Vigor Gaming has announced a new gaming PC that is branded with the new AMD GAME! certification designed to help make it easier for gamers to choose gaming PCs that meet their needs. The Force Recon SP is the first Vigor gaming machine that is AMD GAME! branded.

The Force Recon SP gaming machines with minimum specs start at about $1845 and use Athlon X2 5600+ processors and dual ATI HD 3650 graphics. The Force Recon SP under the AMD GAME! Ultra configuration will retail for about $2733 and feature a Phenom 9850 CPU, Radeon HD 3870 graphics and 2Gb of RAM.

“AMD GAME! is the equivalent of a PC seal of approval to assure consumers their system is branded for gaming performance. Simple and clearly identifiable ways to ensure levels of performance is a great way to meet customer expectations and educate them on the right choices for their gaming experience,” said Steven Chien, Director of Sales at Vigor Gaming.

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Holding a candle to the Eee PC is Dell’s new “mini-Inspiron”. This 8.9-inches beauty falls in the sub-$500 price tag range with a choice of both Windows XP Home and Ubuntu Linux, 8-in-1 card reader, integrated webcam, direct media playback buttons, and a “host of wireless access options.” More details are expected to trickle in as the Computex show kicks off.

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We’re all for a computer as a utilitarian work of art, but this concept seems a little ridiculous: a company called NISHI-KI has released a set of handmade keyboards, with each key done up as a part of a larger design. Sure, they look really pretty, and they’re certainly priced to match ($156 per 86 key instrument), but looking at them, we can’t help but think two things.

First, any keyboard, no matter how functional or how revolutionary, will take some time to learn properly. While you’re learning where to put your fingers so you don’t hit a Q instead of a W, for example, you’re going to need to look at the keyboard from time to time and reorient yourself, which brings us to our second point: these keyboards are quite soft on the eye, but most of them are almost impossible to read, particularly in low light. Your fancy new keyboard won’t look so pretty if you’ve tossed it against a wall in frustration because you can’t see what you’re doing.

From www.everythingusb.com

The HP Officejet J6480 All-in-One ($199 direct) falls into the once-rare but increasingly common category of inexpensive all-in-ones (AIOs) that can serve double duty in the home and home office. Unlike its most direct competition, however, it isn’t limited to the lightest of light-duty printing, making it a potentially good fit for a small office or as a personal AIO. It also puts the J6480 head and shoulders above the competition.

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Not every room or budget can accommodate a mega-sized flat-panel HDTV. For folks with smaller spaces and wallets, there’s the Westinghouse PT-16H610S ($349 list). A compact 16-inch widescreen LCD TV, it can easily sit on a table, hang on a wall, or be mounted under a cabinet. Flexible placement options, however, are tempered by a weak video processor, which leaves standard-definition (SD) material rife with jagged-edge and flicker artifacts. A limited selection of video ports also limits this TV’s usefulness.

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Controlling the media on your computer can be a big hassle. AMEX’s little RM-mp1 Wireless USB remote packs in a USB remote control, laser pointer and touchpad to allow you to control most every aspect of your digital media on your computer from afar. The touchpad area allows you to navigate menus by controlling the mouse pointer just like you do with the track pad on your notebook.

The laser pointer allows you to… ummm… point to things not to mention the cat harassment possibilities presented in the home. The device connects to your computer via a wireless USB receiver and uses 2.4 GHz connectivity for range. Compatibility is with Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. From just looking at the device the Logitech MX Air is a much sexier method of controlling the same media and if portability is your main concern the tiny little PCMCIA slot hiding Outel USB remote is infinitely more portable.

From www.everythingusb.com

Evergreen launches their new mini-speaker set, EG-MS221. Nothing really extraordinary, it is said that the speakers offers a cleaner sound in comparison with the PC accessories speakers (Passive method)… Well, it is just be a purely marketing ad. The specifications come with, an output power of 1.5W, with a frequency response of 110Hz-20000Hz, 1 .5’’ aluminum audio cones, and an impedance power of 4 Ω.

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Controlling the media on your computer can be a big hassle. AMEX’s little RM-mp1 Wireless USB remote packs in a USB remote control, laser pointer and touchpad to allow you to control most every aspect of your digital media on your computer from afar. The touchpad area allows you to navigate menus by controlling the mouse pointer just like you do with the track pad on your notebook.

The laser pointer allows you to… ummm… point to things not to mention the cat harassment possibilities presented in the home. The device connects to your computer via a wireless USB receiver and uses 2.4 GHz connectivity for range. Compatibility is with Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. From just looking at the device the Logitech MX Air is a much sexier method of controlling the same media and if portability is your main concern the tiny little PCMCIA slot hiding Outel USB remote is infinitely more portable.

From www.everythingusb.com

Just when you thought Acer couldn’t come up with another beastly laptop, the Aspire 8920G “Gemstone Blue” series emerges to wow high-definition aficionados. The Aspire 9805WKHi—Acer’s first effort at a wow! laptop—had a glamorous 20-inch screen but weighed a backbreaking 17 pounds. The Aspire 8920G ($2,600 street) finds the sweet spot by putting an 18.4-inch widescreen on a system that, at 8.8 pounds, weighs as much as some 17-inch models, like the Dell Inspiron 1720, do. Though still bulky, it doesn’t seem like a nightmare to lug around. Altogether, the 8920G is a nice, albeit expensive, Blu-ray–equipped media center that delivers 1080p content.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — LogicVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: LGVN), the leading provider of semiconductor built-in-self-test (BIST) and diagnostic solutions, today announced that it will showcase the latest release of its Silicon Insight(TM) Desktop product at DAC 2008 using a customer performance board for a 65 nm SoC device. LogicVision will also demonstrate its SerDes BIST solution with Silicon Insight characterizing a 6.2 Gbps SerDes high-speed I/O. Silicon Insight is a key component of LogicVision’s recently announced Dragonfly Test Platform(TM). Silicon Insight and the new Dragonfly Test Platform will be demonstrated at Booth 1620 at the Design Automation Conference 2008, June 9-12 in Anaheim, CA.

About Silicon Insight

Silicon Insight Desktop provides comprehensive, at-speed, SoC device-level debug and characterization using a PC laptop connected to a device performance board through a USB-to-JTAG cable interface. The latest release of Silicon Insight adds support for GPIB-based benchtop equipment, enabling design and test engineers to also perform voltage and frequency based characterization from the same laptop PC environment. Silicon Insight now makes it possible to perform full device debug, diagnostics, and characterization without the need to access or tie-up expensive automatic test equipment.

On the production floor, Silicon Insight now adds the option to perform automated production data logging, enabling product engineering teams and their foundry partners to analyze detailed failure and performance data. The production data log can be used with LogicVision’s Yield Insight(TM) tool to identify systemic yield-limiting issues and help accelerate product yield ramps.

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