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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Eazo desktops offer ultra-luxe style at merely super-luxe prices

For those of you too cheap to pony up $ 700000 for the diamond encrusted Jupiter desktop, we saw yesterday, China is willing to throw the Eazo luxury for less than a tenth of the price - which means yet the X70, shown here, stil costs $ 45500, but good. The machine has a distinctive character 3GHz Q9550 Quad Core 2, two NVIDIA 8800GTX graphics cards, 4 GB RAM, light coolant, a 150GB disk 10000rpm supported by a 7200rpm drive 500 GB, 7.1-channel sound, and Vista Ultimate, all wrapped in an easy to access with tyres case hinges. Of course, you can set up systems to measure well past the $ 70K mark (and just $ 9K), but if you are not satisfied with this stock configuration, you can try yoga or something, M . Power hungry. Check a bunch more shots bellow.

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Sony's game division finally turns a profit -- sells 4.9M PS3s in Q3 !!

After months of bleeding red, the games division of Sony has finally turned a profit last quarter. Sony has sold 4.9 million PS3s console last quarter after slashing prices, stimulate game titles, and reducing production costs internally. Of course, we are sure Wii shortage is not hurting Sony's bottom line either. Sony would drop its goal of annual sales PS3s from 11 million to 9.5 million (citing a slow start), while raising projections PSP to 13 million 10 million as originally planned. Sony's fiscal year ends in March. Overall, Sony profits rose by 25% for the quarter. Welcome back to black Sony, a long time ago to come.

Sigma's DP1: a DSLR in a compact's body (almost) shipping this Spring

Why Hello Darlin. "As we had hoped, Sigma DP1 had me set time of release. Coming spring, we finally see what 14-megapixel sensor FOVEON X3 found in the Sigma SD14 DSLR can enter the body d A compact. It is roughly 7 up to 12 times larger than the sensor is not in the ordinary pacts. The biggest compromise, however, is the objective. a solid, 16.6 mm F4 lens designed exclusively for the enlightened DP1 each pixel to 7.8 μ m, 20, 7 x 13.8 mm sensor. If you are then rounded Thursday are the things Sigma's new "True" engine for image processing, LCD display 2.5-inch, pop-up flash Manual, Huf, manually or 9 points Autofocus mode, and the registration of a QVGA screen for SD cards. All of this in a 4.5 x 2.3 x 2-inch body weighs 8.5 ounces. we are always fascinated.

IOGear busts out a wireless USB CardBus adapter

We are not sure making a huge investment in Cardbus adapters is the wisest financial decisions you can make, but if you want to add a bit of action Wireless USB to your lappy older in most upgrade-unfriendly possible way, IOGear's got you Covered. The new adapter Cardbus WUSB not about what you can expect, but does not yet have a price or availability details. However, unless you have an overwhelming need to eventually use this empty slot, we recommend that you stick with one of the many USB-to-WUSB passed dongles on the market.

Sony upgrades CS1 geotagger for video, drops some printers ...

Geotaggers, take note: PMA today with Sony modernizes its GPS unit CS1 in support geotagging video through new versions of its Motion Picture Browser Software Tracker and the image, giving it a cuff, and rename All the GPS-CS1KASP. (It again next month for $ 150.) Also happening tonight are two new dye-sub printers, the FP95 and FP75, which will run $ 200 and $ 150 in April, and functionality 3.6 and 3.5-inch displays, respectively, HDMI, and a filter function on 95 for kooky effects like fish-eye and sepia.

New Pasen F10 PMP rips off both the iTunes and WMP icons

Normally, we run-of-the-mill as PGR Pasen via F10, but we had to stop and to appoint, in stark both for the use of iTunes and WMP symbols here - even Pasen of history, that's a little gross. Come on guys, F10, presents itself as a solid young players - 2.6-inch 400 x 240 display, MP3 / AAC / FLAC / DivX / XviD / RMVB support, the 0.2-inch thick - why not try, which competition saddling with the device of KIRFdom not relevant? Argh, must go to bed.

Kodak intros EasyShare Z1012 IS: 10-megapixels, 12x zoomer

Yeah, Kodak is a bit slow with his pre-LDC goods, but hardly better than the smallest nothin ', not? Here, we firmly megazoom the last, the EasyShare Z1012 IS, the steps taken over the CES-Z1085 is offered, where a 10-megapixel sensor and a 12bay optical zoom. Apparently, this game of shoot in a sports chassis so small, "in the hand (all hands?)," And in cases where the "IS" is not it is not on, you can also wait Stabilization - Optical Image Stabilizer Chem . In addition, up to ISO 3200, a programme, priority aperture and shutter speed (also known as "full hands") and with regard to the technology to detect, for good measure. What is clear, the price is $ 299.95, which is not so obvious is the date of issue - Search for some time "in the first half of 2008."

Monday, January 28, 2008

Nokia's Comes with Music revenue to be shared with operators

Remember Nokia's Comes with the Music (CWM) service? The service, which includes a full year of DRM'd music download for free with the purchase of a cell phone MCG. So far, Nokia has refused to comment on the financial details of the service. Important as "free" should be something other than free music with the costs of perfectly slide in the price of the aircraft, the carrier data plan, or both. In an interview published by Bloomberg, Tero Ojanpera, executive vice president of Nokia, discussed CWM and said that, "In cases where we are cooperating with the operators, there will be an arrangement so that they can get a piece." Something Nokia previously referred to by the chief executive officer in December. Still no word, beyond Universal, will offer their music on the new service or how much the new aircraft will be consolidated cost. Ojanpera not repeat that MCG will not be available on Nokia handsets. For its part, Universal contends that DRM is a component of the service - a potential deal-breaker if this limit your DRM CWM downloads to a single device and the PC for eternity.

Blu-ray to win in 2008, HD DVD price cuts are "useless resistance" ...

Gartner, the fat lady of the research, is the song of the HD DVD swan song this morning. Hiroyuki Shimizu, Senior Research Analyst in Japan, says Gartner Semiconductor DQ's Monday Report, "Gartner believes that the price cuts Toshiba HD DVD can extend the life of a small, but the limited line-up of film titles will inflict fatal damage on the format. "He goes on to call the recent price cuts" unnecessary resistance "to avoid the inevitable. What is it, you ask coyly? According to Shimizu," Gartner expects that by the end of 2008, the Blu-ray format will be the winner in the consumer market, and the war is over. "With 5 of 7 major studios now backing Blu-ray exclusively, Gartner's certainty on the subject does not appear to be very extensive.

CybertronPC CM900 !


Certainly, it looks like the Eee, it sports the same as the CPU Eee, heck, it appears to use the same Eee's OS - but this is the CM900! What does that mean? Well for a start, you will have more money to pay less computer ($ 349.99 for a system of 2GB, the same price for a 4GB ASUS) ... But it goes without saying that you should CybertronPC name to fall back on. Frankly, we would say that it was a rebrand if it were minor differences in the specifications, and who knows - maybe it is. If not, however, is the offingest knock-knock-off, we have seen in a good long while. Far be it from us to condemn CybertronPC gang to try to secure the gettin's good, but perhaps the next time these guys could at least give us a fair shake on the storage / breakdown?

HTC Kaiser fans cough up over $5,000 for homebrew video drivers !


Of course, it seemed that we had heard the end of the story on phones HTC and the case of the missing drivers, but most of the cats in this forum xda-developers have something else in mind. There is currently a $ 5199.51 bounty offers from various members of the group for a hacker (or hackers), which can produce drivers to obtain their Kaisers' Direct 3D to the height, which increases the capabilities of the video phone. If you followed the case, you know that HTC has essentially stonewalled users looking for an upgrade of their machines weak, and suggested that if customers want improved performance video, they should turn to the future rather than equipment for updates on their current models. Clearly owners seek to take matters into their own hands - and they are willing to pay for it. We can not wait to see what they have just put in place, and if someone there has the ability and time, here's a pile of cash that could be yours.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

New smartphone Asus M530W (+video)


Italian Cellulare Magazine website posted video, which will be interesting wishing to purchase Asus M530W smartphone. Roller made in a popular format in the west extract from the "box", which apart from the extraction and includes a quick look at the device. This is a video you can see prosledovav the link below.

Recall that Asus M530W executed in a form-factor monoblock with the QWERTY keyboard. Smartphone is able to work with standard GSM networks-900/1800/1900 MHz and UMTS / HSDPA 2100 MHz, and its equipment includes 2 megapixel camera, USB, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0. Works machine running under OS Windows Mobile 6.

iRiver SPINN - a new portable media players ...

The company submitted its new iRiver portable media players under the code name SPINN. Novelty has a very stylish design, and is aimed at young people. In iRiver SPINN equipment includes 3.2-inch touch display, where you can watch video, images, and manage your music.

If you are not comfortable with using touch screen display, the iRiver SPINN there is an alternative analog controller to manage. Among other features news is that there microphone technology and support Bluetooth wireless data transmission.

iRiver SPINN will be available in versions with 4 GB, 8 GB and 16 GB of memory built. The cost and date of occurrence Sales are still unknown.

Nasa investigates virtual space ...

The U.S. Space Agency is considering the possibility of developing a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game.

The virtual world is designed for students and "real NASA missions of technology and science."

The agency has a "request for information (RFI) from organizations in the development of the platform.

Nasa believe that the game can be found, it should help the next generation of scientists and engineers responsible for the fulfillment of his vision of the exploration of outer space ".

"A synthesis of high-quality games is an essential element of education cyberstructure NASA," the bed of the RFI.

"The MMO encourages the exploration of the possibilities for a career in a way much deeper than write, and could be a fraction of the time and cost of an internship program."

Space mission

NASA already has a presence in the virtual world in 3D.

The agency has an island in Second Life, where individuals and groups with an interest in the space program can meet, exchange ideas and the conduct of experiments.

Artist's print astronauts on Mars
Nasa want a realistic training environment

CoLab, as it is called, is the invention of the scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in San Francisco.

The agency hopes that the environment one day be used to allow the public to the tasks and book.

"We at NASA worked to create opportunities for what I might call the exploration participatory," the project director, Simon Worden said.

"We are investigating how this island is a portal for all to fly along the space," he told the delegates of the National Space Society (NSS) Conference last year.

"If the people in the next stage on the surface of the moon in just over a decade, the avatar can be with them," he said.

The last proposal was developed by the NASA's Learning Technologies Project Office, supported and developed projects for the promotion of education in science and technology.

Job seeker

The document confirmed that the games will be increasingly important in education, and could be useful to the formation of a whole set of skills.

"Virtual worlds with scientifically accurate simulations so that the learners to tinker with the chemical reactions in living cells, the exploitative practices and the repair more expensive, and the experience in micro-gravity," he says.

The document calls for a game machine includes a powerful physical abilities "," support precisely in the game of testing and research. "

"An MMO from NASA, the possibility could give the students the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the ways in which career and is involved in the game-play".

Other organizations, such as the US armed forces are already using the online games as a recruiting tool.

America's Army, for example, the player for the "seven Army Values", and now claims that one of the "most popular games in the world".

NASA has raised concerns among interested organizations to meet the demand of 15 February.

Monday, January 7, 2008

Digital T-shirts with a built-LED display


Today buyers are offered only two types of T-shirts: black and white (yuniseks and female respectively). In an internal pocket T-shirts into the display with screen size 7 * 21 points. Each point is a small LED (LED). Tsifrobukvennye show displays up to 8 messages up to 255 characters each. Messages can rotate in any direction vertically and horizontally, blink, "frozen" and so on.

Messages imposed by the three keys, which are located on the back of the displays. Despite the fact that only three keys, enter messages easily and quickly enough.

The distinguishing feature displays: on the reverse side, they have infrared port to connect to the computer. Thus, in addition to manual entry of a computer possible. It is anticipated that the wear T-shirts, anyone can write your message, or the desire, which wants it reads:
"What's your name?"
"My phone - 1234567"
"If you wanna have fun - ask me how!"
"Poyekhali, sweet, go!"
"Otvezite me at: ul.Stroiteley, 3."

Especially popular in Europe using data from the T-shirts advertising companies for the PR-shares and nightclubs. Specially invited option for a built-in rechargeable battery display. Since the display is easy to remove from the inner pocket, T-shirts can wash as usual.

In the end, the company promises to release to the market displays larger (12 * 23), allowing not only display text, but to download animated pictures. Some versions of images will be supplied in the bundle. The most creative people will be able to paint these pictures in the usual photo editor and upload them to the display via a USB cable.

Watches Hyundai W100: a mobile phone, 1.3 MP camera, a touch screen, stereo Bluetooth, MP3 player…

Internet portal posted PhoneDaily host information with "live" pictures of one very interesting product in the wireless industry: watches Hyundai W100:

These watches are interesting primarily because it is nothing else than is currently the most mobile phone.

The presence of one phone is not limited to those hours, and among other things has 1.3 MP camera - brick kit "Agent 007":

Besides photos, Hyundai W100 can do and videos in solving 176 h144 points and reproduce them on an embedded 1.3 - inch screen. The small size hours apparently forced the developers to abandon the deployment of a full keyboard. In substitutions, the phone-watch Hyundai W100 zaimel touch display, which displays a virtual keyboard, which actually serves to recruit and telephone number:

At the Above all functionality of the phone does not stop, and as almost all modern mobile phones has built a music player and support microSD memory card format, which is inserted sideways hours (SIM card is located under the rear lid, which serves as a battery):

But that's not all: for reproduction of musical compositions owner of the data can take hours Bluetooth wireless technology, in stereo, thanks to the support of A2DP profile.