Archive for November, 2007
UK’s Roads Lighten By SolarLite During Night
A new technology has been implemented in the UK to light the roads. Astucia SolarLite LEDs store the solar energy on daytime and during night they emit light to increase visibility. Officials say that they have reduced accidents by 70 percent since used, by improving the driver’s visibility from 90 to 900 meters and his [...]
22Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Hercules 400 Laser Can Make You A Jedi For $3,000
If you want something tremendous to melt plastic you could try out Hercules 400 Laser. It could do all sort of other things like lightening firework or burn cardboard. The laser has a power of 400mW and it sends a ray that can be seen at very big distances. So if you want to [...]
21Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Portable Power Generator Using Water To Keep Your Devices Running
A new power generator has been announced today by Millenium Cell and Horzon Fuel Cell Technologies. The product incorporates a water activated cartridge system, that can produce 400-watts from pure water. The first alpha version of the power generator has been unveiled at the CEATEC ( Combined Exhibition for Advanced Technologies ) in Japan, this [...]
21Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
The Exmocare Wristwatch Knows Your Emotions
Exmocare created a wristwatch that can find out about the wearers emotions. The watch monitors the variation of your hart rate and galvanic skin response. It sends an infrared ray to your skin to measure your blood volume pulse. By measuring the infrared beam, the watch calculates your blood volume pulse. The wristwatch could [...]
21Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
High Speed 802.11n WiFi Made Possible by AirPatrol
AirPatrol corporation, an authority in wireless security and networking has announced a new WiFi security solution, that doesn’t require any expensive upgrade. The security solution will be available for the 802.11n and as they state, it should guarantee high speed WiFi, without any bottleneck of the current wireless architecture.
The WLAN switching infrastructure is the one [...]
The GeForce 8800M GTS and GTX unveiled by NVIDIA
NVIDIA announced their latest laptop GPUs: the GeForce 8800 GTS and GeForce 8800 GTX, which are the base of Alienware systems. Those are the fastest GPUs for notebooks, as it is said. The 8800M GTX has 96 processors, while the GTS has only 64. Although this is a big difference between them, they are almost [...]
20Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Intel Announced QX9770 3.2Ghz Core 2 Extreme
After AMD has announced the new quad core Phenom processors, Intel is introducing the new 3.2Ghz QX9770 Core 2 Extreme processor. It seems it will be the fastest processor on the market, featuring the 45nm Yorkfield class silicon, a 12MB L2 cache and a 1,600Mhz FSB. Until now, Intel’s fastest processor was the Core 2 [...]
20Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
JoyBook R43 Introduced By Benq
Benq has just announced the new JoyBook R43 laptop, that features a 14.1 inch UltraVivid WXGA display, an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz CPU, 160GB HDD, up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM, Sis Mirage 3+, 802.11 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The laptop is going firstly on sale in China, from next month and in the upcoming [...]
20Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
LG VX8800 Venus Released, LG VX10000 Voyager Announced
The LG VX10000 Voyager with QWERTY keyboard and LG VX8800 Venus slider have been announced. The Venus has a dual-display: the main 2-inch display and the second 1.49-inch VibeTouch touchscreen used for navigation. The VX8800 has been made available this morning for $200. The Voyager features an 2.8-inch VibeTouch external touchscreen and 2.8-inch internal display. [...]
19Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
The M704 UMPC unveiled by Gigabyte
Gigabyte announced their new M704. This UMPC features a 1.2GHz VIA Esther ULV C7 processor, a hard drive of 40GB or 60GB, 7-inch 1,024×600 WXGA LED-backlit touchscreen, a multicard reader, a VX-700 chipset, twin USB 2.0 ports and a VGA output. The M704 also sports a QWERTY keyboard which slides out, a 1.3MP CMOS camera [...]
19Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
AMD Quad Core Phenom And Spider Platform Announced
Finally, Phenom, the expected AMD quad core processor is now official and along with it, a new platform has been introduced. Spider PC, the new platform puts together it’s technologies with software that should brinf the “Ultimate visual experience.”,as they state. The technologies and software we are talking about are the new AMD Phenom quad [...]
19Nov2007 | Martin J. | 1 comment | Continued
Zune Citron 16GB - not a rumor anymore
We have been expecting the Zune Citron for a while and now we know for sure Microsoft it’s preparing to release it. Currently, it is only available for their employees, but we should soon see it in stores. We don’t know many details or if it will differ from the other Zunes, except it’s design [...]
17Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
The SC072 Catapult unveiled by SiCortex
SiCortex announced a new computer: the SC072 Catapult. It sports 72 processors, 48GB of RAM, three PCIExpress slots and Linux environment. This is a computer of high performance that uses a power of no more than 200 watts and has enough room for six internal hard drives and a pair of gigabit Ethernet ports. [...]
17Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Google to pay $4.6 Billion for the 700Mhz spectrum
Wall Street Journal reported that Google is going to pay $4.6 Billion for the rights on the 700Mhz wireless spectrum. And it seems like Google is doing this business alone, with no partners, being possible to even borrow some money.Google is already tests the spectrum, as FCC released them a test license. They are already [...]
16Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
VolksWagen presented Space Up! blue
At the LA auto show VW unveiled a new console: the Space Up! blue, which features a 7 inch touchscreen display. Could this be a result of the collaboration between VW and Apple? We don’t know yet, but we think that they gave us an example of how things could go on between the driver [...]
16Nov2007 | Martin J. | 1 comment | Continued