Sony's S-Series Walkman Emerges; It's No iPod Killer

Sony's X-series Walkman (otherwise known as the OLED Walkman) has barely had time to make a splash in the US market, and already Sony is preparing to launch anoher music player. Based on some believable details leaked on Materiel's website (a French e-tailer), the new S-Series Walkman will arrive in 8GB (NWZ-S544) and 16GB (NWZ-S545) models, and while we doubt it'll compete with the heralded iPod touch, the built-in kickstand should make it suitable for movie watching, regardless.


The display has a 2.4" QVGA display, stereo speakers, a built-in FM tuner, a microphone, a rechargeable battery and a pretty crazy battery life figure. We're talking about 42 hours of audio playback or 6.5 hours for video. Also of note, the device looks to support a litany of file format, and the estimated $180 (8GB)/$211 (16GB) price tags don't seem all that outrageous. Of course, we've still got to wait for Sony to confirm this unit as real, but really, we're just waiting for the company to confirm a US price and release date.
Via: Sony Insider

Sony Launches Two New E-Book Readers

Sony today released a pair of new e-book readers the company hopes will help put it in a better position to do battle with Amazon's popular Kindle. As such, Sony also plans to reduce all new releases and best sellers at its e-book store from $11.99 down to $9.99 each.

On the hardware front, Sony's new Reader Pocket Edition weighs 7.76 ounces and sports a 5-inch display. There's enough memory to store 350 standard e-books, but no expansion slot for memory cards. Users can expect about two weeks of use before having to recharge the battery. The pocket-sized reader is available in navy blue, rose, and silver with an MSRP of $200.


As the name implies, Sony's new Reader Touch Edition ups the ante with a touchscreen display, which supports finger or stylus enabled note taking with the virtual keyboard. It comes with five adjustable font size and expansion slots for both Memory Stick PRO Duo and SD cards. This one comes in red, black, or silver with an MSRP set at $300.



source : maximumpc

USB Moody Hub has memo pad

If you’re a fan of the post-it note then you might just love the USB Moody Hub. This gadget provides all the connections you need and a convenient memo pad for those moments when you just have to jot something down.

Post-It notes could really clutter up your desk space, so why not opt for something a little neater and reusable? The memo pad on this hub is erasable, so you can write down your thoughts and erase them on a whim.

The USB hub features 3 ports that allow you to connect other hubs or USB devices to your computer. The memo pad comes with a marker that has an eraser built into the tip and the hub itself throws off lighting in red, green and blue. You can get the USB Moody Hub now for $14.
by Brenda Stokes
source : slashgear

Windows Touch Logo, Coming Soon on PC

Multi-touch controls on the Apple iPhone will soon be built on the Microsoft Windows 7. Windows 7 will receive a Windows Touch brand logo will be the first class to interact with a PC without a mouse and keyboard. Microsoft believes that the multi-touch PC become a popular product in the retail, for the public, on the laptop and the PC kitchen '. Some of the Windows machine is ready for input to the touch and Microsoft are now preparing the program "Touch Windows Logo", as in the logo "Designed for Windows 7", "Intel inside", "nVIDIA graphics".

The program can help provide understanding to the customer will be the Touch is a Windows optimization.

Windows Touch will control is equipped with features such as tap and double tap, drag, scroll, zoom, criticism (flick), and rotation. In engineering Windows 7 blog, the team led the development of Touch, said that the touch will be more knowledgeable as requirenment hardware. According to the blog, the development of Windows Touch is inspired from the Microsoft Surface table computer.

Meanwhile, according to Chris Bernard, one of the Evangelist from Microsoft interface, gesture and touch are two big changes that, showing how to interact with computers that use a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for the first time, and the use of keyboard and mouse. "We make sure the user will get the full experience of Windows 7 is indeed." Said Bernard.

While some applications optimized for touch features such as Internet Explorer and Windows Media Center, but basically there is a touch control levels. "For example, if users try to touch scrolling on the window that does not have touch control, the machine can detect it as a variation scrollbar scroll and then run." As mentioned in the blog. To help distinguish which of the gesture or touch, then Microsoft has been analyzing the sample of the hundreds of thousands of people.

Windows 7 will be the final version is coming soon in 2010, and Windows 7 to RC (Release Candidate) will be tested at the end of May to come. (H_n)

source : beritanet

A-DATA launches laptop-ready 2.5-inch 512GB XPG SSD at CeBIT

We heard way back in January that ASUS' S121 would be the world's first laptop with a 512GB SSD, and now we've reason to believe that very drive could be coming from the labs at A-DATA.


Here at CeBIT, the company has launched what it's claiming is the industry's highest capacity SSD (in the 2.5-inch form factor) with its 512GB XPG SSD. The drive promises to provide 230MB/s read and 160MB/s write rates while shuffling data around on the SATA II interface. As expected, it comes housed in a durable aluminum casing to shake off those occasional bumps and bruises, but there's sadly no word on price or availability. Next stop: 1TB. (Hopefully, anyway.)

by Darren Murph,
source : engadget

Sony X Series Walkman arrives early with price cut

Only yesterday we brought you news that Sony’s hotter-than-Tokyo’s-meanest-wasabi X Series will be arriving at Amazon on 10 May. Well, now Play.com has gone better, announcing a 30 April release.

It gets better too – while Amazon is listing the 32GB version for £283, Play.com has it available for pre-order for £250, making it over £30 cheaper than the equivalent iPod Touch.

If that’s stretching your piggy bank a bit too much, the 16GB costs a more palatable £200 on both Play.com and Amazon.

Look out for a full review of the X Series very soon, but in the meantime sit back and enjoy our exclusive hands-on video.

Essentials
Sony X Series
Price: £250 (32GB), £200 (16GB)
On sale: 20 April
Contact: Play.com

Apple leaks 17-inch iMac for $899?

It's kind of funny when an Italian-language site breaks a wee bit of English-language based Apple news, but that's what happened when SetteB.it spotted a small mention of an $899 17-inch iMac for the education market on Apple's own Web site.

Currently, Apple is offering only iMacs in 20- and 24-inch screen sizes. The 20-inch model starts at $1,199, while the 24-incher starts at $1,499.

No word on when the "new" 17-incher will arrive (or if it's really new), but we'll await official confirmation from Apple.

Anybody interested? In this economy, I think that the sub-$1,000 market is a good spot for Apple to play in--especially when it comes to cash-strapped parents of student

by : DC
Source: Gizmodo via SetteB.it

USB Jewel Butterfly Flash Drive

Brando once again comes out with another fashionable USB gadget, the USB Jewel Butterfly Flash Drive. This stylish USB thumb drive comes with a decorative crystal butterfly and 8GB of storage. With the included strap, it makes it perfect to attach to your keys or cellphone. All yours for just $32. [Product Page]

source : techfresh

New Generation iPod Shuffle Could 'Talk'

Apple unrelenting spawn innovative new products. And now, their successful work especial music player mini iPod shuffle, so was born the new model super mini. The size of this model is only half of the old.

Despite having a smaller size when compared with the AA batteries, iPod is enough nendang. A service that provides new experiences for users, dibenamkan here, that is, the service that replaces the voiceover and the key task of the display monitor (display) iPod.

Service is what makes iPod sized 1.8 inch high and 0.3 inch thick can 'talk'. This music player can express a variety of information such as song title and artist name. Can even let the battery ages.

As many as 14 languages mastered by this clever iPod, including English, Dutch, Italian, etc.. Unfortunately language is not included in the string language, such as quoted detikINET's News.com, Thursday (12/3/2009).

Voiceover term itself is actually the property of Apple ditanamkan in Mac OS X Leopard. This feature is intended for the blind to use the Mac more easily.

iPod is a little unique operation, that is, the earphone cord through this, removed the price of U $ S79. With 4GB memory, you can be happy about entering a song in 1000.


by : Santi Dwi Jayanti

World’s smallest music player

Apple has introduced its new iPod shuffle here, claimed by the manufacturer as the world's smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model.

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The third generation iPod, with a memory for about 1,000 songs and a new voice over feature which enables it to speak song titles, artists and playlist names, is significantly smaller than a AA battery. 'Imagine your music player talking to you, telling you your song titles, artists and playlist names,' said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, on Thursday. The iPod, which can speak 14 languages including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish, comes in a new aluminium design with a built-in stainless steel clip that makes it ultra-wearable. 'The amazingly small new device takes a revolutionary approach to how you listen to your music by talking to you, also making it the first iPod shuffle with playlists,' Joswiak said adding, the user can easily switch between multiple playlists on this new iPod. source : newstodaynet

New breakthrough, MP3 player equipped with a Sun

A creator of Italian origin has released an MP3 player is equipped with a sun. Of course the music player jewelry that works well when get light (the sun).
Unfortunately save capacity of only 2GB, and the price is quite expensive (70 euros). But you do not need to drive it anywhere to be able to make it work.

This music player supports MP3, WMA and U-DISK. Software is compatible only with Windows. Not have any buttons on the body except the Play button.

source : kompas

Apple launches smaller, 4-gigabyte iPod Shuffle

The $79 device has new feature that speaks the names of artists and songs

By Jessica Mintz

CUPERTINO, Calif. - Apple Inc. unveiled a minuscule new iPod Shuffle on Wednesday that takes its "smaller is better" mantra to a whole new level.

The third-generation Shuffle, a slim aluminum rectangle less than 2 inches (5 centimeters) long, takes up about half as much space as the previous version even as it doubles music storage space to 4 gigabytes. To achieve such a tiny form, Apple had to remove most of the buttons from the body of the $79 device and build them into the headphone cord instead.

"Smaller has tended to work very well for us," said Greg Joswiak, a marketing vice president at Apple.

The trade-off for a sub-$100 Shuffle has always been the lack of a screen to visually navigate through the music stored on the device. The first generation Shuffle, which launched in 2005, could hold about 240 songs, arguably not enough to warrant a screen.

Now that the device can carry 1,000 songs, Apple has come up with a way for people to identify the music they're listening to or find songs they want. A new feature called VoiceOver can, at the push of a button, speak the song and artist name or rattle off the list of custom mixes — called playlists — that the owner has loaded onto the device.

Here's how it works: As you synchronize a new Shuffle using an updated version of iTunes, your PC or Mac looks at each track and playlist and creates a small file of a computerized voice speaking the title, artist or playlist name. If a song is in Spanish or Chinese, say, the software figures this out and speaks in the appropriate language. Apple says the device can handle 14 languages.

The new Shuffle, which comes in silver or black aluminum with a shiny stainless steel clip, is set to go on sale Thursday. Joswiak said Apple's own earphones will be the only option for early buyers, but that other companies plan to make compatible headphones as well as adapters for regular headphones.

source : msnbc

Elecom MF-SU2 Flash Drives so small

By Hilbert Hagedoorn

You know, Elecom MF-SU2 Flash Drives Could Probably Be Smaller Were It Not For The USB Connector. Here’s the perfect accessory for those of you using a netbook, particularly with a small SSD hard drive. The diminutive MF-SU2 series of USB flash drives from Elecom are barely visible when connected to one of your laptop’s USB ports, but provide either 4 or 8GB of extra storage. They also come with a piece of security software known as PASS (Password Authentication Security System) that allows you to access the drive’s secure contents without having to type a password on your own PC.

I’m not sure when they’ll be available or for how much, but you’ll have your choice of black, blue, pink and white colors.

source :guru3d.com

Asus keyboard Changed Being PC

by : Indah PM

Never see the keyboard into a PC? Eee keyboard response. At the bodinya, users will find the HDMI connection and a wireless touch screen of 5 inches. So, here are a part of the keyboard mayor, while the PC into the minor.

Asus CEO, Jerry Shen says that this keyboard is buatanya produced in two different models, namely the cable and wireless (wireless). For the cable version, the Eee Keyboard ber prices on a range of U.S. $ 400, while for the wireless version will determine the price more expensive, about U.S. $ 600.

Eee keyboard will resemble some of the components that should also have a computer in the standard. That includes the processor Intel Atom 1.6 GHz clock speed (generally used in the sub notebook), 1 GB RAM capacity, the media store type Solid State Drive (SSD) 16/32 GB capacity, features Bluetooth and WiFi connections. However, the available wireless HDMI port, two USB 2.0 ports, VGA, HDMI, and audio in / out. End users do not need to buy a CPU, because all the components in a PC to ditanamkan Case (CPU) on the Eee keyboard.

According to the news source that we lansir, Asus Eee keyboard will swing to the market in May or June.

source : infokomputer

Asus Released 1TB Laptop With SSD

Usually we less enthusiastic with the laptop to its storage form of SSD (solid state disk). For the general capacity SSD selega not hard. However, it is not so with the laptop Asus Lamborghini VX5 made.

Laptops in the newspaper will be put on a SSD with a 1 terabyte (TB)-large is not it? Specifications other processor is Intel Core 2 Quad, 4GB RAM, display full HD 16-inch. While for the graphics card installed GeForce 130M GT with DDR3 1GB memory.

Keyboard is also interesting because the style "Chiclet" (still remember the chewing gum is not it?) And automatically turn on when used in a dark room conditions. While support for the enjoyment, inserted a Blu-ray optical drive.

Of course, this laptop is not intended for those funds ber minimum. Name just a limited edition. Price can be ascertained Asus Lamborghini VX5 is far above average.

source : kompas

ASUS Eee Top ET1602, The Computer Brief

Summary of trends in the PC dipelopori by Apple with the iMac product it presumably also tempt ASUS to join play. Although from the performance, the product has the ASUS Eee Top ET1602 can not be spelled out powerful, but at least if you only intend to explore the PC can connect to the internet and create office documents, this PC can accommodate your job.

ASUS Eee Top ET1602

View from the looks, Eee Top ET1602 this is indeed brief. Dibalut body with white, a PC with 16.6-inch screen of this could easily put you on the table without the need to seize too much space. Buffer placed on the back of the screen that also contains the innards of a PC is also quite robust and able to withstand the weight of a PC this good. Glance, this construction makes it look like the PC this photo frame.

There are some quite interesting things from this PC. The first is the screen that is equipped with a touchscreen feature. However, if you are not familiar with the features that are currently so this trend, ASUS is providing keyboard and mouse that is designed to match the PC unit itself. Unfortunately peranti second input is a little too small and a bit less comfortable when operated.

ASUS Eee Top ET1602

Because the processor dicangkokkan on the PC this is a 1.6Ghz Intel Atom N270, the performance clearly can not be equated with a PC that uses higher-speed processor. Can be spelled out, the ability Eee Top ET1602 is not far different with the netbook circulating in the market at this time. Memory capacity is also installed sufficient standard: 1GB. Fortunately ASUS still provide enough free space on your hard disk that is used (160GB).

Another thing that is interesting enough disediakannya six USB ports on this PC. At least you will not be lack of port while trying to connect this PC peranti that use USB connectivity. Ethernet connectivity has been installed on the PC even though this feature is vital as the DVD burner that can not be found even to this product.

ASUS Eee Top ET1602

In short, this PC can only accommodate light work only and will not be able to provide adequate performance if you intend to use it to 'fag'. But even so, Good Gear Guide the opportunity to test this product is still willing to give a high enough value even though that was about the reflective screen. Say, ASUS release of this product with the official price of U.S. $ 886 or about Rp9.750.000.

Specification: Processor: Intel Atom N270 1.6Ghz
Memory : 1GB
Chipset : --
VGA : Integrated
Screen : 15.6 inches (16:9) 1366 x 768 pixels
Hard Disk : 160GB, 5.400rpm
Optical Drive: N / A
Port : headphone Jack, Microphone Jack, RJ45, USB 2.0
Webcam : 1.3M pixel Web camera
Wireless : 802.11 n
Dimensions : --
Official Site : www.asus.com

source : kapanlagi.com

Clearwire to produce portable WiMAX / WiFi router

by : Darren Murph,
We can't say a device such as this was inevitable or anything, but given how limited the adoption of WiMAX has been thus far in America, it's definitely a win for everyone involved. According to Sidecut Reports, Clearwire will soon unveil a portable WiMAX / WiFi router built by Cradlepoint (prototype pictured), which will utilize a Motorola WiMAX USB stick to enable WiFi-capable devices to gather 'round and surf on the delightfully speedy WiMAX superhighway. In other words, non-WiMAX handsets that have WiFi modules can tap into the WiMAX network (if they're in a lit locale, that is) via this device, which -- if we may say so ourselves -- is a brilliant design move. There's no word yet on when the box will ship nor how pricey it'll be, but this could be just the thing you've been looking for to replace that painfully expensive cable modem at home.

source : engadgetmobile.com

VAIO P, now with more Windows 7

by Paul Miller
We just couldn't help ourselves, and put this Windows 7 .iso we had lying around exactly where it belongs: on Sony's VAIO P. After mucking around on "the internet" figuring out the best way to install it, we ended up going the lazy route and dragging / dropping the plain files onto a folder on a USB drive, hitting setup.exe and watching the installer do its magic -- and it worked flawlessly! We weren't timing it or anything, but we'd say 45 minutes or so is a good guesstimate for the install. A few thoughts:

• It boots fast! Not that Vista was that bad on the boot front, but we're pretty happy with this.
• No Aero. That's to be expected, but the lack of transparency and visual effects makes the OS look quite a bit different than most of the screenshots out there.
• It's very responsive. To be honest, a lot of that could be from the fact that this is a clean install, minus all the crap Sony loads on. Still, we're very happy for the start menu to pop open instantly, windows to redraw like God intended... it's pretty great.
• Browsing is 100% better. Internet Explorer pops open in a flash, and pages load in times nearly on comparison with "real" computers. Also, scrolling is ultra smooth, whereas with Vista it was stuttery all the way down.
• There's a lot more to explore. We've just scratched the surface, but we love what we've seen so far.

Update: both videos are after the break!

Update 2: for those who've asked: yes, the webcam works, and no, we haven't had any luck getting Aero up and running, though we have the video drivers loaded -- we're not saying it's impossible, in fact, it's likely very possible, since plenty of other similarly specced netbooks can pull it off, but it's just not happening for us just yet.

source : engadget.com

Gadget Helps Fuel Kalori

Devi Suzanti - detikinet
A small gadget to help people who are diligent to burn calories. This gadget is a game inspired from the Wii Fit.

Gadget of the name Fitbit Tracker is made to find out how much calories burned body when conducting activities. Perhaps, the author is an entrepreneur named James Park, after making a gadget that plays a crazy game Wii Fit.

Fitbit Tracker has the form of a brief seukuran lipstick and enough clothing to the (clip on). Sensors that are on the Fitbit Tracker will record calories burned during a pro user activity.

Not enough up there, mini gadget that will send data to a site. At the site the user will have recorded the data and can compare the data with own data to other users.

As quoted from detikINET CNN, Saturday (10/1/2009), the gadget will be sold at prices around U.S. $ 99. Fitbit is estimated to be available in the market starting in the first quarter 2009.

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