by Matthew on June 30, 2006
Liquid crystal display (LCD) is widely used for flat panel displays due to its
attractive appearance when compared to CRT and PDP displays. The disadvantage of using LCD is that a back light is required separately. An organic EL display with light emitting properties will allow technology to evolve and erase the need for the separate back light. Organic EL can also be manipulated to be a thinner, lighter and more energy efficient than its LCD counterpart.
This is why the new organic display from Konica/Minolta is so exciting. It is definitely a step in the right direction! The current prototype has a luminance of 1,000 cd/m2. No news has been revealed if this will hit production any time soon but konica/Minolta will surely be drawing attention to their pioneering research and development of this type of material. Their website holds more information on the differences of LCD and organic EL materials and the science that will bring us the next generation of technology. [konica website]
Via: TechEBlog
by Matthew on June 30, 2006
The Mitsubishi D902is is a new slider phone that will hit the market imminently… in Japan that is. Europe has to sit and wait to see when this will hit its shores, but when, and if, it does, this phone will be sure to raise some eyebrows. It is packed with a ton of features. All of its features are crammed into it’s 110 x 49 x 19.9mm chassis. It has a huge 400 x 240 screen, a better then average 4 megapixel camera with MP4 video recording. A MiniSD slot and can browse the web at a handy 384kbps. Unfortunatly the word is that this is not expected to leave Japan and thus, us lot are left to drool.
Via: Engadget
by Matthew on June 30, 2006
The Rock Quaddra TX2 is an improvement to the previous Quaddra T65. The Quaddra Tx2 is designed with a specification that is aimed at the fantatic gamer. It is an 17″notebook, sporting AMD’s latest Turion 64 X2 dual core processor,NVIDEO G0 7600 graphics card,high dynamic-range lighting, Bluetooth and Wi-fi on the 802.11 a/b/g standards, integrated 1.3mp webcam, dvd writer and WSXGA+ resolution of 1680×1050-pixels displayed on a X-Glass screen. It is on the little heavy side, weighing in at 3.5kg but it is rescued by being only 3.5cm thick. For those avid gamers,the notebook also provides 3 x USB’s for all the gaming accessories and up to 2GB of memory to save all those games.
Prices for the Rock Quaddra Tx2 start at £999 (ex VAT)
Via: TechEBlog
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
SanDisk are planning the Sansa e280 which sports 8Gb of flash memory. This is all rumours though and nothing has been set in stone yet. The rumour came from someone working at SanDisk.
A whois verified that the user posting the news on a forum did post from the Sandisk Camput and the pictures do look legit.
Lets see what comes of this news 
Via: Anythingbutipod
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
Plextor have released the PX-B900A drive which is a Blu-ray burner. It is a 2x burner which will write (rewrite) BD-R and BD-RE with capacities of 25Gb and 50Gb. The drive is also a combo drive and can write DVD+/-R/RW as well as dual layer. Even burning CD’s is an option.
There is no information on pricing yet and rumours say that it’s due out Sept/Oct this year.
Via: RegHardware
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
Microsoft have launched a nice looking backlit wireless keyboard to the market. It is dubbed the “ultimate keyboard” so it must either all be hot air… or something spectacular. Well… how spectacular can a keyboard get after the laser projected keyboard reviewed a while back
Ay any rate, it seems to be a Bluetooth based system that includes a fancy backlight system that can measure ambient light and adjust accordingly. It even knows when you have stepped away and switches off the light to save power. Cant be bad! I might have to get one of these
Via: Engadget
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
LG have launched the Super 3G widescreen slider phone named the LG-SGH100. They are also releasing the LG-KH1000 which both look like nice new additions to the market. My first impressions are that this will sell because of the wide screen offering. The slider both slides down or across so that the phone can be used in widescreen mode. The phone comes with 2Gb Flash and 1Gb SDRAM or 512Mb of flash with 256Mb SDRAM. Thats a lot of storage packed in there! It has a 1.3 Mega pixel camers, a 2.2″ screen. The phone weighs just 125g.
Via: RegHardware
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
Kind of cool in a weird way is the new digital clock t-shirt. It’s basically a standard t-shirt with a big digital clock built in the front. How many of you think that a wearer of one of these is in for the typical cheesy jokes that can be associated with one wearing this
It is powered by 4 AAA batteries hidden away and lasts about 1.5 – 2 days at a push. It can also be switched off should you want to save power for later.
Via: Popgadget
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
Sony have released the Micro Vault USB drives which are a massive (not really) 1.45cm x 3cm x 2.7mm. Thats small!!! They come in ranges of 256Mb to 2Gb currently and are available right now in Korea. Not sure when they will be available over this side of the world though. We will report when that happens
Via: NewLaunches
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
The Calvary APP06 is the latest pocket multimedia player to hit the market. It seems like it will hit the market and unfortunatly bounce off though :S. It can play MPEG4, JPEG, MP3 and WMA. It has a 2.5″ TFT screen, FM tuner and some speakers that flip out. On the good side, it costs $119.
Via: UberGizmo
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
This is another funky gadget I have come across today. It’s a mini projector designed to work with your mobile phone. The device just plugs in and then it’s ready to go and project a video (not sure how big) on to a surface.
Via: UberGizmo
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
The DIR-636 RangeBooster from D-Link is a draft 802.11n compliant device. It supposidly runs 5x faster then the 802.11g wireless connections but yet is still compatible backwards.
It can in some cases provide a faster then 100Mbps signal. With the device you can create a secure wireless network in your home which makes file sharing across your computers a lot safer. It is also compatible with VOIP protocols so that calls can run smoothly.
Via: D-Link
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
Toshiba have released the Tecra A8 which is a business like laptop. It’s a 15.4″ screen. It’s aim is to target corporate IT buyers as it is durable and cheap. It has bio metric security, one touch presentation. Hard drives range from 60Gb to 100Gb and it comes with either 512Mb or 1Gb RAM. Wifi is standard of course and sells from $700 to $1349. It is available now from Buy.com
TECRA A8-EZ8311 CM1.60G 512MB 60GB COMBO WL 1YR XPP
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
These new set of headphones are not your ordinary headphones. They dont work out of water (or space). You need to be under water and they then vibrate in your ear (vibrate your skull to be exact) to produce underwater music
They are selling in Japan now for $170… wow. LOL. Maybe a tad too expensive for the amount of times I have been swimming in the last 10 years. I am sure some will benefit though.
Via: Here
by Matthew on June 29, 2006
Intel have announced and launched the Core Duo T2700 2.33GHz processor. This processor is the next step up in speed for the T range of processors. Do not expect it to be cheap… well not yet anyway. Right now it’s shipping in bluk for over $600
Via: Engadget
