASUS M50
2008-03-24 01:52:00 ASUS has released a new great features with its new infusion technology in design notebook, the ASUS M50. It is magnificently stunning at one glance and the interior is equally exquisite. With ASUS? exclusive Infusion technology, the M50 features the cover a superb polished shine, which creates a tough coat, highly resistant to abrasions. On ... More About: Notebook , Asus , Features , Great , Pack
Microsoft Releasing XP SP3 This Week?
2008-03-24 01:48:00 XP may not EOL until this June, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in need of the same kind of tender lovin’ update packs as OSes of every variety occasionally receive. And according to CRN, the long awaited XP SP3 could be due out as early as tomorrow, or possibly later this week. We’ll keep ... More About: Microsoft , Info , Week
Averatec 2575 Ultraportable Notebook Holds Its Own Against X300, MBA
2008-03-24 01:42:00 Averatec just released the 2575, their new 12.1-inch ultraportable notebook. While the design may be forgettable and Averatec may not be the biggest brand around, they’ve been making small, cheap notebooks for some time and this model comes through on both counts, at least on paper. The 3.9 pound, $1099 notebook has a 2.2GHz AMD ... More About: Notebook , Tablet , Stacks , Averatec , Holds
Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB Harddrive
2008-03-22 20:22:00 Western Digital has released its Caviar family HDD based on the 320 GB-per-platter technology, the WD Caviar SE16 640 GB 3.5-inch hard drives. The WD Caviar SE16 SATA and EIDE drives are certified for Windows Vista and are top performers on the Windows Vista Experience Index. The latest generation of WD Caviar SE16 drives employs ... More About: Memory , Storage , Digital Video , Hard drives
Even Happier Ending For ?cleaned? Xbox 360 Owner: Gates-signed Console Arri
2008-03-22 20:19:00 Remember that dude Nathaniel whose highly sentimental autographed Xbox 360 console was sent in for repairs and returned maddeningly clean? Turns out he didn’t just get a signed Halo 3 care package. Even more swag arrived this week, including (among other things) an Xbox 360 with signatures from the 360 team and Bungie, and even ... More About: Dude , Info , Signed
Sony Alpha A900 Shown Off At Photo Imaging Expo, Shipping Details Revealed
2008-03-22 20:03:00 Sony’s Alpha A900 practically blew us away when we first had an opportunity to grope it, which was way back during PMA ‘08 in January. Well, it looks like the Sony lads are again showing off their 25MP full-frame pro sensor toting DSLR, but this time at the Photo Imaging Expo in Japan . addthis_url ... More About: Digital Camera , Sony
S3 Graphics Chrome 430GT High-performance Graphics Card
2008-03-22 02:55:00 S3 Graphics released the new series of Chrome 400 Series to the market, S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT graphics card. The Chrome 430 GT combines advanced 3D graphics and incredible HD multimedia performance with extreme power-efficiency and rigidly low thermal specifications, breaking new ground in the highly competitive graphics industry. Based on the low profile ... More About: Performance , Card , High , Graphics Card
ECS GeForce 9800GX2 SLI Ready Graphics Card
2008-03-22 02:53:00 Elitegroup has launched the next generation Quad NVIDIA SLI ready graphics card, ECS GeForce 9800GX2. The card is equipped with the amazing power from the dual GPUs on the graphics card, ECS N9800GX2-1GPX-F meets the graphics performance demand of enthusiasts and extreme gamers. ECS N9800GX2-1GPX-F comes with 256 stream processors, a 512-bit 1024 MB GDDR3 ... More About: Graphics , Card , Memory , Geforce , Realism
Array-based Flash Memory Could Enable 1TB Memory Chips
2008-03-22 02:50:00 The alphabet soup of different flash memory technologies is already a little bewildering, but it looks like the latest entrant could end up being the most promising of all, with single chip storage capacities of 1TB expected within ten years. Called array-based memory, the tech has been under development at a company called Nanochip, Inc. ... More About: Flash , Servers , Memory , Storage , Info
ATM Gives Shoppers Double-money Windfall
2008-03-22 02:44:00 A British cash machine became a big hit this week after it started paying out twice as much money as it should. The ATM, outside a supermarket in they city of Hull in northern England, began spewing out double the money Tuesday afternoon and continued doing so for several hours, drawing a crowd of hundreds eager ... More About: Jokes , Fun , Money , Double , Info
Japanese Astronaut?s Space Boomerang Came Back
2008-03-21 22:13:00 Japan’s Takao Doi has just checked out an aerodynamics conundrum we were all curious about: would a boomerang return when thrown in zero-G? World boomerang champion Yasuhiro Togai had asked him to find out, you see. So, taking time out from his work aboard the International Space Station, he gave it a whirl. The answer: “I ... More About: Japan , Earth , Physics , Info
New Intel Security Can Tell You And Malicious Attacker Apart
2008-03-21 21:34:00 Intel’s Proteus security software starts out by getting to know you better?understanding your habits and network demands?using those statistical guidelines to clamp down on stuff that, let’s face it, doesn’t really sound like You. At least, not the You that Proteus has grown to love. This kind of learning really helps when trying to protect ... More About: Security , Intel
HP Launches The 13.3-inch Dv3000 Laptop In Asia
2008-03-21 00:11:00 It’s been a while since the HP dv2000 laptop made its original appearance, and it looks like HP’s giving the newest version a new model number as well as a slight redesign — say bonjour to the dv3000. Based around an oh-so-hip 13.3-inch display, the overall look of the machine is basically the same as ... More About: Asia , Laptop , Notebook , Appearance , Inch
ASUS Keeps Things Tiny With NOVA LITE Mini 2L PC
2008-03-21 00:10:00 Granted, the Nova P22 is probably small enough for the vast majority of folks, but if you weren’t feeling the aforementioned machine for whatever reason, here’s another option. The NOVA LITE Mini 2L measures in at 9.09- x 7.24- x 2.00-inches and weighs just a few raisins more than the X300 (3.3-pounds for those taking ... More About: Asus , Wifi , Tiny , Speakers
Nokia N82 Has Come In Black Now
2008-03-21 00:01:00 After the first silver version of N82, Nokia has made a new appearance of Nokia N82 in stylish black, bringing a blend of state-of-art imaging integrated navigation and high-speed Internet connectivity to the Nseries range of converged devices. With its 5-megapixel, Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash camera, you are able to capture high quality ... More About: Cellphones , Black , Maps , Megapixel
NEC 3D Enabled Display With Magnetic Enabl3D Technology
More articles from this author:2008-03-20 23:59:00 NEC, with partnership with Magnetic, is working out to enable the regular NEC monitors to show 3D video content using Magnetic?s Enabl3D technology. If everything goes according to plan then you?ll be able to experience the amazing 3D content that literally appears to pop more than a foot off the screen without using any special ... More About: Video , Technology , Adoption , Info , Display 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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