gadgets

ASUS has launched the U36 - the thinnest laptop in the world, equipped with a standard-voltage Intel processor. The computer measures 19 millimeters thick. This dimension has been possible because of changes to the cooling system. Also, the thickness reduction was done without diminishing the performance.

The laptop uses a powerful processor in the Intel Core or Core i5 i3. It is a combination of the ASUS Super Hybrid Engine and NVIDIA graphics technology Optimus. U36 model has a range increased to 10 hours. Read More »

Latest rumor: the next generation IPad, IPAD 2 or IPad HD (or whatever else Apple decides to call them) will be presented with two cameras and video FaceTime. Read More »

The new smartphone from Nokia is working on the latest version of Symbian - Nokia X7-00. it has four speakers, and will probably come with Dolby Surround sound. Read More »

Sony Ericsson sent all its forces to update its range of smartphones Xperia on a more recent version of the Android OS by Google, a model that has received an update to Android 2.1 is X8 Xperia. Read More »

Today’s news for geeks is MH380 Fujitsu LifeBook notebook, which can be purchased for $ 299 and save $ 150 off the recommended retail price of the manufacturers. Read More »

Seiko has announced a new EPD Watch that has an Active-Matrix E Ink display. It’s the world’s first phone with such a display (there are already some with segmented E Ink “Surf” displays).

The display has 80,000 pixels (300dpi) and 4 gray levels. The watch can display the time, date and a world-clock option with a nice photo of the earth.

We don’t have pricing details or release date, but we did found a nice video over at YouTube showing Seiko’s new watch collection — www.e-ink-info.com Read More »

Itoos seems to be ready to bring another new portable media player M8HDP to the market. Presently almost every single PMP from Chinese manufactures are allegedly 720p or 1080p HD support, but this one is ahead of them, claims a higher standard ,1280p support.

It gets a 5 inches 800*480, comes with numerous codecs, including H.264, MPEG-2, VC-1, and is compatible to RM/RMVB, MKV, MOV, TS, AVI, MPG, M2TS, M4V, PMP, MP4, 3GP, VOB, DAT video formats, giving you ultimate convenience to enjoy your videos.

The USB OTG is also equipped, but it’s sad and very sad that such a PMP that comes such high resolution support is lacking of a HDMI port. Read More »

Japanese researchers have developed a cuddly teddybear robot designed to comfort the elderly and delight children by reading facial expressions and actions and responding to them.

The fluffy invention by Fujitsu is still being worked on, but the electronics giant rolled out the as-yet-unnamed prototype for an early glimpse at an exhibition near Tokyo this week.

A camera in the nose of the bear can detect human faces and actions, such as waving of hands, while sensors inside its head and limbs can detect human touches and caresses.

The bear can respond with more than 300 actions of its own, from giggling and laughing to waving its paws and taking a nap — and even snoring. Read More »

A HTC Club user recently received an email from HTC, confirming the release of the ROM upgrade for HTC Hero on April 16th.

This is the Android 2.1 upgrade we’re talking about, that’ll be released on handsets with the following ROMs: Nordic/Greek/RUS/UKR/SA.

Other handsets will also get their upgrades following this rollout.

More details can be found here, by calling the number mentioned on the page (toll free number, can only be dialled from a landline). Read More »

Hanwha Japan released today the in-car video recorder, the UMAZONe K3. Once mounted on the windscreen of your car, this device is capable of recording up to 2 hrs of video on a 2GB of micro SD card in MPEG4 (AVI) format with VGA resolution (640 x480) @20 fps.

It is equipped with Color CMOS sensor, G-sensor as well as a built-in microphone allowing voice recording as well.

Available as of today for 14, 800 yen only in web shops. — akihabaranews.com Read More »