The Cell microprocessor made famous by the PlayStation 3
was developed as a joint venture between Sony, Toshiba and IBM, with
Toshiba taking over the majority of manufacturing duties in 2007.
Toshiba plans to make the most of the Cell with a new range of
Cell-powered TVs for the US market - read on to find out what 200
gigaflops can do inside a TV. Read More
Seagate has raised the bar for portable external
hard drives at the CES 2010 with its BlackArmor PS110 Performance kit
for portable computers. Comprising a 500GB/7,200rpm half-inch thick
external hard drive, power cable and a USB 3.0 PC ExpressCard, this kit
promises transfer performance up to three times a typical USB 2.0-based
device and doesn't need latest-generation USB support on your laptop to
work at full speed. Read More
Working within the Holst Centre program on
Micropower Generation and Storage, researchers have developed a small
piezoelectric device capable of harvesting 85 microwatts of electricity
from vibrations. Fabricated using MEMS technology, the fully autonomous
temperature sensor generates enough power to wirelessly measure and
transmit environmental data to a base station every 15 seconds. Read More
Building on the previous Popcorn Hour,
the US$129 Popbox announced at CES 2010 is a first-class media hub
supporting all of the common audio and video formats, that lets you
stream videos off the Internet, play games and even read tweets from
your friends right from your HDTV set. The already comprehensive range
of video formats supported in the Popcorn Hour has been further expanded
and now supports 1080p (Full HD) video up to a 100Mbps bitrate. Read More
Toshiba, was waving the green flag at CES this week in announcing that its E-CORE LED
lightbulbs will soon be available in the US market. An E-CORE bulb has a
life expectancy of 40,000 hours, which is 40 times longer than
traditional incandescant lightbulbs and at the same time it reduces CO2
emissions by 85 percent in comparison. Read More
ASUS – once known mostly as a motherboard
manufacturer – has chosen CES 2010 to introduce some innovative laptops
and futuristic concepts. Not content with showcasing a laptop designed in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen’s chief designer,
it has also introduced three Waveface design concepts. The range
includes a portable device worn on the wrist, a widescreen display that
is both an entertainment center and internet portal and a
touch-sensitive machine that can be used as a single-screen tablet or
conventional keyboard – all designed by ASUS to allow the user to fully
embrace the digital life…perhaps even by using one’s own physiological
and emotional state as a source of data. Well, I did say “futuristic
concepts”. Read More
The world is crying out for some decent folding
electric bike designs and predictably, given its two-wheeled heritage,
Robrady Design has delivered one of the best we’ve seen so far.
Secondary transport solutions that are light and electric and can fold
into small spaces are naturally an important part of the transportation
equation of the future – Robrady designed the db0 for Taiwanese company DK City and it’ll be on the market within two months. Read More
Digital photoframes have succeeded the photo
album of yesteryear to quickly achieve mainstream status and
manufacturers are now striving to differentiate their offerings beyond
the simple rotation of images, particularly with China’s savvy digital
manufacturers turning yesterday’s innovation into tomorrow’s commodity
at an ever brisker pace. Casio’s new Digital Art Frame achieves such
differentiation using Adobe FlashLite playback technology, to display
preset clocks and calendars incorporating user pics. The frame's most
appealing and unique factor though, is its “snapshot-to-painting”
function which converts digital photographs into artistic painting-like
renditions using PhotoShop-style filters and there’s also a “Dynamic
Photo” function that allows the creation of composite moving images.
This will make it harder for "me too" products. Read More
Eye-Fi Inc. has chosen the 2010 CES show to
unveil the latest in its already impressive range of Wi-fi enabled SD
cards, the Eye-Fi Pro X2. As well as featuring an enhanced capacity of
8GB and Class 6 read and write speeds, the Pro X2 comes to the party
with “Endless Memory Mode”, enabling the user to free up space by
automatically deleting images from the card once they have been
successfully uploaded. Read More
PARO is an animatronic baby seal companion robot
designed by some very clever people with one simple purpose in mind - to
make you love him. From everything we've seen, he's exceptionally
talented at his job, melting the hardest hearts and bringing a big silly
smile to everyone who meets him. But although he might be a wonderful
toy, PARO's real purpose is to address a serious problem that's
affecting Japan right now, and will soon spread across much of the
Western world. Read More
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