Archive for October 2nd, 2007
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Portable Video
We have no idea how Shenzhen is going to be able to market this 8.4-inch LCD TV with built-in NES games / emulation in the States without a little amorous attention from Nintendo's lawyers, but seeing as the PDVD8088 apparently has been certified by the FCC, it ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Hey hey, lookie here, a Toshiba gigabeat prototype unearthed by Akihabara News at CEATEC. No real details except for the display: a vivid 3.2-inch, 240 x 427 pixel OLED. Yeah, we also noticed the curvier profile and missing Windows flag from the interface keys. A ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, WearablesWe've certainly seen instances of intrabody communications at work, but now NTT DoCoMo is looking to join the fun and hopefully tie cellphones into the equation. Apparently, the firm has "various devices" in development that could utilize an "advanced handset" in certain forms of wearable electronics to ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
For the second time in the past few months, Purdue University is hitting us up with a newfangled idea to keep future rigs cooler. This go 'round, engineers have purportedly figured out how to "grow forests of carbon nanotubes onto the surfaces of computer chips to enhance ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Gaming
Shortly after hearing that Sony's PSP overtook Nintendo's DS in Japanese sales, along comes word that -- surprise, surprise -- the Big N is still king in the Wii / PS3 / Xbox 360 sales war. According to reports that looked at movement from April through September, the ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: DesktopsAs soon as the salary of a CEO reaches the $1 million a year mark, they should probably hush up about their peer's ridiculously inflated $74 million ones. Apply those numbers to Steve Ballmer and Larry Ellison respectively, and now consider that Ballmer is complaining about the latter's ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: DesktopsAccording to a report from TechARP that includes benchmarks of all the chips mentioned, Intel could have nailed a release date for its 45nm Yorkfield and Wolfdale CPUs. Q3 2007 now translates to November 11th, if this report is to be believed, for the launch of the first, ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: StorageJust try naming a major player in the hard drive biz not touting some sort of stupendous breakthrough to boost HDD capacity, and you're likely to come up fairly empty. Nevertheless, TDK is hopping on the ever-growing bandwagon, as it has reportedly "developed the technology to more than ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
We really stoked to finally have gotten our grubby meat hooks on Sony's latest DSLR, the Alpha a700. The first thing you notice: even without a battery pack, flash, or massive lens, the thing is as heavy as a friggin brick -- close to two pounds with ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Displays, HDTV
While we've seen Consumer Reports take a gander at a number of HDTVs before, it's been a tick (or maybe "forever" is more fitting) since it's seen "the best flat screen ever tested." Believe it or not, Panasonic's 50-inch TH-50PZ700U plasma was actually the recipient of such ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Displays
Our hats go off to Sharp for this one. We wrote about this display in late August, but sometimes seeing really is believing. Today at CEATEC Sharp showed off its optical scanning LCD -- a 3.5-inch 320 x 480 portable display with an optical scanner integrated into each ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Displays
Toshiba's new TLP-X3000AU projector certainly isn't a radical departure from the company's original TLP-X3000U model, but those looking to add a little big screen action to their conference room will likely still find a few things to like, not the least of which is its new lower price. ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Networking
You may have heard the hubbub in the last 24 hours about AT&T's new Terms of Service for its DSL accounts, and its apparent hardline approach to customers who may criticize the company. For those of you not up to speed, the long and short of it is ...
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