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Cell Phones Beware, The Japanese Are Coming...

The Japanese are seeing a decline in sales for cell phones, so they may make the jump across the Pacific and shake up the handset business. If they do make the leap over, they may introduce new features like using our phones as credit cards, water proof, huge screens, hundreds of colour choices, and many new features to come.

Link here!

Intel's concept is quite beautiful and looks functional enough, this small 11-Inch (1,366 x 768) has a slide out keyboard, with an interesting mouse interface.

Check out the video:



Check the link here

Samsung Omnia i900 Review

Engadget has done a nice little review of the Samsung's new Omnia phone, the touch screen, 16GB, 7.2 HSDPA, 3.2 Inch WQVGA, GPS; Running Windows Mobile 6.1 and the TouchWiz interface.

Link here!

Rock Band and Guitar Hero stops throwing rocks at each other

For the future version of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, the instruments for both games will work together. Also says that the current guitars will finally work on the PS3's Rock Band and Guitar Hero 3.

Link Blah!

Playstation 3 comes out with keypad

Playstation 3 controller grows a keyboard people call it names, the new keypad isn't just any keypad; it supports many features such as:

• Support for text chat with Playstation Home
• Bluetooth which means it can be wirelessly attached to the PS3
• 2 Shortcut buttons for usability with the XMB (Cross Media Bar)
• The surface of the buttons can also be used as a touch pad to move the pointer while web browsing

Hopefully being released in late November.

Link Here

Pioneer Devours Wallets With Their Blu-Ray Player

Pioneer announced their Elite BDP-09FD, this new Blu-Ray player has some of these cool features:

• 7.1 Channel Analog Audio Outputs on gold-plated RCA jacks
  
• Internal Audio Decoders: Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD High Resolution*, and DTS-HD Master*
• Able to output audio on one HDMI and video on another HDMI for maximum preformance with HDMI 1.3a version
  
• 16-Bit colour data output, "up to '2,800 trillion' (um, 2.8 quadrillion) colours" in the words of Gizmodo
• 4GB internal memory

Enjoy this at the price: $2200

Link here

Asus tries to forget the Eee with N10

A new line of Asus laptops are coming soon very nice specs for these little babies, and great value...if it is true. The features are as follows:

• 10.4"LCD Display TFT 1024 x 768 (XVGA)
  
• HDMI-Out
• $446 - $595? (I hope so)

The Asus Eee brand has been drowned by 2G, 4G, 8G, 20GB SSD, 14GB SSDs versions; all different options and colours. So let's hope this laptop line comes to reality.

Link here at Engadget

LG's KC910...has a nice ring to it...

LG's new model is apparently the successor to the Viewity, but this one:

• 8 Megapixel Camera, Schneider-Kreuznach lens, auto/manual focus, face, smile and blink detection, with digital image stabilization; ISO 1600
• VGA video capture at 30fps, QVGA 120fps
  WQVGA 240 x 400 Touchscreen TFT
• Quad-Band GSM; HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• DivX and XviD video support
• Integrated GPS
  
• Bluetooth 2.0
• MicroSDHC
• WiFi

Link here! CLICK ME PLZ!!! AHH!!!

Hello, I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC *now it's my turn*

Apparently Microsoft is launching a $300 Million dollar campaign against the Apple advertisements of Macs Versus PCs. With the help of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld (no I didn't make another typo).



I can see Bill Gates now saying, "Hey, he started it..."

Short little news bit here

Is that an Archos? no seriously is that an Archos?

Archos' new 6th generation PMPs (Personal Media Player), the Archos 5 and 7 (4.8" and 7"), they feature:

• up to 12 Hours of music playback (which is very sad, but understandable due to the HDD)
• 800 by 480 (WVGA) TFT (Thin Film Transistor) LCD Touch screen 16 Million colours
• 3G (3.5 HSDPA (High-Speed Data Packet Access)) Flash-9 enabled Opera Web Browser
• HDD up to 250Gb (up to 320Gb w/ 7" version)
• up to 4 Hours of video playback
• Built-in Speaker and leg stand
• Slick new UI (user interface)
• Wi-Fi (802.11 B/G)
• 720p HD playback

So I guess Archos has realized their fugly devices don't sell to well compared to other devices and may also have come to the conclusion that devices that preform alright but look sexy, sell very well (even though they have some problems *cough* iPod).

More info in the articles!

Engadget, Crave, Gizmodo articles here!

Oh here's what the old Archos buggers looked like before...

USB 3.0 & SATA Rev 3

USB (Universal Serial Bus) is almost finished with their new USB version 3.0 which is said to run at new awesome speeds; previously running at 480Mbps, the new version is apparently 10 times faster which is around 4.8Gbps max. Also pushing more power through the cable but not always on when connected to the computer, so has better power management.


SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is also almost finished with their newest revision (3rd to be exact). Older versions started at 1.5Gbps then 3.0Gbps, SATA's newest will have a very blazing fast speed of 6Gbps.

Both these connections have a great transfer speeds but USB is more commonly used among external electronics, SATA has always been the fastest alternative with eSATA but is not used everywhere, only time will tell if they create an eSATA Rev 3.

SATA here and USB here!

I will now be doing minimum 1 post everyday and at least 5 posts on Sunday (not including the Bajingo) Enjoy!

Lenovo Creates a Laptop that eats other Laptops...well not really

Introducing the Lenovo ThinkPad w700, a 17 inch laptop with an enourmous amount of specs:

• LCD: WUXGA (1920 x 1200) 400 nit, auto color calibration sensor that lets you adjust display settings with dual DVI and VGA port.
• Hard Drive: Supports dual hard drive bays in RAID 0 or 1 at 320GB
• An LED light above the screen, pointing down to light the keyboard
• GPU: Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 with 1GB dedicated memory
• Touchpad with ThinkPad's famous Trackpoint red nubbin
• CPU: 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme Quad Core
  
• Wacom Tablet: 120 x 80cm built in
• Webcam: SXGA (1280 x 1024)
• RAM: Up to 8GB of DDR3
• Multi 7 in 1 card reader
• Optional Blu-Ray drive
• Full-size keyboard
• 5 USB ports
• Bluetooth
• 8-lbs
  

My only critique of this monster is that it doesn't have an HDMI port and if the Bluetooth was 2.0 or 2.1 or EDR?, other than that, this laptop is incredible; It is a gaming, graphic, entertainment, and photographer laptop.

More info Here

UW-Madison Researching Epic Size Hard Drives

The folks from UW-Madison are researching on a theory where they will be able to increase the density of stuff they can contain on the disks in the hard drives. I have no idea what they were talking about but this could lead us to attaining 5 Terabye hard drives.

SSDs take a step forward, Hard Disks could take a leap forward... this race is exciting.

Check out the crap I couldn't understand here, CLICK ME!

Intel Making A Big Impact on SSDs

Intel is going to be releasing Solid State Drives, in the following sizes: 32, 64, 80, and 160GB versions. Yes, I said it, 160GB SSD with bandwidth of 240MB/s (read) and 70-170 MB/s (write); A very nice spec for a nice big hard drive, sounds like a winner to me...except maybe you could tell us how much it is... oh wait that will probably ruin it.

More Info in the Link

Olympic Fencers Use Space Suits

Well, not exactly space suits, but they sure do look like it. The Olympic fencers are using a special tech suit that it receives a signal when the wearer is hit, the suit then knows they are hit because it gives an electric charge from the saber to a wireless transmitter that transmits a signal to the person keeping the score. As well there are LED's on the helmets to clearly signal who has scored.

More pictures and descriptions in the Link

Intel Nehalem has morphed into i7

Intel has announced the real name for the code named Intel Nehalem, rumored to contain anywhere from 2 to 8 cores.

I am not going to begin to comment on this i(insert name here) naming convention...

Though the i7 name's significance still puzzles some people, as long as the product delivers.

Link here

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I can just hear her now..."AIYA!" (but she is Japanese so that might be wrong to presume). Yes that is her getting her wet-resistant Japanese Cellphone, (for lack of a better word) wet.

Bad Ass Nerf Guns Rock My World

Crazy cool Nerf guns are just amazing, especially when they look like they can give someone a new hole to defecate from and they're eyes will light up with amazement at the same time of how cool your gun is!

Apparently a Gizmodo reader went an painted his guns black, also adding lasers on his guns making them completely awesome.

Link over hither!

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*sigh* Oh my... that's a big TV

iPhone App? Lame? no way!

Yes, there is an iPhone App that is really stupid and I am going to out right say right now, you are a complete idiot if you purchase this iPhone App.

The "I Am Rich" App...



On a side note, I already don't like the idea of buying an Apple product in the first place but I can't resist reporting on something this stupid. Plus Apple news is all over the tech sites anyways...*sigh*

Speedo Swimsuit makes swimmers go faster!

Speedo has created a swimsuit that has allowed for faster swim times, apparently reduces drag by 10% and has allowed for 8 records to be broken in the Olympics (and they JUST started!). There has been quite the fuss about these speed suits, and people are wondering if they are fair to use since the more poor countries do not have the kind of money to afford $500 swimsuits to their swimmers.

Check out more of the controversy at Engadget

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Woh, don't bust that nut just yet... Here's another one! *damn*

Holy 32GB SDHC Card Batman!

Kingston kicking it into high-ish gear with it's new 32GB SDHC card in Class 4, which promises at least 4MB/S transfer rates.

Check out the link hither

Gaming Addiction is becoming a problem?

Gaming addiction is actually becoming quite a serious problem, because of Massive multiplayer online role playing games or MMORPGs. The main problems of this addiction is the loss of contact with relationships (friends and family), and ignoring responsibilities (like going to work).

There is a help group for World of Warcraft players called, WoWdetox, a support group that helps deal with online gaming addictions. People talk about their stories, how they got addicted and pleads for help.

I think the real problem here is realizing that in a game all of your accomplishments in there mean nothing to your real life. Your friends and family are the real things that matter, what you do in your real life is what counts, not only to you but to everyone else you care about or who cares about you.

Check out the Popsci.com article here

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Yet another lovely electronic...

Intel Atom and Nano Platform Comparo duke it out

A review down by Tweak Town shows the benchmarks for the new Intel Atom and the Via Nano. You can have your own take on it but for the most part the Nano platform beats the Atom on low voltage, CPU usage for playback on video and can even run Crysis 6.95 frames better (or on average 15.26 fps) at 1024 x 768. So the battle for the UMPC processor goes on for these two, and we'll see who comes out on top when it comes to companies adapting their technology by next year.

On a side note, I was wondering what happened to AMD in this mobile PC business?

AMD Rocks it back on top

AMD's HD 4870 X2 is the fastest graphics card in the market (right now). The proof is in over 6 reviews, check out the links at Engadget. Nvidia has tooted it's own horn for long enough and AMD's ATI Radeon is back ontop with it's competative prices and better preformance for the buck cards.

Let's see how Nvidia is going to make the come back!

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Woh! I am totally going to dump a crap load of articles and lots of bajingos to catch up on what I've missed, so here goes nothing!