You probably love Toshiba’s latest announcement, the Super Charge ion Battery and think it could explode or catch fire, after the events that took place lately with batteries. Well, Toshiba has announced and recorded a video ( watch after the jump ) of an externally short circuited battery and you can see that it won’t explode, neither catch fire.
For making the battery more safe, they have used lithium titanate, that has a high flash point and a high heat resistance separator. Toshiba stated that the risks of combustion or burst …

Sega Toys teams up with NeuroSky to take gaming to a next level, by working on what they call “mind-controlled tech toys”. In the development process they are going to use the ThinkGear bio-sensor technology built by NeuroSky, that eliminates the need for contact gels, by using dry active sensor and maintain a small form factor.They haven’t said anything about what those toys are going to be, any release dates or pricing, but we aren’t expecting them very soon and sure not in 2008. Currently i am thinking what …

NVIDIA has released a new hot hardware in the 8800 series - GTS 512MB. Relied on a 65-nanometer fabrication, an unbelievable number of 128 stream processors, dual-link HDCP and PureVideo HD engine, NVIDIA SLI Technology, DirectX 10 support, a 650MHz core clock/970MHz memory clock. NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB gives 25% more graphics processing power than any other NVIDIA products ever released. This product arrived just in time for a perfect Christmas gift for gamers. The price range is about $299 to $349.
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Nowadays solar cells made a lot of fuss and a lot of scientists try to develop them better and better. And now a team from Japan has come to success by creating a flexible cell, thin as a sheet of paper, that’s also low priced, using traditional printing techniques. Regular solar cells are using silicone, that was expensive and couldn’t allow making cells thin, but the researchers from Fujimori Kogyo and Toin University in Yokohama eliminated the use of silicone. The solar cells developed by them are inexpensive and …

We’ve been talking last week about a tablet PC that was going to be released by Dell. Rumors that were saying the new Latitude XT was going to be released this week became true and it has some great feature, i’d say everyone will love it.
It sports a 12.1-inch 1,280×800 WXGA LED-backlit, 400cd/m2 capacitive touchscreen, with palm detection and an active digitizer. It will be powered by a 1.06Ghz Intel Core 2 Solo or 1.2Ghz Duo ULV, ATI Radeon X1250 UMA Graphics, up to 3Gb of RAM and the …

More than two years ago there was a rumor about the Super Li-ion batteries, that would charge very fast and lasts for many recharges. Now, finally Toshiba announced the release of those Super Charge ion Batteries, also called SCiB, that will unfortunately be only used for industrial use firsly, mostly for hybrid cars. The SCiB can recharge up to 90% in just 5 minutes or less and can be recharged more than 5,000 times, which means a lifetime of more than 10 years. We shall see the battery in use …

A new rugged laptop has been released by Toshiba, with a 12.1-inch LED backlit display, that switches automatically between finger and pen input. The Portege M700 sports a dual layer burner, latchless lid, spill resistand keyboard, a magnesium frame that absorbs shocks and weights 4.4 pounds.
As performances, it’s not something extreme, with a Santa Rosa Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz T7100 or a 2.4Ghz T7700, X3100 integrated graphics, up to 4GB of RAM, WiFi and Bluetooth. It’s prices start from $1,699 and can rise depending on configuration.

The latest predictions from CNBC’s Jim Goldman for Macworld in January confirms the rumors about Apple ultraportables. He says that the new laptop will be twice thinner than the MacBook Pro currently on the market and will feature NAND storage. The price for this product will be around $1,500, just about the same price of the MacBook Pro. He’s quoting sources who are claiming that they have seen the ultraportable and are saying that the laptop will show up for Macworld. Rumors about the 3G iPhone say that it …

The wireless spectrum we have been talking about recently hasn’t yet been auctioned, but Japan already has plans for it. Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has stated they are going to use the 715-725Mhz for an inter-vehicle communications system, as Tech-On published. The new technology is designed to reduce accidents, by allowing vehicles to communicate with each other and help the driver.They were planning to use the technology with the 5.8Ghz band, but it’s too easily blockable by obstables, so they decided to better use the 700Mhz band.
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There are some good news for gamers and PlayStation 3 users and should offer them some Christmas gifts. They might release another PS3 firmware update and they might also make Profile 1.1 compatible with Blu-Ray discs, while the HD DVD was already compatible and had some standard features, like the secondary audio, local storage and picture-in-picture, while those were only optional for Blu-Ray.
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There are a lot of rumors which state that Dell will release its new Latitude XT tablet PC on December 11th. So you’ve got another way of spending your holiday money, don’t you? We’ll talk about it more next week when the tablet PC is going to be available for buying.
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You all know about FCC’s auction that will take place on January 24th for the 700Mhz Wireless Spectrum, but we didn’t know exactly what companies are going to bid. And still we won’t know them all and who won until February or March, unfortunately, except the ones that announced their participations.Until know we know that the following companies will bid: AT&T, Cox Communications, Frontline, Google and Verizon.
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We have been waiting for Intel’s 45nm Penryn processors, that were expected to be released in Q1 2008, but now we have a more precise date from DailyTech. If the date specified by them is right, then we should get the processors on January 6th. Intel should release the following processors: $316 2.5Ghz T9300, $530 2.6Ghz T9500 and $851 2.8Ghz X9000, also if DailyTech is right, they might also release the $241 2.4Ghz T8300 and $209 2.1Ghz T8100.
The first computers to run these processors are expected to be seen at …

Willy Bogner transformed LEDs from decorative parts for clothes into useful ones. He made a suit that is powered by the sun and has LEDs on it to make you more visible while skiing. The technology has been created by Osram. The clothes have been shown at an event in Munich, Germany. Let’s hope that we won’t run into avalanches until 2036 because that is the release date of this suits.
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Microsoft got used to release a limited edition every week and it couldn’t stay away this week, so it released the Goods branded version. This shiny limited edition will come in 8GB and 80GB this Saturday at Seattle and there will only be 10 available, for the first 10 customers. We don’t know if there will be ten 8GB ones and ten 80Gb ones or 10 at all, but we know they’ll be expensive.
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