Author Archive for Daniel
While gathering more fact on a new Blu-Ray external drive posted on blu-ray.com, I found an interesting quote from Lite-on at techradar about their new external Blu-ray drive. According to some Lite-On’s blurb, their Blu-ray drive is as good as idiot-proof USB device. Somehow, I doubt so.
Next in line is another Sony’s Cybershot features a powerful 15x optical zoom. The DSC-H50 updates last model DSC-H9 to feature a 9.1 megapixel with Super HAD ½.3-inch CCD Type sensor. The 15x optical zoom Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with ranges of 31-465mm (35mm equiv.) appears to be identical as predecessor with the exception of [...]
If you aren’t impressed with the pixels count on compact size digital cameras announced at CES 2008, Sony just unveils a powerhouse 13.6 megapixel that raises eyebrows. The slim and sleek Cyber-shot DCS W300 is Sony greatest yet Cybershot announced to date. It has the physically toughness and advanced features normally found on higher [...]
Despite its best multimedia intentions, Toshiba’s X205-SLi4 notebook is always now going to be criticized for having an HD-DVD drive rather than Blu-Ray; but is this a single chink in its vast armor, or a sign of disappointment to come? SlashGear squared up to the $2,499, 9.37lb monster to find out.
Thirteen months ago Steve K Lee was hired as the Lecia CEO with the challenge of turning the company around in digital era. That didn’t happen and he has been dismissed and replaced by the company’s owner and board chairman Dr Andreas Kaufman.
It’s not an easy task in the cut-throat digital camera business, and twice [...]
We thought the big Plasma outfit from Panasonic was for show, no go. Apparently, they’ve proved us wrong by publishing the number of 103-inch Plasma unit sold in a Japanese commercial and kept pushing the sizes up to 150-inch at CES 2008. The Big-Plasma-Biz must be good for Panasonic. They have reintroduced the same 103-inch [...]
If you are half-a-geek, you probably heard of freezer trick to recovery data from a physically F.U.B.A hard drive. The New York Times has published an article with similar method used by Princeton University researchers – not for data recovering but breaking the encrypted information stored on the disk.
The new Transcend StoreJet 25 mobile external drive is not any different than nowadays convenient mobile grade storage. It’s bus-powered, USB 2.0 compatible, intelligent back-up sofware with one touch of a button - all packed in compact storage measured at 0.45 pound, 134mm by 80.8mm by 18.8mm mobile case.
Conventional HDMI cable is stiff and heavy, lacks flexibility to get around tight spaces. One looks for an alternate cable solution is either getting a much expensive wireless module or a flat HDMI like Wireworld world’s thinnest Island HDMI cable. If the Island’s 3mm profile is not thin enough, Planex Japan has another measured at [...]
Next time you flight over Phoenix, take a look outside the window, you may find world’s largest parabolic mirrors, 2,700 of them, spread over a 3-mile-square stretch of desert about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix.
