Announced a couple days ago, Panasonic officially introduced its latest Toughbook, an Intel MCA-Based tablet PC designed for Healthcare industry.
Nothing really new, nothing really interesting, our new device is powered by an Atom processor, 10.4-inch LCD Touchscreen.
Thanks to device, doctor and nurse will have all information about their patient. The mass production is scheduled for the end of the year.
Anime lovers rejoice Nec Japan has announced a limited edition laptop specially for the flick ‘Sky Crawlers’ by Hiroshi Mori which hit movie screens on Aug 2nd. The 12.1 inch laptop is powered by a Core 2 Duo processor, 1.5GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive. The first 150 enthusiasts buying the notebook get an autograph of the director Mamoru Oshii, cut out of the main character / 25 fighter planes and other illustrations, CD sets and preloaded wallpapers etc. Available for a limited time only the LaVie J will sell for 179,907 Yen ($ 180).
Canon Europe introduces the Selphy CP530 compact photo printer. The CP530 is a dye-sublimation thermal transfer (approx. 16.77 million colors per pixel) that creates a fine gradation look of film-based photographs. A special Protective Coating prevents UV exposure, water, spills and sticky fingers. The printer measures 179.0 x 127.1 x 63.0 mm and its printing speed is just 25 seconds to create credit card size prints. L size images print in 43 seconds, Postcard size in 52 seconds, and wide size pictures require 65 seconds…
Adobe has updated to its Photoshop Express beta available immediately at http://www.photoshop.com/express. The update includes:
• New Photoshop Express Uploader powered by Adobe AIR that enables seamless photo uploading from the desktop of any Internet-connected computer.
• Adobe AIR technology bridges the real-time, dynamic capabilities of the Web with the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop computer.
• Users can now quickly browse through thumbnails of their photos and easily drag and drop their favorite selections directly from the desktop of their preferred photo management applications into Photoshop Express.
• Ability to print photos through Shutterfly, a leading online printing service provider, that is available to all Photoshop Express users and anyone who receives shared photos.
• To enhance dynamic slideshows, users can now incorporate music created exclusively for Photoshop Express. For organizing, the addition of tags allows for easy viewing and searching by name, party, venue, subject and anything else customers find useful.
• One-click Resize tool with presets for mobile, Web, e-mail or online profiles.
• Users can also download photos from anyone’s public album and keep a collection of their favorites.
Released in March 2008, Photoshop Express is a free Web-based solution available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience.
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is set to begin next week and what better way to commemorate that experience than with a webcam that resembles the Olympic rings. Yes, it looks like a plastic toy but it does have “exciting” LED lights in each of the rings and of course the camera. The camera features 1.3 MegaPixels and it connects to your computer via USB, but will not work on a Mac computer. The 2008 Bejing Olympic Webcam retails for $26.99.
Taiwanese computer vendor Carapelli is offering what it claims is the world’s cheapest laptop, priced at a mere £65.
The Impulse NPX-9000, which has a 7-inch screen like the original Asus Eee, is available to retailers now from the wholesale site in orders of 100 pieces minimum.
Spec is admittedly low - so far winning the race to the bottom - with a 400MHz processor, 128MB RAM and 1GB of flash storage and runs Linux with word, spreadsheet and media applications.
Other specs include an SD card slot, VGA port, 3 USB ports, a mini USB port, 80 key keyboard and touchpad and an external USB LAN or optional 802.11g Wi-Fi dongle.
NVIDIA® Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, today announced the immediate availability of three new desktop GeForce® 9 Series graphics processing units (GPUs) that bring support for NVIDIA PhysX™ technology and CUDA™ general-purpose parallel computing to mainstream PC computing markets..
The new GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, and the 9500 GT GPUs deliver exceptional graphics quality, performance, and application compatibility, along with support for NVIDIA SLI® technology, the industry’s leading multi-GPU solution for gaming and enthusiast platforms across a wide variety of price points, including under $100 USD.
“The addition of the new 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, and the 9500 GT GPUs brings a new level of visual computing capability to additional mainstream market segments,” said Ujesh Desai, general manager of desktop GPUs at NVIDIA. “NVDIA GPUs deliver the best bang for the buck in each price category, and with support for CUDA, PhysX, and 3D stereoscopic technology, consumers can now experience the unique, innovative, and immersive computing experience that only NVIDIA can deliver.”
Kensington has launched the ComboSaver portable notebook lock, designed to offer laptop protection while on the move.
A specially designed combination lock with a coiled cable, Kensington says it’s its “most portable and secure offering yet.”
Aimed at students and mobile workers, the ComboSaver’s T-bar mechanism and steel cable claim to provide optimum security, while a “slinky” style self-coiling cable means the device twists up to become compact.
Kensington says this means it is much smaller and lighter than other locks on the market, making it an option for people who need to carry their lock in their laptop bag.
The ComboSaver lock is on sale for £29.99 from Dixons, PC World and other online retailers.
Hitachi this morning launched a pair of CinemaStar drives for users of DVRs and any other computer or device that needs to run for long periods of time. The 1TB 7K1000.B relies on the same basic design as its normal DeskStar counterpart but is tuned to run all day and in harsher conditions. The new version is both more resilient against high temperatures as well as modified to run more quietly while it seeks data on the drive. The disk further borrows power optimization tricks from Hitachi’s notebook drives to cut down on its energy draw.
The capacity is twice as much as for the previous best CinemaStar and is enough to hold 247 hours of HD video in MPEG-4, Hitachi says, also noting that it can handle as many as ten data streams at once. The 7K1000.B should be ready in August at an unlisted price.
For smaller devices, the company is also launching the 5K320. The notebook-sized 2.5-inch disk also holds the most in its physical size at 320GB and shares much of the same heat and power behavior as its larger sibling. It appears slightly later and ships in September.
The notebook giant is planning an ultra low-cost portable to join the ranks of the Eee PC and MSI Wind (though not necessarily a direct competitor, they say). Check out our pic, and first impressions.
Officials won’t reveal details, yet, but they are showing a prototype of a device they’ve created to spur development ideas. The tiny handheld (shown in the main pic below) reminded us more of a UMPC than a notebook, with the keyboard ditched in favour of a touchscreen keyboard.
We’re told the device runs Vista, and Intel’s Atom processor, and in our brief hand-on play, it ran relatively smoothly, though it was a bit awkward with the virtual keyboard taking up two-thirds of the screen.
The 5.6inch screen prototype has a motherboard half the size of the motherboard on the Portege R500 notebook. Onboard is a 64GB solid state drive, and GPS. Toshiba also said they have found a way to make antennas follow a curved surface.
