The Travelstar 7K200 harddrive from Hitachi is a 3.5 inch SATA drive which runs at 7200RPM. 5 capacities are available which are 80GB, 100GB, 120GB, 160GB and 200GB. What sets this drive apart from all the other harddrives available is that it is claimed by Hitachi to be the worlds fastest hard drive. The drive can transfer data at a maximum of 876MBps and has a 16MB data buffer.
Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 Hard Drive
May 12, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Cool Lightable – LED Table
May 12, 2007 by Leave a Comment
This cool LED tabled named the Lightable lights up objects when placed on to it. It appears that the table is covered in a thin layer of water which LEDs at the sides of the table will illuminate anything put on to it. A crazy, but kind of cool idea. I dont think its very practical though but would look impressive if you were to invite guests around.
Casio Exilim EX-V7
May 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
The Exilim range of Casio digital cameras has indeed been an excellent range. I own one of this range my self and am very impressed with features and quality and especially the screen size. The EX-V7 is the latest Casio to hit the market and has some nice features such as a 7.2 megapixel sensor, CCD shift image stabilisation and 7x zoom. The technology in this camera that caught my eye was the motion analysis which can change the ISO and shutter speed if fast moving objects are being pictured.
Sony VAIO TZ Notebooks – Leaked Photos
May 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Sony are launching some new 11.1 inch laptops named the Sony VAIO TZ. Two of these notebooks have been created which are the TZ11MN/N and TZ11XN/B. Both notebooks look great with one boasting a silver lid. Other differences are the amounts of memory, disk and processor. I have to say that both of these notebooks do look rather nice although I can imagine the price tag would be rather nice too 😉
Features
* 2.62lbs of weight
* Integrated optical drive
* Unique rounded hinge design
* LED backlight screen
* 1.06GHz Core 2 Duo processor
* Built-in Motion Eye camera
Sky IM-R200 with OLED touch keypad
May 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Sky are releasing a dual LCD slider phone named the IM-R200 which has an OLED touch screen keypay. The OLED keypad can be custom configured or use one of the 27 combination displays. The phone has some other nice features too such as a dual camera which allows for making video calls as well as pictbridge technology. Memory can be enhanced through a microSD slot. I like the look of this phone and its use of OLED technology ads a nice twist to the phone. Another picture is available after the jump.
Bamboo Phone
May 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Most, if not all phones I use have been made out of plastic. This new patent shows a new type of phone which is made out of bamboo. Yep, thats the wooden sticks that could be called a type of grass. The bamboo has a nanotech coating treated with Gamma rays so that it is more durable. Also the gamme rays used get rid of dangerous stuff like bacteria. Once coated with nanotech the final coating is titanium dioxide is silver or zinc dioxide to give it a nice look. I am not sure if the purpose of this phone is to be green (in the environment way) or to make it weigh next to nothing.
Blogging on your Mobile Phone
May 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Mobile phones are getting tons of new features. Nokia is company who create phones with some blogging software in. The next in line is Google working with Sony Ericsson. They have created software which is compatible with Blogger allowing you to blog from your mobile phone. As well as being able to input text they also integrate the blogging software with the camera on your phone allowing you to snap a picture and send it to your blog. This is ideal for those out on the road who want to take their blogging with them.
The service will be shipping on the K800 and K790 as well as the K610 UMTS phone. Video after the jump.
The Indigo Lantern – Its Self Sufficient
May 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
The Indigo Lantern is a very reliable lamp which uses ultra bright LEDs to give out its light. Also there is a second LED which allows it to work as a reading light. What makes this lantern stand out is that it doesnt run on batteries. To get the LEDs to shine you wind it up. About 60 seconds of winding will give you 2 hours of night light and about 5 minutes on the maximum brightness. However, fully charged you can have 70 hours of nightlight and 2.5 hours on maximum. These are not the only options as you can also adjust the brightness and wind speed which allows for a dimmer light which can last longer.
Unique Skype Phone in a Mouse
May 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Skype has become very popular over the few years that it has been running. It has opened up a whole new level of communications and a whole new area for businesses to work in. The latest Skype gadget to hit the market is the Mouse Skype Phone. By combining the mouse with Skype you get to use the mouse as a mouse when needed, but can then pick up the mouse, flip it open and receive or make a call.
iPod to have Touch Surface on back
May 10, 2007 by Leave a Comment
I have seen quite a few Apple patents over the last several months since gadget venue was launched. The latest patent that has been found is for a touch surface on the back of the iPod which allows you to control what is on the front of the screen by touching the back of the device. It isnt all guess work though as when you touch the back of the iPod, some controls show up on the screen so you can see what you are doing. The surface is going to be touch sensative which means that if you slide your finger across the back, it will slide the cursor on the front, and if you press harder it will make a click.
Digio USB Flash Drive
May 10, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Some great ideas for flash drives have been showing up over the last couple of years. We only just posted about the Pocket XP flash drive which allowed you to keep a backup of your OS should you need to do an urgent install when on the road. The Digio is another example of a great idea. This time the flash drive includes SD and MicroSD slots so you can transfer data to and from your SD cards via the flash drive. Its a simple idea which could be handy for those situations where you need to quickly backup data from your camera or mobile phone.
MS Windows XP in your Pocket
May 10, 2007 by Leave a Comment
The USB flash drive has become more useful over the years with devices such as the VPhone from Vonage allowing you to carry around a land line which can be loaded up on any computer with internet access. With the rise of memory storage capacity also come other uses such as this Windows backup OS on a flash drive.
Put your self in this situation. You are out on business and you load up some software containing a virus which destroys part of your Windows XP OS. Being out of the road and having no access to the internet on another PC would make it very hard to fix this issue. Having a bootable flash drive running Windows XP would solve this problem for you. Using Bart PE Builder you can create a very handy flash drive with OS and plenty of utilities which could save your laptop a lot quicker then sending it back to the IT dept to fix.
