Samsung to release M550 Exclaim on June 7
May 11th, 2009
Sprint’s rumored Samsung Lucello phone now has a new identity. The phone will now be called Samsung M550 Exclaim and is said to start shipping by June 7, reports SlashGear. Well, it’s around the supposedly release date of the highly anticipated Palm-Pre.
Apparently, the phone mainly focuses on Google searches and social networking sites. The menu of the phone is said to offer instant access to sites like Facebook, MySpace and more. It is said to support EVDO Rev 0 telecommunication standards.
This dual-keypad phone features both numeric as well as QWERTY keyboard for messaging. The phone comes integrated with 2 MP camera along with Bluetooth connectivity. Read the rest of this story >>
Tesla GPU Preconfigured Cluster with S1070 GPU 1U Systems and CPU Servers rolled out
May 11th, 2009Now, an opportunity to easily add GPU computing capabilities to the existing datacentre systems is right here for researchers and IT managers to grab it.
Nvidia, along with its partners, has announced the release of the latest ready-to-power-up, off-the-shelf solution - the Tesla GPU Preconfigured Cluster.
Paired with Tesla S1070 GPU 1U Systems and x86 CPU Servers, the newly introduced cluster boasts to offer up to 30 times greater performance over CPU-only solutions. Now, the targeted audience can effortlessly deploy smaller, more computationally dense systems.
Claiming to devour considerably less power, the energy-efficient Tesla GPU Preconfigured Cluster has the ability to address the ever-growing demands of computational Read the rest of this story >>
Verizon HP Mini 1151NR netbook coming on May 17?
May 11th, 2009
Apparently, the all new HP Mini 1151NR netbook by Verizon is being launched on May 17, according to Slash Gear. Verizon supposedly plans to launch this netbook with its Mifi2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot.
This netbook is said to support EVDO transmission standards. It is speculated to be a basic netbook model. The device is reported to incorporate an Intel Atom N270 which is 1.6 GHz processor and 1 GB RAM.
The connectivity features of the device are said to include WiFi and Bluetooth. There are also two USB ports along Read the rest of this story >>
iPhone and iPod Touch new requirement for Missouri Journalism students
May 11th, 2009
Surprisingly, the students of the Missouri University School of Journalism have a new entry under their ‘requirements’ list. According to Engadget, MacWorld reports that the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch has now been listed as mandatory for these journalism students. Although the university has made it clear that no fine will be imposed and that it is not compulsory for students to purchase the device.
Reportedly, this move by the university was basically initiated to help their students to include the cost of their hi-tech gadgets in the federally subsidized loans. Read the rest of this story >>
Nvidia Tesla C1060 GPU Now Shipping in Dell Workstations for personal Supercomputing Experience
May 11th, 2009
An economical basic-level computing solution is now a thing of the past. The present is the power of supercomputing to enhance the performance of desktop PCs. Nvidia Corporation ascends a host of GPU optimized applications with the latest computing processor, known as the Tesla C1060 GPU. It is exclusively shipping for Dell Precision R5400, T5500 and T7500 workstations.
Based on the massively parallel CUDA architecture, it promises to simplify many-core programming and outperform a small cluster. It claims to offer cluster level computing performance, which is 250 times faster as compared to the conventional PCs and workstations.
In terms of specifications, the latest Telsa GPU features 240 streaming processor cores that run at 1.3GHz, IEEE 754 single & Read the rest of this story >>
Details of SmartQ 7 Internet Tablet Surfaced
May 11th, 2009
A new rumored gadget, SmartQ 7 tablet made its appearance last week and now we see add-ons about the mobile internet device. In words of grapevine, UMPC Portal has ordered a SmartQ 7 mobile internet tablet from EletroWorld. The device will be provided as a sample unit on May 12, 2009. Oh, that’s tomorrow!
Slashgear reveal additional specifications of the MID that emerged on the Chinese website EletroWorld.
Apparently, it will be powered by Samsung ARM S3C6410 667MHz processor and feature a 7-inch touch-lens screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixel, a 128MB DDR RAM memory, 1GB flash memory with support for up to 32GB Read the rest of this story >>
Spice unveils S-5330 flip phone
May 11th, 2009
Spice uncovered the new stylized slender flip phone S-5330 in India, featuring a Hindu calendar that informs about all the festivals, lunar eclipses and tithes as per the traditional Hindu calendar.
This Spice phone comes equipped with MP3 player, FM recording, 2 GB extendable memory, 3D display menu, GPRS and mobile tracker.
The MP3 player supports most music formats and provides shuffle and repeat options for better musical experience. The equalizer contains eight different equalizer settings. The handset also features FM recording along with FM alarm that lets users wake up to their favorite RJ’s voice. The 2GB expandable memory grants enough space for storage.
Some other attributes like SMS scheduler, black list & white list number, panic button and Read the rest of this story >>
Samsung Star, Star 3G and BeatDJ touchscreen phones launched in India
May 11th, 2009
Samsung expanded its touchscreen phones series by launching Samsung Star, Samsung Star 3G and Samsung BeatDJ full touchscreen phones in India. The company claims that Samsung Star leads its affordable full touchscreen phones category.
“Samsung Star and Samsung Star 3G are significant additions to our full-touch screen mobile portfolio, featuring all the essential functions in one single device. At Samsung , our effort is to deliver various full touch products for every consumer lifestyle,” states Sunil Dutt, Country Head, Samsung Mobile Division.
Sporting an 11.9mm slim compact body, Samsung Star (S5233) features a 7.63 cm wide display screen, a TouchWiz UI including mobile widgets and a stylus. The photo contact feature of Read the rest of this story >>
Garmin Oregon 550 and 550t touchscreen handheld GPS devices
May 11th, 2009
Garmin introduces two handheld GPS devices- Oregon 550 and Oregon 550t. These sunlight-readable 3-inch touchscreen devices come integrated with 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with 4x digital zoom which lets users snap images as well as automatically geotags them. The Garmin GPS devices are waterproof with 850 MB internal memory which is expandable with a microSD card slot.
Oregon 550 and 550t are user friendly due to their trouble-free usability and flexible features. The images taken by these devices can be easily stored, shared or transferred through an USB. The devices have 100k entire US topographical maps preloaded and the amazing 3-axis compass conveys correct direction even when held in a tilted position. On a single recharge, 6.8 Read the rest of this story >>
Skullcandy limited Decibel headphone collection
May 9th, 2009
Skullcandy uncovers its latest decibel (dB) headphone collection with unique designs to suit the customer needs. This limited distribution collection has six different in-ear, on-ear and over-ear styled headphones to cater to individual choices of its loyal purchasers.
“dB is a unique way to reach our primary audience,” says Skullcandy’s Dan Levine. “By making a small, core line of products that focus on this group’s passion for both action sports and music, we feel Decibel is exactly what the core Skullcandy consumer is looking for.
These headphones come with aligned microphone and volume controls along with different colorful water transfer prints to go well with consumer’s personal styling needs. Moreover, these styles Read the rest of this story >>DXG-125V $100 Waterproof HD Camcorder
Starting July, the $100 DXG-125V HD waterproof camcorder shoots in 720p using h.264 compression and is available in red, olive green and camouflage.
Too manly for you? There’s a girly version too. With a built-in compass, lithium-ion rechargeable battery and waterproof body, the DXG-125V camcorder looks like it was built to stand a few bumps and bruises out in the nitty, gritty outdoors. But if you’re looking for something a little more feminine, in August, you’ll be able to get the $130 Luxe version that comes with a 3-inch LCD flip-out screen, designed to look like a plush clutch purse.
Earthbox- The No Fuss Gardening System
The Earthbox’s own tagline is a bit much: “The World’ Most Revolutionary Gardening System!” The black plastic boxes come with generally positive recommendations, but they’re not magic—their main trick is keeping a reservoir of water at the bottom, letting plants wick it up as they need it, while keeping the soil at the surface dry and hardy against bacteria and bugs.
While the brand-name Earthboxes aren’t terribly expensive—around $60, and that includes some soil and fertilizer—building a similar box yourself isn’t a huge undertaking, either. (Here’s another variant.) Cut apart one Rubbermaid tub, put its guts inside another, add some drain holes and a fill tube, and you’re on your way to big tomatoes and eggplants and cukes with a minimum of effort.
Iron Man Toy
There are just some characters that should not be cartoonized or turned into something cute, and Iron Man is one of them. Unfortunately, the cartoonization of this character in a cute toy format is not lost on Marvel’s technologically advanced suited hero, and he is now available in Japan for approximately $40. Looks to us as though Iron Man is carrying a baby inside his growing belly, which is extremely wrong across many levels. Still, there are some people out there who love collecting such items, so who are we to classify what’s cute or not?
Olympus E-450 Compact DSLR
Hard pressed to improve upon its well-regarded E-420, which Olympus touted as the “world’s smallest digital SLR” back when it was announced last year, the camera maker didn’t stray too far from its existing formula when it announced the new E-450 today.
Features:
- compact body as the slim E-420
- including a 10-megapixel
- 17.3×33mm Live MOS sensor
- 3-point autofocus; 2.7-inch
- 230,000-pixel LCD
- 3.5 fps continuous-shooting speed
- a sensitivity range of ISO 100 to 1,600
- new TruePic III+ image processor
- a brighter LCD
- an increase in the maximum recordable images in continuous shooting mode (from six to eight RAW)
- addition of three of the special-Warhol-esque pop art, a pinhole camera effect, and a soft-focus effect)
In fact, in order to differentiate the E-450, Olympus is only offering the camera as a two-lens kit with 14mm-42mm (28mm-84mm equivalent) f3.5-f5.6 lens and a 40-150mm (80mm-300mm equivalent) f4.0-5.6 Zuiko Digital Zoom Lens) for $699.99. The camera is slated to begin shipping in July, but in a nod to its entry-level, ease-of-use message, Olympus is launching the E-450 on May 9 on QVC.
Samsung Brings UltraTOUCH to India
First announced at MWC in Barcelona, the Samsung UltraTOUCH has made its way to India. Samsung today launched the 8 MP full-touch slider phone in the market. The UltraTOUCH comes with a 7.1 cm AMOLED screen, has an ultra-slim 12.7mm body, a 3×4 keypad slide and comes in a brushed metal frame.
- 8 mega pixel camera with dual power LED flash
- smile shot mode
- powered with 3G capability (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps), offering speedy internet access, video telephony, video streaming and DivX video player support
The phone has mobile widgets that can be dragged from the menu bar and placed anywhere on the screen for one-click access to applications like Music Player, FM, Games, Calendar etc.
The Samsung UltraTOUCH is priced at Rs. 27,500.
Samsung first showed off their latest HMX-H106 full HD SSD camcorder back at the CES earlier this year, now its officially available worldwide. To refresh your memory, The HMX-H106 features 10x Optical Zoom with Schneider’s Varioplan-HD lens, full HD (1920 x 1080) with Time Lapse (interval recording) mode in 720p, a 4.7 megapixel (2880×1620) CMOS for still photos, a Schneider Wide angle lens offering a wide angle view of 37 mm and a 64GB SSD (and SD card slot) which should make it quite pleasant and quiet for filming.
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Just bought Kindle 2? I’m sorry, its just been a few months but Amazon has decided that a new Kindle with a larger 9.7 inch is to be launched. Amazon has finally announced their price tag for its latest black and white Kindle reading device - the Kindle DX, which will be priced at $489. Amazon is now taking pre-orders of the Kindle DX, shipping date has been said to be this coming summer, however, exact details remain vague.
The DX sports a larger, more comfortable 9.7-inch screen that can rotate to landscape display, its also a PDF reader (amongst a large number of other document formats that it is capable of reading). The Kindle DX also comes with more storage space at 3.3GB.
A full gallery and press release after the jump…
Laptops / Computers »
When you think of netbooks, a large majority of them are tiny laptops built based on a nasty block of plastic, with no elegance to it whatsoever. ASUS’ new Eee PC 1002HAE (consider it an upgrade from the 1002HA) is abit different. The 1002HAE has an exterior aluminum skin which gives an added advantage of shedding half a pound of weight from 1.45kg to 1.2kg. While its main specs remain much the same - 1.6GHz N280 processor, 802.11b/g/n, 1GB of memory and 160GB disk, 1.3 megapixel webcam, memory card slot, 3.8-hour Li-Polymer battery, and 10-inch 1,024 x 600 pixel LED backlit display.
Entertainment Gadgets, Technology »
I can’t help it wondering why this video hasn’t got any sound, or is it just my problem? Anyhow, some readers have emailed in saying how short the last clips of the new Samsung LED TV we showed were, so here’s a new one we just found which should satisfy anyone’s curiosity in this awesome new telly. The video from YouTube was embedded in HD…
Operating Systems »
Check out some of the strange and wonderful wallpapers Microsoft have thrown into the latest release candidate of Windows 7.
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Check out this recent hands on video of the new Sony X Series Walkman from Engadget. We know you all love your OLEDs, the NWZ-X1050 sports OLED touch screen and you will see the difference it makes in the vid below. While it is an evaluation unit (from Japan?), the NWZ-X1050 is now already available in Japan and Asia. We don’t expect there to be much difference when the X1050 eventually arrives here in the UK or the US.
If you’re interrested in finding out about how the X1050’s OLED touchscreen works, hit the jump and check out a graphical material from Sony.
Take a look at Sunland’ s self powered blue-ray writer. This is certainly a time saver for those busy bee’ s out there.
Technology is suppose to make things easier for us, and Sunland International did not forget that when they created their self-powered Blue-Ray Writer. The self-powered DIG-78102 (the name it has been given) does not need an AC connection to burn a disk nor does it need laptop power.
Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for PS3 and PS2
May 12th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in Gaming | No Comments
Along with the Harmony Adapter, Logitech introduces the new Wireless Guitar Controller for PS2 and PS2 gaming consoles. The Wireless Guitar Controller is designed for Guitar Hero series games that it works with Guitar Hero games for PS3 and Guitar Hero World Tour games for PS2.
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Logitech Harmony Adapter for PS3
May 12th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in Others | 1 Comment
Logitech launches its Harmony Adapter for Playstation 3. The Harmony works basically like Schmartz’s IR-to-Bluetooth converter. It takes an infrared (IR) signal from your Harmony remote and then transmits a Bluetooth wireless signal that commands the PS3.
Tags: IR Bluetooth converter, IR-Bluetooth PS2, Logitech Harmony, Logitech Harmony Adapter, PS3 Harmony adapter, PS3 IR to Bluetooth
Pioneer Cyber Navi AVIC-VH9900, ZH9900, and H9900 GPS Navigators
May 12th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in GPS | No Comments
In addition to the Air Navi AVIC-T20, Pioneer introduces three new Cyber Navi in-car multimedia GPS navigators in Japan. The AVIC-VH9900 is a 1-DIN+1-DIN DSP-control AV navigation auto server while the AVIC-ZH9900 is a 2-DIN navigator. Both of them have a 7-inch touchscreen.
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Slim Data 4GB USB Flash Card
May 12th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in Storage | No Comments
TopTech offers the Slim Data USB flash card, which is probably the slimmest flash drive on the market. At the size of a credit card, you can put the Slim Data in your walle or pocket. The device has 4GB capacity and uses USB 2.0 interface. This ultra slim flash drive weighs just 9 grams.
Available in Smoke, Red and Blue, the Slim Data is priced at $24.99.
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Motorola MOTO W7 Active Edition Slider Phone
May 12th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in Mobile Phone | No Comments
Motorola announces its MOTO W7 Active Edition slider mobile phone that feature gesture control. The motion-enabled MOTO W7 comes equipped with an accelerometer that senses your body’s motions, orientation and hand gestures to perform tasks; and step pedometer that counts and records your daily walks and runs to make every step count.
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Sharp updates AQUOS D Series LCD HDTV
May 12th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in HDTV | No Comments
Sharp updates its AQUOS D series LCD HDTV by introducing 10 new models rangin from 32-inch to 52-inch. The new AQUOS D series features Full 
The updated AQUOS D Series comes with the new Full-Digital 1-Bit Amp and Auto Volume function. It is compatible with online video streaming service. These LCD HDTVs have 10Wx2 speakers and three HDMI inputs.
Models:
- LC-52DS6-B - 52-inch Black
- LC-52DS6-W - 52-inch White
- LC-46DS6-B - 46-inch Black
- LC-46DS6-W - 46-inch White
- LC-40DS6-B - 40-inch Black
- LC-40DS6-W - 40-inch White
- LC-40DS6-R - 40-inch Red
- LC-32DS6-B - 32-inch Black
- LC-32DS6-W - 32-inch White
- LC-32DS6-R - 32-inch Red
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Denon DBP-2010CI and DBP-1610CI Blu-ray Players
May 12th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in MultiMedia | No Comments
Denon announced two new
Both players offers 1080p/24 Full HD output via HDMI and DVD upconversion. They support Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio decoding. Denon DBP-2010CI and DBP-1610CI are equipped with Burr-Brown D/A converters. They are priced at $699 and $499 respectively.
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Pioneer Air Navi AVIC-T20 HSDPA Multimedia PND
May 11th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in GPS | 1 Comment
Pioneer announced in Japan the new Air Navi AVIC-T20 multimedia portable navigation device (PND) that comes with integrated support for HSDPA/WCDMA connectivity. The AVIC-T20 features a 5.8-inch touchscreen, a 30-channel GPS receiver and built-in digital TV tuner.
Pioneer’s Carrozzeria AVIC-T20, as a multimedia navigator, supports playback of WMA, MP3, AAC, JPEG and BMP media files. The device will be released in early June.
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Verizon HP Mini 1151NR Netbook Coming on 17 May
May 11th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in Laptop | 1 Comment
Verizon is going to release on 17 May the HP Mini 1151NR netbook that is equipped with EV-DO Rev.A module. The Mini 1151NR is an Atom N270 powered netbook with 1GB RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth and 2-in-1 card reader. Verizon will sell the Mini 1151NR at $199 with a 2-year contract, according to BGR.
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Corsair P256 256GB 2.5-inch SSD Now Official
May 11th, 2009 by Sze | Filed in Storage | 1 Comment
Corsair made its Storage Solutions P256 256GB SSD (model: CMFSSD-256GBG2D) official. The P256 is previously known as the S256. The P256 has a 2.5-inch form factor and uses SATA II 3.0Gb/s interface. Based on Samsung MLC flash memory, Corsair P256 is equipped with Samsung’s SSD controller and 128MB cache memory. It offers 220MB/s read and 200MB/s write speeds.
Corsair P256 SSD is priced at $329.99.
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Luxury Green Teckell by Adriano Design for B.Lab Italia
Teckell is offering their superb playing field with essential forms and pure design, which is completely made of crystal and characterizing its outstanding statuettes in aluminum and elegant transparency. From Adriano Design collaboration with B.lab Italia and through an ongoing environmentally conscience research, Green Teckell is born; a truly original lifestyle and luxury design. This limited edition inserts itself as the first of a new generation of B.lab’s best seller Teckell Collection. Teckell is now becoming Green for its innovated design and use of materials; aluminum, crystal, and now wood.
3Medis Gadget Will Alarm Elderly People When To Take Their Medicines
3Medis is an innovative concept gadget aiming those who are frequently forgetting their health related schedules. This device has an alarming system that will constantly remind elders at a predetermined time to take their medicines. Moreover, it includes a digital calendar and allows storing personal health information like medical system, health insurance, etc. This device will offer an all round assistance to remind people both vocally and visually about taking their medicines by displaying an image of the drug, time and required dosage. Besides, even the people with weaker or no vision can be benefited from this gadget because of its voice instruction function.
Primavera Helmet for Scooter Generation Today
Primavera Helmet, designed by Sebastian Hess, is a key product of the latest high quality helmet array for the recent scooter generation. This open face, easy and casual helmet provides 180° visor that meets classic elegance. The clearly defined design has reduced to the essential components only and the style combines the legendary past with latest appearance. Innovation and vision, tradition and future, engineering and design are the main factors of this sustainable product. The main goal of designing this product is to provide excellent safety to the new generation scooter riders with a brilliant outlook that will attract the attention of all range of bikers.
Neoclassic and Good Grip for New Nikon Coolpix Series by Nikolay Komarov
The product line of Nikon Coolpix series will be enriched if they are agree with these two innovative models of new digital camera by figuring out the new marketing prospects. These two concepts are named as Neoclassic and Good Grip which is an extraordinary example of attaining the same goal with the means of different approaches. Neo Classic has a familiar and contented classic shape with stylish accessories that connects digital functions with analogue processes that can bring digital technology to mass users. Good Grip, on the other hand, is easy to use and comfortable to handle. The interface contains necessary and useful functions only that can be easily understood.
Call for Entries! LG Announces Design the Future Competition
LG Mobile Phones is partnering with crowdSPRING and Autodesk® to announce a new competition to define the future of personal mobile communication. If you are a U.S. resident age 18 and older, you can have a chance to design your vision of the next revolutionary LG mobile phone and compete for more than $80,000 in awards. Exercise your creative imagination and let your ideas be heard!
Awards:
- First Place: $20,000
- Second Place: $10,000
- Third Place: $5,000
- 40 Honorable Mentions: $1,000 + 1 LG U.S. Phone (A.R.V. of $300)
Start and End Dates: April 20, 2009 @ 12:00 a.m. PST – June 7, 2009 @ 11:59 p.m. PST
Submit your idea here!
Dell's rainbow-hued Inspiron desktops now available
[Via Desktop Review]
German researchers show off steering wheel-mounted OLED
D.I.Y. wireless power project unleashes your inner mad scientist
[Via Make]
Get a CableCARD into your DIY HTPC
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone coming shortly: $29.99, no 3G support
We've had a chance to play with the app, and it certainly gets the job done -- we just wish it worked a little better. Even on WiFi, control feels laggy, and there's no native guide (though there's an icon to quickly pull up your set-top box's guide). When you're in letterbox mode, you've got black bars around all four sides of the image, meaning that the app isn't taking full advantage of the phone's display; we're hopeful this'll be fixed in a future release, though. Happily, we think Sling really nailed the app's UI -- the on-screen translucent controls are pretty cool and generally work well without obscuring the view. Look to grab your own copy some time between 12:01AM and 6:01AM EDT tomorrow morning, and in the meantime, check out our gallery.
Update: The app's now available, so get ready to part with $30 (and to not part with your 3G bandwidth -- you certainly won't need it here). Thanks, everyone!
AirTran brings Gogo in-flight WiFi to every single flight
Engadget's recession antidote: win an 8GB Kingston SDHC Video card!
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Hawk WiFi robot is probably more fun to hang around with than your friends
Paul McCartney's Rock Band Höfner bass gets pictured, lacks genuineness
TomTom GO 740 LIVE impressions
by Darren Murph, posted May 12th 2009 at 10:58AM
Gallery: TomTom GO 740 LIVE
SGI name lives on after $42.5 million sale to Rackable Systems
As you know, Rackable Systems was originally hoping to acquire the one-time king of the 3D set for $25 million (with some speculating that even that was a bit much), but it looks like the bankruptcy judges had other plans. Now that the dust has settled (and a check has been cut for almost twice the original asking price) it looks like the two companies will finally merge, forming an outfit called... SGI. The newly minted Silicon Graphics International hopes to combine the strong server business of Rackable with the original Silicon Graphics Inc. name (and overseas service contracts), inspiring the same sort of technological alchemy that once brought the iconic brand to the silver screen by way of such fine cinematic fare as First Kid. In addition, SGI plans continued development and support for the existing Silicon Graphics and Rackable product lines. Quite frankly, we really don't care what they do, as long as they bring back the Indigo -- back in the day we would have killed for one of those bad boys.JVC debuts 8K / 4K prototype camcorders, moviemakers drool
Update: More details here. Thanks, Geoff!
Lenovo gazes into its netbook crystal ball, predicts Windows 7, 3G, blue skies with a chance of rain
[Via Slashdot]
eASIC eDV9200 H.264 codec promises HD for all devices
WinFast HPVC1100 is world's first external SpursEngine encoder
[Via Akihabara News]
Samsung's 30nm NAND chips give birth to 32GB memory cards
Sony X-series OLED Walkman priced, hitting UK tomorrow
Sanyo's LP-WXU700 projector is first to stream HD video over 802.11n WiFi
Update: Oops, dropped a 0 from the price. It's actually ¥627,900 or about $6,445 according to the native English press release -- but even that doesn't sound right.
[Via Akihabara News]
Intel reveals notebook and netbook plans for the rest of the year
Corsair's speedy P256 256GB solid state drive now shipping
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