Last summer Iomega unveiled a product providing what many DVR owners find themselves needing much sooner than they thought — more storage space. The Iomega DVR Extender is an external 500GB hard drive that connects to DVRs via eSATA.
Iomega announced today that users of Pace set-top cable boxes can now use the DVR Expander to add up to 300 hours of storage for standard def programs and up to 60 hours of HD content. The most interesting part of the announcement is that if users have Pace boxes that lack a hard drive, the DVR Expander will turn them into full featured DVRs.
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Iomega DVR Expander Turns Pace Cable Boxes Into DVRs
Fidelity VPC Costs $199
The VPC stands for “Very Personal Computer”. Most Netbook manufacturers are working on upping display size and adding more graphics power, but not Fidelity who is offering a first-generation Netbook for the price of $199.
It’s weighs only 1.5lbs, has a 7? display, USB, Ethernet, WiFi, 2GB of memory, and Linux. All for $199. An Asus Eee 701 will cost around $259 today. So let the cheap Netbook battle commence. Fight!
The Fidelity VPC should be available next month.
Source : Slippery Brick
World’s First HDMI 1080P Digital Photo Viewer
Hi-Den Vision based in Hong Kong have created the worlds first HDMI 1080p digital photo viewer dubbed the HD-0310. This gadget hooks up to your 1080p HDTV and allows images to be displayed from a memory card direct to your HDTV.
The HD-0310 1080p photo viewer is pretty compact and will use USB storage devices and Compact Flash Type I/II, SD, SDHC, MMC, MS, MS Pro, MS PRO Duo, SmartMedia, MiniSD, Trans-Flash, MicroSD and xD. It also sports video playback through the USB port. The 1080p photo viewer will also give you 16 transitional effects as well as random playback of images. If you like, you’ll be able to skip through images with the remote control.
The HDMI 1080p photo viewer will cost around $60 when launched.
Source : Slippery Brick
Samsung To Produce 12.1-Inch “Mini-Notebook” With Via Nano
The official word comes today that Samsung is going to produce a 12.1-inch notebook, the NC20. The NC20 is a larger cousin to the NC10 netbook from Samsung and this larger version will ship with a Via Nano processor.
VIA, who is likely quite happy with the Psion netbook trademark situation, has always referred to these small notebooks as “mini-notebooks” rather than recognize Intel’s “netbook” preference and that’s what VIA is calling the NC20. This new notebook from Samsung will use a 1.3 GHz VIA Nano processor and a 12.1-inch display that delivers 1280×800 resolution out of the box. The integrated VIA Chrome9 graphics set this apart from the Atom-based netbooks shipping today.
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Doro Release Mobile Phones For Senior Citizens
MWC brought us many things, from sleek see through mobiles, to those that incorporated 12 megapixels into a fully touch screen shell. But amongst the selection of high end devices there also existed those that catered to the slightly less techie market. I’m talking your Grandparents generation, who desire a phone that’s simply a phone, with large keys and high volume being prioritized over newfangled ideas such as WAP and 3G.
Doro have launched 5 handsets that pride themselves in their simplicity, as they feature large easy to read displays and extra large buttons. They’ve released their first ever clamshell phone, the jazzily titled PhoneEasy 410gsm.
Source : Shiny Shiny
Dell CFO Says It Will Expand Further Into Netbooks
Dell has increased cost savings goals by $1 billion
Dell says that it is looking to cut costs and expand further into markets that are generating revenue today, including netbooks. Netbooks are one of the few categories of the computer industry that is growing impressively during the global economic downturn.
EWeek reports that Dell recently announced poor Q4 financials with revenues dropping by 16% to $13.4 billion. Because of the poor results, Dell is said to be eyeing further cost reduction methods and expansion into other areas. In addition to netbooks, Dell is also looking at the cloud and enterprise solutions area.
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Winstar M4 USB Networking Server - Share USB Devices Over Your Home Network
Plug four computer accessories into your Winstar M4 USB Networking Server, hook it up to your wireless router via Ethernet cable and you’ll be able to share all the peripherals with anyone on the network from anywhere in the building. Great for multiple laptops in the home and only one printer or scanner. Useful.
Winstars new palm-sized Networking USB 2.0 Server enables an external hard drive, flash drive, memory card reader, USB webcam, USB speaker, or USB Multi-Function Printer (MFP) to be shared on a network. With the versatility afforded by the USB Share Station, users can now enjoy their favorite multimedia content stored on their computer from anywhere in their home or office. A user can attach a standard USB webcam to the Networking USB 2.0 Server as a simple and low cost security monitoring solution for their home and/or small office use.
Source : Redferret
Palm’s Treo Pro Hits Bell Mobility In Canada
We’re still waiting on a solid bit of subsidized US availability on Sprint, but Canada’s got things all figured out — how typical. Palm’s Treo Pro is doing the EV-DO Rev. A thing on Bell Mobility up there, going for $99.95 on a three-year contract — 1 and 2-year contracts are $0 and off contract is only $49, so we’ll likely be updating when things settle down. That sounds like a silly amount of time to be tied to Windows Mobile 6.1, but we’re temporal pessimists like that. Bell Mobility customers can pick up the phone as of today.
Source : Engadget
Mlani Wireless FPS Controller For The PS3
How many times have you heard your gamer friends say that they can’t play FPS games on a console because it’s not as good as a mouse and keyboard? Probably a lot. They’re always whining about it. Well, this new controller for the PS3 cuts all the wires, making the experience more like the Wii. You can even program it.
There isn’t a ton of info, but we know that it will drop in about 90 days. This should be interesting to use. Hopefully it will shut your whinny friends up too.
The design looks pretty nice even.
Source : Slippery Brick
Sony LMD-940W 9″ LCD Monitor
The latest entrant in Sony’s LMD series for professionals is a mini display for userswho are “reviewing footage on-the-fly, previewing content for clients or editing video”. Its a small size display featuring 9-inch widescreen monitor with a WVGA resolution of 800 x 400 and weighing less than 5 pounds. According to Sony, the new monitor is 3G SDI-ready and is ideal for rack-mount (4U bracket height), desktop, OB vans, and portable applications.
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Kodak EasyShare M1093 IS Digital Camera Review
The Kodak M1093 IS sports 10-megapixel resolution that Kodak claims is enough for 30 x 40-inch prints. Well yes, it is, but with a few caveats as we’ll see. Other kit that this remarkably well-priced model has includes a sharp, Kodak Retinar Aspheric 35-105mm 3x optical zoom lens and, as the name suggests, image stabilisation.
Kodak’s Smart Capture allows the camera to select the shooting mode for the situation it’s presented utilising “intelligent” scene detection, capture control and image processing. The combination, in theory at least, providing the correct combination of frame rate, ISO, exposure control and focus set-up for a variety of situations, from portraits to landscapes.
This works quite well and got the correct mode most times, or at least one that provided a reasonable result but the downside here of course is the lack of manual control it offers. But then again this is what this camera is for: for snappers that want an uncomplicated, easy to use, camera that won’t break the bank.
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