Archive for January, 2008
Blu-ray “Kills” HD-DVD
NPD Group is global market research company which provides information about manufacturers and retailers. According to their latest report, Blu-ray player sales increased after Warner’s announcement that they will go Blu-ray. Although, HD-DVD is less expensive than Blu-ray, in December, 60% players sold were Blu’s, in the first two weeks of January the Blu-ray had [...]
24Jan2008 | Martin J. | 1 comment | Continued
Fujifilm Announced F100fd, Z20fd, J10 and J50 Compact Cameras
Fujifilm has just announced four compact cameras, as following: F100fd, Z20fd, J10 and J50. The F100fd features a 12 megapixel sensor, 5x wide-angle optical zoom, both digital and mechanical image stabilizer, dual shoot mode, IrSimple, ISO 12,800 and a 2.7-inch LCD, being priced at $380.
The Z20fd sports a 10 megapixel sensor, Dual Blog Mode ( [...]
Space Tourism As Of 2009
Virgin Galactic is a company which is planning to send people to outer space. The space tourism company was founded back in 2004 and has its headquarters in New Mexico, USA. Chairman Richard Branson announced on Wednesday that they will start offering sub-orbital spaceflights next year. Also, he presented a model of the spaceship called [...]
24Jan2008 | Martin J. | 3 comments | Continued
Intel Announced Dual-Core Celerons
After Intel’s quad-core processor announcements for the high-end line, it’s the time for some low-end to come, so they’ve now unveiled a dual-core Celeron processor. Neither it’s performances or price are high, so it’s a good thing for those that aren’t interested in gaming or advanced applications and want to go cheap.
They will probably release [...]
OLED Gaming Keyboard By Summer From United Keys
Display keyboards seem to become a trend, so there has to be some competition for Optimus. So, United Keys has signed a deal with FoxConn and they have announced an OLED function buttons keyboard, that should start shipping by summer. Currently, we don’t know many details about it, neither the price. Official news from United [...]
24Jan2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Cute Limited Edition iriver Mplayer Gold
iriver has released a limited edition music player, plated with Gold. The Mplayer is built with the house The Mouse and it features a Philips PNX0103ET sound processor, an internal memory of 2GB. It’s very cute and simple and it won’t cost you a fortune, at $123.
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American Airlines To Add Two New Services For In-Flights
American Airlines is one of the largest airline companies in the world. It was founded in 1930 and at first was called American Airways. Now, they are preparing to improve their services by introducing in-flight WiFi and anti-missile system. The pricing of WiFi varies depending on the duration of the flight, $10 for less than [...]
24Jan2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Implantable Camera To Help Vision Loss
Researchers have developed some light-sensitive chips, placed at the back of the eye to help people with visual problems. The chips are sending an electrical signal, converted from light, to the brain via nerve cells, but the problem is the chips are flat and the eye’s lens project images on curved surfaces, so it’s not [...]
23Jan2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Trev Might Be The Future Electric City Car
The staff and students from the University of South Australia have built a two-seat electric car, with good autonomy, lightweight and very economical, called Trev.
Trev seems a great car for city driving, with enough luggage space, weights only 270kg, is very quiet and environmental-friendly, is safe, has an autonomy of 150km and can reach a [...]
WiFi iPODs To Be The Next Generation
According to a spokesperson of Apple, 802.11 WiFi represents the future of iPods and the touch screen equipped devices are the proof they used to make this statement. He says that the need of improvement drives them forward and that the iPods will be the first WiFi mobile platforms. They look very confident, so why [...]
23Jan2008 | Martin J. | 1 comment | Continued
Sony Updated It’s SZ6 And SZ7 Laptops Lineup
Sony has just updated it’s Vaio SZ7 laptops lineup with 5 new models, as following: VGN-SZ780 ( from $1,541.00 ), VGN-SZ740 ( from $1,429.99 ), VGN-SZ791N/X ( $2,499.99 ), VGN-SZ770N/C ( $2,249.99 ), VGN-SZ775N/C ( $1,899.99 ) and also added one new laptop to the Vaio SZ6 lineup, the VGN-SZ645P3 ( $1,749.99 ). All of [...]
23Jan2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Pink iPod Nano Apple’s Latest Family Member
The iPod family has just grown bigger with it’s latest member, the pink anodized aluminum iPod nano. The pink version sports a 8GB internal memory and it comes with free engraving, shipping in just 24 hours. You can start ordering it, as it’s already available for $199.
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Hitachi To Try Again With The Hybrid DZ-BD9H Camcorder
Hitachi has just announced a new camcorder, after it’s totally unsuccessful hybrid. The DZ-BD9H records both on a 60GB HDD ( up to 9 hours ) and a 7.5GB Blu-ray disk ( up to 1 hour ), sports a 5.3 megapixel CMOS sensor and has a recording resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, using the [...]
23Jan2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
HP Blackbird 002 Gaming Desktop Sports QX9650
HP has just unveiled it’s Blackbird 002, being their best system ever sold, that features an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650. Also they have plans to release a model with the processor we’re all waiting for, the QX9770. But currently, the Blackbird features a Dual 1GB CrossFire ATI Radeon XT graphics card, a PhysX card. [...]
22Jan2008 | Martin J. | 1 comment | Continued
iriver Siren DP100 Updated to DP150
iriver has updated one of it’s MP3 players, now named Siren DP150, the successor of DP100. It only weights 24 grams, comes in 1GB and 2GB models, is available in blue, gold and pink. It can play MP3 and WMA, features an equalizer and a 128×32 OLED display and has a battery lifetime of 17 [...]
22Jan2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued