Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard


Like many people on the planet, you've probably got a hectic schedule and are always on the go. With many modern conveniences such as cell phones and PDA's with Internet and emailing capabilities, you can find information and communicate from almost anywhere. These gadgets are great to have, however, one disadvantage is that they are so small and can sometimes be difficult to see and can be a pain to type on. But this new gadget, the Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard, may be a solution to that problem.

The Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard is a tiny device that uses lasers to project a keyboard on to any flat surface. You can then use the 63 key, full-size keyboard to type an email on any Bluetooth enabled PDA or cell phone. With simulated key click sounds and the capability of handling typing speeds of a standard keyboard, the virtual keyboard will make it easier to type on your small electronics. A little larger than a matchbook, this gadget fits nicely in your pocket or purse. The rechargeable battery will last up to 120 minutes.

Get yours now for under $200.00

Low-Energy Aleutia E2 Computer


You turn the lights off when you leave a room. You open your windows when it's nice out so you don't have to run the air conditioner. And there are probably numerous other things you do around your house so you can save energy and money on your electric bill. But do you turn your computer off every night? Now you don't have to worry about shutting down your PC every night to conserve energy with this Low-Energy Computer.

Most computers use a surprising 300-500 watts of power just to run. But this new energy saving model, the Aleutia E2, was designed to use only 8 watts of power, that's less than most light bulbs! So how is this possible and why don't all computer manufacturers product energy saving models? Well, it's possible because the Low-Energy Computer uses energy efficient memory such as solid-state memory cards as opposed to hard drives. However in turn for being more environmentally friendly, this small computer only runs at 500 MHz with 1 GB RAM. It's not capable of running things like Google Earth or YouTube but is very resourceful for word processing, emailing, and surfing the net.

The Low-Energy Aleutia E2 is only about the size of two decks of cards (4.5"x4.5"x1.4") and only weighs 500 grams. Despite its small size is virtually indestructible being made with an aluminum case and no moving parts to break off. Another added feature is that it will attach to the back off many LCD monitors so it won't be in the way.

So if you're looking for a ways to go green and maybe save on your energy costs then a Low-Energy Computer may be just the thing for you.Link....

Blueado m5e Media Center PC


Here is a very nice media PC for your home entertainment theater. First off it is very small, only 4.2 inches tall, 7 inches wide and 12 inches deep. So it will fit just about anywhere. Second it does not look like your typical PC. It is very eye appealing. Third it?s quite. No noisy fans distracting you from your favorite shows and movies.

Now for the specifications:
  • 200 Gigabyte Storage will record over 300 hours of high quality video
  • Create your own DVD's with the built in DVD Burner!
  • Watch one TV show while recording another!
  • Extra Performance for all of your entertainment needs.
  • Store over 10,000 MP3's
  • Store over 25,000 Digital Pictures
  • Dolby Digital Audio Out in 5.1
  • DTS Digital Audio (5.1, 6.1 and in the future 7.1)
  • Front USB 2.0 and Fire Wire Connections
  • 7 Input Card Reader
  • S-Video, DVI, VGA and Standard Video Out
  • Front Audio Out and In. Link....
  • Alienware MJ-12 m7700a


    If you have never heard of Alienware computers then you have been missing out. Alienware builds some of the best performing computers you will find anywhere. These are definitely not your average Dell or HP computers and laptops. They are built to look cool as well as perform. They build just about any type of computer and laptop you could want but their real bread and butter are their gaming PCs.

    I came across this Alienware laptop the other day when browsing . The MJ-12 m7700a is basically a full blown desktop packed in to a laptop case. It features dual-core AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 FX-60 processors to handle any task you can throw at it. It has a PCI Express-powered NVIDIA Quadro graphics card for all the latest games. The MJ-12 m7700 will support dual SATA drives in RAID configurations. We are talking over 200GB of hard drive space in this bad boy. But that is not all, this laptop also supports dual optical drives so you can have a CD-RW/DVD and a DVD R/W in this baby.

    A 17 inch WideUXGA 1920x1200 or WideXGA+ 1440x900 LCD is available and front stereo speakers allow you to hear all the action. This laptop is definitely not for users who are looking for a light compact laptop. Its starting weight is 10lbs and increases as you load it up with all the features. Link....

    iDJ with the iPod


    This mixing table now supports iPod (any model) as music source. Plug in two ipods into the deck and start mixing right away. Forget vinyl or cds, use your iPod(s) to start mixing your favorite songs. More devices are supported through phono and line input. All you have to do is select the right songs and fiddle with the controls.

    • Two universal iPod docking stations will accept all model iPods with bottom connector and charge while connected
    • Large iPod navigation controls
    • 3-band EQ with gain control on both channels
    • Dedicated microphone input with tone and level control
    • Phono/line inputs for adding additional devices on both channels
    • USB connectivity (PC and Mac) enables iDJ to function as a music loading base
    • iPod's recording capabilities supported by iDJ for voice memos, etc.
    • Turntable spindle receptacle enables placement of the iDJ on a turntable
    • Zero tolerance precision switches knobs for a tight, precise feel Link.....

    Indestructable Flexible Keyboard


    The Virtually Indestructible Keyboard is, well, a virtually indestructible keyboard. Engineered with silicon, this computer keyboard is resistant to spilled liquids and contact with other materials. Perfect for avid gamers and LAN parties! The keyboard is not only durable, but it is soft and comfortable to use, so comfortable that it can roll up into your pocket! In comparison to other keyboards, this one will save you a significant amount of weight and space. Also, unlike traditional keyboards that make it hard to clean off dirt and oil, the Virtually Indestructible Keyboard can be unplugged and quickly and easily washed with water. Say goodbye to spills and hello to a constantly clean keyboard.

    This computer gadget is specially crafted design of this keyboard completely eliminates negative-angle wrist stress, an infamous nuisance that affected those working with manual typewriters a long time ago. For some unlucky folks, this condition can actually turn into carpal tunnel syndrome, requiring medical treatment. Having a keyboard that minimizes aches is important for gamers that play at a computer for hours or people whose jobs revolve around computer work. State of the art technology is coupled with a practical design layout that offers quick and silent reflexive typing that is noticeably more comfortable than traditional hard plastic keyboards. The Virtually Indestructible Keyboard is not only suitable for the nomadic computer gamer but also works well for home and office computers.

    Right now the keyboard comes in three different versions; a black 85 key with no number pad, a black 109 key with a number pad, and a transparent glow 109 key with a number pad. All of the units cost a mere $29.99, an incredibly low price for one of the most optimally designed keyboards on the market. This keyboard is the future of computer hardware.Link...

    Port-o-Skype


    This portable little device might come in handy for people who like to use skype but travel a lot. This 32MB drive has Skype installed and has room to save profiles and private information like username and password. Using is very simple, just plug it into an USB drive. The more expensive version also supports bluetooth.

    Available for $75Link.....

    Meet the new Sony VAIO family


    Just launched recently are a range of brand new Sony VAIO ultraportable laptops and home entertainment PCs, by no means ultra affordable, and instead we would say on the high end close to luxury, the X Series carbon fiber bodied notebook is definitely worth a look.he highly anticipated VAIO X Series is the world’s lightest notebook at just 655g, and measures 13.9mm thin making it breathtakingly slim. With an 11.1” X-black widescreen LCD and up to 16 hours of battery life, it is the perfectly balanced package for style-aware business travellers.The all-in-one VAIO L Series with a high resolution 24” LCD touchscreen (never yet been seen on VAIO PCs) puts HD entertainment at your fingertips. The premium home entertainment PC has a chic, space-saving all-in-one design with intuitive fingertip control that allows you to enjoy your media collection with VAIO’s Media Gallery software.

    Apple’s Latest Mac Desktops


    Apple Inc. recently introduced their updated line of iMac and Mac mini desktop line of personal computers that the company claims to be more affordable.The new range includes one 20-inch PC and three new 24-inch iMacs priced between at $1,199 to $2,199. The good news is that 24-inch iMac is outfitted with twice the memory size and storage capacity as compared to the previous generation 20-inch iMac. But when you will look at its price tag, it is the same: $1,499.The company also came up with the launch of a new Mac Pro desktop PC that has business executives as its target audience and is available at a price tag of $2,499.

    Acer Predator Desktop Review


    When you’re a seasoned gamer, you know exactly what to expect in games and what hardware you need…. or want for that matter. It’s not such a surprise then that most gamers tend to assemble their own PCs because they want to have control of the specs of their system. Pre-assembled desktops however, don’t really offer that flexibility. The price might be affordable, but the items inside may not be what you want. And more often than not, these desktops come with more unwanted components than outstanding ones. But here we have something that may change that general perception. Acer sent in the Aspire G7700, otherwise known as the Predator.
    This behemoth of machine is by no means just a metaphorical statement. When we received the Predator, carrying the box itself into our test lab was a muscle building endeavour. It took two of us to lift the thing out of the box, and I think I almost broke my back. That being said, it’s probably made from the same metal as Wolverine’s claws. Okay jokes aside, the Predator can withstand quite a massive beating (not that you’ll want to move it around anyways). The design of the casing is noteworthy as not only does it look pretty cool, it is ergonomic friendly. At the top, a panel comprising of four USB2.0 slots and audio-out and microphone jacks are easily accessible at seating level, so you don’t have to bend down to slot a thumb drive or a pair of headphones. Also, a big power button is located not far from the panel for easy access. Moving down to the front side, Acer placed a lid that can be lifted up, revealing a few nifty components. First, we have two 5.25” drive bays that has claw-like doors, which look something out of from Transformers. Also, you can opt to get a Blu-Ray drive, though that will up the cost quite a bit. Below that lies the multi-card reader, which encompasses 14 different types altogether. Now the next thing below the card reader is something worth shouting about.
    Acer has included an EasySwap HDD cage, which is found behind the illuminated door right at the bottom. Inside are four slots where four hard drives can be stored in. You can easily take them out and swap them with other hard disks, and better yet, when RAID is enabled, you can take out the hard disks without having to restart the comp. Very useful indeed. The magic doesn’t stop there. Within the Herculean casing, there are multiple fans and brackets that provide efficient cooling and easy handling of hardware. Acer has put in a liquid cooling solution for the CPU, which has liquid constantly circulating through a huge heatsink mounted at the rear that is attached with a similar size fan, so there should be adequate ventilation inside as well.
    Now the computer tower didn’t come alone. Acer bundles a Logitech G11 keyboard and a G5 mouse, which are both designed especially for gamers. You get quite a number of extra buttons on the keyboard for different macro functions while the mouse comes with additional weights to give you that extra leverage for fast FPS games. Drivers are provided so you can configure settings for the keyboard and mouse, and allocate functions and what not. Also, we received a 24” LCD dubbed the G24. It has a 2ms response rate, high contrast ratio and a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 for full HD viewing.
    On to its core components, The Predator runs on an Intel Q9450 Core 2 Quad processor, which has a clockspeed of 2.66GHz, a 12MB L2 cache, and an FSB of 1,333MHz. There are two sticks of 2GB Transcend AXE DDR2-1066 CL5 memory modules, totalling to 4GB of RAM. Now the board actually supports a maximum of 8GB. But you’re thinking there’s no point of upgrading right? Wrong. Acer actually bundles the 64-bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium, so 8GB system memory is indeed possible. That being said, you need to make sure that your applications can run on a 64-bit OS. For storage, you get two 320GB Western Digital Caviar Blue hard disks that have an 8MB cache and a speed of 7,200 RPM; pretty decent for your gaming needs. Now what’s a gaming rig without an uber graphics card? The Geforce 9800GTX comes with the Aspire G7700, with clockspeeds of 675MHz and 1,100MHz for the GPU and GDDR3 memory respectively. Don’t be mistaken however, as this is not the 55nm 9800GTX+ that NVIDIA released a while ago, which I think they should have put instead since there is more headroom for overclocking, higher speeds, and support for newer technologies. Speaking of SLI, the motherboard inside is an nForce 780i board, which supports tri-SLI, and you also get a bunch of SLI ribbons in the box. As we can see from the details of the specs, this is a pretty awesome setup.link....

    Samsung Reaffirms OLED Commitment, Promises Laptop by Q3 2010


    Improvements in LCD technology has made OLED feasibility come slower than hoped by Samsung (and the rest of us), but word has come down from Samsung officials that they are still committed to producing laptops out of the material by next fall.OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology is superior to LCDs in many ways, and Samsung has predicted it will become the norm for laptops in the years to come (they actually predict in 5 years, which may be a little quick). There are a lot of exciting qualities about OLEDs, most notably the fact that they do not require a backlight and can thus be significantly thinner and more power efficient than LCDs. One of the most fascinating properties to me is that OLEDs can also be made to be flexible, almost like plasticy-paper, opening the door to countless potential creative uses.The trouble with OLED displays is that, well, they're kind of expensive. Their primary current use is in mobile phones, where the smaller screens represent a smaller price jump and where power consumption is more highly valued to justify the increased cost. There has been talk about extensive use in laptops and TVs, but it has been harder for companies like Samsung and LG to gain traction when competing with rapidly improving LCDs

    Monday, January 4, 2010

    Gateway SX2800-01r Value PC


    t's shaping up to be quite a rumble at the $500 value-PC price point, as the Gateway SX2800-01 ($500 as of December 13, 2009) offers performance nearly identical to that of the $520 hp pavilion a6710t and the $499 accer veriton xt270. However, while the SX2800-01 has a slight advantage over those PCs in general performance, Gateway's compact and shiny desktop still falls victim to some of the same issues common to value pcs at this level.The SX2800-01 runs a 2.33GHz processor, which is slower than the chips in the Acer (2.8GHz Core 2 Duo) and HP (2.6-GHz Dual-Core), but it throws two additional cores into the mix. That's right: The SX2800-01 rocks an Intel Core 2 Quad Processor 8200, which helps the Gateway PC deliver stronger performance on applications that support the additional multithreading. The included 4GB of DDR3-800 memory also trumps the 2GB-to-3GB RAM offerings in the HP and Acer. Finally, the Gateway's storage capacity of 640GB is a monster amount for a system at this price, beating the paltry 160GB hard disk of the Acer and the 500GB found on HP's A6710t.Link...

    Latest Intel Core Laptop Computer


    Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2GHz 4MB L2 1GB DDR2 667 100GB SATA Multi-Format DVDĂ‚±RW DL Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN Bluetooth v2.0 56K Modem Gigabit NIC 12.1" XGA Windows Vista Business

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    An Affordable $199 Tablet for Everyone


    Freescale, which supplies the guts for this new breed of computers called smartbooks (about one third the size and volume of a typical netbook), is putting its weight behind this category with a concept of what could become everybody's tablet.

    The Freescale tablet reference design (pictured above) has specifications close to what we have been hearing about the mithycal apple tablet: a 7-inch touch screen, 3-megapixel camera and various sensors such as a three-axis accelerometer and an ambient light sensor.

    Next to the 512MB of RAM, up to 64GB of internal storage (microSD expansion) and a 1GHz processor, Freescale's smartbook tablet features a potentially killer spec: a $200 price tag. Next to an Android or Linux operating system, it also includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and options for a 3G modem.

    Barnes & Nobles Joins eReader Party With Dual Screened Nook


    Barnes & Nobles has gotten in good on the eReader game with their brand new Nook. The new Nook features a secondary touchscreen as well as some shiny new features, and has instantly become a hot item.

    The Nook, which recently became, is Barnes & Noble's answer to Amazon's Kindle. If you don't think this was released explicitly to trump the industry leader in as many ways as possible, a quick glance at Nook's website quickly reveals this, as the "Product Comparison" page is just pitting the Nook against the aforementioned device from Amazon.

    The Nook, at $259, is cheaper than the Kindle, at $279, and looks like it has more features too. One thing it doesn't have though is the Amazon eBook store, although they emphasize they do have over 1,000,000 titles available. Anyway, on to what makes the Nook noteworthy.

    An excellent 3.5" display is first and foremost. Not only does it use an E Ink® Vizplex electronic paper display (same as Kindle) for clarity, the display goes into new territory for eReaders with color and touchscreen capability. It also features that second screen below the first. Now, when I first heard there would be 2 screens on the Nook, I imagined an unnecessarily complex folding display akin to a real paper book (am I the only one?). Of course, it's nothing like this, and the small screen below is essentially used for browsing titles - click a small image of the book below, and it will pop up on the larger screen above.Link...

    Dell's Inspiron 11z Netbook: Superior Performance


    The Dell Inspiron 11z is an attempt to rectify the biggest drawback of current netbooks--low processing power--by using Intel's ultralow-voltage Celeron and Pentium CPUs. The 11z--which starts at $379--is available with either the single-core Celeron 743 or, as with our test unit, the dual-core Pentium SU4100. Both CPUs run at 1.3GHz with an 800MHz bus. Besides two cores, the Pentium SU4100 has 64-bit support. Oh, and it adds $75 to the price.

    Choosing 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium--which our test system came with--will cost you $30 more over the default Vista Home Basic operating system. And if you want any color other than "Obsidian Black," that will run you $40 more. Boost the RAM from 2GB to 4GB and choose a larger hard drive, and you can easily turn this under- $400 netbook into a nearly $700 companion device to your main system. In addition to the dual-core CPU, our test system had the 250GB drive upgrade but not the 4GB RAM option, a mix making for a fairly pricey netbook.

    The Inspiron 11z earned 63 on WorldBench 6, a tie for the best netbook score we've seen yet. Nevertheless, the unit's limited RAM, lack of an optical drive, and small size will make it simply a light travel buddy or "companion PC" for most users. It's not all about the CPU power, after all. The screen resolution is 1366 by 768 with LED backlighting, which is a step up from many netbooks this size. It really helps alleviate that "can't see the whole drop-down menu" problem that so many of these devices have. Color and contrast are pretty good, though the lighting is a little bit uneven--it's noticeably darker along the top edge.Link...

    Cheapest Laptops


    We know that many laptop buyers all around the world are influenced by the price factor when they make any kind of purchasing decision. This is why we are going to bring you this article about the cheapest laptops for those of you who are more interested in getting a cheap laptop rather than having any sort of fancy processors and graphic cards.

    You have to be aware of the fact that laptops under a certain price don’t exactly have the best specs around. A cheap laptop has enough power to help you get basic computer needs done. Other than that, do not expect powerful graphic cards or top of the line processors. The term “cheap” has a different definition from person to person. It all depends on the earning of a person. People that earn $5000 a month can find a $1500 laptop cheap while those that have only $1000 will find it extremely expensive.Link...