Category: Peripherals
AMD to split into two companies
Business news anyone? It might not be very exciting, but if you don’t have an Intel chip in the PC you’re reading this on, then you’ll almost certainly have an AMD chip in there, so pay attention.
AMD are splitting their business into two companies. The first will be focused on designing microprocessors, and the second will actually manufacture them – a process which is expensive and debt-laden. The new manufacturing company will be called the Foundry Company, and AMD will own 44.4 percent of it, with the rest being owned by a Abu Dhabi company called Advanced Technology…
Toshiba SCiB battery could start a revolution, assuming the revolving mechanism is battery powered
Toshiba is apparently in the process of inventing and testing a revolutionary new type of battery, that it claims will be available next year. Bankrolled by it’s “utopian dreams” division (headquarters in fantasyland), it has apparently come up with a battery that fixes all of the problems that normal batteries have…
New Netgear routers, promise routing, will probably deliver
I’m a big fan of wireless routers – one of my dreams is to one day own 256 different wireless devices so I can see what happens if you try to connect all of them to the same wireless router, to see if it breaks anything. So far I’ve got maybe 6 or 7 devices, so I’m slowly working my way there, and I reckon I should have enough by the time that I’m 60. But anyway, because of this, I was thrilled today to learn that Netgear has announced a couple of new wireless routers.
Toshiba makes small thing bigger on the inside – 250GB SSD on the way this year
Toshiba’s bulking up its solid-state drive range and boosting the capacity of its 2.5″ model – so the cheap little netbooks of the world can come with more storage space without straining their little batteries too much.
The new 256GB solid-state drive will “roll out” of the Tosh factory in the fourth quarter of 2008, ideal for those exciting Christmas presents containing ultra-portable mini PCs. With a read speed of 120MBps and a write speed of 70MBps thanks to its 3.0-Gbps SATA connection…
Griffin Simplifi – iPod dock/card reader/USB hub combo device
We normally ignore most iPod dock releases here at Tech Digest. If we were to cover every single one, then you’d get three or four popping up each week. This one’s a bit different though. It integrates a 5-in-one card reader, and a USB hub. Much more useful….
There are different kinds of power cable! Including the Furutech Powerflux Power Cord which costs $1,800
There is, we can exclusively reveal today, more than one kind of power cable in existence. Some power cables are better than other kinds of power cable. And the Furutech Powerflux Power Cord, which costs $1800, is presumably being pitched toward the high end of the power cable scale.
Here is why this cable is worth more money that a perfectly usable second-hand car…
Dell M109S pocket projector – very small, very strong, very expensive and very only available in the US
Dell has today added a new product to its expanding waistline of reasonably priced techie treats in the tasty shape of the of the Dell M109S pocket projector.
We’ve discussed the merits of these devices before. Dell must really feel that there is indeed a market for them and it looks as if their 350g offering…
Powergorilla and Solargorilla juice up your laptop on the move
Powergorilla is a brilliantly named product from Powertraveller. It’s basically a big ol’ battery, which you plug your laptop into, and it’ll charge your laptop’s onboard battery for you. A fully charged Powergorilla will give you two to six extra hours of laptop battery…
Shiny Video Review: ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
We don’t do PC component reviews very often on Tech Digest because there are websites that specialize in that subject in far more technical detail than we could. So I’m not going to talk technical detail and specifications here. Instead, I thought it might be nice to give you a more qualitative idea of what it’d be like if you were to spend £370 just on a graphics card.
The Shuttle D10 – a mini desktop with a 7" LCD touchscreen on the front
We know what you’re thinking – WHY? So let’s get that bit out of the way first. The Shuttle D10 is for awkward places. Small holes. Places where getting a PC and a whopping great 24″ Samsung monitor in might be a bit of a squeeze. Caravans. The bedroom of a child.
It might also help calm your nerves a bit just to have a spare screen about the place for use in a broken primary screen emergency, or it could be good as a little media PC…
