Author Archive for Chris Davies
Casio has announced a number of new projectors, intended for the boardroom but compact enough to make them tempting to road-warriors and the occasionally entertained, too. All fitting into the Super Slim range, the four new models include two with “Super Color” technology and two with “Super Bright”; they each have a 2x power zoom, [...]
Sanyo has announced another fiendishly-complicated looking GPS system with an unusual name. The NV-SD585DT ‘Gorilla’ has a 5.8-inch touchscreen, 4GB SSD and a 1-Seg digital TV tuner. There’s also an ECO driving mode, as seen recently on Digitalcube’s U7 GPS.
An unnamed internal ASUS source has confirmed that the company is planning a 3G version of the Eee budget ultraportable, intended for the European market. ASUS was already known to be preparing a WiMAX equipped Eee for the US, but the Euro version will presumably come with HSDPA/HSUPA suited for the 3G frequencies used.
Latest rumor on the video card street is that NVIDIA is preparing to slash the price of its GeForce GTX 280 and 260 models. Tipped as the company’s retort to rival AMD’s Radeon HD 4800 range, the current figure being suggested is just $499 for the 280; that would be a $150 saving on the [...]
Apple has reduced the cost of specifying the solid-state drive option on its Air ultraportable notebook. The SSD, originally priced at $999, now costs $599 as an addition to the 1.6GHz entry-level Air. The 1.8GHz Air, which is pre-configured with the SSD, has dropped to $2,598.
Transmissive LCD panels are nothing particularly new - they basically reflect sunlight back through the panel so as to mimic the effect of a traditional backlight, and as such make the screen usable outdoors - but Casio’s latest attempt is so efficient it doesn’t require any supplementary backlighting at all. Named Blanview LCD, the system boasts [...]
It only really took Vista to make thousands of geeks look more fondly at Windows XP, and so Microsoft’s announcement that it would be maintaining the last-gen OS for use on low-power netbooks was well received. The devil, of course, is in the details, and that’s an area Microsoft excels in: one of their more [...]
Industrial design student Gregory Siegal is sick and tired of people taking photos and leaving them languishing in random folders on their PC. His LifeMap concept takes the form of a super-skinny touchscreen PC that can use geographical data and tags to display different timelines and memory sets.
Creative’s latest PMP has been spotted by multiple sources, including a detail-scant FCC test report [pdf link] and a few leaked photos. The upcoming media player, called the ZEN X-Fi, is said to include WiFi, instant messaging, a built-in FM radio and speaker, and Creative’s sound-fettling X-Fi technology. Storage is either 8, 16 or 32GB, plus there’s an SD [...]
Data Robotics has released an SDK for their Drobo robotic RAID array. The Drobo, which we reviewed in August last year, attempts to make backup and data redundancy straightforward by automating much of the RAID process; while it initially was intended for connection to a single PC, the company subsequently released a networking component called DroboShare. With the [...]
