Cowon’s stand at IFA was a real treat, with three new multimedia players being shown off. The highlight was the S9 Curve, which features a 3.3-inch touchscreen AMOLED screen with 16million colours.
As the name suggests, it has a slightly curved exterior, with the large display looking finger lickin’ good. But importantly, it will be better on the environment than your average player, due to the low consumption of power. 40 hours of music playback is promised, as is an accelerometer just like your iPhone.
There’s a TV tuner, FM radio, voice recorder, Bluetooth, G-Sensor, TV-out and Macromedia Flash User interface too, reminding consumers they don’t have to pay a week’s wages for a device that’ll enable playback of video and audio.
Unfortunately we didn’t catch the pricing or availability for Cowon’s S9 Curve, but we’re sure it’ll be officially announced soon enough.
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Kudos to EA for making Command and Conquer: Red Alert available as a free download, in preparation for the release of Red Alert 3—and in celebration of the RTS franchise’s 13th anniversary. Interested parties should visit this page, and set aside enough time for the 1GB download (500MB for each of the two game disks). The downloads are ISO images for burning onto CDs, a task easily accomplished by Totally Free Burner.
Download Command and Conquer: Red Alert (1GB)
Pre-order Red Alert 3 (buyers score a free copy of Red Alert 2 if they pre-order before October 27)
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Leviton’s ability to cram three wall sockets into the same space for two inspires more “now why didn’t I think of that?” moments. That’s what makes the Triplex outlet amazing.
Well, maybe not that amazing. After all, all Leviton did was realize that there was a lot loose space in between the standard two-socket configuration. They probably decided it was time to maximize all that space, and shuffled things around a bit.
What’s really likeable about this thing is after all, grounding provisions for all three sockets. Remember in less technologically (and perhaps legally) enlightened countries, the grounding prong is not that ubiquitous.
A perfect segue to the last point of toolmonger.com: “you should check your local codes on the number of outlets allowed on a circuit.” Prices vary from $15 to $20, but there’s sure to be a deal found on Amazon.
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When it comes to portable music, I prefer earphones over headphones since they’re more discreet, but if you like the latter and don’t mind spending a bit of cash for it, here’s a new pair that’s bound to get you some attention. Introducing Monster Beats by Dr. Dre. Here’s
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You probably read it somewhere before, but at this point, Comcast’s controversial business practices shouldn’t be news anymore. In case this is the first time you’ve heard of it, Wikipedia has an entire section devoted to it. For example, Comcast is advertising unlimited high-speed Internet access for its customers. In
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Fancy checking out the latest YouTube classic, browsing family photos, or catching up on the beautiful game without leaving your sofa? Well, with Panasonic’s IPTV technology, Viera Cast, free internet without a PC could be coming soon.
Already active in America, Viera Cast enables users to access selected content from Bloomberg, YouTube, EuroSport and Picasa Web Albums, through a consumer-friendly portal. Content is streamed over a home network via Ethernet, so no boxes are needed.
A Panasonic representative we spoke to confirmed Viera Cast will launch in the UK in Spring 2009. In the US it currently features on the TH PZ850, but exact UK models are to be confirmed, although we understand it will feature in mid to high end LCD and Plasma sets.
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Optoma’s Pico is one of the coolest gadgets we’ve seen in ages. Approximately the size of a mobile phone, this portable DLP projector lets you project movies from small gadgets like a digital camera, games console or phone.
There’s a video input, so you quickly can hook up a PSP and share the delights of Loco Roco, or connect a digital camera and bore friends with holiday movies, anywhere there’s wall space. With a projected picture size of 25cm-2.6m, it’s also far more appealing and easier on the eyes, than peering at your Pod’s screen, trying to make out what’s going on in Lost.
Measuring 103 x 50 x 15mm and weighing 115g, the Pico is lighter and smaller than our Nokia and will easily fit into your shirt pocket. Ok, picture quality isn’t going to set the world on fire and it’s hardly a replacement for a HD home projector, but for sheer convenience and portability, we love it.
The Optoma Pico Pocket Projector is due to launch in November this year. Exact UK price is to be confirmed, but expect to pay around 299 Euros.
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Quite simple really: if you’re a Comcast customer, don’t use up more than 250GB of bandwidth every month. The publicly-stated “new monthly data usage threshold” will take effect on October 1. Why 250GB?
As Comcast says:
250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. Currently, the median monthly data usage by our residential customers is approximately 2 - 3 GB. To put 250 GB of monthly usage in perspective, a customer would have to do any one of the following:
- Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
- Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
- Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
- Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
Don’t want to follow the rules? Expect a pleasant call from Comcast asking you to curb your “excessive use”. Continued violation will of course result in the suspension or even termination of your account.
Man, now how are we supposed to download all those torrent movies for our piracy empire? Seriously though, 250GB a month is a lot of data (or 8 and-a-third gigs a day). Unless you need to download the entire capacity of a typical laptop hard drive.
You can still commit lots of copyright infringements with this allocation, so it’s clear that Comcast is doing this to preserve the quality of the service, and not out of pressure from those big copyright owners. After all, everyone has the right to free and prompt access to porn, free from even more bandwidth-hungry apps like Bittorrent and Filesharing.
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Looks like all those ultraportable but fully-functional laptops have a new name: netbook. More importantly, it seems that Fujitsu has joined the netbook game, with the introduction of the Amilo Mini Ui 3250:
For 399 euros, you get: a netbook with an 8.9’’ 1024 x 600 Display, running on the Intel Atom Processor N270 (1,6 GHz). 1GB of DDR2 667 RAM will probably be enough to make the preinstalled XP Home run smoothly, while a 60 or 80GB hard disk (3600 and 4200 rpm respectively), plus WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB 2.0 will keep you connected.
An ExpressCard slot, VGA out, an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam and a built-in microphone round up the full computing experience. All that in a package weighing less than 1kg. (jkkmobile.blogspot.com)
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