July 2008 - Fareastgizmos.com

Pure ONE Elite affordable stereo DAB and FM portable radio

ONE Elite from Pure not only looks great but has been engineered to sound fantastic, whether you want to tune in to your favourite DAB or FM stations or listen to your own music by plugging in your iPod and using ONE Elite as a portable stereo speaker set. From chromed controls and smooth curves to a tactile soft-touch finish, ONE Elite has a touch of class. Quality and style has never been this affordable.Pure ONE Elite radio features include, ReVu for live DAB radio pause and rewind, handy countdown and sleep timers, and separate bass and treble controls. The radio provides up to 35 hours of portable listening per charge using the optional rechargeable ChargePAK or up to 70 hours listening on alkaline batteries.

July 31, 2008 |

Casio Tough Movement for high shock resistance radio controlled solar watches

Casio announced the development of -Tough Movement, a movement for radio controlled solar watches that features a high shock resistance and a hand position correction function using LED. The new Casio Tough Movement combines metal and plastic parts in order to reduce the weight, while increasing the rigidity. It is designed in consideration of the shape and the position of each part, and the balance between the volume of metal and plastic parts. The Tough Movement can receive time calibration signals from six bases located in Kyushu area and Fukuoka in Japan, the US, the UK, Germany and China.

The positions of the hands are detected at 55'00" of every hour and if the time indicated by the watch does not coincide with that of the time counter in the IC, the movement corrects the hand position. With the adoption of the "Quartzless Heterodyne Method," which eliminates the need for a quartz filter for signal reception, Casio reduced the number of parts while maintaining the reception sensitivity.

July 31, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

Thermaltake becomes Official Partner of World Cyber Games

The World Cyber Games (WCG) today announced a three-year sponsorship agreement with Thermaltake Technology. Through the partnership, Thermaltake will become an official partner of the World Cyber Games Grand Final from 2008 - 2010 and will be the exclusive provider of high end PC Case, Cooler, and Power Supply to the top 700 gamers from 80 countries. The World Cyber Games was recently recognized by Guinness World Records for the World’s Largest Video Game Competition with over 1.5 million competitors worldwide.

July 31, 2008 | Related Entries - Gaming

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Lenovo

Lenovo today unveiled a marketing program designed to introduce the company’s personal computers, people, values and involvement in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to a global audience. As Worldwide Partner of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the Olympic Torch Relay, Lenovo will provide more than 30,000 pieces of computing equipment and nearly 600 engineers and technicians to support the successful management of the most complex sports event in the world. Lenovo has also created Internet lounges for athletes, trainers, media and other members of the Olympic family near competition venues. Leading with the tagline “Powering the World’s Biggest Idea,” Lenovo will build brand awareness through worldwide advertising, online programs, and on-site activities at the Olympic Games.

July 31, 2008 | Related Entries - 2008 Beijing Olympics

Korea develops atomic clock which is out by one second once every 300,000 years

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science have developed an atomic clock that corrects any time errors on its own. The institute had help from overseas for the corrections as it did not know by how much an atomic clock errs. The new clock, dubbed KRISS-1, can measure and correct the errors for itself. The cesium atomic clock defines one second as the duration of 9,192,631,770 resonance frequency cycles of the cesium atom. But discrepancies occur due to the earth's magnetic field, temperature and gravity.

July 31, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

10-dollar laptop from India!

India is developing a laptop to be sold at ten U.S. dollars, which will target higher education applications, a Minister of the federal government said Tuesday in Delhi. Research on the new low-cost laptop is being carried out at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai. The Minister did not however give the specifications of the ten-U.S. dollar laptop, nor is it clear if the rock-bottom price will be achieved with the help of a government subsidy. The Indian government is planning to use information and communications technology (ICT) to strengthen its current programs for distance learning by making them accessible online. This measure will help raise the quality of higher education in India.

July 31, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD800

Sanyo announced a new sleek, slim high definition dual camera Xacti DMX-HD800 that can take both stills and videos. Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD800 sports a compact and light-weight body, and easily saves data onto SD/SDHC memory cards for convenience. The DMX-HD800 will take stills and videos used on a personal computer or from the Web, houses a new three-dimensional digital noise reduction (3DDNR) filter, and adds the ‘Face Chaser’ for both stills and videos with an active scanner visible on the monitor.

July 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Digital Cameras

Kyocera Develops fine ceramic with a color that closely resembles 18-karat gold

Kyocera has developed a new fine ceramic with a color that closely resembles 18-karat gold. The material has been created by raising the brightness level approximately 5% (approx. 3.6 points) above previous gold ceramic products. The three inherent attributes of color are luminosity, hue and saturation. Luminosity refers to the visually perceived brightness or darkness of a color as a percentage. In developing the new gold fine ceramic material, Kyocera increased the luminosity of its previous gold fine ceramic – one of 18 colored fine ceramics provided by Kyocera – while retaining the material’s outstanding hardness. This made it possible to more closely recreate the texture and color of 18-karat gold.

July 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

NVIDIA launches three new desktop GeForce 9 Series graphics processing units

Nvidia today announced the immediate availability of three new desktop GeForce 9 Series graphics processing units (GPUs) that bring support for NVIDIA PhysX technology and CUDA general-purpose parallel computing to mainstream PC computing markets. Nvidia GPUs are the only ones to support PhysX technology, the world’s most pervasive physics development platform that is already delivering dynamic 3D realism to more than 140 games across multiple platforms and is in use by more than 25,000 developers worldwide.

July 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Asus launches world’s first overclocking version of NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT GPU

Asus today introduced the world’s first overclocking version of the latest NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT GPU – the ASUS EN9500GT TOP/DI/512M graphics card. With this superlative variant, users will enjoy 103% performance boosts for gaming experiences. In addition, almost all of the EN9500GT Series models will come with the exclusive Glaciator Fansink to keep GPU temperatures up to 13ºC cooler than reference designed boards. Besides this extreme cooling capacity, the Glaciator Fansink is also ultra quiet with operating levels of only 25dB – almost imperceptible in a quiet room; and caters to users who require maximum cooling without excessive fan rotation noise.

July 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

LG to become world’s first handset maker to incorporate Dolby Mobile technology

LG and Dolby Laboratories signed an agreement that grants LG a license to embed Dolby Mobile technology into its handsets. LG would be the first handset maker to incorporate Dolby Mobile into handsets bound for the global market. Dolby Mobile is an audio processing technology platform designed to deliver rich, vibrant audio and dramatically improve listening enjoyment. Built on Dolby's extensive portfolio of technologies, Dolby Mobile has been optimized for mobile applications.

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July 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Panasonic to build a new flagship lithium-ion battery plant in Osaka

Panasonic today announced the company's plan to construct a new flagship lithium-ion battery plant in Osaka City. With two other existing manufacturing bases in Osaka Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture, Panasonic will integrate the new plant to reinforce the production of rechargeable batteries in Japan. The new plant will be the main manufacturing site, employing an integrated manufacturing system controlling everything from electrode production, cell assembly and charge-discharge testing to packaging and shipping. Especially, the electrode production facilities will ensure the safety of lithium-ion battery products as well as a safe manufacturing process.

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July 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

Fly like Mr. Bond with Jet Pack- One man flying machine

Designer Glenn Martin believes he has come up with a one-man flying machine that actually works Mr Martin, a 48-year-old father of two from Christchurch, New Zealand, has spent years perfecting his jet pack, which he hopes to start selling for £50,000 each next year. The Martin Jet Pack made its public debut at AirVenture, the world’s biggest air show. It didn’t travel very far (50ft), very high (6ft), or for very long (45 seconds) but that wasn’t the object of the exercise, according to its creator.

July 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

Samsung launches 2nd Generation LED-Backlit LCD HDTV with 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio

Samsung America, announced the launch of the new Series 9 LED LCD HDTV. The 2008 flagship Series 9, Samsung's 2nd generation LCD HDTV to use LED SmartLighting technology, offers consumers the powerful combination of LED and 120Hz technologies, resulting in a 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio for a crisp, full HD 1080p picture. The Series 9 is also distinguished by Samsung's new addition to the art-inspired ToC (Touch of Color) design – an elegantly patterned bezel with charcoal gray accent.

July 30, 2008 | Related Entries - Media Devices

Oki IPstage SX system reduces time and traveling costs through software phone-based video conferencing system

Oki has delivered its IPstage SX IP & mobile key telephone system and software phone video conferencing system to a Japanese transportation equipment company, Maruyoshi Unyu Kikoh Co., Ltd. Maruyoshi leases large equipment to construction sites and civil engineering contractors such as for transporting steel using large trailers. Prior to installing the IP key telephone system, Maruyoshi brought in employees from various sites to one location for meetings, which were sometimes held twice a month. However, with increasing travel cost and considering the loss of valuable time, the company was looking for a low-cost communication method that could reduce time and cost while increasing decision-making speed.

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July 29, 2008 |