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Axiomtek eBox630-821-FL – world’s most irrelevant name ever

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Apr 7th 2008 No Comments

What deserves such a long and confusing title? Why nothing more than a new ruggedized compact Linux PC. It’s targeted for automation, digital signage, or for in your car for navigation, media serving, web surfing, whatever.

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Panasonic ToughBook 19 boosted – Now with Core 2 Duo, More RAM and Storage

By Satsuki Then on Monday, Mar 24th 2008 3 Comments

The first revision of Panasonic ToughBook 19 rugged tablet PC uses Core Duo processor (U2400) that runs at 1.06Ghz. Panasonic has given the ToughBook 19 upgrades and now Core 2 Duo (U7500) powers it. Although the new CPU still runs at 1.06Ghz, it has a newer architecture that made the system more energy efficient and faster.

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Flash Survivor 32GB by Corsair – Unboxing and Pics

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

So I got a package from FedEx today, inside was the Flash Survivor 32GB model, its new, and its hot, not literally though. Inside the package were the flash drive tube thingy, a USB extension cable, and a Corsair dog tag/chain that I chose to put the flash drive on along with the dog tag.

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GETAC E100 tablet is lightweight and hardcore at the same time

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Jan 22nd 2008 No Comments

Sadly it won’t be unveiled until the DistribuTECH 2008 conference in March, but we still have some specs for you. It will have an Intel Stealy processor with 512KB L2 cache and 800MHz clock speed.

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Olympus Announces World’s Toughest Digital Compact Camera

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Jan 22nd 2008 2 Comments

Olympus releases a rugged digital P&S for adventurers and extreme sport users. The new stylus SW1030 features a 10.1MP 1/2.35″ Type CCD sensor with Digital Image Stabilization, 3.6x optical zoom (28-102mm 35mm equiv) and a 2.7-Inch Advanced HyperCrystal II LCD. But the real deal behind this camera is its physical ruggedness that’s measuring up to toughest challenges in rough shooting condition. It’s shockproof, waterproof, freezeproof, crushproof and dustproof to endure extreme expeditions and adventures.

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Fujitsu F705i, the world’s slimmest waterproof phone

By Ewdison Then on Tuesday, Jan 22nd 2008 No Comments

f705i How often do you drop your phone in a bucket of water or swimming pool? Not many times I would hope, but Fujitsu thinks waterproof mobile phone market has potential. Fujitsu unveiled the F705i, the world’s slimmest waterproof 3G mobile phone.

Now, although its can hold up to the water element, the F705i will not hold up to drowning over 1m depth of water and longer than 30 minutes. The phone itself features Super Clear Voice and Super Clear Mike that would automatically adjust the volume of calls depending on noise level surrounding the phone user.

It weighs only 111g with dimensions of 106 x 49 x 13.7mm. As for battery life, it allows 170 minutes of talk time and 100 minutes of videophone. No information on pricing and availability at this moment.

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SeaLife ECOshot is useable anywhere

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Jan 11th 2008 1 Comment

This new digi cam from SeaLife isn’t just for underwater use, it will work on land as well and is good for up to a six foot drop. It has a 6MP CMOS sensor and rubberized grips which helps all the way around.

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CES 2008: OtterBox has new cases for iPod and BlackBerry

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Jan 9th 2008 1 Comment

So I was able to make it to the OtterBox booth where our friend Kristin was kind enough to take the time and show me their new products. They had a few new iPod cases including one for the 5G iPod and one for the iPhone, the 5G iPod one wasn’t that interesting, it would definitely do its job of protecting your iPod though, it was pretty touch, not Armor Series tough, but it was tough.

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Fujitsu’s CK800 will take a licking and keep on ticking

By Christina Crouch on Wednesday, Jan 2nd 2008 No Comments

I’m not that picky about my personal cell phones. In fact I kept my first one for three years until it finally quit working after being dropped a thousand times and then “mysteriously” crushed while apparently no one was around. Basically, if it works it’s fine by me.

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iMep video boombox gets a nice refresh

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Dec 3rd 2007 No Comments

So it has a 7-inch screen, and as if that wasn’t enough you can dock your iPod and play videos from that. Or, if you prefer, there is a built in DVD player.

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