SlashGear JapanWhen you are feeling hungry and you and have to cook food or for that matter have to heat it up, what first pushes you back is the time that it requires. But, now with the new ‘Panasonic FlashXpress Infrared Toaster’ you can make your food faster or heat up your food which could be anything from a frozen pizza to any curry about 40% quicker. It makes use of infrared radiations to heat the food. In this era when everything has got a high-tech treatment how could the oven stay back? Now, no more waiting around the oven to heat your food is going to bang a death knell on your hunger or movie session.
T-Mobile Internatioinal, on 15th Feb. announced that customers of T-Mobile in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands will avail a faster mobile internet access, starting form this month. HSPDA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) will be available for user of all three markets. According to Chief Technology Officer, Hamid Hakvana, user will be able to avail a speed of 1.8Mbps in starting and from next year speed will achieve speed between 3.6 and 7.2Mbps, which will be competing with fixed-lined DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) technology. Initially HSPDA card will be available for user for their notebooks, and in third quarter of this year T-mobile will change its HSPDA service in lieu with automatic connectivity and after that users will be able to use this service in their mobile (with 3G technology).
Sony’s new external DVD DRX-810 drive, almost identical to its predecessor, the Sony DRX800UL, comes with a silver design and mirrored panel on front which gives it a real touch. DRX comes with a plastic holder with which you will be able to position it flat or upright, without taking too much of your desk space. Also you can turn on its vibration feature, audible in upright position, which makes it cool. You will be able to connect it to PC and notebook via USB or Fireware. DRX allows writing speed of 16x (21.6MB/s) for single layer DVD, 8x(10.8) for dual layer DVDs (8.5 GB), 6x (8.1MB/s) for DVD-RW, 48x for CD-R and 32x for CD-RW, with help of bundled Nero package includes 
Nintendo has announced that it will soon be adding new features to its “Nintendo DS”, providing user compatibility for web surfing and HD TV programming. Nintendo is planning to sell browser (developed with OPERA software) in June and digital TV till the end of 2006. Nintendo lovers will also see some more announcements like foreign language guide for travelers, a reference guide (in Japanese and English), software to improve penmanship, cooking guide with voice instructions and for gamers, Tetris DS(which will include Mario and Donkey Kong), and much more games by third party developers such as Square Enix Co. Ltd., Namco and Pokemon Co.
On Wednesday Sun Microsystems released beta version of Java, codnamed as Project Mustang and publicly known as Java SE 6(Java Platform Standard Edition 6). Java SE 6 users will be able to see desktop enhancements, native platform look and feel, text printing drag and drop capability, table display and manipulation. These manipulations will work on Solaris, Windows and Linux OS. Support for Windows VISTA OS is also included in it. Also, DTrace function will allow users to analyze processes running on Solaris OS. 
