CES: Real Transformers USB Memory Sticks

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The latest Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas was flooded with several different kinds of electronic innovations that may or may not not be essential to human living.

However, manufacturers keep on finding ways to best market their products and of the best efforts, on the part of the developers would be to create eye-catching, transforming USB robots or rather memory sticks (whatsoever).

These transformers are Official Transformers-brand USB memory sticks and mice, made exclusively by Toshiba.

When you look at them, they’re like the kind of toys that little kids would like to play on and simply throw away anywhere. Well, not quite for these ones, because you have to keep them away from your curious children.

Transformers USB Memory Sticks are especially designed to complement the latest and future computer and laptop models of Toshiba. We just hope that even if they transform, they can still process their memory.

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Apple versus Creative Labs

Creative Labs Zen Mozaic EZ100
Creative Labs Zen Mozaic EZ100

When it comes to shopping for the gadget labs, two brands easily come to mind: the ever-popular Apple and the cool line of Creative Labs. But which of the two can be deemed as the best gadget labs in the market today?

It really depends on what you are looking for in your gadget. Here is a simple guide to help you out. sleek and stylish, this has actually been its best selling point compared to other gadget in the market today.

While the Apple boast of huge memory capacities, sleek designs, great quality and durability, it still has not been able to meet the other cool functions that most Creative Labs are known for drag and drop saving options are the special add-ons that make Creative Lab definitely stand out.

While Creative Lab has been able to produce a wide variety of cool accessories for its gadget, Apple, as well as other companies have produced an even bigger amount of accessories that are tailor-fit for Apple Gadget.

From ice boxes with speakers to alarm clocks turned speakers, every Apple Gadget fan will be delighted with what’s in store nowadays. In fact, Creative Lab has even come out with a new whole line of Creative Lab Gadget speakers.

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Apple iPad Finally Launched!

Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed the new iPad to the press audience
Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed the new iPad to the press audience

After several months or years perhaps of being immersed in so many rumors about the Apple tablet PC, finally the most awaited and probably the most coveted product of the year is real and it’s here!

Bragged as the “magical device at an amazing price”, Steve Jobs said at a press launch in San Francisco, California. During his kind of peer-to-peer conversational speech, he mentioned how amazing the iPad will be to browse the web. But did it really level up to the expectations that were pointed out in the rumors? Or are there some things that the iPad lack to the disappointments of many?

Well let’s take a look at some of iPad’s notable features which Steve Jobs himself presented to the press audience.

SCREEN: 9.7-inch IPS LCD screen. The LCD provides the backlighting, but most of the technology is IPS, or In-plane switching. This gives it a stronger viewing angle than most screens. You can tilt the screen anyway you want and the interface moves with it.

RESOLUTION: 1024×768 pixels (132 pixels per inch) which brings out vivid colors of pictures and landscape images.

SIZE: 0.5 inches thin; 1.5 pounds (1.6 pounds for 3G), the lightest so far.

DIMENSIONS: 9.5 inches x 7.5 inches x 0.5 inches

CHIP: 1 GHz Apple A4 chip. They went in-house instead of going to Intel.

MEMORY: Three models with 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB solid state hard drives.

INCLUSIONS: Accelerometer, Microphone, 30-pin connector, Compass, full capacitive multi-touch, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11n Wi-Fi, 3G access on higher-end models

BATTERY LIFE: 10 hours at full blast. On standby, it will last over a month.

PRICE: an amazing $499 starting price for 16Gb RAM

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You can definitely do anything with this amazing device, but wait here are some few “essential” things it lacks:

No camera: no front-facing camera for video conferencing or back-facing camera for taking photos.

No multitasking: You cannot run multiple apps at the same time.

No HDMI Output: You can’t plug your iPad into your TV.

No USB port: You can’t plug in your favorite keyboard into the device…or anything else, really. It will plug into your computer via the same cord you charge iPhones and iPod touches with.

Well, I hope Apple will eventually add these features up to the iPad before its’ going to be really available in the market in either June or July of this year.

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Green Technology: Hydrogen-Powered Mobile Phone

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Mobile phones are considered now as vital to human life. It’s essentially becoming indispensable among other things.

And just recently, a group of French engineers and researchers broke out the news about a new power source for mobile phones they developed that’s probably no one has ever heard of.

The device is the hydrogen-powered developed by a semi-conductor technology company in France, ST Microelectronics in collaboration with Bic, makers of pens and razors.

Igor Bimbaud, CEO of ST Microelectronics said that the company started creating the technology in 2005 and it is now ready for release early this year.

The made this hydrogen fuel cell to be used as a backup power source for mobile phones, thus reducing dependence on an electricity supply to charge the phone. This product is designed to be a part of “hybrid” system.

In this hybrid system, cell phone first draws on the conventional battery for its power then it will tap into the fuel cell if needed. Each cartridge of this gadget gives the equivalent of three to five recharges of the traditional battery.

You can charge the phone by yourself, simply by filling the fuel cell with water from the faucet. No other additives needed.

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New XBox 360 Natal will Make Button-Controlled Games Obsolete

  Natal can recognise a movement in just 10 milliseconds (Image: Xbox 360 Natal Team/Microsoft)
Natal can recognise a movement in just 10 milliseconds (Image: Xbox 360 Natal Team/Microsoft)

On the later part of this year, Microsoft will finally launch their most awaited XBox 360 add-on which will make button-studded games controllers obsolete.

XBox 360 was developed by Microsoft in 2005 as a direct counterpart to Sony’s Playstation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii. When it was first officially released it was immediately sold out and as of January 2010, there are over 39 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide.

Following this huge success, Microsoft has announced at the CES Gadget Preview 2010, the launch of XBox 360 add-on, called Natal.

Natal, named after the city in northern Brazil, lets players control a game using only their own body movements and voice. Natal takes advantage of an infrared light directly illuminating the players body, a monochrome video camera records the amount of that light they reflect, using the brightness of the signal to measure their distance from the device and capture their movements in 3D.

Without much improvement to the hardware and despite the need of massive processing power to capture movements and voice data, Natal will allow XBox 360 players to optimally enjoy the game with their body movements and voice as controllers, making the classic button controllers obsolete.

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