Archive for April 2008

Three New Pioneer DVD and SACD Players

Apr 30th, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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Beginning in May and continuing to July, Pioneer Japan will release three new DVD and SACD players:

DV-610AV, featuring HDMI output, upscaling, SACD, DSD, USB port, and CD to USB recording. Our player supports the following media : WMV, WMA, MPEG-4 AAC, MP3, DivX, DivX Ultra and JPEG.

FV-410AV, also features HDMI output with upscaling, but no SACD or USB port. It supports the following media: WMV, WMA, MPEG-4 AAC, MP3, DivX and JPEG.

DV-310 w…

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Panasonic Japan Updates its Let’s Note Line-up

Apr 29th, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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Next month in Japan Panasonic will release their refreshed Let’s Note notebook. Really not much to say here, but the update will include Vista SP1 for the R7, T7, W7 and Y7, as well as new 120GB HDD (replacing the 80GB).

Only the Y7 will get a little power boost with a L7800 Core 2 Duo CPU (2GHz) The other models will keep their original CPU, a Core 2 Duo U7600 (1.20GHz)….

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Samsung Electronics Unveils S2 MP3 Player

Apr 26th, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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Looking for a stylish yet small DAP, here’s the S2… ! More information below !

SEOUL, KOREA – April 24, 2008 – Samsung’s fashionable, cobblestone-shaped S2 MP3 player (officially called the “YP-S2”) is now on the market to offer a new design trend and lifestyle accessory. The product concept is a “musical gemstone.” The basic function as a music player has been strengthened for the best possible audio quality. The cobblestone shape brings a special visual and tac…

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Century DIY SSD Upgrade (Edit: 24-04-2008 )

Apr 25th, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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One year ago we introduced Century’s « do it yourself » HDD/SSD (Solid State Disk) concept here .

Today Century announced a product upgrade. You can add from 2GB to 2TB (theoretical) of compact flash to your SATA HDD (the previous version used IDE HDD). This device is RAID 0 and RAID 5 supported.

Edit: You can insert three compact flash, two from the top and o…

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LG Launches the Versatile LG-KF700

Apr 24th, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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“LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, today launched its LG-KF700, a new multimedia phone that combines three input methods to create an amazingly intuitive user interface and provides instant access to features.

The LG-KF700 is the first phone to integrate three separate input methods, including a 3-inch touchscreen, alpha-numeric keypad and Shortcut Dial. Each of these input methods is assigned to the tasks at wh…

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Fujitsu Launches a New 2.5” HDD with AES 256bit Encryption

Apr 23rd, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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The MHZ2 CJ is the first 2.5” SATA HDD drive from Fujitsu with embedded AES 256 bit encryption.

It takes just seconds to wipe out all data in the most secure way possible (making it impossible, or extremely hard, to recover).

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240€ for a 6x Blu-Ray Burner in Japan

Apr 19th, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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Good news everyone! If you were waiting for the price to drop before purchasing a Blu-Ray burner, you’ll be happy to learn that in Japan (and most likely elsewhere) you can get a decent 6x Blu-Ray burner (SATA) for only 240€.

You’ll have to pay a little extra for an external USB burner, a total of 280€….

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Sanyo Announces Two New Superbright ‘T’ Series Projectors

Apr 18th, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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CHATSWORTH, Calif., April 15 SANYO, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of LCD projectors announces the addition of two new LCD Multimedia Projector’s, the PLC-ET30L and PLC-XT21/L, to their popular “T” Series of high brightness, high resolution projectors for the education and business presentation markets.

Offering a full 1400 x 1050 resolution and 10-Bit digital gamma correction, the PLC-ET30L makes it possible to project high-quality high definition images fro…

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Lui is Back! Here’s a Stunning UMPC and On Demand System from Japan

Apr 17th, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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Back in December 2007, NEC invited us to test their new LUI concept, a new “On Demand”

Simply put, NEC will release a full ‘On Demand’ System for personal/home usage with a central server and different clients, which have the shape of a Notebook (a Vaio UX like shape). All clients will not have any OS installed on them, they will remotely access to the server in order to giv…

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Panasonic Announces the New HPX-170 P2 Video Camera

Apr 16th, 2008 | By daily gadgets | Category: Blogging

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It was at the NAB that Panasonic surprised us with another compact P2 based video camera, the HPX-170. Apparently this is not what many expected as an HVX replacement, this camera is less impressive and we fear that many of qualities of the HVX may have been lost…

Regardless, we’re definitely looking forward to getting our hands on one of these babies and give our final thoughts on this new P2 based camera.
LAS VEGAS, NV (April 13, 2008 ) – Panasonic unveiled here at N…

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