hardware

Apple to unveil Light Peak but under a new name

Published on: 23rd February, 2011

Apple is expected to unveil the use of Light Peak soon, according to recent rumors. The 10Gbps peripheral interface of Intel would be made public after a short time but would have a different name for the Mac. CNET did not confirm whether or not the interface would be also part of the MacBook Pros [...]

Vodafone introduces Webbox for TV-based web browsing using Opera

Published on: 20th February, 2011

Vodafone has just revealed its Webbox product, a keyboard bringing the ability to browse the Internet on users’ TVs. The device connects through a wired RCA connection and needs Opera Mini 5.1 to provide a web link. As it comes from a phone carrier, the device also supports –mail messaging and built-in SMS, as well [...]

Hitachi makes a 4.5-inch, 720-pixel ‘Retina Display’ dedicated to phones

Published on: 20th February, 2011

Hitachi a few days ago rolled out its display similar to the Retina Display of Apple, which equips the iPhone. Hitachi’s 4.5-inch LCD has an extremely dense resolution at 1,280×720 (720 pixels), which is, at 329 pixels, as sharp as the 960×640, 3.5-inch screen of Apple. According to Hitachi, this is almost the limit of [...]

New TouchSmart PCs from HP respond to Apple’s desktop touch concerns

Published on: 12th February, 2011

Hewlett Packard has unveiled a couple of TouchSmart PCs which could be the first to answer Apple’s concerns about tiring desktop touch. Both the TouchSmart 610 and its business-oriented sibling, the 9300, sport a reclining screen able to slide down as far as sixty degrees. This gives the all-in-ones a tablet-like interface for the use [...]

Curved, wrap-around OLED displays created by Mitsubishi

Published on: 7th February, 2011

Mitsubishi presented a curved Diamond Vision OLED display at the ISE show last week, in Amsterdam. The prototype sports an extra-wide resolution of 1,920×256, a pixel pitch of 3mm as well as an 80-degree vertical and horizontal viewing angle. It is composed of several modules which have a 128×128-pixel grid each. Further specifications show a [...]

WM311 Bluetooth mouse for notebooks from Dell

Published on: 16th May, 2010

Dell has recently released its new wireless three-button optical mouse, the WM311, with a scroll wheel. The Bluetooth mouse is equipped with a nano USB receiver, which can be stored inside the device and therefore completely hidden. The tracking sensitivity of its optical sensor is 1,000DPI. No information is available on the type of the [...]

Intel’s 6-core Xeons may not be available until June

Published on: 16th May, 2010

Intel has repeatedly told resellers that its 6-core Xeon 5600 chips would not be ready in significant quantities until June, in any way. No further details or reasons have been given, but the lack of 32 nanometer processors that has provoked the current mobile processor shortage seems to affect the Xeon as well. Such an [...]

Future Razer peripherals to offer Mac support

Published on: 18th March, 2010

On March 10, 2010, at the Game Developer’s Conference, Razer, the gaming peripherals maker, has announced the launch of drivers which will offer Mac users the possibility to play and enjoy all the company’s upcoming products. Mac drivers will also be backtracked and released for the existing products. In order to validate its statement, Razer [...]

Short supply and high price for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480?

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

As a source from within the graphics field says, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 470 and 480 would only be available in short supply and would have very high prices. A launch was promised on March 26th at PAX East, but it seems that boards based on the new architecture would not sell any ATI-branded graphics and [...]

The first Belkin USB 3.0 products

Published on: 25th February, 2010

Belkin’s product lineup has been recently expanded through various peripherals supporting the new USB 3.0 standard. The line includes two expansion cards: the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Add-In Card, which is dedicated to desktop computers, and the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard adapter, especially designed for notebooks. The SuperSpeed A-B Cable and the SuperSpeed Premium Micro-B [...]

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