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Jobo announces GIGA Vu SONIC and GIGA one SONIC image storage devices, rebranded Hyperdrives

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Feb 27th 2009 No Comments

jobo giga vu sonic one Jobo has recently announced two new photo storage devices – GIGA Vu SONIC and one GIGA One SONIC — with features and appearances closely resembled to Sanho Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA and Space.

The GiGA One SONIC has monochrome 1.8 inch display, functions more of a quick-n-dirty backup device with maximum transfer speed of 20MB/s. At that rate, it allows 1GB of images to be copied into the storage in less than one minute. Assuming it’s a rebranded Hyperdrive’s Space with similar battery life, a single charge would last up to 120GB of data transfer.

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Dell 24-inch G2410 Green monitor gets White LED backlit, cuts 60% power

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Feb 26th 2009 No Comments

monitor dell g2410 overview2 Dell has today unveiled its greenest monitor display with the launch of the G2410, a 24-inch white LED Full HD LCD with EPEAT Gold rating and many power saving promises to deliver great images at 60% less power consumption.

The display features 250 nits of brightness, 5ms panel response time and provides 1000:1 of contrast with ability to extend up to a whooping 1 million:1 dynamic contrast ratio. Panel is TN type with 16.7 million colors and 160/170 viewing angles rating. It’s unfortunately not a better e-IPS panel type we would like to see.

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OWC unveiled Voyager Q hdd docking stations, Quad-interface included

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Feb 26th 2009 No Comments

When I first heard of hdd docking station, I was thrilled and excited about the simplicity of accessing an internal 3.5-inch form factor hard drive with plug-n-play ability. Forget the external enclosure unit, a bare drive docking unit is the best hdd accessory ever invented and you better believe it. The increasingly popular hard drive docking station is everywhere now, and even OWC has joined the bandwagon.

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Feature-rich Addonics 4×1 eSATA/USB Port Multiplier has integrated Raid Controller

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 No Comments

Addonics has come out with an innovative and compact size 4×1 Port Multiplier with integrated hardware Raid controller that’s OS independent. It comes in the form of System version (PCI-form factor) – to enable multiple hard drives inside a system to be connected together to form a RAID volume — or Enclosure version – arts as external RAID array that fits inside Addonics family of Storage Tower, Storage Rack or other standard multi-bay enclosures.

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Blu-ray founders proposed cheaper Blu-ray royalties and simplified licensing process

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 No Comments

Back in October Macbook event, Steve Job expressed his view on Blu-ray’s gimmick as a “bag of hunt”, its licensing were too complex and the company hinted to wait on prices to fall further before entering the market. Job was right about the complication; and today, the founders of Blu-ray have revealed plan to unify the Blu-ray standard licensing, which would result in much simplified registering process and lower Blu-ray products cost, by as much as 40 percent less.

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Tamron announced date for Canon’s mounted APS-C format SP AF10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 Di II

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 No Comments

Despite the PMA 2009 is less than a week away, Tamron have not revealed anything new for PMA 2009 yet. But recently, the company has quietly announced the EF-mount for its long-awaited SP AF10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 Di II ultra wide zoom lens in Japan.

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LG 22-inch W2261VG LCD boasts 50k:1 contrast

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 No Comments

This new monitor from LG, presumably only available for Japanese market at the moment, is not just another basic 21.5-inch LCD, but not turning any heads either.

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PS3 $100 price cut imminent?

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 1 Comment

Despite how much we like the Sony’s PS3 gaming console with the additional Blu-ray player and world’s class built quality; it remains fact that the hardware’s sale is falling behind compares to much-cheaper gaming counterparts from Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii. With the economy’s downturn, experts are predicting price cut is the only option that would probably turn the tide around, but how much is enough for a jumpstart?

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ViewSonic intros ultra-thin bezel CD4230 digital signage display

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 No Comments

ViewSonic has announced new ultra-thin bezel CD4230 commercial LCD display and VTMS2431 multimedia LCD HDTV, at Digital Signage Expo today, to accompany its open frame digital signage networked display and media players.

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Olympus launches E-620, an entry-level DSLR with 12.3MP

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Feb 24th 2009 1 Comment

Olympus has today announced a new Four Thirds standard entry-level DSLR with features and price that would put smiles on many fans’ faces. The E-620 packed many of the features from E-30, which included the newly developed 12.3 MP “Live MOS” image sensor and a 2.7-inch tilt-swivel LCD, in a smaller and lighter chassis.

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