Feel the craving to watch your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch (fourth gen) videos on your new big screen, but looking for something with a little more girth than Apple’s HDMI solution or the AirPlay video mode? Hanwha’s latest dongle might just do the job for you. As you can see above, in place of the original adapter’s dock connector port is a USB 2.0 socket — compatible with cameras supporting mass storage connection — alongside the 720p-friendly HDMI port, but you’ll have to use the switch to toggle between the two modes. And that little mini-USB port on the far right? Well, it’s there to provide some juice to “reduce battery drain,” but probably not enough to charge up your iDevice, though I think it’s still very thoughtful of them to have that. If you’re still interested and have a friend in Japan, Hanwha’s charging ¥5,980 (around $73), which is almost double that of Apple’s $39 connector. Worth it? Your call.

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We know that Flash is heavy, and a certain electronics firm hates it. Even I felt annoyed at times by its clumsiness, and now that HTML5 is out, Flash is no longer superior when delivering awesome and funky content in a cool way. Oddly, even Adobe agrees, and they’ve announce a new tool called Wallaby.

Guys, meet Wallaby. He’s the new kid from Adobe, and funnily he’s going to convert Flash content to HTML5 for you. That means it’s targeted at taking Flash-encoded artwork and animations and turning them into a more compatible mix of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Of course, the intent here is not some magnanimous move to free us from the shackles of Flash — Adobe openly admits that the initial goal for the new tool will be to help convert animated banner ads so that they work on the iOS platform

Right, so even Adobe needs to please Apple, and that’s why Wallaby’s here.

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Here’s a speaker that you might actually want to play with your iPhone. JBL just tossed up the splash page for the On Air Wireless speaker and boy it’s very sexy.
The system connects wirelessly to your AirPlay-enabled Mac and iOS device on 4.2 or later and packs a screen that’ll display the track info of the song you’re rocking out to. What’s more, the rounded grill sports a dual alarm clock, FM radio, and a USB port for future firmware updates.
Well, to let you down, the speaker isn’t really officially launched yet, as there’s no launch date and pricing from JBL at this moment. Yes, it’s a real teaser alright.

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Philips wasn’t listed when Apple announced their AirPlay partner, but now we’re very sure it is. Philips just announced its Fidelio SoundSphere speakers that support WiFi music streaming over from your PC or Mac iTunes library or from any iOS devices using Apple’s new and cool AirPlay.

There’s not much to be said about this flower-pot-shaped speaker and its free-floating tweeters, but Philips does share the price with us, and it’s a shocking €799 ($1,100), which means it’s a serious speaker for people with pay-checks that reaches 6-digits.

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Western Digital might have eliminated a good contender by buying up Hitachi Global Storage, but there’s still another strong contender from East, and that’s the Koreans. Everyone might have their attention on SSD, but Samsung is still hard at work researching on these classic bricks. The Korean electronics giant has just announced a new series of Spinpoint drives with greater areal density.

The new HDDs promise to deliver up to 1TB per platter spinning at 5,400RPM, which means 4TB desktop drives and a terabyte of storage (courtesy of two 500GB platters) in standard-sized laptop HDDs. The 3.5-inch version packs a 32MB cache and SATA 6Gbps compatibility, while the 2.5-inch variety has an 8MB cache and a 3GB/s SATA interface. Though, the 5,400RPM might be quite disappointing for some.

SOURCE via Maximum PC

The desktop might have Flash Player 10.2 for quite some time, but it’s still missing in the mobile platform. Now, Adobe comes along and announces Flash Player 10.3, and it’s coming to both desktop and mobile devices “soon”.

Improvements in the latest iteration include some acoustic hocus pocus for better internet telephony, new video analytics APIs, privacy controls integrated into browser settings in Firefox 4 and IE8 (Chrome and Safari to follow), and native control panel integration with both Mac’s System Preferences and Windows’ Control Panel. Beta testing ends in Q2 2011 for the desktop and a mobile release should follow swiftly thereafter.

And while we’re still whining that the mobile platform is missing out on Flash Player 10.2, let’s not forget that some specific operating system doesn’t even have Flash Player to begin with.

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Microsoft said that the company plans on keeping the Xbox 360 console going until at least 2015, despite the refresh that they did last year. However, they might be gearing up for the next Xbox despite still having four years’ development cycle timeframe. The software giant has listed a glut of new job openings, with the most interesting ones being at its Mountain View research campus, where a team responsible for “defining and delivering next generation console architectures” is to be formed.

A graphics hardware architect is sought to ensure that the next Xbox strikes the optimal balance between greed and dictatorship, while a design verification engineer and a few others will be hired to test and help develop prototypes along the way. This huge numbers seems to indicate that Microsoft is starting to ramp up research and development on its next-gen home entertainment console, though it’s still a long way to go, for us that is.

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To a much selected few, this jet-fighter-like dashboard with lots of digital stuff will be familiar to you very soon. That is if you’re managed to squeeze yourself into among the 4,000 owners of the new Lamborghini Aventador 700-4 supercar. To the rest of us peasant, this video will be the closest thing we can imagine about being in the seat of the Aventador.

As supercars goes faster and faster, physical needles can’t catch up to the changing speed anymore, and thus digital meters are the way to go. Using the four-ringed (Audi, Lamborghini’s owner) automaker’s MMI system as its base, Lamborghini modified the infotainment system to better reflect the supercar’s core values, but a few of its roots are showing.

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