Garmin has launched their latest 4.3-inch GPS navigator; the Garmin nüvi 205W. It’s now available at Amazon for just $99.99. The gadget comes jam-packed with a 4.3-inch touchscreen display with 2D/3D maps, a turn by turn voice directions and optional MSN Direct services. Additional features include a JPEG picture viewer, a world travel clock, a currency converter and a calculator. Now why do you need a calculator? Well never mind that. Maybe you really do.
What we have here surely is one hell of an ugly watch, since I don’t really appreciate artistic watches like these. Looks to me like mini gauge positioned like a LEGO watch. This Geeky ODM JCDC UFO Watch Design is the result from the collaboration between ODM Design and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. Available in black, white or multi-colour, the UFO Watch features a plastic case and a silicon belt. If you are interested, you can purchase the Geeky ODM JCDC UFO Watch Design for 23,450 Yen or around $271. You just need to wear huge-ass glasses to match up this geeky watch.
This picture above that you see is supposedly leaked slides of somewhat-legitimate Intel’s roadmap for the year 2011. If they seemed to be real, then 2011 will surely be the year of SSD’s mass invasion. Intel’s 25nm flash process seemed to be ready to double up the company’s award-winning consumer SSDs capacity up to 400GB of ‘enterprise-grade’ multi-level cell memory. Since they’re moving to 25nm, the remaining 34nm silicon will be used to mass manufacture what they call ‘a series of netbook-sized mini-SATA drives’. Smart ‘recycling’ ideas. Surely many would be tricked into the so called ‘new’ mini-SATA drives when purchasing netbooks. Read more…
Apps have been a core part of modern smartphone ecosystems, which you can see through the success of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. The usage and function of both platforms has grown in leaps and bounds thanks to the apps community. Since Microsoft is preparing to join in the fight for smartphone domination, surely they have to get it right for the apps community with their SDK. That’s where this concept golf scoring app from Redmond comes in, to demonstrate how it’s done, the Microsoft way.
Designed using Microsoft’s favoured Metro aesthetic, it really streamlines the user experience by employing “multiple touch targets [that] are spread out from one another” and distilling content down to large, easily readable data. Check out the videos below to get more of the idea. Pretty cool stuff. Read more…
I believe many of the boys’ room or gaming room would be filled with those smelly sweaty accent flocking around like toxic gas. If you personally hate it, then here’s a geeky way to solve it. The USB Anion Air Purifier from Brando is powered by your computer’s USB port. The device claims to be able to purify air in a 20sqm area by emitting healthy negative ions into the air. These ions will apparently attach themselves to air molecules and any impure particles in the air to negatively charge them, purifying the air. Like how your air-conditioner’s ionizer works. You can buy the USB Anion Air Purifier for just $19 each. A very reasonable way to breath in healthy air while seeking for your Starcraft 2 achievements.
Usually when you’re going to buy something big, you’ll need your car to move it, even if it’s just down the alley by a few steps. Crazy isn’t it? It’ll be troublesome if you need to move around your heavy things through subways and long walk paths, and it’s just not feasible to drive all the way, especially in the jam. Here’s where this Move-It comes along.
Here’s another leaked phone out there. Engadget has what seemed to be a Dell Thunder, Dell’s Android phone running on Éclair. Spec wise, this Thunder has an 8-Megapixel camera with LED flash on the back, capable of recording 720p videos, along with a removable 1,400mAh battery at the back. Dell’s miniature tablet Streak is now in retails, so it’s no surprise that Dell’s gearing up for their ‘real’ Android-smartphone. The phone itself looks rather smart too, with chrome-like side strips, and the back looks like an XPS notebook design.
The prototype that Engadget’s tipster has on hand runs on vanilla Android 2.1, though the final product should wear Dell’s custom skin on top. Screen resolution is purportedly 800 x 480, though judging by that 7 x 4 icon grid up there and the tipster’s own experience, it could be even higher; the 4.1-inch display looks to indeed be of the OLED variety. Well, all that we can say is, yet another oversized supercar smartphone coming right up in this soon-to-be crowded market.
Tokyoflash has always been known for their funky watches, though some I really can’t comprehend. Now they have yet again unveiled a new wristwatch concept named the Night Vision. What a dull name, but it goes straight to the point. The watch has a bright green interface that displays the current time, even when under low-light condition. The outside 12 bars, which create a hexagonal ring, represents the hours, with the space recording the current hour. Then the minutes are identified in the centre in large digital numerals. The concept watch is finished off with a matte black finish. A very simple yet creative design, but somehow the time reading is rather difficult as both inner display and outer display uses the same theme colour.
Zotac is a good brand when it comes to unique products. Back then when 9800GTX were the card-to-beat, their graphic cards were super-hot among overclocking enthusiasts thanks to their Samsung GDDR rams. Zotac has been rather active lately developing boards for HTPC. Their mini-ITX motherboards were very popular among system builders, if you do not wish to get those ready-made HTPC on the market.
Zotac hits back by bringing you their latest mini-ITX motherboard called the H55-ITX Wi-Fi (H55ITX-C-E). Based on Intel H55 chipset, the board supports for LGA 1156 processors and features two DDR3-1333 memory slots, a PCI-Express x16 slot and a Mini-PCI Express slot (occupied by Wi-Fi). In terms of connectivity ports, it offers six SATA 3Gbps, Gigabit Ethernet, eSATA, 7.1 channel audio, two USB 3.0, DVI and HDMI. No SATA 6Gbps though. The Zotac H55-ITX Wi-Fi is now available in China for around $118.
Microsoft will be holding a big gala in San Francisco to celebrate ‘The Beauty of the Web’, though I can’t comprehend what’s so beautiful about ‘01010101010101010101’ with extensive makeup. September 15 is the day guys, though Microsoft wishes to say very sorry for XP loyalists, as IE 9 goes only to Vista and 7 users. Though, how good does IE 9 perform against the likes of the fox on fire or the Pokeball-like browser, is really up to our guess.
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