Asus wants to invade your living room, as the company prepares to launch its new O!Play HD2 this week in the UK for £109 and in the US on October 25 for $129.99, the O!Play HD2 is a lot like the previous O!Play Air HD with its streaming capabilities and 1080p support, but it’s been updated with a USB 3.0 port for speedy HD movie transfers, a slot for a 3.5-inch hard drive, and an iPhone remote control. This would be a very fierce contender to Western Digital’s solution. Read more…
These days more and more students are getting notebooks, besides mobile warriors running up and down flying here and there to conduct billion dollar deals. But guys and girls beware of your notebooks’ heat. They might just burn you and your important organs.
In a new study from the medical journal Pediatrics, researchers collected and analysed countless stories from youngsters who’d been treated for exposure to extreme laptop heat, and discovered that prolonged periods of use can lead to a condition horrifically dubbed “toasted skin syndrome.” Read more…
And you thought your iPhone 4 has the best screen out there. Now Sharp has crashed that proudness of yours. Its new IS03 for the Japan’s KDDI au network is powered by Android 2.1, and it has a full 960 x 640 resolution on its 3.5-inch screen. That sounds awfully familiar, like the Apple Retina display, minus the branding moniker. But that’s not all; the new IS03 also has Advanced Super View (ASV) technology that delivers the same kind of viewing angle benefits you could find on an IPS. Read more…
Previously Samsung and LG had shown off their supremacy in OLED technology by demonstrating transparent OLED screens. But now, there’s a new player showing off their own version of transparent OLED screen, and they’re not from the display company. TDK is stepping in with a 2-inch passive matrix screen and a ‘large’ QVGA (320 x 240) resolution. TDK claims a 50 percent transmittance, which somehow pawns the Korean’s version by quite some margin. Read more…
Your notebook’s hard drive is dead? All those drives sold out there too small to store your porn collection? Then Hitachi’s here to save you. The company’s new Travelstar 5K750 (5400RPM; 8MB buffer) and 7K750 (7200RPM; 16MB buffer) have been announced this morning, and they’re the company’s first to feature Advanced Format. Read more…
Have you heard of a violin the size of one-tenth of a human hair wide? Students at the University of Twente demonstrated a brand musical instrument that plucks strings, based on a new micrometer-scale system. Six microscopic resonators fit on a microchip, one resonator permusical tone, and series of the chips can be combined into a MIDI interface to play an entire song. However, since it’s so small, you’d expect the sound to be extremely puny too. The micronium needs to be amplified 10,000 times before they’re audible through standard speakers. Read more…
We’ve seen a few link shortener sites, and Link shorteners are particularly helpful to keep a link short and sweet, especially when posting in a bulletin board that limits the link’s length. But they’re nothing new. Even though there are plenty of link shortening options out there, Google is pressing onwards with the next step in its own service.
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Trollers watch out, as angry Kansas lady eats trolls for breakfast, literally. We all know that sometimes some people behave differently when they’re behind a screen. They mutate to an evil keyboard warrior that throws out everything that they hide during broad daylight.
Most would know that when we see a throw, we do not feed the troll. Here’s a great example of when you feed the troll and it bites back. Kansas City woman Breana Danielle Greathouse, 25, somehow fell into the trap, but she retaliated. Negative comments prompted Greathouse to pack a gun and get in a car to drive to Ottumwa, Iowa where she believed her online hater lived. Read more…
Thermaltake has done it again. They’ve collaborated with AMD to launch their new Armor series casing, named the A60 AMD Leo Edition, which, obviously, is AMD themed. The black and red mid tower has the same name as AMD’s current Socket AM3 enthusiast platform and there is no doubt that they’re targeting gamers. Read more…
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