Monday, September 15, 2008

3M reveals MPro110 pocket projector: ships this month

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It's official: the age of the pico projector has arrived. And we're not talking the age of pico projector announcements, we're talking about launches. Just after Toshiba came clean with its LED Pico Projector, along comes 3M (of all companies) with one of its own. The MPro110 pocket beamer got handled by PopSci, and the results were pretty much as we'd expect. Decently bright, extraordinarily novel, but not exactly world-class. Brightness (the lack thereof, actually) was an issue, and a few movie scenes were deemed "indecipherable." Additionally, it has no built-in speaker, but for just $359, we suppose that's an omission we can live with. Best of all, this one's set to ship on September 30th. To America. Woo!

[Via AboutProjectors]
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Posted by Augustine at 5:53 AM

Dell's Mini 9 netbook gets unboxed on video

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We already found that Dell was shipping out the first wave of Mini 9s to eager consumers, so it's perfectly logical to see that at least one particular owner was able to stifle his excitement long enough to video the unboxing process and upload it to the intartubez. Not like there's anything there you'll be shocked about, but the comparison shots with a much beefier sibling really puts things in perspective. Check it out in the read link.
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Posted by Augustine at 5:52 AM

SSD shootout, round II: OCZ, Super Talent and Mtron do battle

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If you'll recall, a slew of prohibitively expensive SSDs were pit against one another last summer in a battle royale of pricey HDD replacements. Fast forward a year and change, and the barrier to entry for one of these heralded devices has dropped significantly. That being the case, we've a feeling HotHardware's latest shootout will be a whole lot more relevant for the average joe / jane. The aforementioned test simultaneously reviews the OCZ Core Series 64GB MLC, OCZ 64GB Standard SLC, Super Talent MasterDrive MX 64GB MLC and the Mtron MSP 7500 32GB SLC. Interestingly, the writeup didn't conclude with a medal ceremony, but rather, it elaborated on the merits of each and where it would likely fit best. You know what that means -- time to bust out the spectacles and get to readin'. Chop chop!
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Posted by Augustine at 5:52 AM

Voodoo can't just come clean, has to tease yet another new product

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Most everyone digs a surprise, but the novelty tends to wear off after the third or fourth iteration of the same trick, wouldn't you say? Rather than just coming right out and showing us the wares, Voodoo's Rahul Sood is playing the tease card again with an obviously undisclosed new product. In an apparent attempt to keep the wave (started by the Omen and Envy 133, by the way) rolling, Mr. Sood has dropped a sliver of a hint on The Next Bench. He states that "there's also this other thing [Voodoo is] working on right now," but he very purposefully fails to elaborate. Just keep it sexy and overpowered and we won't kvetch about the build up... too much.

[Thanks, William]
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Posted by Augustine at 5:51 AM

Is ASUS prepping a 5-megapixel Omnia challenger?

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It looks like ASUS has more in store when it comes to touchscreen phones than that P552w we saw the other day. According to pictures leaked to the Mobile01 forums, the company is planning an Omnia-esque device that will feature a large (WQVGA or WVGA) touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera, a trackball for non-touch navigation, and the predictable 3G radios / WiFi. Not much is known about the device at this point, though speculation is running rampant on the forum as to CPU specs and on-board memory. It's likely this will be at least competitive in comparison to recent Window Mobile devices we've seen of this variety, though nothing's certain till we get word from ASUS... which we're waiting patiently for, fellas.

[Via wmpoweruser]
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Posted by Augustine at 5:51 AM

Dell's E4300 and E4200 Latitude laptops available this Tuesday

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Hey, remember those totally slick Latitude E4300 and E4200 13.3- or 12.1-inch laptops we told you about last month? Well if you've been itching to get your hands on one, they're going to be available very, very soon (September 16th, that is). If you'll recall, these little dudes boast Dell's new Latitude ON feature, the SplashTop-esque, instant-on desktop that gives you quick access to Firefox and a handful of other Linux-based apps. They also happen to tread that fine line between geek-lust design and hard-nose business machine guts. The systems will be available with Core 2 Duo CPUs, DDR3 RAM up to 8GB, hard drives up to 250GB (or a 64GB SSD), WiFi, and sport 1280 x 800 widescreen displays. Hit the read link for more details, and make sure to double check your account balances.

[Thanks, Filip]
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Posted by Augustine at 5:50 AM

Sunday, September 14, 2008

OnionMap Maps Interactive Guides of Popular Destinations [Travel]

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Web site OnionMap hosts interactive, high-resolution tourist maps of popular destination cities across the globe. From New York to Tokyo and San Francisco to London, OnionMap brings the look and feel common to tourist maps to a Google Maps-like drag-and-drop interface. You can browse popular attractions, find your hotel, pick out a restaurant, and in general just find your way around. It's probably not what you want to use to map out your entire trip, but if you're in search of tourist traps and trappings, OnionMap might be worth a look.


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Posted by Augustine at 8:11 AM

Speed.io Measures Your Bandwidth and More [Bandwidth]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/391071507/speedio-measures-your-bandwidth-and-more

Web site Speed.io is a web-based speed-testing tool for measuring your upload and download bandwidth. Speed tests like this aren't really new—for example, I've always been partial to Speakeasy's Speed Test—but Speed.io rounds out its test with a few other cool measurements, including number of connections per minute and average ping time. It's always useful to have a bandwidth test like this in your bookmarks when you're troubleshooting your connection (and making sure your ISP is giving you what you're paying for), and Speed.io certainly looks bookmarkable. Don't like it? Share your favorite bandwidth test in the comments.


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Posted by Augustine at 8:11 AM

Friday, September 12, 2008

Dell's Mini 9 now shipping, arriving on doorsteps everywhere

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The headline pretty much sums it up -- it appears that Dell hasn't wasted any time getting the first batch of Mini 9's out from Round Rock (or China, or wherever), as the earliest of adopters have already had the pleasure of peeling away the shipping label and firing one up. Hit the read link for two unimaginative shots of the netbook on a dirty desk, but only after you've phoned up Dell in search of your own tracking number.

[Via thegadgetsite, thanks K.C. Kim]
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Posted by Augustine at 11:57 PM

Tesco leaks 12-inch Dell E Slim specs running "Ubunto" -- October 6th launch?

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Hard to say what's going on exactly what this clusterfrack of a listing over at Tesco. While the Dell laptop shown is the £299 Inspiron Mini 9, it's labeled with an Inspiron Z530 title bellowing a 12-inch display. Moving down to the specs, we've got a spec-for-spec match to the unreleased 12.1-inch E Slim exclusive we brought you back in June: same 1.6GHz Atom processor; heavier 1.2kg (2.6-pounds) weight; bigger 12-inch WXGA (1,366 x 768 pixel) display; wider 29.9-cm (11.8-inch) dimension; and 40GB hard drive spinning Ubunto Ubuntu Linux. So Tesco, October 6th you say? Full Tesco specs listed after the break because that read link won't be up for long.

P.S. Dell doesn't sell a Atom-based 12-inch laptop under any model number presently, nor does it have a Z530 in its product roster.

[Thanks, GeorgeJ, Craig and Yau]

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Posted by Augustine at 11:56 PM

Western Digital now shipping 500GB laptop drive: $220

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If you're still having trouble tracking down Samsung's SpinPoint M6 we've got good news for you: Western Digital just started volume shipments of its own 9.5-mm high, 2.5-inch laptop drive with that still amazing 500GB capacity. The $220 WD Scorpio Blue with 8MB cache churns through a SATA 3Gbps transfer rate with 12-ms access and is said to be one of the quietest (24dBA average idle / 26dBA average seek) of any 2.5-incher spinning at 5,400rpm. A 400GB version is available for $190.
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Posted by Augustine at 11:56 PM

BenQ debuts Joybook Lite U101 netbook

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It looks like there's some good news for folks that feel that the current crop of netbooks just aren't BenQ enough, as BenQ has now finally joined the fray with its new Joybook Lite U101 netbook. This one packs a 10.1-inch 1,024 x 600 display (an 8.9-inch version will apparently also be available), along with the usual 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a hard drive of unspecified size, a 3-cell battery, XP or Linux and, as is becoming increasingly common, optional 3G. Hit up the link below for a few more pics, and look for the 8.9-inch and 10.1-inch versions to roll out in October and November, respectively.
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Posted by Augustine at 11:55 PM

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