Archive for 'General'
What a piece of paper? – It is a battery!
8 January 2008Finnish company Enfucell, apparently, sincerely wants to “lighten� our life. Their new product – is quite good support of this idea.
The work has been underway on creation of such accumulators at Technological university of Helsinki for five years - since 2002. And, as you can see, there are some results: the new power supply has [...]
Toshiba and Sharp strengthen their positions in LCD-TVs market
31 December 2007Japanese corporations Toshiba and Sharp have informed about expansion of their cooperation in LCD-business. Presidents of both companies have declared that henceforth Toshiba will buy from Sharp LCD-panels with 32 inches and more diagonal for the TVs. In exchange for it, Sharp will get from Toshiba a lot of integrated circuits for LCD-TVs, informes Associated [...]
Matsushita has created the biggest plasma panel in the world
28 December 2007Matsushita Electric Industrial has set up the next record, having created the biggest plasma TV in the world, which sizes are 2×3,5 m.
Japanese will show the development during the International electronic exhibition in the USA in January, 2008, and into the market it will come in May, 2009.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., known by its brand [...]
Rumor: iPhone 2 is almost ready
24 December 2007Next year Apple plans to put on the market two new iPhones. Predictably, first phone will appear at the beginning of 2008 and will enjoy the larger memory. The next model will be put on the market in the II half of the year. According to analysts, this version can externally differ from two previous [...]
Nvidia nForce 780i SLI: officially
21 December 2007Nvidia has declared official launch of a chipset nForce 780i SLI. The new set of a system logic supports one, two and tetranuclear Intel processors at a frequency of the external wire from 533 up to 1333 MHz, new Enthusiast System Architecture specification and second generation PCI Express.
Besides, nForce 780i SLI for the first [...]
Accumulators with the largest capacity in the world
17 December 2007Employees of the South Korean scientific research institute of power study have developed new industrial accumulators SMES with the largest capacity in the world.
New SMES systems can keep almost unlimited capacities of the electric power and give out with peak loading up to 1,03 megawatt per second, which will be enough to feed an average [...]
AMD has created the first videocard of the future
13 December 2007AMD has developed the first computer videocard with support of new generation interface DisplayPort on the basis of the processor RV635 XT. It is expected to be put on the market in the beginning of 2008. Approximately the same time another large vendor company Nvidia is going to launch a similar product.
One of these days [...]
HSD 2041: a new reasonably priced DVD-player from Xoro
10 December 2007The compact sizes of the device do not limit its functionality. The player reproduces DVD, (S) VCD, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, CD - DA, WMA, JPEG from CD - R(W) and DVD-R(W).
Presence of switching interfaces spectrum provides a choice at connection of audio- and the video-equipment. There are composite and component video outputs, SCART, S-Video [...]
Samsung TVs with contrast 500000:1 have appeared in the USA
7 December 2007South-Korean manufacturer Samsung Electronics has started sales of new LCD HD TVs with dynamic picture contrast 5000:1, 25000:1, 100000:1 and even 500000:1 in the largest trading US’s networks, informs DigiTimes. In the company mark, that new models have improbable definition quality, greater, than can offer TVs of the competitors.
Novelties are available with lengths of [...]
Fujitsu promises 320 GB winchester for laptops by February
6 December 2007Fujitsu has announced 320-GB HDD for laptops which is expected to be put on sale in February, 2008, informs Reg Hardware.
Winchester MHZ2 BH weights about 100 g, is equipped with 8 MB of buffer storage and SPI SATA with throughput in 3 Gbit/second.
HDD is capable to carry load impact in 900g in the [...]
