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Nanovision MIMO 720-S touchscreen display review

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 20th 2009 No Comments

Back when we reviewed the first Nanovision MIMO USB monitors, the UM-710 and UM-730, we wondered whether price and niche appeal would see them a passing fad. The proliferation of roughly 7-inch USB display rivals in the intervening months would seem to suggest that fear was unfounded, and indeed Nanovision are back with their second generation of companion monitors. Now narrowed down to two units – the basic MIMO 710-S and the touchscreen MIMO 720-S – we’ve had the finger-friendly model on our desk for the past week. Check out the full review after the cut.

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Brando USB multitouch trackpad/numberpad

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 20th 2009 No Comments

If you’re a Windows desktop user who has been jealously eyeing up the multitouch trackpads available on various Windows and Apple notebooks, or perhaps prefer to use your laptop with an external keyboard but miss the multi-finger functionality, then Brando’s latest product may be for you. Their USB Multi-Touch Smart Pad does exactly what it says on the tin: recognize all the usual multi-finger gestures such as pinch-zoom and rotate.

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iBUYPOWER USB IES Controller announced

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Aug 18th 2009 No Comments

iBUYPOWER revealed a new USB Internal Expansion System or IES Controller today that’s proprietary to the company and offers a significant power boost to the USB ports and card readers on PCs.

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Tritton external USB video cards offered at Best Buy

By Shane McGlaun on Tuesday, Aug 18th 2009 No Comments

One of the big problems with adding more displays to some computers is that many desktop computers and all notebooks only have one video output. That means that the desktop user would often need another video card. Not so long ago that meant cracking open the computer and installing a new internal video card.

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Verbatim InSight HDD with permanent status display

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 17th 2009 No Comments

Verbatim have announced a new external hard-drive, though you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for a set of kitchen scales. The InSight USB Portable Hard Drive has an always-on LCD which permanently displays the drive’s name and its capacity; it’s updated every time the InSight is connected or disconnected from the host PC or Mac.

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iLuv iAD117 and iAD116 USB power adapters

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 13th 2009 No Comments

Let’s be blunt: iLuv’s portable USB adapters aren’t the first we’ve seen, and nor are they the handsomest, but they are at least relatively cheap. The iLuv iAD116 – which has one USB port – and the iLuv iAD117 – which has three – each have folding mains pins and come in at under $20 each.

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Corsair 128GB Flash Voyager GT: pointlessly fast?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 13th 2009 No Comments

Corsair’s new 128GB Flash Voyager GT thumb-drive is, the company claims, so speedy that its throughput is effectively limited by the capacity of a USB 2.0 port. That either means that USB 3.0 can’t come quickly enough, or that Corsair’s engineers basically wasted their time and could’ve slacked off in the latter stages of the Voyager GT’s development.

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Aiptek T20 Pocket Cinema pico-projector preorders taken in UK

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 12th 2009 No Comments

Aiptek’s T20 Pocket Cinema pico-projector has shown up for pre-order in the UK, with a £199.99 ($330) sticker price and a release date of September 1st. Like the BeamBox Essential G2, the Aiptek T20 lacks an onboard battery and media-player, and is instead intended to be hooked up to a notebook or netbook via USB.

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Nanovision confirm touchscreen MIMO 720-S 7-inch USB subdisplay

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 10th 2009 No Comments

After mentioning Nanovision’s new MIMO 710-S USB LCD sub-display last week, we’ve now heard from the company themselves that there will indeed be two versions of the 7-inch 800 x 480 monitor. The range kicks off with the 710-S, as expected, but also includes the Nanovision MIMO 720-S, a touchscreen version.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 32 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Sunday, Aug 9th 2009 No Comments

The weekend is here again fellow geeks and geekettes so I am back with another week in review. Monday more rumors surfaced that has Apple launching that long anticipated tablet device this November. The rumors further claim that the tablet will be aimed at gaming and media use. Early this week Verizon cut the pricing on all its smartphones save a few of the new ones to $99. That makes us think lots of new smartphone hardware is on its way.

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