Archives for January 2010

Apple File TouchScreen Patent for Next Gen iPhone and Mac-Tablet

A new patent was published yesterday morning that shows an insight what Apple could be coming up with for the next few months. The title of the image above indicates that the next gen iPhone could have an advanced touchscreen. Also the patent indicates that iPod Touch and MacBooks as well as a MacBook tablet device are also to be included in this.

‘Apple’s patent generally relates to displays having pixels that include capacitive elements, and more particularly to displays in which capacitive elements of the pixels that form part of the display system that generates an image on the display also form part of a touch sensing system that senses touch events on or near the display.”

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Cyanogen Uploads a Google Nexus One ROM

Cyanogen has launched a new image for the Google Nexus One phone that opens it up to have a number of new applications installed such as tethering.

The sub title of the post suggests that this is just the start of a lot more to come as it says “something to play with for now…”.

To get the new image on to the Nexus One it requires that you root your N1 (and warns you to not follow through if you are worried at a slim chance of bricking your phone). Once rooted you then just follow some simple instructions to download and install the image on the N1. [Read more…]

Panasonic Show 1TB and 2TB Memory Cards in Roadmap

Panasonic have on display at CES 2010 a roadmap of memory cards that they are working on along with their potential speeds. What’s interesting to see here is at the top right of the page you’ll see a 2TB memory card which is quite an achievement (see larger version of the image below).

Although the 2TB card is still a way off, the 1TB card should be with us towards the end of this year. The new memory cards fall in to a new category called SDXC cards and will start at 48GB in capacity moving up to 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB variations. The previous cards known as SDHC show as having a speed of up to 22MBps. The newer SDXC cards unfortunately don’t show the speed although it is indicated that the speed will increase on these new range of cards. The specifications for SDXC do show possible speeds of up to 104MBps so it shows what potential these cards can actually reach. [Read more…]

Casio XJ-A Series Projectors Launched

Casio have created a new projector called the Casio XJ-A series that aims to be “clean and green” according to their press release. The projector achieves this by using laser LED hybrids rather than mercury lamps. The projector is capable of up to 3000 lumens brightness.

The projector it’s self actually looks quite impressive. It’s slim at 43mm and weighs just 2.3KG. Depth and width dimensions show it having the footprint of an A4 sheet of paper. [Read more…]

Alienware M11X Ultraportable

The 11.6-inch M11x Alienware ultra-portable – ‘the most powerful 11-inch gaming laptop in the universe’ – has just been announced by dell. The Alienware M11x is set to bring the graphics power of a 15in laptop in a 11in netbook sized ultra-portable. All games and media can be played at HD 720p resolution – wherever the user is. [Read more…]

TomTom Ease

If you are baffled by the choice of GPS navigation systems available to you and you are looking for something that is easy to use, looks good and is not bulky, then the newly announced TomTom Ease may be for you. The TomTom Ease features a sleek light weight design and integrated EasyPort mount – making the device the most compact TomTom device available yet. The TomTom Ease, and the attached mount, can easily fit into a pocket, purse or small glove compartment. [Read more…]

Skiff e-reader gets a Hands-on at CES

Engadget managed to get some hands-on time with the Skiff e-reader that we mentioned a couple of days ago.

The Skiff has an 11.5 inch screen that has an impressive resolution of 1,600 x 1,200 pixels. It allows a full newspaper page to be loaded up with ads and yet be still readable. The e-reader is not a one off device as we are looking at a publishing platform here. Four different devices are being loocked at including a colour e-reader and applications to load up on the Palm Pre as well a the Viliv MID. [Read more…]

Firebox January Sale up to 50% Off

Firebox currently have a sale running that offers up to 50% off gadgets. There are a good number of gadgets on sale covering all ranges such as photography, Mr Men, R2-D2 Alarm Clocks and more.

The full list of January Sale items can be found over here.

Neato XV-11 Robot Vacuum Demoed at CES

We first mentioned the Neato XV-11 robot vacuum about a month ago and were impressed with what we saw in the press details. What makes the XV-11 stand out from other robot vacuums is that it uses lasers to track obstacles and walls within the room it is cleaning allowing to to more precisely work around the room without bouncing off furniture. Also the cleaner uses a more accurate cleaning pattern that allows it to cover the floor just once rather than several times. This speeds up the cleaning cycle allowing batteries to be kept for cleaning other rooms.

OhGizmo were able to get a demo of the XV-11 at CES with a quick demonstration of how it works around a room. I have to say it looks a little slower than the Roomba, but if it only needs to cover the floor once then perhaps the overall time will be a lot quicker. [Read more…]

Sony VAIO F and Z Series Introduced

Sony have launched two more notebooks called the VAIO F and VAIO Z series. This comes alongside the announcement of the VAIO Y series we just wrote about. The VAIO Z Series is described as being ultra-portable while the VAIO F Series is described as being a multi-media notebook.

The Z Series weighs just over three pounds and is housed in carbon-fibre and aluminium making it very durable. The screen on this notebook measures 13.1 inches and is backlit by LED. The model also can be supplied with a Blu-Ray optical drive and be used to output to HDTV’s if desired. [Read more…]

Sony VAIO Y Series Notebook Introduced

Sony have introduced a new notebook called the Sony VAIO Y Series. The Y Series VAIO features an Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor running at 1.3GHz. It runs the Windows 7 Home Professional 64-bit operating system. The screen measures 13.3 inches and is backlit by LED. The LED screen is capable of showing a 1366 x 768 pixel image. For memory it has 4GB of RAM and for storage a 500GB hard drive.

On the sides of the device is a HDMI output, VGA, USB port and headphone jacks. The Y Series notebook also has Bluetooth for connectivity as well as Wireless 802.11n. [Read more…]

Light Blue Optics Light Touch on Show at CES

Just a few days ago we posted some press shots of the Light Touch, a device built by Light Blue Optics that aims to turn surfaces in to working computers by projecting an image and picking up when the image is touched.

The company have their Light Touch on display at CES this year and it looks as good as the press shots show it to be. The system uses full colour holographic laser to reproduce the image on any surface. By using laser the image always stays in focus regardless of how far the surface is away. [Read more…]