These days every company is maximizing the use of the word ‘3D’, but now we’re starting to get to the ‘4D’ world. No, not the Magnum. It’s a watch. Designed by Matej Korytar, the 4D Watch has the capability to display the time based on gravity or relative to the head of the person whose wrist the watch is around and adjust to the best viewing angle. That’s a very fancy and high-tech stuff there. All of the watch’s settings are controlled by the two ball buttons on the side. Of course, the watch is only a concept at this moment.

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The Apple iPad is an awesome product as we’ve mentioned countless times, but yet again, we get to see some rare and ridiculous products released for this market. A very good example is this i-Con Bed, which sounds like a bad product name to con people. Yes, the idea of having a big audio system with integrated iPad dock is good, but now you’re trying to sell the world’s first bed designed to work with Apple’s iPad. I’m not sure if many will be appeal, but such hardcore product would usually only target hardcore Apple fans. . The bed features two places to dock a couple of iPads and a set of four built-in speakers powered by a 250-watt amplifier. The i-Con Bed is available in more than 200 fashionable colors and fabrics to complement any bedroom décor. Probably comes with Steve Job’s thumb up too.

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We’ve seen a few 3TB hard drives going commercial already, but this specific Hitachi Ultrastar 7k3000 is unique in its own way. Being the world’s first 7200RPM hard drive rated at 2.0 million hours MTBF and backed by a five-year limited warranty, this sounds like a very serious hard drive with a tie and a formal suit for your workhorse server farms.

The new storage device offers 50 percent more capacity in the same footprint and does so at a 32 percent reduction in watts/GB versus Hitachi’s prior generation Ultrastar A7K2000 drives, which will be great news for corporate, considering energy consumption is a big issue when in large volumes.

What’s more, the Ultrastar 7K3000 family also represents the first Hitachi 7,200 RPM drives in both 6Gb/s SATA and 6Gb/s SAS interfaces, for easier integration in a much wider array of computing environments. The new Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 with a 6Gb/s SATA interface is now available in 3TB and 2TB of storage spaces, while the Ultrastar 7K3000 with a 6Gb/s SAS interface will be available in mid-2011.

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Nvidia’s Tegra 2 chip has been getting quite some attention as of late. Besides being featured in a number of pocket-able handhelds, they’re now being slap onto nettops, totally bitchslapping Intel’s Atom processor right there.

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The Vertu, an upmarket Nokia division makes a range of luxury mobile phones for peeps like Donald Trump, is already a very expensive phone to get. But when you slap a Prancing Horse logo at the backplate of your phone, the price just got increased tenfold!

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Here’s some info on Samsung’s upcoming new line of 3D-enabled LED monitors, the new 750 series and the asymmetrical 950 series. they’ll come in both 23- and 27-inch sizes with 1080p resolution, two-millisecond response time, 1000:1 contrast ratio, and D-sub, HDMI, DisplayPort, and DVI-DualLink connectivity — and they can all be ordered with a TV tuner for hybrid HDTV / monitor operation. That seemed to be a sweet bundle for those teenagers looking for a monitor for their PS3! Read more…

Sandy Bridge has only been launched officially this month, but news of the next “tick” on Intel’s roadmap has already surfaced. Yes, we’re talking about Ivy Bridge. Ivy Bridge will be using 22nm fabrication process and will be backward compatible to socket 1155. Though, an important note here is that there’s no mention of support for this processor from Cougar point Chipset of Sandy Bridge, so your brand new socket 1155 motherboard with P67 chipset might not play well with the new Ivy Bridge processor when it’s launched next year. Read more…

Toshiba has announced its newest line of 1.8-inch HDD, known as the industry first too, with low-insertion force (LIF) SATA connectors. Toshiba touts them as PMP-friendly, so I guess you won’t be able to get hold of them for your netbooks anywhere.

These super-slim drives are designed for use in media players, tablets and most anything else that can fit within electronic devices that might fit your pocket, with 160GB, 200GB and 220GB models being available. They’re said to surpass 2.5-inch drives in terms of vibration robustness, low power consumption, and quiet operation, and the whole lot also includes a 16MB buffer and requires just 0.35-watts to operate at low power idle which should be a good thing for compact electronic devices like tablets that suck out juices like no tomorrow, especially the dual core ones.

The whole package measures just 5- x 54- x 71mm, and while pricing information isn’t readily available, samples will be headed out to product manufacturers next month. So, will this be featured in some PMPs coming summer?

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