After hearing that Mercedes Benz has been working on the gullwing SLS AMG, Pagani has been heavily active back at the drawing board to find something to play with. The new supercar has been spotted few times doing some rounds, but we’ve never seen it officially with all its mock clothes off, but now Pagani has officially unveiled its latest baby, the Huayra.

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After much rumor, Nvidia finally launched their GTX 560 Ti, the successor of the GTX 460. Well, being a successor is much of a misleading way to say of the GTX 560 Ti. It’s not a successor at all as both are using the same architecture. To be bland, the GTX 560 Ti is the GTX 460, just fully unleashed and fine-tuned. It seemed weird thought that Nvidia revived the “Ti” suffix after absence of eight years.

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HP has yet again registered some names to the US trademark filings under computing category. Probably a “shoot first, ask later” thing. Guys, make up your mind please? The three new names are “Touchslate,” “Touchcanvas,” and “Duopad.” The second one might be a troll, but who knows. Then again, I still think Topaz and Opal is a good name, so why change it? We’ll just have to wait until February for the official name.

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Nvidia has just launched their GTX 560 Ti, but they’re also busy prepping the ARM division of the company too. Dual core Tegra 2 chips are out in the market, but Nvidia is already looking into a new Tegra 3 chip. The slide above says that a possible 1.5GHz quad-core mobile SOC with ability to crunch out Blu-ray contents and 13,800 MIPS-capable based on the multicore Cortex-A9 chip.

Last time Nvidia claimed that Tegra 3 is ‘almost done’ even before Tegra 2 hit the market, but now that the slide suggested that Tegra 3 had already entered production samples in Q4 of 2010 fits nicely with Nvidia’s claim. The ULP designation on this listing stands for Ultra Low Power in NVIDIA parlance, which would indicate an aggressively tuned power management system, would be a good thing to have since a quad-core chip in a tablet would mean critical danger to a tablet’s juice pool. Also, if you notice the 1920 x 1200 display, that should be something very delicious to tablets.

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And apparently this leaked info is quite real, as far as Richard Doherty of Envisioneering Group is real. The group cites “engineers who are working on hardware” for Apple’s latest project in asserting what that project actually is. Yes, the engineers are saying that NFC capabilities are apparently being built into the next generation of iPhone and iPad devices. Read more…

It seemed that the Nokia tablet that we saw yesterday is indeed a real product, but it doesn’t seem to be from Nokia, in some way. What’s more, it appears to be a reference platform of a rival. An eagle-eyed forum member over on mobile-review has spotted the similarity between it and a reference platform for ST-Ericsson’s U8500 system-on-chip.

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The sight might be beautiful, but come to think of it, it does feel scary if I were there…

3M had demonstrated at Vegas few weeks ago what seem to be capacitive touchscreens with tiny bezels, and 10 times faster responsiveness compared to what we have in the market today. By using silver as its conducting material, the company says that it has made it possible to shrink the circuits at the edge of a touch panel by a whole order of magnitude, resulting in finger-friendly screens unhampered by bulky bezels.

Moreover, due to silver’s high conductivity, the response times of the panel have been said to dip down as low as 6ms, which is ten times speedier than the currently used Indium Tin Oxide stuff. Thought neither both advancement is revolutionary today, as bezels merely serve a purpose in providing a gripping surface for slate devices. What’s more, touch responsiveness is currently constrained by software lag more than hardware capabilities. The company said that the bezels should be ready for the market by 2012. Hopefully the world hasn’t ended yet by then.

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It seemed that more rumours of HP’s Topaz tablet has surfaced, this time from Pre Central. Information seems to come from an internal document detailing presumed specifications of HP’s upcoming 9.7-inch tablet, and the 1.2GHz Qualcomm CPU will be tagging along with an Adreno 220 GPU. There’s 512MB of DDR2 memory, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a front-facing 1.3-Megapixel camera and dual-band 802.11n WiFi.

There’s also a rumoured Gorilla Glass screen with a standard XGA (1024 x 768) resolution, options for 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB of internal storage with optional WWAN, an accelerometer, gyroscope, light sensor, microphone, and a battery that’s said to last for about eight hours in idle. Obviously webOS will be present as well. Connection wise, there are HSPA, LTE, and CDMA variants, with WiFi-only version coming later to the market.

Apparently Touchstone v2 will be present for inductive charging, and there’ll be integrated Beats Audio technology and Tap to Share, with the second-gen Touchstone to also handle wireless picture sharing, cordless audio streaming and tether-free video beaming (just to name a few).

SOURCE via Pre Central