Harddisk drives just keep getting faster and faster. Seagate just announced what it claims to be the world’s fastest hard drive: a 15,000RPM 2.5-incher. Until its crown gets taken off by a competitor, this baby accesses data faster than the fastest out there right now by 2.9ms.
The drives will begin shipping soon in HP ProLiant servers, in capacities of 36GB and 73GB.
Pentax M30 and T30 are Pentax’s new digital point-and-shoot cameras. Both sport pretty nifty features that makes them worth considering over the rest.
Face recognition - The camera attempts to find your subjects’ faces and exposes them properly. This makes getting nice clear shots of your friends and family’s faces easier.
High ISO Digital Shake Reduction - The camera tries to push the ISO setting up to maintain a shutter speed fast enough to suppress handshakes. Not as good as optical image stabilizers since increasing ISO introduces image noise as well.
7-megapixel - I would say megapixel does not matter. But, if you have to compare, 7-megapixel isn’t the best out there. Still very capable.
Other features:
3x optical zoom
3-inch LCD display
Slim and stylish aluminum case
Difference between the M30 and T30 lies in T30’s touchscreen capability. The M30 will retail at US$199.95, while the T30 at US$349.95. Both will hit shelves in March this year.
This is too interesting to pass up. In this picture is supposedly a bottle of liquid condom designed for ladies’ use. On the bottle, it says Nanometer-Silver Cryptomorphic Condom. What the heck is that?
This world’s first liquid condom went on sales this week in China, after China’s health and drugs administration formally gave the manufacturer the green light.
The manufacturer claims that it forms a physical membrane inside the vagina, protecting it from infection, acting as a barrier to pregnancy and providing a lubricating effect.
Well, if it really is that good, it might just put Durex out of business. But most often, if things appear too good to be true, it most likely is! Any ladies out there dare to use some of these and give me some feedback?
If you like to travel to strange and exotic places and stay in questionable hotel rooms—and who doesn't?—you might want to take along one of these FlareSafe personal safety devices, which is a combo smoke detector, distress alarm and really bright LED flashlight.
Arm this baby before you go to sleep and at the first whiff of smoke it starts honking and screeching loud enough to wake the dead. It's been available in the UK and Europe for £42.51 ($83), and its British makers are now considering bringing it stateside as well.
The Setup: Speakers
You probably already know that good speakers are essential to putting together a high-quality stereo or multichannel music system or home theater. You can invest several months' mortgage payments in first-rate audio/video components, but without good speakers you're simply not going to hear your system's full potential.
Happily, there's nothing mysterious about setting up speakers. It does require a little bit of care and patience, but the principles are straightforward enough and they apply to virtually all systems and rooms — whether you spend most of your time listening to stereo music or enjoying movies in surround sound. Best of all, our recommended steps to proper speaker setup don't have to cost you a thing, just some time and effort.
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If the thought of sending e-mail from beyond the grave sounds a little too sci-fi, think again. Microsoft is working on a new technology that'll let you send e-mails long after you've kicked the bucket. The project is being referred to as "immortal computing" and it's a way of storing and sending data to future generations, be it through e-mail or interactive holograms.
fun goes with you Features: Audio and video playback in a variety of popular formats. 3 Expandable memory via micro SD card 2 . Large, ultra - bright, high-resolution display. Enjoy vivid color and rich sound when listening to music or watching video clips. Kick back and relax! 
Ask yourself this: Should computing products suit your lifestyle, or should you alter your lifestyle to suit your computing products? More often than not, the blasted machine forces the latter. Wouldn’t you rather have the Windows you’re used to and its myriad connectivity options, instead of some stunted operating system when you’re traveling? Or be able to carry your complete mailbox or your movies with you, without having to compress or decide what you’ll carry with you every trip. A computing impracticality, eh? Not any more, with the first truly pocketable device to run a full install of Microsoft Windows XP – the Sony VAIO VGN-UX17GP. No scrimping here – you get a fully working Windows XP Professional installation, with full support for all Windows XP compatible applications (not Table Edition, so handwriting recognition is missing). Expect a few gasps as you whip out this machine in public – the diminutive size misleads most people to mistake it for a handheld 
gaming console. When you boot it up, the 4.5 inch (diagonal) widescreen display springs to life as you take in (with awe) that Windows can be starting up on something this tiny.
The screen’s fine – 1,024 x 600 pixels resolution does mean most users will be in for a lot of squinting – icons and text are tiny, though Sony has provided a zoom button to zoom into parts of the screen as required. The display isn’t really meant for hours of poring over spreadsheets, though you can, if necessary. It suits the occasional e-mail/web surfing.
Video however, rocks on this display, which redeems it in part. Plus, the display is touch sensitive, letting you use your finger or the stylus to navigate around like you would with a mouse.
Inside, the UX includes a 1.2 GHz Intel Core Solo processor, 512MB of DDR2 memory, a 30GB hard drive and Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics, which are adequate to run almost anything you throw at it, including the odd game. If you’re not doing anything intensive, you get two and a half odd hours of battery life – and as little as one and a half hours if you’re giving it a serious stick.
The VAIO UX is equipped with two MOTION EYE cameras, maki
ng it easy to communicate through images instead of just words. Wherever you take your VAIO UX, if there’s a scene you like, you can take snapshots or shoot movie clips and store them on the hard disk drive. It’s literally a huge album of pictures and videos that you can always carry around with you. And if you have an Internet connection you can email those images to friends and family, or upload them to your blog for the whole world to see. Naturally, you’d have a story to tell for each image, and VAIO UX makes it easy to input text with its built-in keyboard. When the need to communicate is immediate, you can count on its Bluetoo
th® technology for real-time mobile communication like VoIP for video chatting. As they say, “wish you were here”, and if go-anywhere communication is what you want, the VAIO UX is where you can find your solution.
Is this the famed laptop killer then? Not yet – while the UX is great for web browsing and viewing movies, or storing/editing pictures on the move – it has its share of quirks – including a mildly prohibitive cost of just under $2200 (Rs. 1 Lakh). Good things have always come in small packages, and this certainly is the shape of things to come.
Rating: 7/10
URL: http://vaio-online.sony.com/prod_info/vgn-ux17gp
The children's machine is a proposed low cost laptop designed by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) trade association for educating children in developing nations. Previously called the $100 laptop, the 2B1 will initially be priced at $135-140. Its enclosure will be both dirt and moisture resistant and it will consume roughly 2 watts of power as compared to 25-45 watts used by conventional laptops. In the e-book mode, its power consumption will be around 0.3-0.8 watts. A hand or foot crank generator built in to a separate power unit is optional. The Linux based machine will have a colour display that can be switched to monochrome to enable reading in bright sunlight. They will also be Wi-Fi enabled. 
Need to lose weight? Love music? How about the wireless Nike+iPod sports kit? Throw the pebble sized instrument into a pocket inside one of Nike's specially designed shoes, connect the wireless receiver to your iPod Nano and it streams data to the latter!
Now before you skip this one thinking its just a re-do of an older model, keep in mind that the space we are talking about compares with an iPod. The new Nokia N91 - 8 GB is an evolutionary update made to the original N91 mobile music haven. While the colour scheme has seen a complete revamp, the internal hard disk that provides storage for music and other media files has been boosted to 8 GB, double the original 4 GB. The bluetooth system has also been updated to add A2DP stereo support so that the N91 can be used with the new wireless stereo headphones that are starting to trickle into the market. The N91's size has remained unchanged but its weight has gone up five grams. No word yet on pricing though.
