VAIO P Clone Surfaces Names Itself Gemsta Viva

Here it is folks, a cheaper VAIO P that no one except friends and relatives will know its a Shenzhen imitation of the real thing. Just how close is the Gemsta Viva to the VAIO P?Read on to see the full specs, but I’ll tell you know that for a bigger screen and slightly less portable form factor and the processor options, the 2000 yuan ($294) seems like a crazy business-man’s special offer.

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EMTEC dips toes into nettop market with Ion-based G Box

We're used to seeing nettops from the likes of Asus and Acer, but EMTEC's the newcomer in this field and let's see what we're working with. At about one inch thick by TechDigest's estimates, the G Box (working title) certainly compact, and we definitely give points to it running NVIDIA's Ion platform, Windows XP, at least six USB ports, and a 160GB hard drive. Unfortunately, there's no HDMI port -- that's coming in a later model -- and at £179 ($293 US), we'd be hard pressed to pick this over the HDMI-equipped AspireRevo, but we'll await judgment until we can try this thing out for ourselves.

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Samsung to release its newest handset 'Infrared Video Telephony'

Samsung Electronics releases its newest handset 'Infrared Video Telephony(model: SCH-W760)' in Korea market, which enables users to hold video calls even in complete darkness.

Adopting a 2.8-inch WQVGA AMOLED display, the SCH0W760 features a 3M camera, S-DMB, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, Bluetooth connectivity and a microSD card slot.

Suggested price is 580,000(KRW).

Source : Aving

Teclast's New C500HD PMP with HDMI Out

The C500HD is Teclast's latest HD Ready PMP. It supports 720p video and features an HDMI out for enjoying 720p video on a Full HD LCD/PDP TV.

It comes with 4GB of memory, has a 5” screen with a 800x480 resolution and plays any H.264 video file.

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Apple patent applications offer glimpses of haptic screens

Alright, so you know the drill by now. A patent application doesn't necessarily mean an actual product is on the way -- but it's always fun to speculate, right? And this latest trio of applications from Apple certainly provides plenty of speculation fodder. The most notable of the lot is an application for a "multi-touch display screen with localized tactile feedback," which Apple seems to be at least considering as a possibility for the iPhone (or iPod touch). Like some similar systems, Apple's application covers a screen that uses a grid of piezoelectric actuators that can be activated at will to provide vibrational feedback when you touch the screen. Apple even goes so far as to use a virtual click wheel on an iPhone as an example. Other patent applications include a fairly self-explanatory RFID reader embedded in a touch screen, and a fingerprint identification system that could not only be used for security, but to identify individual fingers as an input method -- for instance, letting you use your index finger for play/stop and your middle finger to fast forward.

Source : Engadget