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  • Concept watch tells time with frikkin’ lasers

    Concept watch tells time with frikkin’ lasers

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    One look at what this watch does will tell you that it's just a concept, and will most likely never see the light of day (no pun intended). The Aurora Watch was designed by Jihun Yeom, and features a hollow face that makes it look like you lost part of your wristwatch, until you push a button and two lasers come out of the bezel to show you the time.

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  • New NEC chip helps make cell phone displays viewable outdoors, saves power

    New NEC chip helps make cell phone displays viewable outdoors, saves power

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've ever got upset about not being able to view what your cell phone screen displays while you are outside your house, NEC's new color-compensation chip is probably good news for you. The chip, which is specifically made for LCDs for mobile phones, helps to make them easier to view in bright outdoor settings.

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  • Does the Notion Ink Adam stand a chance against the iPad?

    Does the Notion Ink Adam stand a chance against the iPad?

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    It kinda sucks to be a tablet maker right now, what with that new kid on the block coming out with a new product to compete. I'm talking of course about the Notion Ink Adam vs. the iPad. When you start to compare between the two, the differences become obvious - but will they be enough to sway the Apple faithful away?

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  • More LED-backlit LCD TVs: Sharp announces another four models

    More LED-backlit LCD TVs: Sharp announces another four models

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    LED-backlit panels are becoming more and more mainstream, with nearly every 16:9 laptop coming out lately boasting that feature. Apple said as early as 2008 they would start using LED backlights for every one of their notebooks (and the iPad has those, too). LED-backlit LCD TVs are catching on, too, providing greater dynamic contrast compared with CCFL-backlit LCDs and making it possible to design slimmer bodies. Today, Sharp in Japan announced [JP] another four models (LC-52SE1/pictured, LC-46SE1, LC-40SE1 and LC-32SC1) from their LED AQUOS series, and all have (white) LED backlights.

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  • Panasonic to sell plasma TVs with 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio

    Panasonic to sell plasma TVs with 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio

    Posted on January 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Panasonic still believes in plasma. The company, which owns the biggest plasma panel plant in the world and is the global leader in this segment, today announced [JP] the VIERA G2 series, which consists of a total of three new plasma TVs. And as Panasonic sells these devices in the US, too, chances are the new line-up will find its way outside Japan in the future as well.

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  • VIA launches their wee server, the M’SERV

    VIA launches their wee server, the M’SERV

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
    VIA just launched their latest little computer, the M'SERV S2100. Designed for the small business and home user, the M'SERV uses a VIA 64-bit processor with support for DDR2 and SATA.

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  • VIA intros tiny Mobile-ITX platform

    VIA intros tiny Mobile-ITX platform

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    You know that thing about robots eventually taking over the world? Or computers? Or robots with computers in them and at first you're like, “Hey cool, I’m friends with a robot and we play Scrabble together because he has a computer in him,” but after a while the robot gets all moody and you start to notice stuff missing from your room and all of a sudden the robot is, like, locking you out of your house and punching you in the upper arm for no reason? Maybe that robot would have one of these VIA Mobile-ITX boards in it. It’s small, is what I’m saying.

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  • Report: Sony and Sharp shake hands in another LCD TV deal

    Report: Sony and Sharp shake hands in another LCD TV deal

    Posted on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Globally speaking, there is one clear leader in the LCD TV business: Samsung. The company commands a 23.2% share in this segment, with Sony (13.7%) and Sharp (7%) almost hopelessly behind (according to DisplaySearch). So in June this year already, Sony and Sharp inked a joint venture deal to produce LCD TVs together. And today, the Nikkei (Japan's biggest business publication), reports that the two former arch rivals decided to further expand their alliance.

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  • “Green Tap”: NEC develops energy-saving power strip

    “Green Tap”: NEC develops energy-saving power strip

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    NEC subsidiary NEC System Technologies has developed a power strip [JP] with a built-in processor, sensor (the device pictured on the right) and remote control that can cut power consumption by as much as 15% and more. The company says the so-called Green Tap, which sports four outlets, can be used by both offices and private homes.

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  • Rumor: Intel Atom N450 (Pine Trail) to launch on January 3rd?

    Rumor: Intel Atom N450 (Pine Trail) to launch on January 3rd?

    Posted on October 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Fudzilla is reporting that Intel's new Atom N450 chipset – codenamed Pine Trail (see previous coverage here) -- will officially launch on January 3rd.

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  • Iomega announces new StorCenter ix2-200

    Iomega announces new StorCenter ix2-200

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Iomega just announced the latest addition to their rapidly growing NAS line, the ix2-200. This is the latest iteration in the line is focused on being easy to set up, something that is fairly uncommon in the small business storage market. The new model also includes a new "Green desktop" mode, which allows the NAS to spin down the drives when not in use, thereby reducing power consumption.

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  • Hitachi TV watches YOU!

    Hitachi TV watches YOU!

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    How much energy do you think is wasted every day powering devices that aren't actually being used? I'm not talking about stand-by power consumption, but actually on-and-in-use without a user there. I know a lot of people who turn their TVs on just as "background noise", without ever actually looking at the screen. Hitachi's cooking up a system to place TVs in power consumption mode if it detects that the viewer isn't actually viewing the screen. Click on through to see it in action.

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  • LX series: Sharp Japan rolls out new AQUOS TVs with 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio

    LX series: Sharp Japan rolls out new AQUOS TVs with 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio

    Posted on September 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Sharp has announced four new LCD TVs with some impressive specs for the Japanese market today [press release in English]. The TVs will be available in four sizes: 40, 46, 52 and 60 inches. All models are full HD and feature LED backlight for improved picture quality.

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  • ARM breaks 2GHz barrier with dual core Cortex-A9 processor

    ARM breaks 2GHz barrier with dual core Cortex-A9 processor

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Great Neptune’s trousers! ARM has just announced the development of a dual core mobile processor capable of breaking the 2GHz barrier. The 40nm Cortex-A9 CPU will use conventional silicon chips and each CPU core will consume less than 0.25 watts of power.

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  • Samsung follows Toshiba with a 640GB 2.5-inch HDD

    Samsung follows Toshiba with a 640GB 2.5-inch HDD

    Posted on September 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Toshiba introduced a 2.5-inch HDD with 640 GB capacity just a few days ago, and now Samsung follows up with the Spinpoint, an internal HDD with the same capacity. Samsung says the new drive is specifically made for high-end laptops.

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