The eMachines company presented their new EZ1601-01 nettop with some very original design solutions. First impression is that this is actually a desktop PC with monitor, keyboard, mouse. But than you realize that there is no desktop itself and it is the design of the nettop that makes it as comfortable to work on as on a desktop.
Are you thinking about buying a DVD? Or maybe it is better to get Blu-ray? The answer to these questions might be the Mvix Ultio – media player with incorporated Bit-torrent client.
Dreaming of being a movie star? To feel the light of projectors? To be recognized by every kid in the block? To have a hot scene with… hmmm
Now you can make your dream true with Yoostar – small set of USB-camera, portable green screen and a special software to put you inside your famous movie. Well for now you can do that only in one the movies that the Yoostar has included in the software. So for your first movie steps you can choose by 14 classic scenes from movies like “Godfather”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Apocalypse now”. You can start a career as a actor partnering to Marilyn Monroe or Harrison Ford.
It is summer and many of us are preparing for the holidays. The equipment from the last year is taken out, and we feverishly try to complement it. The following gadget could bring a lot of fun to your seaside vacation, and even more – it will give you an opportunity to show some interesting moments to your friends.
The gadget itself is a Diving Mask with incorporated 5 Megapixel camera. It has 16 MB internal memory, that can store about 30 pictures on highest resolution (2560×1920), or about 1 minute of video. If this is not enough you can use the Micro SD Card slot to expand the memory and take all the underwater shots or video you want. The camera can be connected to a computer or a smartphone by USB cable so you can send images to your colleagues right from the beach.
After the announcement of the orthopedic mouse and keyboard release, the Smartfish company comes out with another product – their Pro:Motion Game™ ergonomic gamepad.
After a long promotion programme with many “leached” movies and photos, Dell finally presented the new ultra-slim and very attractive notebook Dell Adamo. The characteristics and price were revealed too.
The first thing you see is the thickness of the luxury aluminum frame – 16,5 mm: this is almost 3 mm thinner than Air. Design is neat and clear – even obligatory labels like “Windows Certified” and so on are under a special magnet panel.
The processor is Intel Core 2 Duo Centrino 1.2 GHz (1.4 GHz available), 2 GB DDR3 800 MHz memory (up to 4 GB), 128 GB SSD, integrated Intel X450 video card. Dell Adamo has standard for the “super-slims” display of 13.4”, practically without frame, with integrated 1.3 megapixel web camera. Connectivity is assured by Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi Draft-N, RJ-45 port, optional “mobile broadband”, 2 USB ports, combined USB/eSATA port and DisplayPort.
Dell promise 5 hours life of the Li-Polymer cell battery.
Designers work is obvious – even the transparent package is with unique design, and when you open the notebook you will find elegant metallic cap keyboard and edge-to-edge display glass, successfully creating a strong luxury impression.
It is something expected since Google developed it mobile OS Android and G1 smartphone. Surprisingly it is Chinese company Skytone, that first created notebook working under Google Android.
The new device is actually some strange combination between notebook, tablet pc and … smartphone! Yes it has processor ARM11 533 MHz used mostly in smartphones (like in iPhone 3G, Nokia 5800, HTC Dream), has full rotation 7” capacitive touchscreen with 800×480 resolution, 128MB DDR2, 1GB SSD for file storage.
And we are back to modern subject of e-papers and e-books. The Fujitsu company announced it new e-book reader named FLEPia. Well, seemingly this is not some significant piece of news, but you can change your opinion when you see the device characteristics.
The best one is the XGA touch screen display with 1024×768 resolution, with 256 000 colours based on E-ink technology. The device is (more…)
Working on the computer could be very stressful sometimes.
Imagine the following: the deadline of your project is fast approaching. You restlessly worked several hours or even days and suddenly CRASH! An error occurs and all your work is LOST? You burst into anger and want to destroy the computer, to vaporize its compounds, or to simply find and kill the IT-s.
Enough!
Take this USB gadget in hand and take the stress away by squashing and twisting it. And if you think that this is not enough – take a look at the screen: all your actions are displayed!
The desktop will pull, squeeze, fold and flex as you do the same on the skittle-shaped device.
The stress ball is powered by USB with 4 feet cable, it has dimensions of approximately 5×5x10 cm and weigh 95 g. And even more – the software package includes some squeeze and strength games, so you can use for recreational purpose too.
After few minutes of anti-stress therapy, when your computer rage pass away, you may find that in the message displayed there are some recovery option, or it is just some working message and hopefully your work is safe.
The company Fusion-io presented the fastest disk drive in the world. This is ioDrive Duo – a Solid State Drive (SSD), storage device created on the basis of flash technology.
The device is capable of incredible data transfer rate: 1400 MB/sec for recording and 1500 MB/sec for reading, while the access latency is less than 50 microseconds. This means that full HD movie copying will take about 30 seconds!
The ioDrive Duo is mounted in standard PCI slot and work with PCI Express x8 or PCI Express 2.0 x4 BUS interface. With use of coupled memory sticks a RAID-1 massive can be created from a single device.
In stores are available ioDrive Duo devices with capacity of 160, 320 and 640 GB, and the company promised 1,28 TB device by the autumn of 2009.
Yet the problem is with the price – 320 GB ioDrive Duo costs 14 400 $. But, as the history says, the prices of first classic hard drives were tremendous too.
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