The CinemaTube has gone up for pre-order today. It’s a media player that connects to your tv, and gives you the ability to watch stored movies, pictures, and other videos right from the box. No longer have to worry about physical media anymore, just in case you were one of those people who thought that the way of the disk was for dinosaurs. Media is going the digital way, and Brite-View wants you to get there in the high definition way.
Back at the beginning of the month, we had a whole slew of Android information come swirling into our offices. We did our best to cover it, and part of that coverage was this little piece of Mobile Internet Device (MID) Heaven. It’s a pretty slick, piano-black piece of tech that’s running some might Android goodness. And, despite the coverage we splattered all over it before, we were lacking any real live shots of the device. Well, now’s as good a time for change as any other, right?
Lenovo have quietly launched a USB to DVI monitor adapter based on DisplayLink’s virtual video card technology, that promises up to 1,920 x 1,200 WUXGA output – supporting 1080p High-Definition video – via a single USB connection. Up to six of the adapters can be used on a single computer (three if you have a ThinkPad with switchable graphics) in addition to the machines’ native video outputs.
Don’t back away from the screen in terror; we’ve had it on good authority that the Hercules Dualpix HD720p you see here is actually considerably smaller in real life. What such a large image does help show you, though, is that the webcam is HD 720p capable, complete with an autofocus lens and integrated microphone.
Epoq are back with their next pico-projector, and since it’s growing harder to differentiate between these compact, LED-based handhelds they’ve decided to stuff Windows CE 5.0 inside. Having a full OS – plus the trackpad on top of the projector – means the Epoq Multimedia EPP-CEP1 can run native Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF viewers for standalone presentations, together with Windows Media Player for broader video filetype support.
While we hate to admit it, a universal charger doesn’t seem to be something that’s going to happen any time soon for the mobile phone industry. And while we don’t expect anything from the other personal gadget manufacturers, it’s pretty ridiculous that we usually need to buy a new charger when we get a new phone. Making a standard seems to be the obvious thing to do, but hey, what do we know? Then again, if we had a universal rule of thumb for charging our phones, we wouldn’t get cool devices like this.
Steampunk is definitely here, and it’s not going anywhere any time soon. Whether you like it or not. And while we’ve covered it before, this time it seems a bit too much to handle. We love flash drives as much as the next person, and Steampunk is a great design aesthetic, but let’s be honest: price matters. Apparently, not everyone got that memo.
I learned the hard way when I used my netbook at CES back in January that in the business world, many people still give out information on CDs or DVDs. That is a big problem for netbook users who lack optical drives. I’ve also wondered a few times why users would bother with 720p capable netbooks without a Blu-ray drive.
Parallels have released a new virtualization package intended to make first-time transitions to Mac from Windows all the more straightforward. The Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition consists not only of the company’s Parallels Desktop 4.0 app – which allows you to run Windows apps on an OS X machine – but a data migration cable that automatically transfers programs and files to your new machine.
Terminator Salvation came out earlier this year, and if you liked it (or maybe loved it), then this new USB drive might just be the perfect thing for your desk. It’s a licensed T-600 face, and it’s from the latest movie. And while getting a USB memory stick that can stare back at you might not be the best idea for some people, it’s obviously something to get if you are a fan of the movies. And by fan, we mean you quote the movies on a day-to-day basis, kind of fan.
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