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Sandisk Updates Ultra II media with 32GB SDHC and 8GB SDHC Plus

Daniel Lim, Jan 31st 2008 Discuss [0]

I have a few of the Sandisk Ultra II 2GB SD version. I prefer them over the Extreme III Compact flash because the in-camera write speed is a tap faster. Although it's slightly slower in between PC transfer but that’s not what i got it for. Now sounds about the right time for an upgrade. Sandisk has announced two new up-sized versions of the Ultra II SDHC and Ultra II SDHC plus to 32GB and 8GB with 50 percents faster than last version. Read The Full Story

Skype on the PSP is now live

James Allan Brady, Jan 30th 2008 Discuss [1]

Go get the update now! Firmware 3.90 offers up Skype, well, that’s the major addition from the update, I have no clue what else it does, but after you have Skype on your PSP you probably won’t care either. The downsides are as follows, first, you have to have a PSP-2000, aka the PSP Slim. The second is that the little remote that came with that model PSP, yeah, you had better still have it, as its apparently necessary (probably where the microphone is). Read The Full Story

nVidia nForce 790i chipset coming next quarter

James Allan Brady, Jan 29th 2008 Discuss [0]

With this new chipset you’ll see the C73 northbridge and the MCP55 southbridge chipset. As far as what that means, it means the motherboard will be able to support up to a 1600MHz front side bus. Read The Full Story

Brando SIM-unlock card for iPhone

James Allan Brady, Jan 25th 2008 Discuss [2]

Apparently the deal with this card is that you slide it into your iPhone and it somehow magically hardware unlocks your iPhone. I am not an electrical engineer, so I can’t tell you how well this thing will work, but if I had to guess, it won’t. Read The Full Story

Olympus announces New Type M+ xD-Picture Cards

Daniel Lim, Jan 23rd 2008 Discuss [0]

Olympus updated their co-invention with Fujifilm, the xD-Picture Card, with a faster M+ series in preparing for PMA 2008. The new Type M + xD-Picture Card offered 1.5 times fastest than previous version of Type M series when used with Olympus digital cameras. That’s about 3.75-6 mb/s in write and read speed. The Multi Level Cell architecture in M type xD media format is capable to produce up to 8GB of storage space but the new series is still stuck in a rather disappointing capacities of 1GB and 2GB model. Olympus has not disclosed pricing but both will be available in April. [via dpreview]

Digital Hero 3 wrist cam can capture just about anything

James Allan Brady, Jan 23rd 2008 Discuss [0]

This camera straps on your wrist, and can take a hell of a beating from there. It will work for up to 30 meters under water and is also shock proof. It can take up to 3MP stills and can do 54 minutes of video (I’d guess in VGA resolution, maybe a little better). Read The Full Story

Zotec nVidia GeForce 8400GS has G98 chipset

James Allan Brady, Jan 16th 2008 Discuss [0]

This isn’t really a card for gamers, its aimed more at media center builders. The G98 chipset is a slower performer than the G92. Read The Full Story

New Kingston Flash Drives

James Allan Brady, Jan 14th 2008 Discuss [0]

Kingston was showing off 4 new flash drives, the one I was most impressed with is the HyperX one. I mean, their HyperX PC memory is impressive so I can only expect similar speeds from this flash drive, and it delivers with a write speed of 20MB/second and read speed that’s 10MB/second faster, this thing is built for ReadyBoost. You can get these drives for 74, 131, and 266 dollars in capacities of 2, 4, and 8 gigabytes respectively. Read The Full Story

Mustek 15-inch picture frame has Bluetooth

James Allan Brady, Jan 10th 2008 Discuss [0]

Really it has a diagonal measurement of 15.6-inches, but they chose to call it 15”. It has a 1366x768 resolution which gives you a 16:9 aspect ratio. Read The Full Story

CES 2008: SanDisk 12GB microSDHC memory card out for testing

Chris Davies, Jan 8th 2008 Discuss [0]

Less than three months after Vincent tested out SanDisk's 8GB microSDHC memory card, the company has begun sending out 12GB versions to cellphone manufacturers to allow them to test their handsets with the newly massive chip. Read The Full Story

Fingerprint safe uses biometrics to secure your goods

James Allan Brady, Dec 26th 2007 Discuss [0]

So check out this safe that stores your valuable stuff under fingerprint scanner (not quite as catchy as lock and key). It’s apparently so secure that its endorsed by the NRA for use with firearms. Read The Full Story

New ATI Radeon cards leaked

James Allan Brady, Dec 26th 2007 Discuss [0]

So there is the Radeon HD 3450, 3470, and 3650 the loose specs of each were leaked out over the internet on Christmas. The cheapest, at about $50, is the 3450 featuring an RV620 core with 525MHz core and 256MB of memory and DisplayPort for HD video. Read The Full Story