If you are looking for a new SATA hard drive and need a lot of capacity then Amazon have a good deal on at the moment bringing a 1.5TB SATA drive down from $122.99 to just $99.99.

The WD Caviar Green range cut down power consumption by 40% and run quietly. By using caching algorithms the drive is able to adjust spin speed while maintaining transfer rate, thus the 40% saving is achieved. [Read more…]

A Business Card Scanner comes in handy if you have a habit of collecting business cards. The small scanning devices can allow you to quickly digitise the information on the cards allowing you to throw away the mass collection of cards.

The CardScan Personal is one such device that allows you to quickly attach it to your computer via a USB port, install a bit of software and then insert a business card for scanning.

The CardScan Personal software uses a drag-and-drop system allowing digitised business cards to be moved from email, websites and to devices such as flash drives. The software also automatically creates an address book for you to store business cards. [Read more…]

The NVTouch Touch Table is a multi user and mult-touch surface computer that allows you to integrated with a desk based system. By converting digital information in to images you are able to drag the contents of the computer around the surface. Example could be dragging and dropping photos in to various folders.

Other things that can be used on the surface computer are digital maps that can be grabbed, rotated, zoomed etc… by using gestures on the surface.

This particular version uses a computer with a powerful graphics card, a HD projector mounted under the table projecting an image upwards and puts it altogether in a cabinet that is smooth on top. [Read more…]

Kingston are shipping a class 10 microSDHC memory card that has a 16GB capacity. The microSDHC card is capable of transferring data at 10MB/second allowing it to be used in DSLR cameras that capture fast images.

The “Class” status’ given to memory cards indicates the speed at which data can be transferred to and from. For example, a Class 2 card can transfer data at 2MB/s while a Class 10 card can transfer at 10MB/s. The higher the class the faster data can be transferred to and from.

“With the new speed class, host devices such as high-definition cameras or the latest smartphones are being designed to optimize their write performance to take advantage of the more responsive memory card speeds,” said Wendy Lecot, Flash card business manager, Kingston®. “Now that the Class 10 card specification is five times faster than a Class 2 card, users will see swifter copying and transferring of photos, music, videos and e-books when using a multi-format card reader such as the Kingston Media Reader or MobileLiteG2 with a PC.

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We have been noticing occasionally that devices that launch with USB ports, ie, laptops, netbooks, motherboards etc… have started getting USB 3.0 ports included. Buffalo are now about to launch the worlds first 4 port USB 3.0 hub.

The device is called the BSH4A03U3 and comes in either black or white. Compatibility show it can work with several OS variations that includes Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista as well as Mac OS X 10.4.

If you don’t have any USB 3.0 devices just yet then the device is backwards compatible with both USB 1.1 and 2.0 specifications. [Read more…]

The huBox is a practical idea that converges three uses in to one device. The huBox is a physical storage box that measures 10 x 10 x 5 CM allowing for various things to be stored inside. Also included is an SD card reader allowing pictures from your camera to be transferred to your PC.

As well as being a storage device and SD card reader the huBox also acts as a USB hub that has 3 USB 2.0 ports that can transfer data up to 480Mbps. [Read more…]

Fujitsu are launching their latest SnapScan portable scanner. The newest model is called the Fujitsu SnapScan S1300 and is capable of scanning up to 8 pages per minute (double-sided). This means that you have a full duplex high speed portable scanner that can be taken anywhere and is powered by USB.

With the scanner being USB powered it’s only a matter of quickly connecting it up to a PC or Mac which enables the power, and then launch the application, insert the paper and hit scan. Seven to eight seconds later your document is scanned and can then be uploaded to a service such as EverNote. [Read more…]

Several months ago we first heard that 3D was heading towards the Sony Playstation 3 in the way of a firmware update that would convert ALL existing games to a 3D format automatically. Although it was said that not all games would look good in 3D, it would give an added dimension and work well on a number of games already released on the console.

What we are hearing now is that this firmware update could be arriving within the next few months along side Sony BRAVIA 3D screens specifically made to be compatible with the PS3 in 3D. [Read more…]

ASUS have added a new Nettop to their lineup by introducing the ASUS EeeTop ET1610PT. The new EeeTop comes with a new Intel Atom D410 Pine Trail CPU along with 1/2GB of RAM and 160GB of storage on hard drive.

Two versions of the EeeTop model are being made available with one indicating a touchscreen and the other a regular screen (as denoted by the T at the end of the model name).

The ASUS ET1610 has a 15.6 inch screen that can display a resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels. Graphics power is provided by an Intel GMA X3150 graphics chipset. [Read more…]

PrePeat is a printer that uses a special thermal head and plastic sheets to print and erase documents allowing you to cut down on paper usage in the office.

The printer uses special paper made of plastic to print on and each sheet can be used up to 1,000 times allowing a document to be printed and then erased when finished with.

The PrePeat Printer is not cheap though and will set you back about $5,517 at today’s exchange rate with the paper costing $3,300 for a pack of 1,000 sheets. [Read more…]

It took 3 years, 2 months and 11 days to finally hack the PS3 fully according to George Hotz (although it isn’t public yet how to achieve it, so for now we can’t confirm the truth of it). The hack was created by George Hotz who managed to use some hardware and software to break in to the system. Dumps of LV0 and LV1 have been created as well as the NAND. Other dumps will follow in the next few weeks it seems.

The exploit will not be revealed yet though while decryption keys are found allowing those who understand it all to hack in to their PS3. [Read more…]

Eye-Fi are bringing their Pro X2 card to the UK in April. The Pro X2 wireless card can store 8GB of data and also has a wireless transmitter/receiver built in allowing cameras to transfer images over the air to a home computer or FTP server.

The cards themselves are regular SD memory cards that you insert in your camera. Before you do that you need to configure the card to log on to a wireless network by giving it key’s and whatever else is needed to log on. Once configured on the Eye-Fi site your camera is ready to go and can upload photos as you take them as long as a wireless signal is available. [Read more…]