Archive for New Technology


Upcoming skinny disposable phone charger by Juicebar

Thin disposable phone charger

So this is a new one. We may have the solution for all of you who have been stuck with a dead mobile phone battery, away from the mains, just when you needed it the most. A British company running by the name of ‘Juicebar’ has developed a completely flat and disposable [...]

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Acer Aspire One launches in Europe

 
Acer’s Aspire One

The Acer Aspire One has launched in Europe, and it is available in three flavors: the A110L, A150L, and A150X.  All of the laptops offer an Atom N270 CPU, Intel’s 946GSE chipset, 512MB to 1GB of RAM, an 8.9-inch 1024 x 600 display, 802.11b/g, and three USB ports.  The A110L offers 8GB of NAND flash storage, [...]

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Grocery store of the future offers checkout via barcodes

If you’re not a fan of grocery shopping, recent technology may make it a bit easier when you have to go out and get the cupcake mix.  A chain of German supermarkets are utilizing new technology that, when fully implemented, will allow shoppers to purchase their items via cell phone.  Essentially, you pick your items, [...]

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Asus launches tough notebook, the B51E

In a new attempt to appeal to the rugged market, Asus has launched the B51E, a semi-rugged laptop aiming for those markets that are rough on their computers. The B51E offers a magnesium-alloy chassis that is sturdy enough to survive strong pressure and is braced by rubber edges that lowers the impact from a [...]

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Rumored ‘Minority Report’ style interface coming soon?

Dashboard Minority Report Display

Has anyone here dreamed of the day when we can all have work stations like Tom Cruise in Minority Report? We thought so. Now if you had to pick one global computing company to try something this crazy-cool, who would you pick? Well, we’ll tell you; according to rumors emanating from Kotaku, [...]

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Unboxed: Nokia’s E66 business smartphone slider

Nokia E66

It’s the king of unboxings, and we’re proud to bring live pictures of the VoIP capable Nokia E66 to you. The phone is quite amazing, and shows that Nokia is beginning to understand the concept of ‘fashionable phone,’ while retaining a business form factor and usability.
When we first picked it up, we noticed [...]

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Nextel planning to launch BlackBerry 8350?

We all heard from Dan Hesse at the beginning of the year that Sprint would launch a new BlackBerry on the Nextel side by the end of the year.  Engadget Mobile is reporting that the new device will be an iDEN variant of the Curve (8350), and is on track to arrive in late 2008 [...]

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New VTech IS6110 Cordless Phone with IM

VTech IS6110 IM Phone

When one thinks of a conventional landline, boring is the first word that comes to mind.  As the cellular phone wave has taken over around the world, features such as text messaging, instant messaging, and internet have become a must.  The downside is costly bills - the cheapest cell phone bill will [...]

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New OCZ ‘Core Series’ lowers SSD costs

OCZ SSD Core Series

Solid State Disks (SSD) have begun to make bigger and bigger news in mainstream blogs, and we are sure that this will be the biggest of them all. OCZ are a manufacturer of the SSD technology, and have reportedly found a way to produce SSDs at half the cost without any compromise [...]

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Upcoming Asus Eee PCs 904 and 905

Upcoming Asus Eee PC

Neither of the new Asus Eee PCs (904 and 905 models) rumored to be forging an existence over at Asus labs, may exist. Come again?
Well, not strictly speaking anyhow. According to a UK website, the rumored Asus Eee 905 is no more than word play, and the 904 version will not, as [...]

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