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Entries from January 2008

CES: Wireless power re-emerge in this year’s CES

January 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Wireless power was the BIG thing at last year’s CES. Wildcharge, a company that manufactures wireless charging pads, announced more adapters that can charge different mobile devices without wires. Wildcharge had previously won the CES Best of Innovation Award last year and is named 2007’s Best Inventions by TIME magazine. The new adapters supports Wildcharge-enabled […]

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CES: AMD releases ATI Raedon mobility 3000 series for laptops

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

AMD is the first one to release Direct X 10.1 compatible graphics card for laptops when they announced the release of ATI Raedon mobility 3000 series today at CES. The 3000 series family consists of ATI Mobility Raedon (TM) HD 3400 series and ATI Mobility Raedon (TM) HD 3600 series. These dedicated graphic cards for […]

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Intel unveils its smallest solid state drive (SSD) at CES 2008

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

The International CES (Computer Electronics Show) will kick off in a days time and exhibitors have been rolling out their innovations that will WOW the crowd. Many SSDs innovations have been seen in this year’s CES. One of them is Intel’s smallest SSD which is slightly smaller than the size of your fingertips! The […]

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MacBook Plus — A sleek MacBook with tablet functions and more!

January 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Won’t that be the computer of your dreams? A sleek white/black MacBook with touchscreen functions (like the Apple iPhone) that works with a touch of your wonder fingers. It has a detachable keyboard that has an in-built bluetooth function that can connect to your MacBook Plus wirelessly from a distance. The MacBook Plus not only […]

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500GB-1000GB of storage on a notebook? WOW!

January 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

It was not long ago that Hitachi talked about its Travelstar 5K500 2.5″ hard disk drive (HDD) which can hold a whooping half a terabyte of data! After the 500GB HDD was readied to be released in the first quarter of 2008, Asus made the first leap to adopt the 500GB HDD into their upcoming […]

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Human sperms to power up future nanobots

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

A tiny assembly line that powers the whip-like tail of sperm could be harnessed to send future nanobots or other tiny medical devices zooming around the human body, according to a preliminary research report.
Borrowing a page from reproductive biology, the proof-of-principle study offers a peek at how nanotechnology might overcome the problem of supplying energy […]

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Eight Firefox extension you don’t need

January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The Firefox Web browser community has created thousands of wonderful extensions that make surfing and working with the Internet fun and productive. While many extensions are homes runs, here are a few that just don’t make it out of the ballpark.
The object of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is to write a 50,000-word novel […]

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Interview with teen iPhone-hacker George Hotz.

January 1st, 2008 · No Comments

The iPhone kid — young George Hotz of Glen Rock, N.J. — came back from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) this week with his head full of new ideas.
Not surprisingly, the tinkering teen’s also been up to a bit of mischief on the upstate New York campus.
Next month, the Bergen Academies grad is headed for […]

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ASUS hints on next generation Eee PC

January 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Eee PC has been on of the best selling computer devices in 2007 since its launch. Even here in Singapore, the response to this small but useful gadget was excellent. It has topped selling lists all over the world during the Christmas shopping spree! People loved its mobility and the small size+weight of the […]

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