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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Eye-Fi celebrates a year with 4GB Anniversary Edition SD card

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/eye-fi-celebrates-a-year-with-4gb-anniversary-edition-sd-card/

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Wireless, Storage

Eye-Fi has been adding in some pretty swank extras of late for its current stable of wireless SD cards, but we're pretty sure you'll agree that we're due for some new hardware. Today, the outfit is taking the wraps off of a limited edition 4GB Anniversary Edition, which boasts double the capacity of its other cards and "improved memory speeds." Outside of that, there's really nothing too special about it, but those who've already been convinced can procure one right now for $129 at the firm's website or for $99 if you're a Costco member. Full release is after the break.

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Eye-Fi celebrates a year with 4GB Anniversary Edition SD card originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 reviewed on Engadget Mobile

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-reviewed-on-engadget-mobile/

Filed under: Cellphones

Sony Ericsson's long-awaited XPERIA X1 is finally closing in on a US release, and Engadget Mobile has the low-down on the North America-bound X1a. Care to see how this hunk of sexy fared in real-world use? Do you love butterflies and magnetic fields? If you can honestly answer yes to any of the aforementioned questions, grab your reading glasses and head on over.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 reviewed on Engadget Mobile originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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UMID's "super mini laptop" is small, shiny, super

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/umids-super-mini-laptop-is-small-shiny-super/

Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops

Netbooks too big for you? MIDs too cramped? What you need is a super mini laptop from Korean company UMID, one of the sexiest entrants into what seems to be a burgeoning sub-netbook category (or subnet-books for the network admins out there). It weighs just 315 grams (a little over a half-pound) and, while exact dimensions weren't listed, seems to sit somewhere between Nintendo DS and Everun Note in terms of size (judge for yourself, more pics below). Inside it can pack a 1.33GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, and up to 32GB of storage via SSD, meaning it can hold its own against the netbook hordes, and do so on the run thanks to WiBro, WiMAX, HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity. It also has a 1.3 megapixel camera situated next to a 4.8-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen and can be yours running XP, Vista, or Linux. Well, not yours, since we don't know when or where this thing will be appearing for sale first or, for that matter, how much it will cost when it does.

[Via jkkmobile]

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UMID's "super mini laptop" is small, shiny, super originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cray supercomputer is world's fastest (that we're allowed to know about)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/cray-supercomputer-is-worlds-fastest-that-were-allowed-to-kno/

Filed under: Desktops

Seattle-based Cray has been wowing us with massive, ridiculously fast supercomputers since the '70s, establishing a position for its machines high on every geek's most wanted list -- despite never publishing a Doom benchmark. In recent years the title of "world's fastest" supercomputer had been lost by the company, ping-ponging from Wako, Japan to Armonk, NY, but is now back in Cray's hands with the implementation of the XT Jaguar. It's comprised of over 45,000 quad-core Opteron processors, 362GBTB of memory, and has a 10PB (petabyte) storage array, able to perform calculations at a massive 1.64 petaflops. That's over one and a half quadrillion operations per second and more than 50 percent faster than IBM's previous heavyweight. Mind you, Cray is quick to point out that this is the fastest machine being used for non-classified research, a caveat that just makes us even more curious about what's keeping the Pentagon's server rooms warm and loud... and apparently orange.

Update: That should be 362 terabytes of memory, not mere gigabytes.

[Via UPI.com]

Cray supercomputer is world's fastest (that we're allowed to know about) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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3M's MPro110 pico projector hits the streets for $359 a pop

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/3ms-mpro110-pico-projector-hits-the-streets-for-359-a-pop/

Filed under: Displays, Portable Video

With the holidays at hand, all these improbably-small projectors we've been seeing around for the past year or so are starting to land in force, and 3M's MPro110 is certainly a contender. The little unit shoots a VGA image onto screens as large as 50-inches (though we wouldn't recommend it), with a long lasting LED backlight backing it up. We got an up-close look at the thing last night, and have a few quick notes: the image is about as dim as you'd expect, and looks exponentially better the smaller the area you're trying to project on -- at about 30-inches in a decently lit room the image was insufferably dim, but at around 17 or 18-inches we were getting some pretty good definition brightness. The projector autofocuses plenty fast, which is clutch for a "handheld" projector, but it does get fairly warm despite its LED usage. Overall, we can't fault the projector too much, with a $359 pricetag and a "paperback book" form factor, but the application is certainly limited at the moment, and we're guessing these will be getting a lot better in the future. The MPro110 is now shipping.

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