June 30 is the date when Microsoft plans to stop selling most Windows XP licenses. The announcement that Microsoft will extend this deadline for low-cost laptops is expected to be made in the United States, although it appears timed to coincide with the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) being held in Shanghai on Wednesday and Thursday.
LaCie’s no stranger to getting designers to fashion up external hard drive designs, what with Sam Hecht, Ora-Ito, Karim Rashid, GmbH and the LEGO guy (actually also Ora-Ito) lending their name to designs. This latest one by Neil Poulton looks like the 2001 monolith sans naked monkeys, but with an eerie blue ambient light on the front emanated by an LED on the bottom. You’d normally have to pay some kind of huge price premium for designs, but LaCie’s $149 for 500GB seems pretty reasonable.
CTL already manufactured its Netbook, a little laptop based on Intel Netbook platform. The Netbook manufactured by CTL is called 2go PC. Comes with a 9-inch screen, 2go PC has 800 x 480 resolution. Build based on Intel 915GMS chipset chipset, 2go pc laptop is powered by a900 MHz Intel Celeron M processor, 512 MB RAM ( upgradable up to 1 GB) and 40 GB HDD. The CTL 2go PC Laptop is running Windows XP OS while a lavor of Linux is another option.
Sony’s recently announced HDR-TG1 Handycam will be arriving this May, retailing for $900 while holding the title of being the smallest full HD camcorder in the world. Tipping the scales at a mere 10 ounces, the HDR-TG1 Handycam features :-
Measures 296 x 209 x 14 ~ 30mm and weighs at just 1.2kg, Rock’s compact 12-inch Pegasus 210 laptop is powered by a 800Mhz Intel A110 processor (400Mhz, 512kb cache), a 1GB of DDR2 main memory, an 80GB of 4200rpm hard drive, and an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 engine. With an amazing 6 hours battery life and an integrated 802.11a/g/n WiFI, this notebook is an ideal travelling companion. Or, if you don’t want to live any single minute without internet connection, just purchase the additional high-speed 3G / HSDPA module, providing up to 3.6Mbs of world wide web experience.
Sony unveals a black Sony Rolly blinking and dancing loudspeaker.
Additionally Rolly owners can now customize the “arms” of their Rolly with different colors. I see already Japanese School girls sitting in a coffee and letting their customized Rollys battle on the table. To share cool Rolly moves, Sony setup the Motion Park site. The moves of the Rolly can be customized as well with the Motion Editor software.
Sony announced the Rolly music gadget last September.
Rolly only has a power button and a play button. All other functions are done by twisting or rolling the gadget. Measurements of the Sony Rolly are 104 × 65 × 65mm. The built-in flash memory is 1GB.
If you want a Rolly from Japan now, AudioCubes exports it for $499.99 internationally.
Rolly has been spotted at the FCC in the U.S., so a state side release of Rolly could be around the corner.
More details in this Sony press-release (Japanese). See also the Sony Rolly site (Japanese).
I found an interesting article at CNET blog. It says that kids are not allowed to use google services… really??
Google’s terms of service states that:
“You may not use … Google’s products, software, services and web sites … and may not accept the Terms if … you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google.
Okay… so those kids searching via google or watching video clips at Youtube are doing illegal activity…
Hopefully, I am overage now and wasn’t using google when I was teen but using Yahoo or MSN.
Google’s services are awesome, but I’m kinda afraid of over-data-mining. Feels like google will track and control everything our lives…
One of the most awaited laptop, Asus Eee PC 900, is expected to come next month. Configured with 8.9-inch screen, the new 900 features 8GB flash storage with Windows XP but users have an option to opt 20GB of storage with Xandros Linux. And as you want to know, the expected price set at $499.
Source: engadget
Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-TZ50 brings WiFi connectivity with you wherever you are, allowing you to upload images from any WiFi hotspot. Unfortunately, you will be limited to specific image sharing sites such as Panasonic’s very own Lumix Club. Hopefully as the TZ50 is released worldwide, a more open model will be made available. After all, who doesn’t yet have a Flickr or Picasa account? The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ50 will be released in Japan this May 16th, retailing for approximately $500 after conversion.
Source: Panasonic Japan (Translated by google)
Bone conduction technology has been used to great effect with a wide array of gadgets to date, and this time we have the Sound Leaf Plus Bluetooth headset from NTT DoCoMo that features such technology as well. It functions just like any other bone-conduction gear, save for the fact that it hooks up sans wires to your Bluetooth-enabled cellphone for a truly hands-free experience. Unfortunately, you will probably feel its weight as the Sound Leaf Plus tips the scale at a relatively heavy 45 grams and is powered by a couple of AAA batteries which offer up to 15 hours of talk time. That’s not very much when you think about it, so hopefully future iterations will be smaller, lighter, and last way longer.Source: NTT Docomo (in Japanese)
