29 May, 2008
Acer Aspire 1640 Notebook Review
Acer is well known for its electronic notebooks in the market and equipped with high - end features including wide display screen with Acer CrystalBrite Technology, Rewritable DVD drive, Wi-Fi, USB and more.
The Acer Aspire 1640 Notebook supports 15.4 inches wide LCD screen with a high resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels that delivers crystal clear images without any doubt.
The battery life of this Acer Aspire laptop stands up to two hours and 20 minutes, so that you can watch a full movie without any interruption. In addition to this, the Acer Intel Centrino processor offers high speed processing up to 1.7 GHz is one among the note - worthy feature in this device. This makes you to execute or calculate all your function more easily.
Along with this function, the hard drive of this Acer model plays an essential role with a storage capacity up to 60 GB. This makes you to store more images, audios and videos, software’s in that hard drive. This user - friendly Acer Aspire 1640 Notebook has an internal memory of 512 MB that let you to offer more RAM space.
One missing feature in this Acer is that the Firewire support to go with its three USB ports. Despite that, the compact nature and other high - end functions make this model a well excel product in the market.
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Tags: Acer Aspire laptop
22 Jan, 2008
Professional video cameras
Be it for recording social occasions or political events or entertainment programs to full length celluloid ventures, professional video cameras are very necessary in the world today and they perform a variety of functions. Unlike most digital cameras which are able to capture static images, professional video cameras allow the recording of video footage and therefore are very useful in case of recording simple personal moments to making motion pictures. While video cameras are very useful for such services, they are equally necessary in case of preparing professional presentations and even educational presentations.
Professional video equipments work mostly by splitting the incoming light rays into three primary colors i.e. red, blue and green which are visible to the human eye and these are then inserted into the pick up tubes or the charge-coupled devices or CCDs depending upon the camera model. There are various kinds of professional video equipments which are available for multifarious purposes. The most prevalent among them are the studio cameras and they because of their bulkiness are not portable and therefore require attachment to a wire despite now using digital technology. In these cases, the functioning of the professional video camera is dominated by the camera control unit or the CCU. A professional video camera similar in function to that of the camcorders is the ENG cameras which are often used by amateur filmmakers for their initial attempts in filmmaking. This camera is also supplied with the charger-coupled device or CCD fro its proper functioning. In all the professional video cameras using digital technology, XLR and BNC connectors are used for audio and video purposes respectively. Also, it can be noticed that mare often these video equipments are seen to implement the DVCPRO or Betacam options in order to enhance their performance.
These cameras have with the progress of time have become more improved and with the introduction of digital technology, the audio and video quality has immensely improved.
Tags: Betacam,
CCD,
DVCPRO,
Professional video cameras
26 Jul, 2007

At a first glance, I thought this was just another joke from the tech designers, to take a break from their usual boring (eek!) work.
Pretty much looks like a small tray, or something of the sort that is designed to carry as much of ash as you can.
However, this ‘meaningless’ thing in the picture, is unique USB Drive, that is designed to last for one hell of a lifetime.

Just a design concept, and not for sale anywhere yet, this thing sure does catch one’s attention for the fact that it has a unique look to it. Though, it is/was meant to be a capsule type design, people have mistaken it for an ash tray, and seems to me, that they want to stick to their first assumptions
What say guys?
25 Jul, 2007

There’s a new cellphone design out there, or rather a concept by Peter Lau which is should allow blind users to easily and dial make phone calls.
The interesting part is that the design/concept does not incorporate the usual braille keys. Instead, the keys are angled. Users can then actually learn these keys and effectively make calls faster and much more easily.
However, this thing has no screen (obvious!)
Most people have this question, as to how the blind people will send the SMS. So far, this is just a concept and there are no details regarding the SMS functionality in this. But, it seems pretty obvious that some kind of speech to text voice analysis function will be incorporated in it.
The phone might read the text messages aloud as you compose them.
Although there are not much details on it as yet, as the case is with most concepts, but the design certainly does look cool and innovative.
What say guys?
16 Jul, 2007


CoolerMaster has come up with NotePal Infinite, which has variable speed fans under a wide steel bed to keep your laptop cool.
What is different and probably unique in this, (which is also a strong positive point) is that the cooling fans are located on the rear of NotePal Infinite, and not along its bottom. This can ensure good and regulated airflow to your laptop, even on surfaces that are not entirely flat. Such as your bed, legs, head, fingers, hands, etc (it is a laptop for hell’s sake!!).
All of this, is supposed to cool down your laptop by about 60 degrees. Whoa! That is some cooling! WoW….
It supports 12″ to 17″ laptops.
However, there’s no word on the pricing or availability yet.
Product Page
5 Jul, 2007

For those times when you listen to the radio (do people still listen to the radio?) and you can’t identify a song [do people still listen to songs?] there’s the $19.95 MusicMarker. Press the button to activate the mic while the elusive song is playing, and the MusicMarker will record a snippet. When you get home, plug the unit in via USB and it will identify the track for you. The catch?
We’re betting on loads of bloatware. There’s no word on the site about exactly what service is being used to identify the tracks, and there is an option to be pointed to an MP3 or CD of the song. We have flashy visions of ads, annoying voices selling us stuff and maybe even a moose that appears on our desktop who occasionally flashes us. Hmm…a promising device after all?
[Product page ]
3 Jul, 2007

If you’ve got some top secret files saved on your thumb drive, then maybe Rehoboth Tech’s Irikon drive is the safest bet for you. Classed as the world’s first Iris scanning thumb drive, the Irikon can store upto 20 different eyes as authorized users, and comes in sizes ranging from 1GB to 4GB.
That kind of storage is way less, considering that we have a 64GB thumb drive somewhere out there too, but secure drives are generally smaller in size. The Rehoboth site is a little vague as to how the scan works, but with a rechargeable battery built in, as well as a 6cm scan range, am guessing you give the drive a look at your eyes before you plug it into the port. It would be really awkward to lean down to have it scan your eyes.
Right now, it doesn’t look like Rehoboth Tech’s drive is available. And since Rehoboth is headquartered in South Korea, we might have to wait a bit. Until then, there’s always fingerprint-reading USB drives, though iris scans are supposed to be faster in general. The Irikon recognizes eyes as valid or unauthorized in under two seconds.
Product page
1 Jul, 2007

Set to break into the arena on 7th of July 2007, the WildCharge will make cables a thing of the past. They plan to sell their Wireless Gadget Charger on the announced date.
Simply plug in an adapter to your Nokias, Iphones, and Ipods. And place them on the charging pad, and they’ll start to gather juice wirelessly. Seriously, no more messy cables on your desk. The space is way too precious and is probably reserved for more important shiny toys called ‘gadgets’.
Real convenient, and once you get used to it, you WILL have a hard time incase you have to switch back to cables (NEVER!).
Back at the CES during Jan this year, they said it would go for $47. Let’s wait and watch.
23 Jun, 2007

“What happens when Art Lebedev Studios puts a real folder on a device that holds virtual folders?”
The virtual folders say, “this is unfair infringement of copyright laws”.
The new, and ‘cute’ (referred in some blogs) USB drive is a technically graphical innovation in Portable Storage System of the Universe.
There’s no word out on the price tag, but we are hoping this to be cheaper then Dell’s XPS H2C. You see, they are so lost in their world of fancy designs that chances are they may class this USB drive as a luxury and an exotic product. And when this happens, specifically to a gadget, you know what happens to those dreaded price tags.
What do you guys have to say about this?
22 Jun, 2007

Well, I am not sure myself why I am reviewing this thing. But I guess it was special enough to make way to a blog entry here at Stackians.
Steady Pointer has been designed for the guys who are all shaky when being the center of attention of a crowd of people, and babbling away with the crappy presentation.
Sure enough you may not be that confident, but atleast a steady hand could help save the day. Well, Steady Pointer does exactly that. In simple terms, it stabilizes your jittery hand during a presentation. So, you could be shaking like a small girl trapped in a hijacked aeroplane, yet noone would be able to make it out
Not sure how solid this thing is, but the video demos sure seem like this thing actually works. Check out the product page for more info.