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Cybernet ZPC computer-in-a-keyboard computer design gets some hardware upgrades

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Mar 24th 2008 No Comments

These things aren’t exactly new hack, but last time I read about them they had mediocre hardware inside. Now they are pushing quad-core processors, X3100 graphics, 4GB of RAM, and slim-line optical drives.

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Sanyo Xacti CG9 – new, more user friendly Xacti

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Mar 19th 2008 1 Comment

This is the latest effort from Sanyo to penetrate the market of the common/casual user with their video cameras. It still supports H.264 video which is great for those major YouTube uploaders out there, but its been fattened up due to surveys of the general public.

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Canon drops three new ELPHs – for all your compact awesomeness needs

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 13th 2008 3 Comments

They are as follows: the SD890, SD790, and SD770. All of those model names also have Canon, PowerShot, IS, Digital, and ELPH all thrown into each of them somewhere as well, there’s more than that which they all have in common as well.

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GMC Slim LP case lineup – puts the optical drives outside, in the doghouse

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Mar 10th 2008 No Comments

All of the computer cases from this lineup look amazing, but one catch they have is that they all feature external, but yet still internal, optical disc drives. I put it like that because each of the external ODD’s have a case that is themed after the main computer case and they have a direct line to the inside of the computer where I would assume they’d connect via SATA or IDE.

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Broadcom acquires Sunext Design, will develop Blu-Ray SoC solution with optical recorders

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Mar 3rd 2008 No Comments

At present, the top three System-On-A-Chip aka SoC maker for Blu-Ray technology are Sigma Design, Broadcom and Panasonic UniPhier. Majority of current Blu-ray players are coming from sigma Design’s SMP8634 SoC, but the company may face the toughest challenge with its rival’s recent acquisition of Sunext Design.

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Optical USB mouse with vacuum built in

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Feb 20th 2008 No Comments

These people and their mice modifications make me sick sometimes, but alas, I bring you the latest and greatest in mouse multi-functionality. This 800dpi optical mouse has a small vacuum built into it.

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Breathalyzer for disease, probably won’t result in a ticket if you’re infected

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Feb 18th 2008 No Comments

The scientists at NIST have come up with a new breathalyzer that could be used to detect if you have certain diseases. The long of it is calling it the “cavity-enhanced direct optical frequency comb spectroscopy” I like breathalyzer for disease better though.

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Yashica DVC825 and rest of brand returning

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Feb 15th 2008 No Comments

Yashica, the brand, is returning with some new digital and film cameras. The DVC825 seems to be from their higher end and is a digital camera that looks simply amazing.

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Plextor PX-B300SA and PX-B920SA HD optical drives

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Feb 7th 2008 No Comments

Plextor has been known as one of the leaders in manufacturing the best in the optical drive market, and these two are no different. Both support SATA, and can read and write to both CD’s and DVD’s, but the catch is what they can do with the new HD optical formats.

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DVico TVIX Trash can shaped DVR almost as useful as R2-D2

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Jan 28th 2008 No Comments

It’s an HD network multimedia play that is also a PVR and HDTV Tuner. It can playback HD (and I assume SD is no problem either) content from its hard drive, USB ports, or from any computer connected to it via the local area network.

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