Anyone else feeling the rapid palpitations of desire is their cold, pawne-shopped hearts? You’re looking at a pre-production, Scuderia-red Voodoo Envy 133 with “Rahul Sood’s Racing Edition” engraved underneath. Mind you, this level of customization isn’t just limited to Voodoo/HP execs. Both the Omen desktop and Envy 133 will launch with “extensive personalization options” for even the lowest of the lowly cubical monkeys.
A-DATA lays claim to the fastest Compact Flash card in the world with the Turbo Series, claiming a phenomenal 52MB/s read and 47MB/s write speeds. It will be available in both 8GB and 16GB capacities, and is constructed using Single Level-Cell (SLC) flash memory, boasting dual-channel support. Professional cameramen will definitely find this a boon to their work, since the megapixel count is ever increasing, requiring faster and faster read speeds in media so that you can be ready to capture the next shot opportunity.
Features:
* 350X Turbo speed performance with read speed at 52MB/sec and write speed at 47MB/sec
* Dual-channel support (Ultra DMA mode 0~5 , IDE PIO mode 6, MDMA 0~4)
* Low power consumption and RoHS compliant
* Original SLC flash memory to deliver outstanding performance
Specification:
* Capacity: 8GB/16GB
* Dimension: 42.8 x 36.4 x 33 mm (L x W x D)
* Weight: 11.4g
Thanks to whoever added some detailed Sony Ericsson naming info on Wikipedia. Just as the last two letter of BMW models indicate the vehicle’s displacement, there’s a story behind each Sony Ericsson name. Continue to read a snippet of the article, edited for readability.
The most common format uses a total of five (or six) characters, eg. K750i. This format begins with a capital letter to denote the series of the phone (K750i). This is then followed by three numbers (K750i).
The first number indicates the sub-series of the phone, the second indicates the amount of progression from the previous release, i.e. K700i to K750i, and the third number is always either a ‘0′ or ‘8′ and the letter ‘8′ is used either to show a variation of the phone destined for a different market without a feature , or it is used to separate phones which have identical specifications but the designs are different. Examples:
-The W888 is a W880i without 3G
-The K610i and K618i.
Finally, the lowercase letter at the end of the model name describes the market for which a product is intended; these are:
-a for the Americas,
-c for China,
-i for an international version
Hello Kitty is big. Really big. For girls that is. Everything that is marked Hello Kitty instantly becomes a must-have object. Parents will be nagged to death until they unwillingly succumb and purchase that Hello Kitty something. A good friend of mine who has a 5 year old daughter has filled her room with Hello Kitty stuff. Too bad for him, his little girl will be giving him an earful regarding Uniden’s TL19TX1, a 19″ LCD TV that has been Hello Kitty branded. Folks with daughters who love Hello Kitty better start saving up.
Hello Kitty strikes yet again, this time in the form of the TL19TX1 LCD TV. Features include :-
-19″ display at 1,440 x 810 resolution
-1,000:1 contrast ratio
-300cd/m² brightness
-5ms response time
-1Seg tuner
-HDMI interface
-Built-in speakers (3W x 2)
HP has presented their newest beast also known as Blackbird 002 PC. It will be officially released during the summer, and the prices can go from $2,300 up to $6,500 - it all depends on your selection of components after picking the foundation.
The standard Blackbird 002 boasts a Quad Core Intel processor at 3.0GHz, 2GB of RAM memory, 160GB on the hard-drive, and a dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800 ULTRA, which means it is more than enough to play games, right?
- If it isn’t sufficient, just add 2GB of RAM (SLI Ready) for $250 and it will have a total of 4GB.
- In case Windows Vista Home Premium is not your preferred choice, you can chose the Ultimate model by adding another $100.
- And on last case, the maximum storage capacity is 5TB.
The number of personal computers in use around the world has exceeded 1 billion and will double by 2014, with most growth coming from developing markets, according to Gartner research released Monday.
A 12 percent annual increase would amount to more than 2 billion PCs in use by 2014, according to a report that counted installed machines rather than laptops and desktops sold.
Emerging markets will account for 70 percent of the next billion PCs to come online, Gartner analysts suggested. They named dropping prices and improved Internet access as factors driving that trend.
Fifty-eight percent of today’s PCs are owned by U.S., European, and Japanese users, Gartner found.
This year, some 180 million computers, or 16 percent of those currently in use globally, will be retired.
“We estimate a fifth of these, or some 35 million PCs, will be dumped into landfill with little or no regard for their toxic content,” Meike Escherich, principal research analyst at Gartner, said in a statement. The challenge of disposing safely of electronics waste will also expand in developing markets in the coming years, she added.