December 7, 2008 - December 13, 2008 - Fareastgizmos.com

Mobile phone with a diamond setting for Christmas

NTT Do Como is offering Fujitsu F-02A fold-up phone with a natural diamond on its front display face just in time for Christmas in Japan. The Fujitsu F-02A fold-up phone features a 0.02 karat natural diamond measuring 1.7 millimeters in diameter on its front display face. The F-02A is a collaborative effort with jewelry brand "4°C.

The Fujitsu F-02A fold-up phone is water resistance equivalent to IPX5/PX7. The main display is a 3-inch 854 x 480 (equivalent to wide VGA) LCD panel and the sub-display is a 2-inch 320 x 240 (QVGA) LCD panel.

December 12, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Nokia Europe expands Supernova range with new colors and enhanced services

Nokia Europe has expanded its Supernova range of devices with fresh, new colors reflecting the latest runway trends, as well as enhanced services. The Nokia Supernova 7610, 7510, 7310 and 7210 are now available in additional colors including Graphite and Passionate Purple. Building on the existing music and entertainment experiences offered by the Supernova range, the enhanced services let people share their images and video with friends through Ovi Share, as well as keep up to date with friends via Nokia Maps and instant messaging with Windows Live Messenger.

December 12, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Asus launches Widescreen LCD Monitors with Full HD Quality and HDMI Support

Asus today continued its heritage of producing high performance, richly-featured LCD monitors with the addition of new HDMI-equipped models to its lineup. Available in screen sizes ranging from 18.5" to 23.6", and driven by an array of exclusive image enhancing innovations such as Splendid Video Intelligence Technology and Asus Smart Contrast Ratio (ASCR) technology, the VH192, VH222, VH226 and VH242 are designed to deliver the ultimate multimedia experience. Asus VH Series monitors boast a perfect aspect ratio of 16:9, ensuring the flawless playback of movies and games.

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December 12, 2008 |

Asus Eee PC1002HA Takes netbook Design to New Heights

Asus today announced the newest member of its award-winning Eee PC family—the Eee PC 1002HA. Featuring a stylishly redesigned chassis adorned with a brushed aluminum LCD cover and palm rest, the Eee PC 1002HA is a sophisticated, lightweight, easy-to-use netbook that brings a touch of elegance and utility to everyday computing. The Asus Eee PC1002HA can provide users with up to 5 hours of unplugged computing time. In addition to its 160GB of primary storage, the Eee PC 1002HA also includes 10GB of online storage via the exclusive Asus Eee Online Storage. The Asus Eee PC1002HA features the latest wireless technology, including support for Bluetooth and blazing-fast 802.11n wireless connectivity, which is six times faster than the preceding 802.11g standard.

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December 12, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

JVC LCD TVs the most cost-efficient sets to operate

JVC today announced that its line of LCD televisions outperforms the latest ENERGY STAR 3.0 standards for energy use, making them among the most cost-efficient sets to operate. In the 32” class, JVC is tied for the most efficient TV, and has three of the next most efficient sets. In the 40-42 inch class and the 46-47 inch class, JVC swept the first four places, in every case significantly more efficient than the ENERGY STAR requirement. And in the 50-52 inch class, JVC had the top three most efficient models. Overall, JVC LCD TVs outperformed the ENERGY STAR requirement by anywhere from 29 to 60 percent.

December 12, 2008 | Related Entries - Media Devices

NEC System-on-Chip enables Viewing of Digital Terrestrial Broadcasts on Analog Televisions

NEC EMMATM2TS system-on-chip (SoC) for tuners enables digital terrestrial broadcasts to be viewed on current analog televisions The NEC EMMA2TS incorporates a Full SegNote orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) channel decoder compliant with the Japanese Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) digital-terrestrial standard; MPEG2 signal decoder; and image-display functionality. This combination of features in a single-chip solution is the first of its kind, and enables consumer electronics manufacturers to easily build tuners that convert digital broadcasts to analog.

December 12, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

Logitech Comfort Lapdesk makes your laptop experience more comfortable

The new Logitech Comfort Lapdesk for Notebooks provides a stable base and helps protect against laptop heat whether you’re working from the comfort of your couch, relaxing on your bed or reclining on the living-room floor. The Logitech Comfort Lapdesk features a four-layer, heat-shielding design. The bottom-layer’s fabric and an air-flow chamber between the lapdesk’s base and top combine to further minimize heat. Plus, instead of the whole laptop lying flat against the body, the arched base makes contact with the legs in just four places, improving air flow.

December 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Epson develops World's Smallest Low-Current Real-Time Clock Modules

Epson Toyocom, has developed the world's smallest real-time clock modules. The maximum dimensions of the new RTC modules, known as the RX-4571BD and RX-8571BD, are just 3.4 mm x 1.7 mm x 1.0t mm. With a crystal unit built into an ultra-compact package along with clock and calendar circuitry that operates at low voltage, the modules provide and manage the clock and calendar data for electronic devices at low power. In Standby, the RX-4571BD consumes 0.32 µA of current, while the RX-8571BD consumes just 0.22 µA (at 3 V, respectively).

December 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

Sanyo to display SUNPLANT designed by Toshiyuki Kita for the first time in Japan

Sanyo will display the ‘SUNPLANT’ installation at the ‘Lighting Objet 2008’ in ‘Tokyo Building Tokia Galleria Square’. The ‘SUNPLANT’ is an installation designed by Toshiyuki Kita, one of the world’s most recognized designers, and incorporates both Sanyo’s rechargeable ‘eneloop’ batteries and highly efficient ‘HIT’ solar cells, displaying the concept of charging ‘eneloop’ rechargeable batteries and LED lights through clean energy.

The ‘SUNPLANT’ was born from the concepts of Sanyo’s brand vision ‘Think GAIA’ and the eneloop universe product line-up based on it which emphasizes clean natural energy from the sun powering the electronic devices found around people everyday with batteries that can be reused and recycled. Agreeing with this concept, Toshiyuki Kita proposed the ‘SUNPLANT’ installation design as a way to capture the future of energy and power in a very familiar-type object, a plant.

December 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Green Energy

iPhone, Nokia and BlackBerry to hit Korean market for the first time from April 2009

Many foreign cell phone makers were prevented from selling their products in the Korean market as they were required to support Korean mobile device platform Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability (WIPI), whose standard is different from international platforms. Now starting from April 2009, it will be no longer mandatory to support WIPI. As a result, Apple's iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry and Nokia handsets will likely hit the Korean market. In a session on Wednesday, the Korea Communications Commission decided to lift the requirement, while saying it will no longer be mandatory for domestic mobile phone service providers to adopt WIPI from April 2009.

December 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Swedish overclockers break 3Dmark 06 world record

The new Intel Core i7 processor and Asus ROG (Republic of Gamers) Rampage II Extreme have already proven to be a formidable pairing—one of world record-breaking proportions. This was demonstrated in empathic fashion at the recently-concluded DreamHack Winter 2008, where top Swedish overclockers Marcus "Kinc" Hultin and Robert "Crotale" Kihlberg—using the aforementioned hardware—stole the show with a record-setting score of X21996 (Extreme preset) in 3DMark Vantage, Futuremark's authoritative graphics performance benchmark software.

December 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Eco-Products 2008: The largest and the greenest exhibition in Japan

Japan is gearing up for a green exhibition, the tenth Eco-Products 2008 scheduled from 11th-13th December. Touted to be one of the largest green events in Japan, this green fair will house all kind of eco products as well as services at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center. It is an ideal platform to showcase the green business ideas and lifestyles concepts. This year’s exhibition is based on the theme of “We Can Do it! Eco-Lifestyle with a 50% CO2 Reduction.” Now that sounds very motivating…..if only all of us can actually modify our habits and lifestyle to bring about this green change. This eco-exhibition aims to accelerate the expansion of green markets by exhibiting environmentally friendly products and services.

December 9, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

VIA ARTiGO A2000 Barebone Storage Server

The VIA ARTiGO A2000 barebone storage mini-serve is based around a 1.5 GHz VIA C7-D processor and the latest VIA VX800 media system processor for a compact, secure, and power-efficient home storage PC. Based on the VIA VX800 Unified Digital Media IGP chipset the ARTiGO A2000 features the VIA Chrome9 HC3 DirectX 9 graphics engine and hardware video acceleration for a smooth, compelling visual experience. The VIA ARTiGO A2000 supports up to 2 GB of 667/533 MHz DDR2 SODIMM memory and supports up to 3.0 TB of storage on two 3.5” S-ATA hard drives with data transfer speeds up to 3 Gb/s. There is also the option of discretely installing the system’s operating system on a solid state drive via the ARTiGO A2000’s CompactFlash socket.

December 9, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Super Talent Enterprise Class UltraDrive SSDs are twice as fast as the world’s speediest SATA hard drives!

Super Talent today announced a new line of UltraDrive solid state drives (SSDs) that are twice as fast as the world’s speediest SATA hard drives and are offered in capacities up to 256GB. The Super Talent UltraDrive LE supports very high transaction speeds (IOPS), and supports sequential read/write speeds of 230/170 MB per second. While outperforming 10,000 RPM hard drives, the UltraDrive LE uses substantially less power and generates less heat. Based on SLC NAND Flash, the UltraDrive LE is offered in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities.

December 9, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

OCZ Slate Series ExpressCards for Notebooks

The OCZ Slate Series ExpressCard is ideal for the on-the-go notebook user that needs a backup storage method but does not want to carry a USB drive or external hard drive. The Slate Series Express card comes in sufficient capacities of 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB. The integration of a mini-USB port allows the Slate Series to be connected externally from a hub when transferring data between your primary desktop and mobile system.

December 9, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing