acer is announcing a new “notebook PC concept” in New York very shortly, and I’m delighted to tell you that SlashGear.com is bringing you the up to minute coverage. The press event is hosted by the BIG BOSS, acer’s very own president, Gianfranco Lanci. Stay tune for more info.
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It’s a little bigger, but the concepts are the same. It has an 8 or 10 inch screen, a fair sized keyboard and is based on Intel’s Shelton platform with processors ranging from 1 to 1.5 Gigahertz.
Its just a concept, but it’s a damned good one offering up a way to significantly decrease the number of batteries thrown away each year. The basic idea is that we get all the device manufacturers to start using one (or two) standardized batteries.
For some reason Circuit City thinks that if they open a new chain of stores meant to give you what you expect from a regular Circuit City you might shop there more often. They even gave it a name that’s slightly more “hip”, they are dubbing it “The City”.
We did a story not to long ago about VIA’s NanoBook which looked unmistakable from this notebook. Except VIA’s model didn’t have a phone built in, it was more of a clock/alarm/thermometer type of thing, other than that and the name just above the keyboard, I can’t tell the difference.
How would you like having 5Gbps wireless connection around the house? Streaming HD videos would be flawless without much buffering issue. The guys at Melbourne University have officially introduced their new invention, the GiFi.
It wasn’t too long ago I was writing about this vest as just a concept, well now its come to live and you can buy one. The list of games it works with has even expanded to include some titles you might recognize such as Call of Duty and Dead or Alive.
So apparently Microsoft has this Next-Gen PC Design competition, and this is one of the finalists. Looks pretty cool, makes you wonder why I say its creepy right?
Lots of companies went green last year, and this year won’t be any different. Nokia is showing off concept phone at Mobile World Congress that is made entirely from recycled materials.
You know all those jokes you used to poke at the Internet illiterate about downloading the Internet, because you thought that you knew it was impossible? Yeah, well, that’s come back to bite you in the ass because the one company with the power to do so, IBM, looks to be making plans to do [...]