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Twinbird Zabady – a waterproof music player from Japan

This brand is known for stylish waterproof gizmos and so the latest from then is also a music player that is a must while indulging in peaceful stress-relieving dip. The Twinbird’s water proof MP3/WMA/CD player christened as Zabady is a sleek, good-looking portable gadget that can be carried where ever you desire …..a bath room, pool, hot tub, or even kitchen. The most useful feature is a USB port inside the sealed case that allows the Zabady to play back tunes from a connected drive of up to 2GB. Here’s a more splashing feature - the IPX7 waterproofing means the player is not only splash-resistant, but can also survive immersion in 1m of water for up to half an hour. So I guess it doesn’t matter if you accidentally drop it on the tub and then forget about it too. BUT pray to god that you realize before it’s too late. It also sports an LCD for displaying track information from digital files. All juiced up this portable music player can dole out tunes for about four hours.

November 29, 2007 | Related Entries - MP3

World's largest international robot fair opens in Tokyo

The 2007 International Robot Exhibition, the world's largest exhibition focusing on robotics, opened Wednesday at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center in Ariake, also known as Tokyo Big Sight, for a four-day run through Saturday. The event, the 17th of its kind and held every other year since 1973, is organized by the Japan Robot Association and Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Ltd. It showcases robots made by 199 companies and 66 organizations in and outside Japan, including humanoid and manufacturing robots and humanoids.

November 28, 2007 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

First Korean killed by mobile phone battery explosion?

A 33-year-old excavator driver was found dead on Wednesday in Cheongwon, North Chungcheong Province (North Chungcheong Province resides in the center of Korean Peninsula, and is the only province which has no contact with the sea) after a suspected cell phone battery explosion, police said. The man, identified only with his surname Seo, was found lying dead beside his excavator in a stone quarry in Cheongwon at 8:40 a.m. by his colleagues. His cell phone was found in his shirt pocket with its battery severely melted and his chest burned and fractured, the police said. It is the first case of a suspected mobile phone battery explosion killing a person in Korea, though there has been several reports of such deaths in other countries. The cell phone was the product of a renowned South Korean electronics company, police officers said. Update - The phone was manufactured by LG Electronics and not Samsung Mobile

November 28, 2007 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Dell XPS M1530 sleek and stylish 15.4-inch notebook

Dell today announced the XPS M1530, a sleek and stylish 15.4-inch notebook featuring the same award-winning design and features introduced by the highly acclaimed XPS M1330 earlier this year. The Dell XPS M1530 is loaded with premium features, like built in webcam and fingerprint reader, and design accents like touch-sensitive multi-media buttons, brushed aluminum accents and a choice of sophisticated colors.

With a starting weight of just under six pounds and featuring a trim 1-inch profile, the elegant Dell XPS M1530 delivers a rich mobile experience. Standard features include a high definition widescreen 15.4-inch display, slot-load optical drive, DirectX 10 capable graphics, sophisticated touch sensitive media buttons, and HDMI support. Customers can also personalize their systems with a choice of three colors: standard Tuxedo Black, and optional Crimson Red and Alpine White.

November 28, 2007 | Related Entries - Computing

Dell XPS M1530 sleek and stylish 15.4-inch notebook

Dell today announced the XPS M1530, a sleek and stylish 15.4-inch notebook featuring the same award-winning design and features introduced by the highly acclaimed XPS M1330 earlier this year. The Dell XPS M1530 is loaded with premium features, like built in webcam and fingerprint reader, and design accents like touch-sensitive multi-media buttons, brushed aluminum accents and a choice of sophisticated colors.

With a starting weight of just under six pounds and featuring a trim 1-inch profile, the elegant Dell XPS M1530 delivers a rich mobile experience. Standard features include a high definition widescreen 15.4-inch display, slot-load optical drive, DirectX 10 capable graphics, sophisticated touch sensitive media buttons, and HDMI support. Customers can also personalize their systems with a choice of three colors: standard Tuxedo Black, and optional Crimson Red and Alpine White.

November 28, 2007 | Related Entries - Computing

Dell Google Search Appliances

Dell today will help simplify enterprise search for U.S. customers by selling the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini , through Dell’s direct corporate and public sales organizations. The Google Search Appliance, with its distinctive bezel and yellow chassis, is designed for larger enterprises, while the blue Google Mini is targeted for the small and medium business market. These appliances deliver relevant search results from information sources within a company’s firewall. Companies can also design their own interface that users recognize from their familiarity with Google.com, without compromising existing corporate security requirements.

November 28, 2007 | Related Entries - Computing

Dell workstations with Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors 5400 and 5200 series

Dell today introduced two new models of Dell Precision workstations. The Dell Precision T5400 and the Dell Precision T7400 provide the highest levels of performance and expandability available in a Dell workstation. Dell is the first tier-one vendor to ship workstations with the latest Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors 5400 and 5200 series, using Intel’s latest 45-nm manufacturing process. The new Dell Precision workstations have the fastest Intel processors, high-end OpenGL graphics and massive scalability and memory capacities. In fact, Dell has designed configurations with an industry-leading 1600MHz front-side bus to help provide screaming performance.

November 28, 2007 | Related Entries - Computing

Sony CMOS camera for Nissan around view monitor

Sony Corp developed a CMOS camera to be used for Nissan Motor's "around view monitor," which displays an overhead view of a vehicle with four cameras. The Sony CMOS camera with 1.3 million pixels, 30 frame rate per second has 186.2° in a horizontal direction and 147° in a vertical direction view angle. So far, a small number of CMOS cameras have been adopted for vehicles because their performance, such as noise under low-light intensity, is worse than that of CCD cameras. Though Sony did not reveal the performance of this CMOS camera, the company said, "of course, it reached the required level for vehicles."

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November 28, 2007 | Related Entries - Transport

Prosthetic limbs enable Amputees to regain their sense of touch!

Amputees could soon be fitted with prosthetic limbs that enable them to regain their sense of touch, thanks to a break-through new bionic hand device. The advance is the latest of several recent developments by Dr. Todd Kuiken whose targeted reinnervation (TR) technique is opening up a wealth of possibilities in the field. A former US marine, who lost her arm in a motorcycle accident, says she can feel pressure and pain in her new limb. She underwent surgery alongside a fellow male patient. The operation redirected the nerves from their injured arms into the skin on their chest, meaning they can now feel just as though they still had real hands. Claudia Mitchell, 27, who lost her left arm at the shoulder three years ago, was fitted with the world's most advanced prosthetic arm after the operation pioneered by Todd Kuiken. Sixty years old Jesse Sullivan – a double amputee is the world's first bionic man to be fitted with prostheses by Dr Kuiken's team.

November 27, 2007 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

Super Talent Solid State Drives operate over a -40C to 85C I-Temp range

Super Talent Technology, today announced a new line of Solid State Drives (SSDs) that are rated to operate over a -40C to 85C industrial temperature (I-Temp) range. Super Talent SSDs are interchangeable with conventional hard drives but are significantly more resistant to shock and vibration. Moreover, these new I-Temp SSDs have considerably better tolerance of extreme temperatures than hard drives. Super Talent’s range of nineteen new I-Temp SSDs spans industry standard 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factor SATA SSDs, and 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch IDE (PATA) SSDs. .

November 27, 2007 | Related Entries - Computing

Western Digital WD Caviar GreenPower 500 GB Hard Drive

Western Digital today announced an addition to its popular and environmentally friendly GreenPower family of WD desktop hard drive products with its WD Caviar GP 500 GB model. Consuming only 3.3 watts in idle mode and 6 watts during seek mode, WD Caviar GP 500 GB 3.5-inch SATA hard drives support quieter, cooler-running desktop PCs and external storage devices, with power usage 30 percent lower than any other announced 500 GB hard drive in the industry.

November 27, 2007 | Related Entries - Computing

Fujitsu 320 GB 2.5" HDD delivers transfer speeds up to 300MB per second!

Fujitsu today announced the development of the MHZ2 BH series of 2.5" hard disk drives with a maximum capacity of 320 GB (among the highest in the industry). The Fujitsu MHZ2 BH series delivers transfer speeds of up to 300MB per second. The series is designed primarily for use in compact desktop PCs, notebook PCs, and consumer electronics products, such as HDD recorders.

November 27, 2007 | Related Entries - Computing

Novac SATA to USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure

The SATA to USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure from Nova, Japan is an external enclosure that converts four or two 3.5" SATA hard disk drives into a combo Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and SATA external hard drive by simply connecting the drives inside the enclosure. You can connect two or four drives at a time and the HDD mode is indicated by LED. The case opens like s fridge and has separate power and cooling fan on/off switch. The enclosure is compatible with OS Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista.

November 27, 2007 | Related Entries - Computing

Samsung Single-Chip RFID Reader for Mobile Devices

Samsung announced today the development of its new single-chip radio frequency identification (RFID) reader for mobile devices. Embedded RFID reader chips can provide consumers with product or service information retrieved from RFID tags incorporated in items such as movie posters, clothing, and museums or tourist exhibits. Designed for a UHF range of 900MHz, Samsung’s new chip integrates an analog front end, a base-band modem, a processor, and a memory chip. RFID chip reader systems allow consumers to pull context-specific information into their mobile devices while on the go.

November 27, 2007 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Nintendo Wii available for $1035 against list price $370!

Desperate families pay up to £500 ($1035) in UK for a Nintendo Wii on internet. Chains such as Game, HMV, Woolworths and Tesco say they are receiving more stock only sporadically and the consoles are changing hands for up to £500 ($1035) on internet auction sites - a huge mark-up on their list price of £179 ($370). The supply problem stems from the fact that Nintendo is simply unable to keep up with global demand for the family-friendly Wii.

November 27, 2007 | Related Entries - Media Devices