When Yinlips announced the YDB G70 last year, I was mildly impressed. The hardware hardly changed since we saw the G68, but there is slightly more to the clamshell PMP than just playing music, videos and games support. That’s the G70. With the G80, Yinlips has thrown in its own version of the ultraportable laptop into the overcrowded netbook fray and it’s so mighty small it may just squeeze in. Ok, maybe that is a stretch what with the lack of a keyboard, but take note of these specs:
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YINLIPS YDB G80 Touchscreen Micro PC Introduced
Meizu M8 Unboxing And Hands-On!
Yes, folks — things are about to get really real. We have managed, through a series of delicate negotiations, to get our hands on an honest-to-goodness Meizu M8 — heretofore the stuff of pure legend. At first glance, the build quality of the phone is actually pretty decent — it’s mostly plastic, but everything seems to snap together firmly. The battery (which is removable, naturally) is quite large, though we haven’t had a chance to test its life in any significant way. Of course, the real showpiece here is the software — which admittedly owes its entire existence to the iPhone. We’ve found that it’s quite snappy, and the styling and functionality of the UI is really kind of impressive (though this did spend a long time in the oven). Still, the phone’s KIRF roots are clear — you can judge for yourself in the gallery below.
Source : Engadget
Myka To Ship Bittorrent Media Hub April 6
Myka today said it would start shipping its self-titled media hubs shortly after their initial batch is finished production on April 6th. Originally unveiled last year, the set-top box is designed as an open-source alternative to devices like the Apple TV and the VUDU Box that uses BitTorrent as its underlying framework. The feature lets users download commercial and unofficial content without being dependent on any one connection or service. Myka doesn’t immediatly have content deals but claims to be in negotiations with “major” providers.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Electronista
New Carat Emerald Hi-Fi USB Audio Dac
Styleaudio is a Korean based company with offices in Japan. Today they announced the availability of their latest Hi-Fi USB Audio DAC in Japan. The Carat-Emerald now replaces the one year old Carat Period.
I’m not going to give too many details simply because I could make myself look rediculous. The Carat Emerald (24bit, 192KHz / 1.5ppm TCXO / 300 ohm headphone accepted), is a REAL hi-fi audio DAC and headphone amp with USB support that provides ideal sound without having to carry heavy stuff in your ears.
Source : Akihabara
Panasonic DMC-GH1 1080P Hybrid Hits Japan April 24th
Pricing and release information for the Panasonic DMC-GH1 Hybrid has been revealed, as part of the camera’s launch in Japan this week. The 12-megapixel Micro Four Thirds System camera will go on sale in Japan on April 24th, priced at around 150,000 yen ($1,530).
That gets you the DMC-GH1 itself, together with a 45-200-millimeter lens; Panasonic are refusing to divulge pricing and launch dates for outside of Japan. The DMC-GH1 is capable of recording 1080p high-definition video while still auto-focusing.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ SlashGear
OCZ Throttle 32GB Flash Drive Review
Back in the early days of the computer if you needed to carry data files with you from one machine to the other you used floppy discs. The floppy gave way to the CD and DVD as a method for moving files form one computer to another and taking data with you on the road. As those methods became a paid for computer users, a new type of storage device emerged — the flash drive.
Today flash drives can be used for all sorts of things form backing up data from your computer to carrying files with you from desk to desk or office to office. The flash drive is growing in capacity, but with the majority of flash drives using USB they aren’t growing in performance much.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Slippery Brick
iPhone 3G Finally Available Contract-Free
At long last folks with a contract phobia or just a general penchant for lawlessness can pay exorbitant amounts of money to get an iPhone 3G contract-free. As promised, 8GB models for $599 and 16GB ones for $699 are now available from AT&T and Apple stores, with AT&T requiring buyers to be existing AT&T customers, limited at one per, while Apple stores will sell the handsets to anyone wandering in off the street — rebellious demeanor preferred.
Source : Switched
Corega’s Latest Four Bay Raid HDD Enclosure
If you you have no interest in a NAS but still need a solid RAID backup solution for your PC or home server, Corega’s latest 4 bay RAID HDD enclosure is made for you. Behold the CG-HDC4EU3500!
Supporting RAID 0/1/3/5/10, it can be connected to PC or Mac via eSATA or USB and has been confirmed to work with 1.5TB HDDs, giving you up to 6TB of disk space in Raid 0. and 3TB in Raid 10.
It will be sold in Japan for around (€225).
Source : Akihabara
B&W Launches Panorama
I caught my first glimpse of the Bowers and Wilkins Panorama at CES back in January. Representing the company’s first foray into the ever growing soundbar market, the Panorama looked every inch as stylishly designed and beautifully built as the award winning Zeppelin iPod dock. Unfortunately, that was pretty much all I could ascertain at CES, because although I saw the Panorama, I wasn’t able to hear it.
That changed yesterday though, when Bowers and Wilkins invited me down to its HQ in Worthing for the UK launch of the Panorama. The samples that I saw yesterday didn’t appear to have changed since I first saw the Panorama at CES, which is no bad thing. This really is a beautiful bit of kit, that should complement any good high definition TV. The steel casing isn’t polished like on the Zeppelin, instead it’s coated in titanium with a dark, brushed finish.
The Panorama is about a metre long and was designed to complement 37in TVs and above. I’d imagine that 42in is just about the perfect size for a soundbar, since once you start hitting 50in and above, you’re more likely to invest in a full surround system. That said, I don’t think that the Panorama would look out of place underneath a 50in set.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Trusted Reviews
MSI Wind U123 Hitting Japan April 11th For $507
The first MSI Wind netbook to use Intel’s Atom N280 processor, the U123, will go on sale in Japan on April 11th, priced at 49,800 yen ($507). The netbook has a 10-inch WSVGA display and comes as standard with 1GB of RAM, though unlike other Wind netbooks the U123 will support up to 2GB. Other specs include a 160GB hard-drive, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. There’s also a webcam and multiformat memory card slot, together with an integrated microphone and the usual trio of USB 2.0 ports, single VGA output and audio in/out.
The battery is a six-cell pack but MSI are keeping quiet on runtime predictions. What they will confirm is the relatively reasonable weight - 1.23kg - and the four colors: blue, white, red and gray. Graphics are courtesy of the Intel GMA950 chipset, and the MSI Wind U123 is expected to launch in other countries - so far unspecified - after Japan.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ SlashGear
Nvidia Considers Porting Physx To Opencl
Nvidia has so far guarded its GPU PhysX technology behind a large CUDA-shaped wall, meaning that anyone who wants to use it has to use CUDA too. However, the company has revealed that this may not be the case in the future, as Nvidia is considering porting PhysX over to OpenCL; the API that’s also being used by AMD to accelerate Havok physics.
In a recent Q&A session to coincide with the launch of Nvidia’s APEX tools for games developers using PhysX, we took the opportunity to ask Nvidia’s director of product management for PhysX, Nadeem Mohammad, about whether there were any plans to port PhysX over to OpenCL.
Mohammad revealed that he wasn’t against the idea at all. “In the future it’s a possibility that we could use OpenCL,” Mohammad told us, but added that “at the moment CUDA works great.” Mohammad also pointed out that although Nvidia currently uses CUDA to accelerate PhysX on GPUs, the company’s “architecture allows for acceleration by other things like OpenCL.”
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Bit-Tech
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